A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy By Michael Powell
Published: September 19, 2011
Professor Dawkins often declines to talk in San Francisco and New York; these cities are too gloriously godless, as far as he is concerned. “As an atheistic lecturer, you are rather wasting your time,” he says. He prefers the Bible Belt, where controversy is raw.And one Courtier replies! This next para. quotes Terry Eagleton. Known to some of us as "Terry 'Communist Who Owns 3 Houses' Eagleton:"
Critics grow impatient with Professor Dawkins’s atheism. They accuse him of avoiding the great theological debates that enrich religion and philosophy, and so simplifying the complex. He concocts “vulgar caricatures of religious faith that would make a first-year theology student wince,” wrote Terry Eagleton, regarded as one of Britain’s foremost literary critics. “What, one wonders, are Dawkins’s views on the epistemological differences between Aquinas and Duns Scotus?”
Put that charge to Professor Dawkins and he more or less pleads guilty. To suggest he study theology seems akin to suggesting he study fairies.:rofl:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/science/20dawkins.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
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