If it is Dawkins, rather than some prelate, who softens the hearts of the alienated when it comes to attitudes towards the role of the church in society, then there’ll be a rich irony to the fact that he, of all people, is doing God’s work.
RTÉ Radio 1 presenter Brendan O’Connor has been praised online for his handling of renowned atheist Richard Dawkins.
Credit to the Trinity News, the college’s student newspaper, for an immensely entertaining report about the thought process which has led to the College Historical Society to un-invite Professor Richard Dawkins, who was scheduled to give an address to students next year: The College Historical Society (the Hist) has tonight rescinded its invitation to Richard […]
Only a few years ago, the aggressive “New Atheist” movement was on the march, with rhetorical brawlers like Christopher Hitchens and renowned biologists like Richard Dawkins leading the charge against religion and the last vestiges of Christian faith in the West. Religion, Hitchens famously stated, “poisons everything,” and could only be considered, at best, humanity’s “first and […]