“Benedict XVI’s success in the UK,” writes George Weigel, “challenges the often supine British hierarchy to be as humanly compelling and intellectually forceful as the Pope. If the bishops of the UK gather their nerve, they may eventually recognise that the New Atheists are in danger of becoming Paisley 2.0: people so perfervid, so over-the-top in their antipathies as to be dismissed as fundamentally unserious. The virulence of the New Atheists’ pre-papal visit commentary suggests they may fear this fate for themselves. In which case, to use another local phrase, it’s time to put in the boot.”
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I disagree with George Weigel - you don't kick an atheist while he's down
If our bishops put the boot in to the New Atheists now, wouldn't that rebound on us?
William Oddie
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