I have never quite gotten the schtick of the New Atheists. There are lots of things in which I don’t believe, including leprechauns and unicorns, but I hardly ever waste my time thinking about them. Even when it comes to major religions – I don’t spend hours of my day tweeting about what’s wrong with the ones I don’t profess. But for the New Atheists, building altars to what they say isn’t there just so they can tear them down is a favored pastime. Case in point: Richard Dawkins -- famous for his 2006 book, The God Delusion -- still uses his Twitter (coincidentally also born in 2006) to rally the troops against those “faith heads.” On Sunday, he put the Catholic Church in his sights: “Roman Catholics are required to believe that communion wine actually is literally the blood of Christ, and the wafer literally is his body. Not symbolically but literally. Not a metaphor but literally. That way madness lies. At very least it’s a pernicious abuse of language,” he tweeted.
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When Dawkins Teaches Catechism
i have never quite gotten the schtick of the new atheists. there are lots of things in which i don’t believe, including leprechauns and unic...
Charles Collins

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