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Posts on ‘May 11th, 2007’

Irreligious Intolerance

I have just picked up on an interesting article from The Guardian which suggests that the well publicised ‘new atheist’ movement (represented by the Dawkins/Dennett type of school) is essentially motivated by a political agenda – and in particular fear of radical Islam and ‘fundamentalist’ America. Bunting rightly recognises that in their “vituperative polemic” the new [...]