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9/11 Made Richard Dawkins Bold
by Zephyr on Jan.12, 2009, under Atheism
My my, that Atheist bus campaign sure is stirring up quite a bit of conversation off in the land of the UK. I only wish it was happening here, too. Unfortunately, the former Archbishio of Canterbury has it somewhat wrong:
“I have no doubt that one can trace a direct link from 9/11 to the aggressive and strident tones of such writers as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others. The result is a widening gap between religion and science; an unwillingness to engage, concluding in a dialogue of the deaf.”
I’d say this statement is at least partially accurate. At least for us in the US (where the attack actually happened), it was as it someone took a baseball bat to a hornet’s nest that had been slowly building for a few decades. After 9/11, the fundamentalists couldn’t be shut up and any chance at us all living together and peacefully minding each other’s religions went out the window.
