Quentin Letts ranks Dawkins 30th on list of 'people who have wrecked Britain'
By MAIL ONLINE
Added: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 UTC
Thanks to Colin Daniels for the link.
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We all have our own little list of them - the fools, knaves and vulgarians who have helped dumb down Britain and promote the trite and the tawdry in national life.
Now, in a wonderful new book, the Mail's peerless sketchwriter Quentin Letts offers his own roll call of the 50 prime suspects he blames for wrecking our country.
His outrageous pen portraits, some comical, some steaming with anger, spare no one - from the ayatollah of atheism, Richard Dawkins, to the Tory minister who destroyed our fishing industry.
#30: Richard Dawkins
Anti-religionist Dawkins, the best-known English dissenter since Darwin, is the merciless demander of provable fact.
He is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and tours the world lecturing the elites of the West that they are stupid to believe in any god.
He proselytises against the proselytisers, most of his targets wishing they had a fraction of his apparent certainty.
He is the anti-preacher whose sermons are designed to erode churchgoing and, with that, weaken our happiness.
A man less obsessed with himself and with the narrow calculations of men in white coats might realise that religion, although never offering proof of God's existence, can sugar catastrophe and brighten chasms.
In times of turbulence, the human being is little different from the vole or the dormouse. It will take shelter where it can.
No amount of superior lecturing from an anti-Christ, not even one with so important a title as his, will alter that.
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