spent a fun-filled evening with Richard Dawkins and an exciting and volatile mixture of angry fundamentalist atheists and not-altogether-competent fundamentalist Christians.<\/a> Turns out Dawkins won\u2019t come on \u201cCatholic Answers Live\u201d for a chat. To ask is apparently a grave sin in Atheoville. Why? The explanation appears to be, \u201cShut up.\u201d Because atheists are all about the open pursuit of reason and inquiry and Catholics are closed to and fear these things.<\/p>\nOr something.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
spent a fun-filled evening with Richard Dawkins and an exciting and volatile mixture of angry fundamentalist atheists and not-altogether-competent fundamentalist Christians. Turns out Dawkins won\u2019t come on \u201cCatholic Answers Live\u201d for a chat. To ask is apparently a grave sin in Atheoville. Why? The explanation appears to be, \u201cShut up.\u201d Because atheists are all about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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