{"id":835,"date":"2024-04-07T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T10:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/richard-dawkins-on-christianity-and-islam\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T10:13:19","slug":"richard-dawkins-on-christianity-and-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/richard-dawkins-on-christianity-and-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins on Christianity and Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> (HT: Catacomb Joe):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Famed atheist and self-styled intellectual Richard Dawkins shared<\/a> in a recent interview that he was \u201chorrified\u201d to find that Oxford Street in London had lit up its public signs and displays to celebrate the Muslim fasting period called Ramadan, just days before Easter Sunday. \u201cI have to choose my words carefully: If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I\u2019d choose Christianity every single time,\u201d Dawkins declared, expressing concern over the thousands of Muslim mosques being constructed across the U.K. He added, \u201cIt seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion, in a way that I think Islam is not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hope to say more about this later. Now I have to prepare for a meeting with Brian the Calvinist.  First lunch and casual conversation about the events of the day and the latest outrages of the depredatory Left, then intense philosophical conversation about Jesus and the Powers<\/a>, a stimulating albeit flawed book, and finally  two or so hours of battling over the 64 squares. <\/span><\/p>\n

That's the kind of socializing I like. Otherwise, solitude rules. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here (HT: Catacomb Joe): Famed atheist and self-styled intellectual Richard Dawkins shared in a recent interview that he was \u201chorrified\u201d to find that Oxford Street in London had lit up its public signs and displays to celebrate the Muslim fasting period called Ramadan, just days before Easter Sunday. \u201cI have to choose my words carefully: If I … Continue reading “Richard Dawkins on Christianity and Islam”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,58,118,180,119,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism","category-christian-doctrine","category-culture-matters","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}