In other news, dog bites man.

I think Dawkins has never come to grips with the concept of religious freedom, or of the right of parents to raise their children. He wants the state to try and ensure children are raised as atheists, with no belief in anything other than what Dawkins believes (a kind of scientific materialism). I don’t think his supporters grasp just how scary that is to people even outside his target. Why should New Atheists get to determine what choices parents have in how they educate and raise their children?

The thing that really is trying to tyrannise through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statutes, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen—that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the Government will really help it to persecute its heretics.

-G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and other Evils

1, judging from reading the comments to the article, I don’t think they care.  Anything other than natural materialism any other worldview is superstition, a big lie) and no one has the right to believe in a lie.

And yet there is evidence for Judeo-Christiaity, just not evidence that they are prepared to accept.  Accordingly they accept as given their own presuppositions; and note the invective they hurl at anyone who suggests that their own world view and it’s suppositions be subjected to the type of scrutiny they want to subject Christianity too.

Is Britain sick of Richard Dawkins yet?    To quote Michael Gambon, “Moan, moan, moan”...

To my mind, the fascinating part of this effort is that it is occurring in a country that has no written constitution and, certainly, no First Amendment or Letter to the Danbury Baptists to permit the enemies of faith to hide behind legalisms.  Their arguments are pure hatred for any vision that might compete with their own orthodoxies or, in so doing, limit the power of the state over all aspects of human life.