Ward vs. Dawkins

Apparently Richard Dawkins has a TV show in the UK, the central premise of which is that religion is the root of all evil. Subtle!

Here Keith Ward (who has been discussed in this space recently) dissects Dawkins (via Amy Welborn).

Ward nicely points out the dilemma that atheists sometimes try to use to discredit religious belief: either you take every word of the Bible literally, in which case you’re a wacko fundamentalist theocrat or you don’t, in which case you’re a wishy-washy liberal sellout and not a “real” believer. Sort of like, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”