Under the title "Cardinal says Britain must not be a 'God-free zone' " The Guardian, on Friday 9th May, reported at lecture by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor at Westminster Cathedral. I have seldom read such an intellectually muddled and weak pronouncement by a prominent figure. He shows a total misunderstanding of logic and uses this muddled thinking in his attack on Richard Dawkins. What on earth does this paragraph mean:
"The interesting question about atheism is, what is the theism being denied? Have you ever met anyone who believes what Richard Dawkins does not believe in? The God that is being rejected by such people is a God I don't believe in either."
This makes no sense what so ever. If you are an atheist you don't believe in God, any God, that is all theism are rejected. How these various superstitions are interpreted by individuals or groups round the world is surely immaterial. What Dawkins has done is his writings is to pick out different stupidities in a multitude of groups. That the Cardinal doesn't recognise this is surely his problem, not the writers.
"The interesting question about atheism is, what is the theism being denied? Have you ever met anyone who believes what Richard Dawkins does not believe in? The God that is being rejected by such people is a God I don't believe in either."
This makes no sense what so ever. If you are an atheist you don't believe in God, any God, that is all theism are rejected. How these various superstitions are interpreted by individuals or groups round the world is surely immaterial. What Dawkins has done is his writings is to pick out different stupidities in a multitude of groups. That the Cardinal doesn't recognise this is surely his problem, not the writers.
Trevor Sanderson of the Nation Secular Society demonstrates how totally meaningless and disingenuous this lecture and the following interview on today was, on NSS site.
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