[count-your-change]

Dawkins’ bigotry is less about Catholic belief than about his own sense of having a compliant Partner in Progressiveness and facing the prospect of losing it.
He starts out his piece, “The Anglican church has at least a few shreds of decency, traces of kindness and humanity with which Jesus himself might have connected, however tenuously: a generosity of spirit, of respect for women, and of Christ-like compassion for the less fortunat.”
(He means ordaining women and welcoming homosexuals)

and then he goes on to complain of “poaching”.

He's willing to appeal to the qualities of the Christ yet in another breath assure us that accepting Christ's view of God would be tantamount to a delusional mind state.

In short, the Anglican Church is in no way going to pose an intellectual challenge to the secular world view of Darwinism or Dawkins’ atheism and Dawkins would really, really like for it to stay that way.

[GodGunsGuts]

Good find!

[GodGunsGuts]

PS Given what you’ve turned up, I’m going to tack on the keyword “homosexualagenda” to this thread. Your good find just got better :o)

[pnh102]

He starts out his piece, “The Anglican church has at least a few shreds of decency, traces of kindness and humanity with which Jesus himself might have connected ..."

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant of Christianity that people like Dawkins are. Of course, coming from someone who thinks the Catholic Church is more evil than Islam that doesn't surprise me in the least.

Perhaps Dawkins should read the parts of the New Testament in which Jesus compares His own disciples to Satan when they question his teachings, or when He curses the fig tree for not obeying His command. Maybe the metaphorical way in which Jesus did things are beyond the ability for a simpleton like Dawkins to understand, but anyone who really wants to understand the Bible can easily do it.

That being said, there are many times in the New Testament in which Jesus takes an approach that ranges between "not so nice" and "bluntly physical" when it comes to correcting people who get it wrong.

And I thank Jesus for that... people like me would not know otherwise if He didn't care so much to show us the way.