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Fri 07 Jul 2009Atheism according to the puerile reactionary
Delusions of intellectual superiority and unfunny mockery of religion show up the limitations of atheist ideology, writes JOHN WATERS.
THE LATE-1970s and 1980s seem to have been for me a series of extended pub conversations which, edited together, might have yielded a book to be called, Why the God Delusion is Not Kosher. Reading in recent years the works of the much-vaunted neo-atheists, I could not find a thought on any page that I could not recall being uttered by someone or other back then, in one of those temples of blasphemy and avoidance.
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