That’s the title the London Review of Books gives Terry Eagleton’s savaging of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It’s a guilty pleasure to read something as well-written (pleasure) and scathing (there’s the guilt). He begins: Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and …
Daily Archives: October 22nd, 2006
Sunday Week 29 Year B
Readings: Isaiah 53:10-11; Hebrews 4:14-16; Mark 10:35-45 I was watching a rerun of the West Wing the other evening, right back from the first series, and there was President Bartlett delivering an impassioned pep-talk to his daughter Zoë. She was about to leave for College and the passion flowed as the president grappled for words, …