Time Immortal

From P. Z. Myers to Richard Dawkins, one struggles to find an iconoclast of atheism who is willing to actually stick his neck out and display a little courage.

In the case of P. Z. Myers, well…it’s been two weeks, and he still hasn’t made good on his threat to desecrate a Eucharistic host. And he sounded so defiant, so confident, earlier this month!

In the case of Richard Dawkins, well…he just doesn’t have the stones to debate an intellectual equal. Oh, he’s fine against two-bit televangelists. But he seems to be attempting to do everything in his power to avoid having to go up one-on-one against the likes of .

These are good events to see transpire; they give hope. After all, many people have wedded their own philosophical views to the tripe that the likes of Dawkins, Myers, Christopher Hitchens, and other “New Atheists” churn out; that such tripe can be shown up for what it is so easily, and that its proponents can be shown up as cowards so consistently, suggests that in the long run, this new atheism won’t last.

In that, it is rather like most other heresies the Church has had to endure.