Real debates about faith are drowned by the New Atheists' foghorn voices
More thoughtful sceptics warn that we should fear the consequences of the swift collapse of Britain's major belief system
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- The Guardian, Monday 6 April 2009
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This is Holy Week. It started yesterday with Palm Sunday and continues through Holy Thursday, Good Friday and culminates this Sunday with Easter Day.
One can no longer assume most people will be aware of this, let alone the events these days mark; in a recent UK poll, only 22% could identify what Easter was celebrating.
What other system of belief has collapsed at such spectacular speed as British Christianity? One can only presume that the New Atheists are organising a fabulous party to celebrate. Richard Dawkins could stump up for the crates of champagne out of his sumptuous royalties from The God Delusion.
