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February 15, 2012

Irish Times: Dawkins claims poll shows religion is largely irrelevant in Britain

by Mark Hennessy
The Irish Times

FOR SOME, scientist and author Richard Dawkins is the high priest of atheism. For others, he is a deeply annoying fundamentalist – just as fundamentalist about his lack of belief in a higher being as some of those who do profess faith.

Dawkins was highly visible yesterday following the publication of a poll by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science that argued Britain was now a post-Christian society, but one still governed by Christian rules.

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