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Thread #158223   Message #3742631
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
09-Oct-15 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Not crazy, but in the grip of a delusion...

Hamlet summed up the situation of being deluded only part way, "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I can tell a hawk from a handsaw". Check the etymology of "crazy", perhaps. Crazy pavements can provide an excellent support, but they are still full of cracks, which is why they are called crazy.

But I wasn't pointing a finger at anyone in particular. I do think that the view that people who believe in God should know better, and that they let themselves down, is very clearly implied in the words of such critics as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry. I don't think there is anything shameful in their saying it, or that it's an unfair thing to say they do. (I would actually object to the reverse accusation, where non-belief was seen as shameful. )