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I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

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God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

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What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

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I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.

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I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: February 22nd, 1943

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