Does Dawkins think he’s Napoleon? If so, he’s Crazy
Many of us have felt enraged, and often close to tears of frustration over ignorance and malice of the press in their treatment of the Pope in these last few weeks.
Maybe it’s time for a laugh, courtesy of this editorial by Hilary White, on the attempts by the two most embarrassing atheists alive, Messieurs Dawkins and Hitchens (who else?) to have the Pope arrested when he visits Great Britain this fall. Maybe the press will finally back off, when it learns these two nutjobs are involved in the attack against Benedict. Oh, they originally got acclaim for their books, but now people just more or less look at them funny when they talk. Think of the two oddest uncles at the secularists’ family reunion.
Pointing out that the behavior of the author of The God Delusion, has become more and more well, delusional, the author compares him to Napoleon, who actually did arrest a Pope — Pius VII — and held him captive for six years, an adventure that didn’t turn out well for the emperor:
It is notable that upon Napoleon’s defeat and imprisonment on the remote island of St. Helena, Pius VII begged the British government to treat his former captor more gently.
It is to be hoped that Professor Dawkins has not yet come to the point where he believes he is Napoleon, but if he has, I am confident that our current pope, known for his gentleness and courtly good manners, will be as solicitous for his welfare as was his predecessor for that of the former Emperor.
Do read the whole thing. But this passage really stood out.
But laugh, or cry, as we might, there is a serious side to all this: these men are using the misery and suffering of the victims of horrible sexual crimes for their own political purposes, and worse, for their own self-aggrandizement. The frenzy of pope-bashing that has gone on since Holy Week is an insult not only to the man who has done more than any other religious or political leader to put a stop to the sexual abuse of young people, but to those who have suffered from the crimes and those who have tried to help them.
Amen!
Here’s a very funny take on Dawkins’ megalomania:
