As you have surely noticed, the new incarnation of ‘militant atheism’ is stirring continuous debate both online and on TV. Just to site posts that have just appeared since last weekend in my rss reader: http://thisquantumworld.com/wordpress/2007/08/19/an-open-letter-to-messrs-dawkins-dennett-harris-and-hitchens/, http://amnap.blogspot.com/2007/08/materialism-as-reaction-to-religion.html, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/16/sunday/main3174781.shtml, and http://richarddawkins.net/article,1540,n,n.
The last one links to Pr. Richard Dawkins’ website, which has become a lively place where religion-bashers congregate and share their… acrimony - if you want to get an idea, enjoy reading the comments to a couple posts. Strikingly similar to what you can find coming from the very people they bash.
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The Vatican’s International Theological Commission recently published a document on unbaptised children that may signal an important evolution in the Catholic Church’s position regarding a number of crucial debates. The core message of the report may have been much publicised, but what few have noticed is that it is, I believe, the tip of a very large and important iceberg. Read More...

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