Here’s the transcript of an interview of Richard Dawkins by Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

I thoroughly enjoyed the exchange and found it delightful and enlightening. Well worth reading. 

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For the small fee of $110, a new business will take care of your pets after the Rapture. They have signed up confessed non-believers to be involved in the ‘service’.

Eternal Earth-Bound Pets styles itself as a service that will take care of ‘left behind’ pets when their Christian owners are raptured. The motto on their website is:

  “The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World”

On their site they have the following caption:

"You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind."

Response: Wow, how clever! I wonder what they’re going to do with all the $ money? Maybe buy some more anti-God ads on busses?             *Top          (Cross-posted on the Main Page)

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According to the article, similar movements are spreading to other countries, including a well organized move against Catholicism in Argentina.

Response: This is a rather sad development. This movement illustrates that the UK is in the middle of a major transition along with all of Europe that some have called ‘post-Christian’.

A generation ago all were baptized into the state churches as infants. Now as the secular and the atheist movements gain numbers and cultural credibility many adults are seeking to ‘divorce’ themselves from their former ‘Christian’ identity.

Now the UK is far more secular than it is ‘Christian’. Many are beginning to question the government support given to the Church of England. To justify the current expenditures, some churches in the UK are beginning to be used as public buildings like post offices along with worship.

The ‘Debaptism’ is said to be spreading to other countries. It is doubtful that it will gain much if any momentum in the USA since there’s no dominant State church that the majority was baptized into as infants. That is not to say that secularism is not making significant inroads into American culture.

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The posts by Albert Mohler and Alister McGrath are particularly notable.  McGrath has already published one book challenging Richard Dawkins:  Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, & the Meaning of Life, in this work he takes on Dawkins in his own scientific back yard. 

Alisters’ next book is due to come out this next week:  The Dawkins Delusion?  This work was written to specifically answer Dawkins’ book.  While McGrath can not be considered an Evangelical, in this area of study his observations should be more than helpful.  Professor McGrath is not only accomplished in theology, his vast background in scientific studies brings a particular and unique perspective to his writing.  It should be interesting and essential. 

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