It reflects rather well on Richard Dawkins that he still hasn’t joined his followers – the religious connotations of the word are intentional – in objecting to the Church of England tweet on Friday about praying for his recovery from a stroke.
Prayers for Prof Dawkins and his family https://t.co/KxBBkBrECk
— The Church of England (@churchofengland) February 12, 2016
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Presumably the CofE did so on the basis of Christ’s exhortation to ‘Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you’, as well as genuine affection for the old boy. But of course the kindly post got the inevitable response from more than 1,000 outraged Dawkinsites: ‘Sarcastic or ignorant?’ one asked.
This did not quite equal the response of the late Christopher ‘God is not Great’ Hitchens to the news that Christians were busy praying for his recovery from cancer.
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