Richard Dawkins – sainthood is Pythonesque
At an atheist convention in Melbourne yesterday, Richard Dawkins compared the awarding of sainthood to Australian nun Mary MacKillop to a Monty Python skit.
The creation of saints is “pure Monty Python” … says the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. “I do find it very discouraging,” Dr Dawkins told the 2010 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne yesterday when asked about the support of the media and the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, for Mary MacKillop, who is to become Australia’s first saint in a ceremony in Rome in October.
“The whole idea of creating saints is pure Monty Python,” he said. ”Why do they have to clock up two miracles? These are people we are supposed to take seriously.” … Catholic theologians “believe in miracles and get doctors to provide testimony that someone got cured from cancer”, he said. “It’s just surreal and completely gives the lie to the claim that sophisticated theologians should look down on fundamentalist wingnuts. They are all the same.”
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on March 15, 2010 at 4:26 am
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This is the word of St.Dawkins.
Thanks be to St.Dawkins.
on March 15, 2010 at 4:30 am
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