Rod Liddle Gives Atheism A Kicking In Forthcoming Tv Show

Former Today editor Rod Liddle is set to launch a broadside against atheism in a programme for Channel 4 entitled The Trouble with Atheism – which will be broadcast on 18 December. Mr Liddle says he will demonstrate how similar atheism is to religion. A taste of his distaste can be sampled in the current issue of the Spectator, in which he interviews Richard Dawkins. He ends up saying that Dawkins believes as fervently in Darwin as he does that religion is untrue. Advance information suggests that this programme will be peddling the same tired and tiresome cliché beloved of those religionists who are most threatened by Dawkins’ unanswerable polemic The God Delusion. Namely, that non-belief is a belief.