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Richard Dawkins and anger (view source)
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On second thoughts, "Well, perhaps I'm angry," he admitted, before dropping the pretences altogether and making clear what he thinks about anyone who teaches children anything other than his beliefs on evolution.<ref>[http://www.christiantoday.com/article/richard.dawkins.im.not.aggressive.about.god.perhaps.just.angry/36864.htm Richard Dawkins: I'm not aggressive about God...perhaps just angry]</ref>}}
On second thoughts, "Well, perhaps I'm angry," he admitted, before dropping the pretences altogether and making clear what he thinks about anyone who teaches children anything other than his beliefs on evolution.<ref>[http://www.christiantoday.com/article/richard.dawkins.im.not.aggressive.about.god.perhaps.just.angry/36864.htm Richard Dawkins: I'm not aggressive about God...perhaps just angry]</ref>}}
Oliver Burkeman wrote in ''The Guardina'' about Dawkins:
{{cquote|Why are atheists so angry? The question – regularly flung around in debates about religion – is a self-fulfilling one, since atheists get pretty irritated whenever they’re asked it. But it’s revealing, too, because it pinpoints a surprising zone of agreement between believers and non-believers: many on both sides accept the premise that atheists are angrier than average.
Naturally, their reasoning differs. Evangelical Christians sometimes assert that atheists secretly believe in God and fear he’s judging them; atheists retort that religion gives them plenty of things to be angry about. Either way, it’s difficult to examine Richard Dawkins’s Twitter feed (to pick the most unfairly obvious example) and fail to conclude that tetchiness and faithlessness go hand in hand...
But the “angry atheist” cliché is also another reminder of just how far the celebrity New Atheists have shortchanged the rest of us who identify, more broadly, with the causes of secularism and rationalism. Because the New Atheists really do seem unusually angry.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/oliver-burkeman-column/2015/mar/03/are-atheists-all-angry Are all atheists simply angry, or just the ones to whom you're listening?] by Oliver Burkeman, ''The Guardian''<ref>
== Richard Dawkins and anger about the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross ==
== Richard Dawkins and anger about the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross ==