Does Richard Dawkins Think He’s Napoleon?
Commentary by Hilary White, Rome correspondent ROME, April 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quite honestly, when I saw that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens had told the British media they plan to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested and charged with “crimes against humanity,” during his visit to Britain in September, my first reaction was somewhat different from those of most of my friends and colleagues here in Rome. Whereas most of them burst out laughing, I felt like cringing in embarrassment on behalf of these two men, particularly for Professor Dawkins. The fact that Dawkins, and his henchman Hitchens, believe, apparently with utter seriousness, that they can arrest Pope Benedict during his visit, indicates a disconnection from reality that ought to prompt the sympathetic attention of a competent physician. Professor Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and ethologist, held the Oxford University Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science and is the author of many
