Richard Dawkins and hypocrisy
nigel_brown at bham.ac.uk
nigel_brown at bham.ac.uk
Wed Dec 18 03:07:11 EST 1996
In article <cam.ac.uk-1612961657180001 at 131.111.39.111>,
cam.ac.uk at news.cam.ac.uk (A. Caian) wrote:
> Make sure you tune in to the BBC television broadcast of Carols from
> King's College, Cambridge, on Christmas Eve. If you look very closely you
> might well see Richard Dawkins, arch-atheist, singing away with 'Hark the
> herald angels sing / Glory to the new born King' in the fellows' stall. It
> brought a whole new dimension to my enjoyment of the service; it was akin
> to spotting the Pope at a Black Sabbath concert. No doubt he was thinking,
> as he does of Bach's Mass in B Minor, how much better the music would have
> been had it been written about natural selection.
There are even more sinister forces at work here. What was Dawkins doing
in the Fellows' Stalls at King's, Cambridge when he is (and always has
been) an Oxford man?
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