Well mordernist and postmordernist idealogies have had enormous amount of institutional power in the guise of Communism and Fascism. Neither of these have ever given a shit about Dawkins, ofcourse. Then again, I understand that his holiness would not be likely to care much about any of the fundamentalist evangelical types that are all the rage these days; the Roman Catholic church is very conservative so I don't see what they would have in common with the "I read a few select parts of the bible once so now I'm fully qualified to lecture everyone on how 9/11 was sent to punish the US for its predominantly Christian ethos that I consider not to be Christian" crowd.
Stalin, Hitler and the Pope walked into a bar.
Date: 2009-05-13 05:46 pm (UTC)