O'Reilly vs. Dawkins
Here is the video of Bill O’Reilly versus Richard Dawkins from Fox last night; here is a transcript. BOR gave far too little time to Dawkins, most likely because O'Reilly would have fared much worse if the discussion had extended beyond the exchange of a few soundbites. I feared for a moment that Dawkins was going to let BOR get away with calling Hitler an atheist, but he returned after a moment to observe:
DAWKINS: Hitler, by the way, was a Roman Catholic.O'REILLY: He never was. He was raised in that home. He rejected it early on.
Once again, O’Reilly needs to get his facts straight: Hitler denounced atheism during a 1993 speech in Berlin
“We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.”
and also reaffirmed his Catholicism as late as 1941, when he was in his early fifties:
“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
Better luck next time, Bill.