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Clemency Burton-Hill
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The God Delusion

A voice crying in the wilderness

Richard Dawkins
Bantam, 416pp, £20,
Charles Moore
Thursday, 5th October 2006

Richard Dawkins is an evangelical. The cover of this book, with its red explosion and large writing, reminds one of those popular volumes by Protestant pastors which purport to prove that JESUS IS ALIVE. Dawkins has all the fervour and anger of such persons, and their well-meaning puzzlement that so many cannot see what to them is so blindingly obvious. ‘Can’t you see’, yells Dawkins, ‘JESUS IS DEAD?’

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