Just found this gloriously barbed riposte to Dawkins, by Terry Eagleton, on the London Review of Books website.

¬†I’m still chuckling about ‘North Oxford in the ideological sense’. The points he makes, though, are serious ones.

¬†It’s a perpetual frustration of mine that the one worldview the dogmatically ’scientific’ one is unable to relativise as blind faith is its own. But it’s one thing talking, as Derrida did, about ‘a world without fault, without truth and without security’, and another to try and live that assertion, in a world where all around it seems that different faith groups, philosophies and paradigms are taking positions with ever-bloodier consequences that extend far beyond the realms of academia. Limp-wristed relativism of the ‘I have to leave you believing that, because it’s your right to believe what you like’ school only works when we’re united by something. Even if that something is merely technology.

But what happens when the lights go out?