With Richard Dawkins's Descent to a Figure of Fun, Atheism Has Lost Its Champion

The spiral to irrelevance is now complete. Read Tim Stanley's hilarious piece in the Telegraph, mocking Dawkins along with Stephen Fry's absurd recent interview in which he indignantly seemed to think he was the first to realize innocent suffering poses a challenge to faith.

The article is funny, but in another way it's dispiriting. Stanley is dead on, observing that "Richard Dawkins’ insanity has now become an English institution -- like warm beer and rain." It seems every day brings someth...