My Comment:  2 Thessalonians 2:3  Let no one deceive you by any means for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.  Satan knows his time is short, and he and his helpers have orchestrated the greatest falling away ever.  Don’t doubt, it’s here.

(The Telegraph)  Professor Dawkins said it was now possible to go to a dinner party and assume no one was religious.

“I think on the whole we are winning,” he told The Times. “We are all moving in the same direction. I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.”

“You do not have to be reticent in what you say. You do not have to look around and say, ‘I hope I am not offending anyone’. You can pretty much speak your mind now in a way that you could not 50 years ago.”

Prof Dawkins said he did not believe that religion had any moral value. “But I do believe it has had, historically, artistic value,” he said.

His comments come a month after he became embroiled in a Twitter row after saying the last time Muslims contributed something worthwhile was during the Middle Ages.

He went on to argue that although Muslims were responsible for many achievements during the Dark Ages, including alchemy and algebra, their contribution since then was questionable.

At the launch of his memoir, An Appetite for Wonder, this week Prof Dawkins said he would like his legacy to consist of being known as a “lover of truth”, and as “a believer in the possibility of discovering objective truth by scientific research”.

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