Richard Dawkins: A Man Of Faith

When I moved to London, at age 21, I was neither religious neither an atheist, I mostly didn’t care too much. My family instead was very religious (Catholic).

For some accidents of history, one fine day, I bought “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins in which he made an impeccable case for why God didn’t really exist and why being religious was a primitive, silly thing to do. A few weeks later I too, was a convinced Atheist.

For more than a decade, in my mind, Richard Dawkins has been a lighthouse for rationality and science. Unfortunately that all changed with Brexit and moreover with the victory of Trump.

Since the beginning of the 2016 US Election Richard made no mystery of his contempt for Trump, like many other intellectuals did, and he was no stranger of calling him all the usual names Republican candidates get: racist, sexist, xenophobe etc etc.

As I’ve pointed it out in “Donald Trump: The Anti-Hero” the reasons why he did so are quite evident but never I expected to see Richard Dawkins behave like the people he spent a whole life ridiculing. Never I expected Richard Dawkins to behave like a religious person.

But he did.

This morning, in one of his tweets, Richard let his followers know that the, already famous, book “Fire & Fury” is a recommended reading for understanding the Trump Presidency