New Atheism in the UK

[mannaka]

I appreciate what you're saying, but looking back at the survey with particular attention to the first two pages;

54% of people surveyed labeled themselves Christian.
Only 1% strictly believed in the religion according to Q3.

If the survey is a fair sample of the UK, then this would imply that only 0.54% of Christians are strictly religious. As a comparative, it is said that 1% of the UK is illiterate.*

Perhaps there are other pedestals in the UK we should be corroding?

*Granted - I didn't look at other religions but (1) Christianity is the main religion of ridicule and (2) I doubt the percentage would rise very considerably (maybe 1-4% maximum?)

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To continue the caravan analogy (before it starts to get a bit silly) your aim is to come to a complete stop, so you must keep breaking. Inappropriately hard breaking would be like having a confrontational Hitchenesque debate with your elderly aunt at a family Christening. Not breaking enough would be like . . . er . . . I think that's enough of this analogy.

Regards

Grimesy

Exactly! Proportionate breaking I'd call it.

It is of my opinion however that New Atheist views are the equivalent "jerkily hard breaking" in this analogy.