What is left, once these attacks are dismissed, is a critique of Mr Dawkins's proselytising atheism.
He is scathing about those who suggest his illness might lead him to retract his atheism.
Despite the title, her latest book is not so much a case for God as a case against atheism.
No dogma underpinned this, neither atheism, nor republicanism, nor any theory of aesthetics.
In evidence, the head teacher said he had been referring to his atheism.
Because of Russia's history of official atheism and anti-Semitism, there are few countries where Jewish-Christian relations present so many paradoxes.
Even today, and even in secular western Europe, the bald and confident atheism and materialism of Diderot and Holbach seems mildly shocking.
Mr Robertson said he could have written a better case for atheism and described most of the arguments as "sixth form schoolboy variety".
Out of 57 countries in a WIN-Gallup global survey on faith and atheism, Ireland ranked 43rd in terms of the population considering itself religious.
But she argues that modern atheism is as one-dimensional and transient a phenomenon as the modern varieties of theism (including fundamentalism) to which it responds.
On Twitter, one person claimed that atheism was certain to rise in Brazil now that the Pope was from Argentina, while another said it would certainly boost the evangelical church.
But, with its powerful and wide-ranging arguments against theism of all kinds, Mr Harbour's short book, nevertheless, makes what may be the most powerful case available to the widely held but strangely silent creed of atheism.
Not everyone is happy with this proposal: the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, is reported to be against the idea of using music he believes many people still associate with repression and state-imposed atheism.
Position on the concept of atheism?
FORBES: More Political Attacks on Science Education Planned for 2012
Many keep quiet about their atheism.
ECONOMIST: Reflections on a summer camp for the children of atheists
Rather, he held the convictions of a thoughtful, civilised man, who could as easily write plays as pamphlets or naval history, who liked the pipes as much as jazz and was as moral, for all his atheism, as any man of God.
应用推荐