Richard Dawkins espouses Militant Atheism: “Mock them, Ridicule them.“

In an interview with Thomas Bass, which was published in the book Reinventing the Future: Conversations With the World’s Leading Scientists, New Atheist leader Richard Dawkins stated that he held fast to the ideology of militant atheism, stating: “I am a fairly militant atheist, with a fair degree of active hostility toward religion. I certainly was hostile toward it at school, from the age of about sixteen onwards. I mellowed a bit in my twenties and thirties. But I’m getting more militant again now.“ On