I fear that Sunny may has spoken a little too soon (see comments):
I doubt very much we’d run general Richard Dawkins style posts calling all people of faith ‘delusional’ just to have a big slagging match.
…because yours truly and the Archbishop of Canterbury are about to have a bit of a ‘falling out’ over some of the content of his James Callaghan Memorial Lecture.
(I should qualify that opening by saying that I’m not about to call all ‘people of faith’ delusional – that’s a subject for a different time and venue and a matter for philosophical rather than political discussion – and I’m not trying to simply generate a ‘slagging match’ either – although one can never quite guarantee that one will not ensue when taking a pop at religion and religious thinking, but what follows does have more than the odd hint of Dawkins/Hitch/Grayling about it in the sense that I’m about to take a shot at dismantling some poorly constructed ‘religious’ arguments advanced by the Archbish, so consider yourself warned in advance and don’t assume that anything that follows is necessarily easy or straightforward as we’re delving in philosophy for part of this).
The full text of Rowan William’s speech has rapidly been transcribed and appears on his website here, which means that, for once, I’m not going to have to rely on second hand quotations drawn from media sources where its difficult to ascertain the extent to which reporting has been editorialised and what follows is not a full-on fisk as I’m intending to work with extracts that illustrate the points I wish to make.
So let’s start at the beginning and note that the subject of the lecture is ‘Religious Hatred and Religious Offence’ and that William’s is heading off down entirely the wrong track right from the outset with his opening gambit: Continue reading
Kate Belgrave’s piece on Monday, 
The Daily Telegraph website reported on Monday the story that McDonald’s is to be empowered to issue A-levels with an entirely predictable sneer: ‘Would you like a qualification with that?’