British journalist blasts the anti-God “nutters”

Revealing that former British prime minister Tony Blair feared that he thought he would be labelled a “nutter” for believing in God, the Daily Mail’s Melanie Phillips weighs in on the anti-God crowd, charging that the shoe is on the other foot, “The real nutters are the fanatics who despise religious belief.” Granting that Islamic extremists who blow themselves and others to pieces are off the mental map, she argues, essentially, that the climate of intolerance that secularists create is a step in the same direction. For example, Richard Dawkins

... and his followers have created a climate of rampant intolerance towards religion, in which to acknowledge personal faith is to risk professional and social ostracism.

Yet the foundations of British society and Western civilisation rest upon the Bible and Christianity.

It is the concept of a rational creator that lies behind the rationalism of the West. The idea of equality - fundamental to Western liberalism - derives from the belief that all human beings were created in the image of God.

Of course, if all else fails, as Phillips notes, British Christians could try growing a backbone and standing up to the nonsense - as Oxford mathematician John Lennox recently did with his book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?, in which he shows that science is burying militant materialist atheism.

Atheism and popular culture: Why science, not faith, is now often the enemy of reason

In "Arrogance, dogma and why science - not faith - is the new enemy of reason", the Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips points out that current sicence can be an enemy of reason, as much as blind faith:

The heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition is the belief in the concept of truth, which gives rise to reason. But our postreligious age has proclaimed that there is no such thing as objective truth, only what is "true for me".
That is because our society won't put up with anything which gets in the way of 'what I want'. How we feel about things has become all-important. So reason has been knocked off its perch by emotion, and thinking has been replaced by feelings.

This has meant our society can no longer distinguish between truth and lies by using evidence and logic. And this collapse of objective truth has, in turn, come to undermine science itself which is playing a role for which it is not fitted.

Worse, many scientists such as genome mapper Francis Crick ended up insisting that our brains have not evolved to understand scientific truth, but only to leave fertile descendants. (The Spiritual Brain, p. 111.) If they were right, we would be fools to heed anything they said, as if it had meaning. Fortunately, they are wrong.