Ex-bishop preaches a kinder atheism

24.10.09, THESTAR.COM (UK). For all the Braveheart bluster of the stereotype, the Scots are actually pretty good at the art of compromise. Gordon Brown was the brains behind the third-way politics on which Tony Blair made his reputation. And now, just when Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins are looking like the only intelligent opposition to anti-evolutionary lunacy, it's a Scot named Richard Holloway who reminds us that the certainty of neo-atheism has a lot in common with the certainty of religion.