Glenn Beck Fires Back at Richard Dawkins for Calling the Pope ‘Dangerous’

Glenn Beck took on Richard Dawkins on Monday for telling Bill Maher that he thinks President Obama is an atheist and that Pope Francis being more moderate than his predecessors makes him a “dangerous” figure. Beck turned the tables and said it would be a very different story if religious people decried any prominent atheist as a threat to their way of life.

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Stu Burguiere mocked Dawkins for basically saying “they might be charismatic, they might woo people over to the evil that is religion.”

Beck noted he doesn’t consider atheists inherently dangerous or evil, citing the entertainer/libertarian atheist Penn Jillette as a “good responsible citizen.” He said, “If you are preaching a religion, you would say, ‘Well, I don’t want Penn Jillette to be a good guy, because then people might listen to him.'” He charged that Dawkins is doing just that, “preaching a religion, the religion of atheism,” by saying people shouldn’t listen to a man who poses a threat to them.

Beck also found it amazing how little Dawkins’ comment about Obama being an atheist has gotten, arguing if he said it instead he’d be getting all kinds of flak in the media for it.

Watch the video below, via BlazeTV:

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