Ethics

Worldnutdaily Blames Dawkins for Suicide

By Ed Brayton

In perhaps one of the most ridiculous and sleaziest things the Worldnutdaily has ever published - and imagine how stiff that competition is - they are now blaming Richard Dawkins for a 22 year old who committed suicide after reading The God Delusion - and even blaming a college professor who suggested the book to him.

"Three people told us he had taken a biology class and was doing well in it, but other students and the professor were really challenging my son, his faith. They didn't like him as a Republican, as a Christian, and as a conservative who believed in intelligent design," the grief-stricken father, Keith Kilgore, told WND about his son, Jesse.

"This professor either assigned him to read or challenged him to read a book, 'The God Delusion,' by Richard Dawkins," he said.

Jesse Kilgore committed suicide in October by walking into the woods near his New York home and shooting himself. Keith Kilgore said he was shocked because he believed his son was grounded in Christianity, had blogged against abortion and for family values, and boasted he'd been debating for years.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).