Cardinal says faithful must respect atheists.

God is not a “fact in the world” as though God could be treated as “one thing among other things to be empirically investigated” and affirmed or denied on the “basis of observation”, said Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor. “If Christians really believed in the mystery of God, we would realise that proper talk about God is always difficult, always tentative.

What seems to often be the trouble, though, is that humourless atheists won’t let the religious BE tentative…