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Over at The Guardian, Andrew Brown proposes a game of threes:

I was prompted by an exchange in comments to wonder whether it was really true, as A. N. Whitehead claimed, that everyone thinks their own beliefs are the summit of western philosophy. So the challenge is a simple one. Name three people, preferably contemporaries, whom you honestly believe are smarter, better educated, and more honest than you are, but who disagree with you about God. So atheists must name believers, and vice versa.

Hmm. My being an agnostic creates some structural difficulties, so I’ll try to name a few of each.

Theists: I’m going with Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the prolific authors John Updike and Annie Dillard.

Atheists: Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, (who incidentally has an excellent dialogue with the Arch-Bishop of Milan readily available for consumption) and for discursive purposes, Christopher Hitchens.