Damian:

[T]he impression I get is that Norm is more forgiving of Eagleton’s errors of reasoning than he should be

Norm:

Damian leaves an impression about my viewpoints that I feel I have a right to comment on.

Damian:

I’d happily place a bet with Norm on which of the two of them will be considered worth reading in two hundred years’ time.

But durability isn’t the point here; correctness is.

Norm:

[M]y endorsement of the passages I quote from Eagleton’s review is based on having thought about them and not on any speculative forward projection into the remote future of Dawkins’ and Eagleton’s respective reputations.

Damian:

I’m not going to persuade you or Norm to share this belief of mine

Norm:

But speaking for myself, I won’t be persuaded from the opinions that I hold on these matters by mere pejorative description.

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Norm:

All I did in that post was to commend to the readers of my blog three particular themes from Eagleton’s review.

Norm:

Richard Dawkins is taking a pasting from Terry Eagleton in the LRB