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A very, very forlorn hope. The strange thing is that I have found more than once that the intellectual heirs of serious Marxism actually have more understanding and respect for the Catholic Church than the current liberal-progressive-PC crowd, with its feeble rags of ideology and poorly motivated attitudes. For instance, the last eminent member of the famous Marxist Frankfurt School, Juergen Habermas, has more or less taken the side of the Pope in the current controversies. Likewise, the Spiked people have more than once proved more compatible (and more intellectually solid and responsible) than the Dawkinses and the Pullmans and their benighted followers. But by the same token, they are simply too honest and too responsible to please a crowd whose main characteristic is self-regard and contempt for evidence.