"The foundation, he said, would only be interested in “noble atheism or agnosticism, not the polemical kind – so not those atheists such as [Piergiorgio] Odifreddi in Italy, [Michel] Onfray in France, [Christopher] Hitchens and [Richard] Dawkins”. Such atheists, he added, only view the truth with “irony and sarcasm” and tend to “read religious texts like fundamentalists”."