antony flew the coop

From Mark Oppenheimer in the New York Times...

A long and provocative article-- somewhat troubling but ultimately satisfying-- a fuller account than I had read previously of Antony Flew's "conversion" from atheism to deism. The account is somewhat troubling for two reasons: first, what could be shenanigans by Flew's Christian handlers-- and second, the atheists' willingness to embrace him fully but them throw him over the side as a nut, once he didn't agree with them.