kowenicki said:
But you'd probably expexct me to. I do admit he likes a soundbite or two and can be sensationalist, but when you are dealing in these areas... it is often required. He doesn't just argue that they are evil, he argues that they are silly. The comparison with Falwell, who is a lunatic and very dangerous is a little unfair. But I am out now... religion just turns me into an angry arguer.
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...yeah, but he does argue they're evil.
Including in the God Delusion.
Many of his arguments sound no different from the arguements Falwell would make about other religions....
and he basically argues agaisnt religion without having done any knowledge or study into any of the relgions he is argueing against.
Which would be fine if he left it at the base levels, but insetad he tends to try and dive into religious theology and what it says and use that as "proof". More or less creating strawman's created soley of his own bias.
Very few people better illustrate the follies of ignorance created via arrogance and bias.
You should really reread his stuff and reconsider. It's not people who disagree that kill ideas. It's the profundly ignorant and loud that support ideas for the wrong reasons that are the death of them.
If every religion disapears from the world, it won't be due to the likes of Richard Dawkins, it will be do to the Fallwells and the Popes. They've turned off more people to religion via their support of things not even listed in the bible, then Dawkins ever has.
Meanwhile if Atheism ever disapears again into Agnoscism. You can be sure it will be due to people like Dawkins spouting nonsense... and really, atheists are more likely to be turned off by nonsense. Well outside of the Angry atheists who are mostly just upset they had to sit through church/had really religious upbringings.
Of course I will concede statements like "Religion is worse then repeated sexual abuse as a child" aren't helping either.
