"...uncritically accepted".   Another brilliant straw man.

But "delusion" goes beyond this. Dictionary: delusion: a "false persistent belief"

It therefore states that anybody who believes in God is dead wrong. That is the-- needlessly inflammatory, senseless, and obviously unprovable--assertion here.

That's the problem.

Except it's not "needless" for Dawkins. He "needs" to sell books. And senseless controversy sells.

Interesting that many scientists are not willing to go as far as Dawkins.   Maybe since their highest goal is not to sell books.

They are interested in other things. Check for instance what Einstein had to say.



It's also interesting that atheists--at least some on Mudcat--have the classic 'take no prisoners' attitude that even agnostics are somehow lacking, intellectually cowardly, or otherwise flawed.

No wonder atheists are so popular.

Then of course they whine about being lumped together--while somehow finding no problem lumping all Christians together and stereotyping them by the actions of a crackpot few.   I wonder why they don't like being stereotyped by the actions of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

But after 700 posts, I think we've seen this movie before.