Personally, I do not know where Dawkins comes from but he does strike me as being a head battering type. He might get cheers of applause from his fellow believers but from the little I have read about him, he stikes me as being every bit as bad as a holier than though Christian (which in my view is very different to a Christian with deep faith who might wish others shared their faith -one carries a superiority of person and mind and the other doesn't)