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Thread #150086   Message #3496791
Posted By: Steve Shaw
30-Mar-13 - 01:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are Atheists really Atheists or......
Subject: RE: BS: Are Atheists really Atheists or......
I'm sorry, Mrrzy (assuming that I've taken your remark in the right way - apologies if I've got it wrong) and Jack, but you have homework to do. Now it could be that you think you hate Dawkins so much that you can't bring yourself to even look at him. Well, dozens of YouTubes of him debating with all manner of people, from archbishops to unreconstructed manic religious zealots have been posted. To select one or two in order to show you what a nice bloke he is would be invidious, but you'd better at least have a look at a few before rushing to judgement. You will find him to be an unfailing good listener who takes on board what his opponent says and who then addresses their points closely. Naturally, cool logic can come across as irritating to someone whose points have not been properly hatched in their minds. That happens to Jack on these threads all the time, for example. The God Delusion, which sits on my shelf right here, is a very carefully argued work. Of course it is an attack on religion, but perhaps religion might be all the healthier if it were attacked a little more and treated with undue reverence a little less. Easy enough to aim your hate-blunderbuss at Dawkins and his book as soon as you see them coming. A bit harder to select passages you disagree with and give your careful counter-argument. There's your challenge. It's only fair to the man, eh? Demonisation is easy. Demolition by logic and argument is ten times harder but it's the right way to go.