^Sorta this^It's very easy for the modern enlightened individual to be 'Dawkins agnostic' and call him a smug, belligerent extremist at dinner parties whilst pretending this is an opinion they came up with all by themselves. In truth he usually isn't as anything like as smug, aggressive or as extreme as we're often told. It's the classic desire for a polarised debate with black and white distinctions that makes these narratives so prevalent. Just as most religious figures aren't as unreasonable as they sometimes appear -often they're just surprised to be asked to defend their beliefs and thus fluff their arguments up in the process.
Dawkins ain't an atheist extremist, though he has tendency to tar groups with broad strokes -which is understandable given the broad spectrum of loons and crackpots that have done their best to show the very worse of religion, every day, in his email in-box.
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Dawkins ain't an atheist extremist, though he has tendency to tar groups with broad strokes -which is understandable given the broad spectrum of loons and crackpots that have done their best to show the very worse of religion, every day, in his email in-box.
Well put!i do like this cartooon ;) www.thegoodatheist.net/images/fundyatheist.jpg
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