tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459988184425389411.post1290571391360883575..comments2011-01-28T16:29:04.382-08:00Comments on Thinking Aloud: Strategies for atheists...and why they don't work for meUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459988184425389411.post-7671470107096884742008-06-29T20:06:00.000-07:002008-06-29T20:06:00.000-07:00Interesting post. I'm slowly making my way throug...Interesting post. I'm slowly making my way through The God Delusion by Richard Dawson. In the first few chapters, I agreed with almost everything he said, but as I kept reading, what was most striking to me was his his hostility toward belief in God.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that a scientist making a case for or against something should make a solid effort to put his emotions out of the picture.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, bad things are done in the name of religion, and it's right to be angry about those things, and at those people. But it's a little telling, don't you think, that he lumps all people of faith together in one ignorant, hateful lump.<BR/><BR/>I haven't finished the book, so I don't know if he has anything to say about people motivated by faith to do great works of compassion, not to mention art.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17709842445396738547noreply@blogger.com