Dawkins dissed again and again (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 06:48 (3650 days ago) @ romansh

"I started reading this thinking that I might read a logical, skeptical, nay scientific critique of religion. Instead, I found something right out of a Boston Globe editorial on a bad day: strings of pejorative adjectives pretending to be argument, bald assertion pretending to be evidence, an incredibly arrogant attitude, and a stance of moral equivalence incapable of distinguishing between the possible strengths and weaknesses of different religions, including the militant atheism Dawkins advocates. This is not academic analysis, it is bad journalism.
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> Romansh:Here I find you start approaching the same sort of invective as you claim Dawkins has.-That is not my quote although you are attempting to personalize it. If you don't recongnize the weakness of The God Delusion as stated in the critical example above then I suspect you are well tilted toward an atheist veiwpoint yourself, and certainly not planted neutrally on the picket fence as is dhw, who started this website as a counterpoint to Dawkins. You have a right to your tilt, just let us see it as we analyze your defense of your viewpoint. I could show you many more criticisms of Dawkins, especially those sharp opinions of Mary Midgley come to mind. But Stove and Berlinski are just as cutting. I hope you have read them.
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> Romansh: For example Dawkins advocates militant atheism
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> Is this militant as militant fundamentalist? -All militants have strong faith in their viewpoints. Unreasonable in their attacks on others. Both astheists and fundamenalists are equally strong in their faith and equally unresonable to listen to. 
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> Romansh: This is what I would call militant atheism-Unreasonable praise for Dawkins beyond the pale. I think he is an intellectual lightweight, but a gifted writer and entertainer.