Why is Dawkins so scary to you theists?

I can respect someone who's anti-religion if he's also pro-truth. Dawkins is just the most famous example of someone who's anti-religion but comfortable with repeating falsehoods.

@Fake Messiah Lovely thought, but I’m not Scottish (although I have been known to wear kilts now and then).

He said "Dawkins"! Stone him!

Blasphemy! Dawkins is the Atheist God!

There are other atheist authors that I prefer to read. Dawkins just doesn't hold my attention like some others do. For some reason he's held up as some sort of leader for all atheists though. I suppose theists think that people have to have a fearless leader, real or not.

Even in one season of the tv show "Dexter" there is a religious loon who kills (or just tries to? can't remember anymore) a professor that is based on Dawkins.

Religious people are obsessed with Dawkins. I remember some years ago Dawkins tweeted a link to some hilarious essay against him where some theist was "debunking" him and ending with words like "Maybe the atheism hasn't been put down, but one of its greatest dragons has." Too bad I can't find that link anymore.

It's easy to go after Dawkins here. He's not part of the forum.

What makes people believe Dawkins is some kind of "Authority" (to me)? I couldnt care less what a random guy thinks about Dawkins. Why do people like Bel dont talk to me abou tmy beliefs, instead attack some random other dude on the net they believe impresses me. Its outright silly

BTW happy St. Andrews day, Boru.

Dawkins is not an Ufologist so he can't debunk flying saucers.

@Fake Messiah Bingo lolly.

The thing is it is easy to debunk religion and you have to be a theologian to debunk religion as much as you have to be an astrologer to debunk horoscopes--which is not really.

Yes, Dawkins was trained as a zoologist, but to claim that he therefore 'doesn't know about' religion, politics, sociology, etc isn't supportable.

@Belacqua If that were the accepted standard, then loads of the greatest literature in history would be missing. Also, you seem more concerned with credentialing than with actual knowledge.

You should stick to your field. You are a splendid islamist but very ignorant in history and politics

I'm a lowly medical care worker, yet I know a great deal about religion; especially about how it's all make-believe.

He should stick to his field. He can be a splendid scientist but very ignorant in religions.

Dawkins, like anyone else, should write about what he knows about. He doesn't do that any more.