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Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite.
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RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite.
EDIT: I lost the formatting when I clicked Submit for some stupid reason. 

I already said why. Now, if you're okay with his egotistical and belittling manners, then fine. But I'm not. I agree with many other scholars, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, that his rhetoric is actually harmful to his own cause and the cause of many scientists. The whole "Brights movement" that he was behind for a while is just pathetic; the idea that religious people are inherently less intelligent than atheists is ridiculous, and especially ironic considering how many atheists were once religious themselves. As for The God Delusion, I agree with most of what agnostic biology professor H. Allen Orr has to say about it. 

Here's a tidbit from that article:

"Dawkins clearly believes his background in science allows him to draw strong conclusions about religion and, in The God Delusion,  he presents those conclusions in language that’s stronger still.  Dawkins not only thinks religion is unalloyed nonsense but that it is an  overwhelmingly pernicious, even “very evil,” force in the world. His  target is not so much organized religion as all religion. And within  organized religion, he attacks not only extremist sects but moderate  ones. Indeed, he argues that rearing children in a religious tradition  amounts to child abuse.
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As you may have noticed, Dawkins when discussing religion is, in effect,  a blunt instrument, one that has a hard time distinguishing Unitarians  from abortion clinic bombers. What may be less obvious is that, on  questions of God, Dawkins cannot abide much dissent, especially from  fellow scientists (and especially from fellow evolutionary biologists).  Indeed Dawkins is fond of imputing ulterior motives to those “Neville  Chamberlain School” scientists not willing to go as far as he in his war  on religion: he suggests that they’re guilty of disingenuousness,  playing politics, and lusting after the large prizes awarded by the  Templeton Foundation to scientists sympathetic to religion.  The only motive Dawkins doesn’t seem to take seriously is that some scientists genuinely disagree with him."
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Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Brian37 - January 24, 2016 at 6:54 am
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Brian37 - January 24, 2016 at 7:11 am
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Brian37 - January 24, 2016 at 7:50 am
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Heat - January 24, 2016 at 3:35 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Minimalist - January 24, 2016 at 3:36 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Reforged - January 24, 2016 at 4:14 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Brian37 - January 24, 2016 at 5:23 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Reforged - January 24, 2016 at 5:44 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Brian37 - January 24, 2016 at 5:24 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Brian37 - January 28, 2016 at 5:50 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Aegon - January 24, 2016 at 9:11 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Aegon - January 24, 2016 at 9:42 pm
RE: Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite. - by Aegon - January 24, 2016 at 10:11 pm

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