(September 8, 2009 at 12:37 am)padraic Wrote: EG I can't abide Richard Dawkins, I think he's an egomaniacal prat with nothing original to say. I find the few ideas he hasn't stolen from better minds facile and unsupported by evidence. His sweeping generalisation that it's child abuse to teach children religion,is facile ,obnoxious and unproven. So too the claim that religion is evil IN PRINCIPLE.
I wouldn't word it as strongly as that but in general I agree. One point though, it is not the teaching of religion Richard is against, it is the indoctrination. Richard is not opposed to teaching "This is what Christianity says, this is what Buddhists think, this is what Hinduism teaches" but he is opposed to "This is what I believe so you must believe that too.".
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Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
