(August 31, 2013 at 7:21 am)Brian37 Wrote: Skip the damned labels, this is the problem with all claims of all god/s in human history.
I used to be a huge fan of Plato until I read Dawkins's criticism of Platonic idealism. Plato stupidly postulated that if you simply "thought" about something you could find it's "essence" which lead to the popular idea of perfection. Dawkins blames much of modern religion on this stupid chase of utopias because of Plato's ideas.
To be fair, modern religion's theology is a childish version of Plato's philosophy.