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Originally Posted by RapidRed
Its exactly the same with The End of Faith.
I doubt it will do any good. Those who are not overly religious will obviously agree with him.
Those who are overly religious are too spasticated to bother with logic and reason no matter how you spin it.
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Yeah, I'm guessing you weren't his target audience
As I mentioned on a CE forum thread, i went to hear the philosopher John Gray speak the other day, and he described the new wave of sort of proselytising atheists - Harris, Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennet - as "a late-flowering Christian apocalyptic sect." His point was that the desire to convert the world, the conviction that if only everyone stopped believing false things everything would be alright, is entirely within the Christian tradition. Even though he is himself an atheist.
Dunno if he was right, but it was funny