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I never said I agreed with it, or his motives. I said it was a good read. Perhaps I should have labelled it "interesting", instead -- it would have been more apt.
You seemed to enjoy it, even if it was only so you could have a pop at it afterwards.
I don't really find Dawkins that amazing, like a lot of people do. They see him as a "champion of the atheist cause", but he just seems petty and bloody-minded to me. He did a documentary on Channel Four not long ago where he interviewed a selection of religious leaders, and each interview essentially boiled down to him saying "why do you believe in God, when he obviously doesn't exist?", the interviewee trying to respond, and then Dawkins retaliating, with a smug, self-righteous smile, "well, you're wrong."
No real debate or argument. Just a sanctimonious Oxford don with an inflated sense of his own importance in the world.
I also found "The Dawkins Delusion" an interesting read, too.
And for historical postery, "Mein Kampf" is actually worth a look.
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