Ted wrote:
> This garbage about an approximate equivalence between believing in God and
believing in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny is hardly original to Dawkins
-> - who, apart from his idea of religion being a "meme" that we "catch"
like a virus, hasn't had an original thought about religion in his life.
That seems to be a recurring pattern in the "new atheists". For instance,
Christopher Hitchens is very fond of pointing out supposed inconsistencies
in the idea of God that can be traced to the patristic period as if he they
were new. By the way, Dawkins doesn't have much to show for in terms of
scientific original ideas either. His last scientific paper was published in
the early 70's.
Marcio
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