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Date: 2009-10-29 04:35 pm (UTC)
Dawkins seems (to me) to miss that completely. He talks about religion in terms of God-or-no-God and religion-as-authority, which is, to my mind, utterly missing the point.

This. That whole black vs white, authoritarian structure to religion is why I'm not a Christian. I cannot believe a Power great enough to create the universe in all its complexity is also small-minded enough to give a shit whether we eat fish or beef on Fridays, who we choose to love, or how (or if) we get dressed to go to church on the Sabbath.

But I pray, I worship my Goddesses, I have a religion (which, btw, teaches respect for all religions and acknowledges that there is a core of truth to just about every serious religion). This does not make me anti-science, anti-evolution or anti-logic. And for Dawkins to dismiss all religion because the one that he's most familiar with dislikes the field of science that he studies is rather irritating.
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