Do you like Richard Dawkins?

Yes.

His latest book is a very good read.

People like Mao were extremists who also happened to be atheists.

you could say that people like mao were atheist extremists.

hmm thats more or less true. I think dawkins misses the point tho, its not really about deciding whether god exists, i think its more about whether or not religion is a good thing for society. Having said that i don't really dislike him, i just think if he's trying to deconvert people he's going the wrong way about it.

Errr, what?

Fez.

you could say that people like mao were atheist extremists.

Did his atheism have any effect on his extremism? If not, you could say he was an extremist baldy.

He dedicates most of his time in the books, documentaries and interviews to discussing exactly that. He argues that religious morality is harmful to society and his biggest gripe is the indoctrination of children. He says that children should be able to make up their own minds, instead of just being labelled a Muslim child, Christian child, Hindu etc..

IMO...



Look at my last post. You could argue that the post darwinian god is dead atmosphere of the early 1900s contributed to the attitudes of the genocidal dictators. Maybe religion would have prevented some of what happened. Just throwing the idea out there. only speculation.

btw i dont think theres anything in the little red book about baldness



I saw that documentary, his points were pretty valid on the whole i thought. But i wish he would show something of the other side of the argument and maybe address the evolutionary origins of religion. There is a little to much of his opinion in there, he was kind of preaching about parenting. I have to say i don't accept that religion is always negative. Take football for example, theres a lot of football related violence, hooliganism an stuff like that, but thats not so much the dedication to a team as the mentalness of some people. Religion is what you make it, i think we should be critical of the way religion operates and not think it is above criticism but lets not forget some good does come of it. Politics/democracy is most of the time frustrating and difficult and for the vast majority of countries often unsuccessful but that doesn't mean we should discard it as a concept completely.