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Most people on this planet are worshipping a guy in the sky (or his representative) in the hope of an afterlife and other more immediate payback: that's the reality of religion for 5B people.

Sweet Jesus!  That only applies to the Abrahamic religions AND NOT EVEN ALL OF THEM!  

So at the outset you are missing the majority of actual, practiced religion on this planet.  

This is kind of absurd, slopping, thinking by (SOME) atheists can only give atheism a bad name--not that I care ;)

The Fates are kind.

by Gaianne on Thu Jan 10th, 2008 at 06:34:43 PM EST
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Given some of the crass, uninformed criticism of Dawkins and specifically of his "The God Delusion", a bit of hyperbole and sarcasm by Colman is excusable. Let's say - MANY people on the planet believe etc. That OK ?

Now, do you have any specific criticisms (with arguments and evidence - not just dismissals as in your other comment) of what Dawkins has actually written or said in the links in the Diary ?

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 08:16:28 AM EST
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Really? Does it? I'm not referring to the high-falutin' theological version of religion as professed by the chattering classes. I mean the folk versions that are actually practised by the vast majority of people. I did contemplate adding something on the spirits living in rocks,or unquiet ancestors, but the sentence structure was degrading at that point.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 08:20:15 AM EST
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