http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/11/21/science-and-religion-forum/ Searching for reason in an unreasonable world. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:59:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/11/21/science-and-religion-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Why Richard Dawkins is Hostile Toward Religion » The One With Aldacron Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:59:44 +0000 http://aldacron.net/blog/2006/11/21/science-and-religion-forum/#comment-168 [...] This is related to my last post, where I mentioned that Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris were criticized for their extreme views of religion. Dawkins defends his position in an article published online at beliefnet, Why I Am Hostile Toward Religion. In the article, he aims to explain why he is not the mirror-opposite of religious fundamentalists: I might retort that such hostility as I or other atheists occasionally voice toward religion is limited to words. I am not going to bomb anybody, behead them, stone them, burn them at the stake, crucify them, or fly planes into their skyscrapers, just because of a theological disagreement. But my interlocutor usually doesn’t leave it at that. He may go on to say something like this: “Doesn’t your hostility mark you out as a fundamentalist atheist, just as fundamentalist in your own way as the wingnuts of the Bible Belt in theirs?” I need to dispose of this accusation of fundamentalism, for it is distressingly common. [...] [...] This is related to my last post, where I mentioned that Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris were criticized for their extreme views of religion. Dawkins defends his position in an article published online at beliefnet, Why I Am Hostile Toward Religion. In the article, he aims to explain why he is not the mirror-opposite of religious fundamentalists: I might retort that such hostility as I or other atheists occasionally voice toward religion is limited to words. I am not going to bomb anybody, behead them, stone them, burn them at the stake, crucify them, or fly planes into their skyscrapers, just because of a theological disagreement. But my interlocutor usually doesn’t leave it at that. He may go on to say something like this: “Doesn’t your hostility mark you out as a fundamentalist atheist, just as fundamentalist in your own way as the wingnuts of the Bible Belt in theirs?” I need to dispose of this accusation of fundamentalism, for it is distressingly common. [...]

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