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Re: Dawkins seems a bit *confused* here
Jun 30, 2009, 12:40
fauny fergus wrote:
Terry Eagleton's review of the The God Delusion is pretty incisive


You really think so?

Eagleton appears to be attacking Dawkins for not knowing about the detail of theology, yet that misses the point. It's like attacking a vegan for not knowing enough about being a seafood chef.

Eagleton goes into great detail about the 'real' message of God as opposed to the 'unscriptural' decrees of the religions that worship God, which misses much of the thrust of Dawkins' point.

If you find the idea of there being a revealed omnipotent creator as ludicrous as there being a Santa Claus, then what they actually said via a burning bush or whatever is as irrelevant as the wording on the note Santa leaves for your kids to say thanks for the mince pie.

Then we get a fabulous merry dance telling us that "It was the imperial Roman state, not God, that murdered Jesus". So all those times the clergy tell us of God sacrificing his only son for us are wrong then. God had no idea it might happen and it was down to Pilate. Thanks for clearing that up, Terry.

If you are taking the meta-view, seeing religion as a social construct, the theology doesn't matter so much. The questions then become; why did people make this particular nonsense up, and how and why do they believe it.
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