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Originally Posted by Russ
Dawkins is intolerant of something he disagrees with and wants other people to follow his views, hopefully at the sane time losing their own beliefs.
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I think your understanding of this is somewhat weak.
Dawkins = "Rationality! Scepticism! Critical thinking! Scientific method! Examine evidence!"
Religious = "What it says in this largely anonymous collection of scriptures is 100% fact and nothing can ever change that!"
If you think that both of those things are opposite sides of the same coin then do say so, because that means I'm wasting my time replying to you.
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Originally Posted by Russ
Unlike normal tolerant people he is not happy for there to be room for all views and beliefs in the world - he wants religion removed from it. Nothing wrong with disagreeing with a religion but wanting it's complete removal is arrogance and ignorance personified.
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Explain to me why it's arrogant and ignorant.
If I make a grand claim to you without any evidence at all, but I say that you should believe it regardless because I know that I'm right - is that not the very height of intellectual arrogance? That's what theists do all the time! It's not what Dawkins has ever done though.