Dawkins refers to faith as a 'virus'. Well that 'virus' brought me a great deal of comfort and assurance when my father died 2 years ago. Who the hell does Dawkins think he is to want me to lose the comfort that got me through very difficult times?
I have never said there's anything wrong with questioning beliefs as you know. What I do have a problem with is people wanting to eradicate or limit someone's faith purely because they have the audacity to believe in something people like Dawkins "know" to be wrong.
One of the people Dawkins made lose their faith is a dear friend of mine who went on to attempt to take his own life as a result. Fortunately he wasn't successful.
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No you're not right there, if someone reads something objective that leads them to lose their faith then that's one thing. Anything Dawkins does or says about religion is not objective.
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
perhaps he's doing religion a favor by separating the wheat from the chaff ,if people loose their faith by reading his book it couldn't have been very strong.
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It's nobody else's business how weak or strong a person's faith is but their own.