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COPYRIGHT 2006 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
From Graham Barnes
Sir: Roger Scruton offers his usual measured, rational response to Richard Dawkins on the matter of religion, even boldly taking on Dawkins's ridiculously literalist view of memetic theory ('Dawkins is wrong about God', 14 January). Scruton is also right to suggest that the 'territorial imperative', not religion, is to blame for war. It comes naturally to us to fight, hate and kill. Though we cushion ourselves from these impulses with the...
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