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Dawkins and religion.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

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| November 01, 2007 | Alder, Mike | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR. It is barely possible that Professor Dawkins does not read Quadrant and hence has not seen the rebuttal of his claims against religion by Hal Colebatch in the October issue. Had he done so he might have pointed out that the depredations of the three atheist powers of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and revolutionary France should be counted on the religious side. Religion and Deism are different. The defining characteristic which Dawkins attacks is irrational beliefs, held not on the basis of evidence but because ...

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