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Dawkins' arguments.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
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January 01, 2008 |
Gethin, Patrick J. |
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SIR: Claiming that Professor Dawkins' arguments for atheism are rational, Mike Alder (Letters, November 2007) also makes the farfetched argument that certain communist and other mass murdering regimes were not atheist but religious. He stops short of telling readers that Dawkins' atheism is religious, although on the basis of Mr Alder's reasoning, a reader of The God Delusion can conclude that it is so. But that is not the basis of Dawkins' argument in The God Delusion. Atheism, and opposition to what most of us call religion, is what Dawkins and the communists advocate.
Dawkins is not noted for rational arguments in support of atheism. Indeed his work has been selected for exercises to demonstrate ...
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