[Megan]

By Angela, Today 09:27 AM

Dawkins doesn't rally against the cultural traditions and wisdom of religious groups. He rallies against superstition.

Angela, the "cultural traditions" are the fount of the "superstition" Dawkins rails against. I don't think you can separate the traditions from the wisdom that grew out of them, so it's very difficult to defend the wisdom.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.
-- Richard Dawkins, The Devil's Chaplain (2004)

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That seems like a pretty global dismissal of religion to me, and I understand why feelings run high among religious people about Dawkins.

I see him as having an understandable and even necessary moral reaction against religion, so I don't react to him so much.