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Originally Posted by dor  [I]Religious moderates...(encourage) the common belief that accepting religious claims in the utter absence of evidence, and treating them as immune to rational criticism, is perfectly reasonable behavior. |
Dor, you yourself appear to be deeply intolerant of Dawkins, so once again, you are the pot calling the kettle black.
Some people describe Dawkins as intolerant because he does not subscribe to the belief that religious faith is immune to rational criticism. In fact, he doesn't call for the destruction of people who have religious faith (now, THAT would be intolerant). Rather, he'd like to see religious faith itself vanish. Like Abolitionists, he believes there's an outdated, unnecessary, and dangerous force at work, and that it's time to get rid of it. Granted, there were some Abolitionists who wanted to kill the slaveholders along with slavery, but Dawkins certainly doesn't wish for the death of the religious as well as religion.