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Originally Posted by Val_1
Dawkins is a brilliant scientist, but a bit over zealous with the atheism (this is coming from an atheist). I believe he's just trying to be extreme to get people talking, but, considering a recent poll showed that atheists are the most mistrusted group there is, I think calm, level headedness, and understanding would be a better tactic. After all, it's not religion itself that's bad. It's zealotry.
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Val, I really liked your post, and I'd like to second something you said: it's not religion itself that's bad--it's zealotry. I am just as scared of an atheist zealot as I am of an Muslim one or a evangelical Christian one or even a zealot Episcopalian (I don't see this latter one happening though). Extremism is dangerous--wherever it happens.