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Pre-cambrian
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Originally posted by Wilfried:
Dawkins has an audience because the straw man he sets up as religion is the religion people actually see around them.
Doesn't that mean that it's not actually a straw man?
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Moo
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Originally posted by Liberty:
God knows what stupid things I've said in ignorance, when I think I know but actually don't. But I refuse to say stuff that I know I don't know.
Charles Williams wrote a prayer for St. Thomas' day which included the line, "Lord, confess we never, not knowing, swore we knew."
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Wilfried
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Originally posted by Pre-cambrian:
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Originally posted by Wilfried:
Dawkins has an audience because the straw man he sets up as religion is the religion people actually see around them.
Doesn't that mean that it's not actually a straw man?
It's a straw man in so far as it's the easiest sort of religion to attack, and they project it be the essence of all religion. People see this sort of religion around them because this sort of Christianity has the PR upper hand. If shrill con evos didn't own the name Christian, there wouldn't be so much shrill anti-Christianity. I know because when I tell people I'm Christian, I get a reaction to the effect of, "Really? But you're not like like them." And mind you, the influence of militant atheists is non-existent compared to evangelicals (in the US certainly).
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