trigs;356231 wroteno, the opposite is not atheism.
The opposite of theism is atheism, no?
trigs;356232 wroteand why is dawkins a 'hack'?
god delusion = good read.
Okay, you are entitled to that opinion, but allow me to rebut . . .
"This book will advocate an alternative view:
any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution. Creative intelligences, being evolved, necessarily arrive late in the universe, and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it. God, in the sense defined, is a delusion;"
Nowhere in his book does he address this point in relation to the God of Judaism or Christianity which both hold that God created the Universe itself. Seems to be a bit of a gap.
Much of Dawkins writings about religion rail against the "bullying, genocidal, egomaniacal" God of the Old Testament, whereas "Christianity" is primarily focused on the New Testament. You know, the one that is primarily focused on the life of Jesus Christ.
Finally, weren't you predisposed to "liking" it's premise from the outset? I was not, but found myself thinking in several spots that he was misrepresenting Christianity in order to bolster his argument, which is a poor tactic. It has been a while since I have read it, but that was the salient memory (FTR, I cribbed the first quote above).
