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An old but interesting article from the Guardian newspaper discusses the flaws of The God Delusion. From the article: The atheist delusion 'Opposition to religion occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally,' wrote Martin Amis recently. Over the past few years, leading writers and thinkers have published bestselling tracts against God. John Gray on why the 'secular fundamentalists' have got it all wrong My view on Dawkins
I'm going to cheat here and post a comment from someone else that I found on a forum: Radian_Born: "Dawkins is something of a pet hate of mine; his smug, patronising attitude, reductionism, and simplistic, binary logic are absolutely infuriating, and very reminiscent of a religious fundamentalist. He also displays increasing hostility to all forms of imagination and creativity, exemplified by his dismissal of werewolves in fiction as 'impossible' (rather misunderstanding the concept of fiction), and his desire to create children's fiction based on 'scientific principles' to counteract the perennial appeal of fantasy." This is essentially my view on the topic of Dawkins and his views on Atheism. It seems that atheism is more about politics these days than about the existence of God. Modern atheism, I equate to Humanism, is about hating monotheistic religions. Western atheists seem to have strongest opposition to Christianity as it is the most influential upon our current society and the biggest influence from our past. The defendants might claim it isn't hate but is close enough in my eyes. While they (humanists) oppose the politics of Christianity (the 'conservative' parts) they still inherit the morality from Christianity: Nietzsche would regard this as a fail. I'm more fond of the biology articles by Dawkins than his philosophical/religious articles. I see the militant atheists as on a par with the fundamentalist theists for idiocy. Worse still that Humanism ( ~ modern atheism) has phenomenology at its root, just as the theistic religions do --- this seems to contradict the whole point of atheism: God is a phenomenological concept, ergo not real. My problem is not with atheism in its pure form: disbelief in God. I dislike the politically motivated clouding of judgment that seems to go hand in hand with contemporary notions of atheism.
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