"The God that Dawkins does not believe in is "a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." Come to think of it, I don't believe in a God like that either. In fact, I don't know anybody who does. Dawkins at least has the graciousness to appreciate this point. The God whom I know and love is described by Dawkins as âinsipid,â summed up in the âmawkishly nauseatingâ idea of âGentle Jesus, meek and mild.â While some readers will take offense at this description, it is probably the mildest criticism of religion offered anywhere in his book""
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, "The Dawkins Delusion: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine" (2011)
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Richard Dawkins
evolutionary biologist, ethologist, science writer
1941 ¡ United Kingdom
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