You cannot drive two cars at once? Why Dawkins fails?

[Svartalf]

Religious zealot has child. That child becomes a progressive Christian.
Progressive Christian has child. That child becomes an atheist who is a cultural Christian.
Atheist / cultural Christian has child. That child becomes a true atheist.

You been reading too much Dune.

Never read Dune, so I'm not getting the joke.

I've read Dune and Dune Messiah several times, and I don't get it either... must be from the later, shitty volumes.

[rasetsu]

I enjoyed Dune, though I didn't share the "classic of sci-fi literature" appraisal of it. (A lot of it was boringly derivative.) However the last few books in the series got rather creepy.


Oh, and regarding the OP, I've recently discovered that Dawkins is a clueless dingbat when it comes to religion. (I mean after all the ambiguous and ambivalent comments about things like teaching children religion.) I haven't bothered to read the whole section in The God Delusion, and I doubt I will now, because according to Dawkins, I don't exist. (At least not according to the "Dawkins scale". I remember visiting RDF last year for the first time, to be greeted by photos of Herr Dick in the banners that were more befitting Moses than a scientist. I threw up in my mouth a little. Honest. True story.)

[Kristie]

Not sure what the issue is. I love xmas traditions, the tree, the decorations, the gift exchange, the feast and the gathering of the family.

It's sort of like in the olden days, you know, before xtians stole pagan rites.

Clinton, is that you?