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[damerell]

I just finished Dawkins's "The God Delusion" and am now very angry about everything.

Everyone should read it, even - especially - those currently deluded.

On the plus point I know what to get my mother for her birthday.

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[robhu.livejournal.com]

It is a truly excellent book isn't it? I am probably going to offer to buy a copy for each of my religious friends.

There were two things I wasn't aware of before I read the book... That Dawkins is good friends with the bishop of Oxford, and that he was abused in some way by a religious teacher at school.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I see no indication that that teacher was religious; Dawkins is just making the point, in passing, that in fact this experience was not the Worst Thing Ever. Having had similar experiences I would concur; Minty being excessively tactile was annoying but has hardly blasted my life forever.