Brief Note: My apologies for the length (3500 words). I was debating whether or not to split it up into two posts, but in this case, I think one large post is b...
Richard Dawkins opened his book, The God Delusion, with a creative reinterpretation of John Lennon’s famous song, Imagine. Essentially, Dawkins pined, “Just ima...
Throughout The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argues that not only is religious faith a delusion, but that it is downright horrific, and a danger to the civilize...
Near the end of The God Delusion, in chapter 8, Dawkins makes his case for why religion is so bad, and why he feels morally obligated to be hostile toward it. H...
Over the past couple of posts I have covered what Richard Dawkins has said about the Old and New Testaments. The gist of my analysis of Dawkins in this respect ...
It is fairly common to people complain about how blood-thirsty the God of the Old Testament seems to be. Or, at the very least, the violence in the Old Testamen...
In our trek through Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, we have now come to chapter 7, where he turns his attention specifically to the Bible. Let me say up fron...
In case you haven’t noticed, I find Richard Dawkins fascinating—not exactly in a positive sense, though. What I mean is that I am genuinely mystified by much of...
In this post, I’m going to address what Richard Dawkins specifically says about what he calls “religious memes.” If you don’t know what ...
When I first read The God Delusion back in 2011, that was the first time I had ever come across “Meme Theory.” Now, you have probably heard the term “internet m...