[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[David M]

Hi Arlo


> [Arlo]
> It explains everything except giving you a warm, fuzzy feeling that you 
> are
> divinely important by virtue of some "God", oh, excuse me, "transcendent
> intelligence". You ridicule "AHA!" but all you offer in return is "God". 
> Go
> figure.


DM: Problem is this is not exactly characteristic of religion. Is god not
some rather nasty score keeper with his eye on you, recording all your sins.
Religion warm and fuzzy. Has it ever been that? That would be something
nice but shallow. Much good moral thinking instead of dismissing god,
has held this god to account for the terrible consequences of creation,
nothing warm & fuzzy at all, much more religion & mental & physical
& self-inflicted torture for a full picture and less Disney history please.
Of course I write from Europe and not the new world.