Hyro writes:
Not to sound insensitive towards your family, but I suspect your brother-in-law drank himself to death because he was, above all things, an alcoholic. I was molested as a child too by a neighbor. If pedophilia automatically leads to overdose, I'd have been dead a long time ago.
Different people react to different things differently. You kinda sound like a creationist when you said that. You can do a search and see for yourself. One of the most widely used "evidence" against evolution is that they don't believe it therefore it's not true.
The last time someone's brain got blown off with a gun and the brain and blood splattered all over us, the woman next to me was hysterical. Me? I calmly talked on the phone to instruct them where to go... we were out in the middle of no where. From my point of view, that woman should have remained calm. From her view, I should have been hysterical and screaming and crying.
But Dawkins takes it to another level where all religion is unilaterally attacked.
I keep hearing this sort of thing from you. From what I have read and heard from the guy, I don't think he's attacking religion at all. Or are you using the fallacy of the middle ground?