Let’s not forget that the US isn’t the only place where religion is a problem. The Middle-East isn’t exactly a stable and enlightened place, for the most part.
I think that what Dawkins does it marvelous if only because he’s helping to break the taboo that religion is somehow above criticism and that the same standards that apply to everything don’t apply to it.
This helps people be rational about it; ie. being non-religious for the ‘good’ reasons, instead of for the same reasons why others are religious (was raised that way, inertia, social pressure, etc).
Let’s not forget that the US isn’t the only place where religion is a problem. The Middle-East isn’t exactly a stable and enlightened place, for the most part.
I think that what Dawkins does it marvelous if only because he’s helping to break the taboo that religion is somehow above criticism and that the same standards that apply to everything don’t apply to it.
This helps people be rational about it; ie. being non-religious for the ‘good’ reasons, instead of for the same reasons why others are religious (was raised that way, inertia, social pressure, etc).