[edsheppa]

Beckett: If being enlightened means I have to cast my lot with a nasty, snotty, cynical, know-it-all, ad hominem attack artist par excellence like Dawkins,...

Beckett: In fact Dawkins is on the far leftwing in Britain. He recently (April 6) signed a declaration, along with several dozen other leftwing academics and "luminaries" (including rabid leftwing fanatic Harold Pinter), calling for a moratorium by the British and other European governments of awarding "grants and contracts" to Israel unless serious peace negotiations were opened along the lines of the "Saudi peace plan."

You do know your ad hominem.

[beckett]

Anyone who has read Dawkins for a few decades, as I have, knows that he is the nastiest ad hominem attack artist writing today. The stuff I said about him (and my remarks about the document he signed don't qualify as ad hominem at all), are chocolate kisses compared to the stuff he says about his enemies every time he sits down in front of a keyboard.