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To: Alex Murphy
The Gestapo didn't show up, nor the Inquisition police, to drag Richard Dawkins from the studio.

For instance, against Dawkins's and view that religion is a kind of destructive virus, a culturally transmitted epidemic that may benefit its parasitic carriers (the preachers) but certainly not those who succumb to the infection, Wilson offers a rival hypothesis. Wilson's view is that "religious groups are products of cultural group selection....A given religion adapts its members to their local environment, enabling them to achieve by collective action what they cannot achieve alone or even together in the absence of religion. Even though elements of religion often appear bizarre, irrational, and downright dysfunctional to believers, when examined closely most of them will make sense."

If Dawkins had said any of this in an islamic country - he would have been dragged out of the studio and hung like the infidel unbeliever dog that he is (to the mulsim crowd).

2 posted on 07/23/2008 9:24:17 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

As is obvious from Ben Stein’s movie, Dawkins is the definitive answer to the question of whether there could be such a thing as an idiot with a 180 IQ.


4 posted on 07/23/2008 9:28:43 AM PDT by wendy1946
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