by The Bigsleep J » November 24th, 2006, 9:16 am
What struck me of Dawkins is that he reminds me of some fundementalist Christian tele evangelists, only he's atheist. He's so uncompromising in his view that he addmittedly refuses to sea the Christian's side of the story. He admits that he seas theology as a non-issue and wouldn't even address it, which puts him on a severely low level in the circles of atheistic philosophers like Camus, Satre, Ayn Rand (who personally saw St Thomas Aquinas as one of the two greatest philosophers) and Anthony Flew who all studied Christian theology and rejected it for whatever reasons they had. Dawkins on the other hand is pretty much putting his hands over his ears and saying "I'm not listening! I don't want to listen! I'm rational!"
Here is another in-depth critique of the book by Marilynne Robinson originally published in a magazine called Harpers. She's an author I don't really know, but it's makes a few interesting points. I'm not sure if she's a Christian, even. It is a long reply though.
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