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"Richard Dawkins: “Society, for no reason that I can discern, accepts that parents must have an automatic right to bring their children up with particular religious opinions and can withdraw them from say, biology classes that teach evolution.”

If you think that is the writing of a man in favor of religious liberty, you're whacked. But perhaps you should ask Dawkins if his evil twin wrote it?

That says nothing about his wanting to ban it though, just that he doesn't like it much. I think you are reading too much into it.

[jwalsh07]

Dawkins: Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.

I posted this particular interview in its entirety up thread, around 2043 I think.

Ed seems to think that "stamping out" doesn't mean stamping out but something less than stamping out. Of course I have a different opinion since I can conceive of no rational reason to leave smallpox floating around the population if one could "stamp it out".

But my view on Dawkins isn't based on "quote mining", it's based on reading numerous articles he has written on religion and various interviews.

It's my opinion and if Dawkins thinks my opinion is "libel" Ed, he has no more understanding of the United States Constitution, American jurisprudence or libel laws in America.