Dawkins would love that expression, but reality does not mean the same thing to all people. The correct opposite of "real" is "unreal" and the boundary between them is still altogether subjective.
Speaking of delusions, take Dawkins himself. He said:
If he were really atheist, he wouldn't care. Dawkins is anti-God and more specifically, anti-Christ.
As his book title suggests, in Dawkins' sense of "reality" anyone who knows and believes in God is delusional.
Why would any sane person bother to condemn so heartily a being he claims does not exist in the first place? Why would he write a book about it?
If he were really atheist, he wouldn’t care. Dawkins is anti-God and more specifically, anti-Christ.
As his book title suggests, in Dawkins’ sense of “reality” anyone who knows and believes in God is delusional.
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INDEED.
Oh, don't be ridiculous! See how many people you know can keep their hand on a red-hot stove for more than brief moment. Or better yet how many would be willing to jump of a top of a sky scraper.
Speaking of delusions, take Dawkins himself. He said:
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." — Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)
That's pretty much right on the money. Can you show me otherwise?
Why would any sane person bother to condemn so heartily a being he claims does not exist in the first place? Why would he write a book about it?
Because there are people who not only believe that such a being exists but act on its behalf!
anyone who knows and believes in God is delusional
Not anyone; only those who can't tell a difference between a belief and reality. Some people have hope but they know it is just that — faith, not fact.