The McGrath Delusion – a response to The Dawkins Delusion, yet another theologian adding nothing!
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The McGraths, although I suspect more Alister McGrath, created ‘The Dawkins Delusion’ an odd book which I read hoping to find some sort of logical argument against Dawkins. Right at the start of the book McGrath expressed a God Delusion moment of realisation,

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“Hell is an evil concept, those that speak of Hell should be the only ones that suffer from it” – RU

“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations’ Human Development Report (2005) they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per captia income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate and infant mortality… Conversely the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nation’s Human Development index are unwaveringly religious.” Harris

“Religion does not cause crime, poverty of or illness. It is simply born from it!” – RU

“While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society.” Harris

“The God question could not be settled on the basis of the scientific method” – Huxley, cited by Dawkins in God Delusion

“One of the truly bad effects of religion is it teaches us to be virtual satisfied with not understanding” – Richard Dawkins

“Religion allows us to be happy with not asking why, it hurts us because we never deem it necessary to question”. – RU

“To accept the spread of cervical cancer in the name of god is no different, morally or intellectually, from sacrificing these women on a stone altar and thanking the deity for giving us the sexual impulse and then condemning it.” Hitchens

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