"Religion's misguided missiles"

[Chris Beggy]

=?iso-8859-1?q?Daniel=20Davies?= <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>  --- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> > Richard Dawkins in the Guardian:
> > 
> > "It came from religion. Religion is also, of course, the underlying source 
> > of the divisiveness in the Middle East which motivated the use of this 
> > deadly weapon in the first place. But that is another story and not my 
> > concern here. My concern here is with the weapon itself. To fill a world 
> > with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the 
> > streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used."
> > 
> 
> It strikes me that the kind of conditions which make people consider their
> lives on Earth to be not worth living are likely to make some people put their
> faith in an afterlife, but to turn others into suicide bombers, and that
> Dawkins, as always, doesn't understand this because it is at least a decade
> since he last spoke to someone without an Oxford education.
> 

I'd have really taken note had he written something like, "To
fill a world with Darwinian ethics, or Darwinian ethics of the
Dawkinsian kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns..."

Chris