I like Richard Dawkins

[Emu]

I like Richard Dawkins. There, I said it.

His name is practically a dirty word anymore. People seem to get flared up in discussions about him, that he's just some giant asshole with a beef with religion who's created something akin to a cult of personality around himself. All that's probably true. But I think what makes most people the angriest about Dawkins isn't so much his ideas as it is the generous population of teat-sucking retards who latch on to him. He has a very unfortunate collection of hero-worshipping idiots who will criticize Christians for being naive and narrow-minded while behaving in much the same narrow-minded matter when people criticise Dawkins or atheism in general. I wish I could find a post made on his website I saw earlier urging people to distribute copies of The God Delusion as one would distribute Gideon bibles, apparently without irony. I get the idea they thought they were being clever, while they were in fact falling into the same crap that they criticize Christians for; the EXACT same crap. It's ridiculous.

For a long time I thought had pretty much brought all this on himself, but the more I've been looking in to it, it seems like this hero-worship has been foisted on to him. He hasn't really made much of an effort to dissociate himself from it, but from what I've seen he doesn't actively condone it, either.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't honestly find myself disagreeing with most of what Dawkins says, but I abhor his fans, and I think that's the attitude of most people. I remember a discussion on this board about him a few months ago when The God Delusion was released. What's your opinion on him?