Carpet Stains

"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

(If we are just the carbon-based bits of goo that Dawkins thinks we are, from where does he obtain his moral standard with which to condemn the "God of the Old Testament?" He is borrowing the morality of the God to condemn God. That is not unlike a child sitting on his father's lap and slapping his father's face. He could not reach his father's face unless he were supported by his father's lap. EF)

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. "

Richard Dawkins

(Does that include scientists like Roger Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, Boyle, and Copernicus, to name a few - all of whom professed a firm faith in Jesus Christ? EF)