The God Delusion

[Xel'Naga]

Originally Posted by Welder4Christ

Thanks for the info, you guys. Oh, and Xel....I guess what she is having trouble with is the part about religion causing all of the destruction in the world.

In that regard, I think I'd begin by explaining what proper Christian belief dictates. That one cannot judge an entire system by the deviants who claim to believe in it. Further, that even on an atheistic level, there are potentially worse atrocities; abortion, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, etc. All while acknowledging that people have abused 'religion'. I wouldn't get 'suckered' into defending all religion. Dawkins tends to equivocate the three major monotheisms, which is superficial on his part (something he's just recently come to admit).