34 blog reactions to http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sue_blackmore/2007/11/a_dangerous_delusion.html

Checking out Sue’s web site, I see this contribution passed me by. Article on Comment is Free (UK Guardian) Podcast of debate with Alister McGrath, author of ‘The Dawkins Delusion’. (Bristol Uni & RichardDawkins.net) I have to say the text of the piece posted before the debate seems to have it pretty well right, so I

Checking out Sue’s web site, I see this contribution passed me by. Article on Comment is Free (UK Guardian) Podcast of debate with Alister McGrath, author of ‘The Dawkins Delusion’. (Bristol Uni & RichardDawkins.net) I have to say the text of the piece posted before the debate seems to have it pretty well right, so I

So I’m interested to see McGrath taking up the challenge to go to Bristol University and debate Sue Blackmore. Sue is a columnist in the Guardian, whose articles frequently make me angry, and who wrote today about some of what she plans to argue. Essentially it seems this debate may hinge more upon whether or not belief in God is dangerous than whether or not God exists: “First, which God am I talking about? Not Einstein

has harmful consequences. The more that seemingly harmless religious belief is respected as valid, the more likely it is that society will be plagued by dangerous fundamentalist forms of religion. This line was restated by Sue Blackmore in a recent post on Cif

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Reposted from: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sue_blackmore/2007/11/a_dangerous_delusion.html By thinking of religion in terms of evolutionary theory we can see just how and why the major religions of today are so harmful. Tonight, at a debate at Bristol University, I've been asked to propose the motion that "belief in God is a dangerous

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"Comment is Free" pages, where there are often articles discussing different aspects of religion, and any positive comment is invariably clubbed viciously by strongwilled leftists. Recent examples are Sue Blackmore's A Dangerous Delusion and Dave Hill, who in Faith and the Left, asks for a more nuanced understanding of religion without abandoning his own atheist credentials. Blackmore is basically rehashing the currently ubiquitous Richard Dawkin's ideas, including that of the meme,

of undeath long after they should have been buried at a crossroads with a stake through their hearts. Memes are one such idea. Susan Blackmore is actually still arguing that religion is a bad meme or a mind virus. Honestly, I'm not joking. It's all here