New Atheism's main criticisms of religion
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Religion is non-thinking
- Dawkins argues that religion involves faith and faith, by nature, is opposed to evidence
- 'Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence... Faith is not allowed to justify itself by argument' - Dawkins
- Dawkins argues that religious people know, without evidence, that the faith of their birth is the one true faith
- Faith is infantile and religious children are brought up to believe unquestioningly - belief in God is something forced upon children by adults
- Even mild and moderate religion helps to provide the climate of faith…
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