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IP: RE: Richard Dawkins: Religion's Misguided Missiles


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:01:01 -0400


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From: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl () lrz uni-muenchen de>
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To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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Subject: Re: IP: RE: Richard Dawkins: Religion's Misguided Missiles

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David Farber wrote:

> >Dawkins isn't a kook; he's a twit.  Certainly not much of a scientific
> >thinker, at least not in matters like this one.

Nice strawman. Dawkins claimed that no secular suicide squads are known.
He's wrong, but not for the reasons you [not me people, the author djf] claim.

Examples of religious and secular suicide squads:
http://www.janes.com/security/regional_security/news/usscole/jir001020_1_n.shtml



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