At 08:00 AM Sunday 4/8/2007, William T Goodall wrote:
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1583398.ece
>
>'Professor Richard Dawkins has described religious believers as
>"sucking on dummies" for comfort and said that giving children a
>religious education was comparable to "erecting a firewall in their
>minds" against scientific truth.
>Debating in London on the subject: "Are we better off without
>religion?", he said religion was like "a child with a dummy in its
>mouth. I do not think it a very dignified or respect-worthy posture
>for an adult to go around sucking a dummy for comfort."


And if you were reared in the US rather than the UK you probably got 
a really strange mental image of "a child with a dummy in its mouth" 
and "an adult [...] sucking a dummy for comfort."


-- Ronn!  :D



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