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 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
