Ange1o DePa1ma wrote:

Hell, even I think those people are idiots. Unfortunately for rational
atheism, Dawkins believes *everyone* who falls back on any belief in a deity
is an idiot, not just creationists.
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Not true. I can't find the spot in The God Delusion right now, but
Dawkins praises a few of his beliving friends all of whom are high end
scholars on the subject. But, yes, Dawlkins is clearly contemptuous of
the broad run of believers. In several cases he quotes from the hate
mail he has received, much of it from the southern United States where
belief is as strong as education is weak. He insinuates that some
religious elements in the US are on the same level of sophistication as
the Taliban of Afghanistan.

OLD Haasie