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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
I personally believe people have an innate spiritual sense.
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What does this even mean? A spiritual sense of what?
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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
I believe there are good and evil forces although they may not be represented by a figure named god or satan.
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What good and evil forces? I think people account well enough for the good and evil that they do without having to make up some other forces.
As for the comments about Dawkins, every time this comes up I ask for specifics and I almost always never get them. I think Dawkins' reputation for being combative and aggressive are VASTLY overstated, I've seen far more interactions where he's been nothing but polite. Disagreeing with someone and telling them that they are wrong is not combative and aggressive, sometimes people are just wrong.
There was one where he was discussing with a woman and she kept saying the transitional fossils don't exist, and he kept telling her that they did exist and she only had to go to a museum to see them, and she kept repeating that they didn't exist.. An aggressive and combative person would have told her she was blind and stupid etc, but he was just polite and insistent.
The only time I've seen Dawkins actually aggressive was with respect to the Pope and the systemic covering up of child abuse issue, and I think that was warranted.