{"id":202,"date":"2006-10-24T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/richard-dawkins-the-god-delusion\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T10:44:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T15:44:03","slug":"richard-dawkins-the-god-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/richard-dawkins-the-god-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins – “The God Delusion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nProfessor Richard Dawkins was at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. tonight, giving a reading\/discussion of his new book, “The God Delusion<\/a>“. Notice the imposing bodyguard in the background. Another was stationed on his left. When asked, he said he had not received threats; they were just hired by his publisher.<\/p>\n

I’d estimate that there were about 200 people (or more – standing room only going way back into the store) at the reading\/signing. I managed to get there early enough to get a seat in front, and a place at the front of the line for the signing. <\/p>\n

When Prof. Dawson came on, he noticed the size of the crowd and decided to “skip the reading of Chapter One, which has a conciliatory tone – and start with Chapter Two, which is decidedly not <\/em> conciliatory”. There’s a reason Prof. Dawson has been labelled “Darwin’s Rottweiler<\/em>“. His basic premise is that God does not exist (yes, he is an atheist), and religion in general has not done us much good – on balance. One of the questions posed to him after the reading had to do with the “faith-based” recovery methods of groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. He admitted that he was not aware that Alcoholics Anonymous had a religious undertone – “that’s just terrible” (or some such comment – my memory isn’t as good as it could be due to Preston being up most nights lately).<\/p>\n

I recorded the reading and the discussion<\/a> after. <\/p>\n

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