re: Richard Dawkins and God
That was a witty and smart polemic - thanks for posting it. Although I often check the Radio National site, I'd missed that one.
The rebuttal linked on the same page is probably right in criticising Dawkins as having a simplisitic and narrow understanding of religion - I've heard enough about the subtle depths of Judaism and Christianity to agree with that rebuttal. Still, his points are clear, and his polemic is morally based. His criticism of the 'genocidal Old Testament Deity' is valid, and is a throwing down of the gauntlet to contemporary theologians, who IMHO must rise to the challenge and answer these objections properly and honestly.