1. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #117901 by rk3001 on January 30, 2008 at 12:10 am

Several people are upset at Day's claim that Dawkins said raising a child religiously is worse than child sexual abuse. Several have said that Dawkins never said that.

From page 317 of The God Delusion (which I have in front of me) second paragraph, second sentence beginning in the middle of the third line of text for said paragraph "I replied that, horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was, the damage was arguably less than the long term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place."

So yes Dawkins did in fact say what Day claimed he said get the book and check for yourself, I did, it's easy). The thing I find funny is how so many of you want to accuse Day of not checking his facts, when apparently you can't even be bothered to read the book of your 'champion'.

I haven't read Day's book so I can't say anything about it, but I have read through quite a few of the comments here. And if this is an example of atheist intelligence, I'm glad I'm agnostic (which does not mean undecided btw, it means I don't know nor does anybody else. all claims to the contrary are crap.)