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rexcat

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7. I do not agree that Dr. Dawkins...

Reply to edhopper (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 4, 2016, 05:57 PM

Jan 2016

is a fundamentalist by any stretch of the imagination. I don't see him subscribing to any dogma but that is how I see it.

By calling out Dawkins or any of the other outspoken atheists as a "fundamentalist" all you do is empower those haters who like to denigrate us atheists. Being outspoken is not the same as being a fundamentalist.

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