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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
Sad, but expected. I already agreed with his feelings on God so his writing on religion was more of a bolster to me, except when it came to helping me realise that its still alright to insult a religion if its followers in your country are a minority. I used to think it was bad form to speak unkindly about Islam considering there arent as many muslims here, plus after 9/11 i was very wary of going along with the kind of scumbags who use events like that as a justification to go after people and not ideas. So yeah, he helped show me that all ideas are always fair game, and people are only fair game if their statements/actions are offensive enough.
His writing/speeches on politics and history made me think alot harder about where I stood and why, made me change my mind on a few things, and admit that on some others I couldnt really decide.
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I agree with almost all of this. It was his writing (along with Nick Cohen's and Bernard Henri-Levi's) on 9/11 and the war in Iraq that I found most interesting and which have definitely caused me to rethink certain things. I've not read much of his stuff on religion but what I have read struck me as being a far more insightful version of Dawkins' position.