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Originally Posted by tompe
I disagree also. And from the outside it looks like the book is very relevant for US today since it seems that religion in the sense that Dawkin argues against influence US politics in a bad way.
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That's the problem, isn't it? "Personal faith" (or the lack of it) is not really the issue; it's when "organised" religion starts interfering in politics and science that we have a problem - eg in dictating to scientists which areas of research they can and cannot pursue. Stem cell research is the obvious example, where Mr. Bush's government banned federal funding for all such work, despite its huge potential for treatment of all sorts of medical conditions.