It's telling that both Mohler and Dawkins are both dedicated to the maintenance of a certain brand of doubt-free, doctrinally absolutist, fundamentalist versions of faith. There are other kinds. And fighting for that center is an important task in a world being torn apart by politicized religion. - Andrew Sullivan
It irritates me when assholes like Sullivan describe Dawkins, and people like him, as fundamentalists. Dawkins point of view represents the antithesis of fundamentalist thought.
The reason Sullivan does this is because he desperately needs his religion, and the easiest way to cast dispersions on people who think he's delusional is to cast them in the same mold as those that truly are delusional.
And as always, the "center" is the most sensible place to be, regardless whether one side is right or not.
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