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Oct. 22nd, 2006 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nameandnatureIt seems the right way to respond to Dawkins if you're a believer is to claim that he's not actually talking about the God you believe in, but rather the God that only people who don't have theology degrees or Americans might believe in, laughable simpletons that they are. I'm thinking of Giles Fraser in the Church Times and Terry Eagleton in the LRB.
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gjm11 has responded to the Giles Fraser review, so I thought I'd write about the Terry Eagleton review. Both of these are postings to uk.religion.christian, a surprisingly sane Usenet newsgroup (surprising because most other Usenet groups with "Christian" in the title are full of nutters), which you can look at most easily via Google.
I've not seen any reviews by evangelicals yet. It'll be interesting to see what they say, as they can't really pull off the "not my God" argument.
As I mentioned previously,
gjm11 has responded to the Giles Fraser review, so I thought I'd write about the Terry Eagleton review. Both of these are postings to uk.religion.christian, a surprisingly sane Usenet newsgroup (surprising because most other Usenet groups with "Christian" in the title are full of nutters), which you can look at most easily via Google.I've not seen any reviews by evangelicals yet. It'll be interesting to see what they say, as they can't really pull off the "not my God" argument.
