[Dialogue] Richard Dawkins

[Len Hockley]

Karen,

I have always liked Marcus Borg's question to someone who says, "I don't 
believe in God."  Namely, "Just what is this God like that you do not 
believe in."  It helps to ground where the person is struggling.  If, 
indeed, s/he is struggling.

Len

At 01:55 PM 11/16/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>For those of you who are interested in the Spong letters, I found this 
>paragraph in his Five Fundamentals conclusion:
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>"So deeply has "theism" captured the definition of God that the word 
>"atheist," which literally means one who does not believe in a theistic 
>God, has come to mean one who does not believe in any God at all. Nothing 
>could be further from the truth. Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchen and 
>Sam Harris do not understand that distinction. That is certainly not my 
>{Spong's} situation."
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>I {Karen} have studied Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion, and he 
>admits in an early chapter that God as defined by Albert Einstein is a God 
>we can all understand.
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>Karen Bueno
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