Dude, you can take the atheist thing a wee bit too far
27 October 2008
Dear Richard Dawkins,
I enjoyed The God Delusion, although, ironically, you’re a little bit too preachy.
Please stop interfering with developing children’s imaginations by positing the hypothesis that reading fantasy fiction has a negative effect on children.
There are always going to be overly impressionable people — not just kids — who believe exactly what they read in what is clearly marked fiction. If we were to only read fiction that bases itself on (currently) established scientific fact, how in Deity’s name (see what I did there) are we going to be able to think beyond what is possible and innovate in the name of science?
Trying to attack fairy tales and myth (the genres are pretty explicit in that they are not attempting to pass themselves off as fact or history) as anti-science makes you seem like kind of a paranoid nutter. Please stop.
Yours in hope,
Andrea
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