Kick if you agree with this assessment about the influence of religion on people.

[AtheistCrusader]

208. No we haven't.

"Yet, somehow Dawkins and his sort have closed their minds to anything they cannot observe as if their ability to do so is the sole determining factor of reality."

Dawkins' actual profession is built on observing the effects of a process that occurs on a timescale too long to observe directly for most species. That is a invalid claim. Moreover, he and others use things like probability to evaluate the claims of various religions. AND various forms of logic or sociology or genetics or archaeology or cosmology or blah, to evaluate claimed revealed truth upon which various religions are either founded, or purport to reveal.



"Hell, scientists can't even decide whether or not eating eggs is healthy."
That's a fantastic example, because its a capture of an idea that science is a process to understanding something, not a revealed truth in and of itself.

A couple religions had dietary commandments that make no sense whatsoever, and they claim to be based on revealed truth, but there is no actual verifiable truth to be found, evaluating the risk of eating the proscribed foods, nor in evaluating the veracity of the source as being supernaturally revealed truth at all. Some religions have relaxed those rules, some have not. Which also calls into question whether these religions actually surface immutable revealed truth or not.