Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks and Richard Dawkins debate deity

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19. No, actually, it's not the same thing.

"I was not concerned that Richard was an anti-semitic at all," he said.

"I was concerned that he was using an anti-semitic stereotype, which has run through a certain strand of the Christian reading of what is called the 'Old Testament' as a result of which thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Jews, died in the Middle Ages because that's how people spoke about the God of the Old Testament."

A person can use a steroetype that is embedded in their culture without even being aware of it. That is what Sacks claims Dawkins is doing. He explicitly states that he does not consider Dawkins to be antisemitic.