Is the New
Testament
any better?
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion
Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16.
New York Times, 29 Aug. 2005. See also Henderson (2006).
NOTES TO PP. 1-53 389
Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis
16 Mitford and Waugh (2001).
Polytheism
17 http://www. newadvent. org/cathen/06608b. htm.
18 http://www. catholic-forum. com/saints/indexsnt. htm? NF=l.
Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America
390
T HE GO D D E L U S I O N
34 35
Henderson (2006). http://www. lulu. com/content/267888.
The Great Prayer Experiment
36
H. Benson et al. , 'Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients', American Heart Journal 151: 4, 2006, 934-42.
Richard Swinburne, in Science and Theology News, 7 April 2006, http://www. stnews. org/Commentary-2772. htm.
37
38
The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists
39 40
41 42 43
In court cases, and books such as Ruse (1982). His article in Playboy appeared in the April 2006 issue.
Jerry Coyne's reply to Ruse appeared in the August 2006 issue of
Playboy.
Madeleine Bunting, Guardian, 27 March 2006.
Dan Dennett's reply appeared in the Guardian, 4 April 2006.
http://scienceblogs. com/pharyngula/2006/03/the_ dawkinsdennett_boogeyman. php; http://scienceblogs. com/ pharyngula/2006/02/our_double_standard. php; http://scienceblogs. com/pharyngula/2006/02/the_rusedennett_feud. php.
New York Times, 11 April 2006.
Little green men
44 http://vo. obspm. fr/exoplanetes/encyclo/encycl. html. 45 Dennett (1995).
Chapter 3: Arguments for God's existence
The ontological argument and other a priori arguments
46 http://www. iep. utm. edU/o/ont-arg. htm. Gasking's 'proof is at
http://www. uq. edu. au/~pdwgrey/pubs/gasking. html.
The argument from personal 'experience'
47 48 49
The whole subject of illusions is discussed by Richard Gregory in a series of books including Gregory (1997).
My own attempt at spelling out the explanation is on pp. 268-9 of Dawkins (1998).
http://www. sofc. org/Spirituality/s-of-fatima. htm.
NOTES TO PP. 53-131 391
The argument from scripture
50 Tom Flynn, 'Matthew vs. Luke', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 34-45; Robert Gillooly, 'Shedding light on the light of the world', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 27-30.
51 Erhman (2006). See also Ehrman (2003a, b).
The argument from admired religious scientists
52 53
54
55 56
57
Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle (1997).
E. J. Larson and L. Witham, 'Leading scientists still reject God', Nature 394, 1998, 313.
http://www. leaderu. com/ftissues/ft9610/reeves. html gives a particularly interesting analysis of historical trends in American religious opinion by Thomas C. Reeves, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, based on Reeves (1996).
http://www. answersingenesis. org/docs/3506. asp.
R. Elisabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, manuscript in preparation, 2006.
P. Bell, 'Would you believe it? ', Mensa Magazine, Feb. 2002, 12-13.
Chapter 4: Why there almost certainly is no God
The Ultimate Boeing 747
58 An exhaustive review of the provenance, usages and quotations of this analogy is given, from a creationist point of view, by Gert Korthof, at http://home. wxs. nl/~gkorthof/kortho46a. htm.
Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser
59
60 61
Adams (2002), p. 99. My 'Lament for Douglas', written the day after his death, is reprinted as the Epilogue to The Salmon of Doubt, and also in A Devil's Chaplain, which also has my
eulogy at his memorial meeting in the Church of St Martin-in-the- Fields.
Interview in Der Spiegel, 26 Dec. 2005. Susskind (2006: 17).
The worship of gaps
62 Behe (1996).
63 http://www. millerandlevine. com/km/evol/design2/article. html.
392 THE GOD DELUSION
64 This account of the Dover trial, including the quotations, is from A. Bottaro, M. A. Inlay and N. J. Matzke, 'Immunology in the spotlight at the Dover "Intelligent Design" trial', Nature Immunology 7, 2006, 433-5.
65 J. Coyne, 'God in the details: the biochemical challenge to evolution', Nature 383, 1996, 227-8. The article by Coyne and me, 'One side can be wrong', was published in the Guardian,
1 Sept. 2005: http://www. guardian. co. uk/life/ feature/story/0,13026,1559743,00. html.
The quotation from the 'eloquent blogger' is at http:// www. religionisbullshit. net/blog/2005_09_01_archive. php.
66 Dawkins (1995).
The antbropic principle: planetary version
61
68 69
Carter admitted later that a better name for the overall principle would be 'cognizability principle' rather than the already entrenched term 'anthropic principle': B. Carter, 'The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 310, 1983, 347-63. For a book-length discussion of the anthropic principle, see Barrow and Tipler (1988).
Comins (1993).
I spelled this argument out more fully in The Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins 1986).
The anthropic principle: cosmological version
70 Murray Gell-Mann, quoted by John Brockman on the 'Edge' website, http://www. edge. org/3rd_culture/bios/smolin. html.
71 Ward (1996: 99); Polkinghorne (1994: 55).
An interlude at Cambridge
72 J. Horgan, 'The Templeton Foundation: a skeptic's take', Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2006. See also http://www. edge. org/3rd_culture/horgan06/horgan06_index. html.
73 P. B. Medawar, review of The Phenomenon of Man, repr. in Medawar (1982: 242).
74 Dennett (1995: 155).
80 81
82 83 84 85
See e. g. Buss (2005).
Deborah Keleman, 'Are children "intuitive theists"? ', Psychological Science 15: 5, 2004, 295-301. Dennett (1987).
Guardian, 31 Jan. 2006. Smythies (2006).
http://jmm. aaa. net. au/articles/14223. htm.
NOTES TO PP. 13 3-232 393
Chapter 5: The roots of religion
The Darwinian imperative
75 Quoted in Dawkins (1982: 30).
76 K. Sterelny, 'The perverse primate', in Grafen and Ridley (2006:
213-23).
Group selection
77 N. A. Chagnon, 'Terminological kinship, genealogical relatedness and village fissioning among the Yanomamo Indians', in Alexander and Tinkle (1981: ch. 28).
78 C. Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: Appleton, 1871), vol. 1, 156.
Religion as a by-product of something else
79 Quoted in Blaker (2003: 7).
Psychologically primed for religion
Chapter 6: The roots of morality: why are we good?
86 The movie itself, which is very good, can be obtained at http://www. thegodmovie. com/index. php.
A case study in the roots of morality
87 M. Hauser and P. Singer, 'Morality without religion', Free Inquiry 26: 1, 2006, 18-19.
If there is no God, why be good?
88 Dostoevsky (1994: bk 2, ch. 6, p. 87).
89 Hinde (2002). See also Singer (1994), Grayling (2003), Glover
(2006).
394 THE GOD DELUSION
Chapter 7: The 'Good' Book and the changing moral Zeitgeist
90 Lane Fox (1992); Berlinerblau (2005).
91 Holloway (1999, 2005). Richard Holloway's 'recovering
Christian' line is in a book review in the Guardian, 15 Feb. 2003: http://books. guardian. co. uk/reviews/scienceandnature/ 0,6121,894941,00. html. The Scottish journalist Muriel Gray wrote a beautiful account of my Edinburgh dialogue with Bishop Holloway in the (Glasgow) Herald: http://www. sundayherald. com/44517.
The Old Testament
92 For a frightening collection of sermons by American clergymen, blaming hurricane Katrina on human 'sin', see http://universist. org/neworleans. htm.
93 Pat Robertson, reported by the BBC at http://news. bbc. co. Uk/2/hi/americas/4427144. stm.
Is the New Testament any better?
94 95
R. Dawkins, 'Atheists for Jesus', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2005, 9-10. Julia Sweeney is also right on target when she briefly mentions Buddhism. Just as Christianity is sometimes thought to be a nicer, gentler religion than Islam, Buddhism is often cracked up to be the nicest of all. But the doctrine of demotion on the reincarnation ladder because of sins in a past life is pretty unpleasant. Julia Sweeney: 'I went to Thailand and happened to visit a woman who was taking care of a terribly deformed boy. I said to his caretaker, "It's so good of you to be taking care of this poor boy. " She said, "Don't say 'poor boy,' he must have done something terrible in a past life to be born this way. " '
For a thoughtful analysis of techniques used by cults, see Barker (1984). More journalistic accounts of modern cults are given by Lane (1996) and Kilduff and Javers (1978).
Paul Vallely and Andrew Buncombe, 'History of Christianity: Gospel according to Judas', Independent, 7 April 2006.
Vermes (2000).
96
97
98
Love thy neighbour
99 Hartung's paper was originally published in Skeptic 3: 4, 1995, but is now most readily available at http://www. lrainc. com/
NOTES TO PP. 237-285 395
swtaboo/taboos/ltnOl . html.
100 Smith (1995).
101 Guardian, 12 March 2002: http://books. guardian. co. uk/ departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,664342,00. html.
102 N. D. Glenn, 'Interreligious marriage in the United States: patterns
and recent trends', Journal of Marriage and the Family 44: 3, 1982, 555-66.
The moral Zeitgeist
103 104 105
http://www. ebonmusings. org/atheism/newlOc. html. Huxley (1871).
http://www. classic-literature. co. uk/american-authors/ 19th-century/abraham-lincoln/the-writings-of-abraharn- lincoln-04/.
What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists?
106 107 108
109
110
111
112
113
114
Bullock (1991). Bullock (2005).
http://www. ffrf. org/fttoday/1997/march97/holocaust. html. This article by Richard E. Smith, originally published in Freethought Today, March 1997, has a large number of relevant quotations from Hitler and other Nazis, giving their sources. Unless otherwise stated, my quotations are from Smith's article.
http://homepages. paradise. net. nz/mischedj/ca_hitler. htrnl. Bullock (2005: 96).
Adolf Hitler, speech of 12 April 1922. In Baynes (1942: 19-20). Bullock (2005: 43).
This quotation, and the following one, are from Anne Nicol Gaylor's article on Hitler's religion,
http://www. ffrf. org/fttoday/back/hitler. html.
http://www. contra-mundum. org/schirrmacher/NS_Religion. pdf.
Chapter 8: What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?
Fundamentalism and the subversion ofscience
115 From 'What is true? ', ch. 1. 2 of Dawkins (2003).
116 Both my quotations from Wise come from his contribution to the
1999 book In Six Days, an anthology of essays by young-Earth creationists (Ashton 1999).
396 THE GOD DELUSION
The dark side of absolutism
117 118
119
Warraq (1995: 175).
John William Gott's imprisonment for calling Jesus a clown is mentioned in The Indypedia, published by the Independent, 29 April 2006. The attempted prosecution of the BBC for blasphemy is in BBC news, 10 Jan. 2005: http://news. bbc. co. uk/l/hi/ entertainment/tv_and_radio/4161109. stm.
http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_ Taliban. html.
Faith and homosexuality
120 121
122 123
Hodges (1983).
This and the remaining quotations in this section are from the American Taliban site already listed; http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban. html.
http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_ Taliban. html.
From Pastor Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church official website, godhatesfags. com: http://www. godhatesfags. com/fliers/jan2006/20060131_ coretta-scott-king-funeral. pdf.
Faith and the sanctity of human life
124
125
126 127
128 129
See Mooney (2005). Also Silver (2006), which arrived when this book was in final proof, too late to be discussed as fully as I would have liked.
For an interesting analysis of what makes Texas different in this respect, see http://www. pbs. org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ execution/readings/texas. html.
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker.
These Randall Terry quotes are from the same American Taliban site as before: http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban. html.
Reported on Fox news: http://www. foxnews. com/story/0,2933,96286,00. html.
M. Stamp Dawkins (1980).
136
137 138
139
140
Reported by BBC news: http://news. bbc. co. Uk/l/hi/wales/901723. stm. Loftus and Ketcham (1994).
See John Waters in the Irish Times: http://oneinfour. org/news/news2003/roots/.
Associated Press, 10 June 2005: http://www. rickross. com/ reference/clergy/clergy426. html.
http://www. avl611. org/hell. html.
NOTES TO PP. 287-332 397
The Great Beethoven Fallacy
130 http://www. warroom. com/ethical. htm. 131 Medawar and Medawar (1977).
How 'moderation' in faith fosters fanaticism
132 Johann Hari's article, originally published in the Independent, 15 July 2005, can be found at http://www. johannhari. com/archive/article. php? id=640.
133 Village Voice, 18 May 2004: http://www. villagevoice. com/news/0420,perlstein,53582,l. html.
134 Harris (2004: 29).
135 Nasra Hassan, 'An arsenal of believers', New Yorker, 19 Nov.
2001. See also http://www. bintjbeil. com/articles/en/011119_ hassan. html.
Chapter 9: Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion
Physical and mental abuse
In defence of children
141 N. Humphrey, 'What shall we tell the children? ', in Williams (1998); repr. in Humphrey (2002).
142 http://www. law. umkc. edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/ yoder. html.
An educational scandal
143
144 145
Guardian, 15 Jan. 2005: http://www. guardian. co. uk/weekend/story/0,,1389500,00. html.
Times Educational Supplement, 15 July 2005. http://www. telegraph. co. uk/opinion/main. jhtml? xml=/
opinion/2002/03/18/dol 801. xml
398
THE GOD DELUSION
146
147
Guardian, 15 Jan. 2005: http://www. guardian. co. uk/ weekend/story/0,,1389500,00. html.
The text of our letter, drafted by the Bishop of Oxford, was as follows:
Dear Prime Minister,
We write as a group of scientists and Bishops to express our concern about the teaching of science in the Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead. Evolution is a scientific theory of great explanatory power, able to account for a wide range of phenomena in a number of disciplines. It can be refined, confirmed and even radically altered by attention to evidence. It is not, as spokesmen for the college maintain, a 'faith position' in the same category as the biblical account of creation which has a different function and purpose.
The issue goes wider than what is currently being taught in one college. There is a growing anxiety about what will be taught and how it will be taught in the new generation of proposed faith schools. We believe that the curricula in such schools, as well as that of Emmanuel City Technical College, need to be strictly monitored in order that the respective disciplines of science and religious studies are properly respected. Yours sincerely
British Humanist Association News, March-April 2006. Observer, 22 July 2004: http://observer. guardian. co. uk/ magazine/story/0,11913,1258506,00. html.
148 149
Consciousness-raising again
150
151
The Oxford Dictionary takes 'gay' back to American prison slang in 1935. In 1955 Peter Wildeblood, in his famous book Against the Law, found it necessary to define 'gay' as 'an American euphemism for homosexual'.
http://uepengland. com/forum/index. php? showtopic= 184&mode=linear.
New York Times, 29 Aug. 2005. See also Henderson (2006).
NOTES TO PP. 1-53 389
Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis
16 Mitford and Waugh (2001).
Polytheism
17 http://www. newadvent. org/cathen/06608b. htm.
18 http://www. catholic-forum. com/saints/indexsnt. htm? NF=l.
Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America
390
T HE GO D D E L U S I O N
34 35
Henderson (2006). http://www. lulu. com/content/267888.
The Great Prayer Experiment
36
H. Benson et al. , 'Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients', American Heart Journal 151: 4, 2006, 934-42.
Richard Swinburne, in Science and Theology News, 7 April 2006, http://www. stnews. org/Commentary-2772. htm.
37
38
The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists
39 40
41 42 43
In court cases, and books such as Ruse (1982). His article in Playboy appeared in the April 2006 issue.
Jerry Coyne's reply to Ruse appeared in the August 2006 issue of
Playboy.
Madeleine Bunting, Guardian, 27 March 2006.
Dan Dennett's reply appeared in the Guardian, 4 April 2006.
http://scienceblogs. com/pharyngula/2006/03/the_ dawkinsdennett_boogeyman. php; http://scienceblogs. com/ pharyngula/2006/02/our_double_standard. php; http://scienceblogs. com/pharyngula/2006/02/the_rusedennett_feud. php.
New York Times, 11 April 2006.
Little green men
44 http://vo. obspm. fr/exoplanetes/encyclo/encycl. html. 45 Dennett (1995).
Chapter 3: Arguments for God's existence
The ontological argument and other a priori arguments
46 http://www. iep. utm. edU/o/ont-arg. htm. Gasking's 'proof is at
http://www. uq. edu. au/~pdwgrey/pubs/gasking. html.
The argument from personal 'experience'
47 48 49
The whole subject of illusions is discussed by Richard Gregory in a series of books including Gregory (1997).
My own attempt at spelling out the explanation is on pp. 268-9 of Dawkins (1998).
http://www. sofc. org/Spirituality/s-of-fatima. htm.
NOTES TO PP. 53-131 391
The argument from scripture
50 Tom Flynn, 'Matthew vs. Luke', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 34-45; Robert Gillooly, 'Shedding light on the light of the world', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 27-30.
51 Erhman (2006). See also Ehrman (2003a, b).
The argument from admired religious scientists
52 53
54
55 56
57
Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle (1997).
E. J. Larson and L. Witham, 'Leading scientists still reject God', Nature 394, 1998, 313.
http://www. leaderu. com/ftissues/ft9610/reeves. html gives a particularly interesting analysis of historical trends in American religious opinion by Thomas C. Reeves, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, based on Reeves (1996).
http://www. answersingenesis. org/docs/3506. asp.
R. Elisabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, manuscript in preparation, 2006.
P. Bell, 'Would you believe it? ', Mensa Magazine, Feb. 2002, 12-13.
Chapter 4: Why there almost certainly is no God
The Ultimate Boeing 747
58 An exhaustive review of the provenance, usages and quotations of this analogy is given, from a creationist point of view, by Gert Korthof, at http://home. wxs. nl/~gkorthof/kortho46a. htm.
Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser
59
60 61
Adams (2002), p. 99. My 'Lament for Douglas', written the day after his death, is reprinted as the Epilogue to The Salmon of Doubt, and also in A Devil's Chaplain, which also has my
eulogy at his memorial meeting in the Church of St Martin-in-the- Fields.
Interview in Der Spiegel, 26 Dec. 2005. Susskind (2006: 17).
The worship of gaps
62 Behe (1996).
63 http://www. millerandlevine. com/km/evol/design2/article. html.
392 THE GOD DELUSION
64 This account of the Dover trial, including the quotations, is from A. Bottaro, M. A. Inlay and N. J. Matzke, 'Immunology in the spotlight at the Dover "Intelligent Design" trial', Nature Immunology 7, 2006, 433-5.
65 J. Coyne, 'God in the details: the biochemical challenge to evolution', Nature 383, 1996, 227-8. The article by Coyne and me, 'One side can be wrong', was published in the Guardian,
1 Sept. 2005: http://www. guardian. co. uk/life/ feature/story/0,13026,1559743,00. html.
The quotation from the 'eloquent blogger' is at http:// www. religionisbullshit. net/blog/2005_09_01_archive. php.
66 Dawkins (1995).
The antbropic principle: planetary version
61
68 69
Carter admitted later that a better name for the overall principle would be 'cognizability principle' rather than the already entrenched term 'anthropic principle': B. Carter, 'The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 310, 1983, 347-63. For a book-length discussion of the anthropic principle, see Barrow and Tipler (1988).
Comins (1993).
I spelled this argument out more fully in The Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins 1986).
The anthropic principle: cosmological version
70 Murray Gell-Mann, quoted by John Brockman on the 'Edge' website, http://www. edge. org/3rd_culture/bios/smolin. html.
71 Ward (1996: 99); Polkinghorne (1994: 55).
An interlude at Cambridge
72 J. Horgan, 'The Templeton Foundation: a skeptic's take', Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2006. See also http://www. edge. org/3rd_culture/horgan06/horgan06_index. html.
73 P. B. Medawar, review of The Phenomenon of Man, repr. in Medawar (1982: 242).
74 Dennett (1995: 155).
80 81
82 83 84 85
See e. g. Buss (2005).
Deborah Keleman, 'Are children "intuitive theists"? ', Psychological Science 15: 5, 2004, 295-301. Dennett (1987).
Guardian, 31 Jan. 2006. Smythies (2006).
http://jmm. aaa. net. au/articles/14223. htm.
NOTES TO PP. 13 3-232 393
Chapter 5: The roots of religion
The Darwinian imperative
75 Quoted in Dawkins (1982: 30).
76 K. Sterelny, 'The perverse primate', in Grafen and Ridley (2006:
213-23).
Group selection
77 N. A. Chagnon, 'Terminological kinship, genealogical relatedness and village fissioning among the Yanomamo Indians', in Alexander and Tinkle (1981: ch. 28).
78 C. Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: Appleton, 1871), vol. 1, 156.
Religion as a by-product of something else
79 Quoted in Blaker (2003: 7).
Psychologically primed for religion
Chapter 6: The roots of morality: why are we good?
86 The movie itself, which is very good, can be obtained at http://www. thegodmovie. com/index. php.
A case study in the roots of morality
87 M. Hauser and P. Singer, 'Morality without religion', Free Inquiry 26: 1, 2006, 18-19.
If there is no God, why be good?
88 Dostoevsky (1994: bk 2, ch. 6, p. 87).
89 Hinde (2002). See also Singer (1994), Grayling (2003), Glover
(2006).
394 THE GOD DELUSION
Chapter 7: The 'Good' Book and the changing moral Zeitgeist
90 Lane Fox (1992); Berlinerblau (2005).
91 Holloway (1999, 2005). Richard Holloway's 'recovering
Christian' line is in a book review in the Guardian, 15 Feb. 2003: http://books. guardian. co. uk/reviews/scienceandnature/ 0,6121,894941,00. html. The Scottish journalist Muriel Gray wrote a beautiful account of my Edinburgh dialogue with Bishop Holloway in the (Glasgow) Herald: http://www. sundayherald. com/44517.
The Old Testament
92 For a frightening collection of sermons by American clergymen, blaming hurricane Katrina on human 'sin', see http://universist. org/neworleans. htm.
93 Pat Robertson, reported by the BBC at http://news. bbc. co. Uk/2/hi/americas/4427144. stm.
Is the New Testament any better?
94 95
R. Dawkins, 'Atheists for Jesus', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2005, 9-10. Julia Sweeney is also right on target when she briefly mentions Buddhism. Just as Christianity is sometimes thought to be a nicer, gentler religion than Islam, Buddhism is often cracked up to be the nicest of all. But the doctrine of demotion on the reincarnation ladder because of sins in a past life is pretty unpleasant. Julia Sweeney: 'I went to Thailand and happened to visit a woman who was taking care of a terribly deformed boy. I said to his caretaker, "It's so good of you to be taking care of this poor boy. " She said, "Don't say 'poor boy,' he must have done something terrible in a past life to be born this way. " '
For a thoughtful analysis of techniques used by cults, see Barker (1984). More journalistic accounts of modern cults are given by Lane (1996) and Kilduff and Javers (1978).
Paul Vallely and Andrew Buncombe, 'History of Christianity: Gospel according to Judas', Independent, 7 April 2006.
Vermes (2000).
96
97
98
Love thy neighbour
99 Hartung's paper was originally published in Skeptic 3: 4, 1995, but is now most readily available at http://www. lrainc. com/
NOTES TO PP. 237-285 395
swtaboo/taboos/ltnOl . html.
100 Smith (1995).
101 Guardian, 12 March 2002: http://books. guardian. co. uk/ departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,664342,00. html.
102 N. D. Glenn, 'Interreligious marriage in the United States: patterns
and recent trends', Journal of Marriage and the Family 44: 3, 1982, 555-66.
The moral Zeitgeist
103 104 105
http://www. ebonmusings. org/atheism/newlOc. html. Huxley (1871).
http://www. classic-literature. co. uk/american-authors/ 19th-century/abraham-lincoln/the-writings-of-abraharn- lincoln-04/.
What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists?
106 107 108
109
110
111
112
113
114
Bullock (1991). Bullock (2005).
http://www. ffrf. org/fttoday/1997/march97/holocaust. html. This article by Richard E. Smith, originally published in Freethought Today, March 1997, has a large number of relevant quotations from Hitler and other Nazis, giving their sources. Unless otherwise stated, my quotations are from Smith's article.
http://homepages. paradise. net. nz/mischedj/ca_hitler. htrnl. Bullock (2005: 96).
Adolf Hitler, speech of 12 April 1922. In Baynes (1942: 19-20). Bullock (2005: 43).
This quotation, and the following one, are from Anne Nicol Gaylor's article on Hitler's religion,
http://www. ffrf. org/fttoday/back/hitler. html.
http://www. contra-mundum. org/schirrmacher/NS_Religion. pdf.
Chapter 8: What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?
Fundamentalism and the subversion ofscience
115 From 'What is true? ', ch. 1. 2 of Dawkins (2003).
116 Both my quotations from Wise come from his contribution to the
1999 book In Six Days, an anthology of essays by young-Earth creationists (Ashton 1999).
396 THE GOD DELUSION
The dark side of absolutism
117 118
119
Warraq (1995: 175).
John William Gott's imprisonment for calling Jesus a clown is mentioned in The Indypedia, published by the Independent, 29 April 2006. The attempted prosecution of the BBC for blasphemy is in BBC news, 10 Jan. 2005: http://news. bbc. co. uk/l/hi/ entertainment/tv_and_radio/4161109. stm.
http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_ Taliban. html.
Faith and homosexuality
120 121
122 123
Hodges (1983).
This and the remaining quotations in this section are from the American Taliban site already listed; http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban. html.
http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_ Taliban. html.
From Pastor Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church official website, godhatesfags. com: http://www. godhatesfags. com/fliers/jan2006/20060131_ coretta-scott-king-funeral. pdf.
Faith and the sanctity of human life
124
125
126 127
128 129
See Mooney (2005). Also Silver (2006), which arrived when this book was in final proof, too late to be discussed as fully as I would have liked.
For an interesting analysis of what makes Texas different in this respect, see http://www. pbs. org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ execution/readings/texas. html.
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker.
These Randall Terry quotes are from the same American Taliban site as before: http://adultthought. ucsd. edu/Culture_War/The_American_Taliban. html.
Reported on Fox news: http://www. foxnews. com/story/0,2933,96286,00. html.
M. Stamp Dawkins (1980).
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Reported by BBC news: http://news. bbc. co. Uk/l/hi/wales/901723. stm. Loftus and Ketcham (1994).
See John Waters in the Irish Times: http://oneinfour. org/news/news2003/roots/.
Associated Press, 10 June 2005: http://www. rickross. com/ reference/clergy/clergy426. html.
http://www. avl611. org/hell. html.
NOTES TO PP. 287-332 397
The Great Beethoven Fallacy
130 http://www. warroom. com/ethical. htm. 131 Medawar and Medawar (1977).
How 'moderation' in faith fosters fanaticism
132 Johann Hari's article, originally published in the Independent, 15 July 2005, can be found at http://www. johannhari. com/archive/article. php? id=640.
133 Village Voice, 18 May 2004: http://www. villagevoice. com/news/0420,perlstein,53582,l. html.
134 Harris (2004: 29).
135 Nasra Hassan, 'An arsenal of believers', New Yorker, 19 Nov.
2001. See also http://www. bintjbeil. com/articles/en/011119_ hassan. html.
Chapter 9: Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion
Physical and mental abuse
In defence of children
141 N. Humphrey, 'What shall we tell the children? ', in Williams (1998); repr. in Humphrey (2002).
142 http://www. law. umkc. edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/ yoder. html.
An educational scandal
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Guardian, 15 Jan. 2005: http://www. guardian. co. uk/weekend/story/0,,1389500,00. html.
Times Educational Supplement, 15 July 2005. http://www. telegraph. co. uk/opinion/main. jhtml? xml=/
opinion/2002/03/18/dol 801. xml
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THE GOD DELUSION
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Guardian, 15 Jan. 2005: http://www. guardian. co. uk/ weekend/story/0,,1389500,00. html.
The text of our letter, drafted by the Bishop of Oxford, was as follows:
Dear Prime Minister,
We write as a group of scientists and Bishops to express our concern about the teaching of science in the Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead. Evolution is a scientific theory of great explanatory power, able to account for a wide range of phenomena in a number of disciplines. It can be refined, confirmed and even radically altered by attention to evidence. It is not, as spokesmen for the college maintain, a 'faith position' in the same category as the biblical account of creation which has a different function and purpose.
The issue goes wider than what is currently being taught in one college. There is a growing anxiety about what will be taught and how it will be taught in the new generation of proposed faith schools. We believe that the curricula in such schools, as well as that of Emmanuel City Technical College, need to be strictly monitored in order that the respective disciplines of science and religious studies are properly respected. Yours sincerely
British Humanist Association News, March-April 2006. Observer, 22 July 2004: http://observer. guardian. co. uk/ magazine/story/0,11913,1258506,00. html.
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Consciousness-raising again
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The Oxford Dictionary takes 'gay' back to American prison slang in 1935. In 1955 Peter Wildeblood, in his famous book Against the Law, found it necessary to define 'gay' as 'an American euphemism for homosexual'.
http://uepengland. com/forum/index. php? showtopic= 184&mode=linear.
