Reply #87: What would familiarity with his book...

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...have to do with distinguishing what kind of attack you're making? I hardly committed the book to memory, and it's been some time, but I did most certainly read, not skim, "The God Delusion", from cover to cover.

At any rate, I don't agree with your attack regardless of whether you're calling it an attack on style or on substance. I think there's plenty of good reason to call many aspect of Christian doctrine "absurd", and I don't agree that Dawkins comes off as "silly" for saying what he has said. Now, are these things "obviously absurd"? The notion of what's "obvious" or not can be debatable, I suppose, but I don't think it takes a doctorate in Christian theology to be qualified to point out absurdities within Christian doctrine.