Quote from: Kwasi on December 16, 2012, 12:27 pmSeveral years ago I was an evangelical Christian (albeit an intelligent, informed, progressive one), so Richard Dawkins was supposed to be, you know... working for Satan or something.My first impressions while listening to the guy was that he made some really good points about the pitfalls of monotheism as practiced today but he came off as a raging asshole about it. I guess if I was standing up on a podium talking about our culture's interpretation of monotheism I'd start raging too, but at the time he made a poor impression as a personality.In more recent years I've much more enjoyed listening to him talk about Darwin and evolution because his mood lightens, you can hear the excitement in his voice, and during his examples and explanations he's very eloquent without sounding overtly British.Perhaps there's a lesson here to be learned, for me if no one else: giving in to bitterness seems to be even more counterproductive than I already assumed. Interesting.Brilliant sig, by the way, Kwasi. Love it. Can we please make a rule that no member is allowed to use hot chicks as their avatar though? It unduly influences my opinion of people ::)