Compatiblism - I don't think so!

I certainly understand where he's coming from. You can point at fundamentalists and say "see?" And most people will see the crazy. It's the same people defending them for some reason that really puzzles me sometimes.

Thanks for reinforcing my low opinion of Dawkins.

Yeah, I like Dawkins also. He's pretty smart and cool.

Just a load of rhetoric blurb to me but my observation is the absurd cliche that is trotted out by speakers wishing to place fear into the hearts of Christian believers: this ‘special place in hell’. It’s always given a context as if it has some divine authority

I can’t find it’s original reference and all I can imagine is that it is a nod to The Divine Comedy.

Any ideas anyone?

Just perpetuates division. Even intelligence doesnt immunize us to this. Science only measures what is measurable. Everything isn't. It proves nothing, but shows correlations. Confounds invisible.

Richard is wrong, I think. Religion's power is diminished but it isn't going away. I think accommodation is needed for two things: the ecology because the religious think the solution to ecology lies in God's kingdom, and the Western world isn't taking up humanism as the alternative to faith values.

A particular place in his hell? Dawkins' hell?

I do not see why some atheist see the need to refer to gurus like Dawkins and others. I do not see the need to look to others to tell me what to do. That is what happens in most religions. To me, my atheist is a personal matter, and I have no need to try to escape my freedom.