Relusion

I've read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion this week past. I needed no primer toward atheism.
I do note that "evidence" is the crucial application that Dawkins insists upon in debate on the existence of belief and the exercise of such in action. I don't see that we can let our selves become brow-beaters to the religious without being as bad as some "animal rights" activists are for arguing against the use of animals in experiments and other cruelties they are made to suffer through lack of human ingenuity. We simply need law to protect us (society) from the religious, though to also protect the religious from being able to be open about their - I think there is evidence for - unavoidable relusion.

I`ve read Dawkins, among others on the "popular" Science shelf, since the mid-1980's. More than a decade after beginning that habit I began reading Jacques Derrida. I do think Dawkins has fallen for something that is of symptom throughout his mindings in The God Delusion. Though maybe it is his way of leading others to state from evidence what he dare not?
I got a style of ironic paraphrase on my construction of my range of interests (whilst financially curtailled from sharing to scrutiny) that I know I developed from reading Avital Ronnel. Ronnel in The Test Drive traces the consideration of "evidence" and when I fill in the gaps I conclude that Albert Camus`s The Fall best presents the viral antagonism that Science is turned to by Hierarchies exactly in the way "religious" that is making crypto (not much a secret) Social Darwinism produce a quasi-market condition (why markets fail...). That is to say when, as atheists, we fail to work on the details of the society we have solidarity toward, we contribute to the promotion of a less scruinised use of Science as Law(ful).
I really think Dawkins should be persuaded to read, or read about, Jacques Derrida. He may find he finds something to identify with if he gets us all scrambled by similar basketing as Dawkins obliges in his obvious relish of the Sokal incident.

The God Delusion is valuable conribution to culture, and a rare reflection on the activity of Atheism in face of hostility. However I am concerned that it cannot do enough for our Atheist solidarity becasuse of it's optimistic incursion into the position of "believers". Part of that optimism is that of expected literacy which is also distorted by Dawkins gentleness on the science.

Humans are not that superlative as some of the exceptions amongst their production are, and we all need hold that thought.