&#62; <i>Dawkins' massive waste of time preaching atheism</i><p>Given the amount of harm religious extremists do, fighting them seems reasonable. If you reduce the amount of religion in a society, you reduce the number and effectiveness of religious extremists.<p>&#62; <i>Dawkins is a scientist, and as such should be working to teach people to conquer ignorance. Yet he'd rather spend his time alienating the people he could be enlightening.</i><p>One of the worst aspects of religion, IMO, is when the religious claim that their beliefs and values deserve to be givne special status over and above everyone else's beliefs and values. This is bullshit of the first order, and needs to be fought.