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강조는 내가.

1. You can attack other’s political view, criticize a football coach but cannot attack one’s religious faith. It’s a kind of immunity from criticism that religion enjoys, despite being proven to be mostly illogical.

2. Religious people do not derive their morality from religion. I disagree (with the interviewer) on this point. Almost all of us do agree on moral grounds where religion had no effect. For example we all hate slavery, we want emancipation of women — they are all our moral grounds. These moral grounds started building only a few centuries ago and long after all major religions were established.

3. The parameters you use, are the effect of the morality that is already with you, assimilated from different sources in your life time.

4. I link the marking of children as ‘Jewish boy’ or ‘Muslim child’ as a child abuse, since, in childhood they are yet to choose their religious views. Not only that, they are brought up in a way that he gets separated from other religious groups and views so that he follows the religious faith of his parents. Obstructing the view of children clearly comes under child abuse.

인터뷰 전문 The Atheism FAQ with Richard Dawkins으로부터 인용. 번역도 있다.