A Great Show

I saw Dawkins the other night.  A great showman for the greatest show on earth, with sharp attacks and well-honed one-liners.  He was as divisive as I expected, and you don't have to be '''a cultural relativist''' to hold it against him.  Best put by Ira: "His rhetorical technique is totally ineffective for anything but rallying the troops".  I wish there was a more responsible figurehead for atheism.  

Here is my main difference:  I still have to be convinced that getting crowds sharply divided over false dichotomies is better than promoting evolution in a manner that doesn't unseat the many, many people who have managed to find room for it with their God.  

Of course, maybe I am also posing false dichotomies.  Maybe Dawkins is working towards a third outcome, one in which all religion has been made completely irrelevant, presumably by non-fascist means. Unfortunately this outcome is not only unrealistic, but desirable only to the atheists bent on making things worse, and on making even less room for "non-religious" to evoke a tolerance that has outgrown the greatest zealots on earth.