Dead wood (link still good,2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/11/buddhism-religion-dawkins
Dawkins strips away religion’s dead wood
Dawkins is doing religion a favour – by exposing faith and spirituality to criticism, he paves the way for their renewal
This is a hopeful thought, but naive in the end: we can see that many would like nothing better than a one-dimensional ‘new age’ religion to come into being.
The Gurdjieff’s are waiting, to turn the new believers into ‘cattle’.