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He might be well past his prime, but his works are really amazing read
In the context of atheism:
When I look at his work, I am truly not impressed. Surely he knows a few things but it seems to add very little to the actual discussion.
Like I know a lot about e.g. computers but when talking about geopolitics, my knowledge about computers is not entirely useless but most interested people are already aware of the key points of anything I could say in that regard. So I probably should not waste my and your time by talking about that.
He did just do that. Again and again. On reddit, people would call it a circlejerk.
Yeah, when I was questioning my religion (am currently Atheist), I read a bit of Dawkins, and mostly felt like a lot of his work was a bit condescending, and needlessly so. Hitchens was a much better resource, as well as just Douglas Adams (for a sense of humor in the face of the absurd). Now every time I read something about Dawkins, it's usually negative (last thing I remember reading was about his stance on the middle east, think it was in support of the Israelis during the early days of the genocide).
Douglas Adams RIP :(