User blog comment:SpartHawg948/Spart's Book Blog Part 3!!! 2012 Edition!!!/@comment-70.187.179.139-20120213211912

The Devil's Delusion was full of too many strawmen for me to take it seriously. Berlinski's sole strategy consists of repeatedly setting up strawmen and then taking target practice on them. He begins with the title of his book, which paints all atheists into the same corner, ignoring the vast majority of us who don't require science to prove the unprovable in order to justify our failure to choose from a smorgasbord of puerile fairy tales within which to immerse our identities. Richard Dawkins is an idiot, but Berlinski is no better. By claiming to be agnostic, Berlinski panders to the skeptical reader in an attempt to appear objective, while not going all-out atheist, which would turn off his more credulous readers. However, this causes numerous contradictions. For example, Berlinski begins talking about how immorality will invariably ensue if there is no creator to give us objective moral fiats. So where, asks Berlinski, shall we get our morals from if not from a creator? An odd question for him to ask if he is agnostic, isn't it? My question to him would be, "For someone who is not sure whether god exists, where do you get your morals from?" Agnosticism, on the part of the author would have no bearing at all on his arguments, if he hadn't made his agnosticism part of his argument.