>>I don't think he will break religion's special status by attacking the beliefs of people. The only data point I know well enough to talk about (Sweden) contr

>>I don't think he will break religion's special status by attacking the beliefs of people. The only data point I know well enough to talk about (Sweden) contradict your hypothesis. The "Swedish Dawkins/Russel" was the philosophy professor Ingemar Hedenius in the 1950s. He almost made Dawkins look like a bible thumper. It did work well... and Sweden 60 years ago was probably about as religious as the Midwest is today. I see no reason to give old magical ideas like Xianity, Judaism, the Asa religion or Islam more respect than new ones like Scientology.