Me too, and I suspect a lot of trouble could be saved at the outset by asking the claimant what exactly he means by a dragon in this context. Relatedly, one of the problems with using dragons or unicorns as analogies for religious belief is that, although they are mythical, they predispose us to expect that the claimant is naming something he believes to have properties of the same kind as non-mythical animals, and religious believers are very rarely doing anything comparable.
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Date: 2007-12-06 08:40 am (UTC)Interesting site, though, and I will bookmark it.