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In reply to the discussion: Richard Dawkins under fire for ‘mild pedophilia’ remarks [View all]backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Not all pedophilic incidents are the same. Sure, they're inappropriate, abusive, and disgusting, but there's degrees. There's the single incident of fondling, which Dawkins apparently went through, and moved past, and there's Sandusky-style child rapes, which are damned horrible, and that Dawkins would also condemn as damned horrible.
And let's put this in the context of The God Delusion, where Dawkins discusses a woman who had an incident of child molestation, which she considered to be something she can and did move past, and then had an incident of emotional abuse when she faced the death of a 7-year-old friend, then had a Catholic priest tell her that her friend was in Hell because she was a Protestant.
From The God Delusion, on pages 356-357 in my copy.
I'm thinking this is what Dawkins meant, though he could have worded it better.