Again, he does distinguish between those who are literally deluded, and the much more sensible believers whom we continue to collectively find baffling. He does not think or write that those like, and indeed the clergymen with whom he is positively amiable, in agreement with on other issues and even friends with are delusional in this way, just wrong. Of course, several such clergymen have turned out to have been closeted atheists for many years, having been reluctant to come out when they know no other way of life, and we have reason to believe this is true of several other church figures, but that's besides the point and possibly wishful thinking.
But as I say, we would be much more qualified to discuss this particular Dawkins book after we have all read it in its entirety.
But by way of reparations, I myself would not have called it "The God Delusion", nor do I think that is the best title. But I don't think "The Divine Misconception" is better!
Sounds like a Dan Brown.
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