What ? They kept it ? That ' s courteous . <| sep |> Nobody needed shellga or focus , anyway . well , focus wouldn ' t help if exdeath also had it , but still . <| sep |> I have not read Dawkins , but Eagleton ' s basic argument Apart from the occasional perfunctory gesture to ' sophisticated ' religious believers , Dawkins tends to see religion and fundamentalist religion as one and the same . Seems compatible with what I do know about Dawkins . But is the theological approach that Eagleton describes actually mainstream theology ? Namely this idea For JudeoChristianity , God is not a person in the sense that Al Gore arguably is . Nor is he a principle , an entity , or ' existent ' in one sense of that word it would be perfectly coherent for religious types to claim that God does not in fact exist . He is , rather , the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever , including ourselves . He is the answer to why there is something rather than nothing . God and the universe do not add up to two , any more than my envy and my left foot constitute a pair of objects . If this is the right idea of God , then most religious laypeople I know hold a very fundamentalist belief in God and I can see how observers might be inclined to apprehend fundamentalism as quite popular . How widespread is the above idea among theologians vs . among laypeople ?