2007-08-16 Quakers aren't like this

Dawkins says that Quakers (among others) are utterly convinced that they are right and the others are wrong. I have been a Quaker for about 25 years, in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Cambridge and now Essex. In none of the Meetings that I have attended have I met anyone who remotely fits that description. Exactly the reverse, in fact.
So he appears to be guilty of perpetrating his own bête noire and repeating something that he must have heard or read somewhere without checking that it was true. Or possibly because 'Shakers and Quakers' rolls of the tongue better. Either way it raises questions about the rest of his assertions.