Flutterby™! : Three sides of religion

Elf had a great set of links yesterday, among other people he linked to Mike the Mad Biologist: Another Fight About Framing and Evolution: Can I Play?.

Larry recently had some musings on understanding atheism from his Christian perspective, which I mused a bit about in his comments, but that framing essay made an important distinction that I think is handy from the other side, from us atheists trying to understand people with religion:

Personally, I think Dawkins in his written arguments and public utterances incorrectly conflates three phenomena: religion as cultural identity, supernaturalism, and deism/theism.

I'm not quite sure how to make those splits, but that essay (which is good for other reasons) reminded me that religion is more complex than wackos pushing "creation science".