I would thoroughly enjoy sitting down with him, spreading out our ideas on the table as intelligent beings and discussing our conflicting views. I find it very generalizing that Richard Dawkins considers people of faith as basically incapable of thinking for themselves. I would love to converse with Dr. Dawkins concerning this notion of his. For those of you unaware of whom and what I’m talking about, just search on Youtube for it, or look for his talk at TEDtalks. I believe he is a very intelligent man, and I think conversation with him on behalf of the faith community is what he is looking for, not an argument or debate. I plan on reading his books ASAP, after I finish my 250 book wish list. 
I highly doubt Richard Dawkins considers people of faith as basically incapable of thinking for themselves. If he was so uninsightful he would not be where he is today.
What he considers is that people of faith choose to believe in things that cannot be backed up with evidence, which is true, and that the reasons that people of faith believe so is because faith is part of culture.
It is a nice thought that there is something bigger and better than ourselves out there looking over us, but there is no reason to believe so. The only reason you believe in god is because you have been told to, and I’m sure that having faith in something is adaptive in many ways, which is why culturally believing in god has stuck around. How you can base your lives around a book written thousands of years ago by people who had no real understanding of the world around them, and who explained everything they couldn’t figure out by saying ‘God did it’ is beyond me. And there is absolutely nothing you could retaliate to that with that would be rational.
Whoever Jesus Christ was back in the day was a real prankster, or a sociopath.