Laugh it up, CL, but Dawkins did actually help a lot of people, like this guy that wrote a book about it
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This is actually what he writes about this youtube video from their side:
This is actually what he writes about this youtube video from their side:
from the book Wrote: A few days passed and I became sad that I missed the whole Dawkins visit when I heard about the media storm it created. Within a week, clips of Liberty students asking him questions were on Youtube. It was a disaster, like a bus crash. A bus full of unicorn fetuses. Here were my fellow students asking him, “what if you’re wrong?” kinds of questions and yes—they just had to say they were from Liberty. These students thought they could stump Richard Dawkins who had been writing professionally on the topic of atheism and evolution for decades. [...]
Dr. Foreman must have been conflicted, as he sat there watching the scene unfold live. Dawkins owned the audience and any Christian would have felt persecuted in that setting. Dr. Foreman was a big boy and he could take it but it must have been hard to see students of his getting skewered. Why did they mention they were from Liberty? Foreman even admonished us to NOT identify ourselves as LU students. Randolph students called us LU-natics before we adopted the moniker for our own die hard sports fans.
After a few questions, a young man in the audience asked if Dawkins was aware of Liberty University’s hallway display of dinosaur fossils. The dinosaur fossils (technically plaster replicas, not actual fossils) in question were labeled as less than six thousand years old. Dawkins was slightly perturbed but maintained his composure. “I would recommend that students there leave and attend a proper university.” The insult to injury was that the following weeks of conversation resulting from that involved a lot of shrill southern accents and stilted language all over offensive quote made by a sophisticated, eloquent Brit. The dozens of students I spoke with called Dawkins a faggot because of his accent and quaint mannerisms. Others were praying for Dawkins and probably wrote kind emails to him.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
