Rabbi falsely calls Dawkins anti Semite.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

erm..Brian...

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Boru

[Edwardo Piet]

Show me where he even implies Jews should be wiped of the face of the planet. I defy you.

Can't. Its usually cut from the released videos. Totally happened though. He did a Hitler salute and everything.
Oh; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BshxCIjNEjY

Remember that time where he also said "All Mormons can suck my balls." and then he suddenly turned on an extremely large and extremely loud stereosystem playing the Benny Hill theme and ran around in circles shouting "EGG! EGG! EGG and cheese! The Mormons must be stopped! PICKLES!"

That was pretty cray.

[Aegon]

That article is from 4 years ago, FYI.

He's not being anti-Semitic there, no. But he is a narcissistic asshole. Between that "Brights movement" bullshit and the size of his ego, I hate him. I'm annoyed whenever people support his rhetoric. Neil deGrasse Tyson says it well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxff0k_TEzI

[Edwardo Piet]

You hate him? That's a bit much isn't it?

He's far from perfect but I think he's pretty fucking awesome.

[Aegon]

Wait, me hating him is a bit much but his rhetoric isn't?

[Edwardo Piet]

What's wrong with his rhetoric?

[Edwardo Piet]

TGD is an awesome book.

[Aegon]

EDIT: I lost the formatting when I clicked Submit for some stupid reason. 

I already said why. Now, if you're okay with his egotistical and belittling manners, then fine. But I'm not. I agree with many other scholars, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, that his rhetoric is actually harmful to his own cause and the cause of many scientists. The whole "Brights movement" that he was behind for a while is just pathetic; the idea that religious people are inherently less intelligent than atheists is ridiculous, and especially ironic considering how many atheists were once religious themselves. As for The God Delusion, I agree with most of what agnostic biology professor H. Allen Orr has to say about it. 

Here's a tidbit from that article:

"Dawkins clearly believes his background in science allows him to draw strong conclusions about religion and, in The God Delusion,  he presents those conclusions in language that’s stronger still.  Dawkins not only thinks religion is unalloyed nonsense but that it is an  overwhelmingly pernicious, even “very evil,” force in the world. His  target is not so much organized religion as all religion. And within  organized religion, he attacks not only extremist sects but moderate  ones. Indeed, he argues that rearing children in a religious tradition  amounts to child abuse.
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As you may have noticed, Dawkins when discussing religion is, in effect,  a blunt instrument, one that has a hard time distinguishing Unitarians  from abortion clinic bombers. What may be less obvious is that, on  questions of God, Dawkins cannot abide much dissent, especially from  fellow scientists (and especially from fellow evolutionary biologists).  Indeed Dawkins is fond of imputing ulterior motives to those “Neville  Chamberlain School” scientists not willing to go as far as he in his war  on religion: he suggests that they’re guilty of disingenuousness,  playing politics, and lusting after the large prizes awarded by the  Templeton Foundation to scientists sympathetic to religion.  The only motive Dawkins doesn’t seem to take seriously is that some scientists genuinely disagree with him."

[Edwardo Piet]

That's not what the Brights movement was about. "Bright" was opposed to "Murky" meaning the fact that the whole concept of "God" is not clearly defined, and Daniel Dennett advocated it before Dawkins did.

TGD is a very good book. He's not the most polite but he's certainly not the least polite and he attacks the ideas not the people.

[Ivan Denisovich]

There is nothing anti-Semitic in saying that god depicted in Bible is primitive, tribal and bloodthirsty deity. But I suppose it is easier to hide behind insults than face reality.