Richard Dawkins suffers stroke.

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Not sure I really get it.  You saying he's pushing his atheism on people because he wrote books?  Basically, because he's not in the closet with it?

You don't become known publicly as influential without being a voice of authority. The fact that many recognize him as being influential, means he must influence someone. He can be considered the high priest of the anti-God establishment. Of course I mean the previous sentence as semi sarcastic, but seriously he is someone that atheists push as a voice that speaks for them.

What sort of authority are you referring to? On atheism, I don't think so with Dawkins. He never said everyone should be an atheist, and his own personal atheism is his own. What he has attacked are the evil practices which religious institutions are rife with, and the fallacious cruelty of theistic teachings. The authority which he has earned is in biology, and on the theoretical workings of evolution he shows this in his ability to explain in lay persons' terms. You don't have to be an atheist just because you see the good sense in what he says on this, nor the twisted, cruel, and utterly stupid nonsense practiced by theists which he points out.

Authority in science is always relative, never absolute. If Dawkins is found among his peers to be wrong on his scientific ideas tomorrow, then he will no longer be an authority on natural selection. If Dawkins is found to have buggered children, then he will be tried, and if found guilty go to jail. If your pope is found wrong tomorrow and replaced, then just like Ratzinger, they'll allow him to make excuses and retire, never admitting to any wrongdoing. The same easy let-off, no matter how many children or other people who he's done harm to. If you are Protestant, Protestant leaders are also pretty good at not admitting wrong and never paying their debts to society.

The fact that many recognize him as being influential, means he must influence someone. He can be considered the high priest of the anti-God establishment. Of course I mean the previous sentence as semi sarcastic, but seriously he is someone that atheists push as a voice that speaks for them.

And your point is what? That anyone who has influences is religious? So then, did Derek Jeter have a religious following when he played for the Yankees? Are sports fans all cultists?

He can be considered the high priest of the anti-God establishment.

Wrong, Idiot - many atheists (probably around half or more of us) don't actually like Dawkins a whole lot, and would instead refer you to their guru Sam Harris for spiritual wisdom. Or some other entirely, or none at all - we are not all members of AA, it is not a church, there is nobody to appoint leaders. I don't even follow AA at all, therefore am not influenced in any way by David Silverman. Silverman's organization does what it does, other organizations do more of or more of the same (mostly advocacy and legal support, which is necessary on account of oppression from people such as you, who will not tolerate anyone speaking their mind when they disagree with you). I may happen to hear something said by any of the above or anyone else which makes good sense to me, but I accept nothing which anyone says as gospel - no ideas, and no wisdom is absolute!

"Anti-God" - you are always going to use that, even though you should have learned by now that we can't be against what doesn't exist, and we don't believe your god does outside of your own little heads! Therefore I'm not anti-god, I am anti-asshole, and you are a stinking, festering example of that.

People here disagree with your ideas, and we know that is the one reason why you are here. You just have to be right about something, and chances are that your religious followers have tired of you as well. Nobody in poor old Scoopofshitsnack will listen to him anymore, and so he comes to this atheist forum, where he thought it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. The less we live up to your expectations, the nastier you get, and you have since resorted to the most stupid ad hominem attacks and repeated attempts to take advantage of a child who is being abused at home. There's something seriously fucked up with your head, which your god ideas are in no way helping you with - you need professional help with that, which can only be effective when you drop the delusional thinking which has made such a twisted asshole of you while here.