RE: Dawkins loses humanist title
April 22, 2021 at 6:49 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2021 at 6:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yes, he did, he explicitly noted how contentious it was..and with that, waded right in. That was his call, wasn't it? Or are we going for the doddering geriatric who knew not what he did bit?
For better or for worse, the business of ideological associations is a pandering business. Humanism can no more suffer bad pr by having associated itself with and awarded a person who appears to have taken some kind of interesting turn than the catholic church needs another scandal. You can wring your hands over this all you like, as a freethinker - but are you doing so out of a factual understanding of the reality of the matter and through a set of rational inferences?
I'm willing to grant that the american humanist association wants a more humanist world, lol. Dawkins comments in the recent past and present, regardless of whatever work he did in the more distant past of 96 or so, just don;t serve that goal anymore - if they ever did. Perhaps giving him the award in the first place was their mistake, regardless of whether we agree with his positions?
For better or for worse, the business of ideological associations is a pandering business. Humanism can no more suffer bad pr by having associated itself with and awarded a person who appears to have taken some kind of interesting turn than the catholic church needs another scandal. You can wring your hands over this all you like, as a freethinker - but are you doing so out of a factual understanding of the reality of the matter and through a set of rational inferences?
I'm willing to grant that the american humanist association wants a more humanist world, lol. Dawkins comments in the recent past and present, regardless of whatever work he did in the more distant past of 96 or so, just don;t serve that goal anymore - if they ever did. Perhaps giving him the award in the first place was their mistake, regardless of whether we agree with his positions?
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