(July 8, 2012 at 11:14 am)CliveStaples Wrote: But I would never associate myself ideologically with assholes like Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins.
What the hell do the religious have against Richard Dawkins?
Dawkins isn't an asshole, he isn't an idiot, and he sure as hell isn't incompetant.
Bill Maher is an asshole. Sure. He doesn't get a pass just because he is a comedian. Personally I think of him as self-righteous, a trait that the religious have all but a monopoly on; I won't see Maher as anything but an ass anytime soon.
But Dawkins simply lays it all on the table. He says it how he sees it. He isn't an idiot or an asshole- he is simply blunt. Rather than condemn him, I commend him for his bluntness. We need a man today that can simply take religion for what it is: an anti-intellectual, unjustified, yet unalarming (for the most part) phenomena.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
