Posted on 08/21/2014 8:32:35 AM PDT by Morgana
Dawkins is a sociopath. I wouldn’t take moral instruction from him any more than I would from Ted Bundy if he were still alive.
The King James Bible is among the supreme works of English Literature.
Sarah's reply certainly won't make her more popular with the evil ones:
Mr. Dawkins, I'd let you meet my son if you promised to open your mind, your eyes, and your heart to a unique kind of absolute beauty. But, in my request for you to be tolerant, I’d have to warn Trig he must be tolerant, too, because he may superficially look at you as kind of awkward. I'll make sure he's polite, though!
Love,
Sarah Palin & family
Heh!
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************************ By Richard Dawkins (excerpt)
Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible ...
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/19/richard-dawkins-king-james-bible
Ecclesiastes, in the 1611 translation, is one of the glories of English literature (I’m told it’s pretty good in the original Hebrew, too). The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as Shakespeare (to quote that distinguished authority Anon, the trouble with Hamlet is it’s so full of clichées). In The God Delusion I have a section called “Religious education as a part of literary culture” in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep’s clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. In the week after the 2011 census, my UK Foundation commissioned Ipsos MORI to poll those who had ticked the Christian box. Among other things, we asked them to identify the first book of the New Testament from a choice of Matthew, Genesis, Acts of the Apostles, Psalms, “Don’t know” and “Prefer not to say”. Only 35% chose Matthew and 39% chose “Don’t know” (and 1%, mysteriously, chose “Prefer not to say”). These figures, to repeat, don’t refer to British people at large but only to those who self-identified, in the census, as Christians.
European history, too, is incomprehensible without an understanding of the warring factions of Christianity and the book over whose subtleties of interpretation they were so ready to slaughter and torture each other. Does the eucharistic bread merely symbolise the body of Jesus or does it become his body, in true “substance” if not “accidental” DNA? Prolonged wars have been fought over how we should interpret the words allegedly uttered at the Last Supper. Three bishops were burned alive just outside my bedroom window in my old Oxford college for giving the unapproved answer. Centuries-long schisms were based on nothing more serious than the question of whether Jesus is both God and his son, or just his (very important) son. Even bloodier wars were fought against a rival religion that sees him not as God’s son at all but just reveres him as a prophet.
In his godless world he would start with those with Down Syndrome and end up killing anyone who does not agree with his perverted, sick views.
bttt
He sound like the perfect fit for mac daddies administration office as Surgeon General of the USA.
He sound like the perfect fit for mac daddies administration office as Surgeon General of the USA.
He does not recant at all. He is explaining the basis of his ethics which is classic Utilitarian philosphy. It’s the standard philosophy taught in medical ethics according to the Chronical of Higher Education.
Utilitarian Philosophy
“Utilitarianism is mainly characterized by two elements: happiness and consequentialism. Utilitarian happiness is the biggest happiness which (supposetly) every human being looks for. In utilitarianism everything useful to happiness is good. Therefore, the name of the doctrine is utilitarianism, based on the principle of utility. Utility is found in every thing which contributes to the happiness of every rational being. The criterion of good and evil is balanced between individual’s happiness and the happiness of the community, “each counting in an equal way” (Bentham, Introduction in the principles of morality and legislation). Consequentialism in utilitarianism is in the fact that an action must be judged for its consequences on the happiness of the largest number. That is: my search for happiness stops when it decreases the happiness of another individual or the happiness of the largest number, of the society or the community. “
When these guys seek “happiness” they always seem to err on the side of death. It’s not just the disabled who they think should be killed, it’s the elderly or babies from unplanned pregnancy. The individual human has no intrinsic value to them.
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