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Bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza's new book What's So Great About Christianity has just been released. D’Souza is the Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

1 posted on 11/13/2007 8:07:52 AM PST by NYer
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Hmmm. I can’t figure out if that title is an insult to the atheists or the gays.


2 posted on 11/13/2007 8:13:11 AM PST by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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New term: Gaytheist.


3 posted on 11/13/2007 8:14:19 AM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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The only important difference between Nazi-ism, Fascism,
Communism, Socialism and Liberalism is the spelling, and
that the last group hasn’t got the brains to figure it out.

- Bill Vance

I would add Atheism and Islamo-Fascism to the above quote.

4 posted on 11/13/2007 8:17:01 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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Richard Dawkins has a bright idea: Atheists are the new gays. Is he joking? Not at all.

What? Do the atheists want to be married now?

5 posted on 11/13/2007 8:18:09 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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Most queers are in fact atheist or at least profess said belief. In reality, there are no human atheists, only animals. When disaster strikes, even the atheist will beg his maker for mercy. In war, when the bullets start flying over the head of the atheist, first they pee their pants, then they ask God to save them. Recall all that found God when 911 hit.


6 posted on 11/13/2007 8:19:04 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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No, Muslims are the new gays. Atheists are the new Muslims.


7 posted on 11/13/2007 8:19:41 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day," -Karl Marx)
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Dawkins cited this example in advocating that atheists call themselves "brights."

If he feels it necessary to tell me how "bright" he is, maybe he isn't all that "bright".

12 posted on 11/13/2007 8:27:55 AM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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Just why do we even listen to him? Earth shaking scientific thesis? No. Tremendous technical accomplishments? No. Solid business leader? Military hero? No. Oh, I forgot, he’s a wordspinner (or member of the chattering class). Never did nuttin’...no how. Put words on a page and other mindless libs chose to believe him. Sorta like Gore. Guess we should listen to him to eh? After all, mom....everybody else is doing it.


15 posted on 11/13/2007 8:32:25 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Dawkins explains that gays used to be called homosexual, but then they decided to pick a positive-sounding name like "gay."

Dawkins's understanding of the history of this code word is as defective as his understanding of Christian theism.
18 posted on 11/13/2007 8:40:44 AM PST by aruanan
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So Dawkins wants to further debase the currency of thought, eh? The atheists already claimed “freethinker”, which was supposed to sound positive. Let them keep to that rather than ruining another perfectly good word.


20 posted on 11/13/2007 8:45:54 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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I think it may be a good idea. A lot of people are naive about the tactics used by the homosexual/gay rights movement. A bright rights movement may possibly make those tactics more transparent to some people.


22 posted on 11/13/2007 8:47:43 AM PST by beejaa (HY)
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I think that the term “theophobe” best describes Dawkins.


26 posted on 11/13/2007 8:58:12 AM PST by Shade2
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Basically Dawkins is saying if you are religious, then science is your enemy. Either you choose God or you choose science.

Oh boy - almost direct quotes from some of our Darwinist-obsessives here!

No wonder that so many Americans say they are opposed to evolution. They believe that evolution is atheism masquerading as science, and Dawkins confirms their suspicions.

LOL - that is going to leave a mark. Get ready for Darwinists demanding to know what D'Souza's scientific training is, and how many peer-reviewed papers he has written.

27 posted on 11/13/2007 8:59:48 AM PST by Hacksaw (Appalachian by the grace of God - Montani Semper Liberi)
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I think that most gays are atheists, so this would make a gay atheist, a two-fer.(two affirmative action credits for the price of one) What it would really do is enlarge the gay lobby to include hetero-sexual atheists and give them a legal stance that they can use to advance the gay agenda (separation of church and state). Even though the separation of church and state is a bogus regulation, it has a national precedent that is lacking in gay rights.


28 posted on 11/13/2007 9:00:20 AM PST by Eva
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Can we just get rid of the tired “this is the new this” line as if everything is an analogy to fashion?


29 posted on 11/13/2007 9:04:51 AM PST by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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"Are Atheists the New Gays?"

Are Journalists the new pimps?
31 posted on 11/13/2007 9:22:47 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Accepting Richard Dawkins as a representative of atheism and arguing against the points he makes is the same as using that other idiot Fred Phelps, as a representative of Christianity as a whole and arguing against the Christian faith using that representation.

Basically, they're both the same class of living Straw Man Arguments, and equally useless to the discourse as a whole.  Anyone using them to make a point is usually just muddying their own point.

32 posted on 11/13/2007 9:27:14 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car......with guns.)
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>>”Bright” kind of reflects the high opinion that atheists have of their own intellectual abilities.<<

Except they are not very smart at all. Every single “atheist” that I have challenged on his/her faith has eventually admitted they were really agnostic.

Wanna see how a real atheist would live? Watch Natural Born Killers.


35 posted on 11/13/2007 9:31:28 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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I am not aware that atheists are particularly oppressed, actually. They are certainly free to have all the steamy bath-house sex they want. Or am I confusing my liberation movements here?


37 posted on 11/13/2007 9:40:16 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Of course there’s a difference. You would never ask an atheist whether your new end table would go with the drapes.


38 posted on 11/13/2007 9:40:39 AM PST by BlazingArizona
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