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{Militant athiest} Richard Dawkins has stroke, forcing cancellation of tour
The Guardian ^ | 12 Feb 2016 | Calla Wahlquist

Posted on 02/11/2016 9:29:27 PM PST by Cronos

Management for 74-year-old author of The God Delusion say he suffered ‘minor stroke’ in UK on Saturday but has already returned home from hospital

But the health scare has caused him to postpone his tour, his management said in a message passed on to ticket holders on Friday.

...By Thursday he had recovered enough to use Twitter, plugging a book called God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, for which he had written the foreword.

..A steadfast critic of religion, who nevertheless recently criticised leading UK cinema chains for refusing to screen an advert featuring the Lord’s Prayer, Dawkins has regularly been named one of Britain’s top public intellectuals.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alldressedup; callawahlquist; dawkins; noplacetogo; richarddawkins; thegoddelusion; twitter; unitedkingdom
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To: Cronos

He’ll likely have a death bed Come-to-Jesus realization, just as Christopher Hitchens reportedly did.


21 posted on 02/11/2016 10:09:37 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Heart-Rest

I don’t think Dawkins is a bad man, i would not wish him to hell.

He needs prayer.


22 posted on 02/11/2016 10:10:08 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Cronos

“SURVEY SAYS——Dickie, you are going to find out real soon now”.


23 posted on 02/11/2016 10:16:01 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
He'll likely have a death bed Come-to-Jesus realization, just as Christopher Hitchens reportedly did.

I hadn't heard that one...

24 posted on 02/11/2016 10:16:16 PM PST by sargon
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To: Cronos

Yes, I know it was Dawson but the Devil made me do it.


25 posted on 02/11/2016 10:17:57 PM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Cronos

Prayers for Mr. Dawkins. He will need them before meeting the Supreme Judge. I like how Christopher Hitchens got cancer and then hired Dr. Francis Collins to care for him. Collins wrote Language of God which uses three proofs for the existence of God. When a reporter asked Hitchens why he went to a Christian doctor, Hitchens replied, “Because we have excellent conversations.”

Dawkins is guilty of throwing rocks on the seeds planted by the Lord. He reinforces any depression a person might have. Francis Collins’ books are cheerful and accurate and should be in all the high schools.


26 posted on 02/11/2016 10:19:13 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Reported by who? You? Christopher Hitchens remained an atheist to his last breath.


27 posted on 02/11/2016 10:21:47 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: sargon

A lot of us old timers still adhere to one of Hitchen’s sayings: “Claims require evidence. Extraordinary claims require extaordinary evidence.”

Regardless of how much we might like to believe something is so, out of respect for ourselves and others, we let the facts lead us, and not vice versa.


28 posted on 02/11/2016 10:41:13 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: KittenClaws

He didn’t draw a bad hand ...

He chose his table, he declared himself the dealer, he delt the hand he is carrying with the cards face up, and he decided to use a deck with no King, and all the rest are jokers.

Then he sat up front and used his public position to lecture everybody else about how to play the game - while ridiculing and condemning those who chose different rules.

No. I have no sympathy for him, nor those who chose to listen to him and to promote him. But, he is not yet dead. He may yet choose life.


29 posted on 02/11/2016 10:42:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: tumblindice; All

My apologies, I misunderstood his objectively accepting people praying for his recovery, as something more than what it was.
You and others are right. There does not appear to have been a deathbed conversion of Mr. Hitchens.

CNN Interview
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgaEYV2BaY


30 posted on 02/11/2016 10:57:32 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: sargon

http://www.examiner.com/article/peter-hitchens-a-story-of-two-atheist-brothers-and-the-one-who-converted


31 posted on 02/11/2016 11:05:32 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Cronos
This is bad news for persons on the right who oppose the Islamization of Europe. Dawkins is one of the few prominent persons on the European left who has stood up against it (as Hitchens did before him). (See the Wikipedia section about his views on Islam.)

"Dawkins has described Islam as 'one of the great evils of the world' and said that it is more problematic than Christianity [that's an admission that's hard to extract from most atheists or even just from persons on the left]." "...there's a kind of close-mindedness which is, I think, less present in the former Christendom..." Also he praised Geert Wilders for opposing the Islamization of the Netherlands -- "...on the strength of Fitna [a film] alone I salute you as a man of courage, who has the balls to stand up to a monstrous enemy".

32 posted on 02/11/2016 11:11:11 PM PST by GJones2 (Dawkins: Health problems and Islamization)
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To: tumblindice; sargon; Cronos

“A lot of us old timers still adhere to one of Hitchen’s sayings: “Claims require evidence. Extraordinary claims require extaordinary evidence.””

That should justify agnosticism not atheism.

There is no incontrovertible evidence that a “god” does not exist. A dyed in the wool atheist lacks “extraordinary evidence” even more so than a born again Christian.


33 posted on 02/11/2016 11:38:28 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Cronos

Wonder how long it takes before he’s on “medical vacation” to get time he won’t get with their crap system?


34 posted on 02/11/2016 11:45:42 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: aquila48
A dyed in the wool atheist lacks “extraordinary evidence” even more so than a born again Christian.

I am of the firm belief that there is more then sufficient "extraordinary" evidence for Christianity and specifically, what Jesus Christ did. One of the first books I studied was Josh McDowell's "Evidence that Demands a Verdict".

We do have extraordinary evidence for an extraordinary God!
35 posted on 02/11/2016 11:55:25 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: adaven

“I hope he has a speedy recovery. Brilliant man.”

Not really.

I’m talking about his science, not faith or lack therein.


36 posted on 02/12/2016 12:07:01 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: tumblindice
Christopher Hitchens remained an atheist to his last breath.

I recommend to you Max Lucado's book Traveling Light in which he makes the point that NO ONE, except the person and God, knows what passes between the dying and God in the last thirty seconds before death. Even if the sinner made no verbal confession, there is always the hope that he or she asked a loving God for forgiveness in those last few seconds before death.

37 posted on 02/12/2016 1:48:45 AM PST by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death,....therefore, choose life..")
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To: Blue Jays
You are thinking of Richard Dawson who died in 2012.
38 posted on 02/12/2016 1:54:13 AM PST by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death,....therefore, choose life..")
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To: Blue Jays

For 5 points, who is this guy?

39 posted on 02/12/2016 2:09:04 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Cronos

Saul was a murderer of Christians before his encounter on the road to Damascus.

Prayers up that Mr. Dawkins stops resisting what he knows in his heart is true. He is a human being in the image of God. May he truly acknowledge that reality.


40 posted on 02/12/2016 2:16:52 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (I am undecided between Carson, Cruz, Rubio & Trump...)
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