Posted on 08/11/2013 9:23:29 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Professor Richard Dawkins, known as the world’s most famous atheist, has risen to rock star status for his attacks on God and religion, in particular, his attacks on the God of the Bible. But when he recently criticized Muslims, he was in for a surprise.
Before looking at Dawkins’ rather mild criticism of Muslims, let’s remember the depth of his vitriol against Christians and the Bible, most of which has only enhanced Dawkins’ reputation.
In an April interview aired on the Qatar-based TV network Al Jazeera, Dawkins railed on the Catholic Church, saying that, as “Horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was [suffered by some children at the hands of deviant priests], the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place.”
Was Dawkins really serious? The interviewer, Mehdi Hasan asked: “You believe that being bought up as a Catholic is worse than being abused by a priest?”
Dawkins replied: “There are shades of being abused by a priest, and I quoted an example of a woman in America who wrote to me saying that when she was seven years old she was sexually abused by a priest in his car.
“At the same time a friend of hers, also seven, who was of a Protestant family, died, and she was told that because her friend was Protestant she had gone to Hell and will be roasting in Hell forever.
“She told me of those two abuses, she got over the physical abuse; it was yucky but she got over it. But the mental abuse of being told about Hell, she took years to get over.”
Did non-Christians take offense at these outrageous comments about Catholics and Protestants? Hardly. This was considered vintage Dawkins.
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Dawkins resorted to the notion of space aliens when confronted with the lack of time required for the complexity of our earth.
The amazing part of the interview was when Dawkins not only postulated that earth may have been seeded by conjectured space aliens, but he stated flatly that THEY had evolved. So, even though he has not a shred of proof of their existence, they MUST have evolved. In that one assertion Dawkins proved irrevocably that his views on evolution are not based on fact, but are merely a religious belief.
Of course, Muslims and Dawkins both serve the same god.
He sells books.
That is what his atheism is all about.
If someone has faith that 2+2=5, and you bully them until they have faith that 2+2=4, what have you achieved?
I prefer spending my efforts on people who understand that 2+2=4.
LOL What the heck is this? A professor of propoganda?
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