Saturday, August 2, 2014

Dawkins Losing It?

The recent spectacle which Richard Dawkins has made of himself reminds some pundits of an elderly man cursing the clouds while urinating on himself. Dawkins is now taken to the woodshed even by feminists and other Atheists, as he demonstrates his complete loss of contact with rationality right there on twitter (which he can't seem to relinquish even though it is beyond his capabilities). The Friendly Atheist even asks for an intervention in order to save Dawkins from himself, not to mention embarrassing the entire Atheist community.

The Other McCain has a compilation of comments from others on the apparently senescent Dawkins' inability to retire gracefully, and concludes with this:
"Atheism has a teleology — a purpose, an inherent goal — having developed in the West as a means of undermining the social and legal authority of Christian morality. Atheism is therefore not equally hostile to all religious beliefs, nor is it objective in its selection of targets.

People who hate Christianity nowadays declare themselves “atheists” in much the same way as people who hate America once declared themselves “Communists.” For that matter, it’s the same way women who hate men call themselves “feminists.” The claimed label is a means of rationalizing one’s hatred in a self-flattering way, by distinguishing one’s own enlightened sophistication in contrast to those whom one ridicules as ignorant simpletons for their traditional beliefs.
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
Nearly 2,000 years later, this verdict still condemns them."
When one makes up stories for a living, as Dawkins did for evolution, perhaps the distinction between fact and fantasy eventually becomes eradicated completely, at least for some with a confabulatory genetic bent. Were that the case, then that hazard to the rational perceptions could be a proper causal story for Dawkins' behaviors.

5 comments:

Steven Satak said...

Perhaps? Come on, Stan, it was a *requirement* that he suspend reason from Day One. It is the only way he could continue to spew that anti-Christian venom and not get burned himself.

But eventually, as ego forces out the reason, we see the man disintegrate. Of course, the atheists who once worshipped him will call it 'age-related dementia', because in their mechanistic universe, there is nothing but the brain and it does grow old.

But the rest of us can take a look and pray for the man's soul. Christ died for him as well. And he could easily be US if we get to liking hatred too much.

Scorpio said...

Geez,Im searching for a conclusion and reasons supporting it but Dawkins has provided none.All I see are empty assertons followed by false comparisons...like thise one:

People who hate Christianity nowadays declare themselves “atheists” in much the same way as people who hate America once declared themselves “Communists.”

Really? Those muslims who've been hating America all these years were in fact atheists?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

But isn't the one calling them fools,implicitly professing himself as wise?

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Scorpio said...

went over to check for myself the kind of nonsense Dawkins' is spewing.
This is what I found:
Mild Pedophilia is bad but violent pedophilia is worse...
Date rape is bad but a stranger raping at knife point is worse...

Why stop there Dawkins? Violent pedophilia is worse but brutal* pedophila is much worse.

brutal = savagely violent

Stranger raping at knife point is worse but stranger raping at gun point is even worse and stranger raping with a grenade in his hand is much much worse...ad infinitum.

dawkins clearly has a poor grasp of human nature.