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   From: zzz.zzz@qqq.net   
      
   Reaper G wrote:   
   > On Aug 5, 5:26 pm, Alan Ford  wrote:   
   >> Reaper G wrote:   
   >>>> Maybe it was you that I was inadvertantly referring to when I said that   
   >>>> someone here didn't like him. I'm probably more in the Dawkins camp than   
   >>>> the God camp. You may be less in the God camp than seemed to be the case   
   in   
   >>>> your post, and merely object to Dawkins being an activist as much as the   
   >>>> next religious crackpot. In a way, he's very similar.   
   >>> That's exactly it, and it's my main problem with militant atheists   
   >>> like him. I have no problem with someone not believing in God, but I   
   >>> have a problem with hypocritical know-it-alls who act like the very   
   >>> people they say they dislike. Dawkins is no different from Ted Haggard   
   >>> or Osama Bin Laden in that regard.   
   >> Huh! So Dawkins, much like Haggard, actively advocated denying civil   
   >> rights to the same minority that, it turns out, he himself belongs to?   
   >> He waged war and is responsible for killing thousands of people who do   
   >> not share his narrow interpretation of which god and how has to be followed?   
   >> Yes, Dawkins is exactly like Haggard and Bin Laden. If you're a moron.   
   >>   
   >> What's that? Oh, I see, Dawkins is a "know-it-all"? This is the best you   
   >> can come up with?   
   >>   
   >>> There is no reason that science and religion cannot coexist.   
      
   ??? What the fuck does have to do with anything? This is a totally banal   
   statement and irrelevant to anything that's been said so far.   
      
   There is also no reason that astronomy and synchronized swimming cannot   
   exist either.   
      
   Your phony refutation of an imaginary false dichotomy notwithstanding,   
   science and scientists have no problem with religion, as long as it   
   doesn't interfere with their work. Unfortunately, religion has a long   
   and sorry history of interfering with the scientific thought, from way   
   before Bruno and Galileo to Darwin to stem cell research.   
      
   >> The only reason any atheist ever bothers to respond to the   
   >> ever-increasingly pushy, aggressive, illiterate, socially, morally and   
   >> scientifically backwards claims of religionists and theists is in   
   >> response to the highly detrimental effects that religion has on the   
   >> whole society, from overt and covert work against human rights to   
   >> religiously inspired wars and genocide and enormous waste of resources.   
   >   
   > In other words, it's frequently a gut reaction to 9/11 and the   
   > Religious Right instead of an actual intellectual process. Gotcha.   
      
   ??? How old are you? Jesus Fucking Assballs Christ, discussing anything   
   with you hurts more than being kicked in the balls. Shit, I hate the   
   deliberately stupid people. Go read a book or two instead of just   
   watching stupid shit like South Park.   
      
      
      
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