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or it could be that they feel responsible for the life they created.
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Edit: If I were an employer with a majority Christian workforce, I may roll my eyes and be less disposed to employ someone who wore this:
Watched a Dawkin's documentary and found it quite squirm-inducing as he pompously tried to put the boot in Cistercian monks suggesting they wasted their life in quite spiritual contemplation.
Sorry but I don't see these guys taxing the planets resources too much, compared to many, they appear to be doing very little harm to anyone. What's wrong with contemplating everything even if it is contained within a rather rigid monotheism?
There are many academics who devote their entire careers to subjects that are so narrow in focus and have very little application outside of their academic circle - but I'm guessing Dawkins wouldn't have an issue with that?
The patronizing way he spoke about a street cleaner from India accepting that his job was futile. Richard ultimately most people's jobs are pretty futile. A top surgeons job is futile as he/she is only postponing the inevitable.
I actually used to have a lot of time for Dawkins when he first appeared but his arrogance these days is horrendous. I also find it quite nauseating the toadying from Gervais and Izzard.
Swifty said:He is capable of self depreciating humour though
Or having a fling with that Selfish Jean...he really is the deville's champagne, you knowAnd he needs to stop having sexy time with Satanic Monk-eyes ...
Swifty said "Satanic Monk-eyes", probably a reference to RD's wife, Lalla Ward:Sex with satanic monkeys?
This is when the Dawk is at his best. Apart from that seven point scale of belief from The God Delusion. That's drivel that continues to make new atheist bloggers and tweeters look like twonks.
When he's at his worst is when he tries to convince that religion is the main source of evil in humanity, in spite of two world wars in one century that had no realistic connection with religion.
Swifty said "Satanic Monk-eyes", probably a reference to RD's wife, Lalla Ward:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Ward
But within those two wars were Holocausts where people were massacred because of their religions by those of opposing religions.
Christian Armenians massacred by Islamic Turks in WW1.
Jews massacred by Christian Germans, Ukrainians & Balts in WW2.
But within those two wars were Holocausts where people were massacred because of their religions by those of opposing religions.
Christian Armenians massacred by Islamic Turks in WW1.
Jews massacred by Christian Germans, Ukrainians & Balts in WW2.
Of those two only the Armenian genocide could be said to be primarily based on religion.
Quake42 said:The Nazis' antipathy towards the Jews was based on race, not religion, which is why non-practising Jews and Christians who happened to have Jewish ancestry were also targeted. The Nazis were at best nominally Christian in any event - some hankered after old-school Teutonic paganism, and Hitler expressed admiration for Islam which he saw as a much more warlike faith.
Oh, cheers!excellent stuff PeteByrdie - need a double like button
Yeah, I think it's about time we rounded those infidels up and exterminated them!Rangers fans do tend to be cross-eyed and have receding foreheads though.
Yeah, I think it's about time we rounded those infidels up and exterminated them!