Richard Dawkins Compares Ted Haggard's Church to a Nuremberg Rally
Root of All Evil - Part 1
Root of All Evil - Part 2
Richard Dawkins Destroys Students from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University
Many of the questioners announced themselves as either students or faculty from Liberty, rather than from Randolph Macon which was my host institution. One by one they tried to trip me up, and one by one their failure to do so was applauded by the audience. Finally, I said that my advice to all Liberty students was to resign immediately and apply to a proper university instead. That received thunderous applause, so that I almost began to feel slightly sorry for the Liberty people. Only almost and only slightly, however.
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I was surprised to see a Richard Dawkins diary on the recommended list because Daily Kos is rather disappointing when it comes to religion. Plenty of liberals are more than willing to defend ridiculous myths.
Religious tolerance is a terrible idea. We are tolerant of race and sexual orientation, but religion does not belong under this tent. Irrational beliefs should be ridiculed, not respected. There's no such thing as scientific tolerance, evolutionary tolerance, or finding life saving cures by stem cell research tolerance. Religion has gotten a free pass for far too long.
I spent my entire childhood in a rural area of Kansas. As a young boy at St. Mary's Catholic School, I studied topics like Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, the virgin birth, the death and resurrection, how to get to heaven, and how to avoid hell. As a child, I didn't have the capacity to think critically. I believed because the adults around me believed.
"Innocent children are being saddled with demonstrable falsehoods. It's time to question the abuse of childhood innocence with superstitious ideas of hellfire and damnation." - Richard Dawkins
Only 1 in 12 people leave the religion of their parents. Becoming an atheist was not something that happened overnight. It was a 10-year deconditioning process. The family tradition of never missing Sunday Mass served as constant brainwashing. Atheism has been a long, however refreshing road.
I really can't stand the idea of moderate Christians. Children learn by watching. Do you believe that a brutally murdered man can come back to life after three days? If you go to a church that believes this, children are watching you. You're an integral part of a never-ending circle that conditions children to believe in myths. If you don't believe in the resurrection of Jesus, you are not a Christian.
It's sad that an atheist cannot be elected to public office. I suspect that many of our elected officials are in the closet about their atheism. Atheists are America's least trusted group, rating lower than Muslims, recent immigrants, and homosexuals.
Other sites of interest:
Why does God hate amputees?.
Do you believe God can heal the sick? Why won't God grow back limbs?
An Atheist Manifesto by Sam Harris