[ExI] Tolerance

[moulton at moulton.com]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:38 -0500, Brent Neal wrote:
  In answer to some other poster, while  
> Dawkins did not coin the term "Brights," the God Delusion, amongst his  
> other writings -including several essays at least one of which was  
> published in John Brockman's Edge essay series, does very much espouse  
> the childish "hur hur" sort of argument. By Dawkins' arguments, the  
> religious is a sign of moral and intellectual inferiority.  I have  
> very little patience for that sort of name calling.
 
So now we have someone who has admitted that Dawkins did not coin the term "Brights".  I also asked for a specific citation about what Dawkins is alleged to have said.  However instead of a specific citation all we are given is something vague which borders on hand waving.  The most substantial part of it refers to the Edge essay series so I went to that website and as far as I can tell there are about nine items on that site which are in whole or in part attributable to Dawkins.  So please give the specific URL or essay title and quote the paragraph where Dawkins says: 
> > ("Hur hur hur if you believe in God you're stupid, so we're going
> > to call atheists 'Brights'!  Get it? Huh? Hur hur hur.")

If a specific citation can be provided that Dawkins said the above then I am quite willing to admit it and if a citation can not be produced then those who make the allegation need to retract it.

Fred