[ExI] Tolerance

[Olga Bourlin]

Yep, satire.


But - and this is no satire -  Dawkins is a wuss. ;))



He aligns himself with “cultural Christians,” and even goes along with
singing those treacly, annoying $$$mas carols.  Gads, there’s just no
accounting for some people’s taste.



http://richarddawkins.net/articles/2034


*Pa Ra Pa* Pum Pum!

Olga



On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/8/09, Lee Corbin wrote:
> <snip>
> >  But the strategy of alienating religious people yet further
> >  isn't going to help, except in ways I would not condone.
> >  They shouldn't be given any reason whatsoever to think
> >  that life under the atheists has been as bad as (at many
> >  times) life for us under the religious often was.
> >
> >  Alas, this is surely all wishful thinking on my part.
> >  As soon as we are in the heavy majority, kids will
> >  hear in school from their PC teachers that, so far
> >  as religion goes, "there are the brights who don't
> >  believe, and then, there are the others, less bright,
> >  who do, and sadly some of you in this very class come
> >  from disadvantaged homes..."
> >
> >
> > > obviously I am not for declaring an intellectual war or anything. But I
> do
> > think that atheists need to not be wishy-washy and somehow give the
> > religious the idea we think their ideas about the nature of reality have
> > merit.
> > >
> >
> >  Again, I agree.
> >
>
> This new article seems relevant.........
>
> <
> http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/12/09/dawkins-offers-delusion-removal-service-for-bereaved-and-dying/
> >
>
> Dawkins offers delusion removal service for bereaved and dying
>
> ‘Face Reality Now’, a new ‘delusion removal’ service set up by Richard
> Dawkins, offers the soon to be bereaved an opportunity to confront
> their dying friends and relations with their mortality.
>
> ‘It’s a scandal that people continue to die unaware that really is
> it,’ explained Dr Dawkins. ‘Now, for a small fee, my service will send
> trained atheists to reassure the dying that they can forget about any
> after life nonsense.’
>
> The service also offers a comprehensive after death option in which
> the funeral cortege is followed by men with loudhailers shouting,
> ‘Stop comforting yourself with mumbo-jumbo. For God’s sake, he’s dead
> – deal with it!’
>
> But the Dawkins service has run into difficulties where some friends
> of the dying are believers, but others aren’t. ‘At a recent deathbed
> scene,’ admitted Dr Dawkins, ‘my atheists turned up at the same time
> as a Catholic priest. Things got a bit out of hand with a fight
> breaking out around the dying man. Still, I’m pleased to say ‘Face
> Reality Now’ won.’
> -------------
>
>
> BillK
> (By the way, this is a satirical article)  :)
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