[ExI] Tolerance

[Post Futurist]

Christmas is quite silly, but most of its effluvia has more taste than, say, porn; which is no longer shocking for its sexuality, but for its general unimaginative tastelessness. As rote, stylized as Christmas. One silliness is traded for another.
Secular culture isn't much of an improvement over the religious. People want to be young at heart, however they end up being silly in the head instead.



--- On Wed, 12/9/09, Olga Bourlin <olga.bourlin at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Olga Bourlin <olga.bourlin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Tolerance
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 6:28 PM







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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