I urge everyone and I mean EVERYONE to take just under one half hour out of their lives to watch this video. If you already are an atheist or agnostic, it will galvanize you. If you are a "believer" of some sort, Dawkins states the case for atheism here far more eloquently than I am capable of doing. I am a MILITANT ATHEIST. I will not back down, I
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Actually, I'm not being trite, but I apologize if I came off sounding that way. I'm talking about the way any scientist who writes pop-culture books seems to let his/her standards slip alarmingly when they stray out of their own field. (Carl Sagan was the same way, according to my dad, who knew and liked him but thought his later, non-astophysics-related books, weren't up to par.) Dawkins is a fine geneticist. But a theologian/religious historian he's not. I found The Selfish Gene interesting, but The God Delusion was so slanted, riddled with errors, and full of axe-grinding I couldn't get through it. :/
I actually thought I was alone in the universe in finding Dawkins annoying, but recently Jessica Crispin of bookslut revealed that she feels similarly. [Link.I think it's his "if you believe differently than I do, you're wrong ( ... )
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i just wonder why the begrudge me something that, with my medical issues, keeps me from killing myself and instead helps me be a useful member of society.
i vote pro choice, pro sane gun laws, pro science, pro separation of church and state.
so why are some people so hell-bent (for lack of a better off the top of my head term) on getting me to believe differently than I do?
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And honestly, do you really feel that faith in something supernatural is the only thing that makes you a "useful member of society"?
no. but it is my faith in something bigger than me that gets me out of bed and keeps me from offing myself when the pain gets too bad and gets me to work in whatever capacity I can, thereby allowing me to earn money and spend it, keeping the economy going.
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And to the guy who said: "Personally, I can't see man as being the ultimate being" Me either. I don't believe there is such a thing as an "ultimate being" but I do think there are likely far more advanced beings out there than us. Hopefully, someday we as a species will get a chance to meet some of them.
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