Richard Dawkins, I love, love LOVE you!!!!

[shayenne]

Oh boy, oh boy!!!

Dawkins wants to arrest the pope when he visits Britain.

*falls at Dawkins' feet and kisses them*

Comments

[shayenne]

I doubt it will go all the way, but there is a chance that proceedings will issue. Britain has laws that allow this -- it's how Pinochet (sp?) the Chilean dictator was arrested in Britain for crimes against humanity when he visited in 1990something.

Personally, I don't think that public opinion is sufficiently unbiased to see the pope as the leader of an institution that officially sanctioned pedophilia... YET. There are still too many people whiffling on about the good of the church.

I liken it to war crimes. At the time war crimes take place, public opinion and the people who perpatrate them claim it's the only way forward, and they had to (gun down journalists, slaughter Bosnians etc) but history has a way of putting things in perspective, and I am very sure that the pope and his pedophile priests will eventually stand very public trial.

So, while I doubt we'll see the pope behind bars (oh, how I wish!), Dawkin's legal stand is a good way of saying things as they are, without the blinds of the church polluting the scene.

[audabee]

Yesterday, the guy I work with asked me if I knew of Richard Dawkins. I replied that I wanted to have his baby. Well, long story short, he (my colleague) told me that Richard Dawkins had been interviewed by some fundie "scientist" (a contradiction in terms) and had been so overwhelmed by the creationist logic that he had been cornered into saying that it must've been aliens, not god, that had made everything. My friend told me he'd seen it and that it happened exactly that way. I said I didn't think so or that he was joking. No, my friend insisted, he'd seen the interview and that Dawkins knows that it was god. He then went on to explain how evolution was wrong and that it was impossible for anything other than an intelligent designer to have been responsible

[shayenne]

This is Brainiac who said this?!?!?!? Or someone else?

Nope, don't believe Dawkins said that for a nanosecond. Fundie article distorted it.

I'd love to hear how your engineer friend can explain how the world is 6000 years old without using the word "god".

[audabee]

Good heavens, no, not Brainiac. He's much too sensible.

No, my engineer friend, who is otherwise quite sensible, believes that the earth is 6000 years old, that things that supposedly happened 2000 years ago justify anything that Israel does now (documented happily in the "magic book"), that evolution is a "myth", the rapture will happen and that Richard Dawkins is the antichrist. I will admit that I was totally gobsmacked yesterday by his assertions.

[shayenne]

So glad it's not Brainiac!!!

How can otherwise sane people believe in this shite? (generally while banging on about the shiteiness of other people's magic books?)

Does your lunatic friend have pets? If so, you can sign him up for http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

(Actually, I think you and I should start the Aussie franchise. :)) Your friend could be our first customer.

[pook41]

Wouldn't that be great? But he's got Buckley's chance of it happening.

[shayenne]

I very much doubt it will come to pass *g*, but there IS a chance it might start. The same law that got the Chilean dictator, Pinochet (sp?) arrested when he visited Blighty might apply here too. And the Vatican isn't a country recognised by the UN so he has no special exemptions.

*grins madly*

[audabee]

He deserves it, the bastard (if what has been reported is true, of course).

[shayenne]

If they can make Peter Garrett step down because of the foil-insulation installations that fried a few people, then surely the pope is accountable too.

Peter Garrett was made to step down yet he didn't climb into every roof space and check the insulation. The pope was a lot more hands on *g* than Peter Garrett.