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Thread #147007   Message #3409192
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-Sep-12 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Belief in Evolution vs. National Wealth
Subject: RE: BS: Belief in Evolution vs. National Wealth
Obviously, you aren't familiar with Christopher Hitchens, so the best I can do is to paste this quote:

"Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford and a friend of Hitchens, said, "I think he was one of the greatest orators of all time. He was a polymath, a wit, immensely knowledgeable, and a valiant fighter against all tyrants including imaginary supernatural ones."


I am very familiar with him, and have had his book "God Is Not Great" since it came out. "Obviously" my arse! You appear not to have read it, because, if you had, if you think I'm a bit sharp on the atheist front you wouldn't care much for him, as he makes me look like a cuddly bloody bunny. Dawkins also advises people like you to avoid taking Hitchens on. You failed to mention that. You'd be mauled!   

Judging by your posts, you are what the literary types among us would call an unreliable narrator--contrary to your statement, you snap at nearly anything that moves, you are rude, and, unless I have misread, you do tell " people there's no God."

What absolute tommy-rot, Mr Literary-Type (prove it, you pompous git!) I snap at nothing but provide measured responses (I know how annoying that must seem to guys like you who are looking for the faintest excuse to pounce on us heathens!) And not once, ever, have I told anyone that there's no God. For a literary type, you do appear to struggle with plain English, if I may say so.

As for me, you have no idea what I believe, or if, in fact, I believe anything.

Well you haven't actually said, but it isn't hard to work out. Be like me. Come out!

As to what I tell my children, though I am under no obligation to account any of that to you

Please yourself, but you do appear to be shuffling rather uncomfortably.

I will share two things:

1) When someone, no matter how important, tells you they are right, it doesn't mean that they are.

2) When you think you're right, it doesn't mean that you are.


So I see you have a degree in the Bleedin' Obvious from the University Of Plain As The Nose On Your Face. You're an astonishing chap, no doubt about it!