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Thread #152125   Message #3559189
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
16-Sep-13 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
This is too rich to ignore.


"I still maintain that the labeling of "militant atheism" is a weapon used by religious folk who have little substantive "faith" in their respective religions otherwise they wouldn't be so defensive and use derogatory labels. "

Transcript for Richard Dawkins on militant atheism

http://dotsub.com/view/76cca510-aaf5-47cd-a9cb-c0c3afaa74fe/viewTranscript/eng

"No, what I want to urge upon you -- (Laughter) -- instead what I want to urge upon you is militant atheism." - Richard Dawkins from his TED talk.

Darwin said, "I have never been an atheist in the same sense of denying the existence of a God. I think that generally an 'agnostic' would be the most correct description of my state of mind."

He even became uncharacteristically tetchy with Edward Aveling. Aveling was a militant atheist who failed to persuade Darwin to accept the dedication of his book on atheism.

- Richard Dawkins from his TED talk.

Since Dawkins uses the phrase in public fora, Stringsinger just admitted that Mr. Dawkins is

"religious folk who have little substantive "faith" in their respective religions"

So according to Stringsinger what Mr. Dawkins preaches is not only a religion but Even Dawkins himself does not really believe it.

I'm pretty sure that admission pretty much wipes out every point that Stringsinger has so far tried to make about religion.