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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2006,10:49   

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The suicide bomber is convinced that in killing for his God he will be fast tracked to a special martyr’s heaven. This isn’t just a problem of Islam. In this program I want to examine that dangerous thing that’s common to Judaism and Christianity as well. The process of non-thinking called faith. I’m a scientist [well, actually, I just talk about science these days] and I believe there is a profound contradiction between science and religious belief.

Did Dawkins say this or did Dembski insert it?

If so, he has sooooo much room to talk.

I'm William Dembski. I'm a scientist [well, I'm not really and never was, but I write books and pretend to be talking about science when I'm really talking about religion maquerading as pseudo-science masquerading as science.]



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“He refers to evangelicalism as ‘an American Taliban.’”

This is language abuse. No American Evangelicals are calling for establishment of a state religion (compare Dawkins’ U.K. where they’ve had a state religion for centuries), public beatings of women for immodesty, mandatory wearing of burkhas, public beheadings for adultery or religious conversion, the destruction of other faiths’ monuments, harboring of terrorists, etc.

If people who are known by their neighbors to be ordinary, decent folk are also “like the Taliban”, then being a Taliban is either okay, or Dawkins is recklessly slandering millions of people and depleting the word “Taliban” of it’s powerful connotations.

Comment by russ — May 21, 2006 @ 7:22 am

Have I been dreaming for the past 6 years? Isn't that what they keep harping about? And I'm sure Dawkins is a huge supporter of the state church in England.  ???

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Has Dawkins never heard of the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Kampuchea, Hitler’s Germany? Every one of these regimes was militantly atheistic – i.e., they had the same faith commitment to metaphysical naturalism that Dawkins does.

bzzzt, try again. Hitler was militantly militant. He used Christianity as an excuse, just like Dubya. He never ever spoke for atheism or against Christianity. He spoke out about Jews and homosexuals and blacks, much like another Christian Organization with a familiar abbreviation.

But again, religion was only a tool for power for all these people. The communist ones saw religion as the "opiate of the masses" because if the people were under the control of religion they couldn't be under the control of the state. For Hitler, religion was a divisive tool (sound familiar) intended to point out the enemy within, the Jew, who killed Christ and all that.

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It would be a neat experiment though- go back in time and stop all religions from originating- then see what happens.

They would spring up again. Not in the same form, but similar.

Well, gotta go.

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