A beginner's guide to being an atheist, by Richard Dawkins

[Cypress]

Concise summary of "Outgrowing God", Richard Dawkins2019​

Humans have invented thousands of gods.

The Old Testament is just myths, violence, retribution.

The New Testament is utterly unreliable because the books were written decades or centuries after Jesus' ministry.

Some scholars are skeptical Jesus ever actually existed.

The only sources confirming the historical Jesus outside the canon were Josephus and Tacitus, and Josephus was probably forged by Christians.

The game of telephone proves you can't have reliable transmission of information through multiple generations of people.

Paul barely ever mentions Jesus.

Evolution explains the intricate complexity of life.

Science basically proves there can't be a designer.

Basically all knowledge and truth comes from science.

 

[gmark77]

This upsets you. Good

 

[goat]

Concise summary of "Outgrowing God", Richard Dawkins2019​

Humans have invented thousands of gods.

The Old Testament is just myths, violence, retribution.

The New Testament is utterly unreliable because the books were written decades or centuries after Jesus' ministry.

Some scholars are skeptical Jesus ever actually existed.

The only sources confirming the historical Jesus outside the canon were Josephus and Tacitus, and Josephus was probably forged by Christians.

The game of telephone proves you can't have reliable transmission of information through multiple generations of people.

Paul barely ever mentions Jesus.

Evolution explains the intricate complexity of life.

Science basically proves there can't be a designer.

Basically all knowledge and truth comes from science.

Dawkins made it clear he supports genocidal jews dropping bombs on women and children in Gaza. Not a good look for someone claiming to have a higher knowledge.

 

[gmark77]

Dawkins made it clear he supports genocidal jews dropping bombs on women and children in Gaza. Not a good look for someone claiming to have a higher knowledge.

Where did he say that? Here's a post of his from X:

"The extent of the destruction in Gaza is obscene. Poor people. Poor people who have lost their homes, their relatives, everything."

https://twitter.com/x/status/493148682880307200

View: https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/493148682880307200?lang=en

 

[goat]

Where did he say that? Here's a post of his from X:

"The extent of the destruction in Gaza is obscene. Poor people. Poor people who have lost their homes, their relatives, everything."

https://twitter.com/x/status/493148682880307200

View: https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/493148682880307200?lang=en

Note the date.

 

[Cypress]

This upsets you. Good!

ftfy... I'm reading his book, dummy. If I was upset, I wouldn't have borrowed it from the library.

 

[Cypress]

Dawkins made it clear he supports genocidal jews dropping bombs on women and children in Gaza. Not a good look for someone claiming to have a higher knowledge.

He's made clear that for all his atheist posturing, he much prefers living in a Christian country, and he has a deep-seated revulsion against Islam.

 

[goat]

He's made clear that for all his atheist posturing, he much prefers living in a Christian country, and he has a deep-seated revulsion against Islam.

Dawkins showed his prejudice on the meaning of a jew state. He couldn't peddle his divisiveness without white suburban Christians.

 

[Into the Night]

Concise summary of "Outgrowing God", Richard Dawkins2019​

Humans have invented thousands of gods.

The Old Testament is just myths, violence, retribution.

The New Testament is utterly unreliable because the books were written decades or centuries after Jesus' ministry.

Some scholars are skeptical Jesus ever actually existed.

The only sources confirming the historical Jesus outside the canon were Josephus and Tacitus, and Josephus was probably forged by Christians.

The game of telephone proves you can't have reliable transmission of information through multiple generations of people.

Paul barely ever mentions Jesus.

Evolution explains the intricate complexity of life.

Science basically proves there can't be a designer.

Basically all knowledge and truth comes from science.

Science is not a religion. Science is not a proof. Science is not 'knowledge and truth'.
You are not an atheist. Richard Dawkins is not an atheist.

 

[Into the Night]

Where did he say that? Here's a post of his from X:

"The extent of the destruction in Gaza is obscene. Poor people. Poor people who have lost their homes, their relatives, everything."

They started a war and lost. Gaza's problems are self inflicted.

 

[Into the Night]

He's made clear that for all his atheist posturing, he much prefers living in a Christian country, and he has a deep-seated revulsion against Islam.

Richard Dawkins is not an atheist. He is a fundamentalist.

 

[gmark77]

ftfy... I'm reading his book, dummy. If I was upset, I wouldn't have borrowed it from the library.

Yet still you fume

 

[Cypress]

Your threads make me fume!

ftfy
You only read things that you already know you're going to agree with.

That's a shitty way to learn a subject.

The reason I know more about atheism than most atheists, and more about religion than most Bible thumpers is because I keep an open mind and read both reputable atheists and legitimate Christian apologists.

 

[Cypress]

You are not an atheist! Richard Dawkins is not an atheist!

You seem to be neglecting your psychiatric medications again.

 

[goat]

ftfy
You only read things that you already know you're going to agree with.

That's a shitty way to learn a subject.

The reason I know more about atheism than most atheists, and more about religion than most Bible thumpers is because I keep an open mind and read both reputable atheists and legitimate Christian apologists.

Dawkins comes from a long line of British pompous pricks who refuse to dig below the Clovis point. They bastardized science with a white supremacist bias.

With that said, there a new video on quantum fluctuation you may enjoy so if interested go to Youtube and search The Mystery of Time | Through the Wormhole | Science Channel.

It's the only thing keeping string theory alive.

 

[Cypress]

Dawkins comes from a long line of British pompous pricks who refuse to dig below the Clovis point. They bastardized science with a white supremacist bias.

With that said, there a new video on quantum fluctuation you may enjoy so if interested go to Youtube and search The Mystery of Time | Through the Wormhole | Science Channel.

It's the only thing keeping string theory alive.

I think Dawkins is under-equiped to be a leading atheist spokesperson for science.

He's just a zoologist. He doesn't have any expert training or education in the fundamental physical and biological sciences. He doesn't understand physics and cosmology, and he doesn't seem to have any formal education in cellular biology and biochemistry. Those are the core scientific disciplines that allow one to speak authoritatively about life, the universe, and everything.

 

[goat]

I think Dawkins is under-equiped to be a leading atheist spokesperson for science.

He's just a zoologist. He doesn't have any expert training or education in the fundamental physical and biological sciences. He doesn't understand physics and cosmology, and he doesn't seem to have any formal education in cellular biology and biochemistry. Those are the core scientific disciplines that allow one to speak authoritatively about life, the universe, and everything.

It's good to be chatting with you again.

 

[Into the Night]

ftfy
You only read things that you already know you're going to agree with.

That's a shitty way to learn a subject.

The reason I know more about atheism than most atheists, and more about religion than most Bible thumpers is because I keep an open mind and read both reputable atheists and legitimate Christian apologists.

You don't even know what atheism is.

 

[Into the Night]

You seem to be neglecting your psychiatric medications again.

I am not Sybil.

 

[Into the Night]

Dawkins comes from a long line of British pompous pricks who refuse to dig below the Clovis point. They bastardized science with a white supremacist bias.

With that said, there a new video on quantum fluctuation you may enjoy so if interested go to Youtube and search The Mystery of Time | Through the Wormhole | Science Channel.

It's the only thing keeping string theory alive.

Science can't be 'bastardized'. String theory is not science.