Richard Dawkins - Anti -Christ or Great Thinker?

Brrrrrr what happened to that boy

http://www.duhaime.org/Portals/duhaime/images/Bentham_head.jpg

seriously fucked up lighting for that dawkins portrait

Men who look like old lesbians iirc

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119596/appetite-wonder-review-closed-mind-richard-dawkins"> brutal takedown

Unlike the best of the colonial administrators, some of whom were deeply versed in the languages and histories of the peoples they ruled, Dawkins displays no interest in the cultures of the African countries where he lived as a boy. It is the obedient devotion of those who served his family that has remained in his memory.

Ouch.

I am glad a fellow atheist is compelled to eviscerate him so fully

One might wager a decent sum of money that it has never occurred to Dawkins that to many people he appears as a comic figure. His default mode is one of rational indignation—a stance of withering patrician disdain for the untutored mind of a kind one might expect in a schoolmaster in a minor public school sometime in the 1930s. He seems to have no suspicion that any of those he despises could find his stilted pose of indignant rationality merely laughable. “I am not a good observer,” he writes modestly. He is referring to his observations of animals and plants, but his weakness applies more obviously in the case of humans. Transfixed in wonderment at the workings of his own mind, Dawkins misses much that is of importance in human beings—himself and others.

https://www.facebook.com/nightwish/posts/10154745049630068

waiting for Dick to get on the gamergate parade float

damm liberal gotcha social media

facebook comments... yikes

who the fuck are "nightwish"?

Malcolm Xavier I dont know if Tuomas reads this or not but I just wanted to say that my whole family loved Nightwish and was planning to go to their San Francisco show on April 28th after buying their new CD but this news has changed everything. As a Christian fan of Nightwish, I feel like we have wasted money and been slapped in the face by them doing a song with someone so angry toward Christians and theists in general. This is essentially like what a black person would feel like if their idol did a song with a KKK member. I just hope you know that you are alienating your Christian fans...and believe me, you have a lot of them.

Tarja > Floor > Anette > Dawkins

Christians who think Dawkins is the antichrist? Sounds like Dawkins won :(

If you take him at face value that's a loss

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Didn't expect that reference

i'm genuinely surprised it's only been a year since the honey tweet, it feels like way longer.

Dawkins' response to the events in Paris today? To retweet a BNP follower because it's anti-Muslim.

He really is just an embarrassment to the very concept of thought these days.

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@RichardDawkins: beam erotic videos to theocracies? NOT violent, woman-hating porn but loving, gentle, woman-respecting eroticism.

@RichardDawkins @Amanda_Martin_ Thank you. I've deleted it. People seemed to just see "porn" and not see that I was suggesting NON-porn erotica.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A dog & bitch in full 69 off the shoulder of Orion...

He was almost killed by god (misleading URL, by the way)

https://richarddawkins.net/2015/05/letter-from-brazil-part-2-got-in-a-fight-with-a-creationist/

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Dawkins taking offence at Cage's 4'33" on Twitter today. What a guy.

lol I gotta see this

never noticed his twitter bio before: "Dislikes pretentious obscurantism."

has anyone written on the phenomenon of twitter making it impossible to take certain public intellectuals seriously anymore? the list keeps growing.

I’d rather be dismissed as philistine than a gullible fool

classic paranoia of the fuddled churl

Do performances of 4'33" often have these tension-breaking moments, like the conductor wiping sweat off his forehead?

I get the sense it's as much about experiencing collective awkwardness as silence.

Science cunts often don't get things it's weird

Does anybody ever try to defend this guy? I'm not going to btw.

My friends were defending him last night!

They were unaware of a lot of his shittest statements tbf

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/09/is-richard-dawkins-destroying-his-reputation

xp so that's why you're hungover today, understandable

selfish gene is an excellent book btw

absolutely! that's the tragedy of his internet incarnation

I was wondering just now, has he ever come up with e.g. a proposal for a new, more efficient kind of tractor? Does he get involved in/promote green energy and so on? Does he ever advise ppl how to approach their life problems in a reasonable manner?

Lawrence Krauss seems almost dumber than Dawkins

Like, his pushing of rationalism as a lifestyle leads to him saying all kinds of awful stuff but would that be redeemed if he was also capable of coming up with practical, helpful contributions?

selfish gene is an excellent book btw

He did write it 40 years ago though. But, yes, at least he wrote that.

oh sure, i just brought it up because there was an invitation to defend him

i met him a couple of times as an undergrad. he seemed already v febrile, but without twitter he was less strident.

@RichardDawkins Jul 17
A pleasure to be invited to @JulianAssange_'s birthday party in the Ecuadorian Embassy where he is confined.

Bet that party's going to be a fucking barrel of laughs.

My favourite Dawkins-on-Twitter exchange:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/553558509770801154

this one is pretty great too https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/489474739942207490

when will he address this crucial question?