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Atheists behaving badly: the Dawkinsgate fiasco

February 25, 2010

Before commenting on the – well fiasco doesn’t seem to strong a word, but let’s be more neutral away from the headline and say – kerfuffle at Richard Dawkins’ official site, let me point you to some posts dealing with it.

The man himself is outraged
But so is one of the seemingly dismissed moderators.
Ruth Gledhill comments [...]

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Stoking Popophobia with dodgy figures?

February 3, 2010

For some reason the National Sanderson Society have costed Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain at £20 million. This figure has now been picked up elsewhere. It is cited not only by their fellow-travellers, but Terry Secular’s figure seems to be quoted in various press reports without any sense it might be dubious.
The trouble is, I [...]

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Richard Dawkins: “Oh, the cleverness of me”

January 29, 2010

“Oh, the cleverness of me” is, of course, a quotation from that exemplar of immature arrogance, Peter Pan, who really can’t quite cope with emotions, and endlessly defers the complexity of growing up. It struck me looking at this extraordinary piece in the (London) Times, that it’s remarkably appropriate as a summary of so much [...]

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Enjoying Eagleton’s delicious dismemberment of Ditchkins

January 25, 2010

I’m currently reading Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith and Revolution and finding its acid acuity and delightfully phrased polemics a sheer joy. Here are just a couple of quotations from what I’ve read so far. In the first (pp37-38) you can hear the scornful hauteur of the unrepentant Marxist for the bourgeosie.

The trouble with the Dawkinses [...]

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Dawkins playing irreligious politics with Haiti

January 18, 2010

Daniel McClellan reports an email he’s received:

It is widely imagined that, in times of crisis, religious people render aid in disproportion to their numbers. Richard Dawkins has now created an opportunity for non-believers to put the lie to this myth

It’s worth reading the whole of Daniel’s post for his analysis.
According to Dawkins’ site:

When donating via [...]

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Simon Holloway and the Humpty-Dumpty approach to atheism

November 23, 2009

Simon Holloway posts a very interesting piece on why he doesn’t regard himself, or wish to be regarded by others as an atheist. In the process he makes some interesting observations about the narrative nature of “God” in the Tanakh.
I think, by the way, he is wrong in calling beliefs about a God or gods [...]

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When prayers stop blogging atheists from thinking

October 16, 2009

Sometimes blogging leads otherwise sensible and rational people into irrationally insensible statements. One came today from Simon Holloway (who then drew Chris Weimer into his rant in a comment).
It all started when John Hobbins posted about the Sheffield University U-turn on closing its undergraduate Biblical Studies. In his post he included some comments from Facebook [...]

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A few more appreciative words for atheism

October 7, 2009

I start by putting several different things together. First from two comments on this post yesterday:

(David Keen) There’s also room for “Yes, but what I mean by ‘God’ isn’t what you mean by ‘God’ ” The Theos research on Darwin earlier in the year indicated that about 1/3 of theists believe that God is the [...]

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Vandalising ads for the Alpha course

October 7, 2009
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An ad for the Alpha course on a billboard I see on one of my main journey routes has been vandalised.

I must confess that my initial reaction was that this atheist had been either a) athletic or b) drunk to have risked filling in this particular billboard. I’m intrigued to note that something similar has [...]

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Is atheism a scientific movement?

October 5, 2009

There’s an interesting kerfuffle that had rather passed me by among some humanists / atheists / secularists (delete according to taste / applicability). I didn’t even know there was an Atheist Alliance International, but apparently they’ve been causing a stir by giving their Richard Dawkins award to Bill Maher for Religulous.
The New Humanist post linked [...]

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