The Insulting Richard Dawkins

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This is probably going to be the most simplest one for you to answer, but what if you're wrong?

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Well, what if I'm wrong? I mean, anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong about the flying spaghetti monster and the pink unicorn and the flying teapot.

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You happen to have been brought up, I would presume, in the Christian faith. You know what it's like not to believe in a particular faith because you're not a

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Muslim. You're not a Hindu. Why aren't you a Hindu? Because you happen to have been brought up in America, not in India.

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If you'd been brought up in India, you'd be a Hindu. If you were brought up in Denmark in the time of the

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Vikings, you'd be believing in Wotan and Thor. If you were brought up in classical

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Greece, you'd be believing in Zeus. If you were brought up in central Africa, you'd be believing in the great

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Juju up the mountain. There's no particular reason to pick on the Judeo -Christian

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God in which, by the sheerest accident, you happen to have been brought up and ask me the question,

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What if I'm wrong? What if you're wrong about the great Juju at the bottom of the sea? I have a real hard time understanding why people think

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Richard Dawkins is a deep thinker, a great thinker.

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That clip was insulting. Not only insulting to Christians.

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I mean, that's a given. He wants to be insulting to Christians. That's how he gets his followers. But that was insulting to the young lady.

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That was insulting to the audience. That was insulting to anyone who gives any level of deep thought to the issues of theism at all.

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And it really makes you wonder, why does Richard Dawkins think that that's even an answer?

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He clearly does not care if Christian intellectuals find his arguments absolutely absurd.

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They are not even a part of his audience. He's not even trying to deal with them.

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Here is a man who specifically has as his audience the low -hanging fruit.

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People who have no idea what their faith is. Nominal Christians. This man is only concerned about nominal

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Christians. People who are just brought up in a religion. The flying spaghetti monster.

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Unicorns. The flying teapot. These are supposed to have some bearing on the

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Christian God who is self -existent and eternal. And all of the issues that go into the relationship between creator and creation.

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The flying spaghetti monster has within himself a rational explanation for how creation arises.

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And the origin and source of the regularity of scientific laws. Really? He says to the young lady, she happened to have been brought up Christian.

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In his world, evidently, no one actually chooses to be Christian. He says, if you had been born here, you'd be such and so.

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That wouldn't have gone over very well with Dennis D'Souza, huh? Or anyone who was raised in a

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Hindu area or a Muslim area and who is now a Christian. That really wouldn't go over well there, but he seems to try to get away with these things.

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Because he knows, as you can see by the reaction of the mind -numbed audience that's just looking for red meat to be thrown to them.

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Oh, that's a great response! That was one of the most irrational, insulting, shallow, ridiculous responses

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I've ever heard from anyone who claims to be an intellectual at all. But he gets away with it.

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Just like Hitchens gets away with it. Because people don't think about these things. They don't think about the parameters of the discussion.

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So they can recognize just how fallacious the responses offered by these atheists are.

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Not once did he actually respond to her question. Her question was meant to get him to reflect upon what if there is a

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God? How would an atheist respond? He could have gone someplace with that if he had wanted to.

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Instead, all he provides is this pure mockery. Pure mockery. Nothing more than mockery.

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What if you're wrong about the great juju at the bottom of the sea? Is how he finishes his response to her. That's an answer.

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Amazing. Amazing. The kind of rhetoric being produced by the

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Dawkins and the Hitchens of the world today is really indicative of the fact that we truly in Western civilization live in a culture where the attention span is so short and the study of logic, analysis of argumentation is so shallow that people like this are viewed as great thinkers.

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It truly is indicative, in my opinion, of the judgment of God upon Western culture.

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That not only are they given a platform, but that they are viewed as deep thinkers.