While I realize the only reason you are making such a statement is defiance of my atheistic standpoint, I'm going to overlook that and instead accept it as a meer gesture of kindness. Despite the fact that that's not truly what it was.

Thank you. :)

Hey I just want to say God bless you that's all....

1) Who the hell are you?

2) I fail to see your point.

I wonder if it ever gives Richard Dawkins pause for thought that atheists are so incredibly gullible. Does he purse his lips in consternation that his atheist followers are so unsophisticated in their thinking that they are willing to take his metaphors and adopt them as scientific statements of reality? This, even after Dawkins has actually abandoned the meme concept as the foolishness that it is. Believing, perhaps mistakenly, that one day the common atheist will catch on that a meme is nothing but a misleading concept invented by him to trash religion, Dawkins now posits that religion might have arisen because of some mutation in some part of the brain or that it's a virus. No one can accuse him of running out of book ideas.

A meme (Greek mimesis = imitation) is an idea or concept (information) that is spread from person to person within a community. We acquire these memes by copying those around us. Modern atheists (Greta Christina is a good example) apparently believe that these are not metaphors but valid scientific entities. If you allow yourself to ignore the fact that there is no proof that such a thing exists, then according to Dawkins, you can see how the meme is the perfect explanation of how religion, particularly Christianity spreads. However, if the goal of the Christian meme, as Dawkins says, is to get people to believe that God will punish all doubters, it makes one wonder - "What is the goal of the atheist meme?"

Just as Dawkins says that "science" operates independently of a cultural milieu, while he operates within a bizarre cultural milieu that allows only a very narrow band of evidence that doesn't contradict what atheists want to believe -

. Just as Dawkins says that religious people are irrationally immersed in mystery, and then tells us how science leads one to "profound and sublime mysteries," so too does he attempt to present to us something that only appears to be real, the meme.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

No matter how wretched you believe God may be, know your beliefs does not change that He loves you.