Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism

http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins launches into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education. Dawkins' scornful tone drew strongly mixed reactions from the audience; some stood and applauded his courage. Others wondered whether his strident approach could do more harm than good. Dawkins went on to publish The God Delusion and become perhaps the world's best-known atheist.

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[Captian Jack]

"standards for belief"

Does it require belief to confidently not believe in something?

[Murchad99]

"You're right, its not viable."

Yet not at all for the reasons you gave in your pedantic rebuttal. I'm starting to wonder if you were even aware of the prior discussion regarding the MOA.

"Its my established MO because it works"

Repeating the same things even when they're not applicable to the conversation? Assuming and imposing the label of "fundamental materialist" on other people because you'd rather argue against that instead of what they said?

Yeah, that works.

Try more LSD.

[Marcara081]

Atheism is an adjective, not an objective. Describing this movement as an 'atheist' movement is no different than calling it a 'non-stamp collecting' movement. It means nothing and if it does to you, you should divorce yourself from such a notion.

If you're an atheist become a skeptic or support science or join humanism or expose frauds and religious wackos, etc.

Your standards for belief and methodology of thinking is what you surely cherish not a single conclusion about the existence of gods

[TelesticWarrior]

You're right, its not viable.

Its my established MO because it works. Matter is only 13 billion years old. The double-slit & DCQE experiments show that it may not even exist at deeper levels of reality. The study of matter is a great thing. But the fundamentalist materialism displayed by Dawkins & his legions of sheep-like New Atheist followers is not a great thing. It becomes a self-fulfilling dogma.

Reality is fractal, with matter being a relatively recent emanation. Deal with it.

[beginization]

that is just because the new atheists of today act like little demons

but atheist should not have tried to make darwinism into atheism as in his own biography says he is a theist on page 92, i think it was a invention by dawkins for his own agenda

[ilabstudios]

Natural laws that govern the universe because despite one not being able to rationalise or communicate what it is they are experiencing or observing we have technology and scientific methods to provide evidence that such things do exist that do not rely on ones mind to interpret the data. Expecting another rebuttal I'm sure.. ;-)

[Captian Jack]

We are able to think God; The Bible refers to God; about 2.2 billion people are Christians who believe in God. Therefore it is possible that God exists.

"It is not possible that God exists."

Can you provide valid evidence or a valid reason to support your claim?

[Captian Jack]

"A possible world can exist without the Maximally Great Being."

Can you provide valid evidence or a valid reason to support your claim?