Rabbi Shmuley Debates Richard Dawkins - Part 4

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The 1996 debate at Oxford featuring four eminent participants, including noted biblical scholar Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

The panelists tackle the issue of whether or not God, and by extension, religion, is needed for there to be goodness in the world. Rabbi Boteach boldly asserts that the greatest tragedies of the 20th century were not only removed from religious motivations, but were responsible for more casualties than religious wars in all other times put together.

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[BillKiernan]

i'm continually shocked that people like boteach can list Hitler as the head of a "secular" or "humanist" regime. totally loses his credibility

[AlkalineNERV]

and what was he then? please show evidence

[reddoscar1]

Stop shouting your poorly constructed argument with even worse jokes.

[orz6]

So the atheists that Rabbi Shmuley admires, respects and is inspired by "get their ethics from religion" and the 'atheists' with mass murder and genocide justifying ethics don't.

That makes me think firstly that he's illogical, then I turned to all the evidence that the 'atheists' he mentioned were creating pseudo (if not blatant) religions based on themselves but then I realised that he was shouting and that means he's right- my bad.

[t0f0b0]

HITLER! EVOLUTION! HITLER! DARWIN! HITLER! ATHEISM! NAZIS!

Ugh...

[riggermortisify]

What a revolting coward Shmuley is.

A bad impression of Martin Luther King's style of public speaking along side emulating Hitler's body language doesn't negate the validity of what you say. I should know I just broke my kitchen table testing it out. And to make my comment a bit more valid: Schmuley? More like... uh, hm... Tool-ey?.. No wait, Poo-ley! Oh wait, Fool... no, doesn't work. I think I'll go for Zuul-ley. Ghostbusters says he's evil. Without god it wouldn't exist so it must be true.

[ronpaulbot]

I WANT TO GO TO THE SCHMULEY SCHOOL OF DEBATING!!!!!!!!!!!AAARGHH!

[valiant21920]

Shouting loudly your points doesn't make you any less wrong

[5anthonys]

thinkalott33 Isn't it ironic that humans have spent millions of years reaching the top of the evolutionary ladder only then to deny it as Creationism?

[5anthonys]

@thinkalott33 Atheists are people who can live with doubt and uncertainty. They think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. They have different degrees of certainty about different things, and are not absolutely sure of anything. In fact, there are many things they don’t know. But they don’t have to have an answer. They don’t feel frightened by being lost in the mysterious Universe without having any purpose - which is how it really is.

[thinkalott33]

@5anthonys sound like your loosing