The Atheism Tapes - Richard Dawkins - Atheism Is Important

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[BedheadLove]

It's important because religion is oppressive; atheism is a way to free yourself.

[andrewmanford]

I love Richard Dawkins. He's such a great public figure for the scientific and skeptical community.

[hrolvnir]

@BedheadLove religion can be oppressive, but it can also be a great tool for inspiring people and giving them hope. i am an atheist, btw.

[procommenter]

As naturally as two follows one & three precedes four, “atheism” accompanies an intellectual declivity in the populace-at-large.

[gbrownstrat]

@procommenter You obviously know little of science. Guessing and theorizing aren't scientific? Are Newton's laws of motion just relics of the 17th century?

[procommenter]

@Superslemmet : You are common.

[procommenter]

Hobbism : the Hobbesian theory that absolutism in government is necessary to prevent the war of each against all to which natural selfishness inevitably leads Mankind.

[Superslemmet]

@procommenter Pray tell me what relevance an almost 50 year old dictionary has to this debate?

I can make my own definition, and it would be just as relevant. Look!

: [{ procommenter: dick esp. in conduct : FORUM TROLL, RETARD}

The statistical data all paint the same picture of what the average atheist is. Well educated and non-criminal. This applies over all countries and cultures. The atheists, as a group, are always the best and the brightest.

And Darwin has nothing to do with atheism.

[procommenter]

A conjecture does not meet the definition of the word "science" whose derivation is fr. the Latin verb "scire" meaning "to know." To suppose, theorize, guess, as had Darwin & his boot-licks, is not scientific. Darwinism is a relic of the 19th century. It fills a religious void in the warped minds of Western-Civilization-destroyin­g "atheists."

[procommenter]

@Superslemmet : [{atheism 2 : godlessness esp. in conduct : UNGODLINESS, WICKEDNESS} -- fr. p. 137 of "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" of 1967 -- exactly as it appears, including the uppercase letters...]