Its been a while. I’m sorry :)

Anyways, found this while ‘procrastiblogging’. Don’t like everything on this site but found the story interesting:

Radical leftists shouted down Geert Wilders at Temple University last night.
The good little indoctrinated leftists chanted, “Hey Hey, HO, HO, this racist bull—-’s got to go.” They forced the university to shut down the event early…

Amid a firestorm of contention, several hundred people heard Geert Wilders, a controversial Dutch parliamentarian, speak last night at Temple University.

During his approximately 30-minute speech, Wilders called the Quran “an evil book” and said that the United States was facing Islamization.

A question-and-answer session was cut short, and Wilders was escorted out of the lecture hall after some students began shouting insults at him….

Hey I’m all behind the right of people to protest. But Dawkins pretty much has equated christianity with all the bad. So why doesn’t he get shouted out for hate speech? Not that I really want him to, I kind of think protesting while someone is speaking is rude…but just saying.

Anyways, a selection of Dawkins opinions about faith:

“With so many mindbytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns.

Bloggers notes:  I’m loving the comparison to the Moonies, but frankly I take offense at the one to Scientologists.  The Pope is way cooooooler than Tom Cruise

“The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn’t seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as ‘faith’.”

Bloggers notes:  Having just done four years of psychology, comparing believers to ‘patients’ in need of help is actually pretty mild.

“Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the “know-nothings”, the “know-alls”, and the “no-contests”"

Blogger comments: given your arguments against God, I’d stick you in the ‘know nothing’ category of atheists when faced with good philosophy.

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

Blogger comment; see above

“…the stereo- type of scientists being scruffy nerds with rows of pens in their top pocket is just about as wicked as racist stereotypes.”

Blogger comments: could you please stop stereotyping Christians then? And are you telling me the sitcom The Big Bang Theory portrayal of scientists are wrong!

“It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe..”

Blogger comment: way too easy.

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