Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms

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Was your daddy ... ( 2 days ago by CHARESTHEHAMER)

Was your daddy really that mean to you?

yes.. Dawkins ... ( 2 days ago by sdrawkcabgnipytmi)

yes.. Dawkins doesn't have any arguments against god in this video.
That's because this video isn't about god or atheism. It's about why we can't intuitively understand the worlds of the very small, large, and fast.
it has absolutely nothing to do with "An atheist's call to arms"

Nonsense. I'm an ... ( 2 days ago by asmodeus585)

Nonsense. I'm an atheist, but I have my eyes still open and I know that ethics doesn't seem to be very interesting for so-called 'normal people'. Those folks are just animals, whose instincts are limited by social customs invented to keep society in order. They want to eat, drink, have sex and being a part of a group. Studying wouldn't improve anything. Intelligence is sth you are born with, you do not obtain it by reading any books.

Richard Dawkins has ... ( 2 days ago by Hitchinian)

Richard Dawkins has always been a hero of mine and watching this video any open-minded individual can see why. Dawkins is not only insanely intelligent and rational but also a necessary polarizing figure in our time. Those charlatans who seek to leech power and money from the vulnerable must be shuddering with fear and awe at the sheer supremacy of secularism and increasing support and acceptance of atheism.

Thanks for Posting ( 2 days ago by atheistallstars)

Thanks for Posting

Anna. I still wait ... ( 1 day ago by mieszkochow)

Anna. I still wait for your answer concerning Bible as true Word of God.
Concerning Dawkins: can you give me any example of argument for non-existence of anything? Non-existence is not to be proved, as the saying (from the circle of Warsaw-Lvov School) goes. One can only proove that some entity is improbable or contradictory in itself, ergo it cannot exist. In our universe existence of God is highly improbable, ergo we can assume with 99% certainty that he is not up there. Heavens are empty.

Show me order in ... ( 1 day ago by mieszkochow)

Show me order in todays Gaza and Palestina, in todays India and Norterh Ireland. Plenty of religious people, where the peace and order is? Now go to Holland and Czech Republic, go to Sweden nad Finland, no religion in school, so deeply secular and see these never ending bloody civil wars, holy wars, religious fanaticism. IN THE VERY MOMENT I AM WRITING THESE WORDS people in Gaza are killing other people in the name of their imaginary friends. Where is that ORDER?

Similarly, becoming ... ( 1 day ago by mieszkochow)

Similarly, becoming a moral person requires deep reflection, ergo silly folk will never be moral, with or without religion.
But its nothing but a speculation. I have seen secular societies, where common folks unable to perform deep reflection are irreligious, but they see no reason to start behaving badly, only because they dont believe in spy-camera in heaven. It is a fact, crime rate is very low in eg. secular Finland or Denmark. Sam Harris' puts it clearly in Letter to a Christian Nation

Array ( 1 day ago by Fvilone)

Mieszko.
The problem for Northern Ireland was a poletical problem,Indian and Pakistan Land problem and the same can be said about Palestinian and Israelis.
North Korea and South Korea,Veitnam,Cambodia,Colombia Farc Rebels,Tamel Tiger of Sri Lanka this are the few countries who went to war for their ideology, Most of them where Marxist rebels.
We know what Marxism ideology is athiesm.
Get your fact together before you jump.

Array ( 1 day ago by AnnaAgainstAtheists)

mieszkochow
Bible
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I'm far closer to Christ than to modern religious institutions but I still agree with the Vaticans criticisms that narrowly literal intepretations of the Bible are wrong, and I still believe that the people who wrote the Bible were inspired by God, although they were still fallible and that people of good will and heart can catch the true spirit of the Bible and learn a lot from it, so destructive and fanatical atheists should take this up with Bible literalists.

Jesus was a ... ( 1 day ago by hedgehogonomics)

Jesus was a socialist.

Very true. ( 23 hours ago by robmuffin)

Very true.

Richard Dawkins ... ( 23 hours ago by DeimozVI)

Richard Dawkins revolutionizes the way I think every time he opens his amazing English mouth.

Well said ... ( 20 hours ago by noselfnoproblemo)

Well said Hitchinian. i feel like we need to seek out, bond with, and look out for our fellow athiest/ rational neighbors and friends. Like religious folk I guess. So as a species we stand a chance against ourselves.

Pakistan and India ... ( 19 hours ago by mieszkochow)

Pakistan and India is not a land problem. It was one, united country before Gandhi, they split because of religious war. In Israel they fight because land has religious significance for'em. Its a Fact.
Counting marxist countries is not an argument, since there was/is as many religious countries with similiar homocidal stories.
It is about dogma and rationality. Stalinist Russia was a country of dogma, not of critical thinking. Every dogma - marxist or christian - is similarly bad.

Anna: literal ... ( 19 hours ago by mieszkochow)

Anna: literal interpretations. Either you accept whole Bible, or you have some citerion to decide which is literal (I guess you think that Jesus' resurrection was a fact) and which is not (Joshua and Jericho). Either you take all moral commandments seriously (spanking kids) or you reject all of 'em; either you have a criterion to decide which is ok which is not or pick and choose. EIther Bible is true Word of God or it is fallible, and you have criterion to decide which is true, which isnt

Stalin, Mao, kamel ... ( 17 hours ago by Fvilone)

Stalin, Mao, kamel roughe of Cambodia who killed around 2 million people where communist, the Farc rebels of Colombia communist, Fidel Castro of Cuba communist,Pinoshet of chile,india and Pakistan fighting for Kashmire,Milosovich of x Yugo communist.
All this countries they have one thing in common they all follow the Marxist ideology,
before you answer please get some information.
Peace

Array ( 17 hours ago by AnnaAgainstAtheists)

mieszkochow
you have criterion to decide which is true, which isnt
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You're right, I do have a criterion decide which is true - MY HEART AND MY SPIRITUAL SENSITIVITY AND MY FAITH, but I wouldn't expect you to know too much about those things, so please don't dictate to me what I can understand and what I can't, and think instead of filling that empty space in your head with some spiritual sensitivity and open your mind and heart to Einstein's "music of the spheres" and "Supreme Spirit".

Dawkins is ... ( 16 hours ago by jet5673)

Dawkins is brilliant!

It doesn't have to ... ( 15 hours ago by asmodeus585)

It doesn't have to do anything with religion. It's only about antagonistic nations living too close to each other. And, of course, the stupidity of their people and especially the governments.
No major religion tells you to kill anybody with no reason.

Because they obey ... ( 15 hours ago by asmodeus585)

Because they obey the law which is becoming more and more rigid in EU. There are far too many regulations, bureaucracy is too great and people perhaps don't believe in any spy-camera in heaven nowadays, but they don't have to - we have cameras peering at us everywhere. No imaginary God means state playing as Big Brother. When people don'tpray to any supernatural powers, they ask their governments for things like security, rights, etc. Paradoxically without religion people are less free.

An intresting talk, ... ( 10 hours ago by FatherTimeasd)

An intresting talk, but I hardly see how it is a "call to arms."

That's sad. ( 8 hours ago by CHARESTHEHAMER)

That's sad.

it is at 4:00 to 4: ... ( 3 hours ago by alvisc2002)

it is at 4:00 to 4:29 that Richard Dawkins.
Unwittingly provided us with the answer to the existence of god.

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