Dear Mr Richard Dawkins...
Dec. 18th, 2006 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerI know we have Christian fundementalists.
I know we have Islamic fundamentalists- hell, I think little green things on Alpha Centuri know we have Islamic fundementalists!
But why, why Mr Dawkin, do we have to have Atheist fundementalists? I mean, I thought that was the whole point, to be rational and moderate- and yes, maybe a little smug, but to stay aloof from religious debates and let those monkeys throw shit at each other. But nooo, Mr I'm-Right-You're-Wrong has to get involved. Mr Smarter-Than-Thou has to make himself heard. Mr I-Too-Damn-Smug has to start preaching like a Jacobin and get embroiled in stupid religious debates that makes us all look bad. They're starting to blame us for the F**cking Holocaust for pity's sake! You do not take them up on a debate like that! You give them an incredulous what-are-you-on look and you stay aloof! You do not argue back because hell, let's face it everyone has blood on their hands and while I don't know what they were smoking when they thought up the Holocaust theory, atheism did have a hand in the French revolution. Both religion and atheism (and yes, Mr Dawkins, they are different things) can be used as an excuse for terrible acts, but arguing back at these people just turns it into a shit-throwing match and everyone ends up stinking.
You cannot argue with these people. Trust me, I've tried. Just go with the live and let live approach and for pity's sake don't equate their religion with a disease, it's stupid. Feel free to argue against creationism and religious wars, but start saying that science is the be-all and end-all and I may have to visit you with a sledgehammer to pound some common sense into your skull because we do not know everything! Don't try and say we know more than the religious people because we don't. All we do is not hide behind an almighty God to make us feel better. We look at the world with untainted glasses and try and reason what we see as best we can without resorting to at catch-all deity.
I left religion in disgust after seeing the ridiculous hypocrisy and senseless belief there, but I think I should just call myself a non-believer rather than an atheist, because that lable is starting to have some rather nasty connetations. Rather like being an animal activist really, execpt we don't burn down churches.
Yet. With this guy as our figurehead I haven't the foggiest where we'll end up.
And yes, Mr Dawkins, I returned your book. It was shite and I wanted a careful deconstruction of modern religions, not the atheist bible. I exchanged it for The Road, and think I learnt a whole lot more from that.
I know we have Islamic fundamentalists- hell, I think little green things on Alpha Centuri know we have Islamic fundementalists!
But why, why Mr Dawkin, do we have to have Atheist fundementalists? I mean, I thought that was the whole point, to be rational and moderate- and yes, maybe a little smug, but to stay aloof from religious debates and let those monkeys throw shit at each other. But nooo, Mr I'm-Right-You're-Wrong has to get involved. Mr Smarter-Than-Thou has to make himself heard. Mr I-Too-Damn-Smug has to start preaching like a Jacobin and get embroiled in stupid religious debates that makes us all look bad. They're starting to blame us for the F**cking Holocaust for pity's sake! You do not take them up on a debate like that! You give them an incredulous what-are-you-on look and you stay aloof! You do not argue back because hell, let's face it everyone has blood on their hands and while I don't know what they were smoking when they thought up the Holocaust theory, atheism did have a hand in the French revolution. Both religion and atheism (and yes, Mr Dawkins, they are different things) can be used as an excuse for terrible acts, but arguing back at these people just turns it into a shit-throwing match and everyone ends up stinking.
You cannot argue with these people. Trust me, I've tried. Just go with the live and let live approach and for pity's sake don't equate their religion with a disease, it's stupid. Feel free to argue against creationism and religious wars, but start saying that science is the be-all and end-all and I may have to visit you with a sledgehammer to pound some common sense into your skull because we do not know everything! Don't try and say we know more than the religious people because we don't. All we do is not hide behind an almighty God to make us feel better. We look at the world with untainted glasses and try and reason what we see as best we can without resorting to at catch-all deity.
I left religion in disgust after seeing the ridiculous hypocrisy and senseless belief there, but I think I should just call myself a non-believer rather than an atheist, because that lable is starting to have some rather nasty connetations. Rather like being an animal activist really, execpt we don't burn down churches.
Yet. With this guy as our figurehead I haven't the foggiest where we'll end up.
And yes, Mr Dawkins, I returned your book. It was shite and I wanted a careful deconstruction of modern religions, not the atheist bible. I exchanged it for The Road, and think I learnt a whole lot more from that.
