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# He's not he's a hypocritical, evangelical prick.
My 5yo neice could tear up his argument with a simple 'How do you KNOW?' and phadumph! The claim that belief is ridiculous falls right over and lies there. I'll grant it's extremely lucrative, and taking money from idiots for preaching to the converted is obviously never a problem, but it's bollocks. Telling people to think for themselves and saying 'I don't know' is hardly ground-breaking stuff.

He's a preacher, and a cockhead for being so.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:27, archived)
# There's a whole bunch of arguments why belief is ridiculous that he goes into
Not least being that there are around 7000 gods currently worshipped on planet Earth and not all of them can be right - taking into account historical gods and the chances of your belief being the correct one dwindle to nothing

He may be unpopular for saying it, but I'm extemely glad that someone has the guts to put their head above the parapet and shoot down some of the "religion deserves respect" bullshit
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:45, archived)
# ^ this all the way
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:49, archived)
# I concur this
There's no "sitting one the fence" when it comes to religion.
(cenaris Is dividing 3 by waffle, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:50, archived)
# I worship the fence sitting god
you fucking bastard. Die infidel.
(waxdart hello., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:13, archived)
# agreed
I have no time for religion or the twats who follow it
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Sun 8 Aug 2010, 12:28, archived)
# he's not saying that all belief is ridicuous,
only belief without evidence, which seems pretty sensible to me.
(benito vaselini no not that one, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 14:48, archived)
# Yes, but he's so annoyingly worthy and righteous that it seems only fair to point out to him that it's ALL a matter of belief
Militant/evangelical atheists piss me off even more than the religious. At least most - not all, I grant you - religionists are prepared to accept there are other belief systems, and generally just invite you to theirs, instead of slagging the others off*


*Right-wingers not included - but they're all arseholes, religious or no.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:03, archived)
# But he doesn't kill people for it
so he'd a bit better than the other nutters.
(waxdart hello., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:15, archived)
# but...
Stalin was an atheist
(I helped save b3ta! betpet is the fun in dysfunctional, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 15:50, archived)
# And Hitler had a moustache!
Beware those with moustaches....
(I helped save b3ta! Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 16:01, archived)
# Militant atheists write books questioning belief
Militant religionists fly planes into buildings

I know which side I'm on
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:28, archived)
# Daily Mail Reader alert.
*klaxons*
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 16:21, archived)
# WTF? How does that make me a Daily Mail reader?
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 16:49, archived)
# Sounds more like a YouTube atheist watcher :P
(Catfish Ma, why can't I draw? "Because you have fins dear", Thu 5 Aug 2010, 17:38, archived)
# Now that I will admit to
With perhaps a nod to Victor Strenger who came up with the masterful quote "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 17:55, archived)
# Mainstream science isnt a belief system in the religious sense.
Its 'belief' is based on observable and measurable evidence. Religious belief is generally based on superstition. The reason Dawkins appears righteous is because he's right.
(benito vaselini no not that one, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:43, archived)
# ^^ this
(Roxon, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 16:34, archived)
# ha ha ha ha!
this, with bells on
(I helped save b3ta! finnbar has officially retired, Sun 8 Aug 2010, 12:23, archived)
# ...
xkcd.com/774/
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 16:35, archived)
#
"that it seems only fair to point out to him that it's ALL a matter of belief"

Postmodernist bullshit

*relurks*
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 1:35, archived)
# You are correct. It is all a matter of belief
And this is why it is perfectly fine for me to believe that black people are the reason the weather is terrible, it is my moral obligation to burn them, and that my breakfast toast is the re-incarnation of Jesus.

Oh, wait, you mean we should have _standards_? For our beliefs? STANDARDS? But that's... exactly the flipping point, idiot.
(rosyatrandom has no regrets apart from all those regrets, Sat 7 Aug 2010, 13:32, archived)
# "he's not saying that all belief is ridicuous, only belief without evidence, which seems pretty sensible to me"
Isn't that Agnosticism rather than Atheism?

+runs away+
(FilmBoy84 Living in a sea of senility..., Sat 7 Aug 2010, 13:31, archived)
#
Actually... no, he addresses this pretty early on in most of his books, and is infact one of his points.
(engekomkommer, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:12, archived)