"There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic."
"I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true."
"Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant."
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
"Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate."
"Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument."
These last two are interesting in that face of...
"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
(, Wed 23 May 2012, 14:35, Reply)
I think you'd just be better off saying you don't like him. It's okay most people have someone they can't hack even if it's irrational.
Taking a small element of his position (that I don't think you understand properly btw) and relentlessly arguing about it. Something which is a trivial matter of semantics, until you're blue in the face is making you come across like a cock.
HTH
(, Wed 23 May 2012, 14:45, Reply)
but if you state that faith is a mental illness and then express your own faith, if you counter religious arguments by declaring there is no evidence, when you have none for your own argument, if you attack others for holding different beliefs then you are a prick.
Dawkins is a prick.
(, Wed 23 May 2012, 15:31, Reply)
...when you're in a hole stop digging dear.
(, Wed 23 May 2012, 15:38, Reply)