We are moving toward this sort of frank discussion when it comes to the religion of gender identity. The days when we have a gender atheist the caliber of Richard Dawkins will not be here too soon.
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Dead Wild Roses: Maya Forstater and Richard Dawkins – Welcome to the TERF Wars.
Catch up with the full article found here on The Critic. This is the situation we are up against. Speaking out against or even wanting to discuss the gender religion can be hazardous to you and your livelihood. Isn’t it darkly fascinating that defining women as adult human females is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Richard Dawkins Says "Mild Pedophilia" Does No Harm
Scientist and atheist campaigner, Richard Dawkins, says it was “no harm, no foul” when a school master pulled young Dawkins onto his lap, shoved his hands down the boy’s pants and fondled him. “Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called ‘mild pedophilia,’ which, he says, he personally experienced as
Continue readingEclectic Lip: How Trinity Western University (unintentionally) promotes divorce
Trinity Western University has been in the news recently, as law societies in Ontario and Nova Scotia voted to not recognize lawyers trained at the religious university’s soon-to-open law school. These two law societies – like your blogger and the vast majority of Canadians – recoiled in horror at the
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Some Islamophobic new atheists as bad as Fox News on steroids
Atheist “fundamentalists” whose very existence seems predicated on their non-belief in God can be as extremist and narrow minded as the worst religious prig. They’re fixated, the way many extremists are, targeting any trace of faith with the blade of their remorseless skepticism. It’s one thing to have doubts about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Pell – Q&A – Watch Religion Fail Mightily
The good cardinal is out gunned, out classed and out argued on this episode of Q&A. He ends up calling Jesus and ignorant sheep-herder. A great debate, well worth your time. Filed under: Atheism, Religion, Science Tagged: Pell, Q&A, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Science and Religion
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: “This Will Always Be So” (Or Not)
Some readers may recall a post from a little while back featuring Richard Dawkins appearing on MSNBC’s weekend “Up” program where he floated the provocative idea of taking politicians to task for some of their kooky religious beliefs… Well, guess what? It seems that someone did precisely that the other
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Religious Beliefs in the Public Square
Richard Dawkins provocatively suggests that the superstitious religious beliefs of politicians should be more openly challenged. “You challenge a candidate about his beliefs about taxation, about military policy, and so on; why don’t you challenge his beliefs about what he thinks about the universe and the world?” “As a voter,
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: So Long, Hitch
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. His voice will be missed tremendously, maybe even grudgingly by some of those with whom he disagreed so vehemently about many things, not least of which, of course, the non-greatness of God. Just last week, Hitchens spoke at the Freethought Convention in Houston, TX, therefore making
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Magic Of Reality
Richard Dawkins has a new new book out called the Magic of Reality. Doing the promotional rounds in the UK and the US must promote a certain amount of cognitive dissonance for Dawkins as the calibre of the questions he faces varies a great deal depending on which side of the Atlantic he’s on. Compare […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Europe versus North America on Dawkins
Two talk shows, two very different levels of discourse. The Late Late Show from Ireland. Bill Mahr on HBO. Draw your own conclusions, but one can see why one should be worried about the state of affairs on this side of the pond. Filed under: Media Tagged: Cultural Differences, Richard Dawkins, […]
Apology Of A Poseur
(The following was inspired by Deepak Chopra’s quackery-laden and hypocritically self-serving review of Richard Dawkins’ book, The Magic of Reality. Enjoy).I find myself saddened – yet also outraged – by Richard Dawkins’ latest written offering, an i…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins talks to Thom Hartmann about his new book The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True. The first part of the interview can be viewed here (it deals primarily with genetic matters that will be familiar … Continue reading →
Dead Wild Roses: The Cleavage between Science and Religion – Richard Dawkins
When the religious compare their dogma of choice to science it is almost always a grand misrepresentation of what science actually is. One can break it down for them categorically for instance: religion – requires a belief in magic and the supernatural science – requires a dedication to finding the evidence and testable facts about […]