Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins reads his "good fundamentalist christian fan mail"

[zebonaut]

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and hilarity ensues:

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[Curmudgeoness]

1. This is comedy gold.

I just saw this in the A&A group and couldn't stop laughing. His professor-like tone is hilarious. And the laughter in the background made it even funnier.

[Ineeda]

2. ...die in a plane crash or a flame thrower accident!!!

[VWolf]

4. or perhaps a bizarre gardening accident!

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[xfundy]

3. It's not hate

It's Christian Love™.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Gee, there's an awful lot in there I didn't know about Richard Dawkins

and, quite frankly, I still don't know it.

Professor Dawkins is an intelligent man, even though his in-your-face atheism is annoying. My sister was an atheist who was perfectly fine with anybody who wasn't. She thought Madelyn Murray O'Hair gave atheists a bad name and that Mrs. O'Hair's idea of atheism was too much like religion. I guess Wanda was an atheist freethinker, whereas Mrs. O'Hair was an orthodox atheist. Don't tell Billo the Clown, but Wanda loved to celebrate Christmas like nobody else I've ever known.

In any case, I didn't know he was gay. His entry in Wikipedia makes no mention of it and informs me that he has been married to actress Lalla Ward since 1992.

I didn't know he was a Freemason. In fact, I thought a belief in God was a requirement to join the Masons, but I could be wrong about that.

Threats of hellfire don't seem to have any effect on him, which must really upset those who wrote the letters. While Professor Dawkins doesn't think he's going to Hell for his beliefs, the writers of those hate letters should appreciate that he doesn't think they will, either.

[wolfie001]

6. He's not gay. He hypothesized on the gay gene.

Big difference.

[longship]

7. Douglas Adams introduced him to Lala Ward.

Adams and Dawkins were close friends.

I like them both, very much. Sadly Douglas is gone. And sadly, Richard sometimes says unfortunate things when speaking outside his expertise. I wish both were not true.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. That's what it said

I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I liked them both. The series started sounding like Adams was forcing himself to write it after that, but the first two installments count as among my favorite whimsical novels.

I saw Lala Ward in a television production of Hamlet in which she played Ophelia opposite Derek Jacobi. She was very good.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Those "Christians" were calling him gay

because they thought that was the worst insult that they could throw at him. Probably because of their personal opinions.

The Freemason insult was just bizarre. You do not have to profess a belief in "god", but in a "higher power". Dawkins would not have professed to that either.

As to the "in-your-face atheists" opposed to the "atheist freethinker", I think that we need both. There is a place for both. Without the outspoken atheists, we would still be hiding in closets afraid to speak out and thinking that we are alone. I cannot say that I agree with all the things done or said in the name of atheism, but I am grateful that they can do/say it.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

9. LOL!!!! ANTICHRIST! ANTICHRIST!! ANTICHRIST!!!

LOL.




Definitely belongs on my playlist...