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Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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4. For the life of me, I don't understand the obsession with Dawkins.

Reply to AlbertCat (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2014, 10:11 PM

Aug 2014

It is interesting that it is religious people who have that obsession.

I was an atheist for decades before I had ever heard of Dawkins. So it is apparent that he is not Satan who convinces people to become atheists. And no atheist has ever said that he is God, or that he speaks for all of us. I will never understand why his name is continually throw out there.

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Grammar: the imperative mood [View all] AlbertCat Aug 2014 OP

The whole uproar over Dawkins is insane. Tobin S. Aug 2014 #1

It is the authoritarian mindset. Promethean Aug 2014 #2

Excellent response. n/t defacto7 Aug 2014 #5

+1 (nt) mr blur Aug 2014 #9

but is prone to making social blunders. AlbertCat Aug 2014 #7

Damn it, I have that person on ignore for a reason. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #3

For the life of me, I don't understand the obsession with Dawkins. Curmudgeoness Aug 2014 #4

Because they need someone to throw? defacto7 Aug 2014 #6

He get's their goat AlbertCat Aug 2014 #8

The unhinged and the intellectually dishonest mr blur Aug 2014 #10