Posted on 04/19/2013 3:47:50 PM PDT by Enza Ferreri
I have a suggestion for militant atheist cum zoologist Richard Dawkins about a British (although it has now got to America as well) TV program to watch, that is bound to lift his spirit: The Jeremy Kyle Show.
There he can see exactly the kind of society he is trying to promote and propagate.
People who appear on the show have been living the sort of life which was advertised for £140,000 on billboards all over buses and underground trains across England, Scotland and Wales, in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, Newcastle, Dundee, Sheffield, Coventry, Devon, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Swansea, Newport, Rhondda, Bristol, Southampton, and Aberdeen a few years ago for weeks, with the message: "There's probably no God... now stop worrying and enjoy your life": campaign and message that Dawkins totally endorsed.
She [little known comedy writer Ariane Sherine, that the article calls the "brains" behind the campaign] said she wanted to promote her own message that people can believe whatever they wanted. [It certainly takes a great brain to come up with such a formidable idea.]Obviously a vast number of people are never so happy as when they are encouraged to do just exactly whatever they like and indulge in any fancy they may have, reassured in the belief that this is the right course of action by "luminaries" and intellectual authorities à la Richard Dawkins, with the full backing of science, no less, behind this highly satisfactory claim.Speaking at the launch of the campaign in central London, Ms Sherine said the sheer number of donations received had demonstrated the strength of feeling in the UK.
The consequences of choices and actions, though, pace Dawkins and that superb "brain" of Ms Sherine, are not just in the afterlife but in this one as well.
And the consequences of the "stop worrying and enjoy your life now" lifestyle, when embraced by large swathes of society, can be calculated at the time of the Budget and seen as a form of public entertainment in TV broadcasts like The Jeremy Kyle Show (undoubtedly there are many similar others).
The show's guests have "enjoyed" their lives all right, if by "enjoyment" we intend overeating (this they do not need to declare, you just have to look at them, especially the women), booze, drugs, not working, and above all - by far the most frequent reason that brings them to this TV production which promises them solutions, therefore indicating that this is what has the most serious consequences in their lives - sexual promiscuity.
The expressions, usually uttered by Kyle, "unprotected sex" and "unsafe sex" are sprinkled all over the chats, which are in fact rows and shouting matches. Hearing those phrases makes me shudder. The very fact that we have come to see sexuality as an activity that has to be treated with surgical gloves, that we need to put the mechanistic, physical, even medical, aspects ahead of everything else - because there is little else left - shows our society's general confusion and failure in its sexual ethics.
The show is a carousel of different people who are in fact all the same, exactly like a rotating carousel always represents the same figures.
They need the program to pay for two, recurrent types of test: DNA paternity and lie detector.
Uncertainty about who fathered whom reigns supreme, as about who cheated with whom, how many times and to what level of sexual intimacy: the DNA test is hoped to help with the former, the lie detector with the latter.
Here we have the dream of Richard Dawkins made reality in the flesh of the underclass: no God, no rules, no certainty, no faith, in particular no faith in other people.
Who needs faith when we have science? And who needs trust in a relationship when we have the products of science in the form of DNA paternity test and lie detector test?
I challenge Prof. Dawkins and his compatriots to stand on any street corner in Cairo, Tehran or Kabul and lecture on athiesm and the “problems” of religion.
There is a video from the Jeremy Kyle show about a white couple having a black baby: “Boyfriend, another man might be the father to my baby!”.
You can see it here:
http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/effects-of-atheist-propaganda-come-home.html
We have your blog, what the hell else do we need?
And who needs trust in a relationship when we have the products of science
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http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/effects-of-atheist-propaganda-come-home.html
Hey, look at you directing FR's traffic to your blog!
By God, that's a HOLY redirection! All praise and traffic to you!
Oh yes science.... which brought us the atom bomb, cloned sheep and the Japanese turd burger.
I can only imagine an (A la carte) tripe dish served up as intellectualism.
Of course Ants “Probably” think 6 inches is deep.
It sounds like warmed over Nietzsche. The lonely hearts (solipsism) social club.
>> “There’s probably no God... now stop worrying and enjoy your life”
Hell, my relief comes from the probability of God, enjoyments from the certainty of God.
Evil stuff, that science. How may centuries do you figure we'd need to set civilization back to get rid of it?
Now that's a slogan I can stand behind:
There's probably more donuts.
Not stop worrying and enjoy yourself!
What?! And give up my dish washer, tv/remote and refrigerator?!!!
Don’t forget eugenics.
Dawkins is a scientist and tiresome anti-christian bigot, but he does single out the muzzies as especially evil
This is how bankrupt Atheism is... Think about it if there is no God, then the only thing left is to spread your DNA in any way you can. The way you do it is certainly not relevant, is it? Also I would certainly kill every person who has ever really pissed me off, since I would know that there is no eternal judgement so it would be a freebie...
But my experience with God is above all of that...
Darn those unintended consequences!
I thought so. I would like to see him preach Atheism in the heart of Islam. To see how long he lasts.
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