[ari-freedom]

Atheists love islamofascists because they also believe Jews descended from apes and pigs.

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[RoadTest]

This “Richard Dawkins” isn’t very bright, is he? It’s like the great Gore Vidal. His beliefs seem to be cookie-cut out of the vapid Hollywood mindless-set.
These people get over-rated.

[Ann Archy]

Hey, we’ve leanred from Jewish Alna Grayson that the Holocaust was no more than not enough FREE HEALTH CARE!!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Because Abe Foxman the head of ADL is a marxist twit.

[x]

Now in a Newsweek interview he repeats the insult, saying: "The God of the Old Testament is a monster. It's very, very hard for anybody to deny that. He's like a hyped-up Ayatollah Khomeini." Asked by Newsweek's Lisa Miller where this leaves the "90 percent of Americans [who] say they believe in God" and of whom "some portion...are intelligent people," Dawkins replies, "But they wouldn't disagree with what I said about the God of the Old Testament. They'd probably say something like, 'Oh, that's quite different. We believe in the God of the New Testament.'"

That line of argument certainly isn't original to Dawkins.

This places Jews among the portion of believing Americans who would have to be characterized as unintelligent. Miller calls Dawkins on this. He then says of Jews: "Well, sure enough. They'd say, 'OK, we've moved on since that time.' Thank goodness they have."

In other words, you can be an intelligent Christian who takes his Bible at least somewhat seriously, but not an intelligent Jew who does the same. And this is a statement, from a very prominent public intellectual, a popular and respected scientist and author, that neither the ADL nor any other Jewish anti-defamation group I'm aware of sees fit to protest? I find this bewildering.

Most American Jews (i.e. people of Jewish ancestry who identify themselves as Jews) would probably agree with Dawkins on this. And they are the ADL's constituency, not the orthodox.

But based on what's quoted here, Dawkins doesn't endorse the idea that Christians are right in the belief he attributes to them about the Old and the New Testament.

In fact, it's unlikely that they actually do view things in the way he says they do. Would evangelicals really oppose a good Jesus to a bad Old Testament deity in the way that Dawkins says they do?

[reg45]

The Holocaust was an historical event, just as the signing of the United States Constitution was. Documentation exists to verify both events.

On the other hand, evolution is a scientific hypothesis that can and should be subjected to tests and rigorous proof or possible demonstration of the null hypothesis.