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Prominent Liberal And Avowed Atheist Richard Dawkins Supports “Mild Pedophilia”
Gateway Pundit ^ | September 10, 2013 | Melissa Clouthier

Posted on 09/10/2013 6:52:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Richard Dawkins is sensitive to shifting mores regarding pedophilia:

Dawkins went on to say that one of his former school masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts,” and that to condemn this “mild touching up” as sexual abuse today would somehow be unfair.

“I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today,” he said.

I would say Dawkins is living proof that pedophilia does cause harm.

In the effort to be urbane and nuanced and to see the world in muted shades of gray, guys like Dawkins have no lines at all. But why would he? The lines are blurry because each person has his own set of lines. There are no agreed upon moral truths, there’s simply circumstances that have individual contexts that must be viewed through subjective lenses.

This subjectivity and lack of standards is how society comes unraveled.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atheism; childabuse; dawkins; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; moralabsolutes; pedophileagenda; pedophilemarriage; pedophiles; pedophilia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It appears the Lord has given Dawkins over to his madness.


21 posted on 09/10/2013 7:30:36 PM PDT by bereanway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dawkins trying to find God using Michael Persinger's "God Helmet". Lucky for him I suppose, as he said his wife would have divorced him if "it worked".


22 posted on 09/10/2013 7:32:48 PM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow. There’s a shocker.


23 posted on 09/10/2013 7:33:02 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does the left ever think of anything other than their sexual perversions? These idiots are the lowest of low and less evolved than animals.


24 posted on 09/10/2013 7:50:06 PM PDT by formosa
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To: Berosus

Obviously Mr. Dawkins didn’t pay attention when today’s liberals denounced our Founding Fathers for not following today’s politically correct standards.

Moral Relativism only works geographically and never temporally if the people in question are white....


25 posted on 09/10/2013 7:52:39 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m as confused by this article as Dawkins is about pedophiles.

He says he can’t criticize mild caning which is punishing a kid with a stick whipping

But the personal story he defends is a guy putting his hand in his pants. Big difference.


26 posted on 09/10/2013 7:52:49 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: betty boop; spirited irish; TXnMA; metmom

I figured you’d appreciate this news story...


27 posted on 09/10/2013 7:58:24 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

While I agree with him that we should not judge past actions by today’s standards .... if you mess with my kids you disappear ... if you had messed with my dad’s kids, you would have disappeared ... if you had messed with either of my grandfather’s kids, you would have disappeared ....


28 posted on 09/10/2013 7:59:48 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope he commits mild suicide....


29 posted on 09/10/2013 8:10:26 PM PDT by freebilly (Creepy and the Ass Crackers....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
IBAAPPOSNTEO

In Before An Atheist Posts Pictures Of Skulls Next To Each Other

30 posted on 09/10/2013 8:47:27 PM PDT by Sam's Army
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m far from being a kid, but if this perv put his hand on my leg he’d draw back a nub.


31 posted on 09/10/2013 8:48:06 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: B4Ranch
A man who gets his thrills at touching a young boys genitals needs to have his hand cut off.

That's not the part that needs to go.

32 posted on 09/10/2013 10:12:58 PM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Travis McGee

I read this story. Very good. Sums up what’s wrong with half or more of our inhabitants.


33 posted on 09/10/2013 10:14:40 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Explains a lot actually.


34 posted on 09/10/2013 10:15:18 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Nervous Tick
Word Association

“For each word or phrase in the left column, enter the VERY FIRST word or phrase that comes to your mind in the right column of the same line.”

mmm... okay. Let’s get on with it.

“Richard Dawkins” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Teeth” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Knees” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Gonads” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”
“Ribs” <=> “Aluminum baseball bat”

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I disagree - I'm a traditionalist.

I prefer the "crack" of a wooden bat, over the "tink" of an aluminum bat.

35 posted on 09/10/2013 10:59:24 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

>> I prefer the “crack” of a wooden bat, over the “tink” of an aluminum bat.

Why can’t we have both?


36 posted on 09/11/2013 4:12:25 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop; TXnMA; metmom

Dawkins is spiritually dead. A cistern without living water. His conscience is stunted and befouled and his powers of reasoning disordered. He’s a moral imbecile who uses his disordered intellect to argue for evil.


37 posted on 09/11/2013 3:52:42 PM PDT by spirited irish
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To: spirited irish
But how do you really feel? LOLOL!

I figured you'd appreciate his remarks.

38 posted on 09/11/2013 6:15:50 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“As long as she’s 13 and you only get her a little pregnant...” ~ Roman Polanski


39 posted on 09/11/2013 6:18:08 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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