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To: Right Wing Professor; RightWingNilla
"Why has our society so meekly acquiesced in the convenient fiction that religious views have some sort of right to be respected automatically and without question?" Dawkins asks. "If I want you to respect my views on politics, science, or art, I have to earn that respect by argument, reason, eloquence or relevant knowledge. I have to withstand counter-arguments. But if I have a view that is part of my religion, critics must respectively tiptoe away or brave the indignation of society at large. Why are religious opinions off limits in this way? Why do we have to respect them simply because they are religious?"

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." Karl Marx

Dawkins is not a Marxist.

Your opinion, I don't share it. His views are remarkably similar to Marx vis a vis religion and he is an economic lefty to boot.

Please retract.

Not in this or any other lifetime.

Richard Dawkins is a Eurotrash leftist who happens to hate religion and love the TOE. Deal with it....

Or not.

And for a bonus:

"Dear Mr Bush (I'd say President Bush if you had actually been elected),

I've been asked to give advice to you on touching down in Britain. It is this. Go home. You aren't wanted here. You aren't wanted anywhere else either, but you may have been misunderinformed that Britain was the one place where you would be welcomified. Wrong. Well, presumably your best pal Tony welcomes you. But that's about it. Your motorcades, your helicopters, your triggerhappy guards will try to protect you from the people of Britain, who would otherwise spoil the photo-ops for the folks back home. But be in no doubt. We despise you here too. After you and Jeb stole the election (by a margin smaller than the number of folks you executed in Texas) you were rightly written off as a one-term president: a fair advertisement for Drunks For Jesus but otherwise an idle nonentity; inarticulate, unintelligent, an ignorant hick. September 11 changed all that. Not that you covered yourself with glory that day. You are said to admire Churchill. Can you imagine Churchill, at such a moment, panicking all around the country from airbase to airbase? Even nasty old Rummy bunkered down where he belonged.

Never mind, your puppeteers from the Project for the New American Century recognised the opportunity they had been waiting for. September 11 was your golden Pearl Harbor. This was how you'd get elected in 2004 (not re-elected, elected). You would announce a War on Terror. American troops would win. And you would be the victorious warlord, swaggering in a flight suit before a Mission Accomplished banner.

It worked in Afghanistan. But then those puppeteers moved on to their long-term project: Iraq. Never mind that you had to lie about weapons of mass destruction. Never mind that Iraq had not the smallest connection with 9/11. The good folks back home would never know the difference between Saddam and Osama. You would ride the paranoid patriotism aroused by 9/11 all the way into Iraq, and hand out oil and reconstruction contracts to Dick Cheney's boys. That escapade is now backfiring horribly, as many of us said it would. No wonder young American travellers are sewing Canadian flags to their rucksacks. What we in Britain won't forgive is that you have dragged us down too. Go home."
Richard Dawkins
Scientist

This leftist puke is all yours. Congrats.

392 posted on 05/25/2005 2:56:08 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
His views are remarkably similar to Marx vis a vis religion and he is an economic lefty to boot.

'Marx was an atheist; Dawkins is an atheist; therefore Dawkins is a Marxist' is idiotic. And being a leftist does not make one a Marxist. Words have meanings; their purpose is not simply so you can fling ill-directed insults.

I have no further reason to assume anything you write bears more than accidental relationship with the truth. Shame.

403 posted on 05/25/2005 3:12:56 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: jwalsh07
Your opinion, I don't share it.

Its not my opinion...marxists can't stand the guy.

407 posted on 05/25/2005 3:19:21 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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To: jwalsh07
After some searching, I found a definitive statement by Dawkins on his politics. He says he voted Liberal Democrat in the last election.

The Lib. Dems are not Marxists. They are part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (formerly European Liberal Democrat and Reform) group in the European Parliament, which includes the German FDP. They're considered to be old-fashioned free-market liberals (not liberals in the American sense). The British LibDems are probably towards the left of the ALDE, but calling them Marxists is just asinine.

416 posted on 05/25/2005 3:31:42 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: jwalsh07; Right Wing Professor; RightWingNilla
This leftist puke is all yours.

Please expand on this bizarre statement. What exactly does it mean for someone to be "all his"?

And what on Earth was the purpose of your spewing this comment, other than the obvious intent of a double-edged ad hominem fallacy of the most transparent and childish kind?

601 posted on 05/25/2005 9:13:38 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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