In Dawkins TED talk it was interesting that his real complaint against Christians — the one he really got animated about — was that Christians restrict or judge sexual behavior on certain standards which he wants nothing to do with. What his comments suggested to me was that it wasn’t so much how many times he might be married, but a desire to have the freedom to do what he wants without being judged by anyone. Dawkins, like his pal Hitchens, got all wee wee’d up about people not approving of his sexual conduct. Great minds think alike and these men obviously have had the same train of thought about this vital issue of freedom from the moral restraints concerning sexual conduct. Gee. I’d be lying to say I am surprised. Men wanting liberties! Straight or gay. Imagine that! Atheist men railing against those who would deny those “liberties”. Wow. Is it a new thing in the earth? /sarc
Regardless of the /sarc tag, Christians are not preventing anyone from doing anything. No one is forced to be a Christian.
And even if a person is a Christian, Christians are told they are sinners. Christians are not kept from sinning by the Church because that is impossible. Christians are encourage to be mindful to avoid sinning but they are not kept from doing anything under the sun.
“In Dawkins TED talk it was interesting that his real complaint against Christians — the one he really got animated about — was that Christians restrict or judge sexual behavior on certain standards which he wants nothing to do with.”
of course atheism in the end, is just about a rationalization for unlimited sex. It was never about skepticism or rationality as a truly rational person would understand why homosexuality and abortion are perverse even if they weren’t mentioned in the Bible.