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Richard Dawkins has clay feet. His militant atheism, and his arrogance, are universally acknowledged. You should try reading the publications that pull his arguments to shreds. Unfortunately they never receive the publicity that is afforded to Dawkins.
I think it's his British accent. He just sounds smart. Regardless of the drivel that he spews forth.
Joseph Campbell should be required reading, and when I ask Christians about him, many have never even heard of him. Is he discouraged in Christian religious circles? (I knew Darwin was but I did not know about Campbell.)
Most likely. When his book, "The Power of Myth" was popular in the late-1980s, the Evangelical Christian craze was in full swing (Moral Majority, "family values" and all of that). I'm sure that Joseph Campbell was considered as demonic as Gary Gygax (AD&D creator) and Anton LeVay.
I think it's his British accent. He just sounds smart. Regardless of the drivel that he spews forth.
AT this point I would like to quote an old friend of mine, he said "there is one principle guaranteed to keep man in a state of perpetual ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
But Damn! They make one helluva' dictionary! I reckon' I'll go look up that there word m-i-l-i-t-a-n-t right now!
adjective
1. Engaged in warfare
yeah, years ago, a girl I used to date probably knew me better than I thought she did, for christmas one year she gave me the two volumn O.E.D. when stumped or not entirely sure, it is my reference of last resort, a dictionary I can not argue with. (I've seen cheap dictionaries that actually used connotations instead of definitions.)
AT this point I would like to quote an old friend of mine, he said "there is one principle guaranteed to keep man in a state of perpetual ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
So you think that's why Dawkins doesn't care to really look at the truth?
I'm not quite sure that Mr. Dawkins would consider mythology as truth.
When push came to shove, he was willing to suggest that life on earth started because some benevolent alien life form came from Mars to start it here. Sounds like a god to me.
At least that's what he told Ben Stein.
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