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The Truth About Richard Dawkins

Discovered by one of his fellow atheists:

Can there be any residual doubt, after this latest imbecility, that Richard Dawkins is in the service of the global cabal of faiths henceforth to be known as Big Religa?

In other atheistical news:

Some atheists are starting a "church", which strikes me as very odd and yet rather predictable for the inverted religious fanaticism which seems prevalent in contemporary atheism. There's something sad as well as ridiculous about wanting to "enjoy the benefits of an idealized, traditional church…without the stinging imposition of God Almighty."

The Unitarians have been doing this kind of thing for a while. I went to a couple of their meetings many years ago. They were a bit absurd–just lectures and discussion on miscellaneous topics of a vaguely leftish socio-political slant. I didn't believe in anything in particular myself, and couldn't understand why their rejection of Christianity still left them with an urge to do something Improving on Sunday mornings. 

Maclin Horton
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20 responses to “The Truth About Richard Dawkins”

  1. Anne-Marie

    You made us for Yourself, O God, and our hearts are restless until they rest in a pew on Sunday mornings.

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  2. Mac

    heh

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  3. Marianne

    I knew people who belonged to a Unitarian Universalist congregation who attended Christmas Eve services there. Always left me wondering just what they celebrated on that night.
    Well, I wonder no longer — just found a “Christmas Eve Prayer” at the Unitarian Universalist website:

    Please join me in the spirit of prayer followed by a full minute of meditative silence
    Gods and Goddesses of darkness and light, Spirit of life and love:
    We come together on this sacred night to awaken ourselves
    to the joy of Christmas
    To the miracles of life
    The birth of a baby
    The rise of the sun once more
    The magic of this earth, of Mother Nature herself
    The love of one another
    This Christmas myth calls us to remember
    To remember that the ordinary can become extraordinary
    To remember that any child, our own children,can become great prophets, teachers, leaders of nations, saviors even , not of souls but of lives, working to end the ills and suffering in our world
    “So the challenging thing becomes
    Not to look for miracles, but finding where there isn’t one”
    This is our prayer
    We give thanks for our many blessings
    We are reminded this night to share our blessings with as many people as possible,
    To consider that even the smallest gift, the smallest effort can make a difference in someone’s life, in the world
    For this is the season of giving
    This Christmas Myth reminds us that the tradition of giving gifts symbolizes divinity
    When we give we honor the divine in each other,
    We acknowledge the common link among us all,
    The common ancestral blood we all share
    The blood that is meant to unite us once and for all
    This is our prayer

    “the divine in each other” — does that mean an atheist can’t be a Unitarian Universalist?
    The whole prayer is here.

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  4. Mac

    Cringe-making. I always wonder why people of that general sort go out of their way to say things like “not of souls but of lives.” They really haven’t gotten religion out of their systems, it seems.

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  5. Louise

    You made us for Yourself, O God, and our hearts are restless until they rest in a pew on Sunday mornings.
    😀

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  6. Mac

    Another writeup on this “Sunday Assembly” thing. Funny that the use the word “transcendence,” although by definition they don’t believe in it. Kind of sad picture of the organizer, though. You can’t really blame him for having problems with the idea of God.

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  7. Marianne

    There’s a Sunday Assembly website!
    Check out the header’s graphic of what looks like a chimpanzee family, and the motto accompanying it: “live better, help often, wonder more.”
    Don’t whether to laugh or cry.

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  8. Mac

    Laugh. At least that’s what I did, reflexively, at the sight of the monkey family. The more I looked at it and thought about it, the funnier it got. Is the intention to reinforce the idea that human beings are indistinguishable from them? If so, you wonder: can’t they just let that go for a bit? I suppose that’s like them telling us to let the God thing go for a bit.

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  9. Marianne

    Make that “Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”

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  10. Mac

    Funny, I didn’t even notice the missing word, brain just interpolated it for me.

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  11. Louise

    My brain interpolated too! Cool!
    “live better, help often, wonder more.”
    Why? What for?

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  12. Louise

    Somehow the Sunday Assembly reminds me of this guy. I thought this was a very funny speech though of course I didn’t agree with his basic belief (that life is meaningless). It is a bit crass (he says A**hole more than once, but he is referring to opinions, not persons). So please don’t watch if you don’t like such language. http://www.upworthy.com/this-is-the-most-inspiring-yet-depressing-yet-hilarious-yet-horrifying-yet-heartwarming-grad-speech?c=ufb1

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  13. Louise

    Is the intention to reinforce the idea that human beings are indistinguishable from them?
    I’ve never really seen much of a resemblance in all honesty. OK, chimps have opposable thumbs I guess. We’re pretty advanced for a bunch of mere monkeys, imo.

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  14. Mac

    The video is too long for me to watch now. But as for the monkey resemblance, it’s not so much the direct physical resemblance they’re keen on as the proposition that there’s no qualitative difference between people and animals. Seems to be an important doctrine to them.

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  15. Marianne

    “it’s not so much the direct physical resemblance they’re keen on as the proposition that there’s no qualitative difference between people and animals” made me think of this.
    Doing that “wonder more” thing, I guess.

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  16. Rob G

    What do you get if you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with a Unitarian Universalist?
    Someone who knocks at your door for no apparent reason.

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  17. Mac

    ha!
    Marianne, your link tells me I’m not allowed to view the page, but from the URL I think something like this is what you linked to.

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  18. Marianne

    Yep, the photo of the two in the Rodinesque “thinker” pose is exactly what I linked to.

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  19. Louise

    @RobG – hehehe

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  20. Louise

    it’s not so much the direct physical resemblance they’re keen on as the proposition that there’s no qualitative difference between people and animals.
    I find the whole thing preposterous, as I indicate in my comment on your fish post!
    Seems to be an important doctrine to them.
    Yes, it does seem to be. I guess that’s a direct attack on the Christian concept that man is made in the image of God and is superior to animals, which can indeed be used by us for our various purposes, provided we are humane.

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