• Queen HawlSera
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    57 months ago

    Remember that time he excused a woman getting sexually assaulted in an elevator by an Atheist, and he just shrugged it off as “A Muslim would have done worse” and claimed she was overreacting… haha… Dawkins is a piece of shit.

    He has also argued for Non-Local Consciousness and claims to be a “Cultural Christian”, so I wonder if he’s even an Atheist anymore…

    • @tweeks@feddit.nl
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      47 months ago

      Do you have a source for that; what I could find in a quick Google about his statements on rape is his arguments on X is bad and Y is worse. Which is more of a logical argument, but this does not include “a Muslim would have done worse”.

      Quote by him: “Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that’s an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”

      These statements are bound to be controversial as people might somehow interpret X is not bad as Y is worse. But I would disagree, this is more of a thought experiment in which you can always have a worse situation.

    • @01011@monero.town
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      7 months ago

      If you were raised in “the West” then you are most likely passively “culturally Christian” too.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        17 months ago

        True, but the thing, as I don’t base my entire fucking identity around it to the point where I’m openly bragging about it, despite trying to be the figurehead of New Atheism (New Atheism and Atheism are different things)

        • @01011@monero.town
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          17 months ago

          We have to remember that “New Atheism” was/is largely a response to militant Islam and also demographic shift in western nations.

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              7 months ago

              The whole New Atheist movement and cries of cultural xtianity came about due to the rise of militant Islam. They were appealing to a particular audience.

              It was always “religion is bad but Islam is especially bad” from Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris.

              • Queen HawlSera
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                26 months ago

                Ah that, I guess that explains shit like Harris literally demanding a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Islam in his book The End of Faith

                Whole thing was still cringe and I’m glad it seems to have lost in the end.

    • threelonmusketeers
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      27 months ago

      claims to be a “Cultural Christian”

      What does that even mean? If it includes “I put up Christmas lights” then I guess I’m a Christian too.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        27 months ago

        You’ll have to ask Dawkins, he’s the one going around bragging about being one.