RE: [asa] Dawkins is at it again

If Dawkins was right, then he would have a very good point. If there was no God heaven, or hell, then it could be mental torture on kids. However, if Dawkins is wrong, then he'll burn in hell for it... likely... but that would be God's call.

...Bernie

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Nucacids
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:17 PM
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Subject: [asa] Dawkins is at it again

I've long said that the New Atheist movement is the mirror image of an fundamentalist, religious movement. Thus, it should surprise anyone that Richard Dawkins is now attacking.....Harry Potter:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3255972/Harry-Potter-fails-to-cast-spell-over-Professor-Richard-Dawkins.html

What's of more concern is that Dawkins still seems obsessed with peddling his pseudoscientific bigotry:

""It is evil to describe a child as a Muslim child or a Christian child. I think labelling children is child abuse and I think there is a very heavy issue, for example, about teaching about hell and torturing their minds with hell.

"It's a form of child abuse, even worse than physical child abuse."

So in the ethical world of Dawkins, it is better to break a child's jaw than to expose the child to Catholic teaching about hell. That's just sick.

- Mike Gene

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Received on Thu Nov 6 11:55:36 2008