RE: [asa] Dawkins is at it again

If describing a human being as "child" is not evil, then the evil is in the adjective Muslim or Christian. Therefore, the evil is the religion. Nothing new coming from Dawkins. Is labeling a human being "boy" a form of abuse since it elicits the attention from sexual predators? Recall that The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) advocates the "end the oppression of men and boys who have freely chosen mutually consenting relationships."

Moorad

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From: PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [asa] Dawkins is at it again
To: Nucacids <nucacids@wowway.com>

Let's look at the full quote in context

"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. I wouldn't want to teach a young child, a terrifyingly young child, about hell when he dies, as it's as bad as many forms of physical abuse."

Hmmm

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> wrote:

        Sigh... You and Dawkins make a wonderful couple

        On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Nucacids <nucacids@wowway.com> wrote:
        

                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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