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November 06, 2006
Yet lust is numbered among the sins and stupidity omitted
When I heard yet another pious hypocrite had found his stumbling block in meth-fueled gay "massage" I did not give it much thought; one more Pharisee for the pile. Then I remembered where I had seen the man before.
Richard Dawkins can come across as an unsympathetic character, as arrogant and pious in his own convictions as those of the people he disputes. Watching him in debate I am often as struck by his complete failure to understand religious belief as I am by his opponents' inability to grasp basic biology. That said, I am four-square with Dawkins on the bit about bronze-age myths in this now classic encounter with Ted Haggard. And I am not surprised in the slightest by the strong-arm tactics at the end of the clip.
For anyone still having difficulty with the theory of evolution, Ms. Garrison explains the process in just over a minute (nsfw).
Jeremy Paxman is God Update: Still unsympathetic but earning points for a Flying Spaghetti Monster reference.
The Root of All Evil Update: I had forgotten this interview from the same documentary as the Haggard piece. "Fix your women"... horrifying.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 6, 2006 08:04 AM
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