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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2024, 07:45:20 PM »
Do you realise how funny that question sounds coming from a contributor to ReligionEthics?

Then you are easily amused.

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« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2024, 07:51:38 PM »
But they do know who Dawkins is.
Yup - and probably many of us knew him first as an evolutionary biology of some renown who wrote a number of popular books on the topic.

Vlad - you seem to be the one obsessed with his 'atheist' output - by contrast the only book of his I've ever read is the blind watchmaker many years ago.

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« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2024, 07:53:15 PM »
The vast majority of people who lack a belief in god(s) will have no clue who Dillahunty and Mehta are.
Indeed - never heard of either of them before - who are they?

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« Reply #28 on: August 20, 2024, 07:54:45 PM »
Indeed - never heard of either of them before - who are they?

I've watched a lot of Matt Dillahunty's stuff on YouTube I have to admit.

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« Reply #29 on: August 20, 2024, 07:55:24 PM »
Is there a bit in the board membership where it lists not thinking what Matt Dillahunty thinks of Richard Dawkins.is a requirement?
They have expressed an opinion on the acts of Dawkins.
They have reported on "The Great Richard" His wonders to behold. As you might report tidings of the Pope and Priests so I occasionally report on what's happening to the high rollers in the atheist world.

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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #31 on: August 20, 2024, 07:57:20 PM »
They have expressed an opinion on the acts of Dawkins.
They have reported on "The Great Richard" His wonders to behold. As you might report tidings of the Pope and Priests so I occasionally report on what's happening to the high rollers in the atheist world.
All of this just springs from your love of "Big Dick"

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« Reply #32 on: August 20, 2024, 07:58:23 PM »
I've watched a lot of Matt Dillahunty's stuff on YouTube I have to admit.
'Don't tell him, Pike!'

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« Reply #33 on: August 20, 2024, 08:00:14 PM »
Yup - and probably many of us knew him first as an evolutionary biology of some renown who wrote a number of popular books on the topic.
Yes and it is in his case, the journey of a renowned figure in science through New Atheism down to social media notoriety


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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #34 on: August 20, 2024, 08:01:52 PM »
All of this just springs from your love of "Big Dick"
Are you saying I have a craving?

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« Reply #35 on: August 20, 2024, 08:02:33 PM »
'Don't tell him, Pike!'

Too late. Forrest Valkai too. Full disclosure .....

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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #36 on: August 21, 2024, 12:15:16 PM »
Yes and it is in his case, the journey of a renowned figure in science through New Atheism down to social media notoriety

Are you upset that atheists failed to deify Richard Dawkins. I'm very sorry, but we* don't do that sort of thing.

*"we" means some loose group of like minded atheists who do not put people on pedestals, not a community.
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« Reply #37 on: August 21, 2024, 01:38:30 PM »
I'm also a member of the not believing in chocolate teapots circling Saturn community
I have an infinite number of belief systems cos there are an infinite number of things I don't believe in.

I respect your right to believe whatever you want. I don't have to respect your beliefs.

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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #38 on: August 22, 2024, 09:06:48 AM »
I'm also a member of the not believing in chocolate teapots circling Saturn community
Which kind of puts you in the Brotherhood of the Horse laugh fallacy imo

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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #39 on: August 22, 2024, 09:55:24 AM »
Are you upset that atheists failed to deify Richard Dawkins. I'm very sorry, but we* don't do that sort of thing.
Not so much their failure to deify him, Jeremy, more their failure to defy him.


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« Reply #40 on: August 22, 2024, 10:25:07 AM »
Which kind of puts you in the Brotherhood of the Horse laugh fallacy imo
Definitly that one too. Which chapter are you in?
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« Reply #41 on: August 22, 2024, 10:39:22 AM »
Definitly that one too. Which chapter are you in?
It's a secret.

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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #42 on: August 22, 2024, 04:20:00 PM »
Is there a bit in the board membership where it lists not thinking what Matt Dillahunty thinks of Richard Dawkins.is a requirement?

Ah, but he's "a leading public atheist", it seems. Reminds me of old St. Malcolm Muggeridge, who used to talk about "leading European homosexuals" (he had in mind Somerset Maugham and Andre Gide, I think - did they lead Europe into homosexuality?).
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Re: Trouble at t'mill.
« Reply #43 on: August 22, 2024, 04:25:38 PM »
Definitly that one too. Which chapter are you in?

Damn good book, in fact. Joyce Carey, wasn't it? Sorry, Horse's Mouth....
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