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		<title>By: Disputing respectfully? &#171; Open Parachute</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-90538</link>
		<dc:creator>Disputing respectfully? &#171; Open Parachute</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] also: Thank You, Richard Dawkins Blogging Heads: Science Saturday &#8211; The early Universe: Sean Carroll &amp; Mark [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Serdan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-77447</link>
		<dc:creator>Serdan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 19:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Matt,
&quot;This tells the story of a Jew who was forced to dig his own grave prior to being shot by a German soldier. Prior to being shot, the old Jewish man advised the German that “God is watching what you are doing.” The Jewish gentleman pointed what i think is the real problem with atheism.&quot;

I love the irony. What the Jewish man failed to realize was that the German soldier was overwhelmingly likely to be a Christian, who believed the slaughter of Jews to be the will of God. This, I think, demonstrates the real problem with theism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt,<br />
&#8220;This tells the story of a Jew who was forced to dig his own grave prior to being shot by a German soldier. Prior to being shot, the old Jewish man advised the German that “God is watching what you are doing.” The Jewish gentleman pointed what i think is the real problem with atheism.&#8221;</p>
<p>I love the irony. What the Jewish man failed to realize was that the German soldier was overwhelmingly likely to be a Christian, who believed the slaughter of Jews to be the will of God. This, I think, demonstrates the real problem with theism.</p>
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		<title>By: Aquaria</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-77433</link>
		<dc:creator>Aquaria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 16:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can tell how many people didn&#039;t really read the book, or ad read it without really thinking about it. The whole time the words passed before their eyes it was Unh unh, like some four year old being told Santa Claus doesn&#039;t exist. Then again, most of them don&#039;t read their delusional fairy tale book with any more critical ability. Very few of them seem to have read it all the way through.

And I just love how all these theists come in talking about bankrupt thinking, morals, ideas, etc., when they haven&#039;t had an original idea since the 16th century, and they follow a decadent, perverted morality that progress keeps nullifying. Your invisible friend is being consigned to smaller and smaller gaps, and more and more of his &quot;Word&quot; is having to convert to metaphor. At what point will enough people realize that it&#039;s &lt;i&gt;all metaphor&lt;/i&gt;, and that it offers less in the way of morality than a kindergarten class&#039;s rules and far less consolation and insight than even your average self-help book?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can tell how many people didn&#8217;t really read the book, or ad read it without really thinking about it. The whole time the words passed before their eyes it was Unh unh, like some four year old being told Santa Claus doesn&#8217;t exist. Then again, most of them don&#8217;t read their delusional fairy tale book with any more critical ability. Very few of them seem to have read it all the way through.</p>
<p>And I just love how all these theists come in talking about bankrupt thinking, morals, ideas, etc., when they haven&#8217;t had an original idea since the 16th century, and they follow a decadent, perverted morality that progress keeps nullifying. Your invisible friend is being consigned to smaller and smaller gaps, and more and more of his &#8220;Word&#8221; is having to convert to metaphor. At what point will enough people realize that it&#8217;s <i>all metaphor</i>, and that it offers less in the way of morality than a kindergarten class&#8217;s rules and far less consolation and insight than even your average self-help book?</p>
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		<title>By: Post-Christian America &#124; Cosmic Variance &#124; Discover Magazine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-70477</link>
		<dc:creator>Post-Christian America &#124; Cosmic Variance &#124; Discover Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] about arrogance and &#8220;fundamentalist atheists&#8221; notwithstanding, the exhortations of Richard Dawkins and his ilk have had something to do with it. If nothing else, they provide clear examples of [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] about arrogance and &#8220;fundamentalist atheists&#8221; notwithstanding, the exhortations of Richard Dawkins and his ilk have had something to do with it. If nothing else, they provide clear examples of [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The Sacred &#124; Cosmic Variance &#124; Discover Magazine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-61343</link>
		<dc:creator>The Sacred &#124; Cosmic Variance &#124; Discover Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] how &#8220;sophisticated&#8221; approaches to religion are not any better, and how Dawkins has served an extremely valuable rhetorical purpose. But there is a deeper point, which is consistently missed by the [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Robin Edgar</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-24980</link>
		<dc:creator>Robin Edgar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Richard Dawkins, for inspiring &#039;The Atheist Supremacist&#039;s Song&#039;. . .

&#039;The Atheist Supremacist&#039;s Song&#039;

aka &#039;I Am The Very Model Of An Atheist Supremacist&#039;

I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist
I&#039;m an Intellectual, Evangelical, Godless Evolutionist
I know the crimes of Christians, and I quote their fights historical
From Jerusalem to Ireland, in order categorical

I&#039;m very well acquainted, too, with matters biological
I understand equivocation, both scientific and theological
About the &quot;Holey Bible&quot; I&#039;m teeming with a lot o&#039; news
With many fearful facts about Christians and the Jews

With many fearful facts about Christians and the Jews
With many fearful facts about Christians and the Jews
With many fearful facts about Christians and those darn Jews

I&#039;m very good at bigotry and anti-religious insults
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters biological, theological, and religious
I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist

In short, in matters biological, theological, and religious
He is the very model of an Atheist Supremacist

I know God&#039;s mythic history, from Osiris to the (Day of Yule)
I answer to my critics, I&#039;ve a petty taste for ridicule
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In comics I will fight those other gods who are so fabulous

I can&#039;t tell undoubting Muslims from Bahá&#039;ís or Zoroastrians
But know the croaking chorus from those corpse-cold Unitarians
Then I can hum a fugue of which I&#039;ve heard the music&#039;s Rapical
And whistle at the &quot;fairy tales&quot; of infernal nonsense Biblical

And whistle at the &quot;fairy tales&quot; of infernal nonsense Biblical
And whistle at the &quot;fairy tales&quot; of infernal nonsense Biblical
And whistle at the &quot;fairy tales&quot; of infernal nonsense oh so Biblical

Then I can write a bashing book of Biblical enormity
And tell you ev&#039;ry detail of Creationism&#039;s deformity
In short, in matters biological, Biblical, and religious
I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist

In short, in matters biological, Biblical, and religious
He is the very model of an Atheist Supremacist

In fact, when I know what is meant by &quot;Babylon&quot; and &quot;churlish&quot;
When I can tell at sight a Mormon from a Whirling Dervish
When such affairs as prayers and &quot;crackers&quot; I&#039;m more wary at
And when I know precisely what is meant by &quot;Eat your hat&quot;

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern funnery
When I know more of tactlessness than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I&#039;ve a smattering of fundamental strategy
You&#039;ll say a better atheist had never spat at G

You&#039;ll say a better atheist had never spat at G
You&#039;ll say a better atheist had never spat at G
You&#039;ll say a better atheist had never ever spat at G

For my religious knowledge, though it&#039;s narrowy and shallowy
Has only been brought down to the early Nineteenth century
But still, in matters theological, minimal, and religious
I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist

But still, in matters theological, minimal, and religious
He is the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Richard Dawkins, for inspiring &#8216;The Atheist Supremacist&#8217;s Song&#8217;. . .</p>
<p>&#8216;The Atheist Supremacist&#8217;s Song&#8217;</p>
<p>aka &#8216;I Am The Very Model Of An Atheist Supremacist&#8217;</p>
<p>I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist<br />
I&#8217;m an Intellectual, Evangelical, Godless Evolutionist<br />
I know the crimes of Christians, and I quote their fights historical<br />
From Jerusalem to Ireland, in order categorical</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very well acquainted, too, with matters biological<br />
I understand equivocation, both scientific and theological<br />
About the &#8220;Holey Bible&#8221; I&#8217;m teeming with a lot o&#8217; news<br />
With many fearful facts about Christians and the Jews</p>
<p>With many fearful facts about Christians and the Jews<br />
With many fearful facts about Christians and the Jews<br />
With many fearful facts about Christians and those darn Jews</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very good at bigotry and anti-religious insults<br />
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous<br />
In short, in matters biological, theological, and religious<br />
I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</p>
<p>In short, in matters biological, theological, and religious<br />
He is the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</p>
<p>I know God&#8217;s mythic history, from Osiris to the (Day of Yule)<br />
I answer to my critics, I&#8217;ve a petty taste for ridicule<br />
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus<br />
In comics I will fight those other gods who are so fabulous</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t tell undoubting Muslims from Bahá&#8217;ís or Zoroastrians<br />
But know the croaking chorus from those corpse-cold Unitarians<br />
Then I can hum a fugue of which I&#8217;ve heard the music&#8217;s Rapical<br />
And whistle at the &#8220;fairy tales&#8221; of infernal nonsense Biblical</p>
<p>And whistle at the &#8220;fairy tales&#8221; of infernal nonsense Biblical<br />
And whistle at the &#8220;fairy tales&#8221; of infernal nonsense Biblical<br />
And whistle at the &#8220;fairy tales&#8221; of infernal nonsense oh so Biblical</p>
<p>Then I can write a bashing book of Biblical enormity<br />
And tell you ev&#8217;ry detail of Creationism&#8217;s deformity<br />
In short, in matters biological, Biblical, and religious<br />
I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</p>
<p>In short, in matters biological, Biblical, and religious<br />
He is the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</p>
<p>In fact, when I know what is meant by &#8220;Babylon&#8221; and &#8220;churlish&#8221;<br />
When I can tell at sight a Mormon from a Whirling Dervish<br />
When such affairs as prayers and &#8220;crackers&#8221; I&#8217;m more wary at<br />
And when I know precisely what is meant by &#8220;Eat your hat&#8221;</p>
<p>When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern funnery<br />
When I know more of tactlessness than a novice in a nunnery<br />
In short, when I&#8217;ve a smattering of fundamental strategy<br />
You&#8217;ll say a better atheist had never spat at G</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll say a better atheist had never spat at G<br />
You&#8217;ll say a better atheist had never spat at G<br />
You&#8217;ll say a better atheist had never ever spat at G</p>
<p>For my religious knowledge, though it&#8217;s narrowy and shallowy<br />
Has only been brought down to the early Nineteenth century<br />
But still, in matters theological, minimal, and religious<br />
I am the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</p>
<p>But still, in matters theological, minimal, and religious<br />
He is the very model of an Atheist Supremacist</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-24979</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would highly suggest for you, and any one else interested to read the book &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jaajoe.com/Books/Book-Review-The-Devil-s-Delusion-Atheism-And-Its-Scientific-Pretensions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Devil&#039;s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; by self-professed secular Jew and mathematics/philosophies teacher David Berlinski.
This tells the story of a Jew who was forced to dig his own grave prior to being shot by a German soldier. Prior to being shot, the old Jewish man advised the German that &quot;God is watching what you are doing.&quot; The Jewish gentleman pointed what i think is the real problem with atheism. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jaajoe.com/Books/Book-Review-The-Devil-s-Delusion-Atheism-And-Its-Scientific-Pretensions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;If you have the time please check the book out&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would highly suggest for you, and any one else interested to read the book &#8220;<a href="http://jaajoe.com/Books/Book-Review-The-Devil-s-Delusion-Atheism-And-Its-Scientific-Pretensions.html" rel="nofollow">&#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions.&#8221;</a> by self-professed secular Jew and mathematics/philosophies teacher David Berlinski.<br />
This tells the story of a Jew who was forced to dig his own grave prior to being shot by a German soldier. Prior to being shot, the old Jewish man advised the German that &#8220;God is watching what you are doing.&#8221; The Jewish gentleman pointed what i think is the real problem with atheism. &#8220;<a href="http://jaajoe.com/Books/Book-Review-The-Devil-s-Delusion-Atheism-And-Its-Scientific-Pretensions.html" rel="nofollow">If you have the time please check the book out</a></p>
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		<title>By: John Knight</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-24977</link>
		<dc:creator>John Knight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Richard Dawkins, for showing us how thoroughly unsophisticated your atheist dogma really is.

The radical empiricism of the Dawkinite herd is logically self-defeating.  It is thus no surprise that he does not systematically address basic questions of epistemology in his great big book.  And so we should thank Richard Dawkins for his unreflective, unserious tome.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Richard Dawkins, for showing us how thoroughly unsophisticated your atheist dogma really is.</p>
<p>The radical empiricism of the Dawkinite herd is logically self-defeating.  It is thus no surprise that he does not systematically address basic questions of epistemology in his great big book.  And so we should thank Richard Dawkins for his unreflective, unserious tome.</p>
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		<title>By: atheista org in encyclopedia of associations</title>
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		<dc:creator>atheista org in encyclopedia of associations</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Great Mission To ... Pantheists (see the web entry for pantheism in the Stanford encyclopedia of ...http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/eSights WebGuide - Art and Music... http://nowscape.com/atheista.011 &#183; Please title this [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Great Mission To &#8230; Pantheists (see the web entry for pantheism in the Stanford encyclopedia of &#8230;http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/eSights WebGuide &#8211; Art and Music&#8230; <a href="http://nowscape.com/atheista.011" rel="nofollow">http://nowscape.com/atheista.011</a> &middot; Please title this [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Sargeist</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/02/14/thank-you-richard-dawkins/comment-page-2/#comment-24946</link>
		<dc:creator>Sargeist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These list commons by Zarove dimonstrant who dufficlit it is to crimpyhand a post writed by sumwon how canute spill.

God damn you! After I spent all that effort trying to make sense of yuor tronspased letters, I fnid taht yuo&#039;re tlaking billhooks.

&quot;Belief with confidence&quot;? Hang on, I think my anus just prolapsed. &quot;I really believe it, lots and lots, oh yes, look at how much I believe it.&quot; This is entirely irrelevant to its truth status.

I sincerely hope that I have just misunderstood your post, and that it is actually a genius piece of parody.

Oh... bugger it, I simply can&#039;t let it go. What is &quot;unscientific&quot; about wanting to enjoy sex? How do you get from &quot;enjoy sex&quot; to &quot;casual sex is ok?&quot; Is this the same kind of leap you kind of people make from &quot;You can&#039;t prove there isn&#039;t a god&quot; to &quot;Jesus was born of a virgin, performed miracles and was the son of god&quot;?

Aaaaaarrrrggggghhhhh! Ooops, hold on, that&#039;s my ARSE falling out again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These list commons by Zarove dimonstrant who dufficlit it is to crimpyhand a post writed by sumwon how canute spill.</p>
<p>God damn you! After I spent all that effort trying to make sense of yuor tronspased letters, I fnid taht yuo&#8217;re tlaking billhooks.</p>
<p>&#8220;Belief with confidence&#8221;? Hang on, I think my anus just prolapsed. &#8220;I really believe it, lots and lots, oh yes, look at how much I believe it.&#8221; This is entirely irrelevant to its truth status.</p>
<p>I sincerely hope that I have just misunderstood your post, and that it is actually a genius piece of parody.</p>
<p>Oh&#8230; bugger it, I simply can&#8217;t let it go. What is &#8220;unscientific&#8221; about wanting to enjoy sex? How do you get from &#8220;enjoy sex&#8221; to &#8220;casual sex is ok?&#8221; Is this the same kind of leap you kind of people make from &#8220;You can&#8217;t prove there isn&#8217;t a god&#8221; to &#8220;Jesus was born of a virgin, performed miracles and was the son of god&#8221;?</p>
<p>Aaaaaarrrrggggghhhhh! Ooops, hold on, that&#8217;s my ARSE falling out again.</p>
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