The Gift of Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is God’s gift to theists. You couldn’t ask for a better example of the utter buffoonery of atheism. I predict that he’ll play a big role in this blog.

Let’s start with the video that’s currently featured on the front page of his Web site (richarddawkins.net). There, in the Q&A segment of the video, you’ll find Dawkins at one point telling a questioner that she is a Christian simply because she was born into a Christian family and culture. Thus Dawkins affirms cultural determinism. And yet, later in the video he lambastes the practice of calling a child a “Christian child” or a “Muslim child”—because that child is not yet old enough to have decided for himself or herself what religion to be. Thus Dawkins denies cultural determinism. The guy is a hoot.

I’m also grateful to Dawkins for confessing in the video that atheism has no rational basis for morality (in his words atheist morality is “slightly irrational,” though he didn’t give the precise details of his formula for quantifying rationality...). Still, says Dawkins, theists offer no better basis for morality, theirs being nothing more than terror of God zapping them for not being good. It’s hard to imagine any intelligent adult having such a simple-minded concept of Christian morality. But somehow Dawkins manages it. I think it’s a gift.