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> Dawkins' massive waste of time preaching atheism Given the amount of harm religious extremists do, fighting them seems reasonable. If you reduce the amount o

> Dawkins' massive waste of time preaching atheism Given the amount of harm religious extremists do, fighting them seems reasonable. If you reduce the amount of religion in a society, you reduce the number and effectiveness of religious extremists. > Dawkins is a scientist, and as such should be working to teach people to conquer ignorance. Yet he'd rather spend his time alienating the people he could be enlightening. One of the worst aspects of religion, IMO, is when the religious claim that their beliefs and values deserve to be givne special status over and above everyone else's beliefs and values. This is bullshit of the first order, and needs to be fought.

electromagnetic 17y ago
Fighting religious extremists just justifies their existence, which further enhances the problem. Creationist moronism is a mainly US problem, linked directly to the abhorrent education system. Creationist belief is inversely linked to the quality of education, but instead of actually spending time increasing the quality of education and managing to spread understanding of the sciences people are wasting time fighting the extremists. It's, quite frankly, ignorant. Instead of advocating education, you're advocating wasting time. You can destroy the creationist and extremist belief through positive efforts and action towards increasing education. The 40 year olds who believe in creationism will never be educated, you have to educate the 10 year olds who haven't had their minds set in poor ways by time and lack of education. Dawkins has a remarkable talent for explaining science, and he should be targeting this towards the young. If he managed to strike the right chords, he could destroy creationist thought in the majority of that 40% of US citizens who believe during his lifetime. If he hit the next 20-years of highschool students strong and hard, the US could easily drop its creationist belief well into the ranks of the rest of the western world. Sadly, Dawkins does little more than provide fanservice to the atheist masses.

electromagnetic 17y ago

Fighting religious extremists just justifies their existence, which further enhances the problem. Creationist moronism is a mainly US problem, linked directly to the abhorrent education system. Creationist belief is inversely linked to the quality of education, but instead of actually spending time increasing the quality of education and managing to spread understanding of the sciences people are wasting time fighting the extremists. It's, quite frankly, ignorant. Instead of advocating education, you're advocating wasting time. You can destroy the creationist and extremist belief through positive efforts and action towards increasing education. The 40 year olds who believe in creationism will never be educated, you have to educate the 10 year olds who haven't had their minds set in poor ways by time and lack of education. Dawkins has a remarkable talent for explaining science, and he should be targeting this towards the young. If he managed to strike the right chords, he could destroy creationist thought in the majority of that 40% of US citizens who believe during his lifetime. If he hit the next 20-years of highschool students strong and hard, the US could easily drop its creationist belief well into the ranks of the rest of the western world. Sadly, Dawkins does little more than provide fanservice to the atheist masses.