dawkins is wrong. bringing up a child with a religious background is absolutely nothing like child abuse.

typical dawkins "intellect" on parade again. dawkins is an extremist himself.

>> ^MINK:
dawkins is wrong. bringing up a child with a religious background is absolutely nothing like child abuse.
typical dawkins "intellect" on parade again. dawkins is an extremist himself.


Read The God Delusion. John Cornwell is a lying sack of shit, his entire argument in this video is based on complete misrepresentations of what Dawkins has actually said. Most of the "summaries" of Dawkins is entirely taken out of Cornwells own head ie: "He parallels religion with a cultural virus* that's so evil** that he says its even worse then pedophile abuse***"

What a lying sack of shit. Dawkins has never said that. Anywhere. Ever.

*Yes, he calls religion a virus, but unless you're an ignorant lying piece of shit like Cornwell, you should know that the word "virus" in this context is not used in the negative, insulting way. He refers to memes, cultural ideas, including scientific ideas, by the way, as a form of virus, in the sense that, like a virus, it replicates through occupation of hosts, and like viruses, the only prerequisite for their existence is their ability to replicate.

**Viruses are not evil, nor are they good, they just are.

***No, he has never said religion is "worse than pedophile abuse", this is simply a fabrication that ranks with the last public statements of Comical Ali.
Dawkins has, with considerable restraint, and careful distinction, said that SOME forms of religious indoctrinations, (such as threats of hellfire) and the overt way of forcing religions upon children by labeling them "catholic child" or whatever, can be called a FORM OF CHILD ABUSE. He has never compared it to pedophilia or any other form of abuse.

>> ^MINK:
dawkins is wrong. bringing up a child with a religious background is absolutely nothing like child abuse.
typical dawkins "intellect" on parade again. dawkins is an extremist himself.


Many forms of religion are psychologically abusive (especially here in the south), while others are even physically abusive.

Sure, there are very positive and loving denominations of religion, but bringing a child up under the premise of "believe what you are told despite any objective evidence to the contrary" seems somewhat intellectually debilitating.

poor old men.

and as for equating religion with a virus. the statement is clearly malevolent in it's supposed neutrality.

"believe what you are told despite any objective evidence to the contrary"

that statement describes something rather general. And religion is specific. You can address it in its uniqueness. But children are taught sh*t, they are not encouraged to think for themselves, that's how thing are. That has to happen on its own. A person has to start to think for themselves BY THEMSELVES, and on their own terms. Self reflection cannot be taught, it has to be fought for, and learned BY ONESELF. The most dogmatic pricks I met in my life were kids braught up to "think for themselves"

Don't you see the paradox in that?

Religion is not a virus.. it's a bacterial disease of the mind, that is propagated by bateria dressed in black with white collars.