Brilliant, interview as always Dawkins shoves it back up the out.... and the joke it inspires....

Anyone know what the answer to the question was when proposed to the computer built to answer the question of whether or not there was a god, posed thusly....."Isthereagod"?......

Like a cage match that needs two more wrestlers, this is the new breed of programming mash-up.....ala lifeboat....."Who can survive the onslaught!!? There can only be only victor!!!.....OR CAN THERE???!!!! Sharpton and Indira, battle it out with Ron Jeremy and Bill Maher.....the 21 century coliseum games, for armchair delusionals.....

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter." - Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922...., if Hitler said it, that says it all...but wasn't Jesus more like Hitler??? After all, not only was he a fighter...he was a[fill in blanks to make you feel good here]....what about a symbol??? Hay-zeus and Hitler are symbolic.....ever here of Carl Jung, read that shit for a religion to follow, pretty close to Buddhism....and so it goes, we associate that which is aberrant or beautiful filtered through the lens of perception....a glass darkly?....Philip K. Dick said it, so did the Apostle Paul.....what do YOU think is wrong with this picture???

"having a brick wall handy to bang your head against for relief"-


love his too, how true also of sporting events, the fans and fetishes, all relief valves of societies contrived and controlled...Hitler was a madman, no, he tunnel visioned himself down the ultimate path of any sentient beings' destruction, who has no governor...oh, and he was the ultimate asshole.......

So...to hang on Hitler, do you make an assumption or read between the words????.....Propaganda of the kind that is broadcast for mass consumption today is the Antichrist in all her splendor.....Babylon, baby, fill yer' head with Lucky Charms and you'll be doing yourself a better dose.......

This vids an example of
Interchangable pundits of self, expressing the current paradigm in familiar, cabalistic, semantic bleats, ....an editorial, fer crissakes.......

so conflicted.. dawkins:megaupvote. o'reilly:megadownvote.

no conflict, they are one and the same....

Only on Fox News.
The Name tag reads.
Richard Dawkins: Atheist

Not even "Scientist" let alone, "ethologist" or "evolutionary biologist"

O'Reilly's audience only needs to know one thing. "Atheist"

Oh man, listening to O'Reilly in this clip explains a lot. Listening to him talk about his beliefs, the founding fathers, and the moon and tides as "physiology." However, Dawkins has tamed the Beast.

bill oreilly makes my head explode. how do he and coulter and limbaugh exist? how are they politically influential? why do i know they exist? they are like corrupt data in my brain. thinking about them makes my head hurt.

Yeah i was thinking the same thing Fedquip. Not even a Dr. or a Professor....

just plain evil Atheist with horns growing out and his fangs and shit

O'Reilly embarrasses himself and doesn't even realize it.

I feel bad for Dawkins, having to sit there and listen to the rantings of such a condescending, impolite, mental midget of a host. I just hope he (uuuh... Dawkins) did it on a lark or to sell a few more books, and didn't have any preconceived notion that this was going to be anything but an opportunity for this blowhard to grandstand and impress his FlOX of sheeple. Four minutes... typical hit-and-run Faux News format. Don't give him time to answer any questions too completely or deeply, make some asinine comments, walk over what he says, chuckle condescendingly as if he is just "way out there", more asinine comments that ignore history outright or demonstrate a complete misunderstanding (or remanufacturing) of history (cuz who's gonna check?), cut to commercial.

BTW, PostMortem, took me almost as long to read your summary as watch the video.

If anything Fletch the Publishing company probably set up the interview, Dawkins has probably knows who Bill O'Reilly is and if he didn't he was warned before appearing on the show.

Same thing with O'Reilly, he was just setup for this interview through his producers.But he probably never heard of Dawkins.
"Who is this Dawkins? What? an Athiest?! Great! Time to impress my audience with glorious Jesus talk"

True. I'm sure others set it up. Dawkins is selling a book and any press is probably good press. Even on O'Reilly's show.

I'm less and less impressed by Dawkins. He willingly goes on a show where he knows the interview time is measured in literally seconds, where the host will speak for longer and the only possible point of the exercise is to flog his book.
I would have captioned him "Professional Atheist".

this interview had nothing to do with Dawkins or atheismun but rather with O'reilly promoting himself to the masses by saying he is a jesus believer. Real religious guys don't want to really analize things because wjen they do it always end up in the same place, Iracionality or should I say blind belief...

i disagree about dawkins being about flogging his book, i think the publicity is for him trying to promote the idea of evolution, thus the book

I didn't say, or mean to give the impression, that I believe he's all about selling his book. There are plenty of Dawkins vids here that show otherwise. But when he knows he's going on O'Reilly, he HAS to know that isn't going to be a place he'll be allowed to do much promoting the idea of evolution other than a possible zinger or two. The people who watch O'Reilly for anything other than it's comedic effect would prostrate themselves if he walked into the room. I think (hope) Dawkins knows this. He probably figured four minutes with O'Reilly vs. getting a picture of "The God Delusion" on the screen is a wash. Plus, as Fedquip mentioned, he no doubt has commitments to his publishing company, and I think this was most probably just part of the promotion rounds.

BTW, for me this isn't so much a "Dawkins" video as it is a "look at O'Reilly being a jackass yet again" video.

I love how he ends his sentances by saying "ok go ahead" as if he's giving permission to the 'guest' to talk somehow. what a fucktard.

Or, he's saying "I know what stupidity you are going to say, but I'm a big guy and will now allow you to say it, even though it will be wrong".

good grief, if he'd actually let Dawkins finish a SINGLE sentence..... ugh.

Equating religion with a moral foundation makes me sick.

Oh yeah and O'Reilly: The scientific answer for the "beginning somewhere" involves proteins, electricity, and information theory. 'LOOK IT UP' ya jackass.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. Atheist societies, millions and millions murdered.

Does this mean ALL atheists are murderers? No. But the absence of successful atheist societies in all of recorded history points to this: those who place themselves or the State above the Creator (or Creation itself), lose. And deserve to.

They might as well just use the tag "Richard Dawkins: Wrong".

quantumushroom: Can you define "successful society"? I thought not. For a list of current, stable nations with a high percentage of atheists, please see this page or Google "Zuckerman atheism". You are blinded by your own ignorance.

When you point to the atrocities committed by atheists, you make yourself look like a fool. There have been uncounted atrocities committed in the name of various deities throughout history. Point your finger at atheists, and they point right back at you.

well that was weird.
why were they both so.... nice to each other? both men have a reputation for being extremely unruly and rude. Dawkins slightly less so but still.... no insults for the "god-boy"? weird.... I mean, I'm glad they both could spend at least four minutes being decent to another human being they are diametrically opposed to but wow.

Don't you just love Dawkins benevolent smile at 53secs. It's like; "oh dear, why do we rational,independant, thinkers bother to even TRY to free you brainwashed people from your infantile delusions"? It is a daunting and, at times, dangerous policy that Dawkins and the other three "horsemen of the apocalypse" pursue, but it is necessary because history will record that it was thanks to them, and those like them, that 2,000 years of dogma, subjugation and fear was ended.

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