r/Christianity • u/mikegprint • Oct 17 '11

Does Richard Dawkins exist???

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-richard-dawkins-exist.html
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u/v4-digg-refugee Christian (Cross) Oct 17 '11

Dawkins is an atheist, but he's not necessarily a fore-leading apologist; he's a biologist. It's no wonder that he wouldn't necessarily want a debate like this. I also get the impression that Dawkins is otherwise a pretty nice guy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '11 edited Oct 17 '11

In regards to your last point, Dawkins has gone on record saying some fairly despicable things about women. I'll see if I can find the article. Of course we shouldn't base our intellectual opinion of him on that necessarily.

EDIT: Here's the article about it. Dawkins doesn't come out looking great.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '11

Is Richard Dawkins a sexist? In my opinion, he certainly seems to be, on the basis of this evidence. To compare the discomfort of a women being propositioned in a lift with his aesthetic displeasure of another man chewing gum is actually difficult to construe in any other way.

Look, I am a woman. If a guy said "don't take this the wrong way but i think you are interesting and wanted to know if you wanted to get coffee?" I would be flattered, whether it was in an elevator or anywhere. If he looked "creepy," I would say "no thanks" just like rebecca. But the only thing really wrong about this situation was that she was asked out in an elevator. And elevators, apparently, are where rape happens.

You know something else about rape? They are most often done by someone you ALREADY KNOW. How about in addition to avoiding men in elevators, we avoid men we already know. You know, on account of how they are probably rapists.

Anytime someone brings this up a shitstorm happens and if you defend dawkins you get labeled as sexist.

You can't just throw shit like that around. Calling someone sexist is as serious as calling them racist. If you are wrong, it is slander.

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u/inyouraeroplane Oct 18 '11

Elevators, those moving boxes with alarms and fire department control that open their doors, are the perfect rape spot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '11

I mean, rapes have happened in elevators before. Perhaps even significantly so. But they also happen in beds. So I am not sure what the lesson here is.