{"id":1220,"date":"2007-08-21T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2007-08-21T09:41:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:41:01","slug":"the-shorter-anti-dawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"The Shorter Anti-Dawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atheists can&#8217;t be trusted with political power.\u00a0 Indeed, they must be suppressed because they are intellectual descendants of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot &#8211; atheists who murdered among them <em>at least<\/em> 55,000,000 people.\u00a0 It is by these people and their legacies that atheism must be judged, and judged without mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, atheism must be excised from public life.\u00a0 It should be regarded as the sick aberration it is.\u00a0 The souls of 55,000,000 dead demand it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No, not really.\u00a0 Let me assure my athest friends that, though I disagree with them and find no intellectual basis for atheism, I will defend their right to be politically heard.<\/p>\n<p>Which is more than your men Dawkins and Harris,\u00a0leaders of the new radical (I say &#8220;fundamentalist&#8221; or &#8220;wahabbi&#8221;) atheism\u00a0will do for me!<\/p>\n<p>I invoke the two of them, by the way, since their entire &#8220;judgement&#8221; of religion seems to be based on similar strawmen; choosing the Moslem Cartoon Rioters and Eric Rudolph and the 9\/11 hijackers and\u00a0Pat Robertson as the sole true representatives of faith.<\/p>\n<p>This is written, by the way, just after hearing Brooke Gladstone&#8217;s fawning interviews with Dawkins and Harris on last weekend&#8217;s &#8220;On the Media&#8221;.\u00a0 While OTM is the biggest and most-biased waste of tax money on the air today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/episodes\/2007\/08\/17\/segments\/83666\">last weekend&#8217;s piece<\/a> on fundamentalist atheism&#8217;s drive for a better media image was worse than most, citing those great theological resources Steven Colbert (speaking of wastes)\u00a0and the TV drama <em>House <\/em>(which I loved the first time I saw &#8211; when it was called &#8220;Doctor Perry Cox&#8221; on <em>Scrubs<\/em>, played by John C. McGinley).<\/p>\n<p>Who could possibly argue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atheists can&#8217;t be trusted with political power.\u00a0 Indeed, they must be suppressed because they are intellectual descendants of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot &#8211; atheists who murdered among them at least 55,000,000 people.\u00a0 It is by these people and their legacies that atheism must be judged, and judged without mercy. Thus, atheism must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}