Atheists what are your opinions on this?

Question

What do you think of this reality check by Dawkins?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfcYRKk0sa8&NR=1

Answer 1

He's telling it like it is -- it's not cruel. The man asked a question, and Dawkins answered. What's wrong with that?

Answer 2

Poor man. At least he's honest.

Answer 3

there is no reality checking when you have given your brain to god. its a never ending waste of time. i liked the other one "steven hawking takes on genesis"

Answer 4

this "reality check" is but one man's opinion on the subject & thus nothing more then "speculation!"  

Answer 5

Reality check? I do not think it matters. We will never know what happens when you die. Any creation theory is just that, a theory.

Answer 6

it's str8 up. richard is right. if he was born elsewhere, he wouldn't be saying those things.

Answer 7

Poor little Christian man

Answer 8

Haha, that guy got owned

Answer 9

A man who does not know he is delusional is insane.

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Answer 10

Owned.

Answer 11

lol-so right!

Answer 12

funny.

Answer 13

He never addressed the question.  He just danced around the issue and accused the man of suffering from hallucinations.  Not a very impressive rebuttle in my opinion.

Dawkins makes a comment about teh Ancient Greeks believing in Zeus, but he doesn't address the fact that 95% of Greece is Christian.  Something happened to the Greeks to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. This same group (Greeks) originally "laughed" at the idea of a bodily resurrection.  

Answer 14

Richard Dawkins usually approaches religion with a, and pardon the pun, holier than thou attitude. I hate that fact that he believes himself to be so much more enlightened than people who have faith. It is such a shame that he has become the face and voice of atheists when there are so many other people who would be better suited for that role (Christopher Hitchins is one such person).

With that said, he is absolutely correct in what he said. That gentleman asking the question would have felt the same way about a different god were he born and raised somewhere else. I think Mr. Dawkins handled the question the only way he could. He was not rude and he was not insulting at all.

Answer 15

Atleast; he's sincere (just like dawkins said) and respectful while stating his views. I don't think that its good to laugh at such (nice) people.

Please limit ridiculing to bigots

And please Dawkins was not being rude or disrespectful.

(And IMO; i think only Sam Harris could give some statements that even theist wouldn't consider it an attack)

Edit: tman didn't get it; there is the word "Ancient" in Ancient Greece - and it means that the choice of "which" God is just by customs (i hate it when theists intentionally avoid the messages of the statement )

And starting to today Please practice "Trivium" as a starting  lesson in Logic

Answer 16

Sounds like my mother when she first heard I'm an atheist. So sad. She was also a "devout" catholic; it broke her heart, and said that I needed to talk to the priest....O_o? Anyhow, that's the kind of thing you get when your uneducated. You can't blame me, my mother only went up to the 6th grade. And, here I am, in the U.S., getting very good grades. Straight A's throughout my middle school career, and that is what made me and atheist actually.

Still, Richard Dawkins stands correct. Of course that man wouldn't be saying those things if he was born in another part of the world. He got his question answered the only way it could, the hard way.

Also, religion, or Christianity was one of the many things that weakened the Roman Empire. Because of that, it was destined to be destroyed by the barbarians, thus destroying the Greek and Roman cultures until the Renaissance happened. That is why the majority of Greeks are Christians. Imagine if Emperor Constantine didn't make Christianity the official religion of the Byzantine Empire!

Answer 17

It sounds to me that one is simply sharing his beliefs sincerely hoping the other will accept them while the other one is simply stating that in all societies people share common beliefs or as he puts it hallucinations.  

Answer 18

What exactly did the poor hallucinating man think he was going to hear?

Answer 19

That poor little man spent 50+ years believing in a fairy tale, and will probably never know the truth. It's extremely difficult to overcome decades of religious programming, my only hope is that he doesn't infect anymore minds with religion.