Ed Dawkins on Allahu Akhbar

[winter salt]

Hahaha, this is almost provoking me to get into a fight over religions that were left by their infidels (ex-Christian vs ex-Muslim).

But should it go like "yes my religion was uglier than yours" ;
Or,
"my religion was prettier than yours" ?

In this case Dawkins is doing the latter.
But I really wanna think he's only being brutally honest and is trying to analyze his feelings about the call for prayers by two major and rival religions.

As for my feelings, whenever in NJ where I live, I hear church bells, I kinda love it and find it peaceful. And it doesn't remind me of hell or heaven. Whereas the Islamic call for prayer reminds me a lot of the claims of afterlife and its horrors.

Now, I too have difficulties about dissecting my feelings in my comparison of the two. On the one hand, because I was born in Germany and lived my early childhood there, heard church bells all the time: one has cultural roots ; and on the other hand, since I heard the Islamic call for prayer only after the age of seven when I was taken to the republic of Turkey for good, and later in my teens became heavily religious: the other also has cultural roots.

And Richard thinks he has a problem in understanding his feelings...

 

[Thor 2]

Hahaha, this is almost provoking me to get into a fight over religions that were left by their infidels (ex-Christian vs ex-Muslim).

But should it go like "yes my religion was uglier than yours" ;
Or,
"my religion was prettier than yours" ?

In this case Dawkins is doing the latter.
But I really wanna think he's only being brutally honest and is trying to analyze his feelings about the call for prayers by two major and rival religions.

As for my feelings, whenever in NJ where I live, I hear church bells, I kinda love it and find it peaceful. And it doesn't remind me of hell or heaven. Whereas the Islamic call for prayer reminds me a lot of the claims of afterlife and its horrors.

Now, I too have difficulties about dissecting my feelings in my comparison of the two. On the one hand, because I was born in Germany and lived my early childhood there, heard church bells all the time: one has cultural roots ; and on the other hand, since I heard the Islamic call for prayer only after the age of seven when I was taken to the republic of Turkey for good, and later in my teens became heavily religious: the other also has cultural roots.

And Richard thinks he has a problem in understanding his feelings...

Huh?

What the **** are you talking about?

 

[metacristi]

This is just a plain weird thing to say:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1018933359978909696?s=20

Has Dawkins cracked up a bit in his latter years?

If something 'cracked up' (a lot unfortunately) in the last 30-40 years that's the Western rationality itself, Dawkins seems to be the same thank you. Welcome to the brave new 'progressive' world The New Scientific Method: Identity Politics (no surprise that liberal progressives, in the old sense of the word, can be 'fascists' and 'bigots' these days).

 

[dudalb]

Huh?

What the **** are you talking about?

Good Question.
I am one of those who thinks that Dawkins has let the fame go to his head and he is often a pompous, obnoxious Alpha Hotel but his crap has nothing to do with legit criticism of Dawkins.