D'Souza Uses Virginia Tech Tragedy to bash Atheists

what an effing dirty exploitative scum bag. Though I have to say I do like many of the responses to his ranting diatribe of hatred.
 
LawnOven said:
Though I have to say I do like many of the responses to his ranting diatribe of hatred.
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Indeed. I just read through about 3 pages of responses and they're almost unanimous in their condemnation of D'Souza.
 
His piece was short, had poor logic, was not by any means eloquent, and the premise was retarded too. Thinly veiled bigotry.

Then again, I have no idea who this guy is but his blog is posted on AOL.
 
To no one's surprise, Dawkins has not been invited to speak to the grieving Virginia Tech community. What this tells me is that if it's difficult to know where God is when bad things happen, it is even more difficult for atheism to deal with the problem of evil. The reason is that in a purely materialist universe, immaterial things like good and evil and souls simply do not exist. For scientific atheists like Dawkins, Cho's shooting of all those people can be understood in this way--molecules acting upon molecules.

If this is the best that modern science has to offer us, I think we need something more than modern science.
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Uh dude get a grip, what about grief counseling that is providied by non religous counselors
 
Well, the "video games caused it" theory fell apart today when it turned out the guy had no video games in his dorm room.

So the savages need another cause to blame.
 
Beerina said:
Well, the "video games caused it" theory fell apart today when it turned out the guy had no video games in his dorm room.

So the savages need another cause to blame.
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Aww those poor talking heads. I feel so bad for them; what an unlucky break.

What about the rap musics? Any rap music?
 
LawnOven said:
Aww those poor talking heads. I feel so bad for them; what an unlucky break.

What about the rap musics? Any rap music?
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According to some reports, he listened to Collective Soul's song "Shine" over and over and over again. I think that's enough to drive anyone mad.
 
Though innocent people died...and we can assume prayed for deliverence from this shooter to a god that either didn't hear, with-held from them or judged them worthy of death ...athiests are supposed to have a problem figuring out what to say?
 
I suppose this guy missed Cho's comparing himself to Jesus Christ in the video he sent to CNN?
 
D'Souza said:
To no one's surprise, Dawkins has not been invited to speak to the grieving Virginia Tech community. What this tells me is that if it's difficult to know where God is when bad things happen, it is even more difficult for atheism to deal with the problem of evil. The reason is that in a purely materialist universe, immaterial things like good and evil and souls simply do not exist. For scientific atheists like Dawkins, Cho's shooting of all those people can be understood in this way--molecules acting upon molecules.

If this is the best that modern science has to offer us, I think we need something more than modern science.
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The guy's a moron.

Moving on.
 
This does bring up an interesting issue for unbelievers like me however: What do you say when you need to console people? You can't honestly tell them "s/he's in a better place now" or "with the angels." IMO Religion is a white lie we tell ourselves because death is so terrifying. In the stages of grief there is a "bargaining" stage, and perhaps this is where religion comes in. An all-powerful God rewards the righteous and punishes the evildoers. It would be a comforting thought if only I could believe it.
 
I did read D'Souza's short book _Letters to a Young Conservative_. It's not so terrible! It's filled with simple talking points and slogans for the budding young Republican. D'Souza got his name race-baiting back in the days of _The Dartmouth Review_ (he's one of THOSE conservatives), and you'll occasionally catch him attacking atheism, Dawkins, Dennett, etc. I have no idea why he harps on Dawkins here. Why would anyone think of calling in a scientist? I wonder when people are going to really start playing up the rich kid hating/Christian hating angle.

That said, I think Puppycow has a point. When something bad happens to a person religious people will immediately offer their prayers. "I'll pray for you." What do we have? Yes, you could say, "your family is in my thoughts," but what does that mean? It's not as pro-active sounding. Plus you can't add the comfort of religion: "Yes, she died painfully and pointlessly in a cold, indifferent world." Instead we're reduced to "learning a lesson" or "preventing a future tragedy" or "honoring her memory," and so on. Hey, "God works in mysterious ways," and at the end of the day, "everything happens for a reason."
 
LawnOven said:
Well, the "video games caused it" theory fell apart today when it turned out the guy had no video games in his dorm room.

So the savages need another cause to blame.
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Aww those poor talking heads. I feel so bad for them; what an unlucky break.

What about the rap musics? Any rap music?
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Ya know, I'd at least give them some respect if they'd just learn from this. The danger, the "oops" that would have happened had the guy just happened to have video games in his dorm room. Yet we know that, since he didn't, that, had they been there, they would have been irrelevant.

If just one of these bozos would realize this and be careful before drawing conclusions. But I know that's too much to ask. Just one anti-video game guy to say, "Ya know, we almost blew it big time here assuming video games caused it -- can you imagine if they were in the dorm room? We'd be all like 'See? Told ya!' and we would be believing this as confirmation, when in fact it would have been irrelevant. This lack of judgement on my part scares the Hell out of me. I cannot trust my own reasoning abilities. I shall be much careful in the future."
 
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corplinx said:
His piece was short, had poor logic, was not by any means eloquent, and the premise was retarded too. Thinly veiled bigotry.
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"Thinly veiled"? Where was the veil? I must have missed it.
 
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