Re:The Westminster Declaration
by perihelions on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:28PM
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- "Most atheists are able to express their disagreement, or even opposition, to religion without expressing hatred against religion. Unfortunately, Richard Dawkins is not that sort of atheist."
Most theists are not able to express disagreement with atheists without expressing hatred of atheism. Why hold the two to wildly different standards?
edit: One of his atheist-advocate co-signers (Hirsi Ali) literally an assassination bounty on her head, and here you and others are saying the problem is academics like Dawkins saying rude words. Makes no sense. Your oppression hierarchies are inverted: you side with powerful oppressors to silence minorities, because they spoke up too much.
Most atheists are able to express their disagreement, or even opposition, to religion without expressing hatred against religion. Unfortunately, Richard Dawkins is not that sort of atheist.
I'm thankful for what Edward Snowden did. Unfortunately, even if he didn't have much choice, by fleeing to Russia he made it much easier for people to dismiss criticisms of surveillance as anti-American propaganda.
From what I've heard, John Cleese's criticism of "cancel culture" has been nuanced and reasonable. Unfortunately, a lot of people just lump him in with out of touch comedians whining that they get criticized for telling bigoted jokes. My point being; although I don't think it's fair, his inclusion is unlikely to do the Westminster Declaration any favors in terms of changing people's minds.