Of course he has, to eradicate fairy tales and tell the provable truth about nature and life.
Yes, I have reread your posts. The only thing consistent about you, is your crude language and your sneering attitude to any attempt to find out what you are on about. What you stand for is still a mystery.
As I stated early in the thread, those in the Catholic Church (or any other organisation) responsible for perpetrating, aiding or abetting crimes should be called to account. No question about that.I might have misunderstood your point Wayne, but I thought the main point was holding to account the senior executives of an organisation that sheltered child rapists and allowed the rapists continued access to children within the organisation? The fact that Dawkins has an agenda is of only minor consequence compared to addressing the suffering of the raped children.
For example:
Lets say I was walking down Campbell Parade on Bondi Beach, on St. Patricks Day and saw a drunk Irishman being thrown out of a pub by a bouncer. The Irishman picks himself up, pulls a gun, and shoots dead the bouncer. A bystander says, just loud enough for me to hear, “I hate Irishmen”, and then proceeds to confiscate the gun and hold the shooter until the proper authorities arrive.
Does the bystander have an agenda? Yes, certainly sounds like it. Has the bystander, nevertheless, done the right thing? I think so; a murderer (alleged, LOL) has been apprehended and will go to trial.
Same with Dawkins – maybe he does have an agenda, but his plans to hold the CEO of the organization responsible for the sheltering of criminals (and also thereby allowing the criminals to re-offend) and bring him to trial, is to be commended.
I am not sure of Blair’s offences (and don’t want to take this thread further down the path off topic), but surely anyone is free to arrest him if he thinks Blair has committed a crime?
Thanks.I have no idea of your motives. But to get back to Dawkins, perhaps it is, as Tink suggested, he has an agenda and arresting Blair is not on it.
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The point is that Ratsarseinger is not the only alleged criminal to appear in the the UK.
If Squawkins is truly concerned about these things, he would be extremely active in trying to arrest a number of "leaders". But he has a bee in his bonnet about religion, clearly.
Fine, but up til now he addressed this on an intellectual level. His foray into political activism is not based in concern for humanity (as evidenced by inaction elsewhere), but by pushing his ideological barrow, perhaps even publicity wh oring.
Blair was complicit in the slaughter of Iraqi children in the prosecution of an illegal and unjustifiable invasion and occupation... amongst several other things, yet not a peep from Dawkins about that.
Dawkins is trying to eradicate the Catholic Church from Britain. Ban him coming there.
But yes....... ban the pope! If I could ban the pope from coming to Australia I would, especially if my taxes were funding it.
well well well, now you're showing your true colours Ruby
Because you dont want something it should be banned?
Such an inane comment is not worth a response
Are the ad hominum attacks on Dawkins a distraction from the issues of holding the senior executives of organisations that shelter child-rapists (and thereby allow continuation of child-rape) accountable?
Calling me brainwashed, you got a response
Although you add nothing to the debate except snide remarks, you are the only Dawkins hater here who makes no secret of being driven by religious dogma.
My bolding ... a score is 20, so 'scores' is least 40 ...No matter how you look at this tragic, never ending affair, there is unarguable evidence that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – as the Pope was known then – was directly informed of the rape of scores of German children, by one priest, Peter Hullerman, who worked in a parish under his direct control.
Not only that, but it was the very same Cardinal Ratzinger who chose not to report or defrock the priest, allowing him to undergo therapy – and go on to rape again and again.
Again, my bolding. Too many of these apologists around.Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and his steely Jesuit Press Secretary, Federico Lombardi - have spent the past week avoiding, covering up and pointing the finger at anyone and everyone in a desperate attempt to deflect accusations that in the end, the buck stops with the boss.
My view is that popes, this one and all those before him, are nothing special as people, and for the life of me I've never been able to understand why they get such adulation and hero worship among Catholics
Mate, "tragi-comic" is the kind of word someone uses when they're straining to sound intellectual. Give that a rest.
As for Hitler:
National Socialist Workers Party.
He was a socialist. Socialists are leftists. Hitler's policies were often identical to Stalin.
Hillarious - so you will take the word of a genocidal dictator at face value?
You don't suppose he was, oh, maybe trying to fool people? Get legitimacy, get trust...?
You're talking about a man who marched millions of people to death in gas chambers. He told lots of those they were going to get hot showers. For, um, trust & legitmacy.
He wouldn't have the audacity to LIE, would he?
Sorry mate but if you want to throw stones at someone who has at least a rudimentary knowledge of a subject, when you don't, you're going to look silly.
Atheism is a "thing" Get that? Or perhaps you're a little too dim. But keep trying anyway.
This thread has devolved into timewasting. Tink and Fishbulb are clearly just baiting with their meaningless one or two liners, they probably don't even believe their side of the argument, and just enjoy winding people up. As for Atlas - it's clear he isn't going change his views no matter how much logic or evidence is piled up against them.
For me, the enormity of the crime far outbalances any agenda Dawkins and Robertson have.
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