Richard Dawkins is one of those bad and awful atheists, along with Sam Harris, Bill Maher and the recently departed Christopher Hitchens. They are bad and awful because they actually take the fight to not only religion, but the religious. As the song goes, “Oh no, you can’t take that away from me.” People are blowing themselves up taking 20 to 50 people at a time with them most everyday at even a HINT of taking that away in any manner at all.
“Atheism is the new gay marriage.” Bill Maher, September 23 2013
The meaning behind that quote is of course that we are in for a big fast change getting rid of all this religious silliness. The so called “NONES”, those who have no religious affiliation are growing exponentially. While the Tea Party Ugly is turning people’s stomachs, and most every time an Evangelical Christian opens their mouth, we see not only the ugly but the stupid.
I would like to think Bill Maher is correct, but I live down here in dumbutt where even today the Texas Board of Education is again trying to put fundamentalist religious crap into our science books. Where MOST communities refuse to fund of eduction but have more than enough time to vote to require meeting begin with prayers to Jesus Christ. So I don’t know. But I do wonder who the good atheists are? I guess the ones who never say anything?