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Old 09-12-2013, 12:25 AM   #21
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I would love for Richard Dawkins to just go away. As an atheist, I hate that he was somehow annointed as the spokeperson for the atheist community. He just taints us all and it's embarrassing to be associated with it.
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Old 09-12-2013, 06:17 AM   #22
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Since joining our organization in Iceland (humanist group) and being involved with organizing speakers and getting to know a lot of the bigger names in the atheist, skeptic, and humanist movements; I have learned things about Dawkins that are common knowledge amongst "insiders" that do not pain him in a very good light.

This new thing only make him more persona non grata in the movement and I know that with us in Iceland, we have no interest in having him speak anytime soon.

He may have been one of those people who started this new atheism movement off, but thankfully he's no longer a leader in that movement, so many others have stepped up and diversified the old white man group that was at the core of this movement 10 years ago.
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Old 09-12-2013, 07:02 AM   #23
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So, my dad was a drunk and was often laying in the middle of the kitchen floor in his pissed pants when I got home from school. Sometimes it was the beedroom, and sometimes it was the field behind the Cold Beer store. I think I turned out fine, because for me that was a normal childhood.

If it wasn't a normal childhood, how would I even have been able to tell at that time in my life?

You can't possibly say that it didn't impact him with any certainty, which is kind of ironic, based on what his position on things like religion etc.
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Old 09-12-2013, 08:16 AM   #24
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And here I thought this thread was going to be about the original run of Family Feud.
Colour me embarrassed.
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