I interrogated Dr. Dawkins last night with questions from the tech community. He mentioned some of the latest developments for his foundation (e.g., the ReThink Prize to “crowdsource a modern alternative to the Ten Commandments”) and showed the Penn & Teller video for Openly Secular.

Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, Penn Jillette has founded the competing United Church of Bacon. “May the Lard be with you.”

Hereby Chants (a phonetic pun) serenades us as well. One of their t-shirts read “ATHEISM: a non-prophet organization” and Dawkins shared that his favorite is “RELIGION: together we can find the cure”

9 responses to “Dinner with Richard Dawkins and Openly Secular”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    imageThe happy choir image_3With Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitterphoto

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  2. Fabio Rage Avatar
    Fabio Rage

    Long live to Richard!

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  3. Sam Halladay Avatar
    Sam Halladay

    I just read that Dawkins said we’re "morally obligated" to abort babies with down syndrome. Such a strange person.

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  4. simonkeith1 Avatar
    simonkeith1

    It shouldn’t be brave to be Openly Secular, but it is. Good on you!

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  5. simonkeith1 Avatar
    simonkeith1

    Richard the Lionheart…

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  6. Sam Halladay Avatar
    Sam Halladay

    What person made a fortune by proclaiming that there is no sin?

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  7. Sam Halladay Avatar
    Sam Halladay

    I guess that person would have to be an atheist since they don’t believe in moral absolutes which, according to that view, means that there is no sin since there is no absolute standard to judge actions by.

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  8. sbove Avatar
    sbove

    Dawkins, the high priest of fundamentalist atheism!

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  9. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Perhaps, but not in the "religious" sense. A lack of belief is not a belief. A lack of faith is not a faith.

    I think the word “atheism” carries some baggage from history and semantics. If we called it "non-theism" (a purposely awkward “lack of theism”) it might be less obvious why someone should not feel any need to explain or defend a lack of irrational belief. Do we ask what the reasons are for non-astrologers or non-flat-Earthists to walk among us? We do not even have labels for these reasonable people who lack particular beliefs. Rather, we should ask why people believe absurd things, like a specific religion, and rarely do we find good reasons, other than that they were told to do so (usually inculcated by their parental figures in a critical period of their youth)

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