Rational Is As Rational Does

Once again Dawkins presents himself as a rational moderate individual on the subject of religion. Of course, he is nothing of the kind.

Dawkins is not offering people the choice and letting them choose for themselves. When being interviewed by Lawrence Krauss, he bullied Krauss into agreeing with him that anyone who believes in anything spiritual should be banned from being a member of any profession. That means that a person who believed in anything other than absolute materialism would not be allowed to be a teacher, Doctor, Professor, lawyer, or any other profession. He wants to make this the law of the land.

I refer to this as the Atheist Inquisition.

I have no problem with atheists. I have no problem with theists. I have a problem with extremists. Dawkins loves present himself in moderate dress, but beneath the stage make up, he is an intolerant fanatic bigot.

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Permit me to also note that under Dawkins’ inquisitorial rule, Albert Einstein would have been banned from being a physicist. After all, Einstein believed in something spiritual, if he wasn’t exactly sure what it was himself. He said much on the topic, the following three quotes making my point clearly.

“A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.” (Albert Einstein)

“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.” (Albert Einstein, 1954)

“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.” (Albert Einstein)

Remember, Dawkins was insistent that any belief in anything other than absolute materialism is cause for banning membership in any profession. Einstein’s conviction that mere materialism was not an adequate explanation for the entirety of reality, while not religious in the ordinary sense, was certainly not absolutely and rigidly materialistic.