Richard Dawkins risked excommunication and more recently by making a scintillating speech attacking His Holiness the Pope, Pontiff, Bishop of Rome, etc., etc.,and stating that "Joseph Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity... He's an enemy of children, whose bodies he's allowed to be raped and whose minds he's encouraged to be infected with guilt. Blah, blah, blah... He's an enemy of gay people... .blah, blah, blah. He's an enemy of women, barring them from the priesthood as though a penis were an essential tool for pastoral duties. Blah, blah, lies, condoms, AIDS, Africa, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." It is marvelous how well Richard has picked up Christopher's well-honed style of mixing boldfaced untruth, half-baked innuendo, deep-fried distortion and self-righteous indignation.
Actually, though, my spies tell me that Prof. Dawkins may not have actually made this speech at all. In the video, you can clearly see the notorious pedophilia apologist Peter Tatchell with his hand thrust up the back of Richard's jacket. Could he be ventriloquizing the professor? After all, this is supposed to be the same Prof. Dawkins who admits to being a victim of pedophilia at boarding school and yet denies that it caused him any harm worse than embarrassment. The same Prof. Dawkins who has filled children with self-loathing and guilt by preaching his own version of original sin, namely, that we are each created literally stacked from floorboards to rafters with selfish genes? The same Prof. Dawkins who has nothing but friendship, goodwill and camaraderie for that incorrigible old genocide apologist Christopher Hitchens? Un-flipping believable!
Dawkins declined to tell those lapping up his purple prose that, in 2006, he had written that “we live in a time of hysteria about pedophilia” and that “All three of the boarding schools I attended employed teachers whose affection for small boys overstepped the bounds of propriety. That was indeed reprehensible. Nevertheless, if fifty years on, they had been hounded by vigilantes or lawyers as no better than child murderers, I should have felt obliged to come to their defense, even as the victim of one of them (an embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience).” Dawkins even wrote that “I can’t help wondering if [the Catholic Church] has been unfairly demonized over this issue.”
On Tatchell, please read Peter Hitchens's recent blog post here.
"For on June 26, 1997, Mr Tatchell wrote a start ling letter to the Guardian newspaper.In it, he defended an academic book about ‘Boy-Love’ against what he saw as calls for it to be censored. When I contacted him on Friday, he emphasised that he is ‘against sex between adults and children’ and that his main purpose in writing the letter had been to defend free speech. He told me: ‘I was opposing calls for censorship generated by this book. I was not in any way condoning paedophilia.’ Personally, I think he went a bit further than that. He wrote that the book’s arguments were not shocking, but ‘courageous’. He said the book documented ‘examples of societies where consenting inter-generational sex is considered normal’.He gave an example of a New Guinea tribe where ‘all young boys have sex with older warriors as part of their initiation into manhood’ and allegedly grow up to be ‘happy, well-adjusted husbands and fathers’.And he concluded: ‘The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends – gay and straight, male and female – had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.‘While it may be impossible to condone paedophilia, it is time society acknowledged the truth that not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive and harmful.’ "
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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