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Who is your favourite Atheist?
I know it shouldn't have a capital A, but whatever.
I have huge respect for Dawkins. He has been very influential, and his books are great. He can be a bit pompous, but I don't think it's intentional. Ross Noble is great. There's a marvellous clip on Youtube in which he rallies against the BA staff member who insisted on wearing a cross to work. "I believe in Darwinism. You don't see me wearing a tiara with monkeys across the front (does mime starting with crouch, moving to standing up straight). I admit if they sold one, I would" Nope - my favourite sanity evangelist is Bill Maher. Yeah - uber smarmy American, but sharp as a pin. And very, very funny. |
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02-08-2012, 21:40
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02-08-2012, 21:42
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I like the athiests who don't ram their athiesm down other people's throats just like they accuse the religious of doing.
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02-08-2012, 21:43
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For me personally it would have been between Hitchens and Douglas Adams. |
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02-08-2012, 21:43
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I don't know many as I tend to not put labels on people and as long as they aren't shoving their beliefs in peoples' faces, I leave them to it.
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02-08-2012, 21:49
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George Gordon, Lord Byron. Not only a great poet but also an atheist before it got so tediously fashionable.
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02-08-2012, 21:50
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I don't believe in Atheists.
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And he's great on religion and the Republicans. |
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Woody Allen.
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02-08-2012, 21:56
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I'm a pretty rubbish atheist. As much as I try there's always that what if at the back of my mind.
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02-08-2012, 21:58
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150 years ago an atheist tried to send up Methodist literalists by utilising part of Genesis where it states "there were giants in the earth in those days". He fashioned a hoax with a fossilised giant buried in the ground. Didn't quite work out as planned, but a good effort.
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02-08-2012, 22:01
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Oscar Wilde ? sorry I misheard, I thought you said Your Favourite Aesthete.
[ Maybe DS's most subtle ever wordplay gag, I'm too good for this place, slumming it here I am  ]
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02-08-2012, 22:05
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God.
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02-08-2012, 22:10
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02-08-2012, 22:11
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Atheism isn't compelling to me so I don't respect any atheist.
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02-08-2012, 22:14
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Probably Sam Harris although he does have something interesting to say about the term 'Athiest'.
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02-08-2012, 22:18
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Philip Pullman.
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02-08-2012, 22:19
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Christopher Hitchens had a staggering intellect. I very much enjoyed his book "God is not Great", and highly recommend it.
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02-08-2012, 22:22
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Ricky Gervais. Or Tim Minchin.
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