I am referring to the news letter dated 19 May 2015.
The phrase “How dare you offend him? How DARE you?” is addressed to a… butthurt-Christian who created an “offending” post against Richard Dawkins.
Islamists say “How dare you offend Mohamed?” and kill the offender. I guess that Jenny Del Toro would have the Christian offender flogged if she could. :-D
I do not like Dawkins myself and I do offend him every chance I get. Yesterday I called him ignorant in a reply to a post in G+.
The letter concludes as follows:
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These are some encounters Jenny has had, how about you? Let us know what types of people you have to deal with as an atheist.
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I only deal with agnostics. Would you publish a letter of mine stating my opinion of the arch-agnostic Richard Dawkins?
I very much doubt it.
P.S. It is my opinion that AR team members should participate in this board.
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Dimitrios can you post the to what you are referring to?
@Ellie Harris
I am quoting the part of the letter to which I am referring to:
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Submitted by AR team member Jenny Del Toro
1. The butthurt-Christian facebook friend
They know you didn’t post that funny Richard Dawkins meme because you thought it was hilarious, and you thought your atheist friends would also get a kick out of it, you did it because you wanted them specifically to see it. You did it just to make fun of them and they’re going to let you know how horrible you are in the comments section. How dare you offend him? How DARE you?
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I have not seen the meme in question but it makes no difference. A Christian dared offend the prophet of agnosticism Dawkins. What a crime!!
This is actually a really good point. It is tantamount to elevating someone to the level of godhood to imply they must not be ridiculed or offended.
I love me some Dawkins, but no one is "off limits".
I get that you're quoting a letter. I'm asking if you can post a link to that please.
Hi, Jenny Del Toro here, I wrote the newsletter
It seems as though you're misunderstanding the point I was trying to make, it had absolutely nothing to do with Dawkins. I was simply pointing out the Christians that take my atheist related posts as a direct attack of them.
I'm not really sure how this would be taken as me exalting Dawkins to God status, I was merely using him as an example as he's often quoted in atheist memes.
The Christian was meant to be understood as the person wondering how I dared offend them, I do not get offended by Christianity, nor do I take my Christian friends Christianity-related posts as a direct attack at me.
I'm not in charge of the newsletter, but If you would like to submit a letter I know it would be considered for publication as AR loves receiving feedback.
I don't know what you mean by arch-agnostic or else I would be able to touch on that as well.
Some info to get Dimitrios Trimijopulos in context:
He is a gnostic atheist and a militant anti-theist, who regards all other atheist as "agnostics" and he calls us "traitors to atheism".
Richard Dawkins is apparently one of our arch-agnostics.
Some more context:
http://www.atheistrepublic.com/forums/atheist-hub/unhappy-be-here#commen...
Also, he like Piña Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
: )
@BunnyMommy
“It seems as though you're misunderstanding the point I was trying to make, it had absolutely nothing to do with Dawkins. I was simply pointing out the Christians that take my atheist related posts as a direct attack of them.”
As I see it now, you should have wrote “Mohamed” instead of “Richard Dawkins”.
The phrase “How dare you?” is supposedly said by the Christian who was offended by the Mohamed/Jesus meme and not by you, offended by the Christian’s Dawkins meme.
I did misunderstand your letter and so I do apologize!
“I'm not really sure how this would be taken as me exalting Dawkins to God status, I was merely using him as an example as he's often quoted in atheist memes.”
It is not you she who exalts Dawkins, and the rest of cavalry, to prophet status, it is the entire agnostic population of this poor planet. :-)
Agnostics keep repeating all the time the axioms produced by their leaders as believers do with the sayings of their prophets and the writings of their scriptures. They are a non-freethinking flock, as the believers are.
“I don't know what you mean by arch-agnostic or else I would be able to touch on that as well.”
As explained above, I mean Shepherd of the flock of agnostics.
In your letter you are complaining about the conduct of the believers but that’s scratching the surface. The believers are not the ones promoting belief and religion. That is done by the action of Church and the State assisted by the naiveté of the so-called horsemen of agnosticism (actually of all the supposedly atheist philosophers and scholars). Dawkins, for example, preaches that we humans are psychologically primed for religion, which means that one way or the other we would end up believing in God.
Unforgivable ignorance is the source of that silly theory, because a research into the history of religion would convince anyone that the God idea is the product of an accident which gave rise to a joke that had been cleverly exploited by cunning theologians.
@Ellie-- it was in the AR newsletter today. Geez
Oh, well that explains it...
FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME THAT HAD NOT SEEN THE NEWSLETTER-
Here's the link to the actual piece. It's a bit of funny, one of those "types of friends you have on your newsfeed," type of humor piece.
http://www.atheistrepublic.com/archive/newsletter/do-you-have-one-these-...
Yep, pretty funny. And totally taken out of context in the OP. Thanks for the link.
So, he misconstrued a post and made himself look like an ass? Surprise, surprise...