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Richard Dawkins thinks religion is 'hijacking' the Bible
From here:
Religion should not be allowed to “hijack” the great cultural resource of the Bible, according to the atheist scientist Professor Richard Dawkins.
Asked by the Labour MP Frank Field, chairman of the King James Bible Trust, what the Bible meant to him, he said: “I think it is important to make the case that the Bible is part of our heritage and it doesn’t have to be tied to religion.
“It’s of historic interest, it’s of literary interest, and it’s important that religion should not be allowed to hijack this cultural resource.
“You can’t appreciate English literature unless you know something about the Greek gods. You can’t appreciate Wagner unless you know something about the Norse gods. You can’t appreciate English literature unless you are to some extent at least steeped in the King James Bible.”
This is extraordinarily absurd, even for Richard Dawkins. Without Christianity, which he so despises, there would have been no Bible; without the Church, which he so loathes, the Bible would not have been preserved and without faithful Christians, who Dawkins keeps calling idiots, no-one would have bothered to read the Bible.
Dawkins wants Christendom without Christianity, Western civilisation without the bedrock on which it was founded and morality without God. Well, he can’t have them.
If anyone is trying to hijack the Bible, it is Dawkins and his coterie of cockamamie atheists.
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The Religion of Apple
From here:
Why have companies like Apple and Google grown so explosively in the past few years and why do the brands garner such loyalty from their customers?
A team of neuroscientists scanned the brain of an Apple fan and it showed that the brand was stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith.
This goes to show that mankind’s innate need to have faith in something is so strong that, when we stop believing in God, we will substitute any convenient banality.
If Richard Dawkins’ brain were scanned while thinking about Darwin, I’m sure we’d discover that his brain was being similarly stimulated.
Extreme climate justice for Anglicans
Forget about lukewarm Earth Day Liturgical Reflections and Carbon Calculators: for serious Anglecoholics, it’s Earthalujah time:
Who’s a cowardy custard?
Richard Dawkins is because he won’t debate William Lane Craig.
From here:
Richard Dawkins has made his name as the scourge of organised religion who branded the Roman Catholic Church “evil” and once called the Pope “a leering old villain in a frock”.
But he now stands accused of “cowardice” after refusing four invitations to debate the existence of God with a renowned Christian philosopher.
A war of words has broken out between the best selling author of The God Delusion, and his critics, who see his refusal to take on the American academic, William Lane Craig, as a “glaring” failure and a sign that he may be losing his nerve.
Prof Dawkins maintains that Prof Craig is not a figure worthy of his attention and has reportedly said that such a contest would “look good” on his opponent’s CV but not on his own.
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“I have no intention of assisting Craig in his relentless drive for self-promotion,” he said.
Self-promotion is a completely alien concept to Dawkins, of course; that’s why his web site is not just a shrine to atheism but to the Great Man himself: richarddawkins.net, the “Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science – a Clear Thinking Oasis”.
Not sufficiently clear thinking to take on William Lane Craig, though.
The Earthy Bishop Cyrus Pitman
On Good Friday Bishop Cy depended on the earth for his existence: enough of that nasty cross nonsense, let’s depend on dirt instead. Why is this nincompoop a bishop?
From here:
This year, Earth Day falls on Good Friday. It is a good day to remind ourselves that we and all living beings depend upon the Earth and upon one another for our common existence. Earth Day is an opportunity to examine all we are doing to enhance where we worship, live, work, and play while we protect the planet. Many of us and many of our parishes and church groups have taken steps such as sharing, recycling, conservation, community cleanup, and outreach support.
The Anglican Church in bin Laden’s neighbourhood
From here:
Located in the heart of Abbottabad is St. Luke’s Anglican Church, a historic Gothic chapel that holds between 250 and 300 people during Sunday services.
I expect Osama occasionally used to slip in to a Sunday service for ecumenical dialogue.
Bin corrupted by the West Laden
It seems he was watching pornography in his hideaway – when he wasn’t watching himself, that is.
From here:
(Reuters) – A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday.
The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.
While this may seem not just grossly hypocritical but thoroughly odd, it actually isn’t: Muslim countries are full of men eagerly searching for “sex” on the Internet, presumably because it’s in keeping with Islam’s penchant for regarding women as objects:
According to Google Trends, over all years for which data has been gathered, seven out of the top ten countries searching for the word ’sex’ on the internet are Muslim Countries. In order of viewing, these Muslim countries are : Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Indonesia and Iran.
A new reason to ban crosses
And this one is even more farfetched than most: 
A taxi boss has hit out after one of her drivers was told to remove a religious cross from his vehicle’s dashboard – because it looked ‘very phallic’.
Clair Cook was told by her local council that her driver’s symbol should be removed because they had had a complaint from a 15-year-old schoolboy that the cross was a ‘fake penis’.
It didn’t seem occur to anyone that to a 15-year-old schoolboy almost everything looks ‘very phallic’.