In this clip Richard Dawkins dodges the question of how atheists can lay claim to morality while undermining the basis for its objectivity:<\/p>\n
<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nDawkins regales the audience with examples of what he views as stupid religiously inspired morality.<\/p>\nHe then goes on to list what he believes are \u201cgood\u201d, \u201cacceptable\u201d or \u201creasonable\u201d examples of morality, implying a he has reference by which he is judging them. If his reference is little more than a personal preference seasoned with a pinch of contemporary middle-class pseudo-reasoned tendentiousness, why would he think he has the right to impose his version morality on the rest of us; if it is an absolute reference, he has denied his own premise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this clip Richard Dawkins dodges the question of how atheists can lay claim to morality while undermining the basis for its objectivity: Dawkins regales the audience with examples of what he views as stupid religiously inspired morality. He then … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[440,2238],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-atheisism","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dawkins regales the audience with examples of what he views as stupid religiously inspired morality.<\/p>\n
He then goes on to list what he believes are \u201cgood\u201d, \u201cacceptable\u201d or \u201creasonable\u201d examples of morality, implying a he has reference by which he is judging them. If his reference is little more than a personal preference seasoned with a pinch of contemporary middle-class pseudo-reasoned tendentiousness, why would he think he has the right to impose his version morality on the rest of us; if it is an absolute reference, he has denied his own premise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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