They've always been frightened of reality and so attach themselves to belief systems. Religions in America, like most other places, is on a massive downturn year on year.

@@Omnicient. Good point and statistics have confirmed this. However, I believe while religious Americans are smaller in numbers, they have become more aggressive, judgmental, racist and culturally exclusive. In other words, opposing that Jesus supposedly taught while considering themselves superior.

Indeed he is my favorite Atheist these days. TBH He was close to being a second in the days of the late great Hitch, I always loved RD's way of teaching us,educating us, This is what I love most about Him, and His style of getting the job done ..

That could very well come from those who know the jig is up as we, and they, learn more about human psychology. If they're confident in their religion they should be less threatened; less aggressive. I know someone who reminds me so much of the people in the village I was brought up in who are passionate about being Christian but their actions show the direct opposite. A friend is 'playing the system' and trying to get as much as possible out of it and told him that is not a very Christian; that he is doing what most religious do which is comfort themselves in cushioned delusions as they stand by and let their true selves do the opposite. They're too half-wittish and ill educated to know everything that is fundamental is under surfaces.

He is an international treasure

Wow! national teasure of the year....

Densegrandeduvan : English second language, is it?

Densegrandeduvan .....Do you mean 2.8 bilion years or something.....?

@@davidbanner6230 Eh? His English seems fine to me. Clearly he meant Dawkins' father and mother got to a ripe old age so hopefully he will too with the inherited aging genetics.

Dawkins is a scam artist

I do not know if we would care for a knighthood given the monarch's roots in Catholicism (or was it Christianity?)

Takes one to know one my cyber friend...You rock!

@@wulphstein I'm curious. How is Dawkins a scam artist? What snake oil did he sell to the detriment of his victims? Or do you just not know what a 'scam' is and simply fling that empty accusation at people you personally dislike? Do explain. I'm sure it'll be entertaining. Don't worry, we'll laugh at you, not with you.

@@wulphstein drive by theist comment. Why bother of you won't defend your point? The only con artists are those in holy orders

+Symmetrie Bruch For once... They normally abuse Dawkins to profile themselves.

Why is "education" in quotations marks? You think that Dawkins delivers fake education? Or you just abuse quotation marks?

The Eggbuster agree, perhaps because he’s also a great science author and broadcaster, Dr Adam Rutherford.

Mindless applause! Who would expect anything more? Only a fool!

You can always turn on the closed captions. Oh, there aren't any closed captions. :(

Use a wireless speaker

David Banner "is the flesh, the warmth, the laughter, the poetry, the music, the dinner parties, the appreciation of beauty, the compassion" You couldn't tell an atheist from a theist based on these things. Debunked.

You either didn't read _The Selfish Gene_ or you did not understand it. Specifically, you missed the point where Dawkins explicitly stated that the gene doesn't have consciousness and his explanation is not truly teleological. He points out that thinking about the gene *as if* it had a purpose it gives us a short-cut into understanding the strictly mathematical explanation behind that *apparent* purpose. The human brain has evolved (or was given by gawd, if you prefer that explanation) the ability to see agency behind events. This is useful for survival because, often, there *is* an agency behind events (like a lion wanting to eat you) and there is little penalty for seeing agency where there isn't one (thunderstorms are caused by an angry magic sky fairy). Talking about the gene being selfish is a short-cut to understanding its behaviour and the mechanisms behind it.

You could ask social services to help you with getting a room in the shelter.

@@schmetterling4477 Are you so naïve, or just plain dumb..?

I wouldn't trust an obscure and totally illogical ancient book to explain everything.

Your keyboard is broken.

@@schmetterling4477 yes

@@daliborbartos1396 Get a new one.

@@schmetterling4477 no haste

@@daliborbartos1396 Now.

So basically Einstein told you that he is an atheist who gets his kicks from the laws of nature. :-)

@@schmetterling4477 Albert wants you to know - "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth." “In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.” "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein Many atheists that I have come across... believe Einstein was an also atheist.. Yet.. how wrong they are.... The idea that Albert was an atheist is just wishful thinking that many atheists share.. if fact.. he was outspokenly against both the beliefs of the literal christians and the atheists.. because they are based on false assumptions that come from reading a book.. written by poet philosophers.. but understood by many only LITERALLY. For example.. when I say my love is like a red red rose.. it is true.. metaphorically speaking.. if you get my drift.. but foolish to understand it literally.. don't you agree? Women who resemble flowers do not exist.. in a literal sense.. Concerning atheist and literal christian beliefs.. Joseph Campbell wrote - "Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” The image of something supernatural arises from confusing symbolism with supernatural.. metaphors with miracle stories.. and poetry with prose.. GOD - is basically a word for the poets.. THE BOTTOM LINE BEING... “We living beings all belong to one another, we are all actually members.. or aspects.. of a single Being, which we may in western terminology call God, while in the Upanishads it is called Brahman.”- Erwin Schrödinger “We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.” ― Buddha "The source and limit and the constitution of all things is God." - Corpus Hermeticum

I live in Australia and work in charities/ community services. Very few believers in my work, ever. I'm thinking your claim only holds true for your culture.

Plato was an idiot. What else you got? ;-)