(01-14-2016 01:57 AM)pants Wrote: Basically he is saying Christianity ls better than Islam when it comes to violence. I think he have held this opinion for quite some time already.
And to the comment on stupid atheist, i don't think dawkins is one of them, and atheist have on average higher IQ than religious people.
An atheist who goes commenting on something largely outside his field of expertise isn't much better than the standard ignorant atheist who parrots Flying Spaghetti Monster memes. Even Augustine of Hippo used to lecture Christians back in the year 400 or so that they had to stay abreast of current science or at least have a working knowledge of science or risk looking like idiots.
I've no doubt Dawkins is a passionate and intelligent biologist and ethnologist. But that's as far as his expertise takes him. He's neither a philosopher nor a theologian and those gaps in his education gape pretty large when you see the arguments he makes against the existence of God. Even other theoretical physicists -- Higgs for one -- have criticised his stance on atheism as just as bad as the fundamentalist idiots he rails against.
I never really considered theology a real study, so i can't discredit him on that basis, philosophers we all are.
What i really consider relevant is evolutionary psychology, which he have spent a lot of time on. Have you read his book the God Delusion?
And what comment did you really disagree with him on regarding violent christians?
(01-14-2016 02:25 AM)syrianguy Wrote: What a disgusting sight those kids. Similar thing happened in a US where, under the veil of learning Arabic, kids were reciting the Shahada ( all you need to become a muslim technically). There has to be a conscious effort to destroy christianity.
(01-14-2016 01:57 AM)pants Wrote: Basically he is saying Christianity ls better than Islam when it comes to violence. I think he have held this opinion for quite some time already.
And to the comment on stupid atheist, i don't think dawkins is one of them, and atheist have on average higher IQ than religious people.
Is that a fact ? Link me to the study please.
I would like you to do an exercise, look at the most influential inventions and scientific discoveries of the last 100 years. Now tell me how many were achieved by atheists versus devout Christians.
(01-14-2016 03:14 AM)pants Wrote: What i really consider relevant is evolutionary psychology, which he have spent a lot of time on. Have you read his book the God Delusion?
I did, but agreed, let's not clog up the thread with this issue.
Quote:And what comment did you really disagree with him on regarding violent christians?
None, if you're referring to his recent comments, because they're simple pragmatism on his part. He seems to have come round to Sam Harris's view: that even if you don't like Christianity it's been in a co-evolutionary spiral with liberal thought for centuries now, and if it comes to a stupid war of moral equivalence, Christianity wins out by far over Islam. As Dan Simmons rather eruditely puts it: Christianity has only required the blood of one martyr for its God, and he was crucified long ago.
http://www.thelocal.de/20160114/maddened...-to-merkel
It's a start. Although it will take many many more German people to take similarly principled stands to affect any change in Merkel's madness.
On a related note, Stefan Molyneux has been going against standard libertarian lines of late to face down open borders activitists on his show (freedomainradio)
He's pointing out how open borders only works in a free society, but open borders in a welfare state is tantamount to violence on a population.
i.e. it's a greater initiation of force on a country to open the borders to third worlders than it is to close those borders. http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3170/dusty-...y-1st-2016
It's the second conversation on here (although the first one with the Iranian guy living in Canada is also excellent).
This is ammunition should anyone need it (who's engaging with open borders activists) of how open borders to these invaders is immoral.
(01-14-2016 02:37 AM)Glaucon Wrote: This whole Muslim clusterfuck is turning me more and more toward Christianity. We really need that or we perish. Fuck this atheist nihilism, its disgusting. I was mocking Christianity when I was younger and ignorant, boy I admit I was really wrong. I have a friend who lives a more Christian live, and quite religious, I own him a big apology.
I was in a small German town Waldshut-Tiengen 2 weeks ago on a Sunday morning, and I was amazed that seemingly the whole town was going en masse to the church for the Sunday sermon. It was really nice to see.
That place looks like it just popped out from the Renaissance, amazingly beautiful, and white. I hate living in a big city, but this just makes me want more to move out to some small town.
Small towns tend to have more conservative values than big cities, and dangerous situations move people toward more conservatives ideas and values, look how Europeans are arming themselves with guns, the same Europeans that blast Americans for owning guns and saying there is not use for them, yet, shotguns are sold out, expect stuff like this, Europe was able to reject Christianity in times of abundance and safety, once that is gone, people will come back to it.
Note: remember women were the first to convert to Christianity, we could see a re-conversion in the next years from women.
(01-14-2016 06:19 AM)Dan Woolf Wrote: Female employees of the Finnish Red Cross working at the refugee centers are having sex with male asylum seekers:
Next time it would be nice if in addition to a catchy headline you (and all other posters linking to non-English news) could also provide at least a short summary or translation of what the article says.
I think most RVF members and readers don't speak Finnish, and even google translate has difficulties with a minor language like that.
Thank you already in advance.
Atheism does not have to be necessarily nihilistic towards Islam or other religion simply because it does not come with an assorted "Book on ethics".
The current Islamic threat must be fought as the previous abuses of Christianity were tackled in the Enlightenment. Though this time the approach will probably have to be more violent instead of scientific..
(01-14-2016 07:17 AM)The Thraex Wrote: Video shows a group of "refugees" attacking a man who they do not know has a concealed carry license and a firearm.
On this video, that was broadcast on French TV, the men attacked by these young sub-Saharan immigrants (who were or were not Muslims, who knows, but were probably not recent "refugees") were plain-clothes police officers.
You need to live in France to distinguish between new-comers "refugees-rapefugees" and (often second-generation immigrants) local "racailles de banlieue" (suburban muggers). In the video, it's the suburban muggers, against plain-cloth policemen.
Still, the video is interesting: the French policemen (cowardly? well, yes, but only thing they are afraid of, is legal and career problems arising if they hit a sub-saharan) back away from the muggers , who throw stones at them... but believe me, if you throw stones at a policeman in France, you'll get thrown to the ground, handcuffed and taken to a judge then jailed 3 months... Normal, legal hard-working citizens can't do anything for fear of the law, whereas young suburban-muggers do whatever they want, in the name of Islam or not...
(01-14-2016 07:17 AM)The Thraex Wrote: Video shows a group of "refugees" attacking a man who they do not know has a concealed carry license and a firearm.
On this video, that was broadcast on French TV, the men attacked by these young sub-Saharan immigrants (who were or were not Muslims, who knows, but were probably not recent "refugees") were plain-clothes police officers.
You need to live in France to distinguish between new-comers "refugees-rapefugees" and (often second-generation immigrants) local "racailles de banlieue" (suburban muggers). In the video, it's the suburban muggers, against plain-cloth policemen.
Still, the video is interesting: the French policemen (cowardly? well, yes, but only thing they are afraid of, is legal and career problems arising if they hit a sub-saharan) back away from the muggers , who throw stones at them... but believe me, if you throw stones at a policeman in France, you'll get thrown to the ground, handcuffed and taken to a judge then jailed 3 months... Normal, legal hard-working citizens can't do anything for fear of the law, whereas young suburban-muggers do whatever they want, in the name of Islam or not...
Yup, and this shit is just going to get worse and worse and worse until those monkeys realize that there will be significant smack-down in cases like this. Meaning the cop makes a call and five minutes later a SWAT team moves in and stomps those assholes. After that fast track through the court and minimum sentences without parole.
It's incredible that we let these things happen here in Europe. What most also don't realize is that each event like this is a setup for even more escalation. I mean think about it - how would you feel if you could roam the streets with your pals, pinching and sexually harassing girls/women, robbing people, steal shit - most of which remains unpunished? Especially if you have an IQ of < 80 and a natural disposition toward violence and conflict.
Those idiots know one thing - they will never be 'integrated' into European society. They are career thugs and they act accordingly. Watch that guy doing the dance moves - he's probably on a whole cocktail of drugs and he's enjoying the situation.
Rhetorical question: WHY THE FUCK have the faces of the attackers been blurred? Since WHEN deserve criminals protection? This pretty much says everything we need to know about French justice (and European justice in general).
I was just about to post that Charlie Hebdo comic but someone beat me to it. It almost deseves it's own thread for the amount of SJW outrage it is getting. Well done Charlie.
That cartoon is really insightful and the perfect use of satirical humor to highlight truth. It was the drowning photo that was used to convince everyone to admit the refugees into Europe so the connection is real. The cartoon highlights the foolishness of making policy decisions based on emotions and not thinking of the consequences. So apparently there are leftists who understand this. So why are the leftists supporting the invasion?
(01-14-2016 11:40 AM)Sherman Wrote: That cartoon is really insightful and the perfect use of satirical humor. It was the drowning photo that was used to convince everyone to admit the refugees into Europe so the connection is real. The cartoon highlights the foolishness of making policy decisions based on emotions and not thinking of the consequences. So apparently there are leftists who understand this. So why are the leftists supporting the invasion?
Hypocrisy is kind of their thing. If you took that away from them they really would have nothing.
Two very dangerous things that the Left tries hard to promote, have just "collided": illegal migrations and pedophilia.
I mean, the story of this Rob Lawrie guy... a 49 years old man caught at the French-English border with a 4-years old girl hidden in his truck (without the girl's parents)... he says he did it "because of his big heart and humanist feelings", but, this story is disturbing: what if pedophiles go hunt in migrants camps, to steal children? I'm not saying that's why Lawrie did, I don't know whether or not he's a pervert (I hope he's not), but it is definitely very worrying.
"he admitted illegally trying to get Bahar Ahmadi, 4, into the UK hidden in his van after bonding with the child while volunteering in 'The Jungle' in Calais.
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A 49-years old who "bond" with a 4 years old girl? and hide her under his car seat?
So at the end of the day, who profits from the migrants invasion: unbangable women, gays and pedophiles... and some unscrupulous businessmen like those who rent hotel rooms to migrants, at a high price (paid by the State, ultimately)
Quote:The head of a Bavarian district has sent a bus with 30 refugees aboard on a 550km trip to Angela Merkel’s Berlin office – fulfilling a threat made in October, when he said he would act if the number of refugees exceeded housing capacity in his area.
Peter Dreier, head of the Landshut district in Bavaria, reportedly had an angry phone conversation with Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the refugee issue back in October, Die Welt newspaper reports. “We can’t do it [taking in all the refugees]!” – he said, knowingly inverting Merkel’s famous “We can do it” slogan, which the chancellor made in the summer 2015 in reference to the high number of refugees Germany was taking.
“If Germany takes in a million refugees, that means my district will take in a share of 1,800. I will take them. But any more [refugees] I’ll send by bus to your office in Berlin,” Dreier warned.