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Column – No faith in their hatred Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

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THE Global Atheists Convention in Melbourne last weekend worked a miracle on me.

I’ve never felt more like believing in God. Especially the Christian one.

My near conversion occurred because the convention’s speakers managed to confirm my worst fear.

No, it’s not that God may actually exist, and be cross that I doubted. It’s that if the Christian God really is dead, then there’s not much to stop people here from being barbarians.

I’d have hoped that the Atheists Convention’s speakers would have reassured me not just by fine words but finer example that a godless society will nevertheless be a good one.

But what did they show me instead? First there was the world’s most famous atheist, former Oxford don and Selfish Gene author Richard Dawkins (above), who smeared Joseph Ratzinger as the “Pope Nazi” and mocked Family First Senator Steve Fielding as dumber than an “earthworm”. The insult to the Pope is truly vile. As a 14-year-old, Ratzinger was conscripted by the Nazi regime into the Hitler Youth, then compulsory for all German boys.

Yet Dawkins was far from the only speaker to unleash the hatred he claimed Christianity inspired.

ABC Science Show presenter Robyn Williams boasted he could mount “a devastating argument against religion in two words: ‘Senator Fielding“‘, an insult which the hooting crowd clapped.

Added Williams: “Richard Dawkins said his IQ is lower than an earthworm, but I think earthworms are useful.”

Rationalist Society president Ian Robinson joined in, asking if there were any believers in the audience, adding: “OK, I’ll speak really slowly.”

The fourth speaker, Age columnist Catherine Deveny, saved her worst for the ABC’s Q&A show on Monday, tweeting from the set that fellow panellist Peter Dutton, the Opposition health spokesman, had “a face of a rapist”.

Yes, I know godlessness need not mean good-lessness. I’m agnostic myself, yet think myself morally serious.

But I’m certain both the Pope and Fielding would feel their Christian faith prevented them from vilifying Dawkins as his fellow atheists freely vilified them.

So why do leading atheists, so sure of their superior morality, feel licensed to be meaner than leading Christians?

Is this what morally superior people do when God has gone? In that case, bring God back.

Future of ICTs (Computing)

Last night (16th March 2010) some collegues and I went to the biannual ICT Educator’s Dinner hosted by UQ. It was a great affair. They like to discuss the direction of ICTs and how that affects the direction that we, as educators, should be travelling. This is a wonderful notion as we can get a real sense of the direction we need to be pushing students and maybe also changes that we need to make to align ourselves with new content – or modes.

The Dawkins File

Mladen’s FB Post after the Wed 7 August “Has Science Buried God Debate”
https://www.facebook.com/mladen.krklec/posts/10151589355684220

Note: given what Mladen has said above maybe this debate wasn’t actually a debate but a ‘not so crafty’ attempt at discrediting Christians.

Links to debate organisers- http://lifeuniversenothing.org/?utm_source=flier&utm_medium=print&utm_campaign=Life,+the+Universe+and+Nothing

Oh the woe of Dawkins as he buries deeper… I love it.