Devil's advocate, pun intended, but I don't see how that's the core issue. Science is also supposed to be secular, and yet with leftism dominating academia, here we have leftists using "female" to describe a man. Leftist dehumanization campaigns against political opponents allow them to justify not sticking to their alleged principles. The problem is that weak and/or malicious leftists in charge put politics ahead of principles in whatever form those principles take. As a result, they engage us and other dissidents with hypocrisy, a lack of fairness, contempt, and complete insincerity. Religious people can behave that way too -- look at the pope.
Dawkins believed that people should be free to discover the meaning and purpose of their own lives free from religious constraint or dogma. No doubt he believed this would result in people taking the same sort of rationalist approach to life as he espoused, but the thing about allowing people to search for their own meaning is that you lose the ability to control where they end up.
People are now searching for their own meaning much more than they used to, and Dawkins is discovering that with increasing frequency they are doing so in a way which leaves no room for his "antiquated" views. Whoops.
That was a mistake, as any theologist will tell you humanity is nothing compared to God, and any atheologist will tell you humans operate on selfish hedonistic pleasure-feedback systems with minimal self-control and basically no delayed gratification (or in other words, humans kinda suck).
How's that uprooted atheist society working out for you Mr. Dawkins?
/Do the church bells still ring?
Devil's advocate, pun intended, but I don't see how that's the core issue. Science is also supposed to be secular, and yet with leftism dominating academia, here we have leftists using "female" to describe a man. Leftist dehumanization campaigns against political opponents allow them to justify not sticking to their alleged principles. The problem is that weak and/or malicious leftists in charge put politics ahead of principles in whatever form those principles take. As a result, they engage us and other dissidents with hypocrisy, a lack of fairness, contempt, and complete insincerity. Religious people can behave that way too -- look at the pope.
Dawkins believed that people should be free to discover the meaning and purpose of their own lives free from religious constraint or dogma. No doubt he believed this would result in people taking the same sort of rationalist approach to life as he espoused, but the thing about allowing people to search for their own meaning is that you lose the ability to control where they end up.
People are now searching for their own meaning much more than they used to, and Dawkins is discovering that with increasing frequency they are doing so in a way which leaves no room for his "antiquated" views. Whoops.
Dawkins had faith... in humanity.
That was a mistake, as any theologist will tell you humanity is nothing compared to God, and any atheologist will tell you humans operate on selfish hedonistic pleasure-feedback systems with minimal self-control and basically no delayed gratification (or in other words, humans kinda suck).