Lifebite reports that, “Mr Dawkins wanted to censor discussions on his website that he considers “irrelevant postings and frivolous gossip”. Once news of his intention to vet his site got out - which by the way he has every right to do - he became the subject of a tidal wave of foul-mouthed abuse, and the forum had to be shut down.”
“A former moderator of Dawkins’ site voices the disillusion with Dawkins that is apparently felt by many: “Thousands of loyal, intelligent, rational forum members have been misrepresented as a bunch of foul-mouthed, vitriolic thugs by the man who so inspired them.Well, atheists like Dawkins have long been misrepresenting intelligent, rational believers in God as lunatics and worse, so join the club! He repeatedly labels all believers with the derogatory term ‘faith-heads’, and his latest book equates anyone who questions evolution with Holocaust deniers. And he has plenty more belittling phrases where those came from.
When Dawkins says about his own atheist supporters, “there has to be something wrong with people who can resort to such over-the-top language, overreacting so spectacularly,” he cannot see that he is also describing himself.
In the last few years, he has lost the support of many moderate atheists because of the abusive way in which he attacks religious believers and overreacts to those who oppose evolution.”
I can understand Lifebite’s apparent delight in what it reports but shouldn’t we feel rather sorry for Richard Dawkins that he delights in the posture he adopts against those who oppose his views rather than wishing him “a taste of his own medicine“?
