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The Non-Existent Moral Code of Atheism

Posted on | September 10, 2013 | 151 Comments

If there is no God, there is only Science and, as everyone who has studied the “climate change” phenomenon is aware, Science involves a self-selecting cabal of credentialed insiders empowered to dismiss criticism from anyone who does not concur in the sacred consensus.

So child molestation is harmless — the Science is settled!

Richard Dawkins, one of the world’s best-known and outspoken atheists, has provoked outrage among child protection agencies and experts after suggesting that recent child abuse scandals have been overblown.
In an interview in The Times magazine on Saturday (Sept. 7), Dawkins, 72, he said he was unable to condemn what he called “the mild pedophilia” he experienced at an English school when he was a child in the 1950s.
Referring to his early days at a boarding school in Salisbury, he recalled how one of the (unnamed) masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts.”
He said other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: “I don’t think he did any of us lasting harm.” . . .
“I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today,” he said.
He said the most notorious cases of pedophilia involve rape and even murder and should not be bracketed with what he called “just mild touching up.”

Ace of Spades:

This just in: Man who has spent entire adult public life attempting a Freudian vengeance against God-As-Father-Figure-Betrayer announces that a bit of “mild pedophilia” did “no lasting harm” to his psychology.

See more at Salon, Memeorandum and Gateway Pundit — but you know, who has been warning you about this? Who took alarm over the Kaitlyn Hunt story? Who told you about the atheist sex scandal?

Who told you about the Pervert Party and the New Abnormal? What about Slutwalk Insanity and the Psychotic Professor?

Does anyone else see a pattern here? Perhaps the apostles of the Gospel of Science could examine these correlations, and confirm my impression that there is a distinct non-randomness involved.

Did I ever mention that Brett Kimberlin is an atheist?

 

Category: Science, Sex

Comments

151 Responses to “The Non-Existent Moral Code of Atheism”

  1. rmnixondeceased
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:42 pm

    Your assumptions, my facts.
    You lose again! Thanks for playing “Stump the Chump”
    Don Pardo has the home game and valuable gifts for you as you depart …

  2. Josh_Painter
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:47 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Can anyone think of an atheist who’s OK with pedophilia? http://t.co/z2ZGYPQ3AH Besides Richard Dawkins, I mean.

  3. NASCARNAC
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:48 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Can anyone think of an atheist who’s OK with pedophilia? http://t.co/z2ZGYPQ3AH Besides Richard Dawkins, I mean.

  4. tracycoyle
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:52 pm

    Nothing like spewing a little for effect. Hey, but you can pat yourself on the back for showing me what for…

  5. RMNixonDeceased
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm

    “BTW, it’s deluded AND assclownish, not or as you posted. Keep the mockery straight or you’ll…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/Uk8EEDmF8Q

  6. RMNixonDeceased
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm

    “Your assumptions, my facts. You lose again! Thanks for playing “Stump the Chump”Don Pardo has…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/ctqpYPwbPY

  7. RMNixonDeceased
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:54 pm

    “The former is factual the latter is your persecution complex. I neither know nor care what your…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/DzOhsbgnhd

  8. rmnixondeceased
    September 10th, 2013 @ 11:56 pm

    Just giving you the disdain and mockery you yourself dish out all over the blogosphere … Isn’t the mockery simply delicious?

  9. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:04 am

    As I said, spew.

  10. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:06 am

    You’re not into the whole discussion thing…mock and spew anyone not within your range of ‘acceptable’…

  11. mamawagsx2
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:07 am

    RT @rsmccain: Can anyone think of an atheist who’s OK with pedophilia? http://t.co/z2ZGYPQ3AH Besides Richard Dawkins, I mean.

  12. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:10 am

    I am but a mirror, reflecting back to you your Zen self …

  13. trangbang68
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:13 am

    Dostoevsky said in one of his novels “God is dead, everything is permitted”. That about sums up the mindset of our postmodern world.

  14. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:16 am

    Ahh…a lack of substance?

  15. trangbang68
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:16 am

    Your pet crab lice don’t count

  16. SwiperTheFox
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:16 am

    Couldn’t that also be known as “the ‘Cheerio!'”

  17. trangbang68
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:16 am

    birds of the feather and all that

  18. Helena Handbasket
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:17 am

    Not so sure that there is no lasting harm from “mild pedophilia”.

    After all…..look at Richard Dawkins, who has made some of the most offensive remarks about women ever spewed by modern atheists (and that’s saying something.)

  19. SwiperTheFox
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:17 am

    Brett Kimberlin is not an atheist. He’s a methiest.

    He thinks he’s God.

  20. SwiperTheFox
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:18 am

    C.S. Lewis also wrote about this horrible trend

  21. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:21 am

    Useful contribution to the ‘conversation’….

  22. Fareedi al Laayla al Qakhaul
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:24 am

    Nah… No one uses that one much these days…

  23. SwiperTheFox
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:25 am

    “Mild” pedophilia is like “a little bit pregnant” or “semi-virgin”… it’s a nonsense contradiction.

    Dawkins knows this. He’s just being a moron, regardless.

  24. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:25 am

    If that is what you see, that is what you are … a person of no substance. I would have used nicer words, but hey, it’s you were talking about.

  25. SwiperTheFox
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:25 am

    They should!

  26. SwiperTheFox
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:26 am

    I’m suddenly reminded of the magic mirror from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which only showed the subconscious of the viewer

  27. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:28 am

    Heh. Thought of that after the fool started in with me …

  28. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:30 am

    really….’back on you’….THAT is your response?

  29. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:33 am

    Actually it showed the inner most desires….but…don’t let that get in the way….

  30. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:47 am

    Being obtuse again, reverting to your SOP … you truly are dense and unteachable.
    What does the opinion of a parody figure, whether good or ill, really mean to you? Are you so obsessed with your agenda you simply have to have the final word and even an obvious parody stings your foolish pride so?
    Methinks you need to reflect on yourself, if that is even possible for you in your obvious state of denial.
    Good bye you poor deluded example of a progressive troll.

  31. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:51 am

    Because I don’t respond to your little attempts in a way you want? Silly little boy. What agenda? Parody? at least attempt to make it accurate….overall, your attempts at ‘mocking’ has been pretty pathetic.

  32. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 12:56 am

    as you leave with another assumption falsely made….ta ta

  33. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:04 am

    Heh. Your opinion of me and $5 can get you a $1 cup of coffee at Mickey D’s!
    It really is sad that my opinion of you matters so deeply to you. Your opinion of me means less than nothing, rather like that lack of substance you mentioned earlier.
    I assume nothing, I form my opinions via facts, not feelings. Try living life without making yourself the put-upon victim, it is quite thrilling!

  34. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:07 am

    I have no opinion of you, though you have several of me. Your assumptions began with your first comment and continue to your last.

  35. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:09 am

    Incorrect. You made all the assumptions. Victimology is not your strong suit even if it is your most often exercised …

  36. concern00
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:11 am

    The BSA has all this and more to look forward to.

  37. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:12 am

    “biting your lot”….”progressive…”, start to finish. You keep thinking I’m part of some group based on nothing but assumptions…

  38. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:17 am

    Heh. You assume my assumptions incorrectly, based only upon your victimology. Really must be something in the water there, most of the idiots I encounter are Californians.

  39. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:20 am

    I can’t even imagine (must be my obtuseness) what ‘victim’ group you think I belong to… never mind…pretty soon you will be saying that your assumptions about my assumption about your…
    like I said, you’ve wasted enough of your precious time…move along little doggie…

  40. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:31 am

    Still obtuse I see. You self identified your victimhood, both in this thread and in previous ones (I know your current DISQUS account has a low comment count and very low number of likes, but this isn’t your first account or appearance at TOM. You are known.
    Hasta la vista baby.

  41. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:35 am

    I have NEVER used any other name or account. tracycoyle every where and always.

  42. tracycoyle
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:37 am

    Just another false assumption…

  43. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 1:43 am

    Truth. You have always used the same name.

  44. LeatherPenguin
    September 11th, 2013 @ 6:24 am

    The Non-Existent Moral Code of Atheism http://t.co/PH9nWzBA3S

  45. Quartermaster
    September 11th, 2013 @ 6:51 am

    I’ve repeatedly said that Dawkins is a credentialed moron. Almost every time he makes a public appearance he proves the truth of what I call him.

  46. JadedByPolitics
    September 11th, 2013 @ 7:22 am

    The Non-Existent Moral Code of Atheism http://t.co/VUUjZ06mMB yes he is a pedophile the elite usually are!

  47. newmoonrisin
    September 11th, 2013 @ 7:50 am

    RT @Keene44: The Non-Existent Moral Code of Atheism http://t.co/C61zbfiKsI

  48. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 11th, 2013 @ 8:23 am

    Mr. President: I see you haven’t loss that relentless drive and obsessiveness! Keep up the good work.

  49. rmnixondeceased
    September 11th, 2013 @ 9:35 am

    Heh. I was bored.

  50. Douglas Presler
    September 11th, 2013 @ 9:49 am

    That simply makes Dawkins another version of Bernard Groeschel, OF. Your point?
    Did I mention one thing pedophile priests have in common is that they’re theists?