UC Berkeley Event (6/6) - Richard Dawkins
http://RichardDawkins.net - see more videos like this. On Saturday, March 8th, 2008, Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on The God Delusion during his US Tour. The event took place on the...
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I mentioned the novelist Kingsley Amis a moment ago, his son Martin Amis is an equally distinguished novelist. And he made a very important point. "Secularism contains no warrant for action. One can afford to be crude about this. When Islamists crash passenger planes into buildings, or hack off the heads of hostages, they shout "God is great!" When secularists do that kind of thing, what do they shout?" A critic of Martin Amis's book remarked upon- on this "That question is meant to be rhetorical, but there's a simple answer. They shout- secularists shout Heil Hitler" Audience: (gasps and murmurs) What a truly outrageous thing to say. Whether or not Hitler was a Roman Catholic the evidence is contradictory, he ofte...
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I mentioned the novelist Kingsley Amis a moment ago, his son Martin Amis is an equally distinguished novelist. And he made a very important point. "Secularism contains no warrant for action. One can afford to be crude about this. When Islamists crash passenger planes into buildings, or hack off the heads of hostages, they shout "God is great!" When secularists do that kind of thing, what do they shout?" A critic of Martin Amis's book remarked upon- on this "That question is meant to be rhetorical, but there's a simple answer. They shout- secularists shout Heil Hitler" Audience: (gasps and murmurs) What a truly outrageous thing to say. Whether or not Hitler was a Roman Catholic the evidence is contradictory, he ofte...
