Oh no!The atheist biologist i looked up to believes sex is real and there is no gendered souls?Who would of thought?
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What’s even more interesting is that he touches on how the loss of Christianity has left a hole which has been filled by dreadful stuff like troons. He said something like
When you think of the competition … when you think of Islam … I think we need Christianity as a sort of buttress against something worse. And then talked about troonism as one of those thing.
Dawkins is one of those people (I’m one too) who, if there were no laws or police and everyone was behaving, would still behave. There’s maybe 15% of the population who are like this. They’re just honest, and even if they are given the opportunity to do bad they don’t becasue of some kind of internal morality.
Where Dawkins and other enlightenment types fall down is not seeing that other people will do bad things. They think that If we just get rid of nasty backward religion then we will live in a wonderful utopia. Dawkins I’d only just now realising that
whether he believes in religion or not there’s a powerful force in it that stabilises societal behaviours. Removing that has been a disaster.
He sees that religion as a repressive force, with no upside. A more accurate view is that human behaviour must be repressed in some ways and that religion gives a moral framework and a background for taboos to reign in behaviours that harm socoety.
Just look at the last decade - women and only fans for example. It horrifies me. I just can’t wrap my head around why anyone would do that, and in the nineties you’d be an outcast for it but it’s completely socially acceptable now. Ditto extreme porn, kinks, troons etc.
Dawkins is a great speaker, I’ve seen him a couple of times and while I do disagree with him on several things he’s a great mind.