Comments by HMS Polio

1. A Conversation with Expelled's Associate Producer Mark Mathis

Comment #165210 by HMS Polio on April 21, 2008 at 8:16 am

Oh dear.

Whilst listening to this, I was halfway through shaving - itself a rather momentous act for me, being a beard wearer of several years - when I hear a knock on the door.

I dry my face and run to the front door to answer it. There are two women there. Obviously Jehovah's Witnesses.

We had a discussion about beliefs etc. and I believe I did a very good job of putting forward the unlikelihood of a biblical god. I managed to present them with my own personal reasons for this in my grounding in scientific reasoning and biblical exegesis. I closed the door patting myself on the back that I had been eloquent, attentive and polite the whole time, even wishing them a good day.

I then went back to the bathroom to finish shaving only to discover that I had been sporting a neat, Hitler-esque moustache.

Ooops.

Sorry Dr. Dawkins.

Upcoming Events:

Aug 11th - Edinburgh

Oct 20th - Oxford

Oct 21st - Oxford

For more events see here

About this site

Mailing List Signup: Enter your email

Go to The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Can You Volunteer?

Richard Dawkins Articles | Comments | Tour Journal

Atheist Resources | Local Groups

Database of Lecturers

Debate Points | Latest Responses

MySpace | FaceBook

'Imagine No Religion' Flyers

Links:

More Links

Quotes of Note:

"Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?"

Richard Dawkins

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

Richard Dawkins

"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry."

Mark Twain

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

Richard Dawkins

"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."

Peter Ustinov

More Quotes