This is the segment where I scour my favorite forums around the internet
and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs
told in the words from some of my favorite human beings.
In this edition we have an exert from one of my all time favorite human beings, Richard Dawkins, on a debate over whether children should listen to fairytales.
Dawkins debate: Should children listen to fairytales?
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27715735)
Ah Richard Dawkins, a man who never knows when to shut up. In case you hadn't noticed Richard is not a Christian and never stops telling us about the flaws of Christianity, just endlessly shoving it down our throats. I get the fact that you don't believe in a god Richard, now just fuck off, stop judging people by their beliefs and walking around like some smug prick. This time he decides to shit all over the news by saying that fairytales shouldn't be told to impressionable children, and being as almost all children are certainly impressionable that means Richard thinks only adults should tell fairytales to each other, and even most adults are impressionable. How he is going to decide whether a child is impressionable enough for the big step of telling them a fairytale is another matter, maybe he will devise some sort of elitist chart for children. "No Timmy that quadratic equation was all wrong, no fairytales for you, but how about The Theory of Evolution".
"There is a very interesting reason why a prince could not turn into a frog. It is statistically too improbable." What a fucking moron, imagine being in the Dawkins family for Christmas. "Of course kids no presents this year as it is too statistically improbable for Father Christmas to deliver presents to everybody's house, and of course we're not celebrating a man that never existed, because that too is statistically improbable." I don't care if it is improbable, it just makes for a good story, who didn't love Christmas when they were a kid, in fact I still love Christmas to this day. You know I almost turned off 'Game of Thrones' in anger the other night as they depicted dragons in a fictional universe. But then I remembered that 'Game of Thrones' is awesome and the fact that it's improbable probably makes it better. To this day I've never got confused and thought it was real, I've never booked a holiday to Westeros because I know it doesn't exist.
To be honest it really isn't any big surprise that Richard Dawkins is being a buzzkill again, and not really a surprise that he's being a hypocrite either. If Richard Dawkins can distinguish between fact and fiction, and of course he can because if you haven't heard he doesn't believe in god, then so can any child, as although most children in Britain are gullible, they're not fucking morons like Richard Dawkins. Now where's my crisp packet, I'm off to hunt wombles in Wimbledon Common, I still haven't found any.
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