Peshawar Pakistan massacre 16/12/14 - Richard Dawkins equates Taliban to Nazism

 On 16th December 2014 the Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar killing 141 students and teachers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30505448

What we know: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30488503

Richard Dawkins has offered his 'explanation' of the #PeshawarAttack massacre http://t.co/Q964C6NU2k pic.twitter.com/O5KRT7Aoj8
— The Independent (@Independent) December 17, 2014

Violent faith-heads really believe what they say they believe. You think you know what they believe better than they do? How patronising.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) December 18, 2014

For those of you that think the #PeshawarAttack was barbaric, you just don't understand Islam properly.... pic.twitter.com/G8U8xwzTxw
— Joseph Al-Qaeda (@JihadistJoe) December 17, 2014

Pakistan school: "Jihadis screamed 'Allahu akbar' as they murdered children." Definitely not religiously-motivated at all! @RichardDawkins
— H. Bateman (@HannibalBateman) December 17, 2014

Mental illness can drive a lone nutter to it. But an organised group needs an extreme motivation – faith, in something like a god or nazism.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) December 17, 2014

Very few faith-heads are as evil as Taliban or IS. Yet what else but faith is CAPABLE of making people do such evil? http://t.co/TOMKbsxpu0
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) December 17, 2014

The Taliban attacked more than 1,000 schools in Pakistan in the last 5 years http://t.co/62HBUdgAWQ by @sheeraf pic.twitter.com/FSv3j6GAQ5
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) December 16, 2014

Don't defend the faith of the victims. Defend the victims of the faith. #PeshawarAttack
— Ali A. Rizvi (@aliamjadrizvi) December 17, 2014

@moolahraj @RichardDawkins In pakistani schools they learn that its ok to kill infidels who stand in the way of islam http://t.co/QmSkOgcdOO
— truthman (@itruthman1) December 17, 2014

In 2001 after 9/11 Dawkins said:

'Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!'

Michael Shermer said:

Does it surprise anyone (besides @BenAffleck) that the Taliban killers in Pakistan, while killing 141, shouted "Allahu akbar"? God is great?
— Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) December 17, 2014

More Tweets on 'faith' and 'Peshawar' 

More than 100 children dead !!! #Peshawar Its hard to forgive the faith which justifies the slaughter...
— Pratap Bhaskar (@pratapgowda) December 16, 2014

Any faith needs to be judged by its impact at its best as well as its worst. The developments of the part week... http://t.co/IfHScMdk9Z
— sayan m (@twopull) December 16, 2014

This Eid Shias were targeted in Kohat, Peshawar and Quetta in 3 different incidents. The victims had one thing in common. Their faith.
— Ali Salman Alvi (@alisalmanalvi) October 23, 2014

Another victory for true faith against the infidels: 17 killed in Peshawar including 8 kafir children.
— Nadeem F. Paracha (@NadeemfParacha) April 16, 2013

BBC News - Peshawar cinemas attacked in Pakistan protests http://t.co/Al0vZ7ra Never mock other people's faith.
— CaroGvS (@Tuva99) September 21, 2012

I hope you will revisit your faith in Islam. Peshawar was not the last terror attack. Leave the cult and be an atheist. :) @Hunter_Rooh
— Sunil Kumar (@sudixitca) December 21, 2014

Why Evolution is True

The Kalam Cosmological Fallacy: A Brief History of the Failures of Intuition

'Humanity Education Council' (HEC) cf 'Religious Education Council'

source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachingsecularworldviews/permalink/684031945046627/

Allan Hayes

1 December at 07:34

Help get Humanism into GCSE and A Level RE - http://1drv.ms/1v83OQu
Respond to consultation request/
(Government proposals for GCSE would permit 75% of the time to be spent on one religion, and 25% on another religion).
But what we really need is to replace RE with a course on Humanity - including the role of religion.

Chris Street Allan Hayes - I think the new 'Humanity' subject should have 75% of time spent on Humanism and 25% on Naturalism!

I propose we establish a 'Humanity Education Council' (HEC) cf 'Religious Education Council' (REC).

HEC Members would comprise: academics,atheists, educationalists, freethinkers, humanists, naturalists, philosophers, scientists, secularists, skeptics, teachers, teenagers etc.

The main criteria of HEC membership: a naturalism worldview. Those members or groups with a supernaturalism or religious worldview would not be permitted to become full HEC members with voting rights.

The function of HEC would be to develop a new 'Humanity' National Curriculum (as suggested by Allan Hayes)

HEC would campaign for Government proposals for GCSE Humanity to permit 75% of the time to be spent on Humanism, 25% on Naturalism (to include Atheism and the historical role of Theism).

HEC would campaign for an Act of Parliament to end the compulsory subject of Religious Education in all UK schools. Humanity would compete with Religious Education for teaching time in all schools.

Moving Naturalism Forward

I'm a Naturalist - not a naturist!

I have two main philosophical worldviews: Naturalism & Humanism. (world view: "a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world*")

Naturalism is "the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted*"

(I think of atheism as a conviction rather than a worldview. I prefer 'conviction' to 'belief' because for me 'belief' has religious undertones, Although in English Law 'belief', as in 'religion and belief', refers specifically to a non-religious belief.)

Naturalism is a worldview that covers morality - Sam Harris makes the case that morality can be based on science.

*Oxford Dictionary (3rd Edition) 

h/t Neil Davies (April 2014) at Swindon Humanists for reminding me about the 'Moving Naturalism Forward' conference back in October 2012.

Attendees included Richard Dawkins, Sean Carroll, Dan Dennett, Alex Rosenberg, Jerry Coyne, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Massimo Pigliucci, Steven Weinberg.

Discussions were about: Naturalism, Morality, Meaning, Purpose, Epistemology, reductionism, Consciousness, Evolution, Determinism, Free will.

source: http://preposterousuniverse.com/naturalism2012/video.html

Peter Atkins - On Being - The limitless powers of science - SBHA Conference 2011

Scientific Method - took 1000s of years to be discovered.
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