Richard Dawkins Confronts a Christian Extremist!

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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Publicado 2024-07-19

The Reverend Michael Bray is a leading advocate of murdering abortion doctors. He also takes biblical literalism to the extreme of advocating the death penalty for adultery and homosexuality. His friend and coconspirator, the Reverend Paul Hill, was executed for murdering an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. Bray strongly defends Hill’s action and thinks he’s now being rewarded in heaven. Bray himself served 46 months of a 10-year jail sentence for conspiracy and possession of illicit explosives. What follows is an audio recording of a long conversation I had with him in a public park in Colorado. He struck me as a deeply confused individual but at the same time sincere, a mind addled and perverted by religious faith, walking evidence of Steven Weinberg’s well-known aphorism, which I quote at the end of this recording: for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

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Todos los comentarios (21)

@slickshewz hace 3 días

Michael bray probably makes more atheists than Dawkins does.
@MikeTheBizGuy hace 2 días

This man is a living example of the dangers of fanaticism
@hurkuy hace 2 días

Exactly like my father! Christian version of my ultra religious muslim father!! Enough from religion people enough!!
@KarlToompuu hace 3 días

I wish Dawkins had asked him what he would do if one of his eleven kids was a homosexual.
@akamunaga4139 hace 3 días

A man as calm and as patient as Richard Dawkins is a proof of evolution itself.
@erinelizabethmsw5137 hace 3 días

Fabulous job using questions instead of accusations. You’re one of a kind Richard. ❤
@dennyworthington6641 ayer

"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." Voltaire
@jimmyh268 hace 3 días

This guy is effin dangerous
@rikomagic2885 hace 2 días

This guy is off the scale. He is a perfect example of just how dangerous religion can be to those who are so easily swayed by a 2000 year old story book. It's scary when he actually has zero evidence of anything he actually believes even existed or happened
@gerardgauthier4876 hace 2 días

I'm not sure what's more frightening.. What they believe or that they believe it unwaveringly.
@EpiicxFuziion ayer

The wrong people are breeding.
@yeahcat7509 hace 2 días

I like the way Dawkins stays calm and allows the man to convict himself with his own words.
@AH-wr1ir hace 2 días

Cognitive dissonance on an epic and frightening level.
@johnwarren6110 ayer

That is 11 children who need taking into care.
@EpiicxFuziion ayer

I had two abortions when i was a teen. I wasnt a murderer, I was a scared child.
@wmm0106 ayer

The man's MAD. I'll get the straight jacket.
@mindymild hace 3 días

Knowing people like this exists I’m convinced we are all screwed
@Peacefrogg hace 3 días

‘a book made me do it’
@Peacefrogg hace 3 días

Should children have to earn their parents affection? Kind of sound like child abuse to me.
@jonmeador8637 hace 3 días

Christian morality is an oxymoron. He said as much.