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Richard Dawkins Condones Child Molestering
Nov 4th, 2013 at 10:16pm
 
He was a victim of child sexual abuse but Richard Dawkins refuses to condemn the behaviour


AFTER admitting to being sexually abused as a child, renowned evoluntionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins has refused to condemn the behaviour.

Dawkins told Britain's The Times magazine that a schoolmaster "pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts". But he described it as a "mild touching up" that he was convinced did not do him or any of his fellow classmates "any lasting harm".

This is not the first time the outspoken atheist has discussed child abuse. According to a report by RawStory.com he made claims in April this year that parents who forced their children to accept their religious beliefs were abusers, and has also compared being raised as a Catholic to sexual abuse.

"I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours," Dawkins told The Times magazine. "Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today"

Dawkin's comments have been strongly criticised by the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) an organisation that works with survivors of abuse.

"Mr. Dawkins seems to think that because a crime was committed a long time ago we should judge it in a different way," NSPCC child protection director David Watt told RNS. "But we know that the victims of sexual abuse suffer the same effects whether it was 50 years ago or yesterday."

Founder of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, Peter Saunders has also spoken out against Dawkin's remarks.

"Abuse in all its forms has always been wrong. Evil is evil and we have to challenge it whenever and wherever it occurs," Sanders told reporters...

http://www.news.com.au/world/he-was-a-victim-of-child-sexual-abuse-but-richard-dawkins-refuses-to-condemn-the-behaviour/story-fndir2ev-1226717774514
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Reply #1 - Nov 11th, 2013 at 11:27pm
 
You're probably wasting your time, so just enjoy your life.

Atheism has no Gods. Maybe some people worship Richard Dawkins, but I haven't met any. They don't get upset if somebody draws a cartoon of Richard Dawkins.

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Reply #2 - Oct 14th, 2014 at 8:38pm
 
"Molestering".  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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Reply #3 - Nov 19th, 2014 at 6:50pm
 
True Colours wrote on Nov 4th, 2013 at 10:16pm:
Dawkins told Britain's The Times magazine that a schoolmaster "pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts". But he described it as a "mild touching up" that he was convinced did not do him or any of his fellow classmates "any lasting harm".

This is not the first time the outspoken atheist has discussed child abuse. According to a report by RawStory.com he made claims in April this year that parents who forced their children to accept their religious beliefs were abusers, and has also compared being raised as a Catholic to sexual abuse.


Haha, he thinks religion is worse than molestation. Oh boy.
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Why the bugger did I get stuck on a planet chalked full of imbeciles?
 
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Reply #4 - Nov 20th, 2014 at 8:39am
 
I get the impression he wasn't judging all molestation and saying he couldn't condemn it, he was judging his molesatation and couldn't condemn it.


Plus, context, its a hell of a thing.
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No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #5 - Nov 20th, 2014 at 8:50am
 
The guy is obviously troubled but if he is saying that the abuse to him had no impact on his life then that may be the case (though he has ended up how he is) .

He does no seem to be saying that it has no impact on other people.

I do not see how he is condoning it based on this story though I doubt that many would be surprised if he did.
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Reply #6 - Nov 20th, 2014 at 8:50am
 
MumboJumbo wrote on Nov 19th, 2014 at 6:50pm:
True Colours wrote on Nov 4th, 2013 at 10:16pm:
Dawkins told Britain's The Times magazine that a schoolmaster "pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts". But he described it as a "mild touching up" that he was convinced did not do him or any of his fellow classmates "any lasting harm".

This is not the first time the outspoken atheist has discussed child abuse. According to a report by RawStory.com he made claims in April this year that parents who forced their children to accept their religious beliefs were abusers, and has also compared being raised as a Catholic to sexual abuse.


Haha, he thinks religion is worse than molestation. Oh boy.


You can often get both at the same shop.
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Reply #7 - Nov 20th, 2014 at 11:20am
 
Shots fired!
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Reply #8 - Nov 9th, 2015 at 6:23pm
 
Considering that Richard Dawkins is a closet Gay (Homosexual) he tries to justify inappropriate behavior of his headmaster. When he was 12 Richard Dawkins was raped (penetrated) by his biology teacher who initiated him in Gay community.
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Do we need to be always politically correct.
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Reply #9 - Nov 9th, 2015 at 9:13pm
 
athos wrote on Nov 9th, 2015 at 6:23pm:
Considering that Richard Dawkins is a closet Gay (Homosexual) he tries to justify inappropriate behavior of his headmaster. When he was 12 Richard Dawkins was raped (penetrated) by his biology teacher who initiated him in Gay community.



Probably why he ended up marrying the hottest Dr Who companion ever
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Reply #10 - Nov 10th, 2015 at 12:07am
 
It seems to me that the god botherers are trying to gain a few cheap points.

The mind boggles as to how they might interpret the bible.
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Reply #11 - Nov 10th, 2015 at 10:51am
 
Show me where he "condones" it.
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Reply #12 - Nov 11th, 2015 at 11:20pm
 
Yeah I think the guys mind wanders a bit too much in that chair. Some of the crap he comes out with is simply amazing.
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Reply #13 - Dec 1st, 2015 at 8:07am
 
Richard Dawkins speaks for Richard Dawkins only. His comments on the "clock boy" comparing him with ISIS child murderers, are stupid and distasteful.
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Reply #14 - Dec 1st, 2015 at 8:28am
 
John_Taverner wrote on Dec 1st, 2015 at 8:07am:
Richard Dawkins speaks for Richard Dawkins only. His comments on the "clock boy" comparing him with ISIS child murderers, are stupid and distasteful.


And yet atheists will quote him endlessly when it suits them. If Dawkins is an example of atheism then no wonder churches are increasing attendances.
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