Richard Dawkins cruelly answers audience question

[Summerlander]

In that case, he's not doing himself any favours.  From what I got in the video though, he wasn't rude in any way shape or form.  Still, he is entitled to his own opinion.  It's like some believing Michael Jackson to have been a paedophile while others think he was innocent.

[Ident]

I see the Christian guy as someone attempting to offer Dawkins the spiritual glory he feels within himself from his own experiences. This could be construed as attempting to convert Dawkins, who was having none of it and dismissed the Christian's experiences as self-delusion. The response could be considered rude.

On the other hand, Dawkins didn't answer the Christian's question at all, he simply closed his mind to the possibility of the truth of what the man was proffering. Maybe he had had his mind closed to this topic many years prior.

The real problem is that the topic is one which could occupy many evenings of comparative discussion and they had to fit their words into several seconds.

[light487]

Yer I agree that he didn't really answer the questions posed to him.. not that he has to answer them directly mind you.. but I agree he didn't. He used the same "if you grew up 'there', you'd believe in 'this'" answer that he's used a bunch of times.. almost word for word the same response that I've heard him use elsewhere.. so if anything, he was flippant..

[Aims]

To the point: "Excuse Me, Mr Dawkins Series" by Clifford Goldstein.

http://freelygivensite.wordpress.com/category/speakers/clifford-goldstein/