The asshat just won’t shut up!
Sadistic equine necrophiliac Dinesh D’Souza just refuses to get the point, doesn’t he? This is his third little article on the whole ‘atheists are evil’ bandwagon, all capitalizing on the VT tragedy. Seriously, how much of a nasty, contemptible, snide, reptilian little scumbag can one human being be? Still, there is one good thing coming from his continuing, if laughable, attack on atheism: some truly inspired atheists are coming out and denouncing both the man and the point of view. Case in point: this Virgina Tech professor, who has written an impassioned and brilliant response to D’souza. Among the other things he says:
We atheists do not believe in gods, or angels, or demons, or souls that endure, or a meeting place after all is said and done where more can be said and done and the point of it all revealed. We don’t believe in the possibility of redemption after our lives, but the necessity of compassion in our lives. We believe in people, in their joys and pains, in their good ideas and their wit and wisdom. We believe in human rights and dignity, and we know what it is for those to be trampled on by brutes and vandals. We may believe that the universe is pitilessly indifferent but we know that friends and strangers alike most certainly are not. We despise atrocity, not because a god tells us that it is wrong, but because if not massacre then nothing could be wrong.
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With or without a belief in a god, with or without your asinine bigotry, we will make progress, we will breathe life back into our university, I will succeed in explaining this or that point, slowly, eventually, in a ham-handed way, at risk of tears half-way through, my students will come to feel comfortable again in a classroom with no windows or escape route, and hell yes we will prevail.
You see Mr D’Souza, I am an atheist professor at Virginia Tech and a man of great faith. Not faith in your god. Faith in my people.
