Do other atheists find Richard Dawkins embarrassing or is it just me?

Question

If he was chocolate he would eat himself. That is if he could get his giant head through the door to get a spoon.

EDIT:

I find him embarrassing because his understanding of metaphysics is at best sloppy, he portrays religious extremism as the norm rather than the exception and, worst of all, he's still trying to apply memes to the evolutionary development of human culture.

Gah.

Answer 1

Atheist here. I agree he can be a bit of an as*. But he is correct on so many issues, just wish he could speak without sounding so condescending.

Answer 2

I'm not an atheist, but I understand what you are saying.

Especially in his new book 'The God Delusion' he uses a lot of straw man arguments. It is almost as if he didn't actually look at what Theists believe, but rather just spewed forth anything that came to mind and proclaimed it as the truth.

I think he is capable of putting together a good argument, but his work has been getting progressively worse, and he does seem to have a rather large ego, probably due to his fame, which I believe may be causing his problems with putting together a book that doesn't contradict his other writings.

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The last answer in there really makes a lot of good points that I don't feel like re-making.

Answer 3

No, I do not find him embarrassing, or full of himself.
Some people feel that way because he consistently points out flaws in their arguments, although I do not understand why you should feel that way.
He is a fabulous debater, and I have yet to see him get flustered under pressure. Everything that comes out of his mouth is articulate, logical, and damn near irrefutable. These are admirable traits.

What I'm trying to say is, I'd totally hit that.

Answer 4

It isn't arrogance if you really are that great!

But seriously, I don't think he's arrogant at all, he's just a realist. There really isn't any reason to be humble when defeating ignorance with scientific truths.

And, being as his meme theory completely revolutionized the field of modern genetics I'd say no, he isn't embarrassing at all.

Answer 5

I like a lot of his arguments, and even if I don't agree with *everything* he says I respect him a lot for doing what he does--he's a good speaker and he's going against the status quo. (It does annoy me a little when people act as though he's the most brilliant person since Hawking or the atheist equivalent of a prophet.)

Answer 6

Actually I've read his book "The God Delusion" and he did not come across as annoying or arrogant. I think he might just seem that way even to atheists because we're not used to people on our side being so vocal. I mean no one has really dared to talk about religion in such frank terms in the western world since... Mark Twain.

Answer 7

Richard Dawkins is an educated idiot with a lot to learn. If he fails to see that the Bible is better news than anything he sees or hears then let him stay blinded and ignorant.

Answer 8

You think YOU have problems?!? Us Christians have people like Jim Baker and Billy Graham claiming to represent all of us. On the embarrassment scale, I think I have you topped.

Answer 9

I think he may have been meddled with as a kid by a priest. He's trying to prove God doesn't exist, but seems to be motivated by hatred of God.

Answer 10

I have never heard of Richard Dawkins, what a funny name.