Why does Richard Dawkins sing Christmas carols?

It lasted about 6 months before her conclusion was: "They all believe they are right and they all believe different things.".In the last 2 or 3 years I have to remind her that not all so-called "Christians" are like what she finds on FSTDTs (fundies say the darndest things) or here. They have helped make her a somewhat militant atheist.

... the more I learn about Dawkins myself, the more I don't like his ideas.

Brilliant? What did he do that was brilliant science?

wiki writes:Dawkins topped Prospect magazine's 2004 list of the top 100 public British intellectuals, as decided by the readers, receiving twice as many votes as the runner-up.[78] In 2005, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded him their Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his "concise and accessible presentation of scientific knowledge".[79] He was the winner of the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2006 and the Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year for 2007;[80] in the same year he was listed in Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007,[81] and was awarded the Deschner Prize, named after Karlheinz Deschner.[82]

wiki writes: * The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989, 2006)
* The Extended Phenotype (1982, 1999)
* The Blind Watchmaker (1986, 1991, 2006)
* River Out of Eden (1995)
* Climbing Mount Improbable (1996)
* Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
* A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
* The Ancestor's Tale (2004)
* The God Delusion (2006)
* Viruses of the Mind (1993)
* The Real Romance in the Stars (1995)
* The Emptiness of Theology (1998)
* Snake Oil and Holy Water (1999)
* Bin Laden's Victory (2003)
* What Use is Religion? (2004)
* Race and Creation (2004)
* The giant tortoise's tale, The turtle's tale and The lava lizard's tale (2005)

Education, Positions and Degrees
1954-1959 Oundle School
1959-1962 Balliol College, University of Oxford
1962-1966 Research Student, Oxford University (D.Phil., 1966)
1965-1967 Research Assistant to Professor N.Tinbergen FRS
1967-1969 Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
1969-1970 Senior Research Officer, Department of Zoology, Oxford
1970-1990 University Lecturer in Zoology, and Fellow of New College, Oxford
1989 D.Sc. (Oxford)
1990-1995 Ad hominem Reader in Zoology, University of Oxford
1995- Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science,
University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow of New College Honours
1987 Royal Society of Literature Award for The Blind Watchmaker
1987 Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, for The Blind Watchmaker
1987 Sci.Tech Prize for Best Television Documentary Science Programmme
of the Year, for BBC Horizon Programme: The Blind Watchmaker
1988 Honorary Fellowship, Regent's College, London
1989 Zoological Society of London Silver Medal
1990 Royal Society of London, Michael Faraday Award
1994 Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science
1995 Honorary Doctor of Letters, St Andrews University
1996 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Australian National University, Canberra
1996 Humanist of the Year Award
1996 Vice-President of the British Humanist Association R.Dawkins,
1997 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1997 International Cosmos Prize, Osaka, Japan.
1997 Hon. D.Sc. University of Westminster
2001 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
2001 Hon. D.Sc. University of Hull
2001 Kistler Prize, USA
2002 Bicentennial Kelvin Medal, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
2003 Hon. Doctor of the University, Open University
2004 Hon. Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford University
2004 Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society. Trinity College, Dublin
2005 Shakespeare Prize for Contribution to British Culture, Hamburg Germany

Anyway we're pretty far off-topic. We should probably drop it.

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Percy asks how we can get creationists to stop repeating the same things over and over, and what does he do when he's talking with me?

Does anyone else find this a wee bit hypocritical?

How sad and pitiful you seem.

Richard Dawkins, aa with any other non-Christian who sings Christmas carols, appears to me to be someone who has no issue saying what he does not necessarily believe.

When Christians stop using words like Wednesday and Thursday (I'm sure they're all polytheistic pagans at heart) I'll agree to that.

i do find it odd that someone who claims that moderate christians empower murderous fundamentalists of all stripes simply by existing would want to sing christian-type christmas carols and describe himself as "culturally christian". i don't care what he does with his free time. i care the stones that he throws.

i don't condemn him for celebrating holidays. i condemn him for saying i'm empowering murderers.

because those words (or rather their meanings) have been around longer than christianity.

you people spend so much time denouncing "christian" superstition, why not "pagan" superstition?