Flying Kimchi Monster

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Went to hear Richard Dawkins read from his new book The God Delusion at the, uh, church that Church Street (I assume) is named after at Harvard Square. With dougo and the dictator555.

Ha ha ha... I just now discovered that the introduction that the introducey person introduced him with was taken word-for-word from his Wikipedia page.

Anyway, it was OK. The first half was fiddle-dee-dee about what a total bastard the pre-Christian biblical God is, and I do declare I've heard that all before, and so have you. He gets marks for not trotting out everyone's favorite story of God summoning bears to eat naughty children, but that's the vein he was in.

There were some nice bon mots in there but for the most I rolled my eyes at everyone else's laughter and applause at his Old Testament exposé. Haven't any of you ever read a weblog ever? And some of it, frankly, was like a lame comedy routine, at one point basically going So this Trinity thing, is that three gods or one? Make up your minds! [LAUGHTER] Blat.

Then, uh... I dunno. It didn't really leave much of an impression on me. I might end up reading the book anyway for guilty-pleasure reasons, and/or the hope that it surely must contain some new insights I haven't already been exposed to.

tahnan will be disappointed to know that he again invoked the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

A guy during the Q&A session asked if he could give him a hug, but the introducey lady wouldn't let him.

Then we ate Bibim Bap at Seoul Food on Mass Ave and the nice lady said WHY AREN'T YOU EATING IT RIGHT and picked up my spoon and mixed up my bibim bap for me because I hadn't bothered. I told her it was because I was lazy. When I finished eating it she said GOOD JOB!

Comments

[cnoocy]

I actually think who his wife is and how he met her is pretty cool. But that has very little to do with his book.

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

I remember someone posting about the children-eating bears somewhere before and another person claimed that, taken in context, the people heckling the man should have been in some school or other at the time and that they were about to kill him (he sounded O.T.-knowledgeable), but whether or not he was correct, I'd agree about the pre-Christian God being prone to violence and etc.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

"Flying Kimchi Monster?" Oh! Schism!

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

The way I see it, he's like a stand-up comedian going on tour. It seems funny and spontaneous the first time but if you see it again he's basically reciting the same few stories/jokes. He has to, because most people DON'T read blogs/listen to interviews. It seems a bit stale and a bit silly but only because we know his schtick already.

Where are the other evangelical atheists, that's what I want to know!