Peter Gandolfi

Italian/Israeli chemist, #secular #humanist #science #reason #pseudoscience #religion #animalrights #vipassana & #humor.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

To those raising the Palestinian flag,

Where were you when ISIS was launched and beheaded tens of thousands of Arabs in Iraq, Libya, and Syria in the name of Islam? Why didn’t you take to the streets and raise their flags? Why didn’t you condemn the terror and call for a ”ceasefire”?

Where were you when Arab dictators and terrorists killed hundreds of thousands of Arabs in Syria and Libya? Why didn’t you take to the streets and raise their flags? Why didn’t you condemn the terror and call for a ”ceasefire”?

Where were you in the last decade when Saudi Arabia, backed by 8 Arab countries, killed 400,000 Yemenis, my own people? I didn’t see any of you take to the streets or raise the Yemeni flag. I did not see any of you condemning the terror and calling for a ”ceasefire” while Arab countries were slaughtering my own people.

This must lead to some self-reflection.

When millions of Arabs are slaughtered by other Arabs, you say nothing.

But when 7 thousand of Arabs are killed by Jews defending their right to exist, you revolt, you get angry, you storm the streets in the East and the West, you raise the Palestinian flag, you condemn the terror, you call for a ceasefire, you turn the world upside down.

Why is that?

Why were you so silent then but SO LOUD now?

Can it be that you are finally raising a flag and creating chaos because you only hate that the perpetrators are Jews?

Because you obviously don't care when millions of Arabs are killed by other Arabs.

Can it be that you storming the streets is just you venting out your hatred towards Jews? The same hatred we learned in our mosques and schools?

You speak of ”numbers and proportionality.” But by the rules of proportionality, you should not be raising Palestinian flags.

Unless, there is another agenda at play: Jew-hatred. Or as I would call it: Hatred.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am deeply moved by the courage shown by Rana Ahmad (@lovhum)- a young woman who had to flee from her home in Saudi Arabia when she became an atheist. Here’s my conversation with her.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

“Sex is not the same as gender.”

But it’s not your gender that gives you the physique to tower over woman athletes & break their swimming records. It’s your sex. It’s not your undressed gender that upsets women in changing rooms. It’s your sex.

You can’t eat your cake & have it.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

What sounded to many ears like “Islamophobia” was actually Hitchens’s refusal to treat Muslims as somehow less than rational.
Paraphrased from Matt Johnson’s book, How Hitchens can Save the Left: Rediscovering fearless liberalism in an age of counter-enlightenment. @mattjj89

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Sex is clearly binary, declaring oneself to be otherwise is a distortion of reality. #Gender #Science #PoetryOfReality

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Religion has alienated, marginalized and shunned people over centuries, for simply disagreeing. I’d like to believe the solution is patient argument, but experience tells me that’s just not likely. Watch full audio episode here: https://t.co/FxrjGUzpQu #science #reason #religion

[Peter Gandolfi @It_IsraHumanism]

@RichardDawkins Just to point out that in Israel we have "Religious-Nationalism" in the government, which is the best recipe for disaster!

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Science doesn't detract from love.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I have great hopes that the God of Abraham will go the way of the gods of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and the Vikings.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

"The God of the Old Testament is the most unpleasant character in all fiction". The opening words of Chapter 2 of The God Delusion. See also Dan Barker's book with that title, which justifies it fully, giving chapter and verse.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Feelings are important but science is about evidence

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Should we believe in falsehood to be moral?

[Peter Gandolfi @It_IsraHumanism]

Courage to Be Honest - On Stage with Ricky Gervais https://t.co/PH3H1zhc4z via @YouTube

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Scroll down to the audio & marvel as the teacher from hell “scolds pupil for questioning . . .” The girl stands up bravely & intelligently to obnoxious bullying by the scientifically illiterate teacher (who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children).
https://t.co/1LYNgExqxw

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Modi’s BJP is a tragic affront to India’s secular beginnings. Hinduism is at least as ridiculous as Islam. Between them, these two idiotic religions have betrayed the ideals of Nehru and Gandhi.

https://t.co/1wIHXKeyGS

[D Attenborough @Attenboroughs_D]

Just squirting my bear.
*not a euphemism

[Peter Gandolfi @It_IsraHumanism]

New Rule: Atheists Day | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) https://t.co/cRAww6Vswy via @YouTube

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

.@BillMaher at his best. Vey funny. Hits target after target with delicious accuracy.

https://t.co/suCGGiAzJ3

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

If you want to preserve democracy, vote for politicians who respect the institutions that investigate and publish the truth. Vote for a party that tells people that they have the right to elect whatever government they like, but they cannot elect whatever truth they like.