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Who did you used to have tremendous respect for but now dont?

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JoelB 4 Apr 4
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The Pope

I should have been more specific - by "the pope" I mean to say the "holy see" which implies the Roman Catholic Church itself. The current Pope is the inevitable result of the Churchs' downward spiral into the abyss of secular humanism@TradCatholic

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I used to have respect for the left. now I think they should all be purged in the fastest way possible.

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Did he move further left? For an atheist he seems to be getting more & more indoctrinated.

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My prime minister

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Conservatories parties, They have let us down. We’re is the vision. When will government given for the people not corporations.

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I respect Dawkins as an evolutionary biologist and an atheist. I deplore his support for globalism, elitism and the E.U.

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Comey, Brennan & Clapper. How men of stature can use and abuse their offices is beyond the pale.

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Hahahaha, well, I always found Dawkins to have a blindspot in his thinking--call it an unscalable wall. He's unable to separate his feelings enough to consider other viewpoints or notice his own glaring contradictions (often seen in the religious devotion to atheism). I always find you learn a ton about someone's worldview by hearing them speak on religion. It's sort of a litmus test for me, and it's usually where people STOP in their thinking that is the most revealing. I'm not afraid to criticize the institution of religion or religious people myself, so it's not about that. Christians, in particular, don't generally like talking to me because I haven't bought into their ill-considered interpretation of God and God's intended role for His people. So, I just pretty much piss everyone off all of the time and spend my days sad and lonely, haha.

So anyway, above he embeds his emotional politics into a well-intended, but blinded axiom. I'd like to think he's not being manipulative in trying to sell his bigotry masked by a good, but ill-considered plea for something or other--drivel. Dawkins is a man of strong faith (at least I didn't say dogma), and he's perfectly willing for you to travel his path of nonsense to whatever end such beliefs bring. I think Dawkins is an exceedingly arrogant man, but you often find that in the people who endeavor to lead others. I'm watching Jordan Peterson VERY CLOSELY. It's a short trip from humble servant to self-celebratory-promotion. In fact, Jordan could be my response to this question in the OP, if he makes the turn to falling in love with his own brand. Humility is Peterson's strength. But, I've already seen a couple of instances where I wondered if he's turning. He's clearly exhausted right now. I'm not sure he even realizes how tired he is--or how little time he's given himself to continue thinking about new problems--refreshing his intellect. Stagnation breeds boredom, and boredom breeds the celebration of self. Anyway, I got sidetracked.

Dawkins beats his ignorant drum and simply doesn't acknowledge any issue at any depth. It's a talking point, and it's a talking point that isn't honed by internal or external opposition. He simply assumes because he said it, it's profound. bleh. Just as an example, 'German pride gave us Hitler.' Wow, way to reduce an entire ancestory of a people to your own single negative definition. That's f'ing bigotry. How much good has come from the German people? Geez, what a douchey thing to say. Reductionist douche. I have zero German lineage that I know of. I'm not defending them or defending Hitler. This isn't about the Germans. It's about Dawkins being an elitist choad and peddling hate.

Okay, I upset myself. I'm remanding myself to a corner until I can get my emotions under control. I triggered myself.

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CNN Collectively.

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How can she not know the hijab is woman’s oppression 101

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I had respect for McCain back in the 80's and 90's. Not great respect, but respect. The 2000 presidential campaign showed his true character. That character being vengeful, petty, and small. McCain spent the next 18 years of his life sticking it to the base that made up the party that preferred W in 2000. For the record, shrub is a bigger sob and loser than I realized in 2000.

I never liked the guy. He was the fortunate son and got a pass. He should have went down for the S&L crisis like his buddies.

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I looked up to my mother when I was young it was only later I realised physical abuse is not the norm. I look out for her obituary every week, even after she croacked I will never forgive her for all the pain and suffering

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Don't our heroes always disappoint us in the end?!
R. Dawkins for example, with that statement above - quite funny. Even the people he lists as the finest whom we are supposed to lavish with our pride, they had some really nasty and reprehensible flaws. Who isn't reminded of the statement "Why can't we all be friends!" These statements always come from mental 'fat-cats' sipping from one of their many whole-milk bowls. Enough said.

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Up until the teddy bears and hugs for illegal migrant minors crossing the southern border, I still had shreds of respect for him. Since then, he's dead to me.

@DLHSHM1956 I always respected him up until then, even with all of his pious morality. I first started listening to him back when I was a pizza delivery driver back in the early or mid nineties. He had the afternoon drive slot on AM radio right after Rush Limbaugh and that Gary Spivey religious spiritual psychic nut bag. But when he took that stance I just couldn't take the guy seriously. He completely sold out to corporate MSM. He took the same road to success that Alex Jones was offered and could have taken but instead rejected, refusing to compromise his principles. Those are the two main reasons I can't respect him anymore. I still value a lot of his conservative opinions but overall he just sold his soul to the people behind what is really wrong with the world today.

@JayKane Yes. All of that and he's an emotional yoyo.

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Our government
The Bush family
Ted Cruz
The democrat and a republican party
Just to name a few

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Jeff Sessions I loved a lot of his comments when he was a senator but, he collapsed like a house of cards when he was attorney general.

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Never had respect for the one trick pony called Dawkins.

I did when i was first questioning my faith. He helped rationalize for me some difficult questions

@JoelB i completely agree. I respected Dawkins as well and still value his opinion as far as religion goes but his lack of understanding of how the western ideology of freedom and civility is being threatened is beyond ignorance. He is the one now that is sticking to this globalist fantasy like a faith. We must go forward with humanity but it must be with western culture and ideology. It has by far produced the greatest good for the entire world.

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Elected Idaho Republicans. Eeegad.

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In my childhood I greatly respected the holy trinity: Crockett, Bowie, and Travis. Then I grew up and read more history, after which they became common men made great by dent of circumstance and opportunity. So it has become that very process when we see a man or woman rise up, step up, out of the shadows and lead, give meaning to existence, become polished by adoration, and stumbles by the ordinariness of their previous life with all the blemishes exposed. Truth is, we all have our warts and skeletons in the closet.

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You got me with Richard! His evolution has left a bad taste in my mouth! lol

I see what you did there

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Ben Carson. I campaigned for him in the primary on the basis of his intellectual honesty and ideas on reforming healthcare from the point of view of a physician, and that respect was emboldened while watching him go up against the bullying of Trump. But I lost a tremendous amount of respect for his character when he accepted a Trump cabinet position and pretended to be friendly with him post-election.

Maybe he knows something about Trump that you don't

I believe by the time the primary heated up and people started dropping out that Carson realized it was DT against everybody and the gloves were off and anything goes. It wasn't really personal.

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I used to somewhat like Trudeau, I was open to him being the leader of Canada. I voted for him, as I was trying to vote another party out in my riding. The liberals won in my area, so my vote really didn't do anything but haunt me. The first day I had hope with this silly mf. After day 1 started to see this mealy mouthed nitwit for what he was, a liar, rude and very entitled. I never imagined we have an outright traitor. A spoiled little boy who is just shy of 50 yrs old. The ultimate, that he himself hates " old stock Canadian" he is all that everyone wants to get rid of, he is a white male born a millionair many times over, silver spoon in the mouth. Uneducated, not ready to run a McDonald's restarant. Entitled. I have 0 respect for him, how he plays Canada is insulting. Anyway, I'm very worried for my country, if Hillary won, I believe we would be just like sweden, the US would be on its way to Sweden as well. Trump put a monkey wrench in the United Nations agenda's.

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Jim Jefferies, complete SJW hypocrite ?

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Chris Christie

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