A few days ago, Not the Bee reported that famed atheist agitator Richard Dawkins had upset the information gatekeepers at Facebook by posting scientifically accurate information.
Dawkins used his account to share his belief that genetically male boxers, like Olympian Imane Khalif, should not be permitted to fight and win their gold medals against women.
An exasperated Dawkins posted his frustrations to X, the world's premier platform for actual free speech:
To be sure, I share Dawkins' sense of irritation. For years, progressives have told humanity that the right - specifically those of us who believe in Jesus - are closet fascists waiting for an opportunity to plunge the world into the dark ages of bonnet-wearing prejudice. Permit conservative Christians to hold positions in authority, they say, and the free exchange of ideas will give way to a stagnated narrow-mindedness.
They said all this with a straight face while promoting a movement that liberal comedian Bill Maher dubbed the "gay mafia" - a movement that is actually destroying people's lives and livelihoods for refusing to bend the knee to woke socio-political demands.
Charities were shut down, foster care and adoption agencies were shuttered, wedding florists bankrupted, cake shop owners were dragged before black-robed oligarchs, and average citizens were threatened and bullied online with suspensions, demonetization, and lifetime bans for telling elementary truths like "boys can't get pregnant."
I would simply point out to Mr. Dawkins that it might be time he acknowledges the contributions he made himself to the defrocking of Christianity in the public square.
He played a not-so-insignificant part in smearing and undermining the only faith in the world that provides moral guideposts tethered to something foundational and unchanging. We are now flapping in the unreliable, arbitrary winds of relativism because he himself promised us all it would be better this way.
I can only assume his recent public announcement that he now considers himself a "cultural Christian" is him acknowledging it is, in fact, not a better way.
But on a larger, more fundamental scale, I truly hope someone conveys to Mr. Dawkins that what he experienced with his Facebook censorship is the very kind of universe he has spent the totality of his professional career touting, promoting, and celebrating. Consider Dawkins' recent protestations in light of the words he himself wrote in his book "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life:"
In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
Mr. Dawkins, if all that is true, then why would you have any interest in complaining about the arbitrary and unfair nature of your treatment at the hands of our Facebook overlords?
Why are you expecting the men and women who operate that platform to operate according to some presupposed moral code?
What is this "fairness" you appeal to, and where does it come from?
Why object to the lack of explanation and justice in your treatment, if it's true that all we can expect from this universe of disorder is "nothing but pitiless indifference?"
Might it be that your instinctive objection reveals a deeply embedded sense of moral law, of eternal justice, of righteousness that exists independent of our selfish preferences?
Almost like it has been written upon your heart in a way that you testify to its truth in unguarded moments of involuntary honesty?
We can live without acknowledging God, but we can't live without Him.
It's why I'm so thankful that Dawkins has been so wrong for so long.
The self-proclaimed atheist has since deleted his post on X without explanation. Here's to hoping he can wrestle with a newfound awareness that there's more going on in our universe than "blind, pitiless indifference."
