13. Differdawkin’®
(Post 13 of 33 in my 16-hour shift for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon.)
2:00 pm EDT
Richard Dawkins has said a ridiculously large number of things in his life that I’ve agreed with. Once in a while, I find myself disagreeing with him. That’s not only fine but to be encouraged — If I hear one more defense of an idea because Famous Freethinker X Says So, I’m gonna blow bangers out me bewdle.
Voicing our differences with our own upper echelon is such a good idea, I’ve coined a term: it’s called differdawkin’®. It captures not only the difference in opinion but my own chutzpah for differing with royalty in the first place.
Example: I think it was Dawkins who once suggested that “The Passion of St. Matthew” might someday be replaced by “The Passion of the Milky Way.” I’m gonna have to differdawk on that one. I think we’ll always express our deepest emotions and connections in human terms, not by singing the praises of abstract or inert things, no matter how inspiring.
See? Variations include notsoshermerin’ and taking a different twain.
Meditate on how you ever got along without my important new word, then haste to yon sidebar and donate a dollar to SSA for every time you intend to use it.