Well, it seems that I have been the victim of a hoax.
While my ego was flattered by the idea that Richard Dawkins might join Twitter and follow me, I have since discovered that it was a hoax following something curiously unatheist like Tweeted this evening:
Thanks for listening and following along. Have a nice day.
belief system. It’s easy to be against people who are different than you, but try not to be like that. Take the high road, unlike RD.
legacy. Just like I, a Chrisitan do not follow Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, don’t be mislead by someone just because they share your…
Consider that being hostile towards others has never won any followers. Richard Dawkins is just an old man trying to leave behind a …
That is my message of peace to all of you. Love one another. It’s ok.
People who claim to be Christians can be hypocrites, but they’re just people, and all people make mistakes. Try to be good to one another.
It’s not wrong to be kind to people who don’t believe the same as you. You don’t have to be militant atheists.
While I still have 1700 of you paying attention, I just wanted to say: Whatever you believe, respect others beliefs.
Which led me to look at richarddawkins.net. Where I found this from the real Richard Dawkins:
et again, some impostor is pretending to be me. I do not Twitter, I had never even heard of Twittering until this thread alerted me to it, and I most certainly have not signed up for it. I am told there are numerous Facebook pages purporting to be mine. None of them is. I do not have a Facebook page, or anything comparable.
I don’t understand the motivation of these impostors. They do not seem to intend malice. If that were the motive, I could kind of understand it. If it were amusing satire I could understand the motive. But the fictititious persona that they invent for me is not particularly discreditable, nor is it funny. The statements attributed to me are not wildly implausible. But they are not mine. They are pure fiction. If anybody can suggest a possible motive I would be curious to know. What kind of person makes up fiction about a real person, which is neither malicious nor humorous but just sort of DULL?
And does anybody know how to let it be known to the Twitter admin people that this is an imposture?
Richard
Which leaves me feeling rather embarrassed to say the least. Still it was not beyond the realms of possibility for it to happen and it has heightened my awareness that something like is possible.
What concerns me is that it isn’t April…
