Made by Mammals
The Pope Vs. Alan Turing
By . 2009. Made by Mammals.
“Private homosexuality was a criminal offence in Britain up until – astonishingly – 1967. In 1954 the British mathemetician, Alan Turing, a candidate along with John Neumann for the title of father of the computer, committed suicide after being convicted of the criminal offence of homosexual behaviour in private….He was offered a choice between two years in prison (you can imagine how the other prisoners would have treated him) and a course of hormonal injections which could be said to amount to chemical castration, and would have caused him to grow breasts. His final, private choice was an apple that he had injected with cyanide. As the pivotal intellect in the breaking of the German Enigma codes, Turing arguably made a greater contribution to defeating the Nazis than Eisenhower or Churchill. Thanks to Turing and his ‘Ultra’ colleagues at Bletchley Park, Allied generals in the field were consistently, over long periods of the war, privy to detailed German plans before the German generals had time to implement them. After the war, when Turing´s role was no longer top secret, he should have been knighted and feted as a saviour of his nation. Instead, this gentle, stammering eccentric genius was destroyed, for a ‘crime’, committed in private, which harmed nobody. Once again, the unmistakable trademark of the faith-based moralizer is to care passionately about what other people do (or even think) in private.”
Richard Dawkins
Comments (5)
Alan Turing was a great man. Put to death by the intolerance and bigotry of a society that still harms some of the most benevolent, brilliant and beneficial of us all. We are still using the methods that he developed today.
posted on February 22, 2010Alan Turing is a hero of mine - I use his image as my picture on the Projecrt Reason forum. As a gay man I identify with him and am in awe of his scientific and mathematical work. He is a prime example of how innocent and good people, harmlesss and talented people are destroyed by the evils of religion. He passing was a great loss to the world for which his country ought to be ashamed. He was a saviour of Britain and should have been awarded and still should be awarded a medal.
posted on January 14, 2011Very well said by Richard Dawkins.
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To me, this issue alone would cause me to abandon my religion. Why on earth would any reasonable person agree that someone should be punished without having done harm to themselves or others? They wouldn’t, which is why it is necessary to indoctrinate and inspire guilt and fear SO MUCH that someone will abandon their sense of reason. So sad.
posted on December 31, 2009