You've got that backwards mate.
I know you have some deep rooted hatred for Lisp, but that doesn't give you an excuse to spout off patent falsities. As far as language features go, Ruby and Python drew a lot of inspiriation from Lisp (as did Lua, which the language author has admitted.)
Here's an article that compares some of Ruby's features to Lisp's features, and how Ruby has managed to emulate Lisp in a lot of ways (but not all). It's even pro-Ruby, but it's a good article and mostly true. The only real drawbacks to Lisp are those mentioned within.
http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp