Sounds like Dawkins et al like to talk to themselves.
Then I guess I'll have a lot more time to discuss God's existence from Heaven than he will.
religion “is the denial—at once full of hope and full of fear—of the vastitude of human ignorance.”
No, the belief that God exists is not religion.
People who deny the existence of God are full of fear because of it.
You fear death because you do not believe, and you hope in lieu of faith.
Harris is a moron.
Philosophers — God laughs.
Anthony Flew, perhaps the 20th century’s most articulate philosopher in the area of epistemology (knowledge) and, until recently, an outspoken atheist himself, said this of Dawkins:
“...Dawkins is not interested in the truth as such. He is primarily concerned to discredit an ideological opponent by any available means.” (First Things, December ‘08)
I think it is fair to say that Dennet, Harris and Hitchens fall into the same category. In the end, those who believe in some form of deity have a rational (warranted) basis upon which to build value systems. Atheists, on the other hand, must wind up in the realm of pure subjectivity. What they believe to be right and wrong, they believe to be right and wrong only upon the basis of their own opinion. Ideology, IMHO, is merely opinion about truth, not truth itself.
It’s pretty long. I’ll try to read it later.
Kant—total strangers used to come to his habitual restaurant to watch him eat he was so famous—said that we are logically free to believe in God if we wish. Free will, too. And eternal life.
Yet more proof that anyone who seeks to be a philosopher needs to go get a real job.
-Proverbs (can't rembember chapter/verse).
Apparently, Dawkins handles the subject so badly that his fellow atheists have told him to shut up...he is hurting the cause.
INTREP
Some are chosen as part of the elect, and heed the gospel call and some are not and don't.