Posted on 08/15/2014 12:55:45 PM PDT by Heartlander
Famed evolutionary biologist and atheist leader Richard Dawkins reportedly said this week that “nice Christians” and “nice Muslims” might actually be making the “world safe for extremists.”
...Dawkins apparently claimed that moderates inadvertently contribute to faith-fueled fundamentalism and extremism.
“It’s very important that we should not demonize ordinary, law-abiding, very decent Muslims which of course is the vast majority in this country,” Dawkins said, according to the Telegraph.
He continued, “... the difference between moderate religious people and extremist fundamentalists is that although of course it’s only a tiny minority of any sect which is ever going to get violent or horrible, there is a sense in which the moderate, nice religious people — nice Christians, nice Muslims — make the world safe for extremists.”
Dawkins went on to say that moderate religious people who are kind create the notion that “there’s something good about religion” and that there are benefits to bringing children up to embrace theological ideals. He such such a notion leads people to believe in something without having evidence or the need to offer justification.
...It is this very ideal that Dawkins took issue with, saying it could lead to fundamentalism and extremism.
“Once you teach people that that’s a legitimate reason for believing something then you as it were give a license to the extremists who say, ‘My belief is that I’m supposed to be a suicide bomber or I’m supposed to blow up buildings — it’s my faith and you can’t question that,’” he added, according to the Telegraph.
Dawkins, who said he’s sure moderates would be horrified by the notion that they are helping fuel radicalism, posited that “nevertheless it could be true.”
The atheist leader recently came under fire for tweets about “date rape,” “stranger rape,” “mild pedophilia” and “violent pedophilia.”
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Funny words coming from a religious extremist.
Not too bright, is he?
What has struck me about people like Dawkins is the utterly sophomoric nature of their arguments: really embarrassingly shallow stuff from people who consider themselves to be of superior intelligence and grounded in “reality.”
Dawkins is not an atheist. He is an anti-theist. Anti-theism is a movement that uses organized groups and paid advertising - such as Dawkin's Atheist Bus Campaign in Britain - to trash and mock believers in order to try to pro-actively turn people away from God.
Perhaps, but I bet they aren’t very enamored with Judaism either.
Very good!
If you speak of Christianity in the same sentence as the death cult of islam then you are beyond an atheist and a hater.
One is a religion of hope and life and one is a system of terror and death.
Indeed..
Dawkins is one of the bigger short inducers on today’s atheistic circuit.
It takes an awful big dose of faith to be an atheist. :-))
I appreciate that people have issues with human theology. I do as well, but to think that there is no Divine Creator seems absurd,
Physicists who support the Big Bang theory as to the creation of the universe have to acknowledge they one has to suspend all known laws of physics to believe in that theory. In that sense, it is also absurd for atheists to say they have a scientific viewpoint.
Is there a radical Atheism?
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