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Extraordinary must read for all who have not read it recently.
CS Lewis states "the only reason to believe anything is because it is true"
An extraordinary Theologian and teacher.
Lawrence Tribe doesn't look like he has been skipping meals in a very long time.
Bill and Hillary Clinton.
This reminds me of an exchange between John Constantine and Angela in the film Constantine. She says you have to have faith. He says that he has faith. She says, no, you know, thats not enough.
Absolute nonsense. Anyone who knows anything about Nietzsche knows that Darwin affected him negatively as Nietzsche hated that thought that man was NOT special.
"But Darwin's specific contribution to the theory of evolution influenced him [Nietzsche] only in the negative sense - he denied the validity of 'natural selection' and a 'struggle for life' - and Darwin was in any case too recent to constitute part of his 'tradition'."
FROM: Nietzsche by RJ Hollingdale. 1973, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
While it's tempting to blame poor ol' Nietzsche for all this, WW1 may have played a teensy role (the catastrophic consequences of the Treaty of Versailles and all).
It's not clear Nietzsche's atheism was a function of Darwin's theory. I can't think of a single passage where he states this. It seems he just asssumed it to be true (perhaps thinking, correctly, that after David Hume the burden of proof was squarely on the theist's shoulders).
It's worth pointing out that not all atheists are "militant," pro-choice, or liberal. More than a few simply shun metaphysical speculations on the grounds that the human mind has no business in that realm.
I've always found the militant atheist a baffling phenomenon: Why do they care? Especially in a country where there's no religious persecution or fanaticism?
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Atheism is the highest form of arrogance.
If they don't want to believe in a higher being, fine. But beyond that, why should atheists push their beliefs on anyone else.
I reckon that leaves you out, Tom!
He may have a point. I have house plants I'd sooner run into a burning building to save than Lawrence Tribe.
That's a great book. I haven't read it in a while, but I encouraged one of my old managers to read it. He was an atheist and thought I was really weird, but after he read Mere Christianity and using reason and logic, he became a believer.
After that I helped him translate Mere Christianity into Korean. Of course I don't know Korean and he mentions that in the book, but I was able to help him with some of the concepts. And now more folks have the opportunity to read Mere Christianity, which I highly recommend to anyone looking into the truth.
Wow. You're painting with a very broad brush here, and I have a couple of comments.
First, it seems as though you are offended by a non-Christian's broad depiction of all Christians as being of a certain type. I am uncertain how turning around and demonizing all atheists makes your argument any better.
Second, aside from the rampant hyperbole, all this article does is set up straw-man after straw-man, and then proceeds to knock them down. Seriously, over and over the article attributes atheists with these demonic and evil ambitions with no evidence whatsoever that this is how the average atheis actually feels, and then attempts to defeat the thought process of atheism on those grounds. It's a bad argument that demonizes a large portion of the population for no other reason than that you disagree with their spiritual bent (or lack thereof), and you should be ashamed of yourself.