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To: LibWhacker
Controversial scientist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins, dubbed "Darwin's Rottweiler," calls religion a "virus" and faith-based education "child abuse"

Dude, if everything reduces to matter in motion, who's to say what's right and wrong? How can matter in motion be "abusive"?

In fact, education that ignores man's final end, God, is child abuse of the highest order. Better to lose one's life than to lose one's soul.

174 posted on 01/09/2006 10:19:30 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
Dude, if everything reduces to matter in motion, who's to say what's right and wrong? How can matter in motion be "abusive"?

Good question. If Dawkins' presuppositions were correct and he actually followed through with them consistently, that is, if people are just animals that have evolved from lower forms of life and are battling it out in history -- then it follows that there isn't any moral difference between allowing our children to decide for themselves about religious issues, or not, or for that matter, grinding them up for use as fertilizer. His subjective moral posturing about the chemical epiphenomena he calls "abuse" has about the same level of intellectual consistency as that of an incoherent drunk.

Cordially,

189 posted on 01/09/2006 10:47:56 AM PST by Diamond
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