Posted on 10/28/2006 8:46:36 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
In the United States, atheists are becoming an ostracized minority. But now evolutionary biologists are trying to turn the tables: According to their argument, religion is the source of evil. Morals and selflessness are not God-given - they are the result of evolution.
When Richard Dawkins, a zoologist at Oxford University, steps up to the altar he seems visibly pleased to see the pews in the church fully occupied. In the best Queen's English, he reads from his book: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
LoL.... Duuuugh.. I heard that...
Pointing at tagline
LOL... It wasn't a personal attack on a group of people, I was referring to Christians, i.e., more than one Christian. And I have heard more than one Christian express this idea for this reason. And if you think I've been "out-rationalized," you are a fool. (Now, THAT'S a personal attack.)
LOL... Whatever. If it makes you feel better, feel free...
Well, good for you.
The former Soviet Bloc countries are all countries with Judeo-Christian histories and background. That they ruined their environments has everything to do with the fact that they adopted communism, not that communism was atheistic.
Check and checkmate.
LOL... I'm sure you think so...
Oh brother. This is like junk-religion (i.e. junk science).
Jeepers hosepipe, people such as the current author are just getting so tiresome to me.... I'm really sick of this same ol' yada-yada-yada. It all seems so scripted to me. Sigh.
Hey, if that's what you need to go away...
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."-G.K. Chesterton
Your personal attack on Christians (Christians are the group I was referring to up thread) validates my assertion that you lost this one.
Personal attacks are the last tool of those who know they've lost.
But please, be my guest, keep digging. And better luck next time.
"It wasn't a personal attack on a group of people, I was referring to Christians, i.e., more than one Christian."
So, Christians are not a group of people?
I was commenting on a number of individual Christians, not Christians as a group. But believe whatever you want.
I figured so but my agenda was to brighten your day with a laugh..
This guy so reminds me of Professor Irwin Cory..
Example: "Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." -- Professor Irwin Cory
"Personal attacks are the last tool of those who know they've lost."
So true...
Not all christians are christians..... some are merely actors..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/features/images/tftd_richard_dawkins.jpg
Richard Dawkins
* Evolutionist / Atheist
* Graduated at Oxford University (1962)
* D.Sc. at Oxford University / a protégé of biologist/ethologist Niko Tinbergen
* Honorary D.Litt. by the University of St Andrews (1995)
* Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley (1967-1969)
* Lecturer in Zoology at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College from 1970
* Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University
* Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
* 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London
* 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award
* 1994 Nakayama Prize for Human Science
* Vice President of the British Humanist Association (since 1996)
* Humanist of the Year Award (1996)
* Author: The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, and Unweaving the Rainbow
http://www.hypnosisinmedia.com/Television/DoctorWho/wardl21.jpg
* Wife: actress and artist Lalla Ward
* Born: 1941 (Nairobi)
"Not all christians are christians..... some are merely actors."
I don't disagree with you at all on that point.
Christianity is determined by faith, and not determined by one's denomination.
That is what WildHorseCrash doesn't seem to understand.
"What I've seen is Christians supporting the destruction of the natural world if it can make someone a buck, on the grounds that God gave it to us to do whatever we want with it."
That appears to be an attack on a group of people.
Maybe he/she would like to rewrite that sentence.
That is what WildHorseCrash doesn't seem to understand.
No, I understand that you believe that. But the larger world does not agree with that understanding. Or, at least, they don't think that is the only, exclusive understanding.
That appears to be an attack on a group of people. Maybe he/she would like to rewrite that sentence.
No, "he" would not. It's an attack on those people who both 1) claim to be Christian and 2) believe that God gave nature and the world to us to do whatever we want with it. It is an attack (to the extent it even IS an attack) on no one else but those people. Certainly not all Christians.
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