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 ...
Got a news flash for you the stories are NOT made up. You do however have the God given choice to pay attention or NOT.
"Atheist-ism" does too have a god, the person themselves are elevated to that stature.
Hey time is well down the hour glass so won't be long to assess who is on the RIGHT side and who is not.
The "God said it; I believe it; that settles it" mindset rejects the fact that humans are descended from non-human primates and blinds them to the fact that they are shutting out science because of their religion.
Hell, some of them even refuse to believe that homo sapiens are African Great Apes. Why? Because they don't have the self-reflection enough to recognize that their religious ideology is forcing them to deny scientific, factual facts because it doesn't coincide with their unsupported religious predispositions. They believe that God said they are made in the image of God, so they believe it, and that settles it.
Now you may not have this same mindset. But the fact that you believe that you can be made into a "Godly creature" makes me question that.
When you place the flesh of slaughtered cattle in your mouths, know and feel, that you are devouring your fellow-creature
.Wow
Do you feel that way when you eat a potato.
Cause if evolution is true that potato is your cousin.
Just say the name. The rest is superfluous. Saves bandwidth.
We share 1/2 our DNA structure with the plant kingdom. Think of it: if we were not related we could get no nutrition from plants. Might as well eat rocks.
Coming from a country who's future is Islamic Sharia law this article is a joke.
They aren't WHOLLY made up. I mean, the city of Jerusalem does exist, for example. But the fantastical parts are definitely made up. The stories Genesis and the rest of the Old Testament are an attempt by a primitive people to explain the world around them, without the tolls or ideas which could have permitted to get it right.
"Atheist-ism" does too have a god, the person themselves are elevated to that stature.
Well, since you just made it up, feel free to believe what you want.
Hey time is well down the hour glass so won't be long to assess who is on the RIGHT side and who is not.
Or, when are time expires and our brains cease functioning, our consciousnesses will fade away and we will be unable to assess anything.
A prospect so terrifying to billions that they had to invent Heaven as a comforting alternative.
Sad.
Should have read:
The stories in Genesis and the rest of the Old Testament are an attempt by a primitive people to explain the world around them, without the tools or ideas which could have permitted them to get it right.
Indeed. What is most sad to me is the lost opportunities which such a believe system causes.
Since I don't read Hebrew, that is true. However, I've read enough, differing translations, to get the gist of what it says. So unless there's been a conspiracy lasting hundreds of years covering up a number of false translations, I have a fair idea of what it says.
This modern age has NO clue, well some do, reason for the invention of evolution but there is nothing new under the sun as it is written.
This makes no sense. But, evolution was formulated to explain the diversity of life.
Psalms 22 foretold of Christ's death and exactly what that chief high priest would say and what those soldiers would do. That makes King David a Prophet as welll as part of the line though which Christ would come.
Interestingly, Psalm 22 doesn't contain the name "Jesus" even once. If ol' Dave was such a great prophet, you would expect him to at least mentioned it, even if just in passing... Also, since the Gospels were written well after the Psalms, it wouldn't be too difficult to make the former conform to the latter.
Christ Himself said that He came not to destroy the LAW or the Prophets. Paul said that what was written of them was for our admonition (warning) as to what would happen again to bring an end to this world (flesh) age. When somebody tells me the script has already been written long ago and all I need to is to read with understanding as what is to be again I pay attention.
Of course, this presupposes that one actually believes this stuff.
Then again as Christ Himself said it was written that NOT all would see/hear for their own protection that many were called and few chosen.
So? The Koran says something different, as do all the other holy books in history.
Doesn't matter to you what is already foretold that would be, so be it. I personally am not satisfied with what man has to say.
Yes you are. The men you are satisfied with lived and died thousands of years ago.
BTW, you may have missed it, but you made an appeal to morality in justifying your thought that killing is bad.
Why should I do anything at all? I had nothing to do with your plight, and if I walk on by what is it to you?
I suspect that the plants, if they could, would "object" to our devouring them.
I don't see what you're getting at. Certainly Europe's religious wars are a prime example of what I'm talking about: the idiocy of religion-based murder.
BTW, you may have missed it, but you made an appeal to morality in justifying your thought that killing is bad.
This belief is axiomatic in the conversation. I would hope that both of use believe that unjustified killing is wrong, regardless of why we believe that.
It's the very reason we don't spend a lot of time condemning the ancient Greeks or Romans, or even today's Hindus.
Now, what was it you were saying Christianity, or religion in general, REQUIRES of us?
Do you have evidence that we do, in fact, die (at the level of consciousness).
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