I wonder if Dawkins is a democrat?..
OK, but what does the second part have to do with the first part? Big Religions with their fear-based belief systems and horifying imagery - all projections of the collective human ego - really don't have anything to do with the existence of a Creator or the belief therein. There are many people who believe in God, find that faith life-affirming and real, and at the same time have no use for the current crop of rent-seekers and divisive hate-peddlers who operate in His name and quote moldy, mistranslated, and misunderstood tomes to justify their actions.
Not everyone loves God against human beings.
Yes, Atheism- the bet of a lifetime- Yup- I’ll throw away the ONLY chance EVER of spending time with God and wager my soul’s eternal existence on the slight chance that there might not be a God- BRILLIANT!
Are these Atheist people complete idiots? Hey Atheists- When you can explain to me what I’ve lost by acceptign a FREE gift from God that will have eternal consequences for my soul, and when you can detail exactly how denying God is a more sure bet in the face of the uncertain prospect of eternity, then Yall come on back- till then- Keep your moronic reasoning to yourself.
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However.... IMHO...
1. Dawkins is serving up a whole lot of warmed over Nietzchke... Likewise Sam Harris, et als... There is nothing new under the sun!
2. Dawkins keeps trying to prove-- at least "preach" the certainty of a negative...
IOW, he is trying to convince the world:
There is no________ [God!]
The mental gymnastics of this "proving a negative" have been long-recognized; and remains today a philosophical and scientific absurdity!
One might simply and legitimately inquire whether or not the existence of "the negative" alas "proved" by Dawkins' own rants and railings are simply yet beyond the scope of his human experience.
I haven't yet heard any of the neo-militant atheist crowd try to claim their own omniscience... (Only their supposed superior reason and intellect!?)
Hmmmm.... What then could be their motive$ -- to $ell a lot of book$.. and make a lot of $peeches for large $ums??
3. What if...
Despite their sophistry, "superior intellect" and articulate philosophical arguments, they are simply wrong --
AND.... The LORD -- the God of the Bible is the Sovereign of all Creation?? -- and Jesus Christ of Nazareth the only begotten Son?... And the Holy Spirit remains Present on the earth in this day to instruct our souls in the knowledge of the Eternal One??
What then have they chosen for an eternal destiny -- biblically speaking??
And even more relevant -- How many others have they stumbled into a similar dismal and eternal error??
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A FEW THOUGHTS -- QUITE CONTRARY TO DAWKINS' LINE OF REASONING! ISAIAH 45:5-7
I am the LORD, and there is no other;
apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
though you have not acknowledged me,
so that from the rising of the sun
to the place of its setting
men may know there is none besides me.
I am the LORD, and there is no other.
I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster;
I, the LORD, do all these things.
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PSALM 53:1-2
The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
there is no one who does good.
God looks down from heaven
on the sons of men
to see if there are any who understand,
any who seek God.
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ISAIAH 55:9-10
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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The man with an experience -- is not at the mercy of the man with an argument.
Keep seeking...
When I am told how much of a destructive force religion can be, I often agree. But religion is a man-made concept, and actions taken in the name of religion are not necessarily going to be in line with the desires of the deity or deities being worshiped.
Free will can have some rather unfortunate results, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Fundamentalist Atheism (the absolute belief that you can and have proved there is no God) is the most irrationally act of religious faith there is
Bovine excrement! Dawkins fails to even engage any classical theological position. If he had throroughly researched his subject, he'd have to have engaged the classical position of God as simple being. Instead he seems to assume that the imbecilities of his opponents in the creation/evolution debate who have misunderstood complexity theory in their formulation of ID are representive of theism in general.
He also doesn't seem to have done much research on the effects of atheism when it is adopted as an official position by a state.
Feel the love...
One good that might have come from not having Christians found the United States is that Dawkins would not have been able to write his atheist screed and that no one could otherwise have read it.
This sentence doesn't make sense. Why would a Bible "basher" complain? Did he mean to say "Bible thumper"?
Later read maybe pingout.
:::rolls eyes:::
Just ask the hard-core homos that were on DU after Jerry Falwell died. They'll explain it to you.
Boy! This video is hard to find on the Internet. Someone is active, taking it off sites. BUT, here it is..., at least for a while...
http://www.veoh.com/series/rootofallevil
It’s in two parts. You can download it and play it (as probably) a flash video file. I’m downloading it now.
Have fun!
Dawkins biggest flaw is this. He believes in evolution, which places homo sapiens on the earth for 30,000+ years. He claims that religion has been the cause of most wars.
Christianity has been around for 2 thousand years, and Judaism has been around for 5,000 years. (6000 years since Adam)
Apparently, for 25,000 years, there was nothing but peace among men. According to all historical record, before Christianity and Judaism, there has been conflict.
He could argue that there were more primitive religions before that. I would submit atheism existed first, if man did not come from Adam and Eve, because if God is the invention of man, then there was a time that the concept of God did not exist.
So then, either atheism is the originator of conflict, and responsible for more years of conflict, or man has only been around for a few thousand years, and there is another reason for conflict.
I submit that wars are caused by weak leaders instilling fear in the ignorant for personal benefit, and strong leaders responding to that poor manipulation. Religion has been used to give the follower the hope of justification.
However, there have been times when the godly have been motivated to destroy evil. I suspect though, that hte number of holy challenges are fewer than human self-centered conflict.
Oh, it's done everyday...in spades.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)
Pretty ironic as that is exactly how atheists respond when presented the truth....offended. And then some run off to make movies of this sort. /shrug