Haha!
Someone posted in wurds:
There are 4 houses in a street. Richard Dawkins lives in the third house.
In the first house lives Brother Guy Consolmagno. He's a Christian, and Jesuit, working for the Vatican. He's also a PhD scientist, being curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory. He applys a faith-based approach to his religion, and an evidence-based approach to his science.
A hindu lives in the second house. Christians believe there is one almighty and powerful God, whereas Hindu's have several deities in their religion. So the Christian knows that the Hindu is wrong.
However, if Dr. Consolmagno believes in a tolerant society, then he will allow the Hindu to practice his religion in peace. He will not become a suicide bomber and kill the Hindu. And vice verse.
Richard Dawkins applies an evicence based approach to everything. He seems no reason to use 'faith' to believe in a God, and although he knows he cannot disprove the existence of a god, he gives it the same credence as the existence of fairies. He is an athiest.
He also believes that most of the worlds evils stem from religion. He believes that all the religious people in the world should give up their faith, and apply the same athiestic evidence-based approach to all of life. He believes the Christian and the Hindu in houses 1 and 2 are simply wrong.
He is a radical athiest, and campaigns against religion.
Who is in the fourth house? It's another athiest, who also sees no need for religion, and applies an evidence based approach to everything. However he believes in a tolerant society. He believes that most of the evil in the world stems from human nature, (although much of it is done in the name of religion), and notes that secular socieities also practice evils like torture and suppression of human rights.
So although he also believes the Christian and the Hindu are wrong, he knows he can't prove it, so he leaves them alone to practice their faith.
He is a tolerant athiest.
(There's no message to this, you can take whatever viewpoint you wish.)
In response to this quote:
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
- Richard Dawkins.
There are 4 houses in a street. Richard Dawkins lives in the third house.
In the first house lives Brother Guy Consolmagno. He's a Christian, and Jesuit, working for the Vatican. He's also a PhD scientist, being curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory. He applys a faith-based approach to his religion, and an evidence-based approach to his science.
A hindu lives in the second house. Christians believe there is one almighty and powerful God, whereas Hindu's have several deities in their religion. So the Christian knows that the Hindu is wrong.
However, if Dr. Consolmagno believes in a tolerant society, then he will allow the Hindu to practice his religion in peace. He will not become a suicide bomber and kill the Hindu. And vice verse.
Richard Dawkins applies an evicence based approach to everything. He seems no reason to use 'faith' to believe in a God, and although he knows he cannot disprove the existence of a god, he gives it the same credence as the existence of fairies. He is an athiest.
He also believes that most of the worlds evils stem from religion. He believes that all the religious people in the world should give up their faith, and apply the same athiestic evidence-based approach to all of life. He believes the Christian and the Hindu in houses 1 and 2 are simply wrong.
He is a radical athiest, and campaigns against religion.
Who is in the fourth house? It's another athiest, who also sees no need for religion, and applies an evidence based approach to everything. However he believes in a tolerant society. He believes that most of the evil in the world stems from human nature, (although much of it is done in the name of religion), and notes that secular socieities also practice evils like torture and suppression of human rights.
So although he also believes the Christian and the Hindu are wrong, he knows he can't prove it, so he leaves them alone to practice their faith.
He is a tolerant athiest.
(There's no message to this, you can take whatever viewpoint you wish.)
In response to this quote:
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
- Richard Dawkins.