That Dawkins' book The God Delusion is now number 4 on the New York Times bestseller list, its highest ranking of the 16 continuous weeks it has been on it.
2007-01-24 15:28:25 · 12 answers · asked by fourmorebeers 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I like him a lot he went down the Rabbit Hole and discovered it was created from cosmic symphonies
2007-01-24 15:33:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read it and only know a tad about him, but he is to Atheism what Pat Robertson or Jerry Fallwell is to Christianity.
Just like them he twists and turns things around to make his point of view work.
Christians who go to school generally come out with quite a good education, because they are obedient, don't live for TV or aracade games and do what their parents say. They generally get good grades.
This is not to say better than Atheists, but better than the "casual" student.
And even scientists say the end of the world is coming and soon if we don't give up heavy Industry and the Automobile.
Even Stephen Hawking feels it's coming if man doesn't harness his won lust for power with tools like the A Bomb.
And Remember, Christians and Religious people didn't create the A Bomb. Scientists did.
Isn't everyone GLAD scientists did that!
The end of the world is a button's push away at any point in time. Between America, Russian and China we have enough nukes to end it all in less than 2 years from the moment the button is pushed.
Russia and China were both Atheist nations when they built their arms.
Is Christianity or for that matter is Islam responsible for all these A Bombs?
Religion didn't make those Bombs.
Religion didn't make the auto. Religion didn't make industry. Religion doesn't put PCBs into the water table. Religion doesn't put mercury into the waters. Religion doesn't put chemicals that make Acid Rain into the sky.
It's Ironic, GE has to build a plant to get rid of the PCBs and other cancer causing chemicals in the Hudson River and their building their plant to do this in Bethlem, NY.
None of this is Religion's fault.
I think we should pass a law to teach children what Science and Industry really does to the world, instead of sugar coating it.
How would you like a PCB decontamination plant in your town! Would that make you feel good!
Now, what the world needs is somelike like Dawkins who take EVERYTHING by the horns and tears the whole mask away.
What we'll be left with is the sheer fact that in 10 hours almost everyone reading this will get into their cars and dump a ton of pollutants into the air we all breath and you don't give one care about what you're doing to the world.
Self-centered selfishiness is the biggest problem in the world that is something shared equally by AThiests, Thiests, Communists, Socialists, Industrialists and Capitalists.
2007-01-24 16:00:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not really, just my faith in consumerism as our new religion, and that we can still have a sense of humour about ourselves.
But it does give us a fresh and funny look at things, I like the Douglas Adams reference.
edit: John Grisham and Geoffery Archer are often on the best seller lists along with cookbooks by fake-cockney chefs, that does not mean that everyone will become lawyers, awful writers and Essex boys overnight. If you want to see a difference then we have to encourage people to keep open minds about things, challenge people's abject acceptance of things, including ourselves, take nothing for granted, especially the people around us. If everybody just woke up tomorrow morning and treated their fellow man with respect and honesty then I might reconsider my stance. Books can cause as much division as they can unity. The bible is a prime example, wars have been fought over its interpretations. Books can show but they cannot lead by example, only we can do that. And yes I have the book, I enjoyed it.
2007-01-24 15:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by psicatt 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I read it over Christmas break (stop and appreciate the irony). An excellent read!
The statistics about American's religious beliefs (and ignorance of basic scientific facts) is terrifying.
I'm much more concerned about what Christian fanatics will do to this country than I am about what Muslim fanatics will do.
How scary is it that people who are deciding our energy policy, environmental policy, foreign policy, educational policy, etc. are operating under the belief that the end of the world is coming in the next 50 years? And they're happy about it! We're sitting here in the middle of the biggest suicide pact ever.
2007-01-24 15:40:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really. It just means a great deal of people question the "facts" they've been told. That's a pretty good thing.
My faith in humanity will be restored once we stop hating each other. That'll never happen so my faith stays put.
2007-01-24 15:34:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It is a relief to know that people are reading it and perhaps questioning what they believe. There is definitely a taboo in our society about rationally questioning religion. Hopefully, these types of books will help to break that barrier down. Sam Harris' work is also climbing the charts. I find that encouraging.
2007-01-24 15:35:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes....but then I heard that 55 million Americans think the rapture will happen in their lifetime, and my faith in humanity was completely destroyed again
2007-01-24 15:31:42 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but I'm not sure I would use the word "faith".
2007-01-24 15:31:37 · answer #8 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I need to get that book.
2007-01-24 15:31:26 · answer #9 · answered by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
only GOD trult restores thru Jesus.
2007-01-24 15:32:45 · answer #10 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋