And you HAD to save ONE of them, who would you save?
Just a name will do nicely, no "you're going to hell" rants if you can help it.
2007-05-15 08:50:56 · 17 answers · asked by Ginger Ninja 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer is clear cut – if I could only save one person, I would do everything in my power to save Richard Dawkins. That question is not even morally complex. Even Christians, who answer the question seriously, could not even contemplate saving such a maniacal figure as Adolf Hitler, even if he did share some affinity for Christianity at certain points in his life, at the expense of such a prodigious mind as Richard Dawkins.
Dawkins’ scientific worldview may put him at odds with the Christian perspective, but his works contribute to the betterment of mankind, and they have done nothing of determent to it. A world fashioned after Dawkins’ commitment to scientific inquiry would be one that would not have allowed Adolf Hitler to come to power.
A world that is conducive to the ascension of men like Adolf Hitler, must be a world where propositions asserted by men of authority go unquestioned. A world ripe for a man like Adolf Hitler to take the stage is one where people blindly accede to authority and take many fanciful notions on faith. In other words the world most advantageous to Adolf Hitler is a world that is also receptive to religious belief. Dawkins views, and his life, embody a mentality where all propositions must be questioned, and in such an environment, Adolf Hitler and his preposterous ideas would not ever have gotten off the ground.
2007-05-15 15:09:01 · answer #1 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Richard Dawkins
2007-05-15 08:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by chersa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd wonder about the circumstances of how they managed to both end up hanging over a cliff.
i'd wonder how hitler managed to come back from the dead only to find himself hanging over a cliff.
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they could scream and cuss all they wanted to but both would have to fall.
i'm too physically weak to pull anyone from hanging over a cliff.
then i'd look closer and see that Dawkins had secured himself with bungy rope... and had all the time faked Hitler out... luring him to the edge.
so i'd figure that i'd come at a bad time and discreetly walk away.
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2007-05-15 09:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by opalist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hitler
2007-05-15 09:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Paien 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would save the Christian and let Richard Dawkins rot in hell.
2007-05-15 08:59:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dawkins.
2007-05-15 08:58:01 · answer #6 · answered by Dark-River 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would save Dawkins.
2007-05-15 08:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dawkins. He advocates a position that I disagree with, but he's not responsible, as far as I know, for mass genocide.
2007-05-15 08:58:09 · answer #8 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dawkins, of course, because hitler is a christian and therefore already "saved", right?
2007-05-15 08:54:15 · answer #9 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I understand you're trying to be allegorical, but it's a ridiculous question. One of the most evil people to ever live verses an opinionated atheist. Hmmmm.
2007-05-15 09:06:16 · answer #10 · answered by Stephen L 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋