Which is likely to be most damaging to religion (pick one) --?

Question

1) Guys like Galileo ("The earth orbits the sun, not the reverse")

2) Guys like Richard Dawkins ("Religion is a virus of the mind")

3) Guys like Christopher Hitchens ("God is anything but great and his followers are criminal lunatics"),

or

4) Guys like the comedian (forgot the name) who observed, "When Pat Robertson prays, he looks like he's trying to pass an axe"?

Answer 1

I PICK RELIGION to be most damaging to religion, Big Time!

Answer 2

I've got to go with 5, religious hucksters who peddle Jesus junk and use divisive theology instead of unifying people.

Think about it, thanks to the hustlers and panderers of the 1970s to today, no one remembers the people of faith from the Abolitionist movement, the peace movement, the civil rights era... they all get dumped in the same box as the thankfully dead Jerry Falwell.

Answer 3

3) because it attacks God himself as well as those who are faithful to him. 2) could also be, but religion and Christianity aren't necessarily the same thing, so he may have a point, depending on how the statement was intended.

Answer 4

Number 3 of course.

Answer 5

I vote for Peg's answer on this one. Religion damages itself more than anything that outsiders could say or do to it.

Answer 6

#3

Answer 7

None of the above...religion damages itself more than any of these can.

The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 8

the most damaging to religion is the truth..
probably the second one is the most "dangerous", but anyway people who believe don't get effected by these sentences.. unfortunately! ;o)

Answer 9

1. that was science and all the rest are just opinions. opinions dont convince anyone. especially richard dawkins. i already agree with him and i still hated that book! he's a self righteous jerk who's just as egocentric as christian extremists

Answer 10

I pick 3., although I will also say, Homosexuality., or for man or Woman.