“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” Richard Dawkins
When a person of faith looks at history, looks at all the different religions and gods that have existed throughout the history of man, how can you continue to justify that your god is different, that your god really does exist when all the other didn't?
2007-10-18 10:00:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We all are born atheists. No one believes in god until he is taught by his parents to do so.
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -- Stephen Roberts
2007-10-18 10:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by Peter D 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Excellent question. Yes. An atheist is a person who does not believe any gods ever existed. A Christian who does not believe the ancient Greek or Egyptian gods existed is, in that regard, an atheist. I share Professor Dawkins's view of the matter.
2007-10-18 17:09:18 · answer #2 · answered by Yank 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Dawkins is a sophist. This is a ridiculous comment.
The experience of life to a religious person is qualitatively, and not just quantitatively, different. Quite opposite to his statement, I have more in common with a devout Jew, Muslim, or Hindu than I have with him. I share with my brothers and sisters of other religions the feeling of veneration in all humility, the appreciation and awe we feel for that which is above and not drawn solely from the clinical realm of reason, but the mystical realm of the God-shaped hole most of the rest of us have in our hearts.
He rejects an entire realm of human experience, cutting off his spiritual senses just like if I pulled my ears off, or had my olfactory glands removed.
I am unlike him. I reject nothing that is true and good in other religions, even if I fully affirm my own.
2007-10-18 17:05:57 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
its a matter of faith. plus the definition of the word atheist disproves what dawkins said. an atheist doesnt believe in any gods. present and past. a catholic isnt an atheist because they dont believe in Zeus, a catholic is a theist because they believe in god. how can you justify there is no god if the vast majority of humans in the history of the world believed in some sort of deity? your argument is stupid, overused, and easily turned around.
2007-10-18 17:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Christian/Judeo God can be traced back to time and is the most Ancient god that is actively worshiped.
2 Billion Christians plus Judaism.
The Lord God is the famous One is what history reveals to me.
2007-10-18 17:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe in the one true God the others are just fakes
2007-10-18 17:07:19 · answer #6 · answered by M-S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No
Better than 60% of the world doesn't side with you.
Richard Dawkins knows nothing about nothing.
He's a bread a butter scientist, not an Einstein or even a Planck or Heisenberg.
2007-10-18 17:07:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
awesome question. here's my own favorite Dawkins quote.
"After my Christmas Lectures I received letters from the pious saying that they would have no objection if only I had qualified my remarks by saying: 'But I should warn you that many well-informed people think differently . . .' When did you last hear a priest-in the pulpit, on radio, on television, in infants' Sunday School-qualify his statement with 'But I should warn you that many well-informed people don't think God exists at all . . . ?' " –
~Richard Dawkins
2007-10-18 17:03:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
i choose to believe that my God exist because i have faith. He has brought me through so much and without him i would be nothing. You probably think of me being weird because i believe in God, where it's odd to me that you believe nothing.
2007-10-18 17:06:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes i believe in god nothing will ever change my mind on that. i look for reasons to, you look for reasons not to. you have to go in with a open mind, not one that's already set not to believe.
2007-10-18 17:47:23 · answer #10 · answered by jeannieboop 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋