Is Spock the patriarch of modern day atheism and logic?

Answer 1

no

or at least i hope not...he is one of my hero´s...right next to Capt. Kirk!!!

if Atheists are saying Spock is one of their roll models...thems just fighten words......ain´t happy about that.....

besides, he is a make believe caricature, and the person...Leonard Nimoy, does believe in God,

" In October 2002 Nimoy published The Shekhina Project, a photographic study exploring the feminine aspect of God's presence, "

so, that in it self is just disrespectful

Answer 2

I presume you are referring to Mr. Spock, the Vulcan Science Officer aboard the Starship Enterprise and not Dr. Spock, the late pediatrician.

Personally, I was a full-fledged atheist long before the first television voyage of the Enterprise. During the series, I was a big fan of Spock precisely because he was deeply committed to scientific truth and logic and scrupulously avoided irrational emotionalism. Nevertheless, the plague of religion within human civilization is an ancient problem and throughout the centuries, many prominent free-thinkers (Giordano Bruno, for example) were burned at the stake for daring to think for themselves. To imagine a fictional alien is the patriarch of modern atheism, belittles the memory of the thousands of heroic men and women who suffered and died during centuries of Catholic (and eventually Protestant) intolerance. Also, please note that Mr. Spock was himself not an atheist and regularly practiced the religion and rituals of his home world.

Undeniably, it was Spock's religion that caused him to moderate his extremely violent Vulcan nature and to behave as a supremely rational being. Indeed, Mr. Spock could be the patriarch of terrestrial atheism, largely because Earth's Abrahamic religions generally exist to sanctify humanity's instinctive need for irrational violence. I find it easy to imagine that Spock is a heavenly prophet who introduced Earth to Vulcan's superior and highly rational faith -- the means by which Vulcan civilization itself avoided eventual self-annihilation. Of course, we Earthlings already have our own native version of Vulcan's religion. We call it "science."

Answer 3

No of direction it isn`t a sought after-day cult. a extensive share of the international has, for an extremely long term, had no concept in gods. very very nearly one hundred% of eastern human beings have not got any concept in a god of any description as an occasion and any Buddhists are atheists and function been for 1000 years or greater. There`s no longer something new approximately no longer believing in gods. I even have in no way examine Dawkins and that i understand little or no approximately him. I argue for no ideals, I in simple terms say that on the evidence available, there are no gods. Edit: I have not got any concept how existence got here approximately and neither does anybody else, yet you are able to wager something you like that it wasn`t some mystic sky being.... who made the god situation/issues then?

Answer 4

Nah, I'd say Ace Ventura, for atheism. For logic though, Spock is the man.

Answer 5

No, Spock is a fictional character on a 1960s TV show and a series of motion pictures. Wow - reality check!

Answer 6

No, Spock knows that God is logical.

Answer 7

He's the Science Officer on the Enterprise

Answer 8

No, I hated Star Trek when it was new back in 1966.

Putting one's stock in ficticious characters is hardly different than believing in a god. One would have to be pretty shallow to base one's life on a TV character.

Answer 9

No Roddenberry is the great prophet of the 20th century.

Answer 10

omg--she spelled "patriarch" correctly--must have broke out the websters for that one!