Christians: Would you be offended if your hotel room had a copy of The God Delusion ...?

Question

waiting for you when you checked in (courtesy of the Dawkins Society)?

Answer 1

If Christians are offended by Richard Dawkins “The God Delusion” then they obviously don’t have the faith that they pretend to have. Richard Dawkins’ polemic is extremely cogent, but ultimately faith, if it truly is FAITH, should not waiver or feel threatened, no matter how convincing, bombastic, or scathing a critique of that faith is. Any faith that must retreat into areas free of contrary points of view is not a faith worth having.

Answer 2

Why could techniques I disagree with hassle me? Am I so severe and potent that the entire international might desire to bow to my desires? Or am i able to be civil and humane, and say "you think this type, i think that way, and that would not offend me?" previous that, what convenience does the destruction of a device of wish supply to every physique? Is every physique ever a happier guy or woman understanding that, as Dawkins tells us, we are actually not something better than an accident that had no purpose? that there is not something that we can comprehend for beneficial, by using fact the universe strikes from a state of order to a state of ailment, and if the preliminary accident is the 1st state, there is not any reason to have self assurance that our cutting-edge state is to any extent further orderly. study during the Psalms, and spot if that would not supply you a feeling of peace and hopefulness. Then study via Dawkins, and spot in the journey that your existence has any meaning. after which you've an answer.

Answer 3

I personally have stickers that I put on every Bible I find that says, "Think - If God can do anything, and God makes the rules, and God is Love, then why would He chose to make a rule that would have people tortured in Hell for Eternity when He could have just made them no longer exist?

www.godisimaginary.com"

Answer 4

No because when I go on vacation (stay in a hotel) I don't spend enough time in there. I am usually out enjoying the city I went to.

Answer 5

Nicely played, and I wouldn't be offended at all.

During my working life I calculated I stayed in well over 500 motel rooms around Oz and never once was I even tempted to read biblical text nor even to knock it off.
I wonder who reads them.
Wouldn't someone who was prone to reading them bring their own?

Answer 6

No, not offended. I would just assume the hotel was offfering it as a sleeping aid! Interesting thought though ... 'The God Delusion' as scripture ...

Answer 7

Nope, I might read some of it. I have seen plenty of anti god theories and also theories countering those and theories countering the counter theories. I don’t hide myself and hold on to some blind faith, I have reasons to believe what I believe, but not because I am brainwashing myself into running from opposing views as other ignorantly do.

Answer 8

Is this the only book that some of you have read? I have not checked this book out but I will.

Michael Skapinker in the Financial Times, while finding that "Dawkins' attack on the creationists is devastatingly effective", considers him "maddeningly inconsistent." He argues that, since Dawkins accepts that current theories about the universe (such as quantum theory) may be "already knocking at the door of the unfathomable" and that the universe may be "not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose", "the thought of how limited our comprehension is should introduce a certain diffidence into our attempted refutations of those who think they have the answer".

Writing in Harper's, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson criticises the "pervasive exclusion of historical memory in Dawkins's view of science," with particular reference to scientific eugenic theories and practices. She argues that Dawkins has a superficial knowledge of the Bible and accuses him of comparing only the best of science with the worst of religion: "if religion is to be blamed for the fraud done in its name, then what of science? Is it to be blamed for the Piltdown hoax, for the long-credited deceptions having to do with cloning in South Korea? If by 'science' is meant authentic science, then 'religion' must mean authentic religion, granting the difficulties in arriving at these definitions." Robinson suggests that Dawkins' arguments are not properly called scientific but are reminiscent of logical positivism, notwithstanding Dawkins' "simple-as-that, plain-as-day approach to the grandest questions, unencumbered by doubt, consistency, or countervailing information."

Answer 9

Not at all, but why not put Francis Collins book "The Language of God: A Scientists Presents Evidence for Belief" in with it?

Answer 10

No. There are a lot of distasteful things lurking in hotel rooms. I'm not offended by the tacky paintings on the walls, either.