> Funny stuff. He's an interesting fellow, never herd of him before Wow, never heard of him? "The God Delusion" is a fairly well-known book, certainly among atheists but in many other circles as well....if you read any Christian apologist text you'll often find it mentioned. I agree with the comment that he's pretty obnoxious. It's one thing to make a decision to choose atheism over religion or making an argument that there is no scientific basis for a belief in God...but he takes it to much further extremes with statements like this about it being the only "intelligent" or "healthy" world view to have. Or this one...that the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis....seriously?? I have a hard time listening to anyone that makes such indefensible statements.
It's also a pretty serious fallacy to point to the actions of extremists as representative of the whole of the religious community, particularly when you understand that most religions *are* fundamentally peaceful at their core. There are certainly just as many examples in history of evils done in the lack of religion, or as part of religious oppression. We certainly see MANY extremists that act outside the bounds of religion, I personally think that religion has very little to do with it, they just always find *some* reason to justify their actions, sometimes it's religious and just as often it's not. Hitler, Stalin, Kmer Rouge, take your pick. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308250 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
