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Title: Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity ‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’
Source: Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/national-s ... lwark-against-something-worse/
Published: Jan 12, 2016
Author: Thomas D Williams, PhD
Post Date: 2016-01-17 08:39:53 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 2154
Comments: 16

In a text that is coursing about on social media, professional God-slayer Richard Dawkins begrudgingly admitted that Christianity may actually be our best defense against aberrant forms of religion that threaten the world.

“There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings,” Dawkins said. “I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death.”

In a rare moment of candor, Dawkins reluctantly accepted that the teachings of Jesus Christ do not lead to a world of terror, whereas followers of radical Islam perpetrate the very atrocities that he laments.

Because of this realization, Dawkins wondered aloud whether Christianity might indeed offer an antidote to protect western civilization against jihad.

“I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse,” he said.

Dawkins

Although the text originated in 2010, it has taken on a second life, being sent to and fro on Facebook and Twitter and providing fodder for discussions, even among atheists, of the benefits of Christianity for modern society.

Dawkins was trained as an evolutionary biologist, but achieved his greatest celebrity not through biology but through his pop atheism, regularly debating theists in public and penning diatribes against God and faith.

For a generation of young atheists, Dawkins gave disbelief a thin veneer of intellectual cachet and offered a justification for the belief that atheism was somehow grounded in science.

In his 2006 bestseller, The God Delusion, Dawkins famously compared religious education to the sexual abuse of children, concluding incredibly that the latter was actually preferable to the former.

Referring to the clerical sex abuse crisis, Dawkins wrote that as “horrible as sexual abuse no doubt was, the damage was arguably less than the long-term psychological damage inflicted by bringing the child up Catholic in the first place.”

Faced with the suicide bombers and child rapists of radical Islam, however, Dawkins finally found something that he thought was worse. (2 images)

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#1. To: cranky (#0) (Edited)

I always fancied that Islamists get rid of fedora Dawkins-like Atheists first. :^)

ebonytwix  posted on  2016-01-17   9:25:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: cranky (#0)

“There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings,” Dawkins said. “I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death.”

In a rare moment of candor, Dawkins reluctantly accepted that the teachings of Jesus Christ do not lead to a world of terror, whereas followers of radical Islam perpetrate the very atrocities that he laments.

Because of this realization, Dawkins wondered aloud whether Christianity might indeed offer an antidote to protect western civilization against jihad.

The Battle of Ar Mageddon is fast coming to a head. Atheists and all the world will have to choose sides.

interpreter  posted on  2016-01-17   14:00:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: interpreter (#2)

Atheists and all the world will have to choose sides.

It could be that Dawkins has choosen his

paraclete  posted on  2016-01-17   16:42:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: cranky (#0)

Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity ‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’

He is correct and that is my position. The problem with belief in Christianity is that it instills imprecision and errors of thought which leaves Christians or a Christian society incapable of intellectually defending itself against other forms of irrationality.

rlk  posted on  2016-01-17   16:42:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: rlk (#4)

defending itself against other forms of irrationality.

in what way is Christianity irrational, I was with you until you made that statement. A religion that allows you to kill main and murder is irrational, a religion that requires you to give thought to the condition of others is not.

You must distinguish between pure christianity and what it has become through secularisation. Christianity is not some structure whether physical or organisational. It doesn't depend upon well thought out logic

paraclete  posted on  2016-01-18   17:28:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: paraclete (#5)

defending itself against other forms of irrationality.

in what way is Christianity irrational, I was with you until you made that statement. A religion that allows you to kill main and murder is irrational, a religion that requires you to give thought to the condition of others is not.

Violence comes in many forms. A form of belief that systematically cripples the mind, so that it is masochistic and overly compliant to attack without adaquate defense is every bit as destructive and violent as one that advocates killing and murder. Imprisoning the mind to mythology and numbness is just as bad as an unjust punitive prison sentence.

rlk  posted on  2016-01-18   19:45:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: rlk (#6)

Imprisoning the mind to mythology

Christianity is not mythology even Paul preached that such foolishness must stop.

Christianity is about a real person, Jesus Christ, who lived in Judea two thousand years ago. you speak about imprisioning the mind, you confuse Isalm and Christianity. Christianity does not demand you intone the same sentences five times a day. it asks nothing other than you have a relationship with Jesus. Religion demands more but this is not Christianity

paraclete  posted on  2016-01-18   21:43:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: paraclete (#7)

Christianity is about a real person, Jesus Christ, who lived in Judea two thousand years ago. you speak about imprisioning the mind, you confuse Isalm and Christianity. Christianity does not demand you intone the same sentences five times a day.

Jesus was a Jew who flunked Talmud school and never made it to being a rabbi. He utered a few Talmidic lessons to the heathen which impressed them. To this he added a bit of survial politics. My parents sent me off to Christian Sunday school. I've never been inundated with such morbid bull crap in my life. It was all stuff about how Jeses died for my sins and I was somehow responsible and should be grateful when I wasn't even born yet. I didn't that kind of guilt and imposed emotional deformity in my life and refused to go back, although other people welcomed it. Jesus may have died on the cross. That was his business. I had nothing to do with it, and want nothing to do with it. It's a recipe for neurosis and mental debilitation.

As far as a behavioral guide, I subscibe to a modernized form of Bushido that is so strict and comprehensive it would make most Christians pee in their pants. I do not need, or want, religious instruction from you or anybody else. And if anyone tries to nail me to a cross, they are in big trouble.

rlk  posted on  2016-01-18   22:41:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: rlk (#8)

I subscibe to a modernized form of Bushido

Religion in any form is still religion. Pity you missed the message of Jesus, perhaps your teachers were the religious type.

be careful you don't cut yourself on your sword while studying the unwritten law

paraclete  posted on  2016-01-19   0:47:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: paraclete (#9)

be careful you don't cut yourself on your sword while studying the unwritten law

I have a replica Dotanuki katana as an art form but for serious work at this stage on life I suggest for myself and others a .45 or .44. I am in a tussle with the sheriff's department over my tendency to kill people. They believe it's forbidden but I believe its an obligation. Local thieves have hit me for about $45,000 and I must follow the stupid law and county prosecutor. Thieves are forcing people to leave the area.

rlk  posted on  2016-01-19   4:30:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: cranky (#0)

‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’

Hmmm.

Something worse like any one of a number of state-established frauds propped up by the occultist eunuchs over the centuries?

VxH  posted on  2016-01-19   10:54:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: VxH (#11)

Something worse like any one of a number of state-established frauds propped up by the occultist eunuchs over the centuries?

Quite possibly.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't

cranky  posted on  2016-01-19   10:58:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: cranky (#12)

www.google.com/? gws_rd=ss...+chaco+canyon+cannibalism

VxH  posted on  2016-01-19   11:09:39 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: VxH (#13)

Just imagine what they could have accomplished if they had computers or a wmd.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't

cranky  posted on  2016-01-19   11:34:22 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: cranky (#14) (Edited)

Just imagine what they could have accomplished if they had computers or a wmd.

Or refrigeration!

VxH  posted on  2016-01-19   12:09:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: cranky (#14) (Edited)

just imagine what they could have accomplished if they had computers or a wmd.

Evidently President/General Dwight Eisenhower did:

And, per Romans 1:25+, this wouldn't be the first time a culture has worshiped its technocratratic Created Things -- and suffered the consequences for doing so.

VxH  posted on  2016-01-20   10:43:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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