“Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?” – Richard Dawkins
Who is Richard Dawkins? From Wiki.
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to the science of evolution with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism’s body but can stretch far into the environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio programmes, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion.
Dawkins is an outspoken atheist, secular humanist, and sceptic, and he is a supporter of the Brights movement. In a play on Thomas Huxley‘s epithet “Darwin‘s bulldog”, Dawkins’ impassioned advocacy of evolution has earned him the appellation “Darwin’s rottweiler”.[1]
I read the God delusion, while he sought to explain in a confrontation manner regarding Monotheism especially the God of the Old Testament Yahweh, this man with a background of Biologist, and a Scientist, with all respect by no mean, a historian, or far from being an expert in fields of languages especially Aramaic, or an expert in culture and sociology in the Jewish or the nomadic culture or more accurately in the middle east.
In his argument of why religion especially the Christian faith feared to be challenged, is flawed. I believe the Christian faith is a reasonable faith, it can stand up to challenges, scrutiny, and more, by facts and reasonable to the extend, i can stake my life on the reliability of what the Scriptures say and attest to!
His confusion is understandable to even brand Christianity as the euphemism of the cause of trouble in many areas – the Northern Ireland Terrorists, the Balkan conflicts between the Christian and Muslims, the War in Iraq as Ethic cleansing that all these are the effects of religion namely Christianity? How deluded is Dawkins or in his audacity to assume that, Christian Faith is far from what motivates people to go to war; I am surprised Dawkins in his limited usage of such examples did not include the Crusades and the Witch Hunt of Salem.
Christian Faith is more than Human government and their decisions. I am no more an American than Bush is a Christian when he in the name of God went to war, killing Iraqis and Americans alike for his own end, or the Pope in the vatican’s greed, went to Crusades, or the inquisition. Christian faith and God intended Christianity to be way different from what Dawkins has so inadequately believe.
To someone who has no or little understanding of what Christian faith is, to say about sexual abuse as damaging as the preaching of the fiery fires of Hell is like explaining Quantum science to a 6 year old whose only knowledge is Photosynthesis.
While the book presents a real honest approach to the question of God, Dawkins’ introduction and preface is disappointingly fallen short of a real intellectual, factual, and rational search for the answer than a deluded fanatic who has already made up his mind about how religiously he wants to be as an atheist.
For a biologist, to write on religion or worse, philosophical explanations why there is no God is a farcry of an intellectual, and fair discussion, but a whorely one-sided argument of a pseudo-religiously fanatic.
Yet, this book has caused more stirs in the evangelical circle in the west more than the east, mainly because of how Christianity is so intricately linked with their politics, (and not rightly so) that such argument could be a stumbling effect to many Christians who lacked a personal relationship with God, and whose convictions are not based on God, and His Word – the Scriptures and on the Person of Jesus but on traditions, and their pastors. The erosion of Christian intellectualism which in the last century is but diminishing from the onslaught of Liberal Theology where the feel is the authoritative than the doctrines.
Christianity Today’s review on the God delusion – Read
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