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Title: Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity ‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’
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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: 2346
Comments: 16
“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. 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. 
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.
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#4. To: cranky (#0)
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.
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
#6. To: paraclete (#5)
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.
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#5. To: rlk (#4)
defending itself against other forms of irrationality.
Replies to Comment # 5. defending itself against other forms of irrationality.
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