Re: Daily Spirit-guided WDJW thought for 03/07/09

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Pro-Humanist FREELOVER wrote in
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Pro-Humanist FREELOVER wrote:

"Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" wrote ...

[...] Love in the truth, [...]

Richard Dawkins : "For me what matters is the
truth."

Begone Richard Dawkins into ye everlasting fire.
Thou art a demon from Hell.

He's a naturalist who, after a religious expo-
sure at a young age, grew up and later decided
that he didn't believe that the God descriptions,
any of them, were representative of reality.

As for "everlasting fire", he would desire evi-
dence if he thought any of the threats had any
possibility of being true, and would recognize
the danger of threatening humankind in a "be-
lieve or else" manner without one iota of evi-
dence that any of the seductions (like heaven)
and threats (like hell) are true, the dire conse-
quences that have resulted from that combo
in this one real life we share, both past and
present.

He hopes that in the future, humankind will
free itself from the consequences of what
using blind faith to follow ancient oft-times
anti-human dogma has imparted (glaring
recent example, the 9-11 mass murders
and the religious-inspired Bush decision
to handicap embryonic stem cell research
which caused significant increases in costs
to researchers who had to split their re-
sources between research OK and not
OK per government strictures).

The sad thing, though--if you are describing his thinking
accurately--is that he appears to be rejecting the same uncritical
descriptions and definitions of God, hell, and the rest as the
hard-line fundamentalists cling to, much of it still echoing what they
learned as childhood morality tales. The extremists at each end are
either unaware of or ignoring the wealth of religious thought on both
sides of the issues, and the philosophers and others that see much
more depth and complexity in the world and the way it works, includes
the great ethical questions that need to be wrestled with.
--
Don Kirkman
donsno2@xxxxxxxxxxx
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