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Comments by Disumbrationist


1. Review of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Response to the God Delusion

Comment #66871 by Disumbrationist on August 31, 2007 at 10:14 pm

Therefore, it is perfectly respectable to "pick and choose" when reading the Bible

Fine, as long as you then admit that the Bible was neither written by God nor divinely inspired, the Bible is not the source of morality (since it is your innate morality that is doing the "picking and choosing"), and that a majority of Christians (at least in America) would disagree with you.

You cannot criticise a theory until you have made some proper attempt to come to grips with it, and Dawkins hasn't; or doesn't show us that he has tried. He overlooks the big theologians altogether in favour of some pretty low-key, unknown figures.

You don't need to major in fashion to know that the Emperor has no clothes.
http://richarddawkins.net/article,463,The-Courtiers-Reply,PZ-Myers

2. Christopher Hitchens: Religion Poisons Everything

Comment #48628 by Disumbrationist on June 8, 2007 at 4:02 pm

I found myself nodding along with everything Hitchens said in the article except for his answer on Buddhism. Here's his quote:

Buddhism has some of the same problems as Western religion. Zen was the official ideology of Hirohito's fascism that was used to conquer and reduce the rest of Asia to subservience. The current dictatorship in Burma is officially Buddhist. The Buddhist forces in Sri Lanka are the ones who began the horrific civil war there with their pogroms against the Tamils in the 1950s and 1960s. Lon Nol's army in Cambodia was officially Buddhist.

Isn't that the exact same - "Stalin was bad, so atheism is bad" - argument that the apologists always use against atheism? I find it hard to believe that these men's atrocities were even supported by, much less driven by, their belief in Buddhist principles.

3. Al Gore on Reason

Comment #44911 by Disumbrationist on May 25, 2007 at 2:43 pm

It's pretty ironic that a religious creationist would title his book "The Assault on Reason."

http://blog.antidelusionist.com/2007/04/23/al-gores-slideshow.aspx