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Defending the faith, from infanticide to genocide
Neil Reynolds writes:
” The celebrated “new atheists” – foremost among them Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) and Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) – have led a boisterous charge against religious faith. Remarkably few defenders of faith, however, have effectively engaged them. In David Brog, the atheists meet a worthy protagonist.
Mr. Brog, in his In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity, concedes that Christians have committed horrendous crimes in the name of theology but sets out to prove that Judeo-Christian beliefs gave the Western and, ultimately, entire world its most important spiritual value: an obligatory reverence for life. “
This would probably make an interesting read… From what I can gather so far, the real question that the author may be missing is “is morality the exclusive province of the Judeo-Christian system of beliefs?”. That’s a big question, to be sure, and one that I would have to answer in the negative….
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Buddha Says…
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Buddha Says…
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
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