(December 25, 2015 at 3:24 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(December 24, 2015 at 5:15 pm)Delicate Wrote: (http://theweek.com/articles/552685/new-a...-than-ever)
In this engaging article, the author sets out to point out the mistakes Daniel Dennett makes in an editorial. Daniel predictably spins the facts to make it sound like the data supports atheism, and it called out, point by point, on his errors. But along the way was this interesting description of why atheistic criticisms of theism fail:
Is atheism built on one big strawman? If so, that would make atheism irrational.
Hey in some cases that is exactly the kind of religion people escaped. But before you hurt yourself reaching back to pat yourself for you more enlightened faith, maybe you'd like to say exactly what sets yours apart.
That's actually a fair observation. Maybe that is the kind of religion some people escaped.
But that doesn't make religion wrong. Just weird fundamentalism wrong.
Resorting to atheism is like going from one extreme to another