RE: What are your thoughts on Richard Dawkins?
March 28, 2017 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2017 at 1:27 pm by Harry Nevis.)
(March 28, 2017 at 12:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I think he is a waste of the IQ level in mere cunning and eloquence. Has high IQ but has no wisdom and hence is stupid in that sense.
(March 28, 2017 at 11:21 am)Minimalist Wrote: How does a highly intelligent person not talk down to people who believe in silly fairy tales?
By having something called "virtue" and "manners".
Fairy tales that are believed as religions are at least answers by people to essential questions.
If you go to an exam and write nothing, it's a lot worse then having answers that are partially right and partially wrong.
No religion is totally false in all it's entirety as far as I know. Atheism may not be false as simply non-belief, but it's a whole worse then partially wrong and right answers, hence it's even worse then total wrong answer.
At least people believing in fairy tales attempted to answer essential questions.
Well, we know what you judgement is worth.
So, ANY answer is better than saying "I don't know"? That isn't an attempt to answer anything; it's an emotional pacifier for people to suck on. Why it's so scary to not know the answer to something is beyond me. There may not even BE answers to such "essential" questions. But hiding behind feel-good fairy tales is throwing away your integrity.
(March 28, 2017 at 12:16 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(March 28, 2017 at 12:14 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I don't even know what this means.
Are you saying this for clarification or just asserting it can't possibly make sense?
Or that YOU can't make sense.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
