RE: A Non-Violent Solution?
February 14, 2012 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2012 at 11:43 am by Aardverk.)
If there is an answer to the problem, my guess is that it is 'education' but how do you educate people who are not willing to listen?
Much as I admire the courage of Richard Dawkins I thought his early attacks on Christianity may well have done more harm than good but I'm not so sure now. Maybe if atheists make more and more fuss about the lies being told to children and to the feeble minded there would be more publicity. Publicity seems to be the prime factor these days, not wisdom or truth.
How can we get high profile televised debates between theists and atheists? TV is full of such trivia that there must be a 'market' for more important programmes like this and they would be very cheap to put on. With an impartial chairman, an intelligent atheist would demolish any theist I have heard. Look how abysmal the Christians are who come visiting here or indeed those arguing on Christian forums.
My target would be Christianity simply because that is my background. Despite their silly differences, all three Abrahamic religions must consider that they all worship the same one god and are simply squabbling over which set of myths are less improbable. If you pull the rug out from under the feet of a Bishop, the Mullah and Rabbi fall over at the same time.
Perhaps we should dress up in smart suits and go door to door WITH A BIBLE SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS that it is all a load of hogwash.
Most of us have been 'taught' that there is a god so why shouldn't we teach that there is no god?
Much as I admire the courage of Richard Dawkins I thought his early attacks on Christianity may well have done more harm than good but I'm not so sure now. Maybe if atheists make more and more fuss about the lies being told to children and to the feeble minded there would be more publicity. Publicity seems to be the prime factor these days, not wisdom or truth.
How can we get high profile televised debates between theists and atheists? TV is full of such trivia that there must be a 'market' for more important programmes like this and they would be very cheap to put on. With an impartial chairman, an intelligent atheist would demolish any theist I have heard. Look how abysmal the Christians are who come visiting here or indeed those arguing on Christian forums.
My target would be Christianity simply because that is my background. Despite their silly differences, all three Abrahamic religions must consider that they all worship the same one god and are simply squabbling over which set of myths are less improbable. If you pull the rug out from under the feet of a Bishop, the Mullah and Rabbi fall over at the same time.
Perhaps we should dress up in smart suits and go door to door WITH A BIBLE SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS that it is all a load of hogwash.
Most of us have been 'taught' that there is a god so why shouldn't we teach that there is no god?
