RE: Is Atheism Intellectual Cowardice?
September 17, 2012 at 4:27 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2012 at 4:28 am by Skepsis.)
(August 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I wish I could stop being such a coward and embrace Jesus as my Lord and savior.
This makes me think: I read Russell's "Why I am not a Christian" and other assorted essays yet again lately, and if anyone is the coward intellectually or otherwise it is the Christian. Running from hell, dodging threats of eternal torture or eternal anything for that matter... this isn't the type of behavior you would expect from someone who really thought they had a grasp on truth.
I may not be on tomorrow, so to make sure this isn't taken the wrong way... I know you were kidding. Just a safety net type thing.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
