(December 2, 2008 at 10:20 am)leo-rcc Wrote: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?f...geId=81459
Quote:A New York man is linking the suicide of his 22-year-old son, a military veteran who had bright prospects in college, to the anti-Christian book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins after a college professor challenged the son to read it.
"Three people told us he had taken a biology class and was doing well in it, but other students and the professor were really challenging my son, his faith. They didn't like him as a Republican, as a Christian, and as a conservative who believed in intelligent design," the grief-stricken father, Keith Kilgore, told WND about his son, Jesse.
"This professor either assigned him to read or challenged him to read a book, 'The God Delusion,' by Richard Dawkins," he said.
Jesse Kilgore committed suicide in October by walking into the woods near his New York home and shooting himself. Keith Kilgore said he was shocked because he believed his son was grounded in Christianity, had blogged against abortion and for family values, and boasted he'd been debating for years.
This is of course a tragedy, anyone will agree. But it shows again how theists completely miss the point on atheism.
A shame that a young life has been wasted. Having said that, I would have nothing in common with an American evangelical, particularly one who apparently or maybe couldn't have his faith challenged ( successfully? ). This make me a " hard " atheist i wonder?
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
