Richard Dawkins Laments The Decline Of Christianity In England, Calls Himself "Culturally Christian"

Two things can be true at once.

1. Vices are bad (even with consent).
2. Government shouldn’t be in the business of policing everything.

 

You are backtracking. Just admit you were wrong, there are churches and you don’t get killed for being religious.

 

This is evidence of the close mindedness of people and how they are forever stuck in the right / left good/ bad stereotypes. It isn’t illogical at all the a scientist and atheist would scold Islam as much or more than Christianity. The likes of you and Contra are surprised and amazed a that, and those mired to identity politics ideology are suddenly offended by Dawkins. If people actually used their brains there is nothing to be surprised about.

 

Like it did in the Dark Ages when all we had was faith and religion? An interesting side note to this discussion, the end of the Dark Ages was hugely helped by travelers to the Middle East bringing back the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans that were preserved in Muslim countries after being lost to most of Europe.

 

Bullshit. You're hanging your hat on minor exceptions 1 of 3 assertions I made. OK, so SOME churches are permitted under SOME communist regimes.

Commies still kill with impunity for practicing religions, and still, as always, overtly promote atheism. Funny how you always try to sugar coat communism as shit it simply ain't. Like successful, benevolent, tolerant...

As you post freely, from the safety afforded by the greatest safeguard on the planet against communism.

Bet you'd be singing a completely different tune if you ever dared subject yourself to the system you so proudly esplouse. I believe the term for that is...

Hypocrisy.

 

How would you know that Genghis Khan wasn’t a Biblical character ? It’s not like you’re versed in the only reliable record we have of Jesus.

 

Seems like all we had for 2020 was Dark Ages and faith.

 

That literally has nothing to do with what is happening in China where simply distributing Bibles is illegal in most cases.

 

Wow.

The Jesus of the Bible took a physical pounding that few humans could ever endure and one far harsher than the average punishment of the time.

Flipping tables and chasing out the thieves from the temple too. Doubt a feminine character could chase droves of thieves away all by his lonesome.

 

What???

Where the hell did I suggest it was anyhow illogical that he should scold Islam, let alone more than Christianity???

Pretty sure I said he basically said what everyone (in civilized world) intuitively knows.

He basically tipped his hat to Christianity at least in so far as apparently recognizing that if he'd run Allah n Mohammy down in Mohammistan the way he's run God n Jesus down in Christendom, he'd long ago been spayed, frayed and fileted.

That's recognizing the obvious, not 'illogical' or surprising or amazing.

 

A lot to unpack here but it’s mostly just your own preconceptions of femininity at work here

 

Wow indeed.

 

Why not? A woman can’t flip a table? Chase thieves? Take physical abuse?

Even “chasing away” is quite circumstantial. I mean good luck “chasing” me off, especially if my revenue relied on being a thief. That dude in the pics might flip the table, after that it would go downhill for him.

Perhaps these are, oh, ideas, more than reports, live from the scene?

 

When the content of the Bible was written and compiled by men, those very same men had no clue of either Oxygen or Gravity. Those were still distant concepts. So indeed it might seem even to the “learned” and literary men of the era that each breath was some inexplicable miracle.

Both Oxygen and Gravity were “discovered” in the Age of Enlightenment (17th and 18th centuries, respectively). I’m sure most have heard the tale of the Apple falling on Newton’s head. Eureka! I had to look up the “discovery” of Oxygen, but was not surprised to learn it was in this same general period of scientific discovery. Men don’t need to “believe” in Oxygen or Gravity. These things can be demonstrated easily. The existence of supernatural beings? Eh.

 

Dawkins’ is a girly Christianity …

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/richard-dawkinss-cultural-christianity-is-thin-gruel/

 

Funny how the hard-bitten skeptic in our “enlightened” time say they’d require something akin to a miracle to believe, ex: Jesus walking in the room and healing his cancer, while the Gospels indicate that people who didn’t know gravity saw Jesus walk on water and still didn’t believe. Modernists are more credulous than their ancient counterparts!

 

Presuming you do, why do you believe the historical veracity of this particular walk on water miracle? Or any of the miracles described in the Bible? Would your faith be shaken or changed if you discovered if any of the miraculous events described in the Bible were metaphorical?