Saturday, June 4, 2016

Richard Dawkins on Religion vs. Atheism






Fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance. Religion is getting a bad press these days. Much of the conflict in the world, from the Middle East to Nigeria and Myanmar, is often blamed on religion.

But how are things from a different perspective? Defenders of religion claim Adolf Hitler was an atheist. Communism under Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao Zedong banned religion, but also massacred millions. And science brought incredible and amazing advances, but also pollution and the atomic bomb.

A critic of religious dogmatism, Professor Richard Dawkins revolutionised genetics in 1976 with the publication of The Selfish Gene, which explained how evolution takes place at the genetic level. He has since written 12 more bestsellers, including The God Delusion which sold millions of copies, was translated into more than 30 languages, and catapulted him to the position of the world's foremost atheist.

Mehdi Hasan interviews evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins at the Oxford Union and asks: Is religion a force for good or evil? Can it co-exist with science? Is science the new religion? And why if god does not exist, is religion so persistent?







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  1. it could be a question of liberty, a slightly mind that is no longer bound and goes wild. Imagine a robot that goes wild crazy a while later he is no longer a robot. He developed into something else. the error that exist, occurs as long is not perceive. In other words, from indoctrination to brilliant automatically. The complexity of the antithetical is the correct inverse to achieve the proper aim to the benefit of all on an inverted realm. For instants NATO-OTAN all they do will be inverted however the aggressive action is what is needed to invert the intent, as being an error the intend inverts itself and produces as a result the proper aim. In religion can be said that the devil playing a bad role incited god and that was the process that corrected the error. the bible and the garden of Eden, it could be that thanks to the devil eve open the gates of heaven, heaven existed in the future and the past, as the devil incited eve, she fashioned the intrusion of god, and god would not have done anything until the devil appeared. In time means the understanding the past and how it readjusts to the present as it creates the future Faith on the other hand is something that is human for human’s imagination, art is faith as is the wondering of words and meanings facts and dreams. The problem of religions is its application and interpretation, circumcised is a method of labeling, circumcision is a kind of branding the child and depriving him of choice, it has a military musing in its meaning. Jesus in this case abolish circumcision by his action however claimed as being a Jew but not accepted as the messiah to the same Jews. However, facts show that he did broke away to create the Catholics Christian that overpowered the Jews that somehow crucify him. Therefore, Jews indirectly created the church that overpower them, however at the moment of the crucifixion they themselves overpower Jesus, and probably thought the future would be otherwise than what it became the inverse of the crucifixion. The timing of Jesus is quite different than our current timing 2016, the same events befall and ensues as the lapse of time wince gradually. In many ways’ inside the garden of Eden Eve just fantasized and a God got on the dream he made love to Eve and harvest man?

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