Re:Religion Is a Fatal Sickness

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From: Uirgil
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:05

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In article <UxTdr.5127$v14.513@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com>,
 fasgnadh <fasgnadh@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The foremost atheist Philosopher of our age recently
> launched his new book "Religion for Atheists"
> 
>  From his book Launch:
> 
> "A few years ago it struck me that there is a resource
> that is a provider of Wisdom, and consolation,
> and an ethical framework, and it's rather fascinating and
> has dominated the mental landscape of human beings for thousands of years
> I'm thinking, of course, of religion.
> 
> And the problem is, I'm an atheist."
> 
> "Not just a bit of an atheist, I really am an atheist."
> 
> "So, this doesn't, in a way, make me an ideal cantidate to write
> about religion, but at some point it did strike me that religions
> cannot be, in the words of Christopher Hitchins, "the source of
> the poison of everything", it's implausible, they've been around
> for thousands of years, they reflect the collaborative intelligences
> and sensitivities of millions of people and the idea that everything
> to do with them is false and wicked just didn't start to stand up to
> the scrutiny I applied to it, as I thought more about the subject.
> 
> So, that's really the fruit of my thinking"

> " my new book,Religion for Atheists is a deliberate attempt
>    to look at a number of areas where I believe that religions
>    have things to offer for non-believers"

Religions, like species, are subject to a sort of survival of the 
fittest, in the long run most of the worst ones die out, but when one 
takes only the good from them and leaves out the credulity, one has 
Atheism at its best.

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