Re: [iwar] [article] Religion's misguided missiles by Richard Dawkins

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] [article] Religion's misguided missiles by Richard Dawkins
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Interesting.  It is unfortunate that Mr.  Dawkins is unaware that all of
the major religions have, over time and in opinins of the vast majority
of their leaders, come to the view that all of the other ones are
legitimate.  Every religious leader I know or have seen tells me that
these attacks and other similar killings are from perversions of
religion.  Does Mr.  Dawkins really think that if it weren't for
religions there would be no madmen in the world or that they could not
form up cult-like groups to do such things?

FC

Per the message sent by Srijith.K:

> Source: 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4257777,00.html

> Richard Dawkins is professor of the public understanding of science, 
> University of Oxford, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind 
> Watchmaker, and Unweaving the Rainbow. 

> --[snip]----

> ...

> Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary 
> cliche: mindless cowardice. "Mindless" may be a suitable word for the 
> vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding 
> what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and 
> they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had 
> sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it 
> would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. 

> It came from religion. Religion is also, of course, the underlying 
> source of the divisiveness in the Middle East which motivated the use 
> of this deadly weapon in the first place. But that is another story 
> and not my concern here. My concern here is with the weapon itself. 
> To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is 
> like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if 
> they are used. 

> .....

> --[/snip]---


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