In dit artikel een aantal stellingen waar ik het mee eens ben:
Forbes - Militant Atheism and God
Uittreksel:
[quote=''Artikel'']Intellectual fashions come and go. The current one is militant atheism. Waves of atheism have swept the West before.[...]We now seem to be in the midst of a fourth. It is prompted partly by the academic deification of Darwin and his particular theory of evolution, and partly by the revulsion against Islamic fundamentalism and its violent expression, which for some has
discredited all forms of belief in God.
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Whatever the explanation, books advocating an atheistic view of the universe and arguing that religion is based on delusion are being written, published and widely bought. Their arguments are echoed and amplified on television. And, for the time being at least, atheism seems to have a strong grip on the centers of higher education.
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The
universal assumption seems to be that a belief in God fatally debars a scholar from acquiring scientific knowledge.
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Is it a phase? Or is it the harbinger of a fundamental change in the way people see themselves and the world? Ought we to be alarmed--and ought we take action? And if so, what kind of action?
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I'm not sure the human race would survive a prolonged bout of atheism. I recall the words of the German theologian Karl Rahner: "If ever God is banished from the world so that even His image is eradicated from the human mind, we will cease to be human and become
merely very clever animals--and our ultimate fate will be too horrible to contemplate."
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I see no diminution in the cruelty and violence we inflict on one another, at both a personal and a state level. More people were killed by totalitarian states (all atheistic) in the 20th century than in
all previous periods of history.
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[...]But even more than that, I believe religious faith to be an
indispensable element to our peace of mind and such happiness as we are capable of enjoying on this Earth
I could not find content in a landscape whose horizon held no churches or in a civilization whose literature was purged of any reference to a divine being; whose art had blotted out the nativities, crucifixions, saints and angels; and whose music contained no intimations of immortality. And I believe the vast majority of people share such a view.
As for doing something about the militant atheism that
threatens our happiness and well-being, it is in the interests of all people that those of us who enjoy religious faith should examine carefully what it has done, is doing and will do to sustain and comfort us in this harsh and difficult world. We should add up all its benefits--and then proclaim the results to the world. There will be plenty who will listen.[/quote]
Ik heb de punten die ik bedoel met vet gemerkt.
Mee eens?
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