-Uhh, so Mr.God is European? Asians don't have any chance?
Wo, that was a long first paragraph, but I think I explained enough about that "god exists." Religion, on the other hand, is the very primitive way of worshiping the god. Presumably the founder of religions might concluded that god is someone who just looks like themselves -with some variations- , because human has been the only intelligent species that can be observed on the earth. For example, the Bible says that the god created the first man, Adam, to resemble himself. For those who believe in religion, god is something like a king, the most powerful authority in the bureaucracy of the earth. This kind of presumption is acceptable, but it can never be the final conclusion human being is trying to reach; religion is a part of trials and errors of human species. Now with all the development of technology, we can see that all the religions bare a same lethal error: inconsistency in themselves. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and all the other religion assert that their god is one which is the only valid one, and all of them use same logic of the presumption of bureaucratic god resembling human. All of them refute each other, and there is none which is special or which adopts different logics. Thus, the only possible conclusion is that none of them is valid. God exists, but no religion is true, and no god lives in religion.
-A Lecture of Richard Dawkins
He doesn't believe in any god, and I disagree with that point. Still I firmly agree with what he says in this video clip.

Your views are kind of similar to mine. I think it's wrong and very narcissistic to assign human qualities to whatever is up there or out there. Considering how infinite the universe is, we have to accept that we are merely a speck of dusk on a cosmic windowsill. That said, I do understand "why" religions evolved to be the way they are, and up until a hundred or so years ago (maybe even 40) we could sort of forgive religions for a lot of the problems they've caused. But what about now? If we could rewrite the bible a second time, why not a third time where we do away with floods, plagues, and water being turned into wine? Why do humans need church as an excuse to get together and do something good once a week? On that point, let's admit that religions do fulfill some good, and do give a lot of people comfort, and not always in an "opium of the masses" sort of way.
답글삭제I really like Dawkins, and your "lethal error" point is very well crafted. Good stuff.
BTW - when you suggest motions, try to use THB, THS, THW etc., as they do help. You didn't do that on the midterm either, so get in the habit.
답글삭제Oh, I always forget writing motions...
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