A Quote from Richard Dawkins

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. – Richard Dawkins

You could equally say the same about some current leaders today. You could so easily change that first line to “George Bush”, or perhaps “President Mwgabwe”. The difference, however, is that the God of the Old Testament was around over 2000 years ago, those two are alive and with us today. It’s interesting how Atheists tout their drum loudly against religion. Is it perhaps to shut their ears to the troubles that are actually in this world?

I’m generalising again, I know. It’s a very bad habit. However, as Dawkins prooves, there’s no point simply trying to find a middle ground, go for the insults, get the headlines. It’s so irritating that an obviously intelligent man like Dawkins reduces and ridicules himself by resorting to petty name-calling, and vast generalisation. I appear to have wandered from my original point.

Just re-read the quote and have a think. Do you think that there are an equal number of non-religious Humanitarians as there are religious Humanitarians?

Damn, many ideas, all one long jumbled post. I guess blogging at this time of night is a bad idea.

BX