Friday, August 12, 2016

Let's condemn religion...?

Condemn religion

"All major religions are equally valid and basically teach the same thing."To assert that the doctrinal differences between religions are insignificant is itself a doctrine, and one that is indefensible.
"Each religion sees part of spiritual truth, but none can see the whole truth. "From what absolute vantage point can you claim to relativize the absolute claims of the different scriptures?
"Religious belief is too culturally and historically conditioned to be 'truth'"If you say "no belief can be held as universally true for everyone", then by your own rules you can't say that this statement is universally true.
"It is arrogant to insist your religion is right and to convert others to it."If you say "all religious claims to have a better view of things are arrogant and wrong", then by your own rules that statement is arrogant and wrong.

H/T: This university website 


"Some People Have More Equal Rights Than Others"

Orwell's quote from Animal Farm: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others 



Thursday, August 4, 2016

Peter Hitchens (the late Christopher Hitchens Brother) on why he wrote The Rage Against God

"I want to explain how I became convinced, by reason and experience, of the necessity and rightness of a form of Christianity that is modest, accommodating and thoughtful - but ultimately uncompromising about its vital truth. I hope very much that by doing so I can at least cause those who consider themselves to be atheists to hesitate over their choice. I also hope to provide Christian readers with insights they can use the better to understand their unbelieving friends, and so perhaps to sow some small seeds of doubt in the minds of those friends."
- Peter Hitchens, The Rage Against God