The Family Action Organization scares me…they should scare you, too, and give you yet another reason to get off you ass and get to work…
Their latest rant is impressive as a hymn to ignorance, but not so much as a well-reasoned philosophical statement. They argue (as apologists often do) that atheism is irrational, and religion is the most natural, rational think since breathing.
They start off with an attack on Richard Dawkins…gee, how original…fundies don’t like atheists.
According to their twisted world-view, faith, an inherently irrational belief in something that cannot be proved, should be the default state for you mind.
They ask, “Is faith, in particular, Christianity, irrational?”
It’s a stupid question. Faith, by definition, is irrational, and Christian faith is no more or less irrational than faith in goblins.
That isn’t to say faith is bad…it is only as good or bad as the acts it’s adherents produce.
Let’s go a little deeper:
Thus, what makes a faith “rational” is whether it can be proven empirically.Dawkins and Krauss do not offer any arguments to justify their assumptions. They do not tell us why materialism is true: Instead, they ask you to take its truth as a given—in other words, on faith.
OK, so Dawkins et al. want you to reject faith in favor for rational, empirical materialism. Please help me here…how is denial of faith in favor of empiricism an act of faith itself?
Speaking of faith, what Dawkins means by the word faith is, to put it politely, idiosyncratic. His technique, on display in the Scientific American piece, is to find the most extreme, fringe Christian positions and ascribe them to all Christians. He then cites these beliefs as proof that all Christian faith is irrational.
What does it matter whether he “…find[s] the most extreme, fringe Christian positions…”? As stated above, once you rely on faith, no position is any more or less fringe or irrational. Resurrection and transubstantiation are equally goofy. As, for that matter is Wicca, Mormonism, or any other faith.
Hey, I’m just reporting the bad news: Faith is irrational. Deal with it. Enjoy your faith, find comfort from it, but remember; at its core it is irrational, so don’t try to thrust it into someone else. That usually leads to really bad stuff.
Post Script:
Speaking of fucktards…
I’m not going to bring her into the discussion, but the idiots who defend her? You brainwashed twit!
Let’s make one more thing clear: Ann Coulter was not talking about race, she was talking about religion. Jewish nationality had absolutely nothing to do with this discussion. It was all about Christianity versus Judaism.
Do you know NOTHING? Do you not realize that Jews have every right to view this as an existential threat? Most Jews don’t distinguish between “nationality” and “religion”, and through history, most of the world hasn’t made that distinction either.
You know what, asshole? Your worse than Coulter. You try to make it sound nice and pretty. Some day–hopefully–you will feel ashamed.
But of course, you have no shame.
October 14, 2007 at 5:18 am |
Jews do NOT have a right to view this as a threat. Do you not understand that there is in fact, a difference between Judaism the religion and the Jewish race? Some Jewish are Christians and some non-Jews are religious Jews. What do I have to feel ashamed about?
Even if your false supposition that most Jews don’t distinguish between nationality and religion is true, that’s not what Ann Coulter was talking about anyway! She was talking about religion. She WAS making that distinction.
You should be ashamed of yourself for not understanding that distinction and the interview itself.
I’m a Christian, so I understand these things. Apparently, you do not. Your logic is extremely poor and your language reveals your ignorance.
October 14, 2007 at 5:30 am |
Hmm…interesting.
You need to read some history, youngster.
You have no right to tell any Jew how they have a right to feel. Your ignorance is exceeded only by your arrogance. It is unfortunately typical of many types of fundamentalists.
If you’re looking for salvation, you might want to distance yourself from Coulter, before the lightning bolt strikes her.
I know this comes as news to you, but there are hundreds of religions on this Earth, and not all of them can be right. Yours is no more likely to be right than anyone else’s. Most non-Christians find it insulting, and yes, even threatening, in the right circumstances, to be prostelitized.
For many if not most Jews, attempts at conversion have often (usually) led to violence. I am sure from your writings that violence is not your intent, but any time that you identify someone as an inferior (in belief, too) other, you turn them into an Untermensch.
I’m not going to violate Godwin’s Law, so I’ll leave it at that.
Oh, and as the author above might say, go get drunk and get laid.
October 14, 2007 at 5:54 am |
I think you’re letting him off easy. He’s an anti-semitic bigot, a Christofascist, and he doesn’t even realize it. If all the people in the world were turned into his kind of robot, he thinks it would be a better place.
Marx and Lenin thought that too.
Mr. Braden, tear down this wall!!!
October 14, 2007 at 2:57 pm |
He apparently isn’t secure enough to keep critical comments on his blog either. Braden, come over here and post any time you want—no one will delete you.
October 15, 2007 at 6:37 pm |
Don’t quite know how this got onto Christianity versus teh Jewish religion. Might as well argue about Satanism versus Jainism – surely the point is that they are equally irrational