Jaap van den DoolJaap van den Dool schreef op 1 november 2015: Het is een zware opgave om alle godsdiensten het besef bij te brengen van één hogere Waarheid.
Reactie: Beste Jaap, Wat moge die Waarheid (met hoofdletter!) "die zelf de onze overstijgt" dan wel niet zijn? Met vriendelijke groet, Bart Klink |
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Bekende atheïsten Victor J. Stenger, schrijver, emeritus hoogleraar natuurkunde en astronomie aan de Universiteit van Hawaii.
CitaatMuch of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history - bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment - are even more impressive. And what has it all been in aid of? I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the answer is absolutely nothing at all. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic. ~ Richard Dawkins |
Jaap van den Dool schreef op 1 november 2015:
Het is een zware opgave om alle godsdiensten het besef bij te brengen van één hogere Waarheid.Maar eens zullen we weten dat er één alles overtreffende Waarheid bestaat, die zelf de onze overstijgt.
Reactie:
Beste Jaap,
Wat moge die Waarheid (met hoofdletter!) "die zelf de onze overstijgt" dan wel niet zijn?
Met vriendelijke groet,
Bart Klink
We hebben 27 gasten en geen leden online
Victor J. Stenger, schrijver, emeritus hoogleraar natuurkunde en astronomie aan de Universiteit van Hawaii.
Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history - bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, culture-destroying missionaries, legally enforced resistance to each new piece of scientific truth until the last possible moment - are even more impressive. And what has it all been in aid of? I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the answer is absolutely nothing at all. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist and quite good reason for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.
~ Richard Dawkins
