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Thread #150450   Message #3505604
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
18-Apr-13 - 11:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obsession with being 'right'
Subject: RE: BS: Obsession with being 'right'
Little Hawk is right. Lack of certainty, doubt, as Joe Offer called it on another thread, form everything I know is a big part of any religion. For me I just kind of think out each issue, come up with the answer that works best for me, put a pin in that one, file away my contemplations in my brain and carry on with my life.

I have my biggest doubts about St. Paul. I don't think he was a good person even when he was founding the church. What can I learn from that? What about when he says misogynistic things? On the other hand, some of his words about love were said at our wedding.

I don't see that in Dawkins. The only "doubt" he confesses is to say that God is as likely as the fairies at the end of the garden. Darwkins spends much to much time glibly mocking for it to be seen as doubt.

A lot of Christian dogma is a way to counter doubt. The Lords Prayer is a comfort. The 23 psalm helps you with your fear. You do not say these things because you are certain.

If you go back to his earlier works and read Dawkins material on memes on what they mean to him then look at the God Delusion and his later works in that light you would see that he has no doubt at all about his "faith." He is trying to change society by planting memes. He is trying to bring about the day when the children of Christian parents are monitored so that memes are not placed in their heads.