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Thread #161997   Message #3855768
Posted By: Steve Shaw
18-May-17 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
Subject: RE: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
"Fry/Hitchens/Dawkins and the born-again Christians and the Islamic fundamentalists..."

Well I can't speak for the Islamic fundamentalists but the rest of that is twaddle. I won't associate with any atheistic type who says he has the answers or who expresses certainty or who sets out to "prove" anyone else wrong (as if that were possible). Atheists are people who don't know. Richard Dawkins has thrown his hands in the air a number of times saying that he doesn't know whether there's a God. He even said it in The God Delusion. People of faith always express THEIR certainties, on the other hand. You never say "Our Father, if you're really there, who may or may not be in heaven, if heaven exists at all, hallowed be thy name...", do you? Worse, you force children to chant those same certainties. Sorry to bring in my hobby horse, but regard it as a riposte to your accusation that it's us who have the "answers." It isn't. It's you lot!