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Reza Aslan weighs in on Evangelical Atheism

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Who was the notorious sexual predator?
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

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johnson1010 wrote:Who was the notorious sexual predator?

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Who is this sexual predator? And why is that funny?
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Richard Feynman is the "sexual predator." Granted, Feynman's behavior was pretty bad. Even so, why single out Feyman? you may ask. Are atheists more inclined to engage in sexist behaviour than the general population?
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And it's funny because ant.
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Im just laughing because the only organ Feynman seemingly had full of purpose was his little dick that he couldn't keep from dominating his professional life.

This proves the church of purposelessness can have perverted priests in their circle of rationality.

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Here's is more of Rez commenting on the evangelism new atheists stole from evangelists.

http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2010 ... heists/929
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You made me curious about Aslan.
Reza Aslan wrote:While studying religion at university however, Aslan came to the conclusion that the claims of the Bible didn’t hold up. Nevertheless, as a scholar of religions, he kept studying it; his new book Zealot is partly a result of all that scholarly inquiry.

It’s certainly true that the book disputes many of the New Testament’s teachings. Zealot’s premise is that the life of an ordinary man sparked the world’s biggest religion. Aslan’s contention is that Jesus had no intention of starting a religion and neither did his disciples. The real brains behind the creation of Christianity, suggests Aslan, was Paul. The Christ “is an invention of the early church.”
http://ideas.time.com/2013/07/30/is-rez ... christian/
ant wrote:Im just laughing because the only organ Feynman seemingly had full of purpose was his little dick
Right, not like he used his brain. Unlike you, he didn't set the foundation for quantum physics. :slap:
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Interbane wrote:You made me curious about Aslan.
Reza Aslan wrote:While studying religion at university however, Aslan came to the conclusion that the claims of the Bible didn’t hold up. Nevertheless, as a scholar of religions, he kept studying it; his new book Zealot is partly a result of all that scholarly inquiry.

It’s certainly true that the book disputes many of the New Testament’s teachings. Zealot’s premise is that the life of an ordinary man sparked the world’s biggest religion. Aslan’s contention is that Jesus had no intention of starting a religion and neither did his disciples. The real brains behind the creation of Christianity, suggests Aslan, was Paul. The Christ “is an invention of the early church.”
Why, he's nothing more than a myther! And mythers ain't no better than flat-earthers. Q.E.D.
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Actually, I enjoy Reza Aslan and he makes some good points here. However, the comparison between atheists and fundamentalists can only go so far. The hardline atheist position is itself a reaction to the prevalence of fundamentalist Christianity and, therefore, the two positions will never be equal. If, for example, we had a full fifty percent of Americans who started believing in Scientology, I think you could expect to see a fierce backlash against it. And they would be justified to some extent. There's a cultish aspect to Scientology and other religions as well. Most of the backlash is a response to some of the more dangerous religious ideas that affect society, including perennial attempts to dumb down our science and history books in order to indoctrinate our children. On another thread we've recently discussed the college professor in Kentucky who sees firsthand the end result of motivated ignorance and ideological indoctrination.

By the way, you go to any town or city in the U.S. and you may find one atheist or skeptic group. Indeed, there's a skeptic group in our town that meets every Wednesday night. I would expect that you might see 50 people in attendance. But how many churches will you find in my town? There are hundreds. And you will find a lot more than 50 people in attendance at any ONE church on both Wednesday nights and Sundays. (Baptists typically meet twice a week). The two sides aren't even remotely equal.

I always find the obsession with Richard Dawkins to be kind of strange. He's really not that interesting and really not that relevant except to those already polarized by the religion-science brouhaha. But then again, I'm probably overthinking this.
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