Title: U.S. 'fundamentalists' targeted by atheist crusaders Post by: Soldier4Christ on October 28, 2006, 05:36:28 AM U.S. 'fundamentalists' targeted by atheist crusaders
Evolutionary biologists argue religion is source of evil, morals not God-given In the United States, atheists are becoming an ostracized minority. But now evolutionary biologists are trying to turn the tables: According to their argument, religion is the source of evil. Morals and selflessness are not God-given - they are the result of evolution. When Richard Dawkins, a zoologist at Oxford University, steps up to the altar he seems visibly pleased to see the pews in the church fully occupied. In the best Queen's English, he reads from his book: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." At first his words are greeted with laughter, and then with resounding applause from his audience of 600. Despite the venue, the spectacle that took place last Thursday in the First Parish Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts was in fact the opposite of a religious service. Indeed, if the man delivering the sermon had his way, he would in fact be jettisoning religious faith altogether. ______________________ I couldn't bring myself to post this entire article which actually supports this garbage, but you get the point just from this portion. It is a complete abomination that people are actually allowing this in a church and are even applauding it. |