That is one of the most obvious contradictions in his views. It’s a dillema for atheistic-evolutionism. Unintelligent natural laws acting on matter do not produce things like “good” and “evil”.
After stating this, Richard Dawkins condemns various evils done in the name of religion. That’s a contradiction. He should merely view all the events of life as natural, evolutionary processes.
Another major contradiction is where he recommends that we should ‘only believe something if there is scientific evidence that it is true.’
This is self-contradictory because the statement itself cannot be proven scientifically to be true (it cannot be verified by empirical science).
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Well, talking about contradictions… You quote Dawkins saying that the UNIVERSE has no capacity for good and evil and then inerpret this as “so he says we don’t,either”? What **** is that? The universe is a purely physical structure! OF COURSE it has no capacity for emotions. Humans (and presumably other life forms as well) do have that, as a result of millions of years of evolution. By the way, Dawkins says so himself.He just does not aknowledge religions’ monopoly on ethics. A point of view, which I share.
Earlier on I came about a post about the atrocities of the Nazis, which honestly let my hair stand up. It seems, we do not all have the same history books, as the author of that post claims. Of course, WW2 and the Nazis killed millions of humans (a good part of which were killed by the allies in bombing all of Dresden and Hamburg and Hannover, never ever seeking military targets, which conveniently seldom is spoken of in the summing up of the morethan 20 millions of victims worldwide). Of course, this lunatic from austria was evil, no question of that. But was he atheistic? Or his planned new belief for the arian race? Let’s take a look on the facts, shall we?
Hitler, as was said earlier, was raised a catholic in Austria. He never ever denied that, nor did he change it throughout his life. The belt buckles of the SS and the Wehrmacht bore clearly religios (in this case even christian) mottos. In more than one speech (public as well in his table speeches) he clearly stated that he saw the planned extinction of the Jews, and homosexuals as the will of god (of which we can presume he thaught as the catholic god, based on his personal background). Furthermore, pope Pius (I tend to forget,which number goes with this specific Pius) and the catholic church in Germany not only turned a blind eye to what Hitler and the Nazis did, no, they even FUNDED this party!
Thinking on the other hand of the atrocities the catholic and protestanic church commited over the last 10 centuries, I am only and honestly relieved that they had not the technology and means of the 20th century at their beck and call (but even lacking that, they managed to “purge” an estimated 10-20 millions heretics, witches, scientists and members of other religions). I will never forget the words of the papal legat before the battle of Beziérs (a town of heretics): “Kill them all - GOD will know, who’s with him!”
