SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Smallpox
5 Jan 2019
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The god is a grown up god, regard stories as not literally true. They either haven"t read the old testament or they are not the type of people he wishes to know. He says god is vile vindictive symbol. "religion is evil" like the small pox but harder to eradicate. Faith means belief in something without evidence, that justifies anything. Worship a great intelligence instead of a vindictive symbol. Support science and truth, does not care what"s good or evil, cares about truth. Raise consciousness, using rational arguments from evidence to prove his view. The issue is we exist and we are not going anywhere , why don"t we acknowledge the positive that has come from religion. People carry out violence in the name of god - dawkins. No evidence that believing in god makes you do good things It is more wrong to be brought up catholic than to be abused
