Sharpe's Opinion

The hatemongers believe in your god

Unity at Liberal Conspiracy is going on the offensive against moderate Chrsitians who don’t stand up against the creationists and fundamentalists who’ve been sending Sir David Attenborough hate mail:

Perhaps the most irritating aspect of the whole ‘New’ Atheism vs the Fundies debate that’s been raging since the publication of Dawkins’ ‘The God Delusion’, aside from the abject intellectual vapidity of pretty much all the attempts to rebut Dawkins’ arguments, has been the all-too-obvious willingness of moderate, reasonable, intelligent Christians to simply pop their head over the parapet for a second, announce that the faith that Dawkins castigates isn’t ‘their faith’ and then run away as quickly as possible.

Well, guess what – it is your faith. The hatemongers believe in your god and they’re getting their dumb ass ideas from your ‘holy’ book, so I figure that maybe this is your responsibility and you should be trying to do something about it.

It’s not as if your forebears couldn’t do it. A couple of hundred years ago, and without any real prompting from us atheists, your ancestors managed to figure out for themselves that all the stuff in the bible condoning slavery didn’t sit well with the rather more important and worthwhile business of only doing unto others what you’d have them do unto you and loving thy neighbour, so they sensibly decided to ditch the slavery bit.

I couldn’t agree more. Plus, it’s always worth a re-link to the time when God clarified the don’t kill rule