More kudos for Richard Dawkins.
Excellent news! Richard Dawkins has been named BBC Person of the Year. I’ve been a fan of his for many years now and have read most of his books. He’s certainly been in the spotlight this past year and I feel he is amply deserving of this honor.
There has, heretofore, existed a reluctance, an unwritten rule, a quasi taboo when it came to questioning another’s spiritual beliefs and religious convictions. It just wasn’t done in polite company. One respected others’ beliefs however irrational they seemed. Richard Dawkins has convinced me that this is no longer acceptable nor is it responsible post September 11. The men who flew those planes into the World Trade Center towers were men of deep religious belief. They were devout Muslims. They had faith, they prayed and without the obvious deep spiritual conviction that drove them, they surely would not have had the courage to die and take so many others with them. To quote Steven Weinberg: "(Religion) With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"
(I have included a link to The Richard Dawkins Foundation in the right column of this blog.)
Joseph Froncioni
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