Atheists don't hate God -- it makes no sense to hate something you don't believe in. You of all people expect people to be logical? And to be logical, of all things, about what they deny? Next you'll be telling me that Laura Hollis has made a careful and discriminating investigation of the Frankfurt School. It would have been better if you had said: "Some atheists" or "most atheists" or even "most atheists I know." Most atheism is culture-specific; something that was denomstrated to me long ago, when a Greek friend of my sister's managed to inform me in two phrases that he was an atheist, but that we Catholics were heretics because of the filioque. Mr.Dawkins is a particularly rancid and ranting product of an upper-class Oxford education - and having been to and loved Oxford myself, I would never insult the place; in fact, the reason why I am so glad of the formation of an Anglican rite is that I want to see the dignity and civility of the Anglican culture preserved. But there always was a poisonous, terrified, Titus Oatesish strand to it, and alas, it looks likely to outlast the Anglican culture itself.
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Date: 2009-10-30 08:34 pm (UTC)You of all people expect people to be logical? And to be logical, of all things, about what they deny? Next you'll be telling me that Laura Hollis has made a careful and discriminating investigation of the Frankfurt School. It would have been better if you had said: "Some atheists" or "most atheists" or even "most atheists I know." Most atheism is culture-specific; something that was denomstrated to me long ago, when a Greek friend of my sister's managed to inform me in two phrases that he was an atheist, but that we Catholics were heretics because of the filioque. Mr.Dawkins is a particularly rancid and ranting product of an upper-class Oxford education - and having been to and loved Oxford myself, I would never insult the place; in fact, the reason why I am so glad of the formation of an Anglican rite is that I want to see the dignity and civility of the Anglican culture preserved. But there always was a poisonous, terrified, Titus Oatesish strand to it, and alas, it looks likely to outlast the Anglican culture itself.