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tree_and_leaf) wrote2008-10-21 11:18 am
tree_and_leaf) wrote2008-10-21 11:18 am
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Amusing, in a headdesky way, or headdesky in an amusing way?
Dawkins and Sherine back bus ads reading "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."
.... yeah. Atheist says: stop thinking and take my word for it!
(Actually, that's a little unfair, because the ads are intended as a response to a series of evangelical ones threatening non-Christians with hell-fire. All the same, the fear of hell is not exactly integral to the faith of most of the religious people I know†, and I cannot say that a sudden loss of my faith would improve my enjoyment of life; quite the reverse.)
On a side note, buried in the article is the information that Dawkins supports a Tory humanist group. I didn't know he was a Tory, but for some reason I'm not entirely surprised. (ETA: see comment from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizw below; this appears to be a misunderstanding.
† The only sense I can make of Hell is total alienation from God, and therefore all that is good, of becoming lost in myself and in hatred, which does indeed scare me quite a lot, but I suspect that's not the sort of thing Dawkins et al think I'm scared of.
.... yeah. Atheist says: stop thinking and take my word for it!
(Actually, that's a little unfair, because the ads are intended as a response to a series of evangelical ones threatening non-Christians with hell-fire. All the same, the fear of hell is not exactly integral to the faith of most of the religious people I know†, and I cannot say that a sudden loss of my faith would improve my enjoyment of life; quite the reverse.)
On a side note, buried in the article is the information that Dawkins supports a Tory humanist group. I didn't know he was a Tory, but for some reason I'm not entirely surprised. (ETA: see comment from
lizw below; this appears to be a misunderstanding.† The only sense I can make of Hell is total alienation from God, and therefore all that is good, of becoming lost in myself and in hatred, which does indeed scare me quite a lot, but I suspect that's not the sort of thing Dawkins et al think I'm scared of.
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As a text, it is a bit lightweight - but on the other hand a lightweight text might mean that the publicity has a chance of getting on to talk about why the advert is there, rather than getting stuck in a dissection of the particular argument.
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