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tree_and_leafDawkins 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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Date: 2008-10-23 02:38 am (UTC)Also, as I understand it, the hellfire wasn't mentioned in the ads, but rather on the associated websites.
Honestly, though... the idea that there is no overarching purpose to existence and no afterlife is actually one of the more depressing ideas I know of.
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Date: 2008-10-23 03:17 pm (UTC)Yes - apparently the National Secular Society is miffed that they've taken it that way (you can't win with some people...)
Honestly, though... the idea that there is no overarching purpose to existence and no afterlife is actually one of the more depressing ideas I know of.
Particularly the lack of purpose, I think.