Scientist Richard Dawkins, author of "The Selfish Gene," explains why getting rid of religion might just save our lives:
Salon.com News | The atheist: "How would we be better off without religion?
We'd all be freed to concentrate on the only life we are ever going to have. We'd be free to exult in the privilege -- the remarkable good fortune -- that each one of us enjoys through having been being born. An astronomically overwhelming majority of the people who could be born never will be. You are one of the tiny minority whose number came up. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. The world would be a better place if we all had this positive attitude to life. It would also be a better place if morality was all about doing good to others and refraining from hurting them, rather than religion's morbid obsession with private sin and the evils of sexual enjoyment.
Sounds like paradise to me. Now, if we can just persuade a certain segment not to bring the Rapture down on our heads, maybe we can work this out.
posted by Martha @ 10:14 AM
2 Comments:
Holy shit! That guy is my new hero. Thanks for posting on this.
And have a blessed day. Yeah right!
You're welcome. And have yourself a...day, too!
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