The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
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ReplyDeleteVirtually all of the "atheists" that garner notice in the media are post christians who were raised in and share values with some christian denomination. This is why they still have an interest.
Many in the younger generations have no such attachment to religion and know very little about religion except that they are not religious.
When older people like Dawkins die off, there will be much less dialog between the dwindling number of those who are religious and those who are not.
People like Dawkins are also the basis for the claims of many religious that atheism is a religion. When they are gone, there will no longer be such basis.
It is true, however, that as long as religion continues to lose large numbers who then deny a belief in God there will be such contacts.
Prof. Dawkins has always advocated studying the Bible in school as it forms the basis of much of Western literature. He's also been in favour of comparative religion classes as one can't understand the world with knowledge of world religion. For example why were so many in the Bush administration suprised at the natural affinity between a Saddam-less Iraq and Iran. They didn't know the difference between Sunni and Shi'te Muslims.
ReplyDeleteThe late Christopher Hitchens also wrote on the importanceof the Bible (albeit in the KJV trnslation) as literature (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/05/hitchens-201105 )