Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
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 )