Richard Dawkins, author and atheist lecturer, said that “Religion is a fairy tale for those who are afraid of the dark.”
In response, a Christian said, “Atheism is a fairy tale for those who are afraid of the light.”
From Pastor Brian Broderson, Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa.
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Well Dawkins is one of those what we would call rather posh well bred elite types, the sort who ran the empire but never actually got their hands dirty in the process, those who got the knighthoods and the medals and the epithet ‘sir’ when they did bugger all to get it!! And perhaps these people use religion or did in the past to excuse slavery or ruthless exploitation or dismissal of people starving as often happened under the rule of the British Empire like in Ireland and India and no doubt many other places, and when many of these ruling class types realised they were only using religion to control others or give themselves a veneer of respectability, they then stopped believing in God and wanted the rest of us to follow suit, to follow them into the abyss and be as culpable and complicit in savagery as they were. You might see the same things in your country under people like George Bush or the Religious Right or the Prosperity Gospel and such things. None of those people can really believe in a merciful and compassionate God, not really, or they wouldn’t be doing cruel things. To them God, Christianity, religion or whatever you or I call it is just a vehicle to get where they want, and have a load naïve dupes believing them and then saying ‘it wasn’t me that did it, it was God!’ I was only obeying orders, in other words. Do evil, then blame God! That is real blasphemy, because the results of such peoples actions always mean the suffering of someone else.