06.05.10
An ungodly debate
Perhaps never before in history have science and religion been engaged in such dubious battle. The increasingly challenging claims of science – including that of being able to create life itself – have invited the inevitable backlash of a militant religiosity …
Asked about the paedophilia scandal currently sweeping the Catholic church, biologist and leader of the anti-god tirade in the Judeo-Christian world, Richard Dawkins, replied that he didn’t so much mind priests messing with the bodies of the children as he minded their messing with children’s minds, infecting them with the virus of religion. In other words, as evil as the sexual abuse of children was, the abuse of their minds – or spiritual paedophilia – was much worse. Why is it that over 150 years after Nietzsche announced the death of god, the war against the Supreme Creator has escalated so sharply in the 21st century?
The sad part of Dawkins’ initiative is that he is a worse polluter of the minds of childred than these priests.
This whole gambit is such a strange parody of the attack of the guru Rajneesh on religion, and especially Xtianity, in the seventies and eighties.
Although Rajneesh is infamous now, his actual discussion series of these issues was far more intelligent and didn’t indulge in the silly brand of atheims peddled by Dawkins and the New Atheists.
Something odd has transpired: the attack on religioin in the name of Christianity has become a form of ‘know-nothingism’ about the history of religions. Worse, the Darwinian scientism as a substitute is a disaster in the making. If you thought pedophile priests were bad, the degenerate stage of this new atheist cult will be horrific.