Go India !!!
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DINESH D'SOUZA dishes dirt on dummy deists !!! ************************************************** www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004153[^] ************************************************** Atheists aren't as rational as they think BY DINESH D'SOUZA Sunday, October 12, 2003 "We have always had atheists among us," the philosopher Edmund Burke wrote in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," "but now they have grown turbulent and seditious." It seems that in our own day some prominent atheists are agitating for greater political and social influence. In this connection, leading atheist thinkers have been writing articles declaring that they should no longer be called "atheists." Rather, they want to be called "brights." **************************************************
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DINESH D'SOUZA dishes dirt on dummy deists !!! ************************************************** www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004153[^] ************************************************** Atheists aren't as rational as they think BY DINESH D'SOUZA Sunday, October 12, 2003 "We have always had atheists among us," the philosopher Edmund Burke wrote in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," "but now they have grown turbulent and seditious." It seems that in our own day some prominent atheists are agitating for greater political and social influence. In this connection, leading atheist thinkers have been writing articles declaring that they should no longer be called "atheists." Rather, they want to be called "brights." **************************************************
Yeah! (Boo?)
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DINESH D'SOUZA dishes dirt on dummy deists !!! ************************************************** www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004153[^] ************************************************** Atheists aren't as rational as they think BY DINESH D'SOUZA Sunday, October 12, 2003 "We have always had atheists among us," the philosopher Edmund Burke wrote in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," "but now they have grown turbulent and seditious." It seems that in our own day some prominent atheists are agitating for greater political and social influence. In this connection, leading atheist thinkers have been writing articles declaring that they should no longer be called "atheists." Rather, they want to be called "brights." **************************************************
Wow - Mr. D'Souza can sure set up one hell of a straw-man! The notion that atheists (or 'brights' :rolleyes:) think that there will eventually be a day when we have nothing more to learn is absolutely ridiculous. I know many atheists, and not a single one of them would ever offer this theory - most would dismiss it out of hand as childishly simplistic. What many atheists and other rationalists of other names genuinely believe is that critical thinking and rational thought are simply the best tools we have to understand the world around us. They are not infallible. They will not offer god-like understanding of reality. They are not perfect. It is quite trivial, in fact, to prove that there must be an infinite amount of unanswerable questions for any axiomatic belief system. Closet deists (and the out-of-the-closet ones too ;)) like to point out this supposed 'weakness' of logic as some sort of proof that logic itself is a failure. Logic is not flawed - it wholly recognizes its limitations. The deists' world view has the exact same limitations - but without any of logic's strengths. -- Russell Morris "So, broccoli, mother says you're good for me... but I'm afraid I'm no good for you!" - Stewy