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On 9 Feb 2006 08:56:24 -0800, "Richard Dawkins" <dawkinns@hotmail.com>
wrote:
The biblical God is a fiction. As Richard Dawkins has observed, we are
all atheists with respect to Zeus and Thor. Only the atheist has
realized that the biblical god is no different. Consequently, only the
atheist is compassionate enough to take the profundity of the world’s
suffering at face value. It is terrible that we all die and lose
everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings
suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be
directly attributed to religion--to religious hatreds, religious wars,
religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources--is
what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity. It is a
necessity, however, that places the atheist at the margins of society.
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully
out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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