A true pearl of wisdom from a noted scholar

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  • Mythbuster
    Mythbuster

    This made me spew my coffee.

    *** w09 10/1 p. 11 Is It Possible to Build Faith in a Creator? ***
    Ironically, a leading cause of atheism is religion.

  • Mythbuster
    Mythbuster

    shameless bump

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

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    w0910/1p.11IsItPossibletoBuildFaithinaCreator?

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    Religion’s

    Failure

    Ironically, a leading cause of atheism is religion. Historian Alister McGrath explains: “What propels people toward atheism is above all a sense of revulsion against the excesses and failures of organized religion.” Religion is often seen as a factor behind wars and violence. An atheist and philosopher named Michel Onfray muses on how it is possible that the same religious book could inspire two types of men, one “aspiring to saintliness,” the other “carrying out an act of inhuman cruelty”—terrorism.

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    How true

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