Posted on 10/27/2009 6:46:41 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
In America we are a century and a half away from the "Know-Nothing Party", a secret political society that fulminated against the Catholic Church and Irish immigrants. (Asked about its composition, members would say, "I know nothing;" hence, the moniker.) Formed in public as The American Party, the party's hateful, nativist politics took a long time to expunge from our shores. But we now have an Englishman, Richard Dawkins--one of society's "Brites" according to his fellow-Darwinist, Daniel Dennett--in a screed against the Catholic Church that proclaims the same frothing bigotry exemplified by the Know-Nothings. This and Dawkins' various other attacks should remind us that the hoary religious hatreds of old (including those of the angry atheist) were a European legacy. Catholics and other Christians need to realize that Dawkins and Company aim to revive them.
Rome is possibly "the greatest force for evil in the world," Dawkins announces, "a disgusting institution" that is "dragging its flowing skirts in the dirt and touting for business like a common pimp." That kind of language is like a blast of stale air from the 1850s.
You cannot expect his fellow Darwinists to repudiate Dawkins for the simple reason that a number (e.g., P.Z. Myers) share his prejudices and his paranoia. Darwinism never was mainly about science; it is about metaphysics. It is a worldview that has no space for the sacred, no regard for the exceptionality of human life. Darwinists, who operate few if any hospitals or homeless shelters, cannot recognize the humanity of those who do.
Dawkins is not an oddity. He is the world's leading Darwinian spokesman. He is hailed at universities, museums and foundations. Publications like The Washington Post and The New York Times--that simply will not run an article by scientists presenting the evidence against Darwinism--can't showcase him enough.
Other than such Know Nothings, what other modern bigots are regarded as so fashionable?
and then he goes on to complain of “poaching”.
He's willing to appeal to the qualities of the Christ yet in another breath assure us that accepting Christ's view of God would be tantamount to a delusional mind state.
In short, the Anglican Church is in no way going to pose an intellectual challenge to the secular world view of Darwinism or Dawkins’ atheism and Dawkins would really, really like for it to stay that way.
Good find!
PS Given what you’ve turned up, I’m going to tack on the keyword “homosexualagenda” to this thread. Your good find just got better :o)
It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant of Christianity that people like Dawkins are. Of course, coming from someone who thinks the Catholic Church is more evil than Islam that doesn't surprise me in the least.
Perhaps Dawkins should read the parts of the New Testament in which Jesus compares His own disciples to Satan when they question his teachings, or when He curses the fig tree for not obeying His command. Maybe the metaphorical way in which Jesus did things are beyond the ability for a simpleton like Dawkins to understand, but anyone who really wants to understand the Bible can easily do it.
That being said, there are many times in the New Testament in which Jesus takes an approach that ranges between "not so nice" and "bluntly physical" when it comes to correcting people who get it wrong.
And I thank Jesus for that... people like me would not know otherwise if He didn't care so much to show us the way.
The whole “screed” from The Washington Post should be shown(not possible, I know) but everyone should at least read it twice at least.
I've been trying to get GGGs to dedicate another thread to me. This would have have been perfect! Whatcha think, Bro?
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Then you WILL let evolutionist Catholics into heaven?
Despite the Anglican’s lack of opposition to all of Dawkins’ favorite Progressive beliefs, he still attempts to kill them with faint praise. A real lesson to be learned here: They'll get neither love nor respect for compromise and only the most contemptuous and contingent tolerance.
Thanks for the ping!
“Archbishop Rowan Williams is too nice for his own good. Instead of meekly sharing that ignominious platform with the poachers, he should have issued a counter-challenge: “Send us your women, yearning to be priests, who could make a strong case for being the better-qualified fifty percent of humanity; send us your decent priests, sick of trying to defend the indefensible; send them all,”
I wonder why they overlooked this part of the article?
We tried. But they don't want to leave. They want to stay in the Roman Catholic Church and undermine it from the inside. Poor Dawkins missed it by THIS much...again.
“Other than such Know Nothings, what other modern bigots are regarded as so fashionable?”
Mao seems to be pretty popular in the White House.
I am jealous!
And why is this of interest to me?
Perhaps you should be asking yourself why it is NOT of interest to you.
I am referring to the fact that it has now become part of science to openly mock the Bible, Christians, and alternatives theories that are not mainstream. Just try and mention nutrition therapy on a science blog, or criticize the H1N1 vaccine. You will be called a nut, a fundamentalist, for killing children for starters.
Reference?
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