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The atheist delusion
Theologian John Haught explains why science and God are not at odds, why Mike Huckabee worries him, and why Richard Dawkins and other "new atheists" are ignorant about religion.
By Steve Paulson [2007-12-18]

  • @benthead and 6Stringer

    Thank You.

    30 pages in and I finally read something lucid and coherent.

    further to benthead's point: if you're going to trash Catholicism please have an understanding of it that is deeper than second grade catechism...you might actually see that it's a pretty fascinating branch of human thought. Just from a purely historical perspective the evolution (heh) of theology from Augustine to Aquinas to Jan Hus to Luther to Vatican II to Liberation Theology (just to pick out some random plot points) is deeply engrossing and fascinating.

    Or maybe that's just a history nerd talking...sitting in a musty library reading an hundred year old copy of Zwingli's sermons appeals to me for some reason :)

    My point is, divorce the academia from the implications and you might actually like it - not to mention that some of these dudes are some of the intellectual titans of all time...why not see what they were all about?

    cheers,

    -- debaser
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    Tuesday, December 18, 2007 03:12 PM
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