Ian, This is interesting. (url below)
June 14, 2007 Atheists' beliefs Sir, Jonathan Sacks thinks that atheism is a "form of protest"; that when the great religions are in serious conflict with each other, people turn to atheism because they feel that religion has failed them (Credo, June 9). This casts atheism in a very negative light, as the offshoot of religious friction. If this is true, then atheism only exists as a rejection of religion and you can't have atheism without also having religion. But atheists see it the other way round. For us, the issue is not why people lose their faith; it is why people take up faith in the first place. We can get along quite well without the comforts and explanations of religion and we find it mystifying why anyone else should need them. We certainly do not need destructive clashes between the faiths to engender our beliefs. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/letters/article1928986.ece moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
