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.e
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[Ron]
"By an error repeated throughout the ages, truth, becoming a law or a
faith, places
obstacles in the way of knowledge.
Method, which is in its very substance ignorance, encloses truth within
a vicious circle.
We should break such a circle, not by seeking knowledge, but by
discovering the cause of
ignorance." -tao of jeet kune do"
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