Richard Dawkins is completely wrong about the impact of faith on our kids—so wrong that, if he were consistent, he really might call atheism a form of "child abuse."
Chuck Colson, BreakPoint 27 Dec 2007
About the Editor
- Rod Benson
- Sydney, Australia
- Rod Benson is an ethicist and public theologian with the Tinsley Institute.
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The new atheists need to look carefully at what they are doing.
Not only is the "child abusers" accusation built on very flimsy foundations, but it is part of a concerted effort to marginalise religious people, particularly Christians. We are irrational, we are child abusers, we support oppression of women and slavery, we are the cause of most wars and we are involved in a giant conspiracy to take control of Governments. They only leave out (so far) cannibalism and incest -- the typical first century charges.
I made a rather mild suggestion in a newspaper blog that submission of wives to husbands -- in the Pauline context of mutual submission among believers -- was preferable to open and unresolved conflict, and had another respondent say that the Romans had the right idea about dealing with Christians. I pointed out that to say that the Nazis had the right idea about dealing with Jews would have been howled down as racist.
Perhaps I am a conspiracy theorist at heart, but a lot of what I am seeing from the new atheists seems to arise out of a desire to persecute. And that is intensely troubling.
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