The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that a supernatural creator, God, does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory ...
In The God Delusion, Professor Dawkins lines up a wide and diverse series of arguments to attempt to prove that not only does God not exist, but that the Judeo-Christian God, if he did exist, would be regarded by every right-thinking person as a moral monster.
A person with religious delusions may feel sure that a religious figure or deity is speaking to them or that they themselves embody a religious figure. Treatment for religious delusions will depend on an individual's specific circumstances but could include medication as well as various psychotherapies.
In a 2004 interview (published 9 December), Flew, then 81 years old, stated that he now believed in the existence of an intelligent designer of the universe, and explained that he had become a Deist. In the article, Flew stated that he had renounced his long-standing espousal of atheism.
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." This quote, from his seminal work The Blind Watchmaker, is often cited to illustrate his view on the universe's apparent lack of inherent ...
Brian Greene asks Richard Dawkins ... Does God Exist?
What does Dawkins say about the Bible?
As it progresses, this moral consensus influences how religious leaders interpret their holy writings. Thus, Dawkins argues that morality does not originate from the Bible. He proposes that society's moral progress informs what parts of the Bible Christians accept and what they now dismiss.
1-Sentence-Summary: The God Delusion makes the case for science as our fundamental source of hope, optimism, and inspiration in life, arguing that religion is an outdated by-product of evolution, that God doesn't exist, and that we can be just as happy, moral, and fulfilled without it.
Atheism is often considered acceptable within Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism in India.
Hinduism. See also: Atheism in Hinduism. ...
Jainism. See also: Transtheism. ...
Buddhism. Buddhism is often described as non-theistic, since Buddhist authorities and canonical texts do not affirm, and sometimes deny, the following:
Dawkins argues that religion is not only blind and irrational but also dangerous. It causes wars, misery, death and prevents the progress of science. People commit suicide in the name of religion and destroy other people, including unbelievers and those of different faiths, in the process.
Who wrote the Bible? Its books have no bylines. Tradition long identified Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, with Ezra as editor. Ancient readers also suggested that David wrote the psalms and Solomon wrote Proverbs and Qohelet.
Second Thessalonians 2:11-12 says, “And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
“I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.” “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
If a god knows everything and has unlimited power, then it has knowledge of all evil and has the power to put an end to it. But if it does not end it, it is not completely benevolent. If a god has unlimited power and is completely good, then it has the power to extinguish evil and wants to extinguish it.
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.
According to the same study Christianity, is expected to lose a net of 66 million adherents (40 million converts versus 106 million apostate) mostly to religiously unaffiliated category between 2010 and 2050. It is also expected that Christianity may have the largest net losses in terms of religious conversion.
Sweden is one of the countries that boast the biggest atheistic population; many individuals consider themselves non-religious. According to reports, people are secular or atheist in Swedes because this country, through its own deeply ingrained culture of individualism and rationalism, nurtures this trend.
While not a "particularly religious person", Musk said he believed in the wisdom of Christian teachings, particularly the principle of "turning the other cheek." Musk said that Christian beliefs "result in the greatest happiness for humanity, considering not just the present, but all future humans...
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All of them can be associated with religious belief, but that is not the same as claiming that religion, per se, is or causes psychiatric disorder. Faith is not delusional, neither does it cause, of itself, any other psychiatric condition or symptom.
There is an old tale where the rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion.
His most famous book is The Selfish Gene because it lays out the gene-centred view of evolution, but it's a bit of a tough slog. All the stuff you find in it you can also find in The Blind Watchmaker.
