I think Dawkins (like all scientists) has the God-given gift of curiosity about life and the universe, wanting to get everything neatly explained.
That's great because it advances human knowledge and long may they continue.
But the downside for them is that because they can't scientifically...
"Myth" is one of the atheists favourite words, for many years they went around saying "Nazareth never existed in Jesus's time, it was just a myth", but they were left with egg on their faces when old Nazareth was found..:)-
They can believe what they like but personally I believe Jesus who made it clear many times that he wasn't God or any other type of god..:)-
"Only God knows when Judgment Day will be, I don't know myself" (Mark 13:32)
"I say nothing of my own accord, I only say what my father tells me to say.."...
Well where's his body?..:)
For examp when the women went to pay their respects at the tomb they were told by an angel-
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!" (Luke 24:5/6)
As for other "gods", a witch in a chatroom once said she was invoking the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet to come and get me; I put the kettle on but she never turned up, hey guys don't you just hate getting stood up by goddesses?
(Mind you after seeing her pic I wouldn't have known whether to tickle...
Asimov said- "Emotionally I am an atheist but I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist.."
so he was still open-minded enough to write a book like this-
But as somebody said in another post, atheists wouldn't accept any proof at all..:)
As for nonchristians who follow other religions, the founders of all those religions are corpses in graves somewhere but Jesus is not, spot the difference?
There were plenty of people around who didn't like Jesus such as the snooty priests and their lackeys, the Romans, oddball sects etc, but when the gospels were published NONE of them dared come forward to deny Jesus existed because they knew he was TOO BIG to have been a myth, seen and heard by...
Jesus said to the repentant thief on the cross next to him "Today you'll be with me in paradise" which indicates heaven is not on this earth.
Jesus also said "..flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Cor 15:42-50)
which indicates we become purely spiritual beings "like the...
For example in Dawkins 'Climbing Mount improbable', I was hoping for a detailed step-by-step explanation of the evolution of birds, but all I got on page 126 was "Perhaps birds began flying by leaping off the ground"..:)
Well the survival of the fittest makes good sense and we can see it happening on youtube when lions catch the slowest and unfit buffalos, but on a larger timescale I like Senator John McCains observation-
"When I hike the Grand Canyon at sunset I see evolution, but I also see God's hand behind...
At the crucifixion some of the disciples ran away in fear of the Romans, but women stuck with him to the end..
It's as if he knew they'd be there for him, which is why he was always there for them-
I bought Dawkins 'Climbing Mount Improbable' some years ago expecting to see the theory of evolution neatly presented in watertight fashion, but was surprised to find it was full of holes, wild guesses and missing links.
I wrote to Dawkins to express my disappointment and he replied "Of course...
Women were up there strutting their stuff with the men in the early Christian churches..:)-
The evangelist Philip had four daughters who were preachers;
The early Christian sect in Phrygia was led by Montanus and two preachers, Priscilla and Maximilla..
And Paul paid glowing tributes to women -...
Nah, Jesus went on the road and strutted his stuff in front of thousands of eyewitnesses, heck he was almost as big as Elvis and the similarities are uncanny..:)-
"..the people all tried to touch Jesus, because power was coming from him" (Luke 6:19)