Today I read the article, “Richard Dawkins and the God Controversy”, in this article the author attacks Dawkin’s beliefs and his book, The God Delusion. The author states that, “Dawkins invents his own definitions of faith in order to attack and demolish them. Faith it “blind trust, in the absence of evidence…”” The author states that his definition of faith does not concern Christianity, more so it concerns religions of the Islamic culture. How can that be? Faith is exactly that; that is the point of faith, I is to trust and believe in something that isn’t certain, which is exactly what religion is. The author is showing a state of something similar to patriotism to his faith, Christianity, saying that the ideas and statements that Dawksin brings up in his book may concern other religions but definitely not his. The author asks, “Can Dawkins be deliberately ignorant that Jesus taught us to love even our enemies?” Now I ask can the author be so ignorant to state such a statement when he completely disregards all other religions. If Dawkins was ignorant to this wouldn’t it mean that all other religious followers that don’t follow Jesus (Jewish people, Musims, etc.) are ignorant as well? The author says that one of the reasons Dawkins is incredible is because when asked the question why are we here, Dawkins states “… to be here, there is not higher purpose…” The author is disgusted by this answer, but I don’t see the problem with it.
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