The Language of God: Intellectual Reflections of a Christian Geneticist
UC Berkeley 2008
Topics: Christianity, Evolution, Natural Sciences & Math, Science
UC Berkeley 2008
Topics: Christianity, Evolution, Natural Sciences & Math, Science
Oxford University 2009
Rabbi Dr. Naftali Brawer, Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, Dr. Tariq Ramadan
Copyright © 2008 The Veritas Forum
So, Richard Dawkins thinks that it IS CHILD ABUSE to raise children in a Christian home but he just doesn't want to do anything to help these poor abused children? He just wants them to continue to be "abused" without anyone intervening to stop it? Wow, there are some frightening thoughts floating around in Richard Dawkins' head.
mg4444, Dec 21, 2008 | 9:30 pmStarting at 52:36, Francis Collins says: "Dawkins, in this book ... argues that religion is the greatest source of evil ... and basically at one point argues that parents who raise their children in a religious tradition are committing child abuse and should be prosecuted for it." Dawkins spoke at UC Berkeley a month later, and I read that quote to him and asked for his response. After a moment of open-mouthed shock, Dawkins responded: "I think he might be prosecuted for libel, actually. I have never said that parents who bring up their children religious should be prosecuted for child abuse. I'm trying to raise consciousness. I'm not trying to change the law. I'm trying to say, when you hear a child labelled as a Christian child simply because its parents are Christian, then that is child abuse. But I'm not saying that, as I actually have frequently been accused of saying, that children should be seized by the state from religious homes and brought up in state-run communal child farms. So, no, I mean, that is a travesty, and one that I should have thought Francis Collins would have risen above." This exchange with Dawkins is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzp2M5zOnE8 (starting at 5:41).
senki, Oct 16, 2008 | 11:41 pm