thread: 2005-06-06 : Happenings
On 2005-06-06, Vincent wrote:
We've had pretty good luck around here talking about religion and humanism in terms of "story." It's through stories that we make sense of our lives; we tell stories about who we are and why, to give our lives meaning. I think that we can consider both the similarities and the differences between the stories that theists and the stories that atheists tell. Both the similarities and the differences are significant.
I'm concerned about how any set of principles becomes, so easily, a salve for your conscience when you do something inhumane. Are (say) Richard Dawkins and James Randi guilty of this? Almost certainly! Are they as guilty of it as 2000 years' worth of Christianity?
Brand, have you read the Krakauer book by any chance?
