[extropy-chat] 'a process of non-thinking called faith' 2 (2)

[Colin Geoffrey Hales]

>
> --- Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
>> Faith is the
>> >component which teaches that to question the nature
>> of things is bad and
>> >that to accept what you are taught is true and
>> complete. It's basically an
>> >immune system for religious memes.
>
> Self-enforced ignorance is not the same as faith.
> Faith can move mountains, ignorance can't even pay the
> bills.
>
>> Dawkins is one of the most influential people in my
>> life.  But I think he
>> is going off in the wrong direction in directly
>> fighting religions without
>> making an effort to understand why the capacity for
>> religions was adaptive
>> in the past.  I find the result like being against
>> fevers when that is not
>> the root cause of the problem but a symptom.
>
> Perhaps he has considered that and still finds
> fundamentalist religion (not really fundamentalism at
> all but enforced ignorance) too risky to tolerate. I
> can't really blame him. I am there myself. . . and I
> am a mystic.
>
>

Dawkins gets asked that very question here:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/default.htm

have a listen to the SAT 04 Nov show.....

regards,

Colin