[ExI] Tolerance

[Post Futurist]

One (not a "you", Mr. Moulton) might say that God is a necessary fiction to billions, but that a unicorn is only a droll legend such as Santa Claus; thus a God is not comparable to a unicorn. If all the statues and paintings of unicorns were destroyed, the world would remain the same, but if belief in God were to be destroyed the world would be different-- how different no one can say. Now, I don't say that God or even a Santa Clausian belief in God is necessary, but religion is necessary as it has existed for thousands of years, and cannot be dispensed with like that, any more than the family can be dispensed like that, however outmoded they both may very well be. 
Dawkins isn't so strident today, he has toned down his rhetoric since 'The God Delusion' in the interest of better public relations.    

--- On Mon, 12/7/09, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:


If there is no unicorn, what fills up the vacuum left by the unicorn's absence? Answer: there is no vacuum to fill, since there was no unicorn to start with. Is this really so difficult to grasp?

Damien Broderick


      
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