He [Fraser] is embarrassed by “stupid” Christians thinking they know more
about the nature of the universe than clever atheists like Dawkins.
Ask him to prove that God exists – one of the subjects of his philosophy
lectures at Oxford – and he cheerfully admits that he can’t. He goes further:
“The so-called proofs of God’s existence are all rubbish.”
Ask him if the resurrection of Jesus Christ really happened and he says:
“Umm . . . dunno . . . can’t prove it.”Ask him about evangelical Christians and he snorts: “Evangelicals have misunderstood the Bible. They turn it into some bloody Ikea manual.”
Proofs of God's existence: well, I'm at risk of running that flat into the ground. Fraser is right: they are all rubbish. The more interesting question to me has become: why do we care about them? I have an answer or two; but I'm still knocking them into presentable form.The resurrection? I consider that a confessional topic. I can't prove it; but I don't need to. Whether or not you confess it (i.e., believe it) is irrelevant to me, if we're going to argue about it. I'm not an apologist for it. And as for evangelicals turning the Bible into an "IKEA manual," well that's just lovely. I'm keeping that.
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Gratias.
Now I need that on a poster to go with the collection of Demotivators posters I plan to have one day.
Yeah, still alive and kicking. Just not doing much in the way of caring about other folks enough to share my staggering insights and rapier wit via blog entries lately.
i take it you created this at the do-it-yourself demotivator site here?
r@d@r, that would be correct. Greatest waste of time, ever.
I clicked both links, but I'm still no wiser about what an IKEA manual is, or isn't.
Steve, the point about IKEA is that it's well known for self-assembly furniture, and a manual tells you how it's put together. Certain evangelicals maintain that all you need to know about how the universe was created is spelled out in the Bible, and that the scientific approach is either futile or somehow dangerously delusional, or both.
Geo3rge, there goes my faith, and it's all your doing, with a little help from Rmj.
It's the picture that did it , you see.
I'm with Frasier.
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