Dawkins on religion
Truth be told, I mostly subscribe to Free Inquiry for Dawkins’s column and in spite of Kurtz’s. The latter is one of the most simple-minded voices in Secular Humanism today, but the former has such an intensely biting and ferocious wit and such reckless abandon to state what he believes that it’s worth the subscription price on its own, and makes up for the boneheadedness the rest of the magazine frequently achieves.
Two gems from the most recent issue:
“I have never found the problem of evil very persuasive … There seems to be no obvious reason to presume that your God will be good… [T]he “jealous God” of the Old Testament is surely one of the nastiest, most truly evil characters in all fiction.”
“The world is divided into those who can see that the capacity to comfort has no bearing on the truth of a cosmic claim and those who cannot.”
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