In the United States, atheists are becoming an ostracized minority. But now evolutionary biologists are trying to turn the tables: According to their argument, religion is the source of evil. Morals and selflessness are not God-given - they are the result of evolution.
A few points...
1) "athiests are becoming an ostracized minority." As opposed to say the 1860's or maybe 1920's when great herds of athiests darkened the plains and made the earth tremble as they roamed... oh, wait... that was the buffalo.2) "religion is the source of evil." Doesn't it take a lot of nerve to say that shortly after the end of the 20th Century. A century of overwhelming inhumanity brought to us chiefly by ideology, nationalism and yes, scientific rascism. A century probably less religous than any other.
3) Does it seem ironic to anyone else, this appearing in a German magazine ?
4) The author's name is Blech
Most of the article deals with that enfant terrible of the scientific world, Richard Dawkins of Oxford University who gives us his take on Old Testament theology thus...
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Lucky Mr. Dawkins isn't one of those hate filled Fundamentalists.
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