Posts Tagged Atheism

I like Richard Dawkins.

I know it comes as hardly a surprise.

Even though I think it needs clarification that I have been an atheist since much much before I read Dawkins, Dawkins just gave me some answers that I can give to the theists when they ask questions that they think proves that there is a God.

Questions like:

‘How can a creation as complex as this universe be created without a creator?’
‘How can something come from nothing?’
‘How could humans have evolved from apes?’

It surely helps that Dawkins is a zoologist… and a damn fine writer. It helps me to grasp what I find more believable- ‘science’… something testable, provable, solid, and believable.

Yes. As I said, I like Dawkins. Very much.

But, I have very strong objection in him being referred to as the high priest for atheists.

It makes atheism sound so much like a religion- any religion- whereas what it actually is- is a ‘way of thinking’. Logical thinking. I will be much dismayed if atheists, of all people, start to look up to someone or something, for idolizing or for believing blindly.

I will hate to see it happen.

I will hate to see atheism turn into a ‘religion’.