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	<title>Delusioned &#187; Religion</title>
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		<title>Holy War, and God&#8217;s on the Atheists&#8217; Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I like best about Digg isn&#8217;t that its always stock load of cool stories, but also because you can get some really interesting comments to stories.
One such story, Holy War! A New Army of Atheists is Taking No Prisoners, is brining out all sorts of people and believe it or not, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things I like best about Digg isn&#8217;t that its always stock load of cool stories, but also because you can get some really interesting comments to stories.</p>
<p>One such story, <em><a href="http://digg.com/political_opinion/Holy_War_A_New_Army_of_Atheists_is_Taking_No_Prisoners">Holy War! A New Army of Atheists is Taking No Prisoners</a></em>, is brining out all sorts of people and believe it or not, Atheists are winning. <a href="http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid41370.aspx">The article itself</a> is a good read, although I do feel the author was a bit more metaphorical than he needed to be.</p>
<p>However, back onto the subject of the comments. One comment linked over to a speech about Atheistism &#8212; <em><a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/113">Richard Dawkins: An atheist&#8217;s call to arms</a></em>. It&#8217;s a fascinating speech where Dawkins calls to arms of all Atheists to speak up and stop bowing our heads in &#8220;respect&#8221; of other religions.</p>
<p>Dawkins brings up many important points; an interesting one being how religion is corrosive to science.</p>
<blockquote><p><em> &#8220;</em><em>It [religion] teaches people to be satisfied with trivial, supernatural, non-explanations and blinds them to the wonder real explanations that we have within our grasp. It teaches them to accept authority, revelations and faith instead of always insisting on evidence.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Dawkins&#8217;s speech is well worth a watch, regardless of your religious siding. I love it. As a fellow Atheist, I think his display was one of the best pro-Atheist/anti-religion speeches I&#8217;ve seen.</p>
<p>His speech has inspired me enough to check out his book, which was written  after this speech; <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618680004?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gpcentrenet-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0618680004">The God Delusion</a></em>. I find it bit ironic, in a way, as to the title of the book. Very fitting for this site, don&#8217;t you think? Ha. However, if that book doesn&#8217;t suit your fancy, feel free to check out any one of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2Fsearch-handle-url%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26search-type%3Dss%26index%3Dbooks%26field-author%3DRichard%2520Dawkins&amp;tag=gpcentrenet-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">his other books</a>.</p>
<p>Dawkins calls on Atheists to speak up. It is truly amazing how in our country, a man claiming to have talked with God can be voted president, but a teacher ridiculing &#8220;alternate therapy&#8221; (prayer) is forced to remove a blog post. Christianity (all branches) is attempting to control information, again. We cannot sit ideally by and let that happen anymore.</p>
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