Modulous writes:
So there you go. How do we deal with the situation? What is the best way? Do we attack dogmatic religious beliefs as strongly as we attack other dogmatic beliefs? Do we attack only fundamentalist religious beliefs, and give a break to people like theistic evolutionists? Do we try and convince the religious public that science can be wonderful and is not to be feared?
I think the latter. If more focus were placed on science education and it was assured that every teenager graduating high school was at least science literate, religion would fade away on its own; a new age of the scientifically enlightened public. The people would start to realize on their own that there is as much, if not more, beauty, awe and reverence to be had in understanding nature and laws that govern the natural world then there is to be found in the Abrahamic religions.
It might also helpful to have alternate religion such as pantheism (what Dawkin's called 'sexed up atheism') to replace the need to belong to a religious organization. Although, I do know that Dawkin’s would not agree with this last point.
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill.
I will choose a path thats clear, I will choose free will. - Neil Peart
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein
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