If God exists, either he can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities or he does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil. Pious readers will now execute the following pirouette: God cannot be judged by merely human standards of morality. But, of course, human standards of morality are precisely what the faithful use to establish God’s goodness in the first place. And any God who could concern himself with something as trivial as gay marriage, or the name by which he is addressed in prayer, is not as inscrutable as all that. If he exists, the God of Abraham is not merely unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.
– Sam Harris
Tre sent me an awesome article, take the time and read it please.
And since we are on the topic…
watch this trailer.
•UPDATE•
Gray posted a great link from NPR. It’s well worth the listen, it’s long but well worth it. Check it out here.
wow, good read.
along these lines, here is a story that is archived from npr’s talk of the nation show. it’s julia sweeney’s (yes, pat) moving dialogue on how she feel into and then back out of faith. it’s a very well spoken piece, and the tone is never dogmatic or condescending. give it a listen.
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/driveway/archive/2005/jul/050705.html
i think it takes a lot of faith to deny the existence of a higher power. i will be praying for you.
“i wouldn’t want to live in a universe where there wasn’t a take-out box full of chinese buddha mongolian beef buried in my backyard that is the size of a refrigerator.” -john trefry