http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9708

The sacred and the human

Today's atheist polemics ignore the main insight of the anthropology
of religion-that religion is not primarily about God, but about the
human need for the sacred. As René Girard argues, religion is not the
cause of violence, but the solution to it

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton is a philosopher and a research professor at the
Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Virginia

It is not surprising that decent, sceptical people, observing the
revival in our time of superstitious cults, the conflict between
secular freedoms and religious edicts, and the murderousness of
radical Islamism, should be receptive to the anti-religious polemics
of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and others. The "sleep of
reason" has brought forth monsters, just as Goya foretold in his
engraving. How are we to rectify this, except through a wake-up call
to reason, of the kind that the evangelical atheists are now shouting
from their pulpits?

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:06:05 -0700, Sound of Trumpet
mailcan.com> wrote:

What got solved on 9/11? Fucking idiot.

Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com> wrote in
news:1185689165.366253.80360@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com to alt.atheism:

Can you say "Thirty Years War"?

On Jul 29, 2:06 am, Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com>
wrote:

On Jul 29, 4:16 am, raven1 nevermore.com> wrote:

All this means nothing.

It is no different from finding a bad parent and saying we should
outlaw parents because one is bad.

Only the small minded thinker such as yourself would say such a thing
Raven.

Atheists are no angels.

Just look at Russia, China, N. Korea and parts of the orient...should
atheism be outlawed?

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:16:24 -0400, raven1
nevermore.com> wrote:

The dilemma of which lie to use to get us into Iraq.

On Jul 29, 2:06 pm, Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com>
wrote:

Well, that's the idea, but anything can be perverted.

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:06:05 -0700, Sound of Trumpet wrote:

More crazymotherfucker bullshit.

In article <1185689165.366253.80360@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com> wrote:

Sure. Tell that to the victims of the Crusades, religious wars,
inquisitions, persecutions, 9-11, etc.
--
John #1782

"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be
white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."

- Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuit Order.