Atheism Finally Gets Press

A letter to the editor of the King County Journal regarding the article by Nicholas Kristof that appeared December 6, 2006 - A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion:

Atheism finally gets press

Nicholas Kristof’s column (Journal, Dec. 6) on Richard Dawkins’ new book, “The God Delusion,” was refreshing. Finally atheism is getting some press coverage.
It’s good to see some in-your-face atheism, as atheists have been taking evangelical Christianity forever. Atheists like myself have been polite for too long, fearing to criticize Christians. Not anymore with “The God Delusion.”

With Medved and Malkin and other regular writers, this paper praises Christianity nearly every day. How about some arguments that expose Christianity as the superstition that it is? How about a regular atheist writer?

Sure, religion is good in that it guides people, gives identity and meaning to life and provides comfort. It’s also a fount of altruism and public service, and inspiration for some of man’s best art. But Darwin, Freud and science should trump pre-scientific myths.

Christians often express thankfulness to God when they get cured of cancer or survive a horrendous accident. But if you thank God for getting you out of a predicament, then you should berate him for getting you into it in the first place. If God is omniscient and omnipotent, then he’s a schmuck for allowing so much pain and torture in the world.

A belief in an all-powerful God is irrational; the world is way too messy to be designed by a perfect being.

Jeff E. Jared

Kirkland

CIVILITY


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