HEPPY EASTER

[Howard Stinks]

Heppy Easter to you folks WTF is all this crap doing here?

[J.W. Frogen]

He and Dawkins are beacons of reason and sanity in an ocean of hysterical religious bullshit.

I suspect by "He" you meant to write Hitchens? Or should have.

Dawkin's approach to religion is as much emotive as it is rational, his simplification (and yours) of a universal cultural phenomenon with childish analogies such as the Tooth Fairy reveals Dawkins has never thought seriously about why religion has been ever present in human culture . Dawkins is doing little more than stomping his feet and saying, "I don’t want religion, I don’t want it, I don’t want it."


One reason why Dawkins will go to his grave perplexed that religion still exists and is every bit as powerful an influence on human culture, everywhere, as religion has been since there has been culture.

[J.W. Frogen]

The doctor recommends a strong dose of Joseph Campbell.

Campbell makes the best case that religion and myth are deeply rooted in a universal human need that is never going to be rationalized away.

If one understands this they may be able to tame the more superstitious and objectionable aspects of religion and hone in on the universal psychological human instincts religion is born from, feeds, and satisfies.