A New Inquisition is already here

17 September, 2008


A couple of months ago I called attention to the fact that some of the foremost - self called- atheists were walking through a ver thin line: their discourse smelling too much to old scents that we know all too well.

My suspicions are coming true, day by day more.People like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are carrying on a discourse that each day resembles more what they are trying to fight against.Perhaps this is the inevitable faith of outright opposition, namely, to make you "enemy" stronger, many times transforming yourself into the same thing you hate, no matter how disguised this could be presented.

We are on the verge of a New Inquisition: the Inquisition of the all-knowing-scientists and die-hard rationalists that simply pretend to negate anything that do not match their pretentious, all-embracing Weltaunschaung.One remembers with certain nostalgia men like Alan Watts or Aldous Huxley...But all this at last comes to the same: thriving for power; to have the last word; to impose oneself over the other human being; to exert authority.

And last but not least:What the heck know Mr.Dawkins and Mr.Harris about God's existence or God's inexistence? They cannot know anything about it. Talking too much about that gives us a clue about their true state of mind...To talk against organized religion is one thing. To go beyond that is just sheer madness.

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