Opening Ourselves by Opening the Science-Religion Debate

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8. Much like the "Refuse to Even Consider It" article posted from HuffPo a few days ago...

...here is yet another article by an author who can't seem to grasp that many atheists have and do consider ideas beyond their straw man version of atheism.

One of the HuffPo comments on the article says pretty well what I want to say here, and it echoes things I've said here many times before:

The problem with your view is that it makes God a non-factor. If you believe in that kind of God, it cannot really affect your life in any way. A God that is not like us, or anything we can imagine, or anything that exists, or even existence itself, is not a God that would hand down commandments, entomb himself in a human body to die on a cross, or insert himself into our daily lives. He is not love; he is not just or jealous. Living with that belief is, in practical terms, absolutely no different than living as an atheist. If that's the way you want to go, I'm fine with that, as an atheist. I think the churches may have a problem, though; a personal God is the key to the collection plate.

- Kenneth Knapp III