Sunday, October 22, 2006
Delusions of The God Delusion
I'm so refreshed to read this article by Terry Eagleton laying bare the faults of Richard Dawkin's book The God Delusion. Faith is hard enough without being misunderstood....and Richard Dawkins has made a career out of slamming Christians for believing things that, well, many of us don't. I'm sure many people in the church and elsewhere do have incoherent and even damaging views of God, even of misidentifying God with the attributes of the Hebrew Satan or the Accuser. This also appears to be Dawkins mistake too. What's so great about this essay is that it takes the debate away from the right or wrongs of the logic about 'God' and thinks about the idea of 'God' itself, a journey so many of us have taken.
