Re: RE: Re: [asa] truth with love award

Just as a matter of interest ...

Would anyone nominate Richard Dawkins for a "Truth with love" award? He
certainly has the passion for his subject, and a capacity for awe.

And when it comes to Turkel/Janice/Jonathan Sarfati style rebukes and
ridicule of opponents ... well, he's a past master of it ;-)

Joking aside, here is an author who cares passionately about the truth (or
what he sees as the truth). He seems to genuinely believe that religion is
the source of all evil and wants to rid the world of it. Furthermore, he
actually thinks we should rebel against our "selfish genes" and act
altruistically against the evolutionary imperative not to. I think it's
Francis Collins in his book (I've certainly read it recently) who points out
that Dawkins himself is inextricably bound up with the Moral Law because of
this. Dawkins is, I believe also, a generous donator to charity and
disaster funds. As well as "exposing" Christianity (which I'm obviously not
keen on), he has also done a lot towards exposing the quackery &
pseudoscience of much of alternative medicine (which I am keen on, seeing
how much some of my friends have been conned by it).

Perhaps if not an award, Dawkins merits an honorable mention.

Feminized Iain.

On 7/30/06, Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/30/06, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:
> > "The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1 John
> 4:8. How can we define what love is if we cannot "define" what God is?
> >
> >
> > Moorad
>
> The answer is found in the following context, particularly verse 12.
>
> 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only
> Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not
> that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning
> sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also
> ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love
> one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
>

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