Re: [asa] dawkins and unbelief (again)

There is no comparison between Dawkins, who believes that religious belief
is "irrational" in the worst possible sense, and Campolo, who believes with
many Christians and Jews that God is ultimately "above" or "beyond" reason
alone. Robt Boyle, e.g., wrote an entire treatise on "Things above Reason,"
even though he believed that Christianity was capable of rational defense.

It's one thing to claim that we can't really "know" God from reason alone;
it's another thing entirely, to claim that belief in God is just stupid.
Above reason is not the same thing as flatly contradictory to it.

Furthermore, as George Murphy would no doubt remind us (correctly, in my
view), borrowing from Pascal (a truly great Christian) the "god of the
philosophers is not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

ted

>>> Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> 04/02/07 3:43 PM >>>
At 03:31 PM 4/2/2007, Ted Davis wrote:

>As Liddle writes in another place, Dawkins' latest book is a
>"broadside against God and those who are stupid enough to believe in
>him, or her, or it."

@ Which came first, the Dawkins or the Campolo?

"..God is beyond the rational categories of thought. You can only
surrender to her, you got that?!" he proclaimed to applause. "That
little shift. He is beyond that. She is beyond that. God is a
presence. .." ~ Tony Campolo
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/RELEFTCO.TXT

~ Janice

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Received on Mon Apr 2 16:15:16 2007