“ ‘I believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, subject to further explanation’ is not a creed that’s prevalent in the Christian world,” Archwizard Rowan Dumbledore Williams has pronounced.
And that, you might say, sums up religion – the way it’s indulged in by most people, anyway. In other words, “I will not be swayed. It doesn’t matter what evidence you bring before me, my belief will remain immovable. My mind is closed.”
His words – if not the above interpretation – were uttered before an audience of about a thousand yesterday evening at the Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea, when he attacked the likes of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and their books The God Delusion and God is Not Great respectively.
Dumbledore told his critics, “Don’t distract us from the real arguments by assuming that religion is an eccentric survival strategy or irrational form of explanation.”
Tee-hee!
And just what are the “real arguments”? And how do you define “rational”? And, when you’ve defined it, tell us what a rational form of explanation would be, based on your holy books, for something about which – and this contributor rambled on a bit about it yesterday (click here or scroll down a bit) – there’s a lot of interpreting going on.
You can read versions of the story of Dumbledore’s Denunciation of the Damned here, here and here.
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