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Divine Devolution

Robert Wright thinks God is okay, as long as he behaves like a secular humanist.

Dinesh D'Souza | posted 7/07/2009 09:01AM

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Posted: July 10, 2009 2:29 PM


I agree totally with Gary G. Saves me some time writing!

Tom Tomshany

Posted: July 10, 2009 7:55 AM

As a teacher, whatever situation I encounter, even those things that might be embarrassing or challenging or threatening to me, I ask, "Can we learn something from this? Can we make it an opportunity to learn?" The challenge in Wright's book, as described by D'Souza, is "going back" and looking at the radical and revolutionary ideas of Love introduced to the Middle East by Jesus of Nazareth. Not only was Jesus a Model of Compassion, he was deceptively clever. His insistence upon individual salvation through loving others as ourselves, of forgiving others as we hope God will forgive us, of personal sacrifice to help those in need offers not only salvation for us, but a radical transformation of society. Sadly, Christendom has often ignored Jesus's admonitions. Wright and D'Souza need to distinguish Core beliefs from Core believers. Our Friend Kiekegaard warned us that "disciples distort." Science and scholarship are critical tools in our evolution, but Jesus's radical Love is essential.

SteveA

Posted: July 09, 2009 10:36 AM

I think it is interesting how the word "evolution" gets used in various contexts. Wright's use of it to talk about the change of over time of views of various groups of people about something (God/religion/faith) has NOTHING to do with the idea of biological, Darwinian evolution driven by natural selection and random mutation. But, no doubt, it was used to evoke the idea of Darwinian evolution and the common conflict between proponents of Darwinian evolution and various believers, and to imply some synthesis to overcome (or render irrelevant) that conflict. It seems fundamentally dishonest to me.

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