To a question posed by a w:Liberty University student (in the spirit of w:Pascals wager) at his God Delusion book tour stop at w:Randolph College on 2006-10-23: What if youre wrong? Richard Dawkins: Well, what if Im wrong, I mean... anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong about the w:Flying Spaghetti Monster and the w:Pink Unicorn and the flying teapot. Uhm, you happen to have been brought up, I would presume, in the Christian faith. You know what its like to not believe in a particular faith because youre not a Muslim. Youre not a Hindu. Why arent you a Hindu? Because you happen to have been brought up in America, not in India. If you had of been brought up in India, youd be a Hindu. If you had been brought up in... in uh.. Denmark in the time of the Vikings youd be believing in w:Wotan and w:Thor. If you were brought up in classical Greece youd be believing in, in w:Zeus. If you were brought up in central Africa youd be believing in the great w:Juju up the mountain. Theres no particular reason to pick on the Judeo-Christian god, in which by the sheerest accident you happen to have been brought up and, and ask me the question, What if Im wrong? What if youre wrong about the great Juju at the bottom of the sea?
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:53:51 +0000
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