Firstly, it only gives one side of the story of the anti war views because the source says "I WANT OUT". This shows that America is battered and bruised because it doesn't say anything about people who supported the war. The representation is also not objective because it has a emotional tone to it so the image of America would make many people feel sorry for America so it makes them pull out of the
Comparing my religion to a fairy-tale is like insulting my race or intelligence; I am obviously not going to take it very well. I found certain thing about his “documentary” offensive. First of all I do not dislike Bill Maher, so it is only fair that I could have an opinion about his movie. I enjoyed his documentary like movie in which he was set out to question people about their religion. That being said anyone who is religious would feel uncomfortable while watching “Religulous”.
Atheism is often mistaken for the lack of belief in God, yet this could encompass certain Humanists, Agnostics or even children that have not yet been faced with the idea of God. Atheism is a post enlightenment European movement that flourished with the cult of individualism of the new era. It has no sacred text, revelation or set belief system and so it is impossible to group Atheists into a unified group. The only shared factor between Atheists is the disbelief in a God. Being an Atheist will influence an individual’s aspirations and behaviour, and will do so independently from individual to individual, generally however, Atheism will influence similarly.
Don't Get Me Started On- Irrational Beliefs Faith is highly anachronistic aspect of the world today. . Science changes it's views based on what is observed in order to create the best model to explain the world around us, whereas religion is the denial of the said observations in order to preserve an irrational belief. Christianity for example, is based on a book written around 2,000 years ago. The genesis story alone supplies more than enough theoretical fuel to keep an atheist's argument burning.
Response to Article: On Being an Atheist Cassandra Craig PHIL 201 Liberty University Reading the article ‘On Being an Atheist’ by H. J. McCloskey, was an invaluable experience in considering the views of an atheist concerning his beliefs about God, the universe, evil and suffering. This is the kind of article that may assist people in avoiding what Socrates spoke of in earlier lessons in philosophy as an unexamined life. Even if a person doesn’t agree with McCloskey’s views, you are prompted to think about many issues, what you are doing, what you believe and why, also investing time reflecting on what life is all about. Considering that McCloskey most likely gave a lot of thought to the above issues, he was overall very narrow minded in the way he talked about theism, he implies that proofs for theism should be abandoned, and says the evil that is in the world is one of the main reasons; “It is because evil exists that we believe God does not exist” (McCloskey, 1968, p. 52). In view of the PointeCast presentation, theistic arguments determine the best explanation for and not proof of, God’s existence, while considering the complexity and cause of the universe; and morality.
The World: One Quarter Terrorist The article “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America” by Eliyahu Ster is a short, general article about how a high percentage of people in America believe that at least some, if not all, of the Shariah Law should be prohibited in the United States because it poses a threat to the American people. Ster, an assistant professor of religious studies and history at Yale, also compares the treatment of American Muslims to that of Jews in the 19th century Europe throughout the article. The author is definitely against discrimination of any kind toward Muslims and thinks taking away their religious rights “ignores our country’s successful history of religious tolerance and assimilation.” When reading the article, I could not stop thinking to myself, “are there really that many people out there in the United States that do not have the same stand on this issue as this author?” The fact that people are
Some atheists and agnostics argue to remove "in God we trust" from our currency. Conservatives on the religious right work for prayer in our public schools. Secularists fear religious zealotry, and believers abhor moral anarchy. In this popular level historical overview of the relationship between church and state, religion and politics, Jon Meacham, the managing editor of Newsweek and a practicing Christian, argues against both extremes. There is, he insists, a well-defined historical common middle ground, what he calls a "sensible center," that best serves the many and varied interests of our country.
It is doubtful that Darrow was as white or Bryan as black, or even Scopes himself as absolutely ignorant and innocent in resolute belief as is depicted. Characters such as the newspaper reporter and Scopes’ love interest have been given more ‘spirit’ to help the plot through. This, however, opened up the film to possibilities of backlash. It is fairer to approach the criticism, perhaps, in the words of the critics themselves. Robert Harsh, for example, declares in ‘Exposing the Lie: Inherit the Wind’ that "Christians, particularly William Jennings Bryan, are consistently lampooned throughout, while the skeptics and agnostics are consistently portrayed as intelligent, kindly, and even heroic.
They only believe what they see. Their belief is not sustained by literature theory as from the Bible. “The scriptural geologists were not opposed to geological facts, but to the old-earth interpretations of those facts. And they argued that old-earth interpretations were based on anti-biblical philosophical assumptions, and in this they were correct. Buffon was a deist or secret atheist,12 as were Lamarck13 and Hutton.14 Laplace was an open atheist.15Werner,16 Cuvier,17 Smith18 and Lyell19 were probably deists or some sort of vague theists.
“Evolution”. There is a mistaken belief that atheists are shut off from any experience of mystery in the world, and that this too makes them flat and cold. But atheists don’t give adoration for life with their belief in God, nor do they cease to feel animated by power and beauty of creation, because they stand in doubt of its purported creator. To be fair, the atheists have their own issue to confront. They are not the devils of the religious landscape just because they have no belief in a God yet neither are they its angels Here we look at Rebecca Elson’s poem “Evolution”.