A theory about Star Wars & Christianity - Lawrence Krauss & William Lane Craig

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Published on 6 Apr 2014

I have a theory about Star Wars & Christianity. Things are coming together now. Here's the premise. The Jedi Knights are atheists. The Dark Side of the Force is the religion of Christianity. The Sith Lord is the God of the Bible. Anakin Skywalker is the posterboy for Dark Side of the Force, and becoming it's ultimate victim. Here's a few facts I just thought of right now:

1. Sye Ten Bruggengate recently said after his debate with Matt Dillahunty that Jesus said that you are either with me or you are against me. Anakin says those exact same words to Obi Won just before their epic duel.

2. Anakin was a rational, level headed person as a Jedi, but when he converted, he became insane and crazy. Christians are the exact same way. Before many became Christians(Mostly Born Agains), they were respectable and likable. Now they have become "Damaged Human Beings" just like Anakin.

3. Anakin turned to the Dark Side because he feared death. Granted he feared the death of his wife, the Sith Lord made an empty promise to Anakin that he can allow her to live forever if he turned to the Dark Side. Most people who are deeply into Christianity (Dark Side of the Force) are brainwashed into believing that death does not exist in their worldview. They truly gave up logic & free thinking abilities in exchange for hope of eternal life.

4. In the end, Anakin became to be Darth Vader, a damaged human being with severe mental illness.

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I'm a Catholic, and I have a confession: I love Richard Dawkins – Telegraph Blogs

I'm a Catholic, and I have a confession: I love Richard Dawkins – Telegraph Blogs:

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Richard Dawkins: splendidly eccentric campaigner against offendeditis

I love Richard Dawkins. I think his whole God-bashing thing is a load of rubbish and based on faulty arguments, but being a fan of JC and a member of “the world’s second most evil religion”, I’m bound to say that.

When I was a young teenager I remember reading The Selfish Geneand it having a profound influence on the way I saw the world; one of the best books of our age. It may well have influenced my politics, presenting an essentially conservative view of nature (that he felt the need to write in the introduction how he supported the Labour Party only illustrated how conservative the book was – but maybe I was misreading it).

Why someone who writes such fantastic biology books would then want to go into polemic is anyone’s guess, but I suppose he’s got a bee in his bonnet about religion.

Despite this, Dawkins makes me feel proud to be British; not because he’s won the Prospect thinker of the year award, but his sheer eccentricity. His Twitter feed yesterday was a great example:

Socks, unlike shoes, lack chirality. Tell Marks & Spencer. Alternative solution: Australian friend wears odd socks as fashion statement.

Stephen Potter recommended odd socks as "Woomanship" ploy to arouse female maternal instincts. Advertised own patent Oddsox brand.

Puzzle why my left shoes always wear out before right. Do I run rings round my opponents?

Does sir hang to the left? Sorry, dress to the left?

Madness. This from one of the finest biologists of our age! (Professor D also reads out his hate mail on YouTube – highly recommended.) And when not discussing socks, he’s arguing about religion with all comers on the social networking site.

But to some of his supporters, Dawkins’s outbursts have become a bit of an embarrassment, an argument for elderly gentlemen not being allowed near iPhones. Among his latest outpourings he questioned why the New Statesman employed a Muslim journalist, when he believes that a man flew to Jerusalem on a horse.

What’s weak about his argument is that he’s assuming that people are necessarily rational, when they’re not; if you removed everyone who held irrational beliefs, then most publications would struggle to fill their offices. Election counts would be very short indeed. I’m not just talking about all the people who believe in stuff like American involvement in 9/11 – a large number – but those who believe in political ideas and worldviews even though the evidence is freely available discrediting them. I’d be very surprised if Professor Dawkins was free of irrationality; let he who is without sin cast the first stone and everything.

What’s strange is that so many people who had nothing to say to years of Dawkins slamming Christianity now act offended that he’s criticising Islam more vocally. There’s even this absurd recent argument over whether New Atheism is “Islamophobic”. The man dislikes all religion; he wrote a book called “The God Delusion” – the key’s in the title!

In a sense Professor Dawkins is, and has always been, railing not just against religious faith but the associated problem of offendeditis; you can’t say this about my religion because it offends me. He’s certainly right in that no one would take seriously some beliefs if they were not attached to a faith. Besides which, academics should be allowed to push the boundaries of accepted opinion, because their job is to search for the truth, and whether something is offensive or not is irrelevant to its truthfulness.

The problem with the decline of Christianity is not that it’s left nothing sacred, but that it’s left everything sacred. Offendeditis, whether it’s over religion, race, sex or sexuality, is the curse of our age, dragging down every debate to the level of the schoolyard. (I’ve stopped watchingQuestion Time until they introduce a system whereby anyone who acts “outraged” – “as the child of a single mother I can’t believe I’m hearing this” etc etc – should be sent into a sin bin until they can come up with a rational argument.)

The older I get the more I conclude that Basil Fawlty’s analysis of Nazi Germany is essentially true: “A lot of layabouts with nothing better to do than to cause trouble.” So Professor Dawkins can say all he likes about the Catholic Church and the Pope. I think there’s something insanely heroic about him.

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'Death anxiety' prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution, study suggests -- ScienceDaily

'Death anxiety' prompts people to believe in intelligent design, reject evolution, study suggests -- ScienceDaily:



Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) have found that people's 'death anxiety' can influence them to support theories of intelligent design and reject evolutionary theory.

Existential anxiety also prompted people to report increased liking for Michael Behe, intelligent design's main proponent, and increased disliking for evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

The lead author is UBC Psychology Asst. Prof. Jessica Tracy with co-authors Joshua Hart, assistant professor of psychology at Union College, and UBC psychology PhD student Jason Martens.

Published in the March 30 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, their paper is the first to examine the implicit psychological motives that underpin one of the most heated debates in North America. Despite scientific consensus that intelligent design theory is inherently unscientific, 25 per cent of high school biology teachers in the U.S. devote at least some class time to the topic of intelligent design. And in Canada, for example, Alberta passed a law in 2009 that may allow parents to remove children from courses covering evolution.

British evolutionary biologist Prof. Dawkins, like the majority of scientists, argues that life's origins are best explained by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. However, intelligent design advocates such as Prof. Behe, a U.S. author and biochemist, assert that complex biochemical and cellular structures are too complex to be explained by evolutionary mechanisms and should be attributed to a supernatural creator.

"Our results suggest that when confronted with existential concerns, people respond by searching for a sense of meaning and purpose in life," says Tracy. "For many, it appears that evolutionary theory doesn't offer enough of a compelling answer to deal with these big questions."

The researchers carried out five studies with 1,674 U.S. and Canadian participants of different ages and a broad range of educational, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds.

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Christianity.... The belief that a
cosmic Jewish Zombie, who was His own father, can make you live forever
if you eat crackers and wine (that then turn into His flesh) while
telepathically telling Him that you accept Him as your Master so He can
remove an evil force from your soul that is present because a rib-woman
was convinced by a talking snake to eat the forbidden fruit of a magical
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