Posted by OT2 on May 18, 2011 at 17:10:19
In Reply to: Re: Is Radical Islam a Cult? posted by long time exer on March 20, 2011 at 13:33:31:
LTE:
I used to be of the same opinion and did "think our world would be better off with no religion at all", as you said you currently do.
Having thought that through for many years, since my first two years at university, here are some article titles and links you might want to reconsider on the subject(s).
If you want more rigorous treatments (highly technical philosophical articles, I would research the writings of William Lane Graig, and/or Professor Alvin Plantinga. Much of what they have to say is truly inarguable.
Arguments don't win people's souls, though. IMHO, that is something only God can do, through loving and humbly yielded people--yielded to Him alone; that is.
Here are the article names and links, for more leisurely perusal and contemplation (that, I have found, can generally generate more light than just heat ;-) ):
So, How Many People has Religion Killed?
or Death by Atheism / Death by Government?
http://www.theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Pl/DthByAthsm.htm#COMMENT
Religion has caused more deaths than secular science, or atheism?
http://yecheadquarters.org/?p=368
Exploding the False Claims of the New Atheists
November 2008 By Anne Barbeau Gardiner
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/reviews.jsp?did=1108-gardiner
With kind regards,
OT2