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MEMBERS AND VISITORS SHARE EXPERIENCES AND OPINIONS
This is essentially a space where members and visitors will be able to share currently relevant experiences and opinions relating to inter-religious friendship and goodwill. It will not, however, be a full-blown “blog,” since its contents will change only once a month at the most. To contribute a piece to this page, please send it kyotocosmosclub@hotmail.com. Contributions should not exceed three double-spaced pages. Our Board of Advisors reserves the right to accept or reject material in accord with our purpose and judgment. Your contribution may be edited to fit allotted space.
Opinion on Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion
By Morris J. Augustine, Ph.D
Regarding Richard Dawkins’ recent best selling work, The God Delusion, I regret to have to offer the opinion that the author totally ignores the immense amount of good that religion does and that his work is basically an emotional attack on the worst aspects of religion. He does not prove what he sets out to prove: that religion is almost certainly a false and very harmful delusion. I do genuinely regret this, because I agree wholeheartedly with him that those worst elements of religion that he describes so well do in fact richly deserve to be spotlighted. [more]