Surely now, this is it, once and for all. God is dead.
God never existed. God doesn’t exist. God as a concept is dead. There was no Adam and Eve, no Garden of Eden. The was no Noah’s Ark. God is dead – may the idea of Gods finally be laid to rest and let the world live in peace.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Imagine with John Lennon a world with no religion..
Richard Dawkins
Tread softly, because you tread on my memes..
Richard Dawkins
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Richard Dawkins’ new book is The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. This will be a great follow up to The Ancestor’s Tale – A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. I can barely wait. It is appropriate that it is published in the year of Darwin’s 200th birthday, and the 150th anniversary of his Origin of Species. Evolution is a fascinating subject* – where did we come from, who or what are we? This sort of knowledge can also help to dispel myths about our origins, which still prevail in many places and cultures on our planet in the 21st century, unfortunately.
*Anyone who doesn’t agree.. I am not going to say it. Here’s a link to Dawkins on YouTube
