Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Why Richard Dawkins is unwittingly counter productive to his crusade

Richard Dawkins, a Darwin disciple gone mad, is an escaped publicity monkey on the loose, swinging from lecture stage to lecture stage on the quest to convert the believers of “something” into believers of “nothing”. As a champion of atheism he believes he is taking the higher ground by trying to enlighten the irrational masses that take comfort in the belief of a deity. What Mr. Dawkins unwittingly overlooks is the fundamental flaw in his own logic. By adopting an anti-god or anti-theistic stance he identifies that which he is opposed to being conceptualized. In other words he unwittingly purports the conception of an entity that would otherwise be irrational to conceive. Instead of coming across as a skeptic, he ironically embraces the very ideology he opposes. This is not the crusade of a scientist like Galileo. Rather this is a crusade of a messianic madman bent on destroying the very human emotion of imagination by offering himself as the one to believe in.