Richard Dawkins Again Refuses Debate With Christian Apologist William Craig

And if the Catholics had simply converted to Protestantism, the Protestants would not have to persecute them.
And if the Protestants had simply converted to Catholicism, the Catholics would not have to persecute them.


Riiight.

 

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But perhaps they don't experience any cognitive dissonance.

I think it is possible that they genuinely believe they are God's chosen people - and that thus, others have to bow to them (or flee from them, or let themselves be killed by them).


There is a segment of the Western population who grew up to believe that all humans are really vulnerable, that anger is an expression of insecurity, that the desire to control others is also an expression of insecurity and such.

But perhaps these beliefs are unrealistic. Perhaps some people do not feel vulnerable at all. Perhaps some people are angry - but not insecure. Perhaps some people make an effort to control others, and it is not out of their own insecurity, but out of a conviction that they are entitled to control others.

Naturalist science teaches that life is a struggle for survival. Why wouldn't the same struggle for survival take place among humans, on a daily basis?

 

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