Richard Dawkins's Faith And Religion

Richard Dawkins Article Richard Dawkins believes faith and religion are dangerous because they are viral and lead people to believe irrational ideas that can be perverted to discriminate against others. He is correct because religion is based on faith which is blind to reason, religion is too open to interpretation and thus too easy to pervert, and it is viral and easy to spread in its nature. Blind faith is extremely dangerous because it can lead almost anyone to believe something unwaveringly, whether it is good or bad. When coupled with the openness of religion to interpretation, faith in discriminating and harmful beliefs can lead to hard-to-negotiable conflicts. Add the ability of these belief systems to spread and a danger to society

Conflicts that arise due to faith in different things cannot be resolved except for accepting each other’s differences (which very rarely happens in the real world). Blind faith is dangerous because it is very hard to persuade people against certain beliefs when they base their justification in irrational things like all-powerful deities. Think of Catholics that denounce science and insist on teaching things like abstinence and creationism in schools. There is almost no way to persuade them that science is true because they would denounce it saying it was all God’s design or, in the case of abstinence, that interfering with God’s design by having sex with a condom is considered a sin. Having a doctrine based in irrationality throws out all logic and reasoning that science can provide for society and is a danger since throwing out science also means throwing out necessary items like health care, vaccinations, and a basic, factual understanding of the physical world. Religion is too dependent on blind faith to benefit society, and Dawkins is right in saying religion and faith is

Religion doctrine discusses having pleasure in converting others to one’s religion because it supposedly saves others. As well, most religions talk about an afterlife or give ‘answers’ to questions like death and unexplainable circumstances (also known as miracles). It also promises an eternal life to people that are good (read: follow their religion’s doctrines). Religion also seems to serve justice in a fail-safe way by sending those who sin to hell and those who follow doctrine to heaven. Such appealing ideas of justice and eternal life, if you just follow the rules, are very easy to become viral if done correctly, Dawkins correctly