Is religion better than atheism as a coping mechanism?
We obviously do not agree with this article, but we do find it helpful to understand how some people are thinking. This article does identify an aspect of human need that only God Himself, not religion, can meet. (KSchaal)
Many of us have been there in darker moments: You hadn’t crossed the threshold of a church in ages but suddenly you find yourself starting a conversation with God.Stephen Asma knows the feeling. “I’m an agnostic and a citizen of a wealthy nation, but when my own son was in the emergency room with an illness, I prayed spontaneously,” he confesses.Asma, a professor of philosophy at Columbia College, Chicago, has written a powerful response to New Atheists in his book Why We Need Religion (Oxford University Press). Of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, he says: “I agree with them that religion fails miserably at the bar of rational validity, but we’re at the wrong bar.” Religion is not necessarily meant to be true, he argues, but it’s meant to be useful.
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