Secularism

Question 1

Sec

Answer 1

• View religion should be separated from political keep private could have influence of vote. Dawkins Freud harmful

Question 2

Frued

Answer 2

• Bad for society irrational non thinking wishful fulfilment
• Neg influence people says come from childhood days
• Said if 11th amendment thou do not think give weak intellect encourages no think
• Dawkins compare to tooth fairy says unscientific makes people believe in faith not evidence faith is great opt out fear of earth
• Points to Thomas wouldn’t believe
• McGrath says rational Aquinas says misunderstands posterior demonstration with prior says causes conversion
• So, f and d say all religions irrational childish right as some opened are too blind but many believers rational use as guidance
• Atheistic lacks understanding science same as believer, so it doesn’t make no thinking compared to secularism
• Just because something reasonable doesn’t justify belief in it too extent base daily life needs evidence and D says many religion McGrath says all true but can’t. So is non thinking

Question 3

Harmful

Answer 3

• Regard those who don’t have faith as worthless – frued
• Encourage prejudice
• D agrees says Old Testament mysoginistic cause war but Jesus always good for society love thy neibour McGrath Salvation Army
• But this for those that don’t take it literally over Turing roe vs wade showes harm
• Harris says seven moderate dangerous as say respect it gives cover for extremism as harder to criticise

Question 4

Secular just as bad

Answer 4

• Can be equally or more harmful
• Hitler Stalin – war
• Stalin anti religious McGrath accept religion cause prob, but sec can to
• Humans capable both violence +moral excellence may be provoked by religion or worldwide views
• Pope Benedict – nazi extreme atheist says atheist says made Germany worse
• Not valid to judge all religion as extremism as equally bad so wouldn’t be better off
• Hitchens says argument not religion only cause says it makes only worse belief god on your side makes worse force multiplier
• Sam Harris says term atheist extremism no sense as not belief system has no extreme views but Stalin atheist and extreme not extreme atheist
• Freud argue secular humanism intrinsic value humans, but Benedict says leave hole in society without God no right/wrong – human opinion – Augustine
• 20th dictators facsim left hole B says western void says disobey if need but not total secularism so needs to give spiritual values but Harris as best countries live atheist so B and Benedict’s fail as no need religion to protect society as evidence says otherwise

Question 5

As a threat

Answer 5

• Diff types of it
• Archbishop rowan William pragmatic and procedural
• Prog threat stop preaching practice against biblical go make disciples all nations undermine beliefs
• FR ban symbols 2014 and hijab threat to Islam so to C but prog not common and UK so not threat

Question 6

Dawkins Freud

Answer 6

Dawkins
- Says irrational child abused stop them believing too extreme long history of improving loves so can be disproved so not a threat
Freud
- Says psychological neurosis father figure non thinking
- So, God without its Hume support says for uneducated ward says too reductionist doesn’t look at spiritual importance just physical so not threat
- RE miracles can’t disprove

Question 7

Is a threat

Answer 7

• When ask for religious instructions to be shut e.g British humanistic association ask to shut religious schools 1/3 without faith schools but Leslie Francis’s case study says teach tolerance large amount immigrant so many languages
• James Carey sate school teach to be cogs in machine, but religious giver higher purpose so not threat as many advocate for it
  Charles Taylor says for whole world history humans have regarded the divine as as an essential aspect life and secular is just phase need to steer away from