No Accommodation

This is in response to an article which can be found at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pete-enns-phd/does-god-talk-to-us-throu_b_637765.html

You said, "Conservative Christians have pretty much learned their lesson from Galileo: you can't count on the Bible to answer scientific questions.

" Well, advocates of intelligent design and bible based antipathy toward homosexuals certainly have not learned that lesson. And as for atheists thinking the bible is stupid, I am an atheist and I don't think it's stupid. I think it is inherently dangerous however and has a long history of being wielded like a club by its adherents. Since any concept of god is and must be a mental figment, as the bible itself in places tries to warn, what is really going on is not god worship but book worship. Some books are dangerous because of what people do with them and what they do to people. Both common sense and the instinct for self-preservation should cause us to side with the atheists, Hitchens in particular, when he says, religion poisons everything. Without religion the bible becomes a resource for the objective study of how our predecessors interpreted their world and tried to make sense of it. With religion it becomes a manual for an entire alphabet of horrors. Apologists and accommodationists are naive at best and at worse provide support for an impoverished way of thinking that has rained misery and cataclysm upon us for far too long. Leaving the magic-fantasy thinkers unchallenged damages everyone. They are victims too. Made as they've become before their reasoning faculties could mature.