what???

I was just reading this article on FoxNews.com, which I generally like or can at least tolerate. The piece is an interview with Richard Dawkins, an atheist author. While reading it, I came across this little nugget (emphasis mine):

“O’REILLY: Well, here’s the problem that I have with throwing in my lot with science. Science doesn’t advance the human condition in any moralistic way, and Jesus did. See, my thesis is that if everybody followed the teachings of Jesus Christ, that we’d have peace on earth, love your brother, everybody would love one another, and we’d almost be an idyllic civilization. Now, am I 100 percent sure that Jesus is God? No. But I choose to believe that, because the man was so extraordinary in what he did in his 33 years on earth, still resonates to this day. That, I think, is more powerful than your belief that, “Hey, some day we might figure it all out but, in the meantime, we’re not going to believe in any deity.”

I included the entire comment so that this wouldn’t be taken out of context in any way, and I included the link so you can read it yourself.

 

Now, I don’t usually have any use for Bill O’Reilly’s show. I tend to think of him as simply enjoying the spotlight, not having anything particularly insightful to say. However, his comment simply blew me away. He goes on to talk about his ‘belief system’. His comment doesn’t seem to indicate any belief to me. I’m really unsure why this little snippet of an interview was published, but all it really did was show that the atheist has a much stronger ‘belief system’ than Mr. O’Reilly does.

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