RED PEN LOGIC: Should ‘Religious People’ Impose Their Morality Through the Law?
Did you hear about the tweet posted recently by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science? According to Dr. Tim Barnett, the “Mr. B” behind Stand to Reason’s Red Pen Logic videos, religious people were invited to keep their beliefs to themselves whenever they feel the urge to comment on issues in the public square.
Should religious people keep their mouths shut about politics? Really?
Dawkins foundation isn’t the first and won’t be the last to make the argument that, because there are so many different faith-based religious perspectives about what is right and wrong, it is wrong for any of them to impose their particular views on everybody through the government. In other words, laws should be “evidence-based,” not faith-based.
But what if that view is shot through with illogic, contradictions and self-serving? Mr. B opens the following 6:29 video with the claim the Dawkins foundation’s X message was based on “little reason and no science.” Allow him to explain:
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