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Challenging Irreligion
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| I turn the tables on the atheist and on the agnostic. | |
| I say, wait a minute. | |
| You ask me if when I look at human suffering, I ever doubt God's existence. | |
| Fair question, answer, yes. | |
| But I ask you, you the agnostic or you the atheist, you the irreligious, do you ever see human beauty? | |
| Do you ever see the birth of a child and doubt your atheism? | |
| Doubt your irreligiosity? | |
| It's a very interesting thing in our world today. | |
| The only people who are supposed to question themselves are religious people. | |
| Irreligious people are never asked to challenge themselves. | |
| Isn't that interesting? | |
| You never hear that, do you? | |
| You ever challenge your secularism? | |
| Never! Never! | |
| It's a non-issue. | |
| If you believe in God, you're supposed to challenge yourself all the time. | |
| Religious people, gee, they're brainwashed. | |
| As if secular people aren't brainwashed. | |
| I assure you that I had more openness to secularism in my yeshiva-closed world than there was openness to religion at your child's university. | |
| The secular world is far more closed in America today and in much of the Western world today than is the religious world. | |
| At least there are arguments given in both directions at most religious institutions. | |
| Because they have to grapple with the secular challenge. | |
| You never hear the secular challenge grappled with at Harvard or at Stanford or, for that matter, at UNLV. | |
| It's just not an issue. | |
| It's so taken for granted that God is a non-issue, religion is a non-issue, that people don't even bother making up intellectual arguments for it. | |
| I think the intellectual arguments, the rational case for God, is stronger. | |