Natan Sharansky resigned in “protest” over the Gaza withdrawal. Good riddance, I say, to the S.O.B. I was going to do an harangue about some of Sharansky’s parting words. But then I began to think: I’m starting to sound like a kvetchy crank.
So instead I decided to post this refreshing interview with Richard Dawkins. I don’t agree 100% with everything he says But Dawkins’ unyielding intellectual integrity serves as a refreshing wind, blowing away the the nauseating stench of hypocrisy coming from the slimy politician Natan Sharansky.
“How would we be better off without religion? We’d all be freed to concentrate on the only life we are ever going to have. We’d be free to exult in the privilege — the remarkable good fortune — that each one of us enjoys through having been being born. An astronomically overwhelming majority of the people who could be born never will be. You are one of the tiny minority whose number came up. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. The world would be a better place if we all had this positive attitude to life. It would also be a better place if morality was all about doing good to others and refraining from hurting them, rather than religion’s morbid obsession with private sin and the evils of sexual enjoyment.” [view the ad to read the article]