http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/10/10/worlds-leading-atheist-now-believes-in-god/
For the past half century, the leading atheist in the world was philosopher Anthony Flew. He wrote over 30 philosophical works laying the intellectual groundwork for nonbelief. He debated Christian apologists. He was widely cited in atheist literature and at atheist conventions. What distinguished Flew was how comprehensive and fully-developed his atheist philosophy was. Other philosophers, such as Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger, espoused atheist beliefs but those beliefs were incidental to their philosophy. Atheism was Flew’s philosophy. HIs works such as Theology and Falsification and The Presumption of Atheism were considered classics of theist thought.Then Anthony Flew became a believer, and his book There Is A God describes his intellectual journey…
OK, so the World’s leading Atheist? Ummm… What about Dawkins? O’Hair? Robertson? Was there a vote? Did we all elect someone?And… didn’t we hear about this years ago? And isn’t Flew much more of a deist than a Christian (you wouldn’t know it from this article)?
Justme
This isn’t a football game. Religion is THE major tool of our government and the obscenely rich. The tool is principally used to divide and conquer those that might resist their agenda and manipulate one into acting against one’s self interests. There would be very few US kids enlisting in the US military today if this were not so.
What
Sorry, I should have put a smiley at the end to indicate I wasn’t serious…..
To further my non-seriousness, can we not make it 2:1 in favor of atheism (former evangelical Christian minister co-hosting “Godless infidels” talkshow):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300719,00.html
8^)
what is god?
phreedm why do you have such a case against spanders.this is not china no one is forced to get an abortion
if there is high abortion rate maybe churchs should be trying harder to convince members not to have sex outside of marriage.
Justme
No apology necessary. I’m just in an bad mood today.
The fact that Flew changed his mind without credible evidence speaks volumes. He’s nearing the end of his life and the brainwashing he received as a child (check out his Wikipedia bio, he was a thoroughly involved in the cult) was never fully expunged. He has fear now, so he’s doing some last minute bet-hedging. What a freaking wimp.