Alex, you laud the BBC for “daring to offer the viewer/listener a variety of opinions”. That’s the problem – it doesn’t. Like our ABC, it fails in its charter to present a balanced program. It presents a very biased, left-leaning, “progressive” program. As the Catholic Herald article puts it:”The old moral code is difficult to live up to; its stern injunctions run counter to human instinct in every respect. It calls for self-restraint and self-abnegation and does so in the name of a higher power. That’s why people find it difficult, and why many don’t like it. Mr Dawkins’s alternative Ten Commandments, as listed in The God Delusion, have the great advantage of not being at all irksome – they are, in fact, a very agreeable and flexible set of rules which allow an individual to do pretty much what they want.”
The easy way out, that is, or as Saint Paul put it:“There will come a time when they will not endure sound doctrines, but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own desires, and will be turned away from truth into fables.” [2 Tim 4:3-4]
Having an open mind is one thing, but leaving it open to fables is something else again.
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