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VIVAnews – these groups claim to not believe God, deny the religion. But the surprising news came from atheists London, they will build a sort of Shrine.
However, the plan to build a temple worth 1 million pounds of bank buildings and Medieval churches in the capital of the United Kingdom that it sparked a clash between two groups in the United Kingdom’s leading atheist.
Was a philosopher and author Alain de Botton, who had the idea of the construction of the temple. He said the 46-meter-tall tower to celebrate the “new atheism” (new atheism), as a denial of physical behavior of Professor Richard Dawkins who made those atheist Gets a stamp “aggressive” and “destructive”.
De Botton said, the establishment of the temple is much better, rather than being aggressive, for example turning the attacks on religions.
“Normally, the temple was founded to the Virgin Mary, Jesus, or Buddha, but You can set up separate shrines for anything positive and good,” said he, like loaded Guardian, Thursday January 26, 2012. “It could mean the Temple of love, friendship, peace or symbolic perspective. Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens makes atheism is known as a destructive force. We would like to point out, there are plenty of atheists who had behaved aggressively in religion. “
Previously, Richard Dawkins criticized the temple construction project, point out a matter of abuse of large amounts of money. According to him, the atheist, is a contradiction in terms.
“Atheist does not need a temple,” said he. “I think, there are many better things to spend money for it. If you are going to spend money to atheism, was able to expand the way secular education and build schools that teach non-religious rational, critical thinking, skepticism. “
A feud ensued when de Botton revealed details of the tower building of the shrine, which represents 300 million years of life on Earth. Each centimeternya depicts the life of the Earth, gold will illustrate the number of strokes a relatively small, in which men walking on the Earth. Meanwhile, eksteriornya will be decorated with binary code that shows the sequence of the human genome.
De Botton said, he got almost half of the cost of a number of entrepreneurs who concealed the name property. He hopes will get the rest of the money from the public. Construction will begin end of 2013, if the permission of the Coorporation of London down.
This temple has a single door to the visitors feel like entering an installation art. The roof of the building is made open. Fossils and geological rocks will adorn the walls of the betonnya.
Intention de Botton received responses from the priest. Anglican clergyman, George Pitcher welcomed the idea of it. “He is referring to the human sense of transcendence, that there is something more powerful, larger than our existence,” said Pitcher.
He added, to build a monument shows a symbol, that humans are nothing more than dust. The instinct comes from religion, secularity or narrative are essentially the same.

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