The God Delusion and The Virus of Faith

Nov 10, 2006 23:23

Richard Dawkins is my hero. Even moreso than Keith Olbermann. This is a two-part documentary called "The Root of All Evil?" It's long...nearly two hours in its entirety, but it's easily paused. I've included some quotes to try to entice you to watch it. Please, watch it. And please, respond to this post; if this infuriates you, I want to ( Read more... )

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biteduringclass November 11 2006, 20:31:59 UTC
What can I say? Other than I have no problem with organized religion. People can believe whatever they want as long as they are happy with it.
After all, like "pro-choice" reasoning, it is their life choice, not mine.

~mon~

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dopaminergic November 11 2006, 20:55:01 UTC
Um, did you even watch the videos? Are you saying that it is okay for people, like the Muslim he interviews near the end of the first video, to teach their children to hate and kill non-Muslims? It sure as fuck makes them happy to kill the infidels, but how is that okay, just because it makes them happy? And why is it okay that fundamentalist Christians and Jews teach their children--who don't know any better (he explains the biology of the child brain quite well in the second video) that the earth is only 5000 years old?

And you should care a whole lot about the "life choices" of the extremist Christians, Jews, and Muslims, as their ranks are becoming the majority rather than the minority, and they'd love to kill you and me both, and most everyone that we know, and it would make them happy...but that makes it okay?

I just don't understand it. At all. Please help me understand.

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biteduringclass November 11 2006, 20:32:36 UTC
PS: ghey.

*giggle*

~mon~

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For me... scottyrox November 14 2006, 00:33:08 UTC
I think its fine that people believe whatever they want, as long as their beliefs do not have any negative impact upon others, specifically reducing any human right. Of course, its extremely hard to label impacts as being negative or positive, since the domino effect is always present. Example - Missionaries who have decided to spend a portion of their lives improving the lives of others (with or without the sharing of faith) certainly have a positive impact. But I can think of negative impacts as well. Simply, I don't think its a particularly sound or valuable statement to group all of the faith community into one bunch, and then point to the worst of each portion. The narrator didn't address the other major (and much larger religions) which simply do not have hardly any negative track records ( ... )

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