Monday, October 23, 2006
Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil
| Calling religion the root of all evil is bold in today's age: one automatically turns the majority of the world against oneself. This is a two part series in which Ricahrd Dawkins examines religion as it stands in today's deeply religious America. He travels to Israel and Palestine territories. In some segments he comes of as an evanagalist for Athiesm. I say this not in a bad way. I hold Dawkins with the highest regards but my skeptisicm( of his approach, not athiesm) is deeply rooted in the way most athiests like me view many religions: live and let live. We are unlike people in airports trying to convert you, trying to spread the word of god. We do not care if the other person believes in Jesus, Allah, Rama or the FSM. We know we are right but do not see the harm caused by people living in delusion. We think it's infringing on the rights of other people if they choose to believe it. We are uncomfortable to disclose that we are athiests in polite company -- much like gays were ( or still are in places like India). There are very few flaming athiests like flaming gays that cry out loud. In short we do not like the attention. That's what seperates Dawkins from the rest of us. He is not willing to stop at telling himself there is no god. He deeply cares about the wedge that religion drives between reason and logic. He is passionately against indoctrinating children before they are old enough to choose their own god( or not). Even when he is talking to supposed religious know-it-all leaders he is extremely calm and never agitated. There is one conversation with a man who is a passionate muslim preacher( he was born into Judaism in New York) in palestine. Dawkins tells him upfront that he is an athiest presumably trying to indicate that he has no motives against his issue. The reaction he elicits from the preacher is stunning: he hates him even more than he hates Jews. He launches into a tirade about why people like him( Dawkins) dress up their women as whores and parade them in the streets. To which Dawkins responds that they are not his women and it's upto the women to decide on how to dress. It's brave work -- watch it. | |
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