I think everyone knows that presenting a very limited view of the universe to a child and not allowing them to be exposed to any of the opposing views is hardly giving the child the chance to think for themselves. Faith schools are clearly guilty of this, that is all they exist for. School is the place where children should learn to use critical thinking, to question everything. That is what all public and private schools should be; honest and fair.
@shrikechan You make a fair point about Faith schools. However, I teach in a Faith school, and my reply would be that our culture is so permeated by the Materialistic worldview that my students are hardly ignorant of it. Not only so, but I find that with some exceptions most of my students come with a pretty secular worldview despite being raised in a Faith family, and almost none have the tools to think critically. I only provide a balance.
If religious schools are evil because they promote religion - an unproveable faith, according to Dawkins - then are secular schools where Materialism is the only option taught equally evil because they promote a single option? Of course not, according to Dawkins, because materialism is "self-evidently true." Circular argument.
@campdon "Secular"(public) schools do not promote secularism in place of religion. When I was a child (in the 1990s) my classmates all believed what their parents told them about God, and teachers did nothing to either encourage or discourage these beliefs. I was the only child who even cared about questioning these things, and that attitude wasn't welcomed. They sure as hell didn't tell us that there is no God, or promote materialism. Stop lying e_e
If you took a decfk of cards and removed all the red cards then asked some one to select any card, what are the chances they7'll select a red card?
Schools remove all the religion cards. They now presume to ask students to make a reasonable choice in the market place of ideas. But a choice between what? There is only Materialism.
Sounds like loading the deck to me. You wouldn't stand for this from a car dealer. Why do schools get a bye?
@campdon science is about exploring the physical universe so ofcourse science classes are only going to offer a materialistic view but even in secular schools there is room for religious topics. Some high schools have christians clubs & comparitive religion courses are offered in many high schools. Most secular folks I know have no problem with religion being discussed in a classroom but they do have a problem with non-science (creationism) being taught in the science class.
I wonder if the fact that science has been used to create all the most effective killing machines the world has ever known is an argument against science? If it is, if that is logical at all, then Dawkins may use the argument that religion is evil because sometimes religion has been used for evil purposes. However, I think Dawkins logic has a serious flaw, the fallacy of appeal to consequences.
@campdon Killing machines? Isn't that more in the realm of engineering? It's true that scientific knowledge has been used to create killing machines but the purpose of science is to learn how nature works.
Rabbi Gluck has one of the crappiest beards I've ever seen. A good beard is something that I can respect. The Muslim man sitting down with Dawkins in the first part of this documentary had a decent beard. Jim Henson had an amazing beard. But Rabbi Gluck's beard is just awful. If I had that on my face, I'd rather face the wrath of a magical space elf.
The thought of God should only be a fleeting whisp of the imagination that only surfaces in the face of extreme evidence. Until such a time, religion and everything it stands for is just grasping at straws.
I've often thought to myself, if God is ever proven true, science will discover it first. I then laughed at the irony.
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
Jesuitical; pertaining 2 the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system 2 suit their Evo-Hoax Agenda to discredit the Bible
Papal Rome cant have their Counter Reformation 2nd Dark Age DESPOTISM until Bible is destroyed
Science and religion are fundamentally at opposing ends, and even opposing means to those ends. Science is intrinsically investigative, built around acquiring a body of knowledge through experimentation and refining old ideas with new evidence, or, if necessary, casting old ideas aside altogether.
Religion starts with conclusions, based on blind faith and absolute certainty in the rightness of one's assumptions, and bending and warping things as needed to give the appearence of backing it up.
Religious tradition doesn't test its own validity such as science does. Scientific understanding is forever growing, that can not be said of religions. Fundamentalists fear science for it has no need of "God" to show how thing are created. To them this is an attack on their power over peoples minds and thus the wealth of those in positions of power. So they preach that science is "Evil" and that any who preach science are messengers of the Devil.
Evil does not exist and hate only exists because people believe in evil. Please stop calling and thinking of things that are bad as "evil". It doesn't exist. I really wish that this thought comes through to as many people as possible. I don't want to see more unnecessary hate and suffering in the world.
@killha1988 don't do like them, the best way is to teach critical thinking to your kids, if that's doesn't keep them from becoming religious and you try to stop them by forcing your views unto them, you'll be just like those fundamentalists.
@ThinkerResearcher ...Your a hundred % right teach them the facts and let them choose there faith but it will be hard cause of everything out here leads ways into phony faith ..By schools and tv books and so on
@killha1988 Yeah well if ALL schools actually would tell them all the facts, and their families wouldn't indoctrinate religion in their minds, then there would be NO ONE believing in ANY kind of religion. No religious fanatic (I think everyone believing in any god is a fanatic) would want that huh? There's why it's so important to adults to indoctrinate religion for their children nowadays, because they barely do it in school anymore, which is absolutely and extremely great.
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@TheWasatch Uh, no. He is not shoving belief anywhere. What he is doing, is challenging irrationality -and presenting facts. The latter of which religion never has, and never will be able to do.
My first son is 10 months old now. I will never shove my beliefs down his throat. I'll teach him common sense, manners, morals, of course. But as far as a deeper view of reality, the world, I'll teach him critical thinking skills.
I'm so happy I can do my little bit to help break religion's spell on the human race.
no child is born religious..these stupid hyper-religious freaked out parents put the religious cage on those innocent birds which are willing to fly free and to explore the world..!!
I Just wanna bann all the religions from planet earth.
How the fuck is that even relevant to anything, true (where did jesus say it?) or even proves religion? You can't even be this stupid if you try. Really, why is dawkins wasting his time with un-intellectual, science denying dimwits?
It makes me sad what indoctrination does to people. It forbids you to think by yourself. I see it all around me, it's awful... I was once like that, I cringe only remembering the way I used to behave. NEVER AGAIN!
I love how richard had interviewed all types of people of all religions. Proves how brainwashed people are! This world would be so peaceful without religion!
@CtheWolfe You bliindly and rabidly hate Christians and Jews? You (without any proof) say that Christians and Jews are the cause of all the worlds evil? Really? Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead . Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead . Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead . Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead . Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead I am sure these guys were ALL good Bible Thumpers. LOL! I thank you for your ignorance - you help me to prove my point
you seem to get what he's saying down the wrong throat... he condemns raming your beliefs down children's throat IN GENERAL. wheter it's christian, jewish, muslim, buddhistic,... belief and telling them it's the only existing, unwavering truth - without teaching them to question things and think independently.
Do Jews have the RIGHT to pass on their heritage and culture to the next Generation? Also, do Jews have the right to preserve and study Holy books such as the Bible and the Talmud?
You want to deny them that right and why? Because YOU and your kind SAY SO. Period.
i.e. Tyranny
YOU and your kind want to "ram down your [Anti-Religious]beliefs down" others peoples throat so...what is your point exactly?
@ThoughtTraveler I don't think you fully understand the premise of not forcing someone to believe in something. Teaching someone about something or allowing them to read and experience culture is different from lets say forbidding them to marry someone out of love who is not of your faith. Which is a very very common practice among Jews. I mean I am atheist and I have studied many religions, I find it absolutely intriguing. Getting to know a culture is very interesting.
@ThoughtTraveler What is scary is that they are forced to be fanatical out of fear of being outcast and losing family and community ties. I am sure in many cases physical violence is also threatened. It is sad that more progressive social concepts have not filtered in to teach a more general kindness among people in some of these cultures and religions.
@ThoughtTraveler Maybe it has something to do with we live in western civilization so it is more effective to comment and look at areas that are closer to home. You understand? And how is not putting yourself in a situation where your life would most certainly be in jeopardy cowardice? I mean do you make a habit of walking into lets say a dangerous black neighborhood and start screaming racial slurs? No. Clearly self preservation is desirable.
@ThoughtTraveler I mean I highly doubt you put yourself in situations where you are likely to be killed. So mocking someone else for not doing it, calling them a coward, is just plain ignorant and hypocritical. And I do believe at one point in this video he is in Jerusalem which is mainly Muslim occupied. You are just narrow minded and cant see the truth behind pretty much all religion. So you take offense to someone pointing out how its man made.
@ThoughtTraveler You really think people would believe in god if their parents did not indoctrinate them? I mean look at Santa! How easy it is to fool a childs mind. Some of us grow up and realise there is no Santa... and others still believe in a nasty nasty God. Such as yourself I would presume. Anyways I wish you the best and hopefully you can shed your religion and live for yourself and those around you, rather than some God who will bring the end of days.
Look. It is obvious that you are going to be a Anti-Religious bigot and no one will convince you to be otherwise. You and your kind will continue to try and marginalize and stereotype Christians and Jews because of what you in your own minds consider "superstition".
If you get your jollies by degrading and belittling anyone and everyone who if of the Jewish/Christian faith than that is your issue that you have to deal with.
Have fun attacking the Hasidic Jewish community...
@ThoughtTraveler Actually Sir, I did not say they have no right to teach their children their traditions or values. I made a clear difference between learning and teaching vs forcing. Obviously you overlooked this, which I might add was the general argument I put forth and reasserted in which Dawkins made. And yes I have every right to take the moral high ground over the teachings of the bible. That book has to be the worst example of morality in the world.
@ThoughtTraveler For example stoning your children because they do not listen to you? WTF? Also throwing your daughter out to a mob to protect your male guest? WTF? Moses commanding his troops to kill all males and women that are old enough to have been with a man, yet taking the younger ones for for themselves? Those are three of the best examples of how I am morally superior and you are too because I doubt you would ever do that. Yet the book condones it. Slavery etc.
@ThoughtTraveler If these religions are not superstition prove it. Show me some evidence that lies outside the bible because that in itself is not an authentic work. It has been revisited by man and changed. If you think that the revisions under King James were 100% accurate you are misleading yourself. Things like virgin were mistranslated. Jesus was said to have been born of a young woman not a virgin. Thats the original text.
And don't take the moral High Ground here because you can't. You already lost when you supported the idea that those Orthodox Jews have no right to teach their children their traditions and values.
You have no logic to support your suppositions - just blind ignorant prejudice against a group of people who do not share your values.
So sir good day to you and your Self Satisfied good opinion of yourself.
@ThoughtTraveler And as for the marriage thing with Christians and Catholics it has really only been within the last 100 years that they have been able to marry out of the religion with someone they love. Previously the church would not marry those of different faiths. This is a practice to ensure everyone stays within the community. Its a gross abuse of power.
@ThoughtTraveler You are so quick to discount Thor, Zues, Krishna and any other preceeding god. Why is this? They are all valid religions with their own teachings that are moral and just in their own rights. Yet you are so quick to say they are wrong. Yes not many follow the anchient Greek religions. But what of Hindu? Why do you dismiss Lord Brahma? Is this God of creation with many followers less than yours? Are all these people going to hell forever because of their culture?
@IanWaters42 they didn't kill in the name of atheism did they?
Also I believe that hitler was RC, the people who folowed him where christians, he used religion as one of the scapegoats to kill jews. for they have killed the son of god? Stalin killed religous people because he saw god as competition.. he also studied for 5 years to be a priest. Mao mainly killed people who didn't agree with him, whether they where atheist or not..
@ThoughtTraveler On that note is it wrong of those in the Hindu culture to pass it on and teach their children of their culture and religion, because according to you they are forcing them to go to hell by doing so? And if so how do you justify this? You call me a bigot because I am against the concepts that tell me immoral and that I deserve to burn in hell and be tortured because I think differently than you. How can I not be offended by this. You wonder why atheists seem upset with it.
@CtheWolfe You bliindly and rabidly hate Christians and Jews? You (without any proof) say that Christians and Jews are the cause of all the worlds evil? Really? Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead . Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead . Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead . Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead . Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead I am sure these guys were ALL good Bible Thumpers. LOL! I thank you for your ignorance - you help me to prove my point
@CtheWolfe@CtheWolfe You bliindly and rabidly hate Christians and Jews? You (without any proof) say that Christians and Jews are the cause of all the worlds evil? Really? Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead . Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead . Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead . Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead . Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead I am sure these guys were ALL good Bible Thumpers. LOL!
@CtheWolfe You blindly and rabidly hate Christians and Jews? You (without any proof) say that Christians and Jews are the cause of all the worlds evil? Really? Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead . Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead . Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead . Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead . Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead
you know ? evil ! that's what you are when you don't say you kill "in the name of god", you bully homosexuals to ensure "the kingdom of god will land in a safe place", or you don't marry someone from another race because "god doesn't want us to mix". "evil" is what is left in this behavior when you remove god from it. god is a makeup for your OWN intolerance. using god to hide yourself is a blasphemy
@zecle Yes genius. NOBODY kills in the name of ATHEISM. The guys below were all good Baptists right? : ) ROTFL!!! Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead . Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead . Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead . Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead . Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead Please go to College or READ a book.
@zecle Yes genius. NOBODY kills in the name of ATHEISM. The guys below were all good Baptists right? : ) ROTFL!!! Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead . Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead . Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead . Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead . Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead Please go to College or READ a book.
My point was, that passing on and respecting a culture's heritage is something completely different than forcing your kids to believe the exact things that you do and not letting them get in contact with other cultures and belief system/non-religious system/whatever. So I do think that this should make the answer to your question if Jews have the right to pass on heritage etc. clear. But to avoid any misunderstandings: Yes, Jews have the right to do so. Of course they do. ...
I never denied them that right. What makes you think I would? I only criticise it, when people think that their culture/religion is superior to other ones and therefore deny their children the right to be open minded.
And btw. What on earth gives you the right to judge and label me?
Who says I am completely anti-religious? Who says I want to ram my beliefs down other throats?
Its funny how atheists can't ever point out that the most violence that has ever occured was in the 20th century. most of the genocides that happened were as a result of secularism (stalin, pol pot, mao zedong, north Korea, Cuba)
@dinodiggerify none of those people did that in "the name of secularism" and let's not forget religous incentive of hitler, osama bin laden, (I know that's the 21st) the seperation of india and millions dieing because of it because of religion, and the list goes on. And the non secular nations of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Poland are just fucking PARADISES right? And north korea isn't really athiest, they believe the ils are some heavenly dyansaty or some shit.
Yes - Please check your facts. I would specify - but what's the point? Your whispering friend has already endowed with divine wisdom hasn't HE. Wish the bugger would give me a "hello". It's funny that you believe something from a time that didn't have toilet paper - they must have used sheets from their holy books for their shits.
NO NO NO NO NO UR WRONG WRONG WRONG! My god your so wrong.! how is it athiests problem for secularism for one point... America is secular, so its Americas fault for the genocides. u idiot go home
'there is no such thing as a person living in a vacuum' ahahahahhahaha, i just loled my head off....vacuum = absence of all matter...dawkins was like '..indeed..' xD
@PhrygianBlack Like the other dude says, nothing to do with the jews... The jews rule... They are like us, the Europeans... I mean look what they done in Isreal in such a short time so I say go jewish people ^^ but fuck the Tora for sure... maybe you can even take that literally by making a hole in it so you can make love to it hehe ^^
If you imagine a presence following you around and admit this to a doctor, he may well have you sectioned in a mental institution, if however you say it is God's presence, people see that as fine. A belief in something that cannot be proven is borderline schizophrenic or psychotic, at the very least delusional. It's about time religion got branded for what it really is, a sick little game that has been used by the state to control the weak willed.
I am hard pressed here.... but you know what, I'm going to give the Rabbi some credit. He is not a total moron.... and you can see this by the kinds of side-ways approach he took in trying to justify his archaic desert religion.
I think the Jews generally do know and care about science. Some of them simply compartmentalize the God question and go about their studies.
They tend to think and debate the most amongst the adherents of the three ugly sisters.
As much as I agree with Mr. Dawkins, and as much as I respect and admire him, I think in conversation with religious people he's a little to aggressive about his views. Which i'm not saying because it's insensitive, but you get a far less productive dialog if you just bluntly say what their doing is completely wrong and stupid. He could have longer and more productive dialog with these people if he didn't attack their beliefs so much.
Well he needs to attack them. Why should he use gloves when boxing with them?
Suddenly it is ok to have a fierce political debate, or to fight over favourite band, or soccer club, but when you talk about religion to someone you need to be polite and nice.
Religion was created by individual leaders with a violent agenda, who understood that their subjects' "fear of death" was seriously getting in the way of the wars they wanted to fight.
I prayed away a headache once!!!! It was a genuine miracle from God!!! ....oh yeah I also took some aspirin.... but thats not what did it........ MIRACLE!!!!! I hate religion.
I have a question that may seem like a joke, but I never understood from Christians:
Why would the Devil (If there was one) punish bad people? I mean wouldn't he reward us for doing the things he likes?
Just another weird Christian belief IMO
And @DEATHBYGHANDI , I comepletly agree. ALL religions end with some sort of afterlife, or eternal life (ie reincarnation) it's just a stupid coping mechanism for people who can't accept that we don't know anything about what happens after death.
@Yeungster23 Not all religions believe that, many deistic religions (which is the least devout form of theism) do not believe in an afterlife. Sadly their don't appear to be many deists around these days.
We are apparently going back to the dark ages. Dawkins is right in asserting that children are very impressionable and will believe almost anything (fx Santa). Everyone knows that it is difficult to shake off a bad happed and the longer you have it the more difficult it is to get rid of. Religion is a bad happed that we should not learn our children just like smoking and drinking.
As much as I agree with what Dawkins is saying, I dont like his method. He is no different than those he means to convert. By saying you are right and I am wrong, is no different than a christian saying that to a muslim. Or an athiest saying to a christian. I accept the fact most beliefs of religious people are incorrect, however by acting in this manner you are no better than those you mean to condem.
But think of it this way: if someone is ignorant and they don't know anything about the progress of science, and says something like "It's a theory, not a fact"; when in fact scientific theory is a higher level of understanding, because theories unite and explain facts, how else can you approach that. I don't think Dawkins forcefully imposes upon anyone his thoughts, but rather enlightens them. I think his approach is just right.
i think it's beyond human comprehension their is no creator or god, it's very clear gods and asshole if he did exist and let all the evil take place in the world
How can he be so brutal with some nice little old school teacher who happens to be extremely irrational?
I get so turned off by Dawkins and Hitchens sometimes. Goes to show that atheists are people too, and most don't want good information. They just want their beliefs to be reinforced and for their enemies to be humiliated.
Sam Harris and Dan Dennett aren't big enough douche bags to have their own 'documentary.'
@LukeShetler Teachers are in a position of power over children, the most vulnerable stage of a humans life. He is causing irrepairable damage to all of them, he and his sect deserve jailtime, nothing less.
@qwasdninja He was as much a victim as those little kids are. Are you gonna blame a link in the fence or the entire structure?
Even if you attempt to root out individual links, is that really an effective way? It was for reinforcement, not persuasion.
And jailtime? Come on... your authoritarian atheism is dangerous. It really hurts the cause of science and skepticism, where politicians need not apply.
Those fundamentalist Jews REALLY need to look outside of their community for marriage....'cause they are UGLY and need some pretty blood in there. No wonder everyone picks on them.
Pheew... though I like the series so far I must say Dawkins definitely doesn't mince words in his interviews, and he could stand to be much more... diplomatic.
Though I have the benefit of the lack of stress that comes with such confrontation, I would have gone into very different routes of questioning; themes of questioning sources, investigating claims, and falsification I think work much better.
I fear he wasn't s much trying to convince them, as trying to make the clip fit the show.
religion is brainwashing, and is writting in the most manipulative manner possible. It actuall creates delusional behavior and thinking patters, think about it, they actually believe in something they have absoloutly zero proof of, infact they have evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Insanity.
@aARIESsSs okay. I just want to ask. have you at least read buddhism,hinduism,catholic and other christian doctrines,african cultures,chinese culture, Islam, native american religions, and judaism to make this conclusion? because not all of them like that at all. and stop using brainwash. that word is abused for anything these days. what do you mean by brainwash EXACTLY?
@christianshounen101 yes I have, egyption, greek, scientology, hindu also. The greeks for example died believing zeus was real. And zeus like xenu, yhwh, allah and shiva all have one thing in common, no evidence they exist, and a book writtin by man.
Science is about "I think it's true, but I need to check" and when you're checking in for a long time someone comes and shows you mistakes, or brings you more evidences. Religin is about "I don't think. It's true"
favorite part when he asks richard dawkins..."you're a fundamentalist believer in evolution?" lol. Amazing the level of ignore that is still present in todays society. Very sad indeed lol
Those fanatics of any kind can NOT be persuaded with any arguments. For the more moderate religious nuts, he should have chosen a bit less absolute title than root of ALL evil. maybe root of some, or more honestly a lot of evil :)
There are many false hoods believed by people. The scientific community has it self misrepressented the truth. The real question is what is the end game of calling religion the root of all evil. That comment in itself is extremist. If the argument is to combat extremism with extremism, I don't see that as a positive thing.
@Zooni2 I love it when people can't try to respond to the actual claim being dealt with and instead try to bring up this idea of guilt by association. The fact is science tries to find the truth and continues to question and requestion itself until it gets closer to it. No where does science make incompatible claims about the world without scientific investigation. Religion on the other hand does not question itself, and relies on faith as its mode of reliance on what is true. What a joke!
@snowboardin1 I agree with Dawkins but it is interesting that you are so aggressive with your support. Science is about "I Think it's true" when you are this compassionate, the science loses it's objectivity and becomes more prone to error. Just because the present religious leaders have stagnated and past leaders have told and written quite a few large tales (bible) doesn't diminish the essence of a possible truth.
Laws describe behaviors or governing attributes - Not complex systems. Evolution is too complex to be a law - it is just the name of an observed fact. It's in the semantics of science really:
Facts-->Hypothesis-->Theories
Laws generally describe a specific action/behavior, and underly many theories. Mendel's laws of heredity, for example, are fundamental to evolutionary theories.
From my personal experience with Christianity and Islam I find both religions extremely irrational. However I give preference to Christianity because it is far more tolerant of other religions than Islam. The Christians today do not go around killing people out of desire to impose their religion like the Muslims do.
@MarekK64 They do however unknowingly finance it, by way of defense spending and taxes. We in the US have given the Israel's far too many weapons due to lobbyists. It's too bad they couldnt wander out in a desert and have it out. Hopefully we'd be rid of them all!
I take you mean that Christians are financing Islam. How does defense spending and taxes do that is not clear to me. Who do mean we'd be rid off? Christians, Muslims or Jews?
I agree with you that US taxpayers unwittingly are funding both sides of the conflict in Israel. That is unfortunate. Both sides should be left alone to duke it out.
You say we'd be rid of just the extremists in these religions. hat is always desirable if it could be guaranteed that all three lose and that is not possible. In a conflict like this the more determined side wins. It will be Islam that wins. Do you realize what they will do to the atheists, the disbelievers, the kufar?
True , but I think at that time would could actually pass laws against it. Theoretically there should be few left. Iran is working for a nuclear weapon, so it is only a matter of time before Israel and Muslim high scale conflict arises. Unfortunately we have to live with these mindless twits for a long time to come.
It is unfortunate that Iran will have nuclear weapons. The homicidal maniacs may try to use them against Europe or America. We are too politically correct to be able to stop it.
@MarekK64 That's probably an accident of socio-economics and political science. If the major faith of the middle east was Christianity and the same poverty and war existed there, we might ahve the same result.
If the major faith there remained Christianity as it was before muslims destroyed it there then the poverty and oppression would be at much lower level. Of course we can only speculate about it now. I don't think that poverty explains any of that. After all Mohamed Atta came from well to do family.
@MarekK64 Yeah but I mean simply transplanting Christianity in place of Islam, with exactly the same thing otherwise... totally hypothetical and unrealistic, but a good comparison of what would happen.
Atta may have been well off but all terrorism is done in the name of Palestine or defense of what they see as the poor and downtrodden against the rich (non-muslim) invaders of America.
I disagree. It is not about Palestine or downtrodden, those are merely excuses. Even if Israel ceased to exist today or have not been restored in 1947 would not have made any difference. The jihad to spread islam and dominate the world is ordained in the Koran and all muslims are required to wage war on infidels until there is no more fitna, disbelief.
There are some similar decrees in the Bible, you just don't hear about them. I don't see any difference in morality between the Old Testament and the Quran. I agree the New Testament is a little better, but it has some bad shit in it too.
There indeed are similar verse in the Old Testament. The reason we don't hear about them much is because nobody is taking them literally and trying to enforce. Then you have new testament which mostly about.
forgiveness and love. Clearly Christianity today is much more tolerant than it used to be. Islam is going the other way. It is becoming ever more intolerant.
Its sad and funny that people of faith have killed my faith in humanity:(
obsol1337 1 week ago
lool I'm not trying to mock Dawkins (I agree with what he's saying), but doesn't he look like a pedophile @ 3:42?
ChairmanDrek757 3 weeks ago
I think everyone knows that presenting a very limited view of the universe to a child and not allowing them to be exposed to any of the opposing views is hardly giving the child the chance to think for themselves. Faith schools are clearly guilty of this, that is all they exist for. School is the place where children should learn to use critical thinking, to question everything. That is what all public and private schools should be; honest and fair.
shrikechan 4 weeks ago
@shrikechan You make a fair point about Faith schools. However, I teach in a Faith school, and my reply would be that our culture is so permeated by the Materialistic worldview that my students are hardly ignorant of it. Not only so, but I find that with some exceptions most of my students come with a pretty secular worldview despite being raised in a Faith family, and almost none have the tools to think critically. I only provide a balance.
campdon 4 weeks ago
If religious schools are evil because they promote religion - an unproveable faith, according to Dawkins - then are secular schools where Materialism is the only option taught equally evil because they promote a single option? Of course not, according to Dawkins, because materialism is "self-evidently true." Circular argument.
campdon 4 weeks ago
@campdon "Secular"(public) schools do not promote secularism in place of religion. When I was a child (in the 1990s) my classmates all believed what their parents told them about God, and teachers did nothing to either encourage or discourage these beliefs. I was the only child who even cared about questioning these things, and that attitude wasn't welcomed. They sure as hell didn't tell us that there is no God, or promote materialism. Stop lying e_e
You just sound like an idiot.
shrikechan 4 weeks ago
@shrikechan Ah, yes. Ad hominem. Good strategy.
If you took a decfk of cards and removed all the red cards then asked some one to select any card, what are the chances they7'll select a red card?
Schools remove all the religion cards. They now presume to ask students to make a reasonable choice in the market place of ideas. But a choice between what? There is only Materialism.
Sounds like loading the deck to me. You wouldn't stand for this from a car dealer. Why do schools get a bye?
campdon 4 weeks ago
@campdon science is about exploring the physical universe so ofcourse science classes are only going to offer a materialistic view but even in secular schools there is room for religious topics. Some high schools have christians clubs & comparitive religion courses are offered in many high schools. Most secular folks I know have no problem with religion being discussed in a classroom but they do have a problem with non-science (creationism) being taught in the science class.
rickmanization 2 weeks ago
I wonder if the fact that science has been used to create all the most effective killing machines the world has ever known is an argument against science? If it is, if that is logical at all, then Dawkins may use the argument that religion is evil because sometimes religion has been used for evil purposes. However, I think Dawkins logic has a serious flaw, the fallacy of appeal to consequences.
campdon 4 weeks ago
@campdon Killing machines? Isn't that more in the realm of engineering? It's true that scientific knowledge has been used to create killing machines but the purpose of science is to learn how nature works.
rickmanization 2 weeks ago
Rabbi Gluck has one of the crappiest beards I've ever seen. A good beard is something that I can respect. The Muslim man sitting down with Dawkins in the first part of this documentary had a decent beard. Jim Henson had an amazing beard. But Rabbi Gluck's beard is just awful. If I had that on my face, I'd rather face the wrath of a magical space elf.
100percentrekkie 1 month ago 2
@unanumus2 That's exactly what i was thinking when i read @filip8546's comment.
cvmaster90 1 month ago
"Well i will call it the fact of evolution". Nicely said Mr. Dawkins.
cvmaster90 1 month ago 2
The thought of God should only be a fleeting whisp of the imagination that only surfaces in the face of extreme evidence. Until such a time, religion and everything it stands for is just grasping at straws.
I've often thought to myself, if God is ever proven true, science will discover it first. I then laughed at the irony.
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Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
Jesuitical; pertaining 2 the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system 2 suit their Evo-Hoax Agenda to discredit the Bible
Papal Rome cant have their Counter Reformation 2nd Dark Age DESPOTISM until Bible is destroyed
SpencerBenedict2nd 3 months ago
Science and religion are fundamentally at opposing ends, and even opposing means to those ends. Science is intrinsically investigative, built around acquiring a body of knowledge through experimentation and refining old ideas with new evidence, or, if necessary, casting old ideas aside altogether.
Religion starts with conclusions, based on blind faith and absolute certainty in the rightness of one's assumptions, and bending and warping things as needed to give the appearence of backing it up.
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maugustyniak 5 months ago
and a nother thing is on facebook,myyearbook,and a lot more sites atheism is a religion it is not thats the one thing we r not is a religion
killha1988 5 months ago
Would love to form a atheist group in my country but we are very few, I live in Dominican Republic you see.
pigin007 5 months ago
Religious tradition doesn't test its own validity such as science does. Scientific understanding is forever growing, that can not be said of religions. Fundamentalists fear science for it has no need of "God" to show how thing are created. To them this is an attack on their power over peoples minds and thus the wealth of those in positions of power. So they preach that science is "Evil" and that any who preach science are messengers of the Devil.
It would be funny if it wasn't so insane.
ThePositiveAussie 5 months ago
Evil does not exist and hate only exists because people believe in evil. Please stop calling and thinking of things that are bad as "evil". It doesn't exist. I really wish that this thought comes through to as many people as possible. I don't want to see more unnecessary hate and suffering in the world.
mamikodis 6 months ago
i be dammed if my future kids have faith in a flying spaghetti monster
killha1988 6 months ago 2
@killha1988 don't do like them, the best way is to teach critical thinking to your kids, if that's doesn't keep them from becoming religious and you try to stop them by forcing your views unto them, you'll be just like those fundamentalists.
ThinkerResearcher 5 months ago in playlist Atheism, Skepticism, Richard Dawkins, etc.
@ThinkerResearcher ...Your a hundred % right teach them the facts and let them choose there faith but it will be hard cause of everything out here leads ways into phony faith ..By schools and tv books and so on
killha1988 5 months ago
@killha1988 Yeah well if ALL schools actually would tell them all the facts, and their families wouldn't indoctrinate religion in their minds, then there would be NO ONE believing in ANY kind of religion. No religious fanatic (I think everyone believing in any god is a fanatic) would want that huh? There's why it's so important to adults to indoctrinate religion for their children nowadays, because they barely do it in school anymore, which is absolutely and extremely great.
AndreHasGotNoBand 5 months ago
Only 13 dislikes. Not enough Christians are watching these videos.
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MrCarolynMadrid 7 months ago
Its funny that he is against shoving ones belief down another’s throat... yet that is what he's doing with these programs
TheWasatch 7 months ago
@TheWasatch Uh, no. He is not shoving belief anywhere. What he is doing, is challenging irrationality -and presenting facts. The latter of which religion never has, and never will be able to do.
Silvertaker 7 months ago
@TheWasatch Priests literally shove things down kid's throats
turpinforpresident 6 months ago
@turpinforpresident hahaha... now thats funny!
TheWasatch 6 months ago
Richard Dawkins should be the president of USA.
filip8546 7 months ago 36
@filip8546 Richard Dawkins should be president of the world!
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@filip8546 The problem is that for one, it wouldn't happen, and for two, that just isn't a very scientific job at all.
BlazeCyndaquil 1 month ago
I was raised in Christianity. Now I'm an atheist.
My first son is 10 months old now. I will never shove my beliefs down his throat. I'll teach him common sense, manners, morals, of course. But as far as a deeper view of reality, the world, I'll teach him critical thinking skills.
I'm so happy I can do my little bit to help break religion's spell on the human race.
jayajaya86 7 months ago
no child is born religious..these stupid hyper-religious freaked out parents put the religious cage on those innocent birds which are willing to fly free and to explore the world..!!
I Just wanna bann all the religions from planet earth.
ungalranga 7 months ago
Lol this guys a legend
Bundyrumowns 7 months ago
"Its still called the theory of evolution"
Dosnt this show the whole problem? - Just because its called so dosnt make it so, unless your a litteralist radical loony...
LasseChristensenOfDK 7 months ago
"But in the middle of that jesus says "i'm true""
How the fuck is that even relevant to anything, true (where did jesus say it?) or even proves religion? You can't even be this stupid if you try. Really, why is dawkins wasting his time with un-intellectual, science denying dimwits?
ytrewQwerty 8 months ago
@ytrewQwerty He's trying to enlighten them. 'Freeing' them in a way. Pretty noble of him, but it's a damn frustrating goal.
neurallydegenerated 8 months ago 19
It makes me sad what indoctrination does to people. It forbids you to think by yourself. I see it all around me, it's awful... I was once like that, I cringe only remembering the way I used to behave. NEVER AGAIN!
porolita22 9 months ago
this rabbi is so inbred its crazy.
raitei202 9 months ago
2007 and only 70,000 views? We as a species are FUCKED
bigredphenom 9 months ago
@bigredphenom Kant said,"Religion is mans favorite toy and will remain so as long as he remains afraid of death."
PAULOcbi 8 months ago
I love how richard had interviewed all types of people of all religions. Proves how brainwashed people are! This world would be so peaceful without religion!
ylazk 9 months ago
@ylazk Yes, down with atheism, it is a brainwashing cult.
FunnyLittleChap 8 months ago
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FUCK ALLAH FUCK MUHAMMAD FUCK RETARDED SHEEPLE
highlanderdurp 9 months ago
7:44 the sound of being owned ^-^
uberandy666 10 months ago 4
fuck religion
DrMazgaN 11 months ago
wait i'm confused... can someone explain why Rabbi Gluck doesn't have a British accent?
beatlefied70 11 months ago
Wow, he's so in their faces. I must say that these people are being pretty kind to him, kinder them most of them are <3
Kassie0ate0a0cow 11 months ago
I am not a fundamental atheist, I would believe in creation when on day I can see where the god lives through my telescope.
jonybrown 11 months ago
that guys beard is more wonderous than evolution
bigswano 1 year ago 2
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@CtheWolfe
Mao Zedong (Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead
Pol Pot (Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead
Vladimir Lenin (Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead
Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead
Joseph Stalin (Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead
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ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
In The Name of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
Does man reckon he will be left uncontrolled [without purpose]? Was he not once a drop of ejected semen? (Qur'an, 75:36-37)
77705000000000000000 1 year ago
@77705000000000000000 the quran also said that semen came from the spine or kidneys.
111E982a 1 year ago
I was just getting into this TV show when I see that Dawkin's hates JEWS too?
Why the Jews?
I would think he would give them a break because of the Holocaust but NO.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler
he doesn't hate jews. he doesn't hate anyone just because they believe in a certain religion.
why would you think that?
xnindlx 1 year ago
@xnindlx
Jews have EVERY right as a religious Minority to teach their children about their culture and their Faith.
Only Nazi's and Racists have a problem with them passing on their heritage to their children.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler
you didn't quite answer my question ;)
you seem to get what he's saying down the wrong throat... he condemns raming your beliefs down children's throat IN GENERAL. wheter it's christian, jewish, muslim, buddhistic,... belief and telling them it's the only existing, unwavering truth - without teaching them to question things and think independently.
passing on heritage is something else.
you get my point?
xnindlx 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler
You didn't quite answer MY question ;)
Do Jews have the RIGHT to pass on their heritage and culture to the next Generation? Also, do Jews have the right to preserve and study Holy books such as the Bible and the Talmud?
You want to deny them that right and why? Because YOU and your kind SAY SO. Period.
i.e. Tyranny
YOU and your kind want to "ram down your [Anti-Religious]beliefs down" others peoples throat so...what is your point exactly?
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler I don't think you fully understand the premise of not forcing someone to believe in something. Teaching someone about something or allowing them to read and experience culture is different from lets say forbidding them to marry someone out of love who is not of your faith. Which is a very very common practice among Jews. I mean I am atheist and I have studied many religions, I find it absolutely intriguing. Getting to know a culture is very interesting.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler What is scary is that they are forced to be fanatical out of fear of being outcast and losing family and community ties. I am sure in many cases physical violence is also threatened. It is sad that more progressive social concepts have not filtered in to teach a more general kindness among people in some of these cultures and religions.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@CtheWolfe
Why does Dawkins not go to the Madrasas in Pakistan and Afghanistan and expose what goes on there?
Why does Dawkins not go to Islamic countries and expose the mutilation of women and girls under Sharia Law?
Why?
Cowardice...
It is far easier to pick on Jews and Christians because you know that at least you will NOT be beheaded for mocking their faith.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler Maybe it has something to do with we live in western civilization so it is more effective to comment and look at areas that are closer to home. You understand? And how is not putting yourself in a situation where your life would most certainly be in jeopardy cowardice? I mean do you make a habit of walking into lets say a dangerous black neighborhood and start screaming racial slurs? No. Clearly self preservation is desirable.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler I mean I highly doubt you put yourself in situations where you are likely to be killed. So mocking someone else for not doing it, calling them a coward, is just plain ignorant and hypocritical. And I do believe at one point in this video he is in Jerusalem which is mainly Muslim occupied. You are just narrow minded and cant see the truth behind pretty much all religion. So you take offense to someone pointing out how its man made.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler You really think people would believe in god if their parents did not indoctrinate them? I mean look at Santa! How easy it is to fool a childs mind. Some of us grow up and realise there is no Santa... and others still believe in a nasty nasty God. Such as yourself I would presume. Anyways I wish you the best and hopefully you can shed your religion and live for yourself and those around you, rather than some God who will bring the end of days.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@CtheWolfe
Look. It is obvious that you are going to be a Anti-Religious bigot and no one will convince you to be otherwise. You and your kind will continue to try and marginalize and stereotype Christians and Jews because of what you in your own minds consider "superstition".
If you get your jollies by degrading and belittling anyone and everyone who if of the Jewish/Christian faith than that is your issue that you have to deal with.
Have fun attacking the Hasidic Jewish community...
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler Actually Sir, I did not say they have no right to teach their children their traditions or values. I made a clear difference between learning and teaching vs forcing. Obviously you overlooked this, which I might add was the general argument I put forth and reasserted in which Dawkins made. And yes I have every right to take the moral high ground over the teachings of the bible. That book has to be the worst example of morality in the world.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler For example stoning your children because they do not listen to you? WTF? Also throwing your daughter out to a mob to protect your male guest? WTF? Moses commanding his troops to kill all males and women that are old enough to have been with a man, yet taking the younger ones for for themselves? Those are three of the best examples of how I am morally superior and you are too because I doubt you would ever do that. Yet the book condones it. Slavery etc.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler If these religions are not superstition prove it. Show me some evidence that lies outside the bible because that in itself is not an authentic work. It has been revisited by man and changed. If you think that the revisions under King James were 100% accurate you are misleading yourself. Things like virgin were mistranslated. Jesus was said to have been born of a young woman not a virgin. Thats the original text.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@CtheWolfe
And don't take the moral High Ground here because you can't. You already lost when you supported the idea that those Orthodox Jews have no right to teach their children their traditions and values.
You have no logic to support your suppositions - just blind ignorant prejudice against a group of people who do not share your values.
So sir good day to you and your Self Satisfied good opinion of yourself.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler And as for the marriage thing with Christians and Catholics it has really only been within the last 100 years that they have been able to marry out of the religion with someone they love. Previously the church would not marry those of different faiths. This is a practice to ensure everyone stays within the community. Its a gross abuse of power.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler You are so quick to discount Thor, Zues, Krishna and any other preceeding god. Why is this? They are all valid religions with their own teachings that are moral and just in their own rights. Yet you are so quick to say they are wrong. Yes not many follow the anchient Greek religions. But what of Hindu? Why do you dismiss Lord Brahma? Is this God of creation with many followers less than yours? Are all these people going to hell forever because of their culture?
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
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@CtheWolfe
Mao Zedong (Communist/Atheist) 73,000,000 Dead
Pol Pot (Marxist/Atheist) 2,000,000 Dead
Vladimir Lenin (Marxist/Atheist) 4,000,000 Dead
Adolf Hitler (National Socialist) 20,946,000 Dead
Joseph Stalin (Communist/Atheist) 43,000,000 Dead
I am sure these blokes read the Bible every night right?
Oooooooopss!!!
IanWaters42 1 year ago
@IanWaters42 they didn't kill in the name of atheism did they?
Also I believe that hitler was RC, the people who folowed him where christians, he used religion as one of the scapegoats to kill jews. for they have killed the son of god? Stalin killed religous people because he saw god as competition.. he also studied for 5 years to be a priest. Mao mainly killed people who didn't agree with him, whether they where atheist or not..
chefhenk 9 months ago
@ThoughtTraveler On that note is it wrong of those in the Hindu culture to pass it on and teach their children of their culture and religion, because according to you they are forcing them to go to hell by doing so? And if so how do you justify this? You call me a bigot because I am against the concepts that tell me immoral and that I deserve to burn in hell and be tortured because I think differently than you. How can I not be offended by this. You wonder why atheists seem upset with it.
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ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@ThoughtTraveler hey boy, nobody kills IN THE NAME OF ATHEISM !
these people are simply evil !
you know ? evil ! that's what you are when you don't say you kill "in the name of god", you bully homosexuals to ensure "the kingdom of god will land in a safe place", or you don't marry someone from another race because "god doesn't want us to mix". "evil" is what is left in this behavior when you remove god from it. god is a makeup for your OWN intolerance. using god to hide yourself is a blasphemy
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@ThoughtTraveler
My point was, that passing on and respecting a culture's heritage is something completely different than forcing your kids to believe the exact things that you do and not letting them get in contact with other cultures and belief system/non-religious system/whatever. So I do think that this should make the answer to your question if Jews have the right to pass on heritage etc. clear. But to avoid any misunderstandings: Yes, Jews have the right to do so. Of course they do. ...
xnindlx 11 months ago
@ThoughtTraveler
I never denied them that right. What makes you think I would? I only criticise it, when people think that their culture/religion is superior to other ones and therefore deny their children the right to be open minded.
And btw. What on earth gives you the right to judge and label me?
Who says I am completely anti-religious? Who says I want to ram my beliefs down other throats?
You are making me something I am not.
xnindlx 11 months ago
@xnindlx
Well it sounds like you are changing your tune.
ThoughtTraveler 11 months ago
@ThoughtTraveler
Actually, I am not. That's exactly what I wanted to say the whole time.
xnindlx 11 months ago
Dawkins, the new messiah?
HAHAHA. That's amazing! How did Dawkins keep a straight face there?
Webbess10 1 year ago
Its funny how atheists can't ever point out that the most violence that has ever occured was in the 20th century. most of the genocides that happened were as a result of secularism (stalin, pol pot, mao zedong, north Korea, Cuba)
dinodiggerify 1 year ago
@dinodiggerify none of those people did that in "the name of secularism" and let's not forget religous incentive of hitler, osama bin laden, (I know that's the 21st) the seperation of india and millions dieing because of it because of religion, and the list goes on. And the non secular nations of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Poland are just fucking PARADISES right? And north korea isn't really athiest, they believe the ils are some heavenly dyansaty or some shit.
grungeiac 1 year ago
@dinodiggerify
Yes - Please check your facts. I would specify - but what's the point? Your whispering friend has already endowed with divine wisdom hasn't HE. Wish the bugger would give me a "hello". It's funny that you believe something from a time that didn't have toilet paper - they must have used sheets from their holy books for their shits.
newloser 1 year ago
@dinodiggerify
NO NO NO NO NO UR WRONG WRONG WRONG! My god your so wrong.! how is it athiests problem for secularism for one point... America is secular, so its Americas fault for the genocides. u idiot go home
MattyJoels 1 year ago
It's all bullshit folks, and it's bad for ya
RuinOrPeace 1 year ago
'there is no such thing as a person living in a vacuum' ahahahahhahaha, i just loled my head off....vacuum = absence of all matter...dawkins was like '..indeed..' xD
TheMonkiAss 1 year ago
JEEEWWWWSSSSS !!!!!!
NeoAdolfHitler89 1 year ago
@NeoAdolfHitler89 Its the only religion with the word "Eew" in it.
alconaftika 1 year ago
Dawkins makes a great point by observing the fact that we label kids as the religion of their parents.
BobCymber 1 year ago 44
What I always wonder, how people can get dressed in the mornings without this normal feeling for logic :S
TTFLS 1 year ago
Religion does not convince me theres a "god" its makes me want to get rid of it even more.
bboyloco3 1 year ago
Common Dawkins! Haven't the Jews gone through enough!
PhrygianBlack 1 year ago
@PhrygianBlack it's the religions, not the people. Science > Judaism
Mekiwyn 1 year ago
@PhrygianBlack Like the other dude says, nothing to do with the jews... The jews rule... They are like us, the Europeans... I mean look what they done in Isreal in such a short time so I say go jewish people ^^ but fuck the Tora for sure... maybe you can even take that literally by making a hole in it so you can make love to it hehe ^^
TTFLS 1 year ago
If you imagine a presence following you around and admit this to a doctor, he may well have you sectioned in a mental institution, if however you say it is God's presence, people see that as fine. A belief in something that cannot be proven is borderline schizophrenic or psychotic, at the very least delusional. It's about time religion got branded for what it really is, a sick little game that has been used by the state to control the weak willed.
MrKelvincan 1 year ago
I am hard pressed here.... but you know what, I'm going to give the Rabbi some credit. He is not a total moron.... and you can see this by the kinds of side-ways approach he took in trying to justify his archaic desert religion.
I think the Jews generally do know and care about science. Some of them simply compartmentalize the God question and go about their studies.
They tend to think and debate the most amongst the adherents of the three ugly sisters.
Heaps of scientists are former Jews.
VeritasTruthEmet 1 year ago
jesus was an extra terrestrial :p
Dekar41 1 year ago 3
this is the atheist's mind set: "I want to know all the facts about something before i put my faith in it."
then this is the religious mind set: "I never understood science, and i need to protect my children from understanding it!"
Calebmoyer 1 year ago 80
@Calebmoyer very well put. There is one exception though: The majority of Judaism.
That one is a religion of study and debate instead of dogma and propitiation.
The Jews seem to put aside their religious lunacy rather easily when properly educated.
They display a great deal less resistance to evidence than does any other religious group IMHO.
That's why they have so deeply influenced physics, mathematics and medicine in the modern era.
VeritasTruthEmet 1 year ago
@VeritasTruthEmet VERY well stated. ^_^
Calebmoyer 1 year ago
@Calebmoyer the very definition of faith is not caring about the facts and believing.
Trinitysx 7 months ago
@Calebmoyer nice way to put it
killha1988 6 months ago
As much as I agree with Mr. Dawkins, and as much as I respect and admire him, I think in conversation with religious people he's a little to aggressive about his views. Which i'm not saying because it's insensitive, but you get a far less productive dialog if you just bluntly say what their doing is completely wrong and stupid. He could have longer and more productive dialog with these people if he didn't attack their beliefs so much.
SmokeWeedEveryHour 1 year ago
@SmokeWeedEveryHour
Well he needs to attack them. Why should he use gloves when boxing with them?
Suddenly it is ok to have a fierce political debate, or to fight over favourite band, or soccer club, but when you talk about religion to someone you need to be polite and nice.
I dont think so.
MrPrankmastergeneral 1 year ago
Religion was created by individual leaders with a violent agenda, who understood that their subjects' "fear of death" was seriously getting in the way of the wars they wanted to fight.
MrChucksalot 1 year ago 2
look at the face of the rabbi @ 8:50 that says it all.
ruapria 1 year ago
I prayed away a headache once!!!! It was a genuine miracle from God!!! ....oh yeah I also took some aspirin.... but thats not what did it........ MIRACLE!!!!! I hate religion.
ziriaxwc 1 year ago 6
I have a question that may seem like a joke, but I never understood from Christians:
Why would the Devil (If there was one) punish bad people? I mean wouldn't he reward us for doing the things he likes?
Just another weird Christian belief IMO
And @DEATHBYGHANDI , I comepletly agree. ALL religions end with some sort of afterlife, or eternal life (ie reincarnation) it's just a stupid coping mechanism for people who can't accept that we don't know anything about what happens after death.
Yeungster23 1 year ago 3
@Yeungster23 Not all religions believe that, many deistic religions (which is the least devout form of theism) do not believe in an afterlife. Sadly their don't appear to be many deists around these days.
vikeyev1 1 year ago
@vikeyev1
Newton was a deist
unfad1ng 1 year ago
@unfad1ng No,he was Christian. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were deist.
N33DL3R 1 year ago
@N33DL3R
No, Newton was a deist and that is a fact.
He rejected the trinity and regarded worshiping christ as idoltry.
He believed that god could only be understood throught stuides of the natural world and that god didnt intervine on a daily basis.
He beleived that god had designed the universe so perfect that no intervention was nessecary and everything was in perfect order.
now how is that Christianity?
ANd how is it not Deism?
unfad1ng 1 year ago
We are apparently going back to the dark ages. Dawkins is right in asserting that children are very impressionable and will believe almost anything (fx Santa). Everyone knows that it is difficult to shake off a bad happed and the longer you have it the more difficult it is to get rid of. Religion is a bad happed that we should not learn our children just like smoking and drinking.
karakzanreal 1 year ago
Man he was hard on that rabi, in a way I almost feel sorry for him.
BigJonBone 1 year ago
This is weak, man
Erutuluco 1 year ago
As much as I agree with what Dawkins is saying, I dont like his method. He is no different than those he means to convert. By saying you are right and I am wrong, is no different than a christian saying that to a muslim. Or an athiest saying to a christian. I accept the fact most beliefs of religious people are incorrect, however by acting in this manner you are no better than those you mean to condem.
templarx122 1 year ago
@templarx122
Remember that his is supported fact/evidence.
But think of it this way: if someone is ignorant and they don't know anything about the progress of science, and says something like "It's a theory, not a fact"; when in fact scientific theory is a higher level of understanding, because theories unite and explain facts, how else can you approach that. I don't think Dawkins forcefully imposes upon anyone his thoughts, but rather enlightens them. I think his approach is just right.
ElDuorPaso 1 year ago 2
i think it's beyond human comprehension their is no creator or god, it's very clear gods and asshole if he did exist and let all the evil take place in the world
normank27 1 year ago
he always looks like he's about to throw a punch.
mattshane 1 year ago
@mattshane hahaha, lmao :P
BIGBASS1992 1 year ago
I totally get why Gnostics think God is the Demiurge and evil...If The Old Testament is the word of God, then that word is far from good.
Edelien 1 year ago
The law of Natural Selection > law of Abrahamic god
ksalaman 1 year ago
How can he be so brutal with some nice little old school teacher who happens to be extremely irrational?
I get so turned off by Dawkins and Hitchens sometimes. Goes to show that atheists are people too, and most don't want good information. They just want their beliefs to be reinforced and for their enemies to be humiliated.
Sam Harris and Dan Dennett aren't big enough douche bags to have their own 'documentary.'
LukeShetler 1 year ago
@LukeShetler Teachers are in a position of power over children, the most vulnerable stage of a humans life. He is causing irrepairable damage to all of them, he and his sect deserve jailtime, nothing less.
qwasdninja 1 year ago
@qwasdninja He was as much a victim as those little kids are. Are you gonna blame a link in the fence or the entire structure?
Even if you attempt to root out individual links, is that really an effective way? It was for reinforcement, not persuasion.
And jailtime? Come on... your authoritarian atheism is dangerous. It really hurts the cause of science and skepticism, where politicians need not apply.
LukeShetler 1 year ago 3
Those fundamentalist Jews REALLY need to look outside of their community for marriage....'cause they are UGLY and need some pretty blood in there. No wonder everyone picks on them.
DexterFishbourne 1 year ago 4
Pheew... though I like the series so far I must say Dawkins definitely doesn't mince words in his interviews, and he could stand to be much more... diplomatic.
Though I have the benefit of the lack of stress that comes with such confrontation, I would have gone into very different routes of questioning; themes of questioning sources, investigating claims, and falsification I think work much better.
I fear he wasn't s much trying to convince them, as trying to make the clip fit the show.
tweaker1bms 1 year ago
"It's impossible to impose upon a jew anything" WTF does this mean exactly?
freethinker923 1 year ago
what abotu christians who dont believe in creation? I mean really, evolution has been completely proven, and god probaly doesnt tamper with life,
KHfan9100 1 year ago
religion is brainwashing, and is writting in the most manipulative manner possible. It actuall creates delusional behavior and thinking patters, think about it, they actually believe in something they have absoloutly zero proof of, infact they have evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Insanity.
aARIESsSs 1 year ago 4
@aARIESsSs okay. I just want to ask. have you at least read buddhism,hinduism,catholic and other christian doctrines,african cultures,chinese culture, Islam, native american religions, and judaism to make this conclusion? because not all of them like that at all. and stop using brainwash. that word is abused for anything these days. what do you mean by brainwash EXACTLY?
christianshounen101 1 year ago
@christianshounen101 yes I have, egyption, greek, scientology, hindu also. The greeks for example died believing zeus was real. And zeus like xenu, yhwh, allah and shiva all have one thing in common, no evidence they exist, and a book writtin by man.
aARIESsSs 1 year ago
As long as there religion,no heaven will be on Earth.
TripleX2go 1 year ago 57
Science is about "I think it's true, but I need to check" and when you're checking in for a long time someone comes and shows you mistakes, or brings you more evidences. Religin is about "I don't think. It's true"
Zacariasz90 1 year ago 5
Hahaha... Evolution? April Fools!
EIephunk 1 year ago
favorite part when he asks richard dawkins..."you're a fundamentalist believer in evolution?" lol. Amazing the level of ignore that is still present in todays society. Very sad indeed lol
snowboardin1 1 year ago
Those fanatics of any kind can NOT be persuaded with any arguments. For the more moderate religious nuts, he should have chosen a bit less absolute title than root of ALL evil. maybe root of some, or more honestly a lot of evil :)
SipsiLitti 1 year ago
lol it not so much and argument then it is common sense. I believed this shit like till 5 and just got bored of it.
psychooutlaw 1 year ago
There are many false hoods believed by people. The scientific community has it self misrepressented the truth. The real question is what is the end game of calling religion the root of all evil. That comment in itself is extremist. If the argument is to combat extremism with extremism, I don't see that as a positive thing.
Zooni2 1 year ago
@Zooni2 I love it when people can't try to respond to the actual claim being dealt with and instead try to bring up this idea of guilt by association. The fact is science tries to find the truth and continues to question and requestion itself until it gets closer to it. No where does science make incompatible claims about the world without scientific investigation. Religion on the other hand does not question itself, and relies on faith as its mode of reliance on what is true. What a joke!
snowboardin1 1 year ago
@snowboardin1 I agree with Dawkins but it is interesting that you are so aggressive with your support. Science is about "I Think it's true" when you are this compassionate, the science loses it's objectivity and becomes more prone to error. Just because the present religious leaders have stagnated and past leaders have told and written quite a few large tales (bible) doesn't diminish the essence of a possible truth.
Zooni2 1 year ago
Indoctronating children.
Mmmm.... Tastes like guilt.
Manik2Magik 1 year ago
Why cant it be said that it is the law of evolution??
surely there is enough evidence to support it...
TheKirkoswald 2 years ago
Laws describe behaviors or governing attributes - Not complex systems. Evolution is too complex to be a law - it is just the name of an observed fact. It's in the semantics of science really:
Facts-->Hypothesis-->Theories
Laws generally describe a specific action/behavior, and underly many theories. Mendel's laws of heredity, for example, are fundamental to evolutionary theories.
stovetop32 1 year ago 2
That is one ugly beard.
obdami 2 years ago 2
This has been flagged as spam show
"I'm an atheist with respect to the Judeo-Christian God, because there is not a shred of EVIDENCE in favor of the Judeo-Christian God."
~ Richard Dawkins
...Dawkins, that's because you have not visited my channel.
Eye2EyeIIIV 2 years ago
From my personal experience with Christianity and Islam I find both religions extremely irrational. However I give preference to Christianity because it is far more tolerant of other religions than Islam. The Christians today do not go around killing people out of desire to impose their religion like the Muslims do.
MarekK64 2 years ago 5
@MarekK64 They do however unknowingly finance it, by way of defense spending and taxes. We in the US have given the Israel's far too many weapons due to lobbyists. It's too bad they couldnt wander out in a desert and have it out. Hopefully we'd be rid of them all!
shawn199500 2 years ago
I take you mean that Christians are financing Islam. How does defense spending and taxes do that is not clear to me. Who do mean we'd be rid off? Christians, Muslims or Jews?
MarekK64 2 years ago
Religious extremist period Christian , Jewish and Muslims. They all seem bent on killing each other, and over what? Holy land ? How moronic is that?
No I mean US taxpayers are funding both sides, Jews and Muslims causes alike.
shawn199500 2 years ago
I agree with you that US taxpayers unwittingly are funding both sides of the conflict in Israel. That is unfortunate. Both sides should be left alone to duke it out.
You say we'd be rid of just the extremists in these religions. hat is always desirable if it could be guaranteed that all three lose and that is not possible. In a conflict like this the more determined side wins. It will be Islam that wins. Do you realize what they will do to the atheists, the disbelievers, the kufar?
MarekK64 2 years ago
True , but I think at that time would could actually pass laws against it. Theoretically there should be few left. Iran is working for a nuclear weapon, so it is only a matter of time before Israel and Muslim high scale conflict arises. Unfortunately we have to live with these mindless twits for a long time to come.
shawn199500 2 years ago
It is unfortunate that Iran will have nuclear weapons. The homicidal maniacs may try to use them against Europe or America. We are too politically correct to be able to stop it.
MarekK64 2 years ago
@MarekK64 Yeah, they only kill doctors and bomb clinics which practice abortions.
rottenmutilation 2 years ago
@MarekK64 That's probably an accident of socio-economics and political science. If the major faith of the middle east was Christianity and the same poverty and war existed there, we might ahve the same result.
Nemesis000000 2 years ago
If the major faith there remained Christianity as it was before muslims destroyed it there then the poverty and oppression would be at much lower level. Of course we can only speculate about it now. I don't think that poverty explains any of that. After all Mohamed Atta came from well to do family.
MarekK64 2 years ago
@MarekK64 Yeah but I mean simply transplanting Christianity in place of Islam, with exactly the same thing otherwise... totally hypothetical and unrealistic, but a good comparison of what would happen.
Atta may have been well off but all terrorism is done in the name of Palestine or defense of what they see as the poor and downtrodden against the rich (non-muslim) invaders of America.
Nemesis000000 2 years ago
@Nemesis000000
I disagree. It is not about Palestine or downtrodden, those are merely excuses. Even if Israel ceased to exist today or have not been restored in 1947 would not have made any difference. The jihad to spread islam and dominate the world is ordained in the Koran and all muslims are required to wage war on infidels until there is no more fitna, disbelief.
MarekK64 2 years ago
@MarekK64
There are some similar decrees in the Bible, you just don't hear about them. I don't see any difference in morality between the Old Testament and the Quran. I agree the New Testament is a little better, but it has some bad shit in it too.
Nemesis000000 2 years ago
@Nemesis000000
There indeed are similar verse in the Old Testament. The reason we don't hear about them much is because nobody is taking them literally and trying to enforce. Then you have new testament which mostly about.
forgiveness and love. Clearly Christianity today is much more tolerant than it used to be. Islam is going the other way. It is becoming ever more intolerant.
MarekK64 2 years ago