Dawkins' Question Schools Robert Wright

After several audience members' questions, out arises that oh so familiar voice. Tear it up R-Dawk.

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[VOD713]

As always Richard goes straight to the point, no B.S.

[soadfan]

@VOD713 yea right? So succinct and to the point. No such beating around...

[rmcdaniel423]

Interesting to see Dawkins in the audience, taking his turn at the mic in the aisle, as opposed to always being the guy on the stage.

[b33p3rz]

@NeosimianSapiens Sorry, damn character limit - When you believe in the idea more than the people, you're no longer in touch with the society you want to influence.

[b33p3rz]

@NeosimianSapiens He does though, and he is making your exact point in different words at the beginning. He's trying to equate the mindset that someone devoutly religious who lets that effect their outward social policy way too much, with that of what other people will fight in the name of. You're both making the great point of how differing expansive ideologies can serve to ultimately create disparity.

[nextblain]

BAHAHAHAHA DAWKINS PWNS AGAIN

[NeosimianSapiens]

I wonder if Dawkins forgot about Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment?

I'm no fan of religion, but I'm also aware that nearly anything can be used as a pretext for being really nasty to other people. This week it might be done in the name of God; next week it might be done for the Ultimate Triumph of World Socialism; the week after it might be done for some other Noble Cause.

I'm surprised that the man who coined the word "memes" doesn't see this.

[StigJensen123]

I'm surprised by Richard's complete misunderstanding of Northern Ireland - he should have chosen a different analogy. Catholics and Protestants have been at each other's throats for 300 years due to British imperialism, not because one group thinks the other's religion is inferior. Catholicism and Protestantism are merely labels - the underlying issue of course is the desire for a united Irish republic. Thought that was so obvious????!!!!!!

[KapStuf]

@socalcraigster The Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, the Sunni and Shia in Iraq. Both pairs now famously killing each other - after centuries of peaceful co-existence and even intermarriage. What changed? Their countries got invaded and *one* group given power by invaders.

In N.Ireland Protestants and Catholics were shooting each other, in R. of Ireland they didn't. What was the difference?

Religions divisions only get violent when there's politics involved - politics that's irrelevant to theology.

[socalcraigster]

@KapStuf - disagree. Religion causes division. The effect of the division is often violence.

[KapStuf]

Dawkins asks an interesting question but this time I think he's got it backwards. Religion doesn't cause social division, religion is an effect of (and later an excuse for) division.

[RustlessPotato]

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