There Will Be Blood and religious delusion

Tony Watkins and Tom Price compare the attitudes to religion of the two main characters in Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood. Oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) and church leader Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) are both prepared to use religion for their own ends, but Eli is either deluded himself or is deliberately misleading others. How can we distinguish between religious delusion and the real thing? Download a high resolution version of this video at www.toolsfortalks.com.

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• Religion
• delusion
• truth
• faith
• scepticism
• There
• Will
• Be
• Blood
• Paul
• Thomas
• Anderson
• Tony
• Watkins
• Tom
• Price
• Oscar

[mgigkgeg]

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[GodRulezD00d]

@mgigkgeg Alright chill bro, i believe that there is a God, you don't. and i respect that. i'm not trying to shove anything down anyone's throat. Just calm your nipples...

[mgigkgeg]

@GodRulezD00d Yep you sure did mate, congrats. Give me your address so I can send you your stubborn, delusional dumbass trophy

[GodRulezD00d]

@mgigkgeg I think i won..Good night!

[mgigkgeg]

@GodRulezD00d dumbass

[GodRulezD00d]

@mgigkgeg Just...just stop. Nothing you do or say is going to change my views on my savior.

[mgigkgeg]

@GodRulezD00d You are an idiot. You can't prove a negative, the burden of proof is with you the one making a claim (and by the way, the bible is not proof of god). Scientists are the ones that gave you this opportunity to spout your nonsense on the internet, cured or prevented illness and made your life much easier, you clearly don't understand what a theory is. People like you just annoy me to no end, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain and simply an idiot.

[timothyw98]

That wasn't Eli at the start, that was his brother, the actor playing eli dropped out and Dano had to play both.

[MrMasoodrodman1]

@GodRulezD00d i am so lucky that i found jesus at age 17,,and now iam 29,.,.its so great the lord died for my sins and now i can pillage murder rape cheat fraud and still i will go to heaven,.,,.this has to be the best deal any loving god can give, i mean whatelse can u ask for,,.,.,these idiotic atheists and other religious people dont see logic behind jesus merciful ways,.because he knows our weaknesses,,.,.thats the only reason god sends to heaven many pedophilic popes over the centuries,.,.,

[GodRulezD00d]

Oh YouTube XD anyways were was I? Oh ya. Be thankful for what you have and what God has given you You everyday. I'm not forcing anything on anyone but just think about...