The Failed Atheist Experiment

First question in the Q&A session at the seminar yesterday in Dublin.

Why does Daniel Dennett think Atheism is such a great idea if past experiences with regimes that tried to force it upon the population led to oppression and they failed miserably? The precedents don't appear to bode well, do they?

I don't think asker actually listened to the 1 hour long lecture that preceded his question.

Thankfully the questions got better after that.

I didn't shoot video of this question. The next one will be better. Promise :-)

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[jontibloom]

The Religion experiment has been around for several thousand years and has clearly failed. It is now time to try the Atheist era

[rozeboosje]

@jontibloom We should even move beyond that into the diatheistic era where belief in "god"s has become as irrelevant as it should be.

[2ube2ube]

@rozeboosje I think that would be a very good outcome where the belief in 'god' became irrelevant, then ppl would stop wars and conflicts and threats of annihilations of countries or putting down women because of their belief in an archaic 'club' that ppl started about 2,000 years ago.

[rozeboosje]

@2ube2ube Oh, that "club" has been going for a LOT longer than 2,000 years. It started when Glurgh the Caveman looked at his stone hand-axe, and the tree he was about to fell, and he got the crazy notion that just like he created that hand-axe, something "out there" created that tree. And so the insanity started.

[micmac274]

Yeah it was the wrong video. Comment removed.

[rozeboosje]

@micmac274 No worries.

[stratocaster539]

@rozeboosje yes, very good point.I suppose ideology becomes a slave to dogma.

[rozeboosje]

@stratocaster539 I think all ideologies suffer from this problem. Some of the ideas that underlie any particular ideology may not even be all that bad. But then the adherents start thinking that reality should be subordinate to the ideology. That if reality does not fit the ideology, that the ideology CAN'T be wrong and reality MUST be shoehorned into fitting the ideology. And that's when the proverbial hits the ventilator.

[rozeboosje]

@micmac274 I get a strong impression that you didn't actually intend to post that comment on this video [grin]