A program on Atheism

[pasithea]

I have a suspicion it will be a 'cold day in Hell' before you see this series on the Discovery channel or something, even though they run programs about the bible all the time.

Watch em on youtube before they get taken down due to protest from religious people. (My bet is 3 days tops before YouTube pulls it)

the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?
the root of all evil?

Ganked from singedrac

Be sure to click all of the 'related' links. and watch all of each show, not just the first segment.

Comments

Re: Devils advocate

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

This is where I think you're wrong, one more than one point. The points that the atheist scientist believes as 'fact' are generally regarded as having enough proof and evidence to be called fact.

The point where he differs from religion is that his beliefs are based in imperical evidence that he himself can verify, and if say... some radical new theory comes along to show him he's wrong (as per the video), he will GLADLY accept the new theory if he is shown sound proof.

Religion will not. In the face of contradictory evidence, it refuses to budge or adapt.

This sounds like the argument I hear from religious people wielding the tools of logic like their father's loaded gun. The great power of logic brandished unwisely and in a way that gets people hurt.

As for belief in santa claus killing people? I believe the segment on where Islam and Judiasim best illustrates that.

Two religions, where they both believe some myth portion of their past collides with each other and people die every day because of it. Normally these things won't cause trouble, but when they overlap onto other's core beliefs, things get messy. To you or I, in the western world, killing people off because of a belief overlapping is outlandish. but in the middle east, its bloody murder because two groups claim the same land as holy and their own.