Short [Dawkins on God]

  • Richard Dawkins, interviewed in The Guardian, about his new TV-program on religion: The Root of all Evil

    What angers Dawkins most is the way religion gets such an easy ride. “We treat it with a politically correct reverence that we don’t accord to any other institution,” he says. “Even secularists talk about Jewish, Catholic and Muslim children. There’s no such thing. Children aren’t born with a particular religious gene.

  • Charlie Brooker watched The Root of all Evil

    […] hilarious because every time Dawkins meets a religious spokesman, which he does at regular intervals throughout the programme, he quickly becomes far too angry to conduct a civil conversation with them […]

  • Roger Scruton knows Dawkins is wrong:

    There is a tendency, fed by the sensationalism of television, to judge all human institutions by their behaviour in times of conflict. Religion, like patriotism, gets a bad press among those for whom war is the one human reality, the one occasion when the Other in all of us is noticeable. But the real test of a human institution is in peacetime. Peace is boring, quotidian, and also rotten television.


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