"Rod Liddle argues against those who turn to atheism for a rational and moderate approach to today's problems, and says that atheism has high priests and dogmatic beliefs, just like fundamentalist religion."
The Trouble, is the conspicuous lack of rational dialog and the degree of disregard for impartiality in this junk documentary. The narrator, clearly lacking any intelligent argument, stoops to inject eugenics, Hitler and communism into the 'conversation' of atheism ("From Darwin to death camps.") as though there's never before been cruel persecution under religious authority. He then disenfranchises atheists of morality and claims it for religion - e.g.- "...moral certitudes of religion."? Moral certitudes like what? Stoning people to death? Threatening children with the fires of eternal hell? While benefiting from scientific achievement, he steadily downplays the value of science and says "science is a human creation", where in fact, science is documented human observation. 'The Trouble with Atheism' is a shallow attempt to equate atheism with religion in an attempt to validate religion. Throughout, the narrator repeatedly implies that the existence of a god is a rational idea because it cannot be disproved. This is the hallmark of religious intellectual laziness. Nothing inhibits civilization as well as does religion; it deserves to be ridiculed for the charade that it is. Religion does not deserve respect - it hasn't earned it. If you professed a belief in magic gremlins with no evidence, the world would ridicule you and rightly so. Why should religion enjoy the special privilege of immunity to the same rules of critical thinking as are applied elsewhere?
Vic
Posted 29 days ago
Actually, if YOU had looked up the definition of atheism, you'd see that it means a solid belief in the fact that there is no god - not just a cynical view of the claim that god exists. Agnostics are people who will say "You can't just make claims like that without proof" to both atheists and God-believers. Atheists believe there is NO God, based on proof, but it's very certain that they are not just the "open minded people" that you make them sound like dissapointed. Anyhow, this documentary wasn't that good anyways lol.
dissapointed
Posted 123 days ago
It's funny how he presents his viewpoint that atheist think they are right and you are wrong, in the same fashion religious people do. I remember Dawkins saying he finds "fence sitters" annoying exactly because of the same matter. According to them, it's wrong to discuss about religion and take position, whereas atheist respect the religious people and take their claims seriously and respond to them. To put it simple, atheist are guys who say "Hey, you can't make absurd claims like that without proof" and he goes on to claim atheist are arrogant. He doesn't even bother to check the definition of atheism before making a documentary about atheism. This was one of the most ignorant documentaries I have seen. On the positive side the persons he interviewed were smarter then the speaker.
Anyhow, this documentary wasn't that good anyways lol.
To put it simple, atheist are guys who say "Hey, you can't make absurd claims like that without proof" and he goes on to claim atheist are arrogant. He doesn't even bother to check the definition of atheism before making a documentary about atheism. This was one of the most ignorant documentaries I have seen. On the positive side the persons he interviewed were smarter then the speaker.