"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."
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Not a documentary, just a movie.
Not worth watching.
#6 - Rodd - 09/12/2011 - 10:07
The film tellingly stopped right after he says "atheism too has blod on its hands, the Soviet Unions atheist regime killed 20 million people?"
Oh.. So it was an atheist regime? Not a totalitarian, despotic kommunist regime that had antireligiosity as one of its tennants?
Implying Stalin did what he did because of atheism is one of the dumbest and most ignorant things I have ever heard..
#5 - Rationality - 08/19/2011 - 00:58
Not much in this video that's interesting or intellectually challenging -- just more typical head-in-the-sand thinking.
#4 - Joe - 02/14/2011 - 14:54
well... he doesn't let a lack of evidence stop him....
the first five minutes of the "documentary" are closest thing to facts he ever approaches.
"...but is it religion, per se, that is blame, or that very stupid human craving for certainty and justification?"
he is correct. humanities craving for justification and understanding of a big, scary, unknowable universe. religion had filled this roll for humanity.
but he never gets past the arguement, "..you say i am mistaken, so you must be saying i am stupid, and thus, you are a worse person then me, and i do not need to listen to you or your facts and evidence!"
it's too bad the existence of god cannot be tested in any scientific way, or we could just solve this insignificant issue and move on.
I always found it incredibaly ammusing that the best argument that theists have against atheism is that "we are too much like them."
when he said atheism has its "sacred texts" and the camera showed the origin of species, i immediately knew that this documentary was going to be an utter bastardisation of atheism. does this wacko really think that once a week atheists meet at a physics lecture hall and read passages from the god delusion and pray to voltaire? i mean... how much do you wanna bet this bloke is a young earth cretionists who rejects evolution? this whole documentary (if you can even call it that) is just one man's bias view really, not much to offer but to make arrogant theists who are wallowing in their ignorance of the world around them feel slightly more comfortable.
#2 - Matthew - 02/05/2011 - 10:57
This film is just propaganda against atheism, the "reporter" is so biased he can't be taken seriously. Calling atheism a religion just shows his own stupidity. Atheism simply means not accepting theists' claims about god(s) because of lack of evidence, nothing more nothing less.
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Not worth watching.
Oh.. So it was an atheist regime? Not a totalitarian, despotic kommunist regime that had antireligiosity as one of its tennants?
Implying Stalin did what he did because of atheism is one of the dumbest and most ignorant things I have ever heard..
the first five minutes of the "documentary" are closest thing to facts he ever approaches.
"...but is it religion, per se, that is blame, or that very stupid human craving for certainty and justification?"
he is correct. humanities craving for justification and understanding of a big, scary, unknowable universe. religion had filled this roll for humanity.
but he never gets past the arguement, "..you say i am mistaken, so you must be saying i am stupid, and thus, you are a worse person then me, and i do not need to listen to you or your facts and evidence!"
it's too bad the existence of god cannot be tested in any scientific way, or we could just solve this insignificant issue and move on.
when he said atheism has its "sacred texts" and the camera showed the origin of species, i immediately knew that this documentary was going to be an utter bastardisation of atheism. does this wacko really think that once a week atheists meet at a physics lecture hall and read passages from the god delusion and pray to voltaire? i mean... how much do you wanna bet this bloke is a young earth cretionists who rejects evolution? this whole documentary (if you can even call it that) is just one man's bias view really, not much to offer but to make arrogant theists who are wallowing in their ignorance of the world around them feel slightly more comfortable.