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If you go to:
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/5200
and click on:
Richard Dawkins Discusses God, Faith and Why Religion is Bad
[He doesn't actually ever say religion is bad]
This a good Q&A session with Dawkins in a US college - brave man! - where a lot of the questions come from what look like a christian University (Liberty) that appears to have a dinosaur fossil that's 3000 years old - Dawkins response to this is hilarious.
Anyway, Dawkins gets criticised for sometimes getting insultive, but he's on top form here, and manages really get his point across without being insultive - in particular, one girl asks "What if your wrong?" and he responds with a pretty good answer along the lines - "You worship your christian god because you were brought up with it. What it YOU are wrong, and God is the Hindi God, Muslim God, etc."
Interesting that he comments that there are probably a lot of atheists in the USA who are scared to "come out" and that there are more atheists in the USA than Jewish people, but the Jewish lobby is hugely powerful - and one woman even asks him if "anger" is a common theme of people trying to get out of a religion [He's stumped and does a quick straw poll of the audience to find out if this is true, and gets quite a response that it is - I can understand that, though, having been forced to endure 10 years of Catholic school]
As I'm not in the USA I can't really comment on this last bit.
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/5200
and click on:
Richard Dawkins Discusses God, Faith and Why Religion is Bad
[He doesn't actually ever say religion is bad]
This a good Q&A session with Dawkins in a US college - brave man! - where a lot of the questions come from what look like a christian University (Liberty) that appears to have a dinosaur fossil that's 3000 years old - Dawkins response to this is hilarious.
Anyway, Dawkins gets criticised for sometimes getting insultive, but he's on top form here, and manages really get his point across without being insultive - in particular, one girl asks "What if your wrong?" and he responds with a pretty good answer along the lines - "You worship your christian god because you were brought up with it. What it YOU are wrong, and God is the Hindi God, Muslim God, etc."
Interesting that he comments that there are probably a lot of atheists in the USA who are scared to "come out" and that there are more atheists in the USA than Jewish people, but the Jewish lobby is hugely powerful - and one woman even asks him if "anger" is a common theme of people trying to get out of a religion [He's stumped and does a quick straw poll of the audience to find out if this is true, and gets quite a response that it is - I can understand that, though, having been forced to endure 10 years of Catholic school]
As I'm not in the USA I can't really comment on this last bit.