Religion and the Media. Richard Dawkins documentary, root of all evil The God delusion, speaks out against the concept of religion
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gr1030 (student)
a. Richard Dawkin’s documentary, root of all evil – The God delusion, speaks out against the concept of religion and those who practice it. In this documentary, he presents his case while interviewing multiple people and analyzing key points of different belief systems. He presents how religion is hampering scientific progress, and the danger of the narrow mindedness of religious people. Some of his points include how wars are started due to religion, how people take the Bible’s word to the extreme and use it to justify murder and the dangers presented in following something he believes to be akin to mythology. Another point he makes is the danger of indoctrinating children, who he says are susceptible to influence from authority. He sees the danger in secluding these children and only letting them interact with people of the same religion and in educating them in religion alongside the sciences, saying this leads to much confusion. He talks of the concept of hell and how religious institutions use this concept to scare people into doing the right thing. He concludes that religion is the cause of many of the problems we have today and that our world would be a much easier place to live in if religion was abolished.
