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07-01-2006, 03:23 AM #5Senior Member
The Root Of All Evil?
I watched most of it and liked it. One problem, he's agruing against religion from a different source of authority, reason and empiracism, which makes it a polorizing, intellectual argument. This plays to about a zero audience of fundamentalists, much the way Pat Robertson might play to graduate students in evolutionary biology.
Another problem with the film is the tone of intellectual superiority. Discrediting religion from an intellectual perspective is playing into the "persecution" trap. Apologists use it to make followers feel warm, fuzzy and "down homey" about being ignorant and deferring emotional complexity to god.
All in all, it was a great presentation and I agree with the message 100%. Too bad he comes across like a wimpy sort of antagonist, someone with a reserved rage. I like my fellow atheists with strong, opposable thumbs. :thumbsup:Those are my principles. If you don\'t like them I have others. -Groucho Marx
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