Re: The root of all evil? - Dawkins Documentary


Scott wrote:
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Posted to AAT forum inappropriately. Better here...

--- In AAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Art Basaran" <greenrobe20@...> wrote:

Both have something in common although Art is openly honest about it. They
both presuppose a belief that life is meaningful and not pointless, that
evil and moral progress are real, that a [T]ruth exists and must be pursued
by human intellect for the *good* of all.

I can't help but think Dawkins is being deliberately deceptive since in
moral relativism evil isn't real but only relevant within how a culture's
code of conduct prescribes particular behaviors/actions as being taboo. He
uses "evil" as though it were a culturally independent universalism - moral
Truth.

Sorry, but I don't understand that.

The point of the documentary was that it is the very phenomenon of
religion that is the root cause of much of humanity's troubles: ethnic
warfare, degrading treatment of women, racism and terrorism.

When one considers the vast amount of groupish religious propaganda
that is poured into the minds of people (especially children) every day
in practically every country in the world and has for millenia, Dawkins
almost solitary stand as a voice for individual scepticism and reason
should surely be welcomed.

Algis Kuliukas

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