Enemies of Reason - Slaves to Superstition

In this two-part TV series famous British scientist, Richard Dawkins (The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow, The God Delusion) takes a hard look at the New Age community and other pseudo-spiritual groups who claim to be able to lead you to nirvana or eternal bliss. Many are simply good-hearted ignoramuses, others have discovered an easy way to get rich quickly. None of their beliefs stand up to reason or have any scientific or rational basis. By understanding that these pseudo-religions are baseless it is easy to understand by extrapolation that Christianity and Islam are similarly groundless and constitute nothing more than mere superstition, which serves only to shackle the mind and prevent it from actualising its full potential for happiness and intelligence. The series also features an appearance by world famous magician Derren Brown who has shown convincingly that religious 'miracles' and even 'sudden conversion' can be brought about by simple means and have nothing magical or otherworldly about them (see also Derren Brown's 'Seance' and 'Messiah'). For more imformation go to: http://richarddawkins.net/

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Wake_Up. (2008-11-11)

No religion or society has been as responsible as Islam for invasions, intolerance, genocide, massacre, civil war, annihilation of other cultures, abuse of women and children, persecution of non-believers, and general inhumanities.
Islam as a religion or belief system should at least decrease these problems, and yet it has failed like none other. Instead Islam has been used to justify and magnify human evil for 1500 years.
At the very least Islam has not proven a reasonable model for civilized success.
Islamic countries are constantly in civil war.
Islamic countries have either no tolerance for non-Islamic beliefs or brutally subjugate non-Muslims.
Islamic countries demonstrate the worst abuse of women.
Freedom of speech doesn't exist.
Wherever Islam goes all non-Islamic culture and belief is destroyed. Art, libraries, architecture, are all destroyed if non-Islamic.
The most extreme slaughter and suppression of critics & dissenters:
Hitler's Nazi Germany,
Stalin's Communist Russia,
Mao's Communist China,
Pol Pot's Communist Khmer Rouge,
Mussolini's Fascist Italy.
Saddam's Islamic Iraq,
Khomeini's Islamic Iran,
Omar's Islamic Taliban,
Abd al-Wahhab & Ibn Saud's Islamic Arabia, and
Tamerlane's Islamic Asia,
These empires fit together like puzzle pieces.
Islam has always been a fertile ground for the rise of ultra extremist militant fascist movements.
Wherever Islam goes in the world violent militant extremists magically appear as well.
These problems find their roots in the books, teachings and examples of Islamic leaders from the very beginning.
And don't try to apologize for these fascist Islamic empires by saying every country has it's problems; it would be like apologizing for Ted Bundy & Jeffrey Dahmer by claiming everybody has their problems.
For an excellent list of factual and historic articles:

Henriku (2008-11-13)

please wake up from your ball sucking
it's distracting you from logic

Lucian_ (2009-02-07)

part two has a tiny little resolution.

MerseaParadise (2009-03-18)

Well it's pretty clear that Wake UP is a Christian. Only someone of the Jesuit faith could be so convinced by his own erroneous facts.
Christianity, in particular Catholicism, has always been the most damaging religion. From the crucades through the inquisition and the holocaust (Adolf Hitler was a Catholic and had full support from the Vatican) to modern day HIV epidemics & starvation in Africa.
All religions are counter-productive, dangerous and divisive, but Christianity has always been the worst. They turned the muslims into the militans that they now are. During the time of the crucades the muslims were a very secular people, sharing their land with many other faith groups. They made great leaps forward in science and medicine before the Catholics forced them to take up arms.
I wish the Americans would just accidentally launch one of their super-nukes on themselves. The world would be a safer place without these primative yank savages stirring up this hatred again.

Haniel_P (2009-04-22)

Now, now, now, merseaparadise, don't be so quick to have us (Americans) drop a bomb on ourselves. The least we can do is take the Brits with us, since it was British fucked-up piety that came over on "the boat".
Americans just created a "fucked up" gold standard. So like us, isn't it?

Haniel_P (2009-04-22)

Well, I suppose that more "correctly" I should state that Americans have created the gold standard for "fucked up", but it sounded better the other way. Lol!

adventurjunky (2011-09-17)

part 2 is bad quality