I chanced upon this the other day.
Richard Dawkins Evolves Into an Irascible TV HostEarlier this month, Britain’s Channel 4 aired The Root of All Evil?, a two-part exploration of religious faith hosted and narrated by Richard Dawkins, the eminent Oxford ethologist and author who is one of the world’s most outspoken proponents of the theory of evolution. He’s also an aggressive critic of religion. The Root of All Evil? follows Dawkins as he travels to some of the world’s religious centers—among them Jerusalem, Lourdes, and Colorado Springs—to observe services and to interview leaders and followers of various faiths.
Tipped off by a thread on Echo, I bittorrented both episodes a few days ago. From the vantage point of the United
States, the program is remarkable: You simply would never encounter such a brazen denunciation of religious faith on this country’s
airwaves, because the outcry from the religious right would be deafening. Dawkins’s narration drips with contempt; as he goes about
his rounds, it’s as if he can hardly restrain himself from shouting, “I’m surrounded by IDIOTS!” The smoke coming out of his ears leaves a trail behind him wherever he goes.In the seven-and-a-half minute clip linked through the image below, Dawkins visits Colorado Springs to attend a sermon by an influential but proudly ignorant pastor. In a conversation with Dawkins after the sermon, the pastor likens the event to a rock concert. Dawkins suggests that it was more akin to a Nuremberg rally—a comparison that the pastor appears to be too uneducated and ignorant to be offended by.
For a further insight to how he views God, read his essay on Religion’s Misguided Missiles, where he speaks about the development of a perfect missile for the terrorists’ use he concludes that the best missle = human being/sacrifice for their cause aka suicide bomber. To train a suicide
bomber is to promise something after death which is better than life. To promise that is to use religion.
Let’s compare that to what Romans 1 says. I’ll let the words speak for itself. (emphasis are mine)
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suprress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power, and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. SO they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honour him as God or give thanks to him, but thye became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles …..
(cont at v28) And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrightesness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faighless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but gave approval to those who practice them.
Let’s pray for Richard Dawkins and those who subscribe to his theory because they choose to deny God.
