The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. In The Virus of Faith, Dawkins opines that the moral framework of religions is warped, and argues against the religious indoctrination of children.
Part 1 - The God Delusion
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Part 2 - The Virus of Faith
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This is very serious thing to ponder over. He is one of the most outspoken persons of out times, who spoke with clarity about the negative effects of religion, a bad habit that we picked up during the course of evolution.
superb video! Thanks.
The conclusion is not true entirely, atleast in my opinion. This is like “Biyyam lo raallu unnayi kabatti annam thinaddu annattu vundi”.
There are people who take advantage of loopholes, There are good people too.
The good people should do more responsible job, that’s all.
If you have social responsibility, Do something good to the society, which inturn helps nation, world, entire human kind.
Sarve jana sukhino bhavanthu.
Is it problem with people or religion, we blame system, when we can’t blame ourselves. For instance there is no religion will there be no violence.
gud video..
I am having same thoughts… same as the author has..
everything is bullshit no religions existed before 9000 BC
This guy is absurdly wrong.
religion is not at all source voilence.
you see people like mother teresa, served humanity only to please god.
wherein darwinist like this guy compare humans to animals and were responsible for more trouble than religion . capitalist, communist like pol-pot, stalin,mao killed more people or nations. imperialist used this darwinism to rule over indians,africans,asians saying they were the fittest according to survival of the fittest.
religions have supported oppressed people by giving them courage islam now in palestine and iraq where the unjust western demons occupied land and killed millions and forced millions out thier homes and living.
in past in polland where christianity was a support for people to free themselves from russian domination.
ofcourse some evil people like serbian who killed innocent bosnian
zionist who killed innocent palestinians. religion is not the first concern they are not true followers
@ Mentor
How abt fights ging on in midwest?
how abt partition between india and pak based on religion?
do give bullshit answer
dont say grp of ppl misinterpreted religion..
do u think this are small mistakes?
Guys work hard to prove science.. …
@ king
see mideast is very complex region i can write book down here but in short -
why are people in nepal violent its a hindu state?
bcoz of a unjust king.
So in middle east after the second world war the imperial powers installed monarchies(dummy puppet despotic rulers) like saudi arabia, egypt , jordon ……, muslims/arabs did not choose them. nor did any religious body authorize their action.
does india has any american/british arm base on its soil . all these country have heavy western arm presence to intimidate these puppet ruler and arab nations.
israel a country which did not exist b4 world war just create by west and zionist to check muslims keep the trouble and fear on to sell arms, make money ,to control politics, wealth,oil,………….
muslims are unfortunately reactive not proactive. what you see is the reaction hyped and added mirchi masala by by western media.
when a innocent muslim die they say ” suspected terrorist/ millitant killed”
when christian in indonesia ask for independence uno rushes to help sends forces and partitions indonesia to create east timor.
poor muslims in kosovo, chechenya , bosnia cry for help but no one pay attenttion.
kofi annan comes to india, he has time to visit hyd see baskets made by village women but no time to meet the kashmiris to talk about there plight and misery.
religion gives oppressed people hope of better future and gods help in difficult times
Hi mentor
good arguments. But do you think if there is no cristian, muslim, hindus or any other relegion in the world. Won´t be people more relaxed. Haven´t you heard or seen muslim sacrificing others in name of God or so called jihad. Christian try to benify the poorness of hidus or muslims to convert them to Christian. This hindusism has so stupid caste system which bring hatered in people of same relegion. You gave the example of Nepal. But i am afraid that is very poor argument. Think about Gujrat. Only problem RELEGION there. If there would be no relegion do you think Gujrat tragedy will happen. Kashmir you can say is Political but Gujrat was only and only relegion.
@Mukesh, King
Lets say there is no Religion on the earth. What is the guarantee that people wouldn’t fight for wealth, land, women?
As long as there are bad people on the face of earth one has to confront them to keep the justice.
Just because people cannot follow good preachings of a religion they should not blame the entire religion itself.
Vedas are the sacred scriptures of Hindus. First please read them completely, understand them and then criticize if there are any short comings in them. Caste system is something created by selfish people.
Caste system is not associated with Hinduism.
I do not like bad muslims, this doesn’t mean that I hate Quran. I cannot hate Islam because I do not know what is written in Quran.
Guys,
Religion is a social norm created by, well humans. All vedas, Bible, Quran are written by huh humans. Just because its been centuries and the way it passed as word of mouth it has been greatly exaggerated.
If u think logically and watch this video with an open mind without a prior judgment in your mind you will see what Dawkin was referring to.
@ Srinivas you are asking what guarantee?
Well its been 3 thousand years since the dawn of so called religions. There has been thousands of wars and hundreds of millions died. We did not gave a chance to logical thinking. Well we are not ready at this time but may be in a century we will have the big 5 religions and then a new religion (atheism) which will spread with science.
In US the christian bible belt are questioning evolution now and they want genesis to be taught to the students in school. Now they want to mix and preach religion in science class. I am glad that Hinduism is not in that stage now atleast.
I am an hindu and recently I converted myself to atheism but I love my country and culture. Well I feel relaxed now. I do miss the big there is some one who can help me factor but reality is that we need to tackle our own problems.
Why he dint explored Hindusim.. If he had reearched about Hinduism, he would have got all the answers… Hinduism is not a religion its a way of life, its a science, its a principles, its teaches how we should leave … Most important is 10000 years of Hinduism history we have never waged war or attacked someone …I think he is afraid of exploring Hinduism …
My sincery advice to him is to explore Hinduism before concluding ….
I missed out point to mention ..
He has given clear picture of what christain and Muslim religion are doing to this world …
What ever is mentioned in this video is 100% correct about Chirstain and Muslim… they want to rule world by converting people … thats wht u r seeing churches all over India and forcing people to convert by force or money …
Muslim are incresing their strength by incresing head count having mroe children and later they will demand kashmir, punjab etc etc …
Brothers
the concepts of God , Religion is vital to humanity as its the key to moral , responsible and ethical conduct.
religions have laid moral and ethics .
ex:
according all religions extramarital sex is sin and would be punished. if a guy/gal has lost faith in god he will not care abt this norm. he is not harming anyone by doing this sin. he is just human yet another animal
and can have sex with anyone as cats & dogs do.
next
respect your parents
-your heaven is under your mothers feet-islamic tradition
if muslim neglects his mother he sins.
for atheist she just a old body feeding her is waste of money as it doesnot have any financial benefit.
feed the poor.
agnostic-why should i spend on this waste and ill destitute . i gain no money out of it.
finally
see how this so called evolutionist ” DAWKINS” supports his reasoning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOfzBxJzF3I
if have got time and bandwidth watch this too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5sfHz3xyNc
Prashanth,
You seemed to be confused my friend.
Good luck to your life in your new athiest religion.
You say that you do not want any religion and you are calling atheism as religion.
My friend you are lucky to be born a Hindu.
Hinduism do not believe in conversion.
Hinduism respects all religions. Bharat has given refuge to various races.
Hinduism is not a religion, it is a way of life. The sacred Vedas tell us about, medicine, politics, how to live, civil engineering.
Being a Hindu, I do not criticize other religions. But it irritates me when someone criticizes Hinduism.
What good science has done? definitely it has given us advanced technology. But at the same time it has given devastating Nuclear weapons.
Which are used in Japan already, it has given tremandous radio active material.
I believe 2 world wars are not fought because of any religious fued. Do you think the 2 world wars (which have bought huge human loses ) are fought by religious fanatics?
Wake up my friend. As long as there is evil on the face of the earth, you cannot escape violance. There is no hard and fast rule with which you can ensure evil will not take birth in atheism.
The corporate America doesn’t have any religion, but to grow its revenues, it will goto any extent like influence the USA govt. to wage war against other countries to take control of oil fields, gas fields, strategic locations.
Srinivas,
//You seemed to be confused my friend.
Thank you for letting me know that I am confused
//Good luck to your life in your new athiest religion.
Thanks for your wishes.
Anyway I was referring atheism as a religion in terms of category basis not as a real religion.
//My friend you are lucky to be born a Hindu.
I am lucky to born as Hindu. I am also lucky to born in India. I am lucky enough to explore more than religion.
Srinivas, I have seen many comments of yours. You seemed like a strong supporter of Hinduism which is a good one. Because you believe in some thing. I am not saying Hinduism is wrong. But I am saying we tend to believe more in miracles and prayers than actual trying.
//What good science has done? definitely it has given us advanced technology. But at the same time it has given devastating Nuclear weapons.
Srinivas I think u need to shun away from all the things science done for you right from your clothes (remember its also an art of science) to your everyday internet. Science does not only comprise of high tech weapons but also day to day stuff which u take for granted.
Take ayurvedha is also a science of medicine. Take astronomy which is also science. These are regarded as u know the outcome of Hinduism but I regard the as outcome of people exploring science.
Prashanth,
What srinivas is saying is 100% correct..
I think you might have got confused with the way hinduism is being projected in this generation by media and anti-hindu organisations…
As srinivas said Hinduism is a way of living your life for others …it wont tell you to do pooja, perform rituals and other things…
Please read vedas, bhagavad gita and other books … not the one which is written by this generation .. but the one written by way long back people …
when British invaded India, they studied our strength and weakness … our strength was our culture and tradition of hinduism .. .so they targetted that and spoiled and gave a picture of hinduism as a religion and caste based and doing pooja and other things .. and the next generation followed it adn even today people believe wht british people said …
thats why you r in that impression …
perfect way will be you to read about our vedas and Upanishads adn come to conclusion your self…
I just want to Highlight few thing..I am jus briefing them..
1.Hindusim never compells one to follow it.
2. We do not hate any religion(we readily accepted Moghals and British when they came to India).
3. Hinduism never says that all hindu’s must do pooja, perform rituals.
4. Hindusim Never teaches all hindu’s must pray to hindu god’s.
5. It never says that there is no other god other than hindu god(unlike muslim and christianity)
6. We are never thought how to do pooja from childhood.. we learn it by age.
7. In temples we worship god, we dont read or learn bhagavadgeetha, vedas, or puranas. 90 % of hindu’s, i do believe must not have seen a bhagavad geetha till now.
8. We never force or lure anyone to convert to our religion, we dont believe in conversion. A hindu should be “Hindu” by birth and by blood. Just chanting few lines or putting some oil on head doesnt make anyone a HINDU.
9. Our Bhagavad Geeta doesnt teach about Hindusim, it teaches about how a person should be in a society.
10. We dont learn abou hinduism anywhere in temples or schools or in social gathering we carry it in our blood
I would like to say that just as much as you can’t prove there is no god, in the same manner you can’t disapprove it. I think these videos had some interesting arguments. Although, I dont believe in religions I believe there is a power above us who is the creator. I think all religions follow the blind men going to the zoo story. Where the blind men go to the zoo and want to find out what an elephant would look like. They all touch different parts of the elephant and think that all know what the elephant looks like by defining their part of the elephant, except they are all right but also terrible wrong. In the same way all religious have important points and I guess if you look closely they all preach bascially the same thing.
When it comes to Atheism, its very dangerous. Only Plus point it says is ” Think Rationally “. But I guess If there is no fear or respect for almighty up there, every human thinks he is the super power and does and acts as he wants. best example for this is ADOLF HILTER and SADDAM HUSSAIN. People get crazy when they start thinking that they are ultimate rulers of this world, which is not only dangerous to society but also to the worlds peace. thought of almight makes one humble and human lover bcoz none of the god’s say to hate fellow.
One of my friend say that why should we believe in god, I am not here to talk about other religions gods but i will talk abou hindu gods.
Vishnu: In all his avatars, he only said destroy the bad and help the good.
Shiva: He is Mr. Bhola, he doesnt know anything except giving booms.
Bhramha: He is busy in creating world.
Durga: Kill bad to protect good.
If you keep saying like this we have millions of gods who always said destry bad to protect good. But none of the gods ever said kill anyone who is not hindu or someone who’s against hinduism or protect hinduism by killing other religions.
This is what is shown in this video:
Quran: Does say that allah is the ultimate god and all muslims should and must pray to allah
Bible: Old testment does say that Jesus is the only god and there is no god other than Jesus
Bhagavad Geetha: It doesnt talk about hinduism or lord krishna or other gods. It jus says how human should live in this society.
Do you see any differences!!.. I DO SEE..
I am not a religion fanatic. but i do believe that every religion has their own positive and negitive points. I am just differenciating all religions. I might be wrong, I might be right. Let me tell you one thing, I’m the one, who went to a masjid on dussera day, as my middle eastern friends invited me to join iftar party during ramzaan festival and had non-veg. And i did schooling in christian school for 11 years and i do know bible lot more better than many christians do..
Prashanth,
That is the difference between a true believer and an atheist.
A true believer follows good beliefs of a faith and accomodates the good in new things and appreciate them. An atheist like you switch sides.
You think you are only right. But I am not.
I congratulated you for joining new religion.
The fact that you are attributing Textile techonolgy to Modern Science itself says how much you know about Hinduism.
I am not a strong supporter of Hinduism. If I had been one, I would have left my current Job and joined some Hindu organisation in India that are fighting for the cause of Hinduism.
Sarve Jana Sukhino Bhavantu - This is what a true Hindu believes in.
JAI HIND
Hi Srinivas,
Sure people will fight because of wealth, land , money but why we bring one more region to fight. These three are not enough? you said Caste system is not associated with Hinduism but why each and every hindu follows that. Could you think hindus without caste?? Do you mind saying yourself a hindu without a caste? You are right castism is not associated to hinduism, as manusmriti says “caste is not inheritable” but why not a single hindu follows it.
@Srinivas,
//true believer and an atheist.
I am also a believer. I believe in science and rational thinking.
//The fact that you are attributing Textile techonolgy to Modern Science itself says how much you know about Hinduism.
Textile industry is also science. As mentioned before its not just modern weapons or high tech gizmos.
Dictionaries defines science as
“Science refers to either:* the scientific method – a process for evaluating empirical knowledge; or* the organized body of knowledge gained by this process.”
//An atheist like you switch sides.
What sides are u talking about? I did a thing which I thought was logically and rationally right. I cannot stick with the same so called “side” even though I knew the correct path.
The fact that I am seeing many incidents these days makes me feel that I made the right decision. I am not asking you to leave religion srinivas, just asking people to think logically and do what they felt is good and which is acceptable to the current age not by following a book written a thousand years before.
Also I am talking about all religions not just Hinduism.
Hey neha!! u are damn right ….i also think the same…and i am following this blinds and elephant story…since childhood…..all religions are right in some or the other sense…but they are terribly wrong in real sense…. i do not know why ppl do not understand that all religions and traditins are made for harmony…and to teach ppl live good and happily….and ppl misinterpret it…..and inteligent and super smart ppl who are hungry for power use religion and anything they have to grow thier power and fool the fools to rule them….i am sure all these abrahams, muhammads n budhhas…all wanted to try to be like gods with same logical truth twisted and their signature style , which also conatins their stupidity and ignorence like blinds..
mukesh,
yes my friend I can call my self a Hindu without caste. I came to know of my caste when I was filling my application for the engineering.
Crapy Congress still following the Divide and Rule policy of Cruel Britishers.
Also before asking me the question, you should also know something called Varna system in Sanatana Dharma.
Hey , I’m totally agree with Mentor’s statement that “religion gives oppressed people hope of better future and gods help in difficult times” and more over just think of a world without any religion, would everybody live in peace . Answer is no in that case every body will follow their desires and will come up with their own religions and that will lead to more bad situation what appears now. I would suggest one thing to every one who disagree with this ” Instead of denying the existence of the God or religion try to find out the true religion of God ( which really God wants you to follow) which will give you direct connection with your God with no middle layer between you and your God and this is a great peace of mind to be connected to your creator.
THIS VIDEO IS FULL OF CRAP.
Prashanth,
Simply to put, no path is free of hurdles. No path is as rosy as one might be thinking.