I was going to post on the Richard Dawkins programme on C4 last night, but Ophelia Benson over at Butterflies and Wheels has done a much better job of it than I could.
I only caught the
program from the interview with an extremely smug and smarmy evangelical. By
the end though I began to despair that there really are such stupid and
malevolent people in the world. As Dawkins said religion gets good
people doing evil things.
In practice of course it isn't just religion.
Any dogma that claims to know the answer before anyone has asked the
question is as likely to have the same outcome - which means marxism
and many brands of libertarianism as well as Christianity, Judaism and
Islam.
By the end I just wanted to nail all those arrogant know-alls behind a big door - preferably the same door.
