Awesome.

Brilliant. I watched it twice and dude’s right about everything except one crucial point: religious fanaticism, war, violence, corruption, incompetence, open hypocrisy and stupidity are what our country stands for now. That’s been the case for decades and it won’t be changing anytime soon. The majority of our sub-moronic population believes that we can “help” people by shooting, torturing and bombing them for fuck’s sake.

Sadly, the truth is that everything we were taught that our country stood for—what it meant to be American—was all just lies and propaganda.

Sounds cynical, I know. But cynics are really just broken-hearted idealists.

Love it!

Not that Mr. Condell isn't a great and much-needed voice, but I'll be more excited when a cynical, skeptical talking head is less aroused by attacking religion (I fail to see what the point of it is - religious people will not decide that rationality trumps faith - unless you get at them young) and more excited by promoting the separation of church and state. People like this guy don't win over religious people who are on the fence - they push religious people to feel better about dismissing atheists.

The majority of people I know are, on some level, spiritual - although not religious. They're insulted by Dawkins in particular and find more in common with Christians than atheists. This has been true with a lot of different people, from mystic newagers to Christian Lites.

Additionally, I've known far too many hardcore atheists who sit around and attack religious and spiritual ideas like a bunch of 13-yr-olds in a circle jerk. That type of attitude is repulsive to anyone who has been helped by spirituality or, like me, has watched people be helped.

Condell's more effective because he argues in favor of intelligence coupled with political power.

Well done, Dan. Thanks.

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I love this.

If materialists are correct, maybe religion is an adaptation. In that case, can it be judged to be any worse than atheism, which can be no more than an alternative adaptation?