Friday 20 November 2009

The Deaf Leading The Blind

After some Modern Warfare 2, which I'll get to later, I decided the do a bit of self-educating. Following what I'd heard on the Penn Jillette Radio show on Free FM (technically the podcast of said show from 3 years ago) and my current penachant for documentaries at the moment, I watched The Root of all Evil by Richard Dawkins, and it's professing of religons of all kinds writing off evolution, refusing to educate children properly, and generally going to bring about the end of the world through ones means or another. All very prophetic, ironicaly enough, but he annoyed me as much as the people he was interviewing; he was actively aggresive to them when they said something that didn't fit with his own views, which the very thing he was acusing them of. Perhaps he was trying to get a reaction out of them to do the same or to make a point, but it just became hypocritical to me. Some even seemed to respect Dawkins' own views while not forcing theirs upon him. I can't say he wasn't always doing the same. Which is a shame from a man trying to use the show partly to promote the idea that those of us without religion are the more peaceful and openminded.