The Root of All Evil, Must See
I had the fortune to watch here on CBC here in Canada, the documentary by Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins called "The Root of All Evil" on CBC Newsworld's The Big Picture by Avi Lewis. It focused the extremism in the three major monotheisitc religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam and argued and that in what was supposed to be an age of reason has become more of an age of extremes. It was refreshing for him to lambast American evangelicalism which is I really enjoyed his confrontation with Joe Jr.'s glazed smiling buddy, NAE (National Association of Evngelicals) president Ted Haggard on the issue of evolution. Though Hawkins rightly lambastes American evangelicalism of seeing things only through black and white with no shades of grey, I find he lacks the same charity to the religions he criticizes and is quite inflexible in the belief that science and faith can go together but on the plus side, I really enjoyed his low tolerance and passionate disapproval of fundamentalist thought. I offer you courtesy of Youtube.com the documentary of The Root of All Evil and an audience participation session after documentary on Avi's show The Big Picture at http://www.cbc.ca/bigpicture/evil.html . Enjoy!
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