Saturday, October 11, 2008

Richard Dawkins at TED



This talk by Dawkins is humorous at times, and asks us to think about an interesting angle; how we should regard the skewed and biased perspective of the religious right in aiding to hi-jack America with its voting numbers, and thereby creating danger in the world.

He suggests that there are many intelligent, caring individuals in America who as of yet do not know how to collectively come together as an organization, but if they did, they could raise a loud enough voice of opposition to what they  see is happening.

He goes onto suggest that we should have a coming-out party  - to present yourself to the world, your family and friends that you no longer wish to have any allegiance to any sort of religious nonsense because in essence the continual misrepresentation of our physical world into a mystical one is only aiding in dumbing us down, and ultimately allowing horrible crimes to be committed in its name, as in: one religion against another religion and so on...

Watch the video. He says it much better.

11 comments:

sandy said...

I don't have time right now to listen but I liked what you wrote and absolutely agree. I only have a few zealots around me pushing their religion so I consider myself lucky.

John Ackerson said...

Hi Sandy!
Maybe someday we'll all be able to figure out how to live together in peace without so much emphasis placed on the religious model as the sole path to achieving a moral compass and ultimately enlightenment.

Ruth said...

Hi John!

I don't know about a debate between McKinney and Nader, but there are some comments they had to the presidential debate this week here.

Ruth said...

Found it: Trevor Lyman of thirdpartyticket.com, who has also organized any event, a debate, a third-party debate on October 19th from 7:00 to 9:00. Check thirdpartyticket.com for the stream and more info.

John Ackerson said...

Thanks Ruth! Will do!

Morna Crites-Moore said...

Hi, John. Sorry it took me so long to visit. Great blog! Adding you to my blog list NOW! The flag blog, not the fiber blog! www.wrappedintheflag.blogspot.com :-)

Chris said...

Love Dawkins, and love your canvas, River Flow..it's my wallpaper right now.

John Ackerson said...

Hi Morna! Good to see you! Really like what you're doing at your blog. Keep it up! It's inspiring to see others making noise!

John Ackerson said...

Hi Chris! Thanks for visiting. Enjoy the wallpaper!

Anonymous said...

...lots of good stuff here John! I'll start checking it out more often.

...but not religiously :)

-keith

John Ackerson said...

Thanks for visiting everyone!