There are would-be murderers all round the world | Вокруг нас множество потенциальных убийц, | |
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who want to kill you and me and themselves,
| желающих убить вас и меня, и себя самих, | |
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because they are motivated by what
they think is the highest ideal.
| ради того, что они считают высшими иделами. | |
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Of course politics are important,
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lraq, Palestine, even social
deprivation in Bradford,
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but as we wake up to this huge challenge
to our civilised values
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don't lets forget the elephant in the room,
an elephant called religion.
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The suicide bomber is convinced
that in killing for his God,
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he will be fast-tracked to
a special martyrs' heaven.
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This isn't just a problem of lslam.
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In this program I want
to examine that dangerous thing
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that is common to Judaism
and Christianity as well
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the process of nonthinking called faith.
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I am a scientist, and I believe there is a profound
contradiction between science and religious belief.
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There is no well-demonstrated reason
to believe in god
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and I think that the idea of a divine creator
belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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The 21st century should be an age of reason, yet
irrational, militant faith is back on the march.
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Religious extremism is implicated in the world's
most bitter and unending conflicts.
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"We want the non-Muslims off the lands of
Mohammad. We want the kafir out of it."
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America, too, has its own fundamentalists.
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"The Issue for the next generation is
going to be the islamification of Europe."
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And in Britain, even as we live
in the shadow of holy terror,
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our government wants to restrict
our freedom to criticise religion.
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Science, we are told, should not tread
on the toes of theology.
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But why should scientists
tiptoe respectfully away?
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The time has come for the people of reason
to say enough is enough.
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Religious faith discourages independent thought,
it's divisive and it's dangerous.
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Root of All Evil?
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The God Delusion
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lt looks lovely doesn't it?
Inoffensive and gentle.
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But isn't this the beginning
of that slippery slope
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that leads to young men with
rucksack bombs on the Tube?
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If you want to experience
the mediaeval rituals of faith,
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the candle light, incense, music,
important-sounding dead languages,
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