TELEVANGELISTS: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
14/07/2020
John Oliver demonstrates that scamming people is legal in the USA as long as you pretend it’s a church.
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C. E. M. JOAD: THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF RELIGION
29/06/2020
In discussing the need for religion, I use the words “origin and nature” deliberately, because the conjunction of these two words seems to me to mask a fallacy which it is important to bring to light. The fallacy is to assume that to lay bare the origins of a thing is tantamount to describing its present nature.
DAVE ALLEN: FIRST DAY AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL [TRANSCRIPT]
30/04/2020
Dave Allen on his first day at Catholic school. A reminder that the best comedy is truth: just by re-stating exactly what the church preaches, it exposes its absurdity.
THE REJECTION OF SALVATION IN DOSTOEVSKY’S “THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV”
19/04/2020
If the romantic rebel extols evil and the individual, this does not mean that he sides with mankind, but merely with himself. Dandyism, of whatever kind, is always dandyism in relation to God. The individual, in so far as he is a created being, can oppose himself only to the Creator.
Bertrand Russell: Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?
22/11/2019
Mankind is in mortal peril, and fear now, as in the past, is inclining men to seek refuge in God. Throughout the West there is a very general revival of religion. Nazis and Communists dismissed Christianity and did things which we deplore. It is easy to conclude that the repudiation of Christianity by Hitler and the Soviet Government is at least in part the cause of our troubles…
Dan Dennett: Interview with Bill Moyers (2006)
14/05/2019
In this interview with Bill Moyers, Dan Dennett delivers a sharp and clear synthesis of a library of evolutionary, anthropological and psychological research on the origin and spread of religion.
Debate Richard Dawkins vs Cardinal George Pell – Full Transcript
01/03/2019
Richard Dawkins and Catholic Cardinal George Pell discuss religion, morals and evolution on Q&A. (10-4-2012 ABC TV)
Aldous Huxley’s Quest for Values: Religion
24/01/2019
Huxley’s ideas have been subjected to much criticism. Those which have been most criticized deal with religion; they have been attacked not only by the critics who have been disturbed by their religious and philosophical implications, but by those who have been bored by Huxley’s occasionally excessive didacticism.
Welcome to this World
22/01/2019
A unique perspective on what Christianity teaches to our youngest and most impressionable.
The Root of All Evil? (2006) – Trascrizione italiana
02/12/2018
The Root of All Evil?, poi intitolato The God Delusion, è un documentario televisivo scritto e presentato da Richard Dawkins nel quale sostiene che l’umanità starebbe meglio senza religione o credo in Dio.
Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion: The case of Edgardo Mortara – by Richard Dawkins
16/11/2018
The nineteenth-century human tragedy of Edgardo Mortara sheds a pitiless light on present-day religious attitudes to children.
Root of All Evil? (2006) – Full Transcript
27/10/2018
In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as ‘a process of non-thinking called faith’. He describes his astonishment that, at the start of the 21st century, religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth.
Seth Andrews: Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot – Full Transcript
15/10/2018
Seth Andrews gave this speech June 3, 2017 in Toronto at the Imagine 7 conference. It’s a humorous (and perhaps therapeutic) romp through Seth’s religious past…and the often bizarre words and attitudes that reflected his Christian faith.
GEORGE CARLIN: RELIGION IS BULLSHIT [TRANSCRIPT]
03/10/2017
When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion.
Bill Maher: Religulous (2008) – Transcript
21/07/2017
Bill Maher’s audacious look at the hottest red-button topic of all. “Religulous” is a vastly entertaining and informative documentary about the craziest aspects of religion.
Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
06/03/2017
Bertrand Russell first delivered this lecture on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall.