Richard Dawkins and "Child Abuse" Part 3

I came upon this show that took place in England I think sometime around January of 2008 that included Richard Dawkins and a host of secular and religious individuals to discuss the issue of "faith schools" in their country. It's called The Big Debate! Religion in School and was hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby, and also included Peter Price, Barry Sheerman, and Oona Stannard.

I wanted to post this because, as I've shown in the first and second parts of this series, I wanted to expose many theistic apologists' claims about Dawkins' views as false and I think I did a good job of that with these posts. I also wanted to post these videos so you can hear these debates I discussed in the first part of this series for yourself and really see the controversy surrounding the schools and see Dawkins' views in context.

Something that you don't see a lot here in the u.s. was that many people on the show came out and said they agreed with Dawkins' views! As I said in my first post, this is an issue where a majority of people in England agree with Dawkins and it is this environment that must be understood if you are to understand Dawkins' views on religion.

It's very interesting to listen to their discussion since it's such a different set of circumstances that are alien to the u.s. due to our principle of the separation of church and state (what's left of it...), which England doesn't have.


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