bismillah r-rahman
you
now one of the things that there is out
there right now is there's this there's
two books on the New York Times
bestseller list right now Dawkins The
God Delusion and the other one is Sam
Harris letter to a Christian nation
now as for mr. Dawkins basically what he
does is he takes the best of science and
says look how great we are rah rah rah
and he takes the worst of religion and
he says look how horrible they are boo
down with religion you know not really
fair it's like putting a 90-pound
weakling in with Muhammad Ali in the
boxing ring and and and watching him
pound him to a pulp that's not fair
if you if you want to put Muhammad Ali's
science or really he should be religion
but if you want to put Muhammad Ali
science in with religion you have to
find the George Foreman of religion or
something just there has to be some
parody or compatibility science is has a
lot of good in it it also has a lot of
bad we tend to forget there's a lot of
bad science in the world for instance
there was a move in the United States in
the early 2020s century in the 1920s to
basically sterilize poor people because
they were seen scientifically as
unworthy of breeding that that was a
scientific theory that scientific theory
manifest in the Nazi movement because
the Nazis believed in the science of
eugenics that they were actually a
superior race and they believed that the
Jews were an inferior race that's
science that's not religion so Dawkins
doesn't talk about that science science
is only what's good and what's wonderful
and what's for instance science creates
things like agricultural systems that
work like now we can put potassium and
we can put phosphates
into a chemical mix and instead of
allowing land to rest they used to have
crop rotation and and allow land to rest
have a period of rest so that it could
they'd let the
come graze they would defecate that
defecation would restore the soil to its
its natural and fertile nature so
science comes along and says hey you
know what we can replicate what the
animals are doing so let's put some
potassium some phosphate put it together
put it in the soil and we can just farm
all year long well then we find out that
the topsoil is eroding all over the
world because soil is not being allowed
to rest it's like having a woman
pregnant all year long for 20-30 years
how's she gonna feel so science has its
downside as well now religion has its
downside also but it's just it's kind of
an unfair fight when you take the best
of science the worst of religion and and
write a book about that and just say hey
religions and the science is the answer
religions evil sam harris another person
gee isn't religion horrible it's caused
all these wars well gee what was the
20th century World War one was that
about religion wasn't that nationalism
World War two was that about religion
wasn't that fascism all the Cold War's
weren't those about communism communism
is anti religion so the 20th century the
bloodiest century in human history is
all wars that weren't thought about
religion they were fought about
ideologies so I think the problem is a
human problem it's not the problem of
religion humans are the problem so
religions okay we need to get rid of all
the humans actually what we need to do
is humanize these people that are
walking around bipeds that are supposed
to be behaving like humans and often are
behaving not like animals I don't like
to discredit animals because I think
it's unfair again to say you know he's
behaving like a dog or he's behaving
like a pig or he's behaving like a lion
I I think it's unfair to the animals to
do that you know when you take the worst
of human beings and compare them to
animals because animals are just being
animals
humans on the other hand are not being
human so whatever you want to call them
they're they're certainly not behaving
like animals they're behaving like
demons so I think that's a better if you
if you want a a good metaphor there it's
it's better call them demons that's
demonic behaviors not animal behavior
animals are creatures that live within
their own limitations and I've never
seen a dog that didn't behave like a dog
I've never seen a cat that didn't behave
like a cat never seen a pig that didn't
behave like a pig I've never seen a
donkey that didn't behave like a donkey
I've never seen a rabbit that didn't
behave like a rabbit or any other animal
but I've seen a lot of humans that don't
seem to be behaving like humans
so it's unfair to call them animals
because animals are just being true to
their nature the question is are we
being true to our nature that's the
question and religion says no and you
know why because God expects a lot more
from you then you expect from yourself
so do you want to ask me I would say
it's not our religions that have failed
as Sam Harris mr. Dawkins it's we that
have failed our religions thank you
you