Sunday, November 11, 2012

Richard Dawkins - on Sex, Death, and The Meaning of Life [More4]

IN A THREE-PART SERIES starting in Oct '12, Richard Dawkins tracks the three nouns of the title from the perspective of how life (might) looks like without religion.

Every episode repeatedly reminds the viewer that "More and more of us realise that there is no God. And yet...".

The first episode talks about Sex and the (religious) notion of sin. Try here. ("Sin" is, by definition, a religious notion.)


The second episode discusses death from a factual, pragmatic perspective as a reality, and the inherent denial that all religions propose as an alternative. Try here.

The third and final instalment takes the examples of the struggles that Leo Tolstoy, Henry Graham Greene, and Albert Camus have put forth in finding the "meaning of life" (through the entanglement of religiosity). Try here.