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Is Religion Good or Evil? | Richard Dawkins vs Mehdi Hasan

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For decades, the debate between science and religion has shaped public discourse. In this fascinating Oxford Union debate, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and journalist Mehdi Hasan confront some of the biggest questions humanity has ever asked.

🔹 Does God exist?
🔹 Is religion a force for good or evil?
🔹 Can science explain everything?
🔹 Is morality possible without religion?
🔹 Can faith and science coexist?

Throughout this discussion, Richard Dawkins defends atheism and scientific reasoning, while Mehdi Hasan challenges him on faith, morality, terrorism, miracles, child upbringing, the role of religion in society, and the limits of science.

This debate explores controversial issues including:

• Religion and violence
• Terrorism and geopolitics
• Science vs faith
• Morality without God
• Child upbringing and religion
• Heaven, hell and miracles
• Islam, Christianity and atheism
• Meaning of life
• Evidence, belief and reason

Whether you agree with Dawkins or Hasan, this conversation raises profound questions about belief, truth, evidence and the future of religion.

Chapters
00:00 Are You an Atheist?
03:20 Is Religion Evil?
07:35 Does Religion Cause Terrorism?
11:00 Hitler, Stalin & Atheism
14:30 Can Religion Do Good?
19:50 Is Teaching Religion Child Abuse?
23:20 Can Science Replace Religion?
26:45 Final Arguments & Closing Thoughts

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Original Debate:
"Dawkins on Religion: Is Religion Good or Evil? | Head to Head" Aljazeera
This video is intended to encourage discussion and education.

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20 Comments

@nasreendar4644 1 month ago Pinned

Thank you for this sharing with us

@JBasics 1 month ago

Mehdi is a great debater. It’s unfortunate he has such a blind spot on religion

@ЛевШива 1 month ago

It sucks when a genuinely intelligent and likeable person has that one topic that they are just 100% wrong about

@bernardleger8478 1 month ago

Mehdi was disingenuous when he said Stalin committed atrocities in the name of atheism! It’s not a belief, there’s no atheist system. It’s like saying not playing sports is a sport.

@virginiachris80 1 month ago

What an amazing battle of wits! I think Dawkins just got the better of Hassan, but it was back and forth. I respect both of them so much, and it was a great discussion.

@goodjujusound7906 1 month ago

It took me years to get over my nightmares.

When I was a kid, I saw monsters and ran and told my dad. In stead of getting up and turning on the lights in my room and opening my closet and looking under my bed he told me,

Those are demons sent from Satan. Pray to Jesus and go back to bed.

Years...decades of fear and psychological trauma

@roccococolombo2044 1 month ago

Without children indoctrination, religion would have disappeared long ago.

@chefray162 1 month ago

So interesting how medhi continues to push for a binary answer while the doc continues to add nuance and depth.

@deeply-seeking 1 month ago

‘In the case of religious belief, never attribute to intelligence that which can be adequately explained by stupidity’ - Hanlon

@AngelaBrookshire-t1c 3 weeks ago

A real interview. Ask questions and time to answer. Good job.

@shinesparker285 1 month ago

I love Medhi but religion clearly isn’t his strong suit.

@Scotsman1969 1 month ago

Stalin was neither Marxist nor atheist. He was a nationalist first and foremost. Stalin had his own chapel connected to his private quarters where he prayed every night.

@zimpoooooo 8 days ago

A grown man who thinks someone flew to heaven on a winged horse... It feels like it can't be true. It's unbelievable.

@georgedoherty962 1 month ago

The catholic church has still got a lot to answer for. I remember being told by kindly nuns around the age of 6 that a naughty bad Catholic would get into heaven where a good Protestant never had a chance because he was not a Catholic. I will soon be 80 but I remember clearly, being quite upset at the unfairness of that.

@GéopoliWill 5 days ago

What an unbelievable debate

@TheStreetsWontForget9 1 month ago

If you need religion for a moral code you have bigger problems

@2SmallCliff 1 month ago

The “you can’t prove I don’t have an apple “ misplaced burden of proof line, runs strong in religious people. Apart from his errors on this, mehdi is impressive as is Dawkins. Please, more of these conversations.

@davidroman2251 1 month ago

People who are not religious also do good things. Religion doesn’t own “being a good person”. People do bad things in the name of religion but they don’t own that either. The hubris of these people; to think they are the center of the human experience!

@sweatband100 1 month ago

Religion is as religion does.

@frestningsarmen8819 1 month ago

When people want to blame one ism for the harms of other isms in history, I would really like them to connect the logical dots for me and not just go with ”it happened together”.