Whether you love South Park or hate it with a passion, I think you’ll enjoy their take on evolution. It’s a bit more crude than the Simpson’s take or even Family Guy’s for that matter. But hey it’s Friday so enjoy :)
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November 3rd, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Damn, that was funny. I find I love South Park in small doses.
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:08 pm
I was surprised when I saw their depiction of Dawkins on the show, because it actually wasn’t that bad, and they pretty much preserved his arguments.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Judging by the way the last episode went (and the fact that the creators make it clear that they believe in god and evolution), the next one will probably end with some sort of lesson like, the world wouldn’t be better without religion because people kill each other no matter what… A point that I both agree and disagree with. People would still kill each other without religion, but the world WOULD be a far better place without organized religion.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Haven’t seen this full episode, but I remember a while back seeing an episode wherein people were becoming atheists and also shitting out of their mouths. It impressed me because I actually felt a little offended, which doesn’t happen every day. It serves the great purpose of all satire, to open our eyes and make us look at things differently (even if we hadn’t wanted to). But I don’t pay much attention to the moral lessons that creep their way into the stories, because I don’t think that just because I find a couple of guys funny their opinions on matters of ethics/philosophy/religion are worthwhile. And being offensive (and funny) seems to come before having a point in the show.
I guess I haven’t watched it in a while. I hope it’s not becoming preachy.
November 4th, 2006 at 11:27 am
It’s sooooo preachy… They did an episode making fun of family guy, where they kept saying “atleast it’s not up its own ass with messages.”
They poke fun at themselves and admit they’re getting preachy, but they’re still really preachy.
November 5th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Yeah, I finally saw the episode and I think you’re spot on on what will happen next. While the material may generally be offensive, their lessons seem to be very ‘common sense’ to their target demographic. Not that that’s unusual for a show; people like having their beliefs reinforced. Or at the very least, having a disclaimer at the end saying that religion is good to better allow them to maintain their cognitive dissonance with the understanding all the satire of religion but still believing anyway.
November 6th, 2006 at 4:24 am
As a Christian, and well just a human being I found this very funny! South Park usually seems dumb to me, but sometimes it’s just really freagin’ funny!
November 6th, 2006 at 9:02 am
South Park really missed the point.
Of course there would still be wars without religion, but they wouldn’t be between different sects of atheists. The sort of wars they would have in a religion-free future exist today. They’re the wars that have real reasons to fight: different opinions over allocating resources or types of government.
The wars that would be prevented are the my-god’s-better-than-your-god wars, the ones where there is no real reason to fight. That lack of intelligent reason makes them all the more terrible. Those wars are exactly the type of war South Park is incorrectly suggesting would still exist.
It’s still a good show and a funny episode. I hope Cartman gets his Wii.
November 6th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
GlitchCog, I think you were taking it too literally. The point was probably just that war won’t be solved if religion is abolished. Whether it’s warring aetheists or something else doesn’t really matter. The point, I think, was more a criticism of Dawkins. Everything I hear about him seems to say that religion is the cause of all our problems and therefore, if we get rid of religion, we get rid of all our problems. But in reality it’s not that simple, which is what South Park was trying to say.
Overall I would say don’t underestimate the show. These days it seems like the only way to get a real message across to a lot of people is to hide it in humor. Makes me think of the Borat movie and how it shows many instances of American ignorance through a comedic lens. People are willing to laugh at it, but in order to laugh they have to (at least to some degree) realize what they are laughing at.
November 6th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
I don’t think Dawkins ever actually made such a simplified statement. Religion does cause an awful lot of problems, and the world would be a better place without them. Obviously not all problems can be blamed on religion, but getting rid of the ones that are, isn’t exactly a bad thing.
Then again, I’m not even sure they’re criticizing Dawkins at all. They did portray him as a reasonable person (even though they put him in a relationship with mrs. garrison).
Maybe the warring atheist faction thing shouldn’t be taken so literally, (it is completely ridiculous, and I could never see anything like that happening) but some people will take it that way, and it doesn’t exactly help the atheist image.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Having seen the episode, but, like everybody, not the second part, how much do you guys bet those ‘atheists’ sects have some sort of weird science-bionic-droid-seaotter god and wage war for them?
Well, I do feel sorry for Dawkins, this isn’t very flattering, but still… ‘Show me your beautifull breasts’ just kinda sickens me… I know some people like fake ones, but I have no stomach for than… ew…
November 7th, 2006 at 11:49 am
BTW Your Father;
You are right, Richard Dawkins never made such a statement, he does say that indoctrinating our impressionnable children with idiotic anti-logic religious beliefs is the best way to create more problems in the future and is fertile soil for the developpement of fanatics and violent extremists.
November 14th, 2006 at 10:43 am
I listened to Richard Dawkins on NPR Science Friday last night (the podcast, it was from a bit ago) and the host asked him if he felt religion was the root of all evil. He said no, but he does believe it is the root of a lot of evil. If that is not a logical and reasonable statement, I have never heard one. And, of course, I agree 100%. Is anyone, ANYONE, willing to argue against the statement that religion is the cause of the vast majority of wars throughout history? Expansionism and wealth probably plays a minor role in some of them and for some of the remainder they may be primary players, but organized religion has caused so much death and destruction, it makes me wonder how anyone can be a part of it. This is beyond the surreal belief systems they have.
I was raised baptist by my mother and she is a moderate southern baptist. She believes but she does not throw it in your face constantly, she is not a hellfire and brimstone type. I often try to figure out at what point I decided I was an Atheist. I never wonder why, that part is obvious to me. I think it was in boot camp when I decided I was Atheist. When they asked me what religion I was so they could put it on my dog tags, I told them Buddist :) I had no idea what Buddism was about.
How in the world do I get off on these tangents??? Anyway, Richard Dawkins is cool and he speaks logic. And, South Park is funny. Love it.
November 26th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
atheism has caused far more death and carnage than religion.
It is Dawkins type reasoning that motivates the scourges such as Stalin and mao.
Survival of the fittest! It is the perfect recipe for genocide.
More than 100 million served.
November 26th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
You have such a good point because no one ever kills another person because of a difference in religious beliefs. Anyone who uses natural selection to justify murder is just the same as all the other people who have used religion as an excuse to kill. And id like to see some numbers here, so stalin and mao killed more people together more than anyone else in the history of the world?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
what is the name odf the episode?
June 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Episode 1012 - Go God Go
and the sequel is:
Episode 1013 - Go God Go XII