Comments on: Evolution — South Park Style

By: Alcari

Alcari — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:43:14 +0000

Episode 1012 - Go God Go
and the sequel is:
Episode 1013 - Go God Go XII

By: evolveboy

evolveboy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:50:07 +0000

what is the name odf the episode?

By: matt

matt — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:44:08 +0000

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?

By: duane

duane — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:32:55 +0000

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.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:43:46 +0000

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.

By: Naery

Naery — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:49:15 +0000

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.

By: Naery

Naery — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:47:15 +0000

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…

By: Your Father

Your Father — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:03:25 +0000

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.

By: Snurp

Snurp — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:17:00 +0000

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.

By: GlitchCog

GlitchCog — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:02:47 +0000

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.