1 hour of utter tripe by someone that claims that they're explaining why our world today is "dark" without religion, yet only goes on and on about very polarised and sigular incidents accross european history...conviniently side stepping key facts and parallels with both ancient history and modern events.

I laughed out loud when the guy claimed (and I paraphrase) that no relgious war has killed people just because they believed in God. I laughed even more at the suggestion that, in ancient roman times and the times proceeding them within a religious society, people were very good people that never over indulged, were never morally reprehensible, and certainly not as vulgar as our binge drinking chav culture of today...well...at least not in public or in any way able to be proven, eh?

This "documentary" was a classic case of yet another religious hack mistaking the freedom and vastness of information in the modern age for a upsurge in deviant/immoral behaviour...and any suggestion that the dictators of the last century and a half have been worse than any dictator in the two millenia preceeding them just makes me wonder who the hell PAYS for stuff like this to get on TV.

I guess it was only commissioned to provide a counterview to Richard Dawkins's Root of all Evil that preceeded it on C4.

I was really hoping to have my atheist viewpoint challenged. I genuinely wanted him to say something that made me think, "Oh I hadn't thought of that.'

But it didn't happen. It was still worth watching though, if only to see one of the silliest things I've ever seen on the telly. In order to illustrate how dangerous secular society is, he chose to use an image of the twin towers. Yes, because they fingered the wrong people for that, didn't they? It wasn't really religious fundamentalists that did that at all, it was Dawkins and the ghost of Thomas Paine.

What a spoon!

I really wanted to watch this programme.

More4 / C4, please, please, please, could you repeat it. We've had 'The Government Inspector' about five times.

Ive only just round to registering with this forum after watchinhg Root of all evil weeks ago. I expected to find dozens of threads debating the 2 programmes regarding religion in modern society etc, but there only seems to be this. Can someone point me in the right direction. Im very interested in people's opinions on these 2 programmes

Please ignore the above post. Said threads have been discovered!