Religion, as we know it today in our modern society is not only a bad pun. It is an absolute danger to society, ostracizing large swathes of society while offering hope where there is none to victims of mental and physical ailments. Richard Dawkins explores the types of evil which have infected our society in one of his documentaries and asks how (ir)rational they really are.

Wikipedia notes:

Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give sound advice on how they should live their lives? What about sticking pins into your body to free the flow of Chi energy and cure your illness? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesn’t think so, and feels it is his duty to expose those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell. He will take on the world’s leading proponents in their field of expertise, meet the victims who have used them and expose the history of the movements – from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results.

Without further ado, here’s our Dick Dawkins:

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