Richard Dawkins Paper

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Richard Dawkins Paper
Structure:
Thesis statement one short paragraph
C-Q response one full page CRITICAL THINKING RESPONSE
Thesis Defense 2-4 pages support thesis
Ex strategy
Dawkins is correct; religion is both viral and harmful
CQ:Critics will claim that millions of people gain comfort through their religious faith, particularly during times of suffering and tragedy. They maintain that secularism and science have nothing equivalent to offer to comfort people during especially difficult times.
DON’TS
Arguue that those who kill harm and discriminate against others misinterpret religion that relgion is all about peace and love this is arrogant, that without religion there would be no ethics don’t turn it into a creation evolution debate, don’t quote scripture
Use the following video for information and facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP6R3R_UIH0&t=698s
Use the following article to know why dawkins thinks religion is harmful
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Dawkins-MindViruses.pdf

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Running head: RELIGION IS BOTH VIRAL AND HARMFUL

RELIGION IS BOTH VIRAL AND HARMFUL
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RELIGION IS BOTH VIRAL AND HARMFUL

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RELIGION IS BOTH VIRAL AND HARMFUL
Thesis statement
Religion is the belief of a supernatural controlling power, that belongs to a supernatural deity or
gods. Human beings tend to believe in religion and worship of a deity. It is a meme, that spreads
like a virus. A human child is shaped by evolution to soak up the culture of her people. Most
obviously, she learns the essentials of their language in a matter of months. This therefore makes
her also to absorb the religion of her people. Religion tends to give human kind extra-ordinary
claims but provides no tangible evidences to support its claims. A person finds himself moved by
an inner deeper conviction that something is true, or right or virtuous. This conviction doesn’t
seem to owe anything to reason or evidence but nevertheless, he feels totally compelled and
convinced. This is known as faith in a religion. This tends to turn good and nice people to do bad
things in the name of religion and make wise men take stupid decision without thinking in the
name of religion. Thus religion is both harmful and viral as discussed in the content below.
The religion is a fanatism, that behaves like a virus according to Richard Dawkins. A computer
virus is pieces of code that graft themselves into existing, legitimate programs and subvert the
normal actions of those programs. some viruses are too virulent while others are designed to
have small effect nevertheless be extremely damaging. The virulent viruses are rapidly detected
because they instantly cause catastrophically cause sabotage to every computer. But the ones that
have small effec...


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