User:Feredir28/The Trouble with Atheism

The Trouble with Atheism is a documentary by Rod Liddle attempting to portray atheists and atheism as a religion, which in turn can become dogmatic and murder millions of people. this article will provide a side-by-side review of the documentary, providing a critical analysis of the contents and provide basic fact checking.

Film Overview
Throughout the film, Liddle tries to portray atheism as a new religion that is gaining ground in recent times. For something to be qualified as a religion, it requires several prerequisites like a sacred text, places of worship, and individuals held in such high praise. Liddle tries to attach those things to atheists, without giving a clear definition of atheism. Rather, to Liddle, it seems that atheism is just a belief in a disbelief, and somehow this belief in disbelief has its own tenets for every atheist to follow.

Liddle brings up physics and biology, especially the theory of evolution which he falsely labels "Darwinism." In reality, there is no such thing as Darwinism as there is no Einstienism (please keep that in mind throughout the review). To Liddle, being an atheist means you accept Darwin by default, in fact Darwin was probably the main reason why people become atheists in the first place. this is demonstrably false, given that most atheists usually leave religion for a variety of reasons but have no idea or understanding of Darwin until after they become atheists.