I am currently watching a stunning documentary from BBC4 called The Root of All Evil?, starring scientist Richard Dawkins. Perhaps it’s enough to say that part 1 is titled “The God Delusion,” and part 2 is called “The Virus of Faith.”

I can’t even begin to summarize Dawkin’s points here, except to say that even lapsed Catholics and Rosh Hashanah Jews are likely to be outraged by what he has to say. In fact, the worst thing about the documentary is that his statements are so incendiary that it’s doubtful to me that anyone not already friendly to his point of view will make it through the first five minutes.

That being said, in Jeff’s America this would be required viewing for all school-age children. And it’s perhaps worth noting that in this theoretically secular America there is simply no way in hell that it would ever be originally aired on PBS, let alone produced by PBS or any other commercial network.

I don’t suggest that anyone bootleg this off the Internet, but I understand that it just might be available.