"The opiate of the people today is the belief that they won't be judged by God when they die...."

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The cardinal really had no idea how to answer many of those questions, his response about being descended from Neanderthals was particularly cringe-worthy, although apparently some of our DNA is Neanderthal (at least 1-4% in non-Africans), so I felt Dawkins could have mentioned that.

Cardinal Pell just game across as a politician. Forever not really answering the question, forever going off on anecdotes. Painful.

Also, this suffered from the usual problem I have with Q&A in that they almost never get to properly answer a question. They get most of the way through some point and then have to finish, so we never get to the 'gotcha' moments.

I do find, though, that Dawkins does come across as a bit harsh to natural responses sometimes. Him getting aggravated to people laughing about the question of 'nothing' just serves to alienate him.

Rather than going 'What's funny about that?', he could MUCH better say 'It sounds funny doesn't it? But in fact it's a really important question... and here's why'.

So yeah, I wish we had a better spokesman than him sometimes.

But I watched it all the way through (on our original ABC website where they put all their shows after they air), and found it enlightening as I didn't know Cardinal Pell's views on various things, and now I do.

needs more Sam Harris, less Richard Dawkins.

this is why: http://videosift.com/video/Sam-Harris-makes-a-joke-and-a-point