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title: "Do you want to see The Unbelievers?"
date: "2013-05-02T15:32:59+01:00"
modified: "2013-05-02T15:32:59+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2013/05/02/do-you-want-to-see-the-unbelievers/"
post_id: 5772
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# Do you want to see The Unbelievers?

![The Unbelievers poster](https://newhumanist.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/images/UnbelieversPoster1.jpg "The Unbelievers poster")

A new documentary, *The Unbelievers*, has just debuted at the Hot Docs festival in Canada, featuring Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss in what could be described as a New Atheist version of *Gimme Shelter*.

Here’s the trailer and here are Dawkins and Krauss [discussing the film on Canadian TV](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEClFXjx_fQ&feature=youtu.be).

Now, I think there are two way to look at this: On the one hand here’s two of the great atheist communicators, on a global quest to promote reason and science, cheered on by some of the big hitters in the godless firmament. It should at the very least be a useful weapon in the battle against religion and it could prove a vital tool in promoting the values of our side – it has the chance to go big in the cinema and online, and persuade thousands to use their cognitive functions and think themselves beyond god. **What’s not to like?**

On the other hand, whether or not you believe in god, who wants to see two well-fed Western male academics of a certain age agreeing with each other that they are a lot smarter than almost everyone else, while a parade of smitten slebs and “cultural icons” uncritically celebrate their self-declared triumph over a straw-man adversary? It feels Smug and complacent. **Not my idea of a good night at the movies**!

I haven’t seen it, nor have most of you, but hey, this is the internet when did we ever let ignorance stop us from voicing a strident opinion?

Judged by what you can see, the trailer,[ the website](http://www.unbelieversmovie.com/info.htm), what do you think? Will you be booking tickets?

Please tell us below. (Oh and if you *have* seen it, please tell us what you thought)