fifty5
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Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief.
I mean, I think I know the answer for non-Brits...
A tad long-winded, but I loved a couple of the quotations:
First, the one about "Is God willing / able to prevent evil"...
(And yes, I know there's a piece of sophistry about it all being for the benefit of those who suffer evil...)
Second, the one about the plebs versus the wise versus those in power: the first believe in God(s), the second don't - and the third find belief in God "useful"...
Finally, it made a refreshing change for a TV series to be promoted as 'intelligent'
Eff
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listing...filename=20051031/20051031_1900_4224_45229_60
"With the help of philosophers, like Daniel Dennett, historians, like Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, scientists like Richard Dawkins and writers, like Arthur Miller, Jonathan sets out on a journey to understand what we mean by belief itself, to uncover the origins of the human impulse to create religion and to find out who were the very first atheists in human history. He discovers that 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosophers expressed doubts about the supernatural but that when Christianity succeeded in taking over the Roman Empire, it also closed down the great Greek schools of Philosophy and ushered in what became known as the Dark Ages."
I mean, I think I know the answer for non-Brits...
A tad long-winded, but I loved a couple of the quotations:
First, the one about "Is God willing / able to prevent evil"...
(And yes, I know there's a piece of sophistry about it all being for the benefit of those who suffer evil...)
Second, the one about the plebs versus the wise versus those in power: the first believe in God(s), the second don't - and the third find belief in God "useful"...
Finally, it made a refreshing change for a TV series to be promoted as 'intelligent'
Eff
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listing...filename=20051031/20051031_1900_4224_45229_60
"With the help of philosophers, like Daniel Dennett, historians, like Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, scientists like Richard Dawkins and writers, like Arthur Miller, Jonathan sets out on a journey to understand what we mean by belief itself, to uncover the origins of the human impulse to create religion and to find out who were the very first atheists in human history. He discovers that 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosophers expressed doubts about the supernatural but that when Christianity succeeded in taking over the Roman Empire, it also closed down the great Greek schools of Philosophy and ushered in what became known as the Dark Ages."
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