BBC's "A Brief History of Disbelief" circa 2007
Ken
Caught the last few minutes of this series early this AM, went looking
for more info today.and found these comments:
It is refreshing to see a program that is intelligently done, albeit
brief (pun intended), dealing with the centuries of abuse that
religious leadership has foisted upon not only those that don't
believe in any sort of afterlife or god, but those that have a more
loose interpretation of spirituality. Rarely has it ever been the
other way around. Religion, by its very definition within its own
doctrines, has no room for expansion, for growth, or for change. It's
a social vehicle that has, for centuries, kept mankind in the slow
lane morally, socially, and scientfically, despite the fact that
mankind is constantly evolving. The most troubling part of religion is
its fascination with the End Times, and its constant need to have
things 'just right' in order for Judgement Day . . . depending on what
faith you pray to, someone is likely going to be getting the short end
of that stick. Many dates predicted by some very prominent figures in
religious history have long since come and gone, and we're all still
here. What so many people that do believe in Revelations don't
understand is that the End Times they wrote about was expected to
happen in or near the authors' lifetimes, not ours. Unfortunately,
when you do have a leader like Bush who does claim to talk to God, we
are suddenly faced with the very frightening possibility of said
world's end, especially when you consider that technology has given us
the ability to create a nuclear armageddon. The disturbing part of the
above fear is that it's not as if Mr. Bush was speaking
metaphorically, he was declaring directly that he spoke with God.
Frankly, if a person in the general population---and most certainly of
meager means---had declared the same thing, they'd likely be referred
to a psychiatrist to be tested for Schitzophrenic..
Can't wait for another showing
walksalone
f591f7...@h8g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:
> http://www.abriefhistoryofdisbelief.org/
>
> Caught the last few minutes of this series early this AM, went looking
> for more info today.and found these comments:
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> Can't wait for another showing
Then maybe this is for you?
<http://btjunkie.org/torrent/BBC-A-Brief-History-of-Disbelief-Jonathan-
Miller/39837a340255c60fb96f0b5519184c60bd6c9373031c>
Of course, a torrent downloader is rerquired.
walksalone who invokes the don't ask, don't tell clause.
Archbishop: A Christian Eccalastic of a rank superior to that attained by
Christ.
H.L. Mencken
Christopher A. Lee
<flak...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>http://www.abriefhistoryofdisbelief.org/
>
>Caught the last few minutes of this series early this AM, went looking
>for more info today.and found these comments:
It's on tha atheist nation web site, which is a good place to look
for this sort of thing.
They call it "A Rough History of Disbelief" in their menu.
http://www.atheistnation.net/search/?q=a%20brief%20history%20of%20atheism&t=1
Thoroughly recommended.
Larry
f591f7...@h8g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:
> Can't wait for another showing
>
>
It's been posted serveral times in DivX format in
alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries
Keep an eye out for it, there.
Never mind. You don't have to wait. GO here and watch it on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22A+Brief+History+Of+Disbelief%22
&emb=0#
All the shows seem to be there.....several times over.....
Excellent program....Reasonable....Logical.....to some it will be
Baffling...(c;]
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Larry
If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?
Jimbo
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:27:52 -0700 (PDT), Ken
>
> >http://www.abriefhistoryofdisbelief.org/
>
> >Caught the last few minutes of this series early this AM, went looking
> >for more info today.and found these comments:
>
> It's on tha atheist nation web site, which is a good place to look
> for this sort of thing.
>
> They call it "A Rough History of Disbelief" in their menu.
>
>
> Thoroughly recommended.
Thanks Christopher, I'll give that a watch later today.
Ragnar
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> http://www.abriefhistoryofdisbelief.org/
>
Would have enjoyed this series better if it had not been presented by that
jerk Jonathan Miller.
R.
graham
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