Comments on: Pass It On

By: jimmer

jimmer — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:38:00 +0000

KA
The wrong one. Yeah I agree but for the part that they read it. If they would just read it all the way through a few times. Then they would realize how falible it is. Most ahve never questioned their beliefs. They go along with what they are told. They trust a preacher for all their needs.

Did I hear Cinco De Mayo? EEEEEEeyyyaaaaa.

By: Krystalline Apostate

Krystalline Apostate — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:54:23 +0000

Oops.
I meant substitute the bible WITH EINTKILIK.
My bad.

By: Krystalline Apostate

Krystalline Apostate — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:53:32 +0000

Now if we could just get the sons and daughters of Abraham to read a book and join us in the 21st century, we might have something.

Ummm…they do read a book.
The wrong 1.
If we could just substitute it for “Everything I Needed To Know, I Learned in Kindergarten”, I think that’d wrap up at least 50% of the world’s problems.

By: Eve

Eve — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:50:12 +0000

Thank you, jimmer! I’m definitely going to either tune in to watch it or catch one of the Internet copies - er, “previews” ;-). What an interesting precursor to Cinco de Mayo!

By: Stardust

Stardust — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:37:03 +0000

Has anyone found a searchable transcript for “A Brief History of Disbelief” on the internet yet? I have come up with nothing so far.

By: jimmer

jimmer — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:20:18 +0000

Oh and Toni, Yes you do have a special kind of crazy there. LOL. That is just too good I had to share it.

By: jimmer

jimmer — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:18:19 +0000

Your all welcome. I had a hard time yesterday getting the links to work. Sheesh, I’m glad they came out OK.

I think it was the idea of an ignorant and superstitious culture that begat religion which caused me to look closer. I realized that it was made up and poorly at that. The idea of a loving forgiving god but also one who would punish you for eternity. That never fit my ability to reason it out.

It will be our knowledge of nature and our understanding of our place in it that saves humankind.

Thanks for the heads up on Hitchens on Booktv ChuckA

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:56:53 +0000

Jimmer, apologies for not watching all the episodes at once — I think my brain isn’t up that or at the very least my eyes, which tend to glaze over when the mind pegs in the red overload-zone.

That said, in Part Two, I loved this (from Paul Henri Theirry, Baron D’Holbach):

If we go back to the beginning, we shall find ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm or deceit adorned them; that weakness worshipped them; that credulity preserved them and that custom, respect and tyranny supported them in order to make the blindness of man serve their own interests.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Thank you for bringing these to us, Jimmer. (I had posted on the Collin McGinn tape a few months back; I wasn’t aware that it was part of this big and beautiful body of work!)