I am watching this series on BBCfour this week.<\/p>\n
In this first ever television history of disbelief, Jonathan Miller leads viewers on a personal journey exploring the origins of his own lack of belief and uncovering the hidden story of atheism.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/documentaries\/features\/atheism.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n and I think it splendid.<\/p>\n I find some quotes from Dr Miller’s case, quite compelling. Foremost of which is the Epicurean paradox<\/p>\n On Atheism<\/p>\n “If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”<\/p>\n Epicurus [341 BC-271 BC]<\/p>\n “Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”<\/p>\n Epicurus [341 BC-271 BC]<\/p>\n Epicurean paradox posits that:<\/p>\n If God exists, then he is all-powerful.<\/p>\n If God exists, then he is good.<\/p>\n If God is all-powerful and good, then there would be no evil.<\/p>\n There is evil.<\/p>\n Therefore God does not exist.<\/p>\n Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<\/p>\n Then he is impotent.<\/p>\n Is he able, but not willing?<\/p>\n Then he is malevolent.<\/p>\n Is he both able and willing?<\/p>\n Whence then is evil?<\/p>\n Epicurus [341 BC-271 BC]<\/p>\n I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.<\/p>\n Bertrand Russell<\/p>\n * * * * * *<\/p>\n While on the subject of God, and the ISM’s, I thought I would share this analysis with you:<\/p>\n George Melley on Religion:<\/p>\n Taoism – shit happens.<\/p>\n Bhuddism – the shit that happens to us is good.<\/p>\n Hinduism – the shit that happens to us has happened before.<\/p>\n Zen – what is the sound of shit happening.<\/p>\n Catholic – the shit that happens to you, you deserve.<\/p>\n Protestantism – the shit that happens to you, why doesn’t it happen to somebody else.<\/p>\n Jewish – why does this shit always happen to me.<\/p>\n Agnostic – I’m not sure I believe in this shit.<\/p>\n Atheist – I don’t believe in any of this shit.<\/p>\n Rastafarian – let’s smoke this shit.<\/p>\n George Melley Radio 4 August 1995<\/p>\n HEHE, Wicked \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am watching this series on BBCfour this week. In this first ever television history of disbelief, Jonathan Miller leads viewers on a personal journey exploring the origins of his own lack of belief and uncovering the hidden story of … Continue reading