"Kao sto smo videli u prve dve serije,   do kraja 18. veka Ateizam se konacno pojavio u Francuskoj." "Ali je manje-vise bio ogranicen na obrazovane i privilegovane." "There was an expression open to doubt commoner." "And yet, by Next 200 years atheism begin to seep in the lives of ordinary people and those obedient religious working class would undergo a radical transformation." "How did this happen?" "ATEIZAM" "Uzburkana istorija neverovanja" "III deo The Final Hour" "In 1790 the Parisian aristocrat Tierry Paul Henry, Baron D'Holbach wrote a book that was so openly atheistic and so provocative, that the French authorities not content to just ban it had to burn them publicly the official executioners." ""Only the clouds away and the ghosts of religion discover the truth, reason and morality. "" "Baron D'Holbach is well known as "the Newton of Atheists"" "His book "The System of Nature" is considered the first open book and admittedly atheistic by the European community." "However he was not so bold and suggest after all, the book was published under a pseudo name." "Atheism it seems, even when it appeared, is not a very safe idea." "In England the intellectual elite never made it that far." "They were not exactly Atheists but Deists." "What do you mean they do not denied the existence of God, they were quite happy to reconstruct Christianity and reduce to a deity "Distant initial cause."" "And to stay on the safe side, what the aristocrats intellectuals have been not to talk about this subject before the servants." "Religion was very committed with the political authorities and social hierarchies." "In fact, it was the ingredient major maintenance the privileged life I loved the very elite." "diminish the religious faith of the masses would be politically dangerous and perhaps socially suicidal." "And so, this could not happen and not happen." "At the end of the 18 century a more popular and some would say a more subversive of skepticism began to appear." "To begin with they did not take the form of explicit atheism" "Deism argumentative people the lower middle class as Thomas Paine opened the way for a more radical of religious skepticism." "One that, in England by least, find an almost inevitable conflict between the political and legal." ""Of all the tyrannies that afflicted humanity, the tyranny of religion is the worst any other tyranny is limited to the world we live in, but it moves in steps wide beyond the grave, and seems to haunt us for all eternity. "" "It is no exaggeration to say that Thomas Paine was one of the most influential thinkers England has produced." "But the skeptical attitudes, his deism was deeply different from those of privileged classes which deism originally appeared." "He was a self-taught philosopher that would not benefit of a college education." "The revolutionary impacts their ideas were studied by Cambridge historian Simon Cheffer." "What I find so surprising is that a lot the intellectual elite in response to the emergence plebeian of disbelief not so much that they arguments are false, but arguments that are dangerous." "Since we understand that knowledge is power, empower, and give the power of materialism and naturalism many sectors of the working class was considered to be very dangerous." "And what we see in 1820 England, for example, acted as if there were an atheist elite, who said there was no evidence rationale for the existence of God you do not have to base morality in the faith of God's existence," "but that would be deadly to socially that everyone knew that." "There is a sense that there was always a social group to discuss the Atheism in Britain," "That their ideas were safe to contemplate but they were not safe for to publish and make them available." "All churches whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim seem, nothing more, than human inventions created to terrorize and enslave humanity to monopolize power and profit. "" "Not surprisingly, the first, and more enthusiastic people to embrace Tom Paine colonies have been dissatisfied North America" "Paine's eloquent defense of the independence, proved to be inspiring, and it was he who first coined dignified by the phrase their revolutionary ambitions." "The United States of America." "Paine left his home English and went to live in the U. S." "and one of the rarest editions initial of his first jobs can be found in this museum in New England." "It's interesting when we look for this first edition of "Common Sense"" "we see on the home page dedicated to the people of America, same as the first paragraphs when he mentions the problems of society, expressions of the principles were already encouraged to criticize the church authority." ""Society in any condition is blessed, but government even in the best condition, it is an unnecessary evil. "" "This distinction actually implies he would later say in "The Age of Reason" on church authority." "Almost everywhere in "The Age of Reason," he attacks the orthodox belief, and encourages people to develop their own rationality their own moral sensibilities, and his natural ability to interact morally with others, contrary to the authorities monarchical and ecclesiastical thought" "that without the church and without government men would become weak and return to his animal nature." ""It was in the Bible that man has learned to be cruel, rape and murder, belief in a cruel God became a cruel man." ""And the Bible is a history of weakness that served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. "" "There he is, what the upper classes call "common man"" "but he is showing what all men have in common, which is much more interesting." ""The most detestable weakness, the most terrible cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflictedthe human race had its origins this thing called religion. "" "As soon as the Americans had Success in establishing independence, they were eager to show his gratitude the English radical who had helped to inspire them." "In 1776 the place where his original house was there, was confiscated by the state of New York and taken by someone who was loyal to the British during the war for independence." "And in 1784 it was given to Thomas Paine in recognition for his services to the American Revolution." "Tom Paine did not reside this house immediately not to be content in inspire the American Revolution and help them write Declaration of Independence, he was also influenced revolutionary thinkers of France soon dropped the monarchy in that country." "Paine left the States U.S. and traveled to Paris" "It was well received and elected to National Assembly of the Revolution." "The French revolutionaries closed churches throughout the country, and the bishop of Paris was forced the self-proclaimed charlatan." "And the revolution was not something clearly atheistic." "Pierre Hobbes, for example, insisted on the idea of ?" "the existence some kind of supreme being." "A ritual or festival was dedicated this supreme being." "But it is questionable how seriously it would when you hear stories that was a Parisian prostitute who was crowned "Goddess of Reason" here in this church deconsecrated now called "The Pantheon."" "Paine may have aided the revolution, but since he had opposed the execution of King French he was arrested and almost no escaped the guillotine." "And there would be a welcome for skeptic in revolutionary England." "So he returned to the U. S., at the farm who had won a gift that grateful nation." "Ironically, their religious skepticism now it was something embarrassing for many Americans, and he died with no regrets and more or less ignored in New York in 1899." "When we are next door that crazy traffic, this upscale neighborhood New York is very hard to believe this modest bronze tablet, mark what was once the tomb of a hero emblematic of the American Revolution." "Less than two years after the death of Paine, the English radical William Cobbett exhumed his body and took him back to England." "But the British government refused to build a memorial to Tom Paine and unbelievably Somehow the body simply disappeared." "Thomas Paine needs no monuments built by hands, he erected a monument in the heart for all lovers of liberty. "" "Tom Paine has no grave." "Your body is somewhere unmarked grave in a statement." "Because the impact of ideas in U. S. Paine and France is quite surprising that Deism atheism and radical has won a dangerous reputation." "Paine was in England known to most radical political and "The Immortal Tom Paine."" "His book "The Rights of Men" format was published in pamphlet for the public." "And in a time of his death million and five hundred thousand copies had been sold." "Helped inspire his disbelief revolutions in France and the U. S." "so the British authorities have had to double security." ""Religion is a great thing for keep common people quiet. "" "The skeptical and radical ideas of Paine now come to England where only 3% of the population had the right to vote." "In August 1819 more than 50 thousand ordinary men and women come here to St. Peter's Square Manchester, they came to attend rallies appealed for reforms in parliament, and in response the authorities sent the cavalry with dogs." "In the course of 11 persons were killed and over 400 injured" "This massacre revealed in Peter the extent to which British authorities would be prepared to go to defend the status quo that depended on the support of the Christian community." "That day one of the protesters, a witness to the massacre, Richard Carlile was the atheist." "Carlile came into conflict with the ruling elite to publish and distribute the pamphlets of Tom Paine." "The problem is that Richard Carlile was one of the successors apostolic Atheists radicals committed with the interests of the working class, what would the next hundred years help create a new political philosophy." "Yet the government understood that radicalism and atheism went hand in hand, and they were determined to fight against both." "Richard Carlile was arrested for publish a newspaper atheistic political and subversive called "The Republican"" "his crime, blasphemy and defamation." "his paper was left to care of his wife, but she was also arrested, and then his sister, but She was also arrested." "At the end 150 people were arrested for publishing and sell "The Republican"." "Among them were totaled 200 years in prison." "National Gallery of Art" "A Republican contributors most notable was the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who was expelled from Oxford for write a pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism."" ""If he is infinitely good, what reasons to fear it would ?"" ""If he is infinitely wise, why would doubt about our future? "" ""If he knows everything, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? "" ""If he is in every part, why build temples to him?" "The University of Oxford, unfortunately, was not prepared to see the work of Shelly and philosophical treatises." "Perhaps he had been born early others have been able to attending a university where their opinions would not be so displaced." "He could have gone, as I was, University College London." "I do not know exactly why I have chosen have come here to the hospital University College to my clinical work after I graduated in Natural in Cambridge in 1956." "I think one of the reasons was that the medical schools were associated with the university across the street." "and that meant I could Here are some of the things I was interested in as student at Cambridge." "But I was also moved by the fact that was a secular institution, in fact the place was known for its foundation as the institution without God of Gower Street." "That's because when this college was opened in 1826 She has been deliberately created to allow students of all religious denominations or maybe none, to study and graduate." "Until the initiative that he founded University College London it was impossible to enter any British university if you were not a member Church of England." "This course is excluded Catholics, Jews, non-conformists, and of course non-believers." "What we see in this cabinet are the remains of someone that may have been one of most people memorable, responsible for this charitable initiative." "He was the philosopher utility Jeremy Bentham, who in his death strangely insisted their medical colleagues to prepare public body for dissection." "Although the head of this replica is just a wax model now original head is stored freezer somewhere out there." "The original bones still exist beneath the clothes as you can see here." "The fact that someone, probably executing a criminal, voluntarily submit their public body for dissection, indicates that Bentham was sublimely indifferent to the resurrection, his disbelief in immortality and commitment with the material basis of reality." "In any case, Bentham recognized the need some kind of secular alternative would ensure stability morals of society." "And the answer to him was utilitarianism, The greatest happiness of the greater amount." "Although they are eloquent their arguments, was difficult to find in them a practical program of social action the kind that radical political Carlile and were looking for." "And when the philosophical principles were recruited for the service social reform they took a more subversive and revolutionary, that would dominate the political agenda of world for the next 100 years." ""All men who Atheists think they are "" "The idea of ?" "a secular philosophy and moral not to mention a social order based on this." "would be a conflict with the Christian establishment." "While Christians were to be confused with the expected threat foundation of their beliefs." "Although it took some time for the church to reconcile with the image of the universe Copernicus and Galileo created." "Galileo and incidentally had not been officially forgiven until 1984." "But at the end of the eighteenth century spatial design of the universe was now an established fact." "But when it came to chronological considerations, science was complicated by Christian dogmas once again." "Wherever the earth was situated in the universe, religious belief was it was created by God as described in Genesis in six days, and this idea was still in basis of Christian faith and Jewish." "The fact is that academics had and theologians who have spent hours calculating what they thought must be the age of the Earth based on biblical accounts." "And in early 1650 came James Usher the surprising conclusion needs that the earth was created in 4004 A.C 22 October night apparently." "Whatever God was doing the morning is still a mystery." "But the rapid development of science in geology, in the hands of men like Buckland Hutton and Charles Lyell above all would subvert the idea of that the earth was created recently, as theologians preached." "According to new version geologic history Earth existed for many million years, and this was one of the basic prerequisites on which Charles Darwin create the theory of evolution." "There is a strange sense of paradox as you walks through this impressive site." "And realize that this was the house where The Origin of Species' was written." "Written by a successful person the British upper-middle class." "Charles Darwin, after accounts, was a gentleman with unquestionable social status." "And yet his book was one that would undermine the foundations, the intellectual foundations on which much of social life English was based." "The fact is that the work of Darwin put in question the role of God as creator of nature." "And that would inevitably subdue the authority the predominant estabilisment Christian social and political." "And he finally published in 1859 would turn upside down, the theological establishment, and somewhat the same reason the social establishment." "In formulating a theory that explained the origin of species," "Darwin was, inevitably, challenging the idea that God was the origin of everything." "It was devastating, and as the philosopher American said Daniel Dennett a "dangerous idea"." "At the beginning of your book, you refers to this wonderful student a sense of universal acid, that no vessel can hold." "And you make a comparison addition to the Darwinian theory." "I wish you explain in what sense Darwin's idea was dangerous?" "Well, I think we have an idea ..." "Human beings have an idea since there are people," "What I mean is that ..." "look for complicated answers to simple questions." "You never see a horseshoe making a blacksmith." "You never see a clay pot making a craftsman." "And quite the contrary, great things doing simple things." "And it appears he and Darwin had the audacity to propose a complete reversal of that idea." "The central idea of ?" "the theory of Darwin was that:" "In order to make a machine perfect and beautiful, is not necessary to know how to do it," "And this reversal of thinking that was so dangerous, because it would turn everything upside down somewhat he suggests that we could have a theory that starts low and creates geniuses, rather than a top-down theory better than a theory of magic, because it relies on intelligence." "The basic idea is as simple you have changes inevitably, this variation in a population some are better than others, and as soon as some are better than others you will have more children less than those disadvantaged and their children will look like their parents." "And most of skepticism by century what it once had since Darwin proposed this idea has been analyzed as well is hard work to have been done by a simple process." "But the new discovery of billions years of Earth history," "Darwin would give enough time for a slow process evolution occurred, and believers in God simply had to accept he might have a problem." "Natural selection discovery Darwin was the first time that a scientific idea reversed one of the main arguments in favor of God." "Because it dispenses with the idea of ?" "design." "His theory has a certain kind of elegance, because wherever you look at life although its efficiency is certainly surprising development is a Jim kind of Crack, are improvised, are placed together without a future forecast." "When we think about the word "improvise" unfortunately it is misused, because it is as if something mixtures during the process toward a conclusion." "When nothing is getting mixed toward anything." "There is no mindset at work here, there is no conscious aim in view." "In the process, for example, find small jaw fragments of an ancient reptile into the ears of modern mammals, bone that enables them to hear, is not something that happened because something predicted that these bones should be together to form a hearing aid." "The hearing came as a consequence of unplanned variations of non-required." "In Darwin's time bases materials on heredity were still unclear." "And the origins of variations or innovations in which selection natural act remained mysterious." "The biologist Richard Dawkins has written greatly on genetics, and has committed to greater part of his academic career to answer the questions arise from Darwin's theory." "Something needs to explain these "innovations"" "These "innovations" are variations gene in all the genes that are automatically arise from mutation arise and more about of sexual recombination." "There's nothing inventive or witty these "innovations", they are random, and most of them are harmful, most mutations are bad." "Soon, you will have to focus on natural selection as the positive side, only natural selection producing organisms that have the illusion of design." "the illusion of design does not arises from an "innovation."" "And on this first "innovation" before it becomes something as useful as a feather, how natural selection could act into something that was not more than a pimple?" "There could not be intermediate stages that were not beneficial." "There is no room in the selection a natural kind prediction of argument." "You have to stress the next million years and it will begin to become useful, does not work that way, there must be a pressure selective in the process." "So why the process selection does not say "Have patience, will turn in a penalty, believe me. "" "No, not like that." "There has to be a series advantages throughout the process of a penalty." "If you can not think of one, then the problems is your and not natural selection." "Natural selection, well I'd say this is a kind of faith on my part, since the theory is so consistent and so powerful." "The faith in Richard Dawkins natural selection is depicted by the fact that, as Darwin noted, the details of "painful"" "hardly supports the idea a benevolent designer." ""I can not convince me that a good and omnipotent God would have created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention to feed on corpses surviving caterpillars, or that God would have created a cat just to play with the rats." "Darwin's religious faith slowly fades over the years, but it was also much due to the death of his daughter as to their scientific ideas." "But for a variety of reasons, the fact is not enough his wife was very religious, and himself of course, recognized the theological implications of his own theory." "Darwin resisted the publication of his work for nearly twenty years." "It was only when another young man, Alfred Russell Wallace found a job with almost the same scientific conclusions, Darwin was forced to publish." "And as he feared the reaction was dramatic." ""Was it by a grandmother or grandfather he descended from a monkey? "" "part metaphysical in nature, deny that the man who sink the human race degradation lower degree than any who has ever fallen since written history began. "" "For understandable reasons the church was stunned by the theory of evolution." "Because she refused the idea creation of an opening in which all natural forms were established from the beginning." "What most concerned the clergy, what was more shocking, was the idea that man was included in this process and as a mere descending ape he had lost their curious spiritual priority." "The man was no longer the star of this cosmic event." "When we consider the relative ease that educated Christians, as we saw earlier, were able to reconcile their beliefs with some new astronomical discoveries, it is not surprising that the acceptance of fundamentalist ignorant and stupid for whom Darwinism is a blasphemy that existed and still there are religious people" "who can accommodate today undeniable proposals Darwinists." "But the fact is that today view that religion has architecture bodies a new way of living." "One is that God no longer can be represented ubiquitous as a designer." "But while the religious view of God was growing weaker, those with a more skeptical view, radical were feeling more and more confident." ""The reason why a believer is happier than a skeptic is not more than one reason drunk is happier than a sober. "" "The leader of the reformist skeptical and radical were now being led Jorge Jacob Holywoake." "In his paper "The Reason" he coined a new word to describe a new belief system based on reason and science, he called Secularism." "In the mid-nineteenth century had more than 40 companies secular in Britain and the newspaper was Holywoake selling more than 5000 copies per week." "Secularism was very popular throughout the nineteenth century and the National Secular Society still exists in the twenty-first century conwayhall here in London." "After Holywoake leadership Secular Society fell to Charles Bradford, a Radical member of parliament, famous for being expelled from parliament and have been imprisoned in the Tower of London for its failure to Atheist swear by the Bible in its commitment to the alliance." "Bradlord formulated a law, still enjoy, that every man and woman affirm an oath in that country instead of swearing by the Bible." "At the turn of the century one could be forgiven for thinking disbelief that the right would triumph, that religion would soon disappear and die." "Nietzsche had just said, among other things:" "God was dead." "So why is faith survive?" "But in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, came a man who said understand the origin of religion, of all religions." "Sigmund Froyd." "Although Froyd was without compromise, the first thinker trying to explain the origins psychology of religion, their conclusions is perhaps the more systematic attempt to represent the faith as something fundamental to the whole initial development of the human mind." "Froyd, as I came of a Jewish family." "Although, for obvious reasons, he was much more aware this than I am." "Still, never Froyd identified with religion and as a science student, he began to suspect of religion as a whole." "And as the development of what became the psycho-analytic theory, he began to recognize that belief in God, I must say in some kind supernatural agent one that could answer questions the human was the inevitable result of helplessness in childhood" "and its relationship between the figure all-powerful father." "That's what he says in his book "The Future of an Illusion"" ""The rest of our questions is easy because that God the Creator is loosely called the father," "Psycho-Analysis of human beings God tells us that each one of them is nothing more than an exalted father "" "He saw religion as an illusion." "And though he describes this as a "wish-fulfilled" it is very difficult to see it this way, since the figure created by the imagination of a child, had characteristics punitive and benevolent." "But while explaining Froyd this apparent contradiction, is very clear that he saw religion as false and profoundly useless" ""The teachings of religion are neurotic relics, and arrive time replace them with the result the rational operation of the intellect. "" "For obvious reasons, the theory Froyd shook the conventional religions." "But the social implications of his theory were trivial compared with the policy programmatic atheism that emerged among the most radical ideologues that had been developing for more than one hundred years since Tom Paine." ""Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress "" "Religion is the refuge of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as the soul of a heartless situation." "is the opium of the people." ""The struggle to overcome the illusions, is the struggle to overcome a condition that requires illusions. "" "Whatever thought Froyd children about the origin of illusion, for the Russian Communists who were influenced the dialectical materialism of Karl Marx." "It was a matter of faith that opium place of religion does not bear policy in the coming millennium." "They were determined to establish a zone free of illusions." "And in Soviet Russia they which were established intents and purposes, the first atheist state." "The paradox is that a revolution that was designed to bring a new era of Gold for humanity, tormented, tortured, arrested and eliminated more victims than Christianity in its excesses." "So it is very surprising that the Atheism has been indelibly is not unfairly smeared by their association." "At the end of the twentieth century disbelief become much more widespread than ever." "And although this is not the full story there is no doubt that some of most terrible catastrophes social the last 100 years, seriously diminished the faith in a benevolent God, is clear that the cruelty and Doom has always been seen as reasons for doubt." "But the inescapable advertising that these excesses, today received by the media, represent a problem unprecedented for the religious." "As we enter the twenty-first century, for many issues about belief and unbelief, hardly seem worth the worth being discussed." "This reminds me of the first person I talked to this series," "English philosopher of New York Colin McGinn." "Nobody trying to waste time prove to other people the greedy gods do not exist." "They decide they do not exist, and this is the end of the story." "I like to distinguish atheism anti-theism" "Anti-theism is opposed to theism" "I am an anti-theist because I believe that religion is dangerous." "I am not only an atheist whose My onlyvalues ?" "are: "I do not agree with it" in fact I oppose it," "But still distinguish it from Post-post-theism or atheism, What is a healthy state of mind." "where you put it behind you, we can not do this because There are many religions in the world and so many bad consequences." "But to me the society Ideally one where questions of religion not part of the people and do not be a difficult question for them." "They would say to each other:" ""Those humans usedbelieve in 2003 "" ""Some of them believed it was God who did it, others do not. "" "There would be TV shows explaining why they did not believe." "That debate was that funny." "That would be a society post-theistic, where it would not be part." ""Why should I spend half Sunday listening to my about how I'm going to hell" "It's pretty hard to imagine how the world would be without religion." "For the simple reason that in one way or another, She has been with us for so long and although the number of unbelievers is greater today than anyone could imagine like hundreds of years ago." "Religion still permeates social life, and in some parts of the world it is more consolidated and oppressive than ever." "And for those like me .and there are literally millions of us, those that religion plays no part." "We still live in a world where it is difficult to ignore the existence of the same." "For obvious reasons this one of the most developments fanatics and that makes me even more stressed." "The excesses of Christian creationism, and of course some violence and suicide times murderer found in some parts of the Muslim way." "But I'm shocked the complacent assumptions I find among my friends and acquaintances that my atheism implies some lack of seriousness on my part people like me have failed to recognize the existence of the soul, and above all of his immortality." "And to be honest I I think it very unwise." "The reason I did not I I do not have any hope in any subsequent existence, not to say that I am indifferent to the fact that I, like all others, must die." "While I get older, I approach and more indirectly I become more of a friend's death and disease." "In fact as time passes, I find myself opening the pages of a newspaper of death with growing concern," "I mean, I do not usually wonder where my deceased friends, relatives or colleagues are now." "As far as I know they are not anywhere." "They simply or maybe not quite simply, ceased to exist." "What about my own death, my own "cease to exist"" "Well, of course I think about it, because I'm closer it now than I was." "I imagine it will be." "Is it painful?" "for example." "But do not think about this in terms of:" "I will be, after all I went through, be passed by idiot waking up somewhere and found that there is something ultimately," "Will I be embarrassed?" "Thinking about death is constantly present." "I know now that it is unlikely I see my grandchildren get married or even if I see or meet my great-grandchildren." "In other words I try not to think about the future." "Plus, I can see on a situation in which death not come quickly, because" "I am in pain, stressed, weak, disabled." "I want to be able to turn around and say "here I am."" "I do not think it's difficult to imagine the non-existence." "I do not even think about it actually." "What I fear is that perhaps near death, there may be certain experiences associated with it that are painful and scary and not can escape this time." "Not afraid of death, but but the mental state that sometimes exists when things start to fall apart." "Do not look forward to it." "But I feel courage because that there are ordinary people facing his arrival extinction with elegant tranquility, without having to subdue the false hope for a future state." "When I visited the hospice Glory St. Christopher in London" "She was quite happy to talk about your lack of faith." "She only asked that we showed not his face," "I realized that only that the approach of his death with unexpected calm." "Were you religious as a child?" "In a way yes ..." "Sunday school." "the usual things ..." "... Boys singers of the church," "This is not religion, that is dating." "But do you think when you die, you will continue to exist?" "No, no." "How can I explain ..." "But you do not foresee that you, Glory, will somehow continue to exist?" "No." "You will regret it?" "No, because I have something else, I would like to live again, I would live again even for a second." "But not to live again after death." "No." "You mean to live only at the time of death." "Yes." "And that is that life-terminal?" "Would you like to be a young girl again?" "for a short time?" "Oh yes." "I was young again, but I do everything I I would have done, and if I could see free for a minute I ... that's it." "And then you end up?" "So you would be looking by a kind of ecstasy at the time of death?" "Yes." "I'm looking forward to this, I do not know if I'll accomplish that." "You are very brave, I I find it a wonderful thing." "Thank you!" "It was great talking to you." "Thank you!" "I hope that ecstasy come and that is very good." "Me too." "Regarding the religious still prefer to believe, There is now a major number of people prepared to contemplate his own mortality meaning without the invisible support previously provided by religion." "And, of course, to some extent, we owe it to the efforts initials of the first Greek philosophers." "Not to mention the thinkers Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and even radical social and politicians of the last hundred years." "Even if we do not recognize explicitly that "strain" Many of us now live in a secular world, in which the arguments for belief in God or gods seem to evaporate." "As we have seen." "One of most significant arguments for the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent, was the apparent presence of intelligent design." "But also we have seen, the theory of Darwinian evolution effectively overrides that was perhaps the most dramatic evidence in favor of intelligence and intention." "What this means is to continue the process of painting religion in an increasingly smaller piece of reality." "In fact, intelligence that once was seen as the antecedent cause of all things, itself is almost certainly a biological phenomenon." "Far from being the beginning of things, Now we begin to recognize that intelligence is something that comes later in the universe." "As the limbs and organs that was viewed by Darwin as products of intelligent design, is becoming likely that even the intelligence is a product of natural selection." "Inconceivable without the existence a brain even the idea of ?" "soul the faithful, affectionate, view as a post Advanced colonial power in imperial times." "I'm sure will be explained as the stand-alone product the action of the brain." "I have to admit that there is a aspect of our mind it is difficult to envision what type explanation would be relevant," "I am referring, of course, conscience." "The fact is, though I do not has reason to believe my conscience is activated for nothing more than my brain." "I remain convinced that there something mysterious impenetrably the relationship between brains and thoughts." "And we can understand why is so difficult to imagine or at least intolerably the idea that brain death, necessarily lead person's death." "and this, of course, is the ace of hearts that religion has consistently used." "At the end there must be a certain point in which belief and disbelief be only one occurrence temperamental." "And for reasons that are very difficult to identify, human beings have always were split between those viewing the universe in material terms, and those who see cheerfully by a supernatural intelligence" "For this reason I think it's a mistake to see a frank from a recent retreat of religious faith, and the concomitant advances of scientific knowledge." "Ultimately a minority of growing number of unbelievers have no affinity with modern science at all." "And the other side there is a significant number of scientists knowledgeable and intelligent with strong religious belief, and will not change your mind." "I suspect that the widespread model of disbelief distributed in the modern world has something to do with science." "But perhaps more to do that science has provided in the form of security, convenience and comfort." "And the fact that although the general public unaware the theoretical basis of immunities as they now carelessly enjoy." "The environment created by science is as comfortable and as harmless considerations that the supernatural weakened and disappeared." "The comforts and guarantees that a time, were provided by the church," "Today they seem strangely antiquated and unnecessary." "And here I am at the beginning of a century ending that I will not live to see, perhaps posthumously." "As I said earlier, I reluctant to use the word Atheist to describe my own unshakeable disbelief, and not because I am ashamed, afraid or even embarrassed." "But just because I seems so obviously true to me that God does not there to give this belief a title in a special dignified manner which he denies." "The final accounts will not we have a special name for people who do not believe in ghosts or witches." "But on the other hand, this does not mean I think it's worth bother with a series of this length, the contrary." "There is a long history of atrocities committed in the name of religion." "And a heroic story of opposition typically true." "In a sense this series is dedicated to those who for me and many others, the right to show up and be heard." "But today there is another reason I think even more important." "In many parts of the world religion has been supporting a dangerous form revitalization policy." "Islam has given support a widespread, and without compromise, universal change." "And the non-Muslim West is seriously threatened for the foreseeable future of promises of these lethal mutants." "But on the other hand, there Today a group of politicians Christian fundamentalists shortsighted and stupid that established the White House a morbid, and I think useless alliance with the Israeli establishment." "An alliance that extends only a reaction inexplicable suicide as seen in Islam." "Thus, in one way or another, I think it is highly important for those who do not, establish an eloquent and in all likelihood, a complete and ineffective resistance." "sub by feha@neobee.net"