Atheism: A Brief History Of Disbelief (BBC documentary, 59m)

published by benjee

1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1544 views

tags: jonathan miller, atheist, religion, history

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“The Atheism Tapes: Richard Dawkins”

The first in a three part documentary by Jonathan Miller, charting the history of disbelief in religion - commonly known as atheism.
Part Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkW0i1tm7I
Part Three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6h-bsoMxhA

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this is pretty awesome. Thanks.

written by James Roe

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psst . . .atheism

written by rickegee

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The Atheism Tapes are a 6 episode series which extend the interviews of this documentary. Maybe they are still available in Google video.
Here is the second part:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1328550084560254937&q=jonathan+miller

written by mauz15

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It's actually a three part documentary: The History of Disbelief. I highly recommend the third and final show (can't find it online)...It's very emotional (and has Dawkins on).

written by benjee

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*dead

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Awarding fissionchips with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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*religion? I think it's fair to say that the lack of religion can only really be defined in the context of religion.

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Great Documentary about religion and atheism
*promote

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Re: benjee's original description: The first in a three part documentary by Jonathan Miller, charting the history of disbelief in religion - commonly known as atheism.

Atheism is a disbelief in god, not religion or faith. There's plenty of evidence that religion exists and atheists exercise faith all the time, just not faith in god.

written by shuac

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^ the main difference being that atheists maintain a consistent malleability of thought, readily accepting and often activing pursuing the prospect that their ideas of the world around them could be incorrect - maintaining a healthy skepticism and basing their perspectives on available proof. Technically saying that they excercise faith all the time is true - in that there are theories we follow but can't necessarily prove entirely. But such a statement can be a bit misleading, so I'm gonna play the role of nerdy douchebag and elucidate the meaning.

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