Brief History of Disbelief

00:00:13 "Atheism, a Rough History of Disbelief".

00:01:35 and much of that discussion is in the "Atheism" series.

00:02:43 or it doesn't have personal qualities or something like that

00:03:50 can approximate to what people would call spiritual.

00:05:10 and it went on for about a year, I would say, not much more than that.

00:06:07 one was the interest in metaphysical questions

00:07:20 I kept it up a bit and I occasionally would talk to people about religion

00:08:40 from the ethical to which you continued to subscribe?

00:10:00 There's something hygienic about it. There's something bracing about it.

00:11:17 rather than being an independent source for believing that God exists.

00:12:30 but since he is, by definition, the most perfect being

00:13:46 All right, tell us what's wrong with it.

00:14:57 So we can't always think that phrases like

00:16:15 Here's my question - what gives the meaning to that being's life?

00:17:31 that the existence of values in human society

00:18:52 Suppose, for example, we had the rule, "It's right to murder."

00:20:09 They know what they ought to do.

00:21:20 I think most people will do what's right in normal conditions.

00:22:35 who is all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good

00:23:43 That was a pretty wicked thing to do. But let's put that one aside.

00:25:05 Suppose I decided, in my wisdom, "I need to test some people here.

00:26:20 through the symptoms of the body.

00:27:49 And I think that's a sort of undignified and pointless procedure.

02:00:00 I began filming the series