- -: Friedrich Nietzsche - The Original Rockstar?
June 11, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/17/Craig_Schuftan_Hey_Nietzsche_Leave_Them_Kids_Alone Author Craig Schuftan describes similarities between Friedrich Nietzsche and modern rock stars. He explains how Nietzsche's philosophy reflects the hedonistic, egotistic, and daredevil aspects of rock...
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- -: The History of American Secularism - Charles Taylor
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/05/Charles_Taylor_The_Future_of_the_Secular Charles Taylor discusses the history of the first amendment and America's separation of church and state. He discusses the dichotomy between secularism and religiousness and how it has changed over the centurie...
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- -: Lewis Black - In God and Healthcare We Trust (Or Not)
July 22, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/02/Lewis_Black_Me_Of_Little_Faith Comedian Lewis Black lists the reasons why he does, and does not, believe in God. The former list includes BBQ, sausage gravy, and the female breast; the latter includes ticks, cancer and the laughter of a child. Black ...
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- -: Being a Gay Bishop in America - Gene Robinson
September 23, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/07/POWER_Bishop_Gene_Robinson_on_Finding_the_Strength_Within Gene Robinson discusses his experiences as the Episcopal Church's first openly gay Bishop. Robinson recalls wearing a bulletproof vest to his consecration due to numerous death threats. ----- ...
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- -: LSD as a Spiritual Experience - Deepak Chopra
October 30, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/22/Deepak_Chopra_How_to_Create_a_New_Self Author and spiritual guru Deepak Chopra remembers his first spiritual experience with LSD at 17, and discusses various cultural uses of hallucinogenic drugs to achieve enlightenment. He touches on ritualistic dru...
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- -: An Ecological Approach to Stopping Fundamentalism - David Sloan Wilson
December 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/17/Great_Issues_Forum_What_Is_Religion The best way to stop fundamentalism? Change the environment that created it, says evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. "If we want to eradicate fundamentalism, there's actually one way - and only one way - to ...
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- -: The Religion of Science? - David Sloan Wilson
February 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/17/Great_Issues_Forum_What_Is_Religion Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson presents the notion of science as a religion. "Science is just like a religion, but its god is the truth." ----- The Forum's year-long exploration of religion launches wit...
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- -: Where Religion Went Wrong - Sam Keen
March 24, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/11/Sam_Keen_In_The_Absence_of_God Sam Keen, author of In the Absence of God, explores what he believes is the fallacy of organized religion by tracing the five evolutionary stages through which most have progressed. "We have to find the story that is eve...
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- -: God and Karma: Batchelor Rejects 'Consolatory' Beliefs
March 31, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/19/Stephen_Batchelor_Confession_of_a_Buddhist_Atheist Stephen Batchelor, buddhism scholar and author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, compares the Buddhist concept of karma with the Judeo-Christian belief in the will of God. Both convictions, he says...
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- -: Atheists vs Theists: Does Buddha Offer a Middle Way?
April 2, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/19/Stephen_Batchelor_Confession_of_a_Buddhist_Atheist Stephen Batchelor, author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, introduces Buddhism to the modern atheism vs. theism debate. Batchelor notes that the Buddha's teachings did not dictate a belief in God,...
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