WOTM: Well Being, Part I
Happy New Year!!! I hope you all had a great holiday. Next month I'm bringing back Mr. Deity both in sketch and begging segment form — and you'll be the first to see it!!! That's my Newtonmas present to you!
This and the following video are about the goal of human well being. This is something everyone wants, whether you're religious or not. But there are profound differences in the way religious and secular people think about well being. This video looks at that difference in terms of scope and vantage point.
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As far as the moral education of MY children, I never let them set foot in a church so they wouldn't be confused or brainwashed while vulnerable. Once when my son said he told people he was a christian I asked him if he believed that Christ was had to die on a cross so a merciful god who said he didn't require sacrifices would forgive us for Adam and Eve's sin of acquiring knowledge at the beginning of time and he replied, "No, but it keeps me from getting beaten up on the playground." I was fortunate enough of attend one of Sam's book reading and have a signed copy of "The Moral Landscape to accompany my autographed 1st edition of Dawkins "The Selfish Gene", Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" and Hitchen's "God Is Not Good". That's all "four horsemen of the apocalypse". With that in mind, I asked Sam to autograph mine with, "To the Nth Horseman".
Religions are always decades or centuries behind humanity on their definitions of morality. If we still practiced the morals defined in their holy books we would be several hundred years behind in human progress. Science and reason has advanced the human race, not dogma and "faith".
Can one be considered to be moral if one is just following moral directives? Obedience is an amoral state.