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Dan Dennett joins Bill Moyers on the Charlie Rose show to talk about his new book ‘Breaking the spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon’. Dennett is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. His other books include ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’, ‘Freedom Evolves’, and ‘Consciousness Explained’.
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Charlie Rose: Dan Dennett – Breaking the Spell (Part 5 of 6)
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VERY intelligent !!
If you would be marinated in Hindoeism you would feel exactly the same, as in an cathedral.
Question of upbringing.
Great point by Dennett. The secularists are way behind the religions in that most of the bigboys in this camp are hard rationalists. They gotta get rhetoricians on the team to seduce the sheep.
Except for Marxism, Marx is like Hegel, a totalizing philosophy, that encompasses all of reality. Marxism is often very similar to religious fundamentalism both are highly dogmatic.
This is why I hope to go into neuroscience, so that one day we can extrapolate brain st
This is why I hope to go into neuroscience, so that one day we can extrapolate brain states to mental states (experience of a cathedral included).
@JiangZiyaTabooDays I think he meant the concept of god in that situation, rather than a being itself.
This was softball for Daniel. He didn't need softball. Fun to watch, though.
Funny how atheists like Dennett find the human made artifices of God, that is religion, like a baby is fascinated by colored, sound making blocks hanging above them in the crib.
Knowing God only through scripture is like knowing a celebrity through a magazine article or a biography. What is missing is a personal relationship where you experience God's manifestation in your life, where you live in grace. If you are thrown off by the lack of archeological evidence for Biblical claims watch this video: watch?v=NWawVUZg3Es and watch?v=uowjLLSi34c&feature=channel_video_title for scientific evidence; but the way it works is to experience real evidence in your heart 1Cor 1:20
I agree that knowing god through scripture would be inferior to knowing him via a personal relationship. However, no one does have a personal relationship with god, so what's your point?
I have a personal relationship with the Lord as many other people. As soon as you understand how God communicates, if you live in grace, you are in tune, in God's wavelength, then you can have a personal relationship too. God is energy, so communicating with God isn't like knocking at someone's door, and the reply isn't a voice or shake of hands. Once you understand, you can do it too, but it takes years of meditation and prayer to reach that level. The first step is to open your heart and mind.
I'd respond with an insulting rebuttal, but you've done more work against yourself in that direction than I ever could.
Charlie is a tool.