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states will hold
no religious beliefs of any thoughtful
it's interesting as a similar has just pointed out the Christian faith such a significant
the new in American public life today
when this country declared its independence in seventeen seventy-six it all started trying
to the old of the judge
Wednesday
should be he's number two
the very first President of the united states George Washington ted koppel
was a very unenthusiastic church go
who always walked out of the service before the congregation to the sacraments
and for and the rector of the judge admonished him to this Washington accepted that his sudden
departure my awful scene to be a bad example and so he
subsequently never bothered to attend the church of polls
the President so closely followed him in that office well off the Iraq war
as being considerably less than
the about christians
what is in essence we know nothing all
until this all for blasphemy is covered all of them will never be any liberal science
in the world
that led to believe that any pollack and I did indeed
will be exempted in opposition to the schemes
the the right thing
i'll show them that an intelligent person
whose views were not now totally distorted by religion
miami abuse on the un's soundness of the Christian scheme salvation
have become clear
and stronger with advancing years
Myanmar has been under them are in jordan losing in
it seems doubtful is any of these great American presidents were being considered for little
in voted into office today
well the same it would be wrong to suggest that the united states is now an uncomfortable
place for eight years
yeah
I think it's funny it over here and I'm more often than not in the company of people who
have committed faith had no time for the officially sanctioned
secret patriotism
for them this will be the tenets all the conflicts between the great faith even if it was frightening
think you're ridiculous jews and christians because of it but stick our heads in the sand
five sensible
that serious call to get a life sentence that sidney poitier and then moving on to cleveland
but not nearly as
I feel that this isn't that right
the results all right
notions
some judaism and christianity
once you get religions in the sense that back
we saw the united states is the largest outdoor lunatic asylum
there's a wonderful landed him in line and I think it's called the got some which has
they're a bunch of fools in the desert with nothing else to do he said David sedney it
maintains the limits on and on and on
still another
CNN's jeanne moos
the reason why
I still remember anything different office up
and it's a desperately keen to see this so forth
the President sort of got out of the window in order to retain and ought to the many in
this is not an absolute what's your reaction relative scott stanzel
the starts to become downstairs the calls
of course
the anglican church in Manhattan
starting in modern some accommodation
well sam still team feeling that atheism is a mistake
he has to say about meeting in for reasons which are really like it are accounted for
it was here in cambridge but I mean a man on a gradual he has a
I was surrounded by architectural
also heritage
by the time I came here and already decided to start a match
and although it's difficult I think what does he need to make some determinations times
my logical side
since which I was already appointed best very little room for religious considerations
listen when you walk around these ancient buildings
the image is an architectural christianity often is capable Pentagon denies it would
be useful
soon after that
the crucifixion
this climax
all the events leading up to the crucifixion
on the left hand side
and then the events
off to the crucifixion stop
yeah honest in what he got
of course things the tend to lose
this is a sequence of course is not mentioned in the gospels this is the
haring of hell
the the status is
it uses
goes down into
breaks open
dole's
and he brings
adam and eve out
too long
there of course is his appearance in front of God and homeless
and %uh jesus
offices and inside
and invites
the skeptical the cycle
case his hands
in the wound
and so on and so forth as polls the fans here
concerned with the events
leading up to an officer
%uh resurrection
this culminates false
in the ascension
see the disappearing
she surprised at the top of the winner
and issues into the heavens
the schools
stories and events which room
deeply buried inside the imagination of any
the truth European
I don't believe a word of high-dose I do believe the the divinity of any of this
I would be very
impoverished if I didn't have these
in my imagination
in the eighth in the form of life which didn't have these images
it would be a mistake time
scientific training as an undergraduate
and for the tonight
preexisting disbelief in the existence of God
many of my medical colleagues after all what I as christians
but the fact is that
it was my right
exposure to more linguistics the loss of which helped me to distinguish between my belief
jeanne moos
things which you candidacy director
this belief
superman programs his
such as gloves or spirits
the point is that
philosophy
right from the outset has consumed itself with the nature of of existence itself
with more might
poll might don't exist
foreclose and above all week
literacy
whole themselves become subjects of discretion in a way that they wouldn't it be before they
were written down
it's not until that written down that they become stable enough to their examination
in the same way that physical objects themselves convey our examination
indeed the faucet that such doesn't really in the until literacy because but even then
not conspicuously
until the greeks who stopped to question the major of reality itself
but it's with the philosophy of the ancient greeks
the we finally get to what you might call the deep end
you know examination of the history of disbelief
well here we are
in the midst of the held in novels the British museum
it's an hour or two before the public
floods in
and I find myself wondering
what don't you make of these artifacts
retreat as they being from a civilization