50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God: Part 1
Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God: Part 2
A Further 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God: Part 3
Today, instead of bringing one secular voice to my blog post, I am bringing a hundred and fifty.
I was listening to these videos last night while I was working on my 2000 pc puzzle. They are short snippets with each academic, but a collage of voices from across a spectrum of disciplines... the sciences, philosophy, mathematics, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology, just to name a few!
I might do something more with these videos... like harvest some quotes, because there were good ones.
One of my biggest struggles is communicating my thoughts in a way that makes sense to someone else. But maybe that's not my responsibility. I want to be a good voice for my experience, but that story will always go through the filter of another person's experience.
I am encouraged as I listen to these very smart and educated people talk about something so simple as "belief in God" or in their case... lack of. For most of them, it's not hard to sum up their perspective. It might take them hours to lecture on topics of physics if that is their specialty, but it only takes a few minutes to say something like... "No... I don't believe it."
Maybe I don't need a thesis to state what really needs to be said. Most just go on with their study of the stars or microbes. "God" for the most part, is an afterthought, not required for day to day activity and life change.
Starting Week Three of Authentic Lent, I think I will finally go across the pond for some inspiration.
Day 12: 2022 - "Longing to be a bird"
Day 12: 2023 - "Climbing a different kind of flagpole"
