The Atheism Tapes - Daniel Dennett - Belief in Belief

[shandcunt]

Great Video, Hey if you think you talk to the creator of the universe and you think he talks back that's pretty rediculous but as long as you are happy and healthy it's not harmful, your just listening to yourself. Say you go through a rough patch, suffer mental illness, become angry at something, thats when God may start telling you to do some fkd up shit, nd you can't blame the person for doing it, after all it was a test, if the all good and all lovign creator tells you to do something?

[alteritY9k]

I think a better term might be the desire to believe in God or the desire for the belief to be true.

[handlas1]

i like weiner!

[paradirob]

Dennett is saying that if we 'really' believed in God, we might be doing all sorts of lunatic things. Yet, we don't have to. We're Americans. We read Scientific American magazine. Now, the Japanese during WWII were dying by casting their fates to the Divine Wind. Or the Soldier of Jihad, not realizing that 'Gee, I've been haad,' goes right along with the story line and sacrifices his own life. I guess you got to do what you got to do but are lucky not to have to do a bunch of lunatic things.

[ClassiKSouL]

go Dennet ...