Skipping Sunday School: Extended trailer

A documentary exploring parenting without religion and growing up godless.

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[wearspjsinpublic]

I'd really like to see this!

[Sherlatter666]

Looking forward to this one!

[Ashiman12]

It all comes down to how we go about the business of living: by faith, or by reason. If you live by faith, you can lose anything and everything, since faith cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood, and since faith lowers our critical faculties. If you live by reason, the only thing you stand to lose is your faith, and maybe, just maybe, that's not such a bad thing.

[Ashiman12]

The problem with Pascal's wager is that is makes a grave mistake. They think, "Well, if I believe in God, I've got nothing to lose." Except, you could lose THIS life, your ONLY life, if not by violence, then by a long, slow regimin of supression, submission, control, fear, running from our insecurities, being content with not knowing new things, not living every day to the fullest, and thinking yourself a lowly, pitiable thing by virtue of having been born human.

[kuhlwlf]

Looking forward to seeing this

[CitizenRoe]

It's about time this issue starts to get recognition! We nontheist parents are raising lots of kids with more critical thinking skills and solid moral foundations than the average theists. Can't wait to see this documentary! Go Brother Richard! You rock!

[Lukegamer]

I was wondering when Pascal's wager would rear its ugly head, and sure enough it does not dissapoint. Pascal's Law anyone? Any arguement over the existence of god, if continued long enough, will inevitably cause an appeal to Pascal's wager.

Looks like a great documentary, I'm looking forward to watching the full version.

[mahalgimmy]

I tried your search a read those links, mostly just blogs. No wonder I missed them. But I did get the idea that Paul Bloom is a major researcher in the area. I went looking for his actual work. He warns the research may just show empathy emotion. He states "The aspect of morality that we truly marvel at - its generality and universality - is the product of culture, not of biology." Ref: nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazin­e/09babies-t....

[Trittydi]

- Just a comment from a personal perspective ....

I don't think that being born with a inherent sense of morality is protection against bad moral behavior. As you say ... parents and peers - AT LEAST - have an impact on behavior as well. My husband and I have found - happily, but as we already knew - that religion is NOT necessary.

Truthfully - I don't think much of ANY parent that can't see this for themselves. It's just so obvious.

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[Trittydi]

You say you've never seen them, but did you look for them? Freud got some stuff right, but he got quite a bit wrong.

I did a search using "studies born with a sense of morality" and came up with three links out of the top four right away - didn't look any any past that -- I tried to copy them here for you, but YT wouldn't take the post. So - out of the first four links at the search I gave you above - numbers ONE, TWO, and FOUR are what you are asking about. *

[mahalgimmy]

Please post those studies you mention. I've never seen them. There have been lots of studies from Sigmund Freud and his study of the Id, ref allpsych.com/psychology101/ego­, to recent studies of how anonymity unleashes immoral behavior, on the Internet or behind the wheel, which show just the opposite. They all show that humans have no built in morality. We learn it from our parents and the culture.

[Ebuverthebicepcurler]

neat, but this is too slow for me.