Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God...

This is a repost of a small clip from "The God Monologue," the working title of a soon-to-be-released film version which has been retitled "Letting Go of God." It's a beautiful loss of faith story which chronicles one woman's religious journey from a good little Catholic girl to a realization that there's little (good) evidence for the existence of god.

This video taped version was the first preformance before an audience, and was presented to the Skeptics Society (www.Skeptic.com).

For information on purchasing the CD, or about the upcoming release of the film, visit www.JuliaSweeney.com

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[BionicDance]

I'm only just discovering Julia Sweeney. She, um...rocks. :)

[yo1o2eggs]

I just bought this DVD! It was awesome!

[CommonAtheist]

Please read "Atheism: The Case Against God" by George H. Smith or "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. All your questions will be answered. The short answer is that just because something APPEARS to be designed, doesn't mean it is. Who designs snow flakes? They're pretty, they have structure and order. No one designs them... they're created by the laws of nature that dictate how ice crystals grow. If you'd like to talk email me here or at commonatheist "d0t c0m".

[in2dionysus]

My thoughts exactly Julia"Totally against the mind of man!" Atheism can have learnable love! Hurting people with religion who would of guessed!

[Jeenyus1983]

I am curious...What created matter? What organized this matter in a fashion that created nature? Life? the birds with hollow bones that can fly...wonder who taught them to fly? wonder how the fish could breath oxygen threw water..Who taught the fish to swim? How taught us or the other animals to hear? or to see? to touch? Most importantly--who taught us how to love? Even a newborn knows how to love! How can the passionate sensation of love be evolutionary in origin? if so-what created evolution?

[dgb751]

@photolitherland yea, i went to egypt this summer, and ala is great was blasted over loudspeakers in cairo. cant we all just stop the nonsense.

[comicguy12]

and apparently when you turn 8 your old enough to have sex according to the catholic church

[MidgardEagle]

Just listened to God Said Ha! on Spotify, it's awesome.

[shadude68]

LOL - this is from back when she was still "workshopping" the story. there are many sublte differences between this and the current/final version we all know and love. of course the overall broadstrokes are the same....i do find the little changes she made interesting....and personally, i think these changes makes it a tighter/better story, without taking away from the theme.

[funnyguise]

I thought he was kicking a ball against the wall of the school by himself like you said @TED... hmm... now I don't believe in you either!

keep up the great work! I've facebooked the TED talk to my religious relatives!!!!

[ailovesu204]

"Oh, and by the way...there is no Santa Clause!"

xDDD LOL