Bill Moyers: On Faith & Reason - Martin Amis | PBS

On Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, airing Friday, July 28 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), writers Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis show how the imagination of the creative mind can help cross the boundaries between faith and reason and to see the best and worst of human possibilities. In a recent piece for The New Yorker, Martin Amis imagines the last days of Mohamed Atta, the leader of the suicide bombers on 9/11. Bill Moyers explores how these two confessed agnostics come to grips with a world immersed in belief.

For more of the interviews, and a chance to share what *you* find important on matters of Faith & Reason, visit the program's website (www.pbs.org/moyers) and watch the broadcasts on PBS.

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[revjimbob]

I can't see anything to criticise. What did he say that is wrong?

[AlKadath]

So true, as Scott Atran (about the only commentator on terrorism worth listening to) puts it, "never have so few struck fear into the hearts of so many".

[Lone432345]

You mean theres not an anti theist in here bitching and whiny amazing.

[vikramkrishnan]

No, you are embarrassing yourself. Try taking a course in elementary Logic before you open your mouth

[1thousandways]

... ok, look, you clearly don't understand what the word linear means and I'm not sure you fully understand the word spurious either. You are embarrasing yourself.

[vikramkrishnan]

The point of the link demonstrated above was to demonstrate the spurious and linear link of your argument. Hence it is both spurious and linear.

[1thousandways]

That's a completely different comparison; what you've done is come up with a (very spurious) chronologically linear link between Charlemagne and Hitler. What I'm saying is that Islamic fundamentalism is the nemesis to the culture of the West - ie a different type of comparison. You can blame, or pardon, who you like - that is not the point.

[1thousandways]

With respect I don't think Islamic fundamentalism is as great a threat as the third reich.

[vikramkrishnan]

Well applying your idiotic logic and see where we get:

Holocaust -> Hitler -> Versailles -> French Revanchism -> Bismark -> 1848 revolution -> French Revolution -> Louis XVI -> Louis XIV -> ... -> Charlemagne.

Ergo, lets pardon Hitler because it was Charlemagne who was responsible for the Holocaust.

[vikramkrishnan]

And in the 1930s too many people had too many other things to worry about than the remote chance that Herr Hitler and his forces would kill them

[1thousandways]

Western culture deserves Islamic fundamentalism, Western culture brought Islamic fundamentalism into existence. These things don't happen by accident.