"I'm
reluctant to use the word atheist, to describe my own unshakable
disbelief. And that's not because I'm ashamed, afraid or even
embarrassed, simply because it seems so self-evidently true to myself
that there is no God that giving that conviction a special title somehow
dignifies what it denies. After all we don't have a special word for
people who don't believe in ghosts or witches. On the o
ther
hand that doesn't mean that I think it was scarcely worth bothering
with a series of this length. On the contrary, there is a long history
of atrocity committed in the name of religion and an equally long
history of truly heroic opposition.
So in a sense this series is
well, a tribute to those who have won for me and many others, the right
to stand up and be counted."
Jonathan Miller (theater and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humorist, sculptor and physician)
"I'm
reluctant to use the word atheist, to describe my own unshakable
disbelief. And that's not because I'm ashamed, afraid or even
embarrassed, simply because it seems so self-evidently true to myself
that there is no God that giving that conviction a special title somehow
dignifies what it denies. After all we don't have a special word for
people who don't believe in ghosts or witches. On the o
ther
hand that doesn't mean that I think it was scarcely worth bothering
with a series of this length. On the contrary, there is a long history
of atrocity committed in the name of religion and an equally long
history of truly heroic opposition.
So in a sense this series is well, a tribute to those who have won for me and many others, the right to stand up and be counted."
Jonathan Miller (theater and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humorist, sculptor and physician)
So in a sense this series is well, a tribute to those who have won for me and many others, the right to stand up and be counted."
Jonathan Miller (theater and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humorist, sculptor and physician)
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