(Answer: Primary and secondary.)
Discussion: What is meant by Count Charles Blount's phrase, "After death nothing is, and nothing Death?"
Factual question: In response to the Festival of Reason, Robespierre repudiated the atheistic philosophy of the prominent French philosophers and himself hosted:
A) the Festival of French Pride
B) the Festival of the Revolution
C) the Festival of Laissez-Faire
D) the Festival of the Supreme Being
(Answer: D.)
Discussion question: The initial aimed of the French Revolution was the reformation of government and the reconstruction of the social classes. However, as the phases of the revolution progressed, more aim in the mass movement geared against that of religion. Why do you think this happened?
Factual question: What did Kierkegaard say people of his time would view Abraham as if they looked as him strictly as "a man today who was taking his son someplace to murder him because a voice told him to do it?"
A) Moral, because he followed the belief and commandment of his religion and God
B) Insane and mad
C) a father of resignation, not of faith
D) Both B and C
(Answer: D.)
Discussion: Kierkegaard, in response to the story of Abraham, said that morals cannot come from that which is communally approved. Where then do morals come from?
Factual question: Percy Shelley sad that God was invented by those:
A) in power to control the masses
B) creepy old guys that lived thousands of years ago
C) searching for a means to explain the universe and the morals found throughout life
D) nobody; Percy was a firm believer in God and thus thought that nobody created God. God is the Alpha and the Omega
(Answer: A.)
Discussion: The poets advocated free thought and thus rejected religion because they claimed that religion tainted the reasoning necessary for free-thinkers. Is this really the case, or can free-thinking and religion mix together?
Factual question: What caused Bertrand Russell to doubt his belief in God?
A) The question, "What caused God?"
B) Insufficient physical proof to the existence of God.
C) The hypocrisy that Christians display toward their own religion.
D) He simply did not believe in the Bible.
(Answer: A.)
Discussion question: Russell said that many believers - such as Immanuel Kant - disposed of the intellectual arguments in favor of God and instead only chose to believe in the moral arguments for God. Are moral arguments enough to believe in a religion, or is more needed?
Disc: Do poets struggle the most with Doubt in their art as Hecht states? Or is Doubt just more evident in the medium of poetry?
Fact: Where did John Keats believe the place for "Soul Making" was?
A: The world
Disc: If Agnostics believe that humans created God, then who/what made humans? I know this is a leading question in philosophy, but does that eliminate the discourse of discussion?
Fact: Does Russell believe that there is such a way to disprove the evidence of God?
No, but he does believe that the absence of evidence isn't grounds for belief.
Factual: Who wrote "Why I Am Not A Christian" ?
Answer: Bertrand Russell
Discussion: It's interesting that Russell began doubting at the same age that many of us are now. Why is it that some people question their beliefs early in life, but some people might not question anything until near the end of their life?
Factual Question: Which one of these does Hecht not mention in there being doubt in?
A) Modern society
B) Modern art
C) Modern cosmology
D) Politics
E) Modern entertainment
(Answer: E.)
Discussion question: Do you think that doubt is an aspect of inquiry that everyone should have in order to be a free thinker?
Disc: Do you believe that religion will be ridiculed in the year 3001, as Arthur Clarke mused?
Fact: Churches are increasing in America and England?
False actual: JMH uses 9/11 as the jumping off point for doubt in this millenium.....TRUE or FALSE.
Discussion: Is JMH right in using 9/11 as a jumping off point for doubt in this millenium? As milleniums go, we have hardly entered this one.
Factual question: What caused Bertrand Russell to doubt his belief in God?
A) The question, "What caused God?"
B) Insufficient physical proof to the existence of God.
C) The hypocrisy that Christians display toward their own religion.
D) He simply did not believe in the Bible.
(Answer: A.)
Discussion question: Russell said that many believers - such as Immanuel Kant - disposed of the intellectual arguments in favor of God and instead only chose to believe in the moral arguments for God. Are moral arguments enough to believe in a religion, or is more needed?
Disc: Do poets struggle the most with Doubt in their art as Hecht states? Or is Doubt just more evident in the medium of poetry?
Fact: Where did John Keats believe the place for "Soul Making" was?
A: The world
Disc: If Agnostics believe that humans created God, then who/what made humans? I know this is a leading question in philosophy, but does that eliminate the discourse of discussion?
Fact: Does Russell believe that there is such a way to disprove the evidence of God?
No, but he does believe that the absence of evidence isn't grounds for belief.
Factual: Who wrote "Why I Am Not A Christian" ?
Answer: Bertrand Russell
Discussion: It's interesting that Russell began doubting at the same age that many of us are now. Why is it that some people question their beliefs early in life, but some people might not question anything until near the end of their life?
Factual Question: Which one of these does Hecht not mention in there being doubt in?
A) Modern society
B) Modern art
C) Modern cosmology
D) Politics
E) Modern entertainment
(Answer: E.)
Discussion question: Do you think that doubt is an aspect of inquiry that everyone should have in order to be a free thinker?
Disc: Do you believe that religion will be ridiculed in the year 3001, as Arthur Clarke mused?
Fact: Churches are increasing in America and England?
False actual: JMH uses 9/11 as the jumping off point for doubt in this millenium.....TRUE or FALSE.
Discussion: Is JMH right in using 9/11 as a jumping off point for doubt in this millenium? As milleniums go, we have hardly entered this one.
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