Freethought Matters Rerun: AC Grayling
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Today we're taking a look back at a conversation FFRF Co-President Dan Barker had in 2021 during the pandemic with the British philosopher A.C. Grayling.
A.C. Grayling is a preeminent British philosopher. He's the author of about 30 books. In 2011, he founded New College of the Humanities in London. Before that, he's been a professor. He was a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck University of London. He's also taught at St Ann's College in Oxford. Professor Grayling's many books include What Is Good The Search for the Best Way to Live, The Meaning of Things, The Good Book, The God Argument and the History of Philosophy: Three Millennia of Thought from the West and Beyond.
Grayling is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, an outspoken public atheist. He is Vice President of Humanists UK and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society. He frequently appears in British media discussing philosophy and public affairs.
Learn more about the Freedom From Religion Foundation at ffrf.org.
Love this channel and your foundation! I live in a religious area and I can’t find anyone else who is an Atheist. So watching your videos along with others on UA-cam really helps me. Thank you!
Thank you for this , what a graceful, empathetic, compassionate and intelligent man.
A scholar and a gentleman. Great talk.
I'm new to this, but my mind and heart are not! I wish we all could be more outspoken about our feelings.
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Peace out.
Has the freedom from religion organization responded to any studies claiming "people who have a faith live longer"?
Updated: I asked the above question because it seems like people who are non believers would have just as long of a life because they're not making themselves unhappy pretending they believe in God to please their friends & family. I think it would be great if they did a study on the life-span of Atheist and how their life spans are increasing because they have more support from others who share their non beliefs and now that support is increasing more than ever before
Why would they fight joining the supernatural realm of their preferred version of invisible supernatural super being?!?!?!
I bet they hate that God don't let them join "hEavEn" early and forces them to grow old😂
Faith in what? Faith in people to do good?
I was curious. I just started searching and found amazing results showing faith increases life spans significantly! :) Ummmhuhhhhh. Well I will continue searching. So far the one study was funded by Azusa University which is associated with Evangelicalism. And so . . . . I would like to continue researching this.
A Time article suggests a possible connection, but it appears that some of the benefits are not exclusive to faith. Other factors play a key role. "You don’t have to become a nun to get these health benefits, however. The simple act of congregating with a like-minded community might deserve much of the credit. Tyler VanderWeele, one of the authors of the JAMA study and a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says factors related to churchgoing-like having a network of social support, an optimistic attitude, better self-control and a sense of purpose in life-may account for the long-life benefits seen in his study and others.
Indeed, it’s also the values drawn from religious tradition-such as “respect, compassion, gratitude, charity, humility, harmony, meditation and preservation of health”-that seem to predict longevity, not the dogma preached at the altar, says Howard Friedman, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and co-author of the book The Longevity Project.
Fostering these qualities may even affect rates of chronic disease, says Marino Bruce, a co-author of the PLOS One study and a research associate professor of medicine, health and society at Vanderbilt University. “Having that sense that you’re not in the world alone, that you are part of a power larger than oneself, can give one confidence to deal with the issues of life,” Bruce says. “Biologically, if that reduces stress, then that means you’re less likely to have high blood pressure or diabetes or things that can increase mortality.”
But what if organized religion isn’t your style? Can solo prayer-or even a more abstract sense of faith or spirituality-provide the same payoff?
I am Agnostic and I pray. It does seem to help in ways that I don't understand. I certainly do not believe in any of the "God" of any doctrine. None of them. Prayer = relaxation, gratitude and humility.
I hate what america did to me
Really? That bad?