Chuck Bryant

Anyway, the French Revolution itself basically said, Catholic Church, you're out.

And then they were like, okay, well, wait a minute.

We're all about reason and enlightenment.

What are we going to fill the vacuum left by getting rid of the Catholic Church?

And all of these ideas like the cult of reason kind of came along, which was,

Essentially create humanist temples to logic in humans, in humanity.

Remove God from the equation altogether.

That would have been a great name.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm glad you explained what you meant by he was into animals because I was confused at first.

Oh, come on.

One of the other cool things about Jeremy Bentham is he willed his body to science.

He donated it to science early on.

And they used it.

They said, thanks a lot, buddy.

Here's your skeleton back.

Because as part of his wishes, he wanted to remain at University College London, which he helped found as a secular college open to everybody.

And he's still under glass at the University College of London, dressed up in his own clothes.

He's got wax hands with gloves on.