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Demon Erasers

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Yeah.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

So the human condition, as I've said, is one of uncertainty.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

I don't know.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

I will never know.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And I don't care.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And I'm okay with that.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

I don't care.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

That's the you don't care part.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Like I said, read that uncertainty quote from Bertrand Russell.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

This, to me, is the most powerful quote, and I think it sums up the human condition.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And I think that once you make your peace with this and really understand that you have religion on one side, you have science on the other, and philosophy is something in the middle that is really about being intellectual and really about being objective.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

So it says, uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Obviously, he's talking about religion.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

It is not good either to forget the questions that philosophy asks, he's talking about science there, or to persuade ourselves that we have found indubitable answers to them.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

to teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

So I read that quote and there is nothing that I've read in my life that has resonated so deeply with me.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And when I admitted that things are uncertain and I get it, I have the same vivid hopes.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

But that still doesn't prove that there is a God.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Just like I asked you.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And that to me is an emotional... Okay.