Inspired

I just spent the afternoon and early evening watching "Atheism: A Brief History of Unbelief" and the accompanying interviews. What an eye-opener! I learned some things, but mostly I was astounded, not only to look at these guys stating boldly their non-belief in God, and their logical reasons for it, but to think that this program was actually broadcast nationwide, albeit in England. There's some hope that it will appear in the US, but I can't imagine it. That's how bible-belty it feels here. Or perhaps my childhood has a stronger hold on me than I like to think.

The one drawback, and it is a big one, is that the show was exclusively white males, and mostly pretty old too, though I don't really mind that. But to think that not a single woman could have made a substantive contribution to the topic. Huh.

Immediately afterward, I caught the last part of Bill Moyers' "The Buying of the Iraq War", followed by an Iowa Public Television journalist roundtable on in-state coverage of the runup to the war. Gilbert was great; to the others I kept saying, so why did you?

Still, for today at least, things are looking pretty good for us antiwar antireligion types.