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Dennis,

I encourage you to include true believers in your discussions rather than those that are smart but ultimately subordinate to the format and context of the show--which seems to be more about making nice. The premise of the show is interesting, but the resulting conversation is too watered down to be significant. Please consider inviting an Apologetic (like Hank Hannegraffe) represent the Christian view at some point, and others in other faiths, who are more specific in their views, but are also able to engage in respectful conversations with others.

Thanks

Dennis,

I encourage you to include true believers in your discussions rather than those that are smart but ultimately subordinate to the format and context of the show--which seems to be more about making nice. The premise of the show is interesting, but the resulting conversation is too watered down to be significant. Please consider inviting an Apologetic (like Hank Hannegraffe) represent the Christian view at some point, and others in other faiths, who are more specific in their views, but are also able to engage in respectful conversations with others.

Thanks

Let me save you time,

People don't want to believe their lives are insignificant,
People want to believe that they have some power they can invoke to prevent them from disasters happening to themselves, family and friends (it usually doesn't extend outside their inner circle.)
People want to believe they won't really die.

Even though science has found NO evidence for supernatural deities, people are encouraged that it doesn't hurt to hope for a little magic.

Unfortunately magical thinking can make for destructive politics -- for example electing George Bush and making people say about global warming "oh well -- isn't the world supposed to end anyway?".

That's why I don't care to partake in the opium of magical thinking. We have to many real problems in the world we need some SOBER people around for....

If it weren't for that, I'd say, go ahead and believe in your Fairies -- whatever is fun for you!

Let me save you time,

People don't want to believe their lives are insignificant,
People want to believe that they have some power they can invoke to prevent them from disasters happening to themselves, family and friends (it usually doesn't extend outside their inner circle.)
People want to believe they won't really die.

Even though science has found NO evidence for supernatural deities, people are encouraged that it doesn't hurt to hope for a little magic.

Unfortunately magical thinking can make for destructive politics -- for example electing George Bush and making people say about global warming "oh well -- isn't the world supposed to end anyway?".

That's why I don't care to partake in the opium of magical thinking. We have to many real problems in the world we need some SOBER people around for....

If it weren't for that, I'd say,go ahead and believe in your Fairies -- whatever is fun for you!

Another mindless program offering from Dennis "no intellect" Wholly. He's been cranking garbage by asking questions of second rate locals for years. I stopped contributing to Public Television here due to trash like his. And now he's dreamed up a new scam to bilk coffers and generate a paycheck. Get a job Wholly.

Dennis,

P.S.:

A.

[1] Where are the Wiccans?

[2] Where are the positive believers in Atheism? (I am most definitely not one of them!).

[3] Where are the Cathar-Dualists?

B.

You are producing programs in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Ohio, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, California, and Seoul, Korea.

These are all fertile breeding grounds for traditional and fundamentalist religions.

Why didn't you produce a program in the Vermont-New Hampshire region?

This area has the highest percentage of the population in the United States which:

(1) Does not attend any religious services, and

(2) Does not self-identify with any religion.

Continuing regards.

Dennis,

I'm sure your project is valuable and interesting, but I see one major defect in it:

You should include people who DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING.

Like me. I call myself an agnostic Buddhist sympathizer.

I think that Buddhist ethics are the best ever devised. I think the Buddhist psychology of the human mind, created 2,500 years ago, is still valid and unsurpassed.

But I don't BELIEVE in reincarnation, karma, the seven planes of existence, and other traditional Buddhist beliefs. I THINK it's entirely possible that these things exist, but I don't BELIEVE that they do - I'm agnostic as to that.

The absence from your project of people who don't positively believe in some established credo implicitly suggests that everyone does, or should, positively believe in some religion or philosophy.

I believe that your implicit message is in error.

I think, if you investigated, you'd find that there are millions of intelligent and thoughtful people who, like me, think that anyone who has a positive belief in the truth of a religious or similar system, is ignorant and deluded (that includes all of the believers in the churches, mosques, synagogues and temples that you visited).

I also think that most Americans, whatever they may profess when asked, realize that they are at heart agnostic, and really know nothing at all about the ultimate nature of things.

Good luck with your project, which will certainly be interesting and informative, though I do think that in its present exclusionary form, it is incomplete and misleading.

Best wishes to you.