What happens when a mildly committed Quaker from Brown University spends a semester at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia—a university created by Jerry Falwell as a center for teaching fundamentalist Christianity? Dr. Ron Miller speaks at the Theosophical Society in America on October 28, 2010. ABOUT THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:The Theosophical Society is composed of students […]
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I am teaching a new course at Lake Forest College. It’s called “Atheism and Faith”. I can only hope the students are enjoying it as much as I am. We’re focusing on the “new atheists”, so the first book we read is Sam Harris’s The End of Faith. He’s one of the poster boys for
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This educational talk by Dr. Ron Miller was recorded at the North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Illinois on 29 November, 2009. Ron discusses traditional theism and various ways of interpreting God in the universe. Fundamentalism, athiesm, science… this is definitely one to share with your friends and colleagues. You can learn more about the
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Dr. Ron Miller speaks at the Theosophical Society in America in 2009 on The New Athiests. Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are two representatives of a new wave of atheism in the post-9/11 world. Troubled by the fanaticism threatening our world, from both some Muslims in the Middle East and some Christians in