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"We are experiencing days of religious turmoil, of fundamentalism, fanatacism and the breakdown of spirituality through technology and reason. After the collapse of the piety that was rooted in myth, cult, occult, ancient myths and religions. GOD? THE ALMIGHTY QUESTION is a three year journey across 23 countries to see what the entity that goes by the name of God means to individuals - from children to religious leaders, to celebrities, fanatics and...
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Thinking is one of the things we do best. Wouldn't it be great if we could do it even better? This course gives you a set of thinking techniques designed with that goal in mind: tools for conceptual visualization, critical analysis, creative thinking, logical inference, rational decision, real-world testing, effective reasoning, and rational argument. This course also uses interactive engagement to introduce a range of conceptual methods and perspectives....
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Join Bill Moyers for conversations that touch on pressing issues in our post-9/11 world: the increasing politicization of faith, the perceived gulf between science and religion, the tension between tolerance and free expression, and more. Original voices such as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, and Mary Gordon add a personal dimension as they talk openly about their most heartfelt beliefs and how those beliefs inform their lives and work....
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Set in the UK in the late '70s, early '80s, this family drama is based on actual events. In December 1978 in England a family is shattered by a double tragedy. Two young boys find themselves in the custody of social services and placed in a series of foster homes. Their mother seems incapable of caring for them due to her chronic depression. All begin to lose hope that their family will ever be restored. In their frailty, courage comes only through...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the poetess and Mexican nun, the astronomer and mathematician Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and an anonymous monk struggle with how dogma and rationalism can exist together.
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