Religion Harms Society | Peter Millican | Oxford Union
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Published 2013-11-18
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Peter Millican begins by stating that religion's harm on society is about it's impact on society, not it's basis. In most religions an ideal world is depicted as everyone living in harmony through the same religion, this does not apply in our multicultural society.
Filmed on Thursday 7th November 2013
MOTION: This House Believe That Religion Harms Society.
RESULT: Motion Carried.
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ABOUT PETER MILLICAN:
Peter Millican is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. His primary interests include the philosophy of David Hume, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, epistemology, and moral philosophy. Millican is particularly well known for his work on David Hume, and from 2005 until 2010 was Co-Editor of the journal Hume Studies. He is also an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, and has a strong interest in the field of Computing and its links with Philosophy. Recently he has developed a new degree programme at Oxford University, in Computer Science and Philosophy, which accepted its first students in 2012.
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All Comments (21)
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Girl seriously needs a re-education. Her question precisely answered why religion harms society.
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Maximilien Robespierre
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After watching Tariq Ramadan and then this guy, you can clearly see who has a real argument and a real case. Millican has examples and evidence, and Ramadan just kinda rambled on about nothing specific. No contest.
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I always laugh when a believer tells me that a god cannot be perceived by humanity, and then proceeds to tell me all kinds of ways that suppose god works and does things.
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I wish I could express my anti-theist beliefs as clearly as Millican does here.
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Well said an intelligent man with no underlying reason except for getting to the truth
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan
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I love the simplicity of thought of Peter Millican. Beautiful. Good work.
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Uncontested slam-dunk!!! One of the best arguments against superstitious religious beliefs. 👏 👏👏
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I wish I had heard people like Peter Millican speak 40 years ago.
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All religious books can be classified as "The Goat-herder's Guide to the Universe"
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That was a clever comeback. Good work Peter !!
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That's a pretty impressive speech that brings up several points its just sad that people aren't to keen on hearing it.
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Religion is where reasoning goes to die, and to quote Christopher, ''Religion poisons everything''.
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Excellent points! But how does he get his hair like that?
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If I may digress a bit,Prof Millican's accent is so beautiful!
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.” Religion tends to divide people more than it unites people. Religion has been dividing human society Causing violence and wars
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That Indian girl got wrecked lmao
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Common sense debunks religion all the time.
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Sajjad's question answers itself. I really don't know what answer she was expecting.
