Jonathan Miller's Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief is muchly on the persecution of English atheists.
Plenty of class bias here. And where are the women?
But I like that when he talks about the wtc twin towers he doesn’t show the usual clip—nothing of the towers coming down: we see the cleanup, W’s posturing.
And I appreciate the point that one wouldn’t think about one's disbelief if it weren’t being raised so much of late in culture.
Ends by excoriating the Christian fundamentalist cabal in the White House.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
