Katherine Ozment: Grace Without God

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Ozment is an award-winning journalist and author, with credits that include National Geographic, The New York Times, and Salon. Katherine navigated her own journey toward secular meaning, purpose and "grace." She speaks with Seth Andrews about "Grace Without God."

Katherine's website: http://katherineozment.com

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.0	We hear the questions a whole lot out there, don't we?
0:47.6	Why should we trust our brains?
0:49.5	How can we trust our own reasoning?
0:51.5	How do we define things like truth?
0:53.5	How do you discover truth?
0:55.0	The questions of epistemology, you know, knowledge
0:57.6	and the best way to know things, morality,
1:00.2	and ethical questions as physical products that we've evolved.
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