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TheThinkingAtheist

Those Godless Millennials

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The Millennial Generation is increasingly unaffiliated with religion. It's also a generation often described as entitled, coddled, disinterested, and lazy. We explore the label and the people beyond it.

Time Magazine - "The Me Me Me Generation": http://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation

USA Today - "The Malignant Myth of the Millennial": https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/05/11/millennial-myth/100982920

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0:00.0

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0:08.1

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0:13.5

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0:19.8

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0:30.0

Okay, here we go. Stand by. Three, two, one. Action.

0:36.4

Assume nothing.

0:38.0

Brash, ball, face, blast from me.

0:40.3

Question. Everything.

0:42.1

I find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.

0:46.3

It is quite alright to be an atheist. The fastest growing group of people in the country

0:50.8

has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.

0:54.7

You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.

0:57.1

Challenge the opposition. You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.

1:02.5

And start thinking.

1:07.6

This is the thinking atheist worldwide.

1:14.1

People are a mystery, aren't they? What makes us tick? What makes us pursue different

1:19.7

relationships, interests, career goals, hobbies, religions, whatever? Why are some people really good

1:26.6

and others? Very much not so. What is the human condition as it relates to how we think and how we act?

1:33.7

Well, Dr. Mark Leary is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University,

1:38.9

and he teaches a great lecture at the Great Courses Plus called Mysteries of Human Behavior.

1:44.8

This is a wonderful exploration into the things that make us human.

1:49.2

And it's just one of over 8,000 lectures at the Great Courses Plus on topics ranging from science

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