Check out this awesome animation of Louis C.K.’s standup “Live at the Beacon Theater” done by JRoneyMedia.
If you enjoyed this clip, you can purchase the whole standup for $5 at Louis CK’s website.
Louis C.K. – If God Came Back, Animation (Video)
Carl Sagan – Human Conceit, We Are Not the Center of the Universe (Video)
Philosophy and religion cautioned that the gods (or God) were far more powerful than we, jealous of their prerogatives and quick to mete out justice for insufferable arrogance. At the same time, these disciplines had not a clue that their own teaching of how the Universe is ordered was a conceit and a delusion.
Every other proposal, and their number is legion, to displace us from cosmic center stage has also been resisted, in part for similar reasons. We seem to crave privilege, merited not by our work, but by our birth, by the mere fact that, say, we are humans and born on Earth. We might call it the anthropocentric—the “human-centered”—conceit. This conceit is brought close to culmination in the notion that we are created in God’s image: The Creator and Ruler of the entire Universe looks just like me. My, what a coincidence. How convenient and satisfying! –Carl Sagan
The Problem of Evil, As Described By Epicurus Circa 300 B.C.
Epicurus is generally credited with first expounding the problem of evil around 300 B.C., and it is sometimes called “the Epicurean paradox” or “the riddle of Epicurus”. It was translated by David Hume in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion:
If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?
