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THE SECULAR CIRCULAR Newsletter of the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara www.SBHumanists.org OCTOBER 2011 October Program Speaker: Professor Joe White "Ignorance & Stupidity" This month, one of our Society’s most popular speakers, SBCC Professor Joe White is back with a new, provocative topic: “A Primer on Ignorance & Stupidity.” Based on his forthcoming book with the same title, Professor White will examine, in his words, the “Too Often Overlooked Utility, Virtue, Morality and Aesthetic Value of Ignorance & Stupidity.” In addition to chairing the Department of Philosophy at City College, Professor White is Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education, which publishes the only international undergraduate journal of philosophy. It has published papers from four continents. He is the author of the Philosophy textbook, Adventures on the Frontier of Ignorance, now in its 5th edition. A prolific writer for various newspapers and magazines, Professor White also contributed to the 24-part PBS series on Philosophy called The Examined Life. We also note that he was recently appointed Ambassador for Flying Goat Wines of the Lompoc Wine Ghetto. When: Saturday, October 15, 2011 Where: Social Room, Vista del Monte, 3775 Modoc Road, Santa Barbara Time: Doors open 2:30 pm for socializing; meeting starts 3 pm Fee: Optional: members and students, $2; non-members, $5 general donation Dinner following: At the Elephant Bar, 521 Firestone Road, Goleta, in the Serengeti Room. There will be a Global Buffet. $24 per person, including non-alcoholic drinks, tax and tip. Please bring cash or a check for that amount. RSVP to: [email protected] by October 11. For more information: Call 769-HSSB Humanist Society Website: santabarbarahumanists.org Please park only in spaces behind the church marked "VDM" 2 The HSSB Secular Circular -- October 2011 Welcome, New Members! Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: many large, modern and immaculate church buildings; the Bill Edgar, a returning member from Santa Book of Mormon (alongside the Gideon Bible) in hotel Barbara rooms; two viable candidates for the Presidency of the United States. They even persuaded (with Catholic and Republican assistance) more than half of California HSSB Book Club voters to approve Proposition 8, taking away the rights Marty Shapiro of a much larger LGBT population to marry the person they love. This particular political activism is Our October selection is Thomas Friedman's "That especially egregious noting the Church's unwillingness Used to Be Us". We'll be discussing this new, big or inability to rein-in Mormon sects or distance bestseller Wednesday, October 19, at 1:30 P.M., at themselves from a steady stream of criminal polygamy the home of Dick Cousineau, 505 Alegria (off Las cases in the news recently. Positas). I have tried to lead by example and would like to see I'd also like to ask for your input into a new project more action by the Secular Humanist community. for us: compiling a list of selections for future months. If you have any book suggestions to go A copy of the Humanist Manifesto placed and into our new, expanded lists, please let me know at constantly replaced in every hotel room, public library [email protected]. Thanks! and bookstore until it is as ubiquitous as those religious books. Humanists' Support Group Voluntary tithing of 10% of income, Claudia Solé inheritance or legacy to local, national, or global secular organizations. This could be spread amongst We were sorry to see that a member requested help lobbyists such as the Secular Coalition for America; to attend our monthly meeting but did not wait for litigators such as the Freedom From Religion the ride as arranged. We are here to help but Foundation; or activist groups like Americans United appreciate being taken seriously. for Separation of Church & State. Also, we will be working with Cottage Hospital who Acknowledging economic difficulties, tithing has requested a non-believing celebrant for the 10% of one's free time instead of money would be support of those who may be atheists or otherwise appropriate for activism such as: writing letters to vague about beliefs. We have relevant experience newspapers; distributing Humanist Manifestos; or with ill and terminally ill non-believers and look volunteering to help a local organization like HSSB. forward to being of help in the wider community beyond own circle. We can either sit home and grumble about how religionists are legislating their agenda from the corridors of power, or get up and work to shape our A View from the Road communities towards what we would like! Andrew Hankin “Divinity of Doubt” by Vincent [In place of vacationing President Ron Bugliosi Kronenberg's monthly message, here are some observations from Andrew Hankin reporting on his Robert Bernstein current travels.] At our September meeting, famed lawyer Vincent While traveling through northern California and Bugliosi set the bar high by saying his book southern Idaho, I have noticed the success of the “Divinity of Doubt” discusses virtually every The HSSB Secular Circular -- October 2011 3 important issue on God and religion. And that he Martin Luther's book “The Bondage of the Will” is had fresh, provocative insights on all of them. He clear on this point: Man has free will only to the admitted this sounds presumptuous after 2000 extent of doing God’s will. years of discussion, but he thinks it to be true. Some in the audience may have disagreed with this Bugliosi says that even if God did give us free will, self-assessment. Personally, I worried at the start he is not absolved of evil. He asks us to imagine when he made a confused reference to research 17-year old Eddie who is robbing and raping and that showed the human brain seems to have an so far is not caught. And his parents know of his area devoted to awareness of God. What worried behavior. We would not accept his parents' claim me was his wondering about the word “neuron” as that “Eddie has free will” as an excuse for their if it were exotic to him. inaction. There was a repeated pattern: whenever talk Bugliosi next discussed the immortality of the soul strayed into the world of science, he fumbled. And as crucial to Christianity. Without it there is no yet some of the substance of his argument is heaven or hell. Yet 1 Timothy 6:16 says only God is scientific at its core. Many in the audience gasped immortal. According to Bugliosi, the idea of an that he was “not overly sold on evolution” and immortal soul comes from Plato who made it up thought “the evidence for evolution is flimsy”. with no evidence. Likewise when he was asked about cosmological issues, he sneered at the idea that quantum Bugliosi challenges the idea of Jesus being born to mechanics allowed for something to appear out of a virgin. He went back to the original Hebrew and a vacuum. found the prophesy in the Old Testament (Isaiah 7:14) was that he be born to a “young woman”. He The good news: he did indeed have some new consulted with a rabbi Dershowitz who affirmed that insights, starting with his take on free will in the the Bible uses a different word for “virgin”. Isaiah Bible. 7:14 also says the child would be named Immanuel (meaning God is with us) not Jesus. And that the God is often taken to be omniscient, omnipotent kings of Syria and Israel would die in his time. But and all-good. This combination raises the “problem that happened in 730 BC. of evil”. If God knows all and has the power to change what is wrong, how can there be evil in the But Bugliosi saved severe barbs for atheists, in world? The usual answer offered is that God gave particular New Atheists: Dawkins, Hitchens and people free will and that evil results from free Harris. He says atheists cannot prove there is no choices of individual people. God. And he thinks the cosmological problem of the origin of the universe is a real problem for Bugliosi says that of the hundreds of books of Bible atheists. As noted, he even thinks the evolution of scholarship he looked at, only one percent had life is a problem for atheists. He claims that Darwin "free will" in their index. And that these references himself was an agnostic, not an atheist. And he were negative, that the Bible actually denies free puts Einstein on the agnostic team as well. will! Only the obscure Book of Sirach in the Old Testament affirms free will. The Catechism of the He quotes Clarence Darrow, “I do not pretend to Catholic Church, 803 pages in all, makes no know, where many ignorant men are sure.”And mention of free will. Gertrude Stein, “There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an He referenced Isaiah 63:17 where God is asked, answer. That's the answer.” “Why have you allowed us to turn from your path?” And Exodus 4:21 where God hardens the heart of Bugliosi says that Sam Harris and John Loftus the Pharaoh so that he will not let the Jews go free. wrote books that correctly challenge religion. But 4 The HSSB Secular Circular -- October 2011 they fall flat in claiming to support atheism. He says things in the universe we don’t know, but must that a Pew poll showed that 30 percent of Americans set of unknowables include things we just make who are not associated with a religion still believe in up? Like unicorns? God? 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