The Pros and Cons of Resistance

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I don't think I've sat through an entire Woody Allen movie, maybe one. Have you really not? Some of my best friends are Jews. You would like them, it's my privilege. But... isn't Woody Allen like the ultimate stereotype? He's like a Jew minstrel,. It's like exactly the caricature of the sort of American New York neurotic Jew. Maybe in my rejection of that portrait of a Jew, I'm actually being more pro-Jew than even you, you self-loathing bastard. If there is no God, well, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide? Well, let's not get hysterical

Does life have meaning if there is no God? Why should I be a good person if there's no reward or punishment waiting for me in the afterlife? Why does religion seem to make people happier and healthier? Dave and Tamler heroically try to answer these questions without being stoned. Other topics include Dave's paralyzing fear of death, bad times on mopeds, and the pros and cons of naming your daughter Chlamydia. They almost get through the episode without having to censor something--but not quite.

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Woody Allen's "Love and Death"

Paul Bloom- Does Religion Make You Nice? [Slate.com]

Follow-up reading on religion and health (for the slightly academically inclined)- Powell, L. H., Shahabi, L., & Thoresen, C. E. (2003). Religion and spirituality: Linkages to physical health. American Psychologist, 58, 36.

Pascal's Wager [wikipedia.org]

Albert Camus [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

The Problem of Evil. [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

"Yes but subjectivity is objective."

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