Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
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Perhaps I was too dumb, or just too interested in cricket or in girls, to ask myself any questions about religion. If I had not been, I might have, inevitably, asked myself questions that have troubled skeptics and unbelievers for as long as men and women have been skeptical or have lacked belief: "Is there really no God? And if there really is no supernatural dimension to the universe, why have so many people throughout history and in so many different cultures thought there was?"
— Jonathan Miller
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Source: Wikiquote: "Jonathan Miller" (Quotes, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004))
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About Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor.
About Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor.
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