Groupthink: Celebrities to be Contacted
Last updated by Oliver Duex
With and without Machine Learning (ML), everybody can help and suggest here by:
- suggesting celebrities who have expressed a leaning towards spirituality
- listening for when celebrities talk about higher realities
- noting when celebrities express spiritual or religious confusion
- remembering celebrities who are wondering about what comes after this life
We start off with a few suggestions:
Sir Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow, Scotland, combined his education in history, politics, and economics at Oxford with his passion for debate to become a prominent historian, author, teacher, and documentarian. His works include a two-volume biography of Henry Kissinger, with the first volume published in 2015 and the second scheduled for release in 2027.
From interview: "Atheism is actually kind of a religion. It's just your belief is that God doesn't exist. And it's a somewhat a grey form of religion, because you don't get any observance either.
As a historian, I came to realize many years ago, working on the 20th century, that atheist regimes have a terrible record of mass murder, and that can't be a great sign that atheism works. Soviet Union tremendously, anti-religious, anti-clerical, and millions died as a result. So I became a skeptic about atheism as a young historian. But it was only my recent experience as a husband, as a father, that made me realize that I needed something more in my own life than just a historical skepticism about atheism.
I needed faith, I needed observance. Our family needed it and has benefited hugely from it. And, you know, this will sounded naive, but I'll put it like this.
Of all the people who ever lived, Jesus Christ seems to me the most extraordinary. And every Sunday, as I listen, to some aspect of his life, in a reading from the Bible, I think, gosh, what an extraordinary revolutionary thinker he was. And I learn every week, from that, and from his teaching. It's transformative as far as I'm concerned as an individual, but perhaps more importantly, it's been transformative for our family to be Christians.
So Iyaan and I, and our two sons were baptized together last year, and I will just say that if we're possible to revive the kind of Christianity that I certainly adhere to, it would be good for our society as a whole. I don't think much good comes of unbelief, and I think religious faith used to be one of the bedrocks of American and British society, and I'd like to see more Christianity. I think that would be healthy." Here is the entire YouTube interview
