Watched NBC's Journeyman show last night. I was kind of surprised we're still getting fresh shows despite the writer's strike.In this episode our protagonist has been forced by his brother, a police officer, to go to a psychiatrist because time-traveling isn't seen as a valid excuse for frequent familial absences. Which is understandable, but what is interesting to me is how this mirrors the world of faith.
For the psychiatrist and brother, time-traveling simply won't cut it. He is ruled insane apriori. Isn't this a glimpse into how secular progressives think of people of faith, since they rule out miracles apriori? If you rule out the possibility of miracles, including the miracle of our own personality and thoughts surviving the dissolution of the physical instrument of those thoughts - i.e. our brain - then it's clear why atheists think religious people are mad. And if atheists consider us mad then they will feel free to exert control over us and our freedom - such as the Journeyman's brother did.
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