"House"
Just read a great article on a blog called Culture Beat about the television show "House". Here's a link and an excert from it:Agnosticisms
House doesn´t believe in the vaguely benign and ill-defined god of American civil religion and, therefore, sees no reason to engage in the ritual pieties associated with that belief: optimism for its own sake, platitudinous talk about death, etc. Like Thomas Hardy, House thinks that if there is a "higher power" it´s, at best, indifferent to our fate and, thus, ritual appeasement is a waste of time.
Because, not despite, of this, "House" is where you will find the most thoughtful discussions of faith and morals on the tube. Instead of sentimental tripe, we see honest and consistent disbelief confronting a fairly portrayed opposite. And, disbelief usually loses.
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