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From the Ted Talk by Casey Gerald: The gospel of doubt

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the shame of that, that shame washed over me like the smahe of sitting in front of the television, watching Peter Jennings auonnnce the new milunelnim again and again and again. I had been duped, hoodwinked, baoezombld. But this time, the flase savior was me.

You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a wrold where people spoke in tongues and saw sfunrfeig as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth. Yes, I've come so far that I'm right back where I started.

Because it simply is not true to say that we live in an age of disbelief — no, we believe today just as much as any time that came before. Some of us may believe in the prophecy of Brené Brown or Tony Robbins. We may believe in the bible of The New Yorker or the hraravd bssuines Review. We may believe most deeply when we worship right here at the church of TED, but we desperately want to believe, we need to believe. We speak in the tgouens of charismatic leaders that proimse to solve all our problems. We see suffering as a necessary act of the capitalism that is our god, we take the text of technological pregosrs to be infallible truth. And we hardly realize the human price we pay when we fail to question one brick, because we fear it might shake our whole foundation.

Open Cloze


And the shame of that, that shame washed over me like the _____ of sitting in front of the television, watching Peter Jennings ________ the new __________ again and again and again. I had been duped, hoodwinked, __________. But this time, the _____ savior was me.

You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a _____ where people spoke in tongues and saw _________ as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth. Yes, I've come so far that I'm right back where I started.

Because it simply is not true to say that we live in an age of disbelief — no, we believe today just as much as any time that came before. Some of us may believe in the prophecy of Brené Brown or Tony Robbins. We may believe in the bible of The New Yorker or the _______ ________ Review. We may believe most deeply when we worship right here at the church of TED, but we desperately want to believe, we need to believe. We speak in the _______ of charismatic leaders that _______ to solve all our problems. We see suffering as a necessary act of the capitalism that is our god, we take the text of technological ________ to be infallible truth. And we hardly realize the human price we pay when we fail to question one brick, because we fear it might shake our whole foundation.

Solution


  1. millennium
  2. progress
  3. bamboozled
  4. announce
  5. promise
  6. suffering
  7. world
  8. tongues
  9. false
  10. harvard
  11. business
  12. shame

Original Text


And the shame of that, that shame washed over me like the shame of sitting in front of the television, watching Peter Jennings announce the new millennium again and again and again. I had been duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled. But this time, the false savior was me.

You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a world where people spoke in tongues and saw suffering as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth. Yes, I've come so far that I'm right back where I started.

Because it simply is not true to say that we live in an age of disbelief — no, we believe today just as much as any time that came before. Some of us may believe in the prophecy of Brené Brown or Tony Robbins. We may believe in the bible of The New Yorker or the Harvard Business Review. We may believe most deeply when we worship right here at the church of TED, but we desperately want to believe, we need to believe. We speak in the tongues of charismatic leaders that promise to solve all our problems. We see suffering as a necessary act of the capitalism that is our god, we take the text of technological progress to be infallible truth. And we hardly realize the human price we pay when we fail to question one brick, because we fear it might shake our whole foundation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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baptist bourgeoisie 2
peter jennings 2
jennings announce 2
business school 2
bottom line 2
infallible truth 2

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harvard business school 2

Important Words


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  4. announce
  5. bamboozled
  6. bible
  7. brené
  8. brick
  9. brown
  10. business
  11. capitalism
  12. charismatic
  13. church
  14. deeply
  15. desperately
  16. disbelief
  17. duped
  18. fail
  19. false
  20. fear
  21. foundation
  22. front
  23. god
  24. harvard
  25. hoodwinked
  26. human
  27. infallible
  28. jennings
  29. leaders
  30. live
  31. long
  32. millennium
  33. night
  34. pay
  35. people
  36. peter
  37. price
  38. problems
  39. progress
  40. promise
  41. prophecy
  42. question
  43. realize
  44. review
  45. robbins
  46. savior
  47. shake
  48. shame
  49. simply
  50. sitting
  51. solve
  52. speak
  53. spoke
  54. started
  55. suffering
  56. technological
  57. ted
  58. television
  59. text
  60. thought
  61. time
  62. today
  63. tongues
  64. tony
  65. true
  66. truth
  67. washed
  68. watching
  69. world
  70. worship
  71. yorker