Julia Sweeney is a part of the regular rotation of panelists for the NPR news quiz radio show “Wait Wait. I found myself to be more compassionate, more realistic, more concerned, and more meaningfully engaged with the natural world. This seemingly subtle shift had reverberations that, to this day, still surprise me. What I found was a powerful and profound way of looking at life and my participation in it as a live being. I began to look at my whole world using that that lens. What I discovered was simply this: good, solid critical thinking.
I found I had enormous appreciation for a method that gets us closer and closer to truth: the scientific method. But what I discovered wasn’t a world without God, but instead a fully natural world: precarious, messy, cruel, and glorious. … I went from reading Shermer to reading Carl Sagan, then to Daniel Dennett, to Steven Pinker, to Richard Dawkins,* to Susan Blackmore, to Victor J. It all started with How We Believe by Michael Shermer. I tried to find God through other religions and eventually gave up on believing in God entirely.
But as I delved into the Bible more deeply, I found it impossible to reconcile my skepticism and what the church expected us to believe. I appreciated my birth culture and still consider myself to be culturally Catholic. Letting Go of God is about my search for a God I can believe in. Sweeney’s most notable autobiographical monologues are God Said Ha! (about her brother Michael’s losing battle with lymphoma, which won the 1996 New York Comedy Festival’s Audience Award), In the Family Way (about the adoption of her daughter from China), and Letting Go of God. Although she has appeared in several films, Sweeney is principally known for her comic monologs. One of her most memorable characters on SNL was the androgynous Pat, whose difficult-to-determine sex was the basis for Sweeney’s popular “It’s Pat!” skits.
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From her start with the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, Sweeney was discovered in 1989 by “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels and became a featured player on the TV show from 1990 to 1994. Julia SweeneyIt was on this date, October 10, 1959, that American actress, comedian and author Julia Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington.
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