No person or group is any better than other person or group, no matter what people believe. It is immature to think your group is better than anothers all because you belive in something different.
He says we are free to mock what we want to mock...O.K.: What do you call a dead athiest at a funeral home visitation? Answer: A man all dressed up with no place to go. Ha! Ha!
You are ABSOLUTELY right. Us getting together with Christians is really a wonderful thing when we can work together. Our aim isn't to even convert anyone; you've got no competition from us. :) And more than that, I've seen instances where a church thought one of our billboards was mocking theirs (understandable concern; they looked the same and were right next to each other, but we had no idea) and instead of getting angry about it, the church and UnitedCoR did a charity together.
LOL some atheist humor, it's funny how xtians can't take a joke or two, they really need to start seeing their beliefs like someting completly different from dogma.
Whose law? the law of them that Ignored Benjamin Franklin Who was against America having a president or any type of one person ruler? the law of them the blew up the world trade centers & blamed It on Muslim highjackers. I Am Not a southern Baptist & I Am Not a grasshopper & My Father Yahweh created this earth & If you atheist want to play Who Is at the top of the food chain 2 can play at that.
@JAB63096 The difference is, when you do it, it ALWAYS comes across in a negative manner. I have never seen a positive atheists gathering. You bascally just sit around and bash other people for what they believe, while Christians truly believe you are headed somewhere you will not want to be, and are trying to help prevent that. Granted not all Christians come across like Jesus, but there intentions are from Love,. What emotion motivates you and your beliefs?
@Ronniecob40 Then I think you need to look a little harder. There are many positive atheist events. The only difference is the media only covers the ones that offend people.
@JAB63096 And who exactly do the offend besides atheists? You are the only ones who go out of there way to have the lower case t taken out of sesame street because it resembles a cross. Seems petty.
I have checked and most of the atheist events that actually help people have maybe 100 members at the most, not alot, considering that atheists are the first ones to bring up all the suffering God supposedly causes people from africa and else where.
@Ronniecob40 I do agree that some atheists can be petty about things such as that, but the point is you will never hear about the atheist events that don't offend people. They just aren't as exciting news. The reason atheist events are so small is because of the number of total atheists. Including agnostics, only about 20% of Americans are non-believers. In the UK they're about 50% atheist. It's a matter of sheer numbers.
@JAB63096 I try to do my part, and I usually try and just keep it between Jesus and me.
Well me personally, I wish we could all get along, we may have our differences on certain topics, but when it all comes down to it, we are all human beings, and no one of us is better than the other. If atheists and Christians got together and tried to help people instead of fighting with each other, I believe we could possibly help those less fortunate then us.
@Ronniecob40 Go visit Kiva.org.......guess who's the number one group there that's helping people all around the world.....Atheist. But I doubt you really looked very deep in your search or you'd find that Atheist give a lot.....many of them with no tax write off....which is another point, how many church going people would give if they couldn't write it off on taxes as a donation? It would be rather interesting to see that.
@Atheistfor35yrs I Am not sure what group it is you are talking about. Kiva is a loan site right? Where you lend money to someone, but you do eventually get your money back.
I Am not sure what you are talking about as far as write offs. When I give money to my church, I give cash and get no receipt to use for tax write offs, as many of my fellow Christians do as well.
Like I said, If atheists and Christians quit fighting, and banded together, we could make a difference
@Ronniecob40 Regarding Kiva, I give funds to people that need them, I make no money on loaning the money to them but I do help them get what they need (and are lacking the funds to do). When I get my loan back, I turn around and loan it to another needy person to help them and again, when or if they pay back the loan the cycle continues on.
So you don't write off ANY on that money to the church at tax time? LOL sure.....I believe you totally. And please don't insult me with your blessings!
@Atheistfor35yrs Well it is good that you help ppl, and I Hope that you continue to do it. Helpling other ppl is what we are suppossed to do. Unfortunately, not all ppl do.
Honestly, I give cash.Jesus sees what I give, and He blesses me for it.My church does not pass around a plate, it has a small church shaped piggy bank in the back that you can put money into if you want to.They do not believe in putting ppl on the spot to give by passing a plate.We are to give because we want to, not have to
@RespectMyHate "Probably" is about the most honest way to express something. Eg. I don't really "know" if my youtube account will still be there tomorrow. I have no good reason to think it will be deleted, its not unrealistic that a wicked hacker will attack randomly accounts, or youtube makes a mistake. But, Probably, my account will still be there tomorrow, most certainly i'll continue watching videos and commenting :P
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus."
-Thomas Jefferson.
Yup, we love our mockery, we have to at least be heard to voice our concerns about the separation of church and state. Or just have some fun.
Waging a war against religion? Has she ever looked at the news around the world? Religion wages REAL wars. How dare anyone in the media try to smear that onto us. Especially when all they show us doing is "mocking." War is different, and the media ought to know that more than anyone else.
WAAAAY too inflammatory and biased rhetoric and editorializing by that pimple faced "reporter!" Weird how they have to turn EVERYTHING they perceive as not normative into a freak show! Nice, friendly group there. best wishes!
Why don't they do stories on how we are harassed, forced to live "in th closet" or lose our jobs, our apartments, our friends etc? Why wasn't it a big story when Bush SR said we shouldn't be considered citizens?
Blatant Blasphemy? Bad Manners?? Shit, I thought only Fucks News were completely biased toward atheists. The problem is of course that believers in this nonsense can't take a joke. Sad.
I assume you mean the atheists, but let me give u a quick example of religious weirdness, just so you can compare (and remember, the religious weirdness is done in all SERIOUSNESS without a trace of humor). Some devout catholic women cover their heads with handkerchiefs, scarves, napkins, etc., to spare god from having to look upon them. Simply because they are women. And Eve was a woman. According to the myth. Sound reasonable to you?
Not necessarily, I know a lot of normal atheist, many of whom would agree with me on this practiced and advocated ritual.
Are there some religious weirdoes? I'm sure their are. I dont know about the napkin thing though. Can you cite your source, that sounds very interesting?
As for humor, maybe so. Weirdoes can have a sense of humor too I suppose, but many of these people take this very seriously as seen by many of the comments threaded.
Which practiced and advocated ritual are you referring to? My source for the catholic thing were my two Aunts who were devout and were following the supposed will of god, or so they told me. Many women seemed to do the same thing in that church, which was just an ordinary catholic church, St. Mary's. And yeah, it's serious in that atheists feel a sense of power and accomplishment at openly turning the tables on believers, but it's also hilarious in it's practice.
@jerico641 "My source for the catholic thing were my two Aunts who were devout and were following the supposed will of god" I have family members who are Catholic and I have never heard of that, nor have I heard of it in Churches, even ones who have formal dress codes. I have also seen older women dress with scarfs and such while shopping at markets etc. but never napkins. I'm not sure I can except second hand non verifiable hearsay but no offense.
Okay, well, you don't have to; check out a catholic ritual website, maybe. But at any rate, that's just one of the many. many weird things I've heard of associated with religion. Not just practices, but solidly-held beliefs, too. Another I can mention right off the top of my head is the christian fundamentalist belief that dinosaurs were passengers on Noah's Ark, and the world is only 6,000 years old. Or what about the "magic underwear" associated with the Mormons?
@jerico641 I'm not smart enough to tell u what happened or didn't happen 7thousand years ago, but we have found pictographs from all over the world of humans interacting with anatomically correct dinosaurs. One of the most famous is in Acambaro Mexico on 2 thousand year old pottery. How would these primitive cultures no what anatomically correct dinos looked like? Mary Schwietzer discovered soft tissue blood vessels in 65 MY old T Rex fossil. According to the law of entropy this is impossible.
@jerico641 cont.....that predate dinosaurs would still be living today, but since the thirties we have found several.
Theories change all the time and nothing is written in stone or an absolute fact. My point is no one knows. All we have are ever changing theories and many are in conflict with the observable evidence. There is no rule book that says all dinosaurs had to go extinct at the same time or that some could have survived longer than expected.
@jerico641 cont..Moby Dick is fictional and not historical, and we do find pictographs and figurines of humans and dinosaurs all over the world. The figurines I mentioned earlier were dated at 2500 years BC on initial test, but to date they have largely been ignored by mainstream scientist. All one would have to do is carbon date them again and put an end to this supposed myth.....
@jerico641 If you believe that Alexander the Great actually lived as documented by history and his own written accounts then why would you exclude his accounts of having his entire army held back by these great beast that even he speaks of. He even spoke of some being captured and held. He also spoke of seeing remnants of the tower of Bable in Mesopotamia.
Legends, dude, yarns, tall tales, myths. I also believe in Ramses II, but that doesn't mean I believe that Moses parted the Red Sea. I believe that there was a whaling industry in New Bedford in the 1840s, but that doesn't mean I believe Moby Dick was real. Facts are mixed with legends all the time in antiquity; most of us can tell the two apart.
@jerico641cont... but no one wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.
Secular scientist have actually found that that the Reed Sea which is actually a lake and which is the correct interpretation, (not the Red Sea) can actually be parted with high wind velocities. There are books like "Forbidden Archeology" and others that have documented hundred of cases of out of places fossils and artifacts. 90 years ago scientist laughed at anyone who thought coelacanths
@jerico641 I cited Mary Shwietzers find which has been published in peer review science journals, and if you understand the law of entropy, soft tissue blood vessels and collagen proteins are not supposed to survive for 65MY. She reluctantly admits this herself.....
Look, dude, you don't need the "law of entropy" to confirm that flesh doesn't fossilize, I think everybody already knows that. I've glanced at that same story, and it wasn't as clear cut as "blood vessels", but come collagen was found. Could be because of the type of soil the deposit was in. Also, do you REALLY think that humans could have survived to evolve if they were surrounded by huge, meat eating animals? Btw, Moby Dick was based on the real story of the Essex.
@jerico641 "I've glanced at that same story, and it wasn't as clear cut as "blood vessels", but come collagen was found. Could be because of the type of soil the deposit was in."
What does the soil have to do with it. I have the data as published in the Science 13 April 2007: It says nothing about soil being the cause. This makes no sense.
Pre historic humans had to deal with much larger and stronger predators on a day to day basis.
Pigmies used to hunt elephants. Intelligence beats muscle.
Different types of soil preserve things in different ways, and to different degrees; highly acidic soils tend to break down living tissues faster than soils with low Ph content, such as limerock. Anyway, it makes no difference, nobody found in tact blood vessels in a T-Rex, or the media would have gone nuts and everybody would agree. And I'm well aware that prehistoric man dealt with large predators, but not thousands of carniverous dinosaurs 40 to 80 feet long! Wise up.
@jerico641"Anyway, it makes no difference, nobody found in tact blood vessels in a T-Rex, or the media would have gone nuts and everybody would agree."
A lot of people have already gone nuts. Google "Marry Scwietzer T Rex blood vessels" and you will find numerous verifiable sources. Why would I lie when I gave you citation?
You probably wouldn't lie; but you could definately be reading something into this story that's not there. My main point is that dinosaurs did not coexist with humans, and nothing in that story refutes that. All palientologists to my knowledge still agree on this. Are you saying that maybe there was some kind of dinosaur "holdover" that managed to survive (which I still don't believe), or are you saying that dinos and men thrived together? Be clear on this, please.
@jerico641"Anyway, it makes no difference, nobody found in tact blood vessels in a T-Rex, or the media would have gone nuts and everybody would agree."
A lot of people have already gone nuts. Google "Marry Schwietzer T Rex blood vessels" and you will find numerous verifiable sources. Why would I lie when I gave you citation?
@jerico641 cont...... This is inferred not empirical. I have posted video of some hard core Evolutionist who are now calling for a new extended synthesis because they now understand and admit the limitations of the Darwinian synthesis, including natural selection for explaining molecule to man macro evolution.
Do you think maybe you could respond from here on using one comment block? This is getting pretty tiresome, man, I gotta tell you. Now, the most accurate thing you've said so far is that this is inferred and not empirical. But, "hard-core evolutionists"? You make it sound like there's some kind of divided camps out there in science about this (there isn't). And all scientific theories have limitations, that's why THEY are evolving just like us. But the basic theory holds.
@jerico641But, "hard-core evolutionists"? You make it sound like there's some kind of divided camps out there in science about this (there isn't)"
Every year at major universities around the world there are debates over this issue of ID vs Darwinism and scholars & scientist from both sides show up to these debates. There is also disagreement and conflict between evolutionist themselves. In the last 9 years the list of dissenters among scientist has grown ten fold from a list of a hundred.
Well, so much for you're using one comment block to get your message through, I guess..btw, you're nuts if you think thousands of scientists from places like MIT, Cambridge and Yale have big doubts about evolution. Modern biology is based entirely in the theory and has been for generations. Sure there is debate about how certain aspects might have worked, or whether or not certain physical features may have been present, but there's no big group stating that the theory is flawed
@jerico641 "And there are some creatures alive today that are descendents of Cambrian life forms; for example, modern whales bear some similarities to a creature called Dimetrodon"
There are some creatures today which are exactly the same as they were during Cambrian era but
neither whales nor Dimetroden were anywhere near the Cambrian period. I'm not sure why your biology teacher would tell you that.
The Cambrian phyla appear abruptly in the fossil record in great orders of magnitude.
This is it; since it seems that you have to do everything in threes, I'm going to respond to this one comment here and then I'm dropping this whole argument. First, I KNOW modern whales didn't live during the Cambrian Period, and to be truthful, I pulled Dimetrodon out of thin air because it's the only name I could remember and didn't expect you to know the difference. How can someone who apparently has some knowledge of science be so dumb as to think dinos + humans=sense??
@jerico641 Your calling me dumb but it was you got caught with your pants down making things up out of thin air thinking that Dimetrodon lived during Cambrian. You didn't even know the difference between the terms ancestors and descendants when I asked for the ancestor of the trilobite. You were even wrong about the horse shoe crab being their direct descendants. You even claimed that I said T Rex fossil was found with living cells. Now thats pretty dumb. Sorry buddy but u made your bed not me.
You said it all in ONE post! Congratulations! Okay, one more comment and then I'm done. I fully admit trying to play you a little, but that doesn't change the fact that you're "open" to the idea that dinos and humans "may" have lived together, and that's about the most inane comment I've ever heard. Btw, one thing IS correct; the horseshoe crab IS a descendent of the trilobite, that's a fact, sorry. And I ASKED you if you thought she found living T-Rex cells, that's all. 'Bye
@jerico641 I already said cite source on article I quoted from that is not in favor of HS CRAB as ancestral.
Ill cite another since you did not bother to read it or you didn't understand.....^ Gerhard Scholtz & Gregory D. Edgecombe (2005). "Heads, Hox and the phylogenetic position of trilobites". In Stefan Koenemann & Ronald A. Jenner (PDF). Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. Volume 16 of Crustacean issues. CRC Press. pp. 139–165. ISBN 0-8493-3498-5.
@jerico641 Darwin was not a scientist, he was an amateur naturalist he had no degree in biology. He was also a preacher and a pigeon breeder. I already told you what my point was on dinosaurs and if you missed it then go back an read it. I did not misread anything concerning T Rex and you can read for yourself.
Whether or not the man had a formal degree in biology makes no difference; the man was a visionary and solidified and began to quantify Evolution. Pigeon breeder? What possible point would you have for mentioning that, except to try and denegrate the man? Also, I guess you really believe that someone found actual non-fossilized, viable blood vessels (with living cells?) in the remains of a T-Rex? Wow...and what I'm asking you is if you believe dinos and man lived together?
@jerico641"The theory does trace living things back through evolutionary stages, yes, but doesn't address how the first proteins came together billions of years ago"
OK ill take your word for it since you know this. Give me mans direct ancestor 97 million years ago and show me the empirical evidence for it. Give me the ancestor for the trilobite and tell me what proof you have that it is ancestral. Were are all the Billions and Billions of missing ancestors of Cambrian phyla?
I'm glad you'll take someone else's word for something anyway. Do you know what a horseshoe crab is? I learned in basic high school biology 28 years ago that these animals are direct descendents of trilobytes, didn't you?? And there are some creatures alive today that are descendents of Cambrian life forms; for example, modern whales bear some similarities to a creature called Dimetrodon. And I don't think ANYBODY has found a 97 MYO "direct" descendent of man yet. That's dumb.
@jerico641"As Darwin wrestled with natural selection he spent a great deal of time with pigeon breeders, learning their methods. He found their work to be an analogy"
source........ education Berkley.
How do you compare mentioning his skills in pigeon breeding as degrading someone?
Do you think its easy work? This helped him formulate ideas, however he did steal from creationist Edward Bythe's idea of natural selection and took credit for it and no one denies this.
@benthemiester I asked for the ancestors to trilobites. Do you know what an ancestor means? No one knows if the horse shoe crab is a direct decedent of trilobites .
Once soft-part anatomy had been recovered, the trilobites were originally allied to the Crustacea; however, this suggestion has since fallen out of favour. A relationship with the Chelicerata, in a clade termed Arachnomorpha (Arachnata), was in vogue for some time; a position in the Mandibulata .......source WIKIPEDIA
@jerico641"I guess you really believe that someone found actual non-fossilized, viable blood vessels (with living cells?) in the remains of a T-Rex? Wow...and what I'm asking you is if you believe dinos and man lived together?"
What do you mean, I believe? & when did I say living cells ? I gave you multiple sources? Are you saying everyone is lying?. I already told you no one can no for sure concerning humans and dinos. All we have are ever changing theories. True scientific laws do not change.
@jerico641 I do not believe evolution is wrong. I believe that in spite of the hype Darwin did some good work and people should know about his work, but they should also understand its limitations and the limitations of its assumptions. Darwin could show us how finch beaks vary or how animals can adapt through change but it cannot tell us how animals got here in the first place.........
Good, I'm glad Evolution Theory didn't totally elude you. But the theory isn't concerned about how animals "got here" in the first place, it's concern is about how they adapt and change in response to their enviornment. The theory does trace living things back through evolutionary stages, yes, but doesn't address how the first proteins came together billions of years ago; is that your concern about the theory? If so, you're barking up the wrong tree, Sparky.
@jerico641 And according to the theory wich you accept, thats exactly how human were supposed to have evolved. If the theory is correct, then we looked more like lemure like creatures or maybe even more smaller, primitive and less intelligent creatures, and when Dinos were still supposed be present. Your question is actually more challenging to evolution as to how could we evolve with these large predators. I think an intelligent human would have a much better chance of surviving.
You're really telling me that you believe evolution is wrong? Oh, man..where did you learn basic biology? Yes, there were small mammals living on the planet when the dinosaurs were thriving, so what? They're related to our species, yes, but not direct descendants. The death of the dinosaurs was ONE of the things which allowed mammals to evolve, grow larger, and eventually produce a species line which lead to us. But dinos and humans are separated by 70 MILLION years.
@jerico641"You're really telling me that you believe evolution is wrong? Oh, man..where did you learn basic biology?"
The principles of basic biology were well known before Darwin. Darwin was not a scientist, biologist, or a geneticists. Pasturer a non evolutionist was the first to observe the principles of homochirality and the basic building blocks of all living things. Mendel a creationist is considered the father of modern genetics. Darwinist simply piggy backed there work on to Darwinism.
?? I didn't ask you anything about Charles Darwin, I just asked you where you learned Biology. And of course Darwin was a scientist, specifically and most notably, he was a Naturalist. What did you think he was, a plumber? And why all this appeal to authority to try and discredit Darwin? His main contribution was in discovering the mechanism behind evolution, namely natural selection. Nobody ever said he didn't draw from earlier scientific works. So what?
I fucking love that even with a editing crew like theirs, it was impossible to make the atheist look worse that fucker conducting the interview. THEY EVEN SINGLED OUT THE ONLY CHICK WITH PIERCINGS. Srsly god should just give up at this point.
@emily4732 Continued... Most people do not have the choice whether or not to be baptized as it is done when they are very young and not fully conscious. Also, an atheist could believe in heaven or hell if they chose to. Atheist means the absence of a god or a religion not necessarily the absence of spiritual belief or faith.
@emily4732 It is meaningless, I think that is the point. I watched the original which can be found @ /watch?v=YcxW-A_MGz0&feature=related. And it seemed to be done from a comedic standpoint. I personally found it funny as hell!
"Why not just deny your maker and take your baptism as meaning nothing?" One would ask why deny "your maker" at all, as "your maker" is viewed by you as a fallacy. Any comment an atheist makes toward religion such as, I'm going to hell, is said in jest or satire.
@emily4732 It is meaningless, I think that is the point. I watched the original which can be found @ /watch?v=YcxW-A_MGz0&feature=related. And it seemed to be done from a comedic standpoint. I personally found it funny as hell!
"Why not just deny your maker and take your baptism as meaning nothing?" One would ask why deny "your maker" at all, as "your maker" is viewed by you as a fallacy. Any comment an atheist makes toward religion such as, I'm going to hell, is said in jest or satire.
Again with the F$%ing Stalin and Mao reference. Excuse me, they may have been non-believers, but that does not mean they weren't religious. They instead tried to replace religion. They had communist baptisms, weddings. Everything that a religion offers. Communism was dogmatic, and completely intolerant of critical thinking. Show me a society based on the principles of Thomas Paine which murdered people wholesale. For more please seen nonstampcollector's "hitler the atheist" video.
I love this man. We don't need a pope, but if we had one, I would vote for him. Yes if we needed a pope, we would indeed VOTE for him instead of having an appointed group of elites vote for him.
@RPKGameVids so promoting hatred between people who see things differently is awesome? so if people form gangs of muslims, jews, protestants, catholics, or any other belief such as astheism and fought against each other then formed communities of one religion, leading to cities, and states, attacking those with a different point of view, latter on leading to seperatin within countries and religiously ruled governments all against each other believing they are right is awesome?
OMG!!!!! so "inyourface" by being on youtube and putting adds on billboards...how dare they *rollz eyes again at the stupidity of that bigoted comentator*
you know what ppl used to find sacred? slaughtering baby animals.
This is what the lord says in 1 Corinthians. "I have the right to do anything" you say- But not everything is beneficial "i have the right to do anything but not everything is constructive. NO one should seek there OWN good, but the good of others.
This is what the lord says in 1 Corinthians. "I have the right to do anything" you say- But not everything is beneficial "i have the right to do anything but not everything is constructive. NO one should seek there OWN good, but the good of others.
This isn't an angry comment. just my hope for those who see this video
sad to say I am kind of offended by this, and that's usually pretty hard to do. I'll declare my faith in Christ in this comment, on my channel, and in my works. I hope that the believers who see this video can be strengthened in their faith, and those that do not believe can ask questions about Jesus and find out who he is rather than just blindly say "Yeah, take that, christians"
@LeximusMaximus Atheists HAVE been asking serious questions about Christianity for centuries, but all they ever get in return are evasions and excuses.
offense comes from the self, you can only be ashamed if you deserve it. shame is just an excuse for hatred...and clearly these atheists feel offended by your "cleansing" ritual.
As an atheist, I am not agree with this mockery and disrespectful ritual... Atheism means no organization based on beliefs .....Total free thinking and individual building of meaning.
Atheism means nothing except disbelieve of theists. If you want to start making it a philosophy and way of life that is your decision, but what you are actually doing is adding characteristics to the word that do not apply.
Interesting video. I'm not sure that there is an "American religous civil war." I haven't seen any fights or battles over religion in the USA in my lifetime, but perhaps things are more violent where he lives.
Yeah, this makes Atheism look good. I'm all for freedom to criticize religion but this makes the rest of us Atheists look stupid. This guy isn't any better than watching the 700 Show. We may share a common disbelief but this guy does NOT represent me.
Something that I don't understand that maybe can be helped by all you intelligent people. Where did the universe come from? Science tells us it came out of something the size of a quark. Science also didn't think quarks existed until we found them with the Stanford Linear accelerator but ancient philosophers realized the possibility of fundamental particles thousands of years ago. Why are we in the perfect place for life to live? If it's an accident, why such an astounding one?
@EngineerMK2004 normally i don't get into debates about religion, it always digresses into name-calling or simply arguing over biblical quotations, none of which interests me. I do however want to correct you on one thing, considering the size and diversity of universe, yes it's an accident that we're here but it's also near mathematical certanty that life will exist somewhere in the universe, just because something's an accident doesn't make it unlikely. C'est la vie
@MightyBobzilla BOB! A mathematical certainty is not an accident! Also, I'd say that wherever life can exist in the universe, that it does exist. The question is, what motivates molecules into organized structures to form systems and eventually discreet functions? It's really more of a process than anyone realizes. Also, a living organism in the third dimension is exactly the same as a dead one, molecularity. There is something extra dimensional that we fail to recognize, now, but we will.
Reasoning with religious nutters is a waste of time. They are of an inferior subspecies I call Homo creationalensis. By definition they are incapable of critical rational thought. Taking the piss out of them is much more fun.
Quote of the day: Poke fun at a creationist and watch it squirm.
I fucking cannot believe how intense that reporter assholes looks when he says: "HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS?". So pa-fucking-thetically intense and negative.
It's funny.... to be called a militant atheist you have to write a book, open a blog, start a critical dialogue as you would ANY other issue, or....do a stunt with a hairdryer.
But to be called militant in religion, that means you're strapping bombs to your chest, murdering people with AK's, forming armed groups and lacing every other statement with threats of murder and violence, and being ACTUALLY militant!
Religious people have been "in your face" since religion began. I always hear "i'll pray for you", "in my thoughts and prayers", "god this, god that". We see religious symbols everywhere we go. Churches on every street corner. Politicians, songs, media. It's printed on our money. Religious people have never cared about stating thier beliefs in front of anyone so why should atheist be expected to do the same? Besides I hear religious people mocking other religious beliefs all the time.
@supertrinko Adding to that 15% comment, keep that up, raise that number, when it's high enough that politicians won't think it "political suicide" to be secular, or even non-religious, america will make some excellent progress.
@supertrinko There is a difference between spiritualism and religion. Spiritual is about how one feels at that moment. Religion is something that was made up many years ago and other people tell you how to feel and act!
@massageboy24 Atheists do not believe in god, as a result they should not believe a baptism does anything, you obviously see something in baptism if you feel the need to be cleansed of it.
@supertrinko I'm not seeing anywhere where they say they genuinly believe it in some magical sense, that would be antithetical to the whole point of it, which is making fun of hokus pokus.
@supertrinko Hmmm, you're right. It's somewhat ironic, he's kind of kooky I'll give you that. I think he means it metaphorically, being as he nor anyone else believes in that, it's pretty obvious that it's a silly stunt and it's symbolic, that's why he says 'if you will' it's 'spiritually cleansing'. I'll freely admit it's strange, I wouldn't chose those words, and then again I wouldn't do any of it in the first place I was raised non-religious. The whole video's pretty ridiculous.
@supertrinko It's also pretty funny when you re-watch the video and notice the narrator calling it the 'increasingly aggressive atheist community' and meanwhile there's this guy dressed as a wizard blowing a nerdy-looking grinning woman with a hair dryer. If that's aggressive and militant, than bring on militant Islam!
@Neanderthalcouzin Consider that many people are converting from their religions to atheism and or non-religion, they are new to godlessness, so stuck in their ways of spirituality and assorted beliefs, while they no longer wish to follow their god, or even believe that he exists. It's pretty tough to just give up those old superstitions.
I remember I didn't want to accept that santa didn't when my friend told me, even when I asked my mother about it. But I did believe them.
No person or group is any better than other person or group, no matter what people believe. It is immature to think your group is better than anothers all because you belive in something different.
ReligiousAnarchist 1 month ago
He says we are free to mock what we want to mock...O.K.: What do you call a dead athiest at a funeral home visitation? Answer: A man all dressed up with no place to go. Ha! Ha!
wardenphil 2 months ago
Amazing, the pro-religious bias in our so-called liberal media.
pastafarianprophet 2 months ago
@Ronniecob40
You are ABSOLUTELY right. Us getting together with Christians is really a wonderful thing when we can work together. Our aim isn't to even convert anyone; you've got no competition from us. :) And more than that, I've seen instances where a church thought one of our billboards was mocking theirs (understandable concern; they looked the same and were right next to each other, but we had no idea) and instead of getting angry about it, the church and UnitedCoR did a charity together.
verenicyliubvi 5 months ago
i would love to go one of these meetings, they look fun!
bombarderoazul 5 months ago
"Aggressive"? Seems to me it's more like a group of atheists with a good sense of humor.
AFunkyMilkman 6 months ago
LOL some atheist humor, it's funny how xtians can't take a joke or two, they really need to start seeing their beliefs like someting completly different from dogma.
BlackDevilJayko 6 months ago 4
i am in cincinnati
clcincinnatiwolf78 6 months ago
lol
8000cheese 7 months ago
Cynthia is fuckin hot! And so is the blond in the No God shirt. I'll get them wet!lol
Bronxloyalist 7 months ago
Wow this guys an idiot...
Mwsmith457 7 months ago
The flames of HELL are more effective than any hair dryer,,, Mr. Kagin should have just breathed on those people cuz he is FULL of hot air
natraan 8 months ago
I'm going to get debaptised.
briggles 8 months ago
epic
ThePhantomLion 8 months ago
"Ringleader", LMAO!
lurconis666 9 months ago
Whose law? the law of them that Ignored Benjamin Franklin Who was against America having a president or any type of one person ruler? the law of them the blew up the world trade centers & blamed It on Muslim highjackers. I Am Not a southern Baptist & I Am Not a grasshopper & My Father Yahweh created this earth & If you atheist want to play Who Is at the top of the food chain 2 can play at that.
ortafunk 9 months ago
@ortafunk Just LOL.
BlackDevilJayko 6 months ago
"waging a war on religion" BULLSHIT!!! If you can express your beliefs so can we!
JAB63096 9 months ago
@JAB63096 The difference is, when you do it, it ALWAYS comes across in a negative manner. I have never seen a positive atheists gathering. You bascally just sit around and bash other people for what they believe, while Christians truly believe you are headed somewhere you will not want to be, and are trying to help prevent that. Granted not all Christians come across like Jesus, but there intentions are from Love,. What emotion motivates you and your beliefs?
God Bless You
Ronniecob40 6 months ago
@Ronniecob40 Then I think you need to look a little harder. There are many positive atheist events. The only difference is the media only covers the ones that offend people.
JAB63096 6 months ago
@JAB63096 And who exactly do the offend besides atheists? You are the only ones who go out of there way to have the lower case t taken out of sesame street because it resembles a cross. Seems petty.
I have checked and most of the atheist events that actually help people have maybe 100 members at the most, not alot, considering that atheists are the first ones to bring up all the suffering God supposedly causes people from africa and else where.
God Bless
Ronniecob40 6 months ago
@Ronniecob40 I do agree that some atheists can be petty about things such as that, but the point is you will never hear about the atheist events that don't offend people. They just aren't as exciting news. The reason atheist events are so small is because of the number of total atheists. Including agnostics, only about 20% of Americans are non-believers. In the UK they're about 50% atheist. It's a matter of sheer numbers.
JAB63096 6 months ago
@JAB63096 I try to do my part, and I usually try and just keep it between Jesus and me.
Well me personally, I wish we could all get along, we may have our differences on certain topics, but when it all comes down to it, we are all human beings, and no one of us is better than the other. If atheists and Christians got together and tried to help people instead of fighting with each other, I believe we could possibly help those less fortunate then us.
God Bless You
Ronniecob40 6 months ago
@Ronniecob40 Go visit Kiva.org.......guess who's the number one group there that's helping people all around the world.....Atheist. But I doubt you really looked very deep in your search or you'd find that Atheist give a lot.....many of them with no tax write off....which is another point, how many church going people would give if they couldn't write it off on taxes as a donation? It would be rather interesting to see that.
Atheistfor35yrs 4 months ago
@Atheistfor35yrs I Am not sure what group it is you are talking about. Kiva is a loan site right? Where you lend money to someone, but you do eventually get your money back.
I Am not sure what you are talking about as far as write offs. When I give money to my church, I give cash and get no receipt to use for tax write offs, as many of my fellow Christians do as well.
Like I said, If atheists and Christians quit fighting, and banded together, we could make a difference
God Bless You
Ronniecob40 4 months ago
@Ronniecob40 Regarding Kiva, I give funds to people that need them, I make no money on loaning the money to them but I do help them get what they need (and are lacking the funds to do). When I get my loan back, I turn around and loan it to another needy person to help them and again, when or if they pay back the loan the cycle continues on.
So you don't write off ANY on that money to the church at tax time? LOL sure.....I believe you totally. And please don't insult me with your blessings!
Atheistfor35yrs 4 months ago
@Atheistfor35yrs Well it is good that you help ppl, and I Hope that you continue to do it. Helpling other ppl is what we are suppossed to do. Unfortunately, not all ppl do.
Honestly, I give cash.Jesus sees what I give, and He blesses me for it.My church does not pass around a plate, it has a small church shaped piggy bank in the back that you can put money into if you want to.They do not believe in putting ppl on the spot to give by passing a plate.We are to give because we want to, not have to
Ronniecob40 4 months ago
So when atheists make fun of religion they are aggressive, but when religious people discriminate and harm other people it's just their religion.
annata12 9 months ago
Great point! 4:30 If mockery does get you, maybe in a deep level you know you are not really sure of it.
orcodrilo 10 months ago
I love how the shirt says probably. sounds like there is an element of uncertainty there. Quite a gamble if you ask me.
RespectMyHate 10 months ago
@RespectMyHate "Probably" is about the most honest way to express something. Eg. I don't really "know" if my youtube account will still be there tomorrow. I have no good reason to think it will be deleted, its not unrealistic that a wicked hacker will attack randomly accounts, or youtube makes a mistake. But, Probably, my account will still be there tomorrow, most certainly i'll continue watching videos and commenting :P
orcodrilo 10 months ago
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus."
-Thomas Jefferson.
Yup, we love our mockery, we have to at least be heard to voice our concerns about the separation of church and state. Or just have some fun.
Neosaigo 10 months ago
Thought newspeople are supposed to be impartial?
choongd 10 months ago
Waging a war against religion? Has she ever looked at the news around the world? Religion wages REAL wars. How dare anyone in the media try to smear that onto us. Especially when all they show us doing is "mocking." War is different, and the media ought to know that more than anyone else.
aajoeyjo 11 months ago
WAAAAY too inflammatory and biased rhetoric and editorializing by that pimple faced "reporter!" Weird how they have to turn EVERYTHING they perceive as not normative into a freak show! Nice, friendly group there. best wishes!
rriverstone1 11 months ago
This is fucking amazing.
XLG34 1 year ago
He'd be the coolest grandpa ever
xratedMadHattress 1 year ago
Come on folks leave Cambridge alone. She's an intelligent, nice woman. Watch some of her youtube videos... they're good.
Skepticktok 1 year ago
We need more people like him. Rational, calm, wellspoken and still respectfull of other people, while trying to teach reason and sensibility.
1metiz 1 year ago
@1metiz He's not respecting other beliefs, hes making fun of them.
RespectMyHate 10 months ago
"bald-faced blasphemy"
don't try to hide your bias or anything, reporter...
Burninator456 1 year ago
De-baptism? You have got to be kidding me. So petty.
policydeb8er321 1 year ago
@policydeb8er321
De-baptism? So funny! Especially with a hair dryer. "...I have been absolved....of absolutely nothing."
zeplinair 10 months ago
Did that bitch do a nose dive in her daddies tackle box?
silentbob8201 1 year ago
@silentbob8201 lol I know. Some chicks are hot with one or two, but she looks like a wreck.
aristottlesdeathwish 1 year ago
war on religion lol, seriously aggressive atheist community? ring leader wtf?
only2nocrew 1 year ago
"swallow the leader" lmao
"it was defaced PRESUMABLY by believers" what a fucking idiot
aww poor guy doesn't deserve what happened to his son but i guess that was his way of rebelling
Leadman1989 1 year ago
Why don't they do stories on how we are harassed, forced to live "in th closet" or lose our jobs, our apartments, our friends etc? Why wasn't it a big story when Bush SR said we shouldn't be considered citizens?
BUT WE ARE THE OFFENSIVE ONES!
christo930 1 year ago 15
@christo930
aww... poor baby!
aveyowyns 9 months ago
@aveyowyns Asshole!
christo930 9 months ago
At least the reporter didn't say Hitler was an atheist.
yuriythebest 1 year ago
Blatant Blasphemy? Bad Manners?? Shit, I thought only Fucks News were completely biased toward atheists. The problem is of course that believers in this nonsense can't take a joke. Sad.
jerico641 1 year ago
HEROES!!!
Alexthegreatbelgian 1 year ago
Their a bunch of wierdos.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
I assume you mean the atheists, but let me give u a quick example of religious weirdness, just so you can compare (and remember, the religious weirdness is done in all SERIOUSNESS without a trace of humor). Some devout catholic women cover their heads with handkerchiefs, scarves, napkins, etc., to spare god from having to look upon them. Simply because they are women. And Eve was a woman. According to the myth. Sound reasonable to you?
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 "I assume you mean the atheists"
Not necessarily, I know a lot of normal atheist, many of whom would agree with me on this practiced and advocated ritual.
Are there some religious weirdoes? I'm sure their are. I dont know about the napkin thing though. Can you cite your source, that sounds very interesting?
As for humor, maybe so. Weirdoes can have a sense of humor too I suppose, but many of these people take this very seriously as seen by many of the comments threaded.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Which practiced and advocated ritual are you referring to? My source for the catholic thing were my two Aunts who were devout and were following the supposed will of god, or so they told me. Many women seemed to do the same thing in that church, which was just an ordinary catholic church, St. Mary's. And yeah, it's serious in that atheists feel a sense of power and accomplishment at openly turning the tables on believers, but it's also hilarious in it's practice.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 "My source for the catholic thing were my two Aunts who were devout and were following the supposed will of god" I have family members who are Catholic and I have never heard of that, nor have I heard of it in Churches, even ones who have formal dress codes. I have also seen older women dress with scarfs and such while shopping at markets etc. but never napkins. I'm not sure I can except second hand non verifiable hearsay but no offense.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Okay, well, you don't have to; check out a catholic ritual website, maybe. But at any rate, that's just one of the many. many weird things I've heard of associated with religion. Not just practices, but solidly-held beliefs, too. Another I can mention right off the top of my head is the christian fundamentalist belief that dinosaurs were passengers on Noah's Ark, and the world is only 6,000 years old. Or what about the "magic underwear" associated with the Mormons?
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 I'm not smart enough to tell u what happened or didn't happen 7thousand years ago, but we have found pictographs from all over the world of humans interacting with anatomically correct dinosaurs. One of the most famous is in Acambaro Mexico on 2 thousand year old pottery. How would these primitive cultures no what anatomically correct dinos looked like? Mary Schwietzer discovered soft tissue blood vessels in 65 MY old T Rex fossil. According to the law of entropy this is impossible.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Oh, NO you didn't...are you actually making an argument for dinosaurs coexisting with human beings are you? Please tell me you're not, okay?
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 cont.....that predate dinosaurs would still be living today, but since the thirties we have found several.
Theories change all the time and nothing is written in stone or an absolute fact. My point is no one knows. All we have are ever changing theories and many are in conflict with the observable evidence. There is no rule book that says all dinosaurs had to go extinct at the same time or that some could have survived longer than expected.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 cont..Moby Dick is fictional and not historical, and we do find pictographs and figurines of humans and dinosaurs all over the world. The figurines I mentioned earlier were dated at 2500 years BC on initial test, but to date they have largely been ignored by mainstream scientist. All one would have to do is carbon date them again and put an end to this supposed myth.....
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 If you believe that Alexander the Great actually lived as documented by history and his own written accounts then why would you exclude his accounts of having his entire army held back by these great beast that even he speaks of. He even spoke of some being captured and held. He also spoke of seeing remnants of the tower of Bable in Mesopotamia.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Legends, dude, yarns, tall tales, myths. I also believe in Ramses II, but that doesn't mean I believe that Moses parted the Red Sea. I believe that there was a whaling industry in New Bedford in the 1840s, but that doesn't mean I believe Moby Dick was real. Facts are mixed with legends all the time in antiquity; most of us can tell the two apart.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641cont... but no one wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.
Secular scientist have actually found that that the Reed Sea which is actually a lake and which is the correct interpretation, (not the Red Sea) can actually be parted with high wind velocities. There are books like "Forbidden Archeology" and others that have documented hundred of cases of out of places fossils and artifacts. 90 years ago scientist laughed at anyone who thought coelacanths
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 I cited Mary Shwietzers find which has been published in peer review science journals, and if you understand the law of entropy, soft tissue blood vessels and collagen proteins are not supposed to survive for 65MY. She reluctantly admits this herself.....
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Look, dude, you don't need the "law of entropy" to confirm that flesh doesn't fossilize, I think everybody already knows that. I've glanced at that same story, and it wasn't as clear cut as "blood vessels", but come collagen was found. Could be because of the type of soil the deposit was in. Also, do you REALLY think that humans could have survived to evolve if they were surrounded by huge, meat eating animals? Btw, Moby Dick was based on the real story of the Essex.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 "I've glanced at that same story, and it wasn't as clear cut as "blood vessels", but come collagen was found. Could be because of the type of soil the deposit was in."
What does the soil have to do with it. I have the data as published in the Science 13 April 2007: It says nothing about soil being the cause. This makes no sense.
Pre historic humans had to deal with much larger and stronger predators on a day to day basis.
Pigmies used to hunt elephants. Intelligence beats muscle.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Different types of soil preserve things in different ways, and to different degrees; highly acidic soils tend to break down living tissues faster than soils with low Ph content, such as limerock. Anyway, it makes no difference, nobody found in tact blood vessels in a T-Rex, or the media would have gone nuts and everybody would agree. And I'm well aware that prehistoric man dealt with large predators, but not thousands of carniverous dinosaurs 40 to 80 feet long! Wise up.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641"Anyway, it makes no difference, nobody found in tact blood vessels in a T-Rex, or the media would have gone nuts and everybody would agree."
A lot of people have already gone nuts. Google "Marry Scwietzer T Rex blood vessels" and you will find numerous verifiable sources. Why would I lie when I gave you citation?
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
You probably wouldn't lie; but you could definately be reading something into this story that's not there. My main point is that dinosaurs did not coexist with humans, and nothing in that story refutes that. All palientologists to my knowledge still agree on this. Are you saying that maybe there was some kind of dinosaur "holdover" that managed to survive (which I still don't believe), or are you saying that dinos and men thrived together? Be clear on this, please.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641"Anyway, it makes no difference, nobody found in tact blood vessels in a T-Rex, or the media would have gone nuts and everybody would agree."
A lot of people have already gone nuts. Google "Marry Schwietzer T Rex blood vessels" and you will find numerous verifiable sources. Why would I lie when I gave you citation?
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 cont...... This is inferred not empirical. I have posted video of some hard core Evolutionist who are now calling for a new extended synthesis because they now understand and admit the limitations of the Darwinian synthesis, including natural selection for explaining molecule to man macro evolution.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Do you think maybe you could respond from here on using one comment block? This is getting pretty tiresome, man, I gotta tell you. Now, the most accurate thing you've said so far is that this is inferred and not empirical. But, "hard-core evolutionists"? You make it sound like there's some kind of divided camps out there in science about this (there isn't). And all scientific theories have limitations, that's why THEY are evolving just like us. But the basic theory holds.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641But, "hard-core evolutionists"? You make it sound like there's some kind of divided camps out there in science about this (there isn't)"
Every year at major universities around the world there are debates over this issue of ID vs Darwinism and scholars & scientist from both sides show up to these debates. There is also disagreement and conflict between evolutionist themselves. In the last 9 years the list of dissenters among scientist has grown ten fold from a list of a hundred.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Well, so much for you're using one comment block to get your message through, I guess..btw, you're nuts if you think thousands of scientists from places like MIT, Cambridge and Yale have big doubts about evolution. Modern biology is based entirely in the theory and has been for generations. Sure there is debate about how certain aspects might have worked, or whether or not certain physical features may have been present, but there's no big group stating that the theory is flawed
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 "And there are some creatures alive today that are descendents of Cambrian life forms; for example, modern whales bear some similarities to a creature called Dimetrodon"
There are some creatures today which are exactly the same as they were during Cambrian era but
neither whales nor Dimetroden were anywhere near the Cambrian period. I'm not sure why your biology teacher would tell you that.
The Cambrian phyla appear abruptly in the fossil record in great orders of magnitude.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
This is it; since it seems that you have to do everything in threes, I'm going to respond to this one comment here and then I'm dropping this whole argument. First, I KNOW modern whales didn't live during the Cambrian Period, and to be truthful, I pulled Dimetrodon out of thin air because it's the only name I could remember and didn't expect you to know the difference. How can someone who apparently has some knowledge of science be so dumb as to think dinos + humans=sense??
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 Your calling me dumb but it was you got caught with your pants down making things up out of thin air thinking that Dimetrodon lived during Cambrian. You didn't even know the difference between the terms ancestors and descendants when I asked for the ancestor of the trilobite. You were even wrong about the horse shoe crab being their direct descendants. You even claimed that I said T Rex fossil was found with living cells. Now thats pretty dumb. Sorry buddy but u made your bed not me.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
You said it all in ONE post! Congratulations! Okay, one more comment and then I'm done. I fully admit trying to play you a little, but that doesn't change the fact that you're "open" to the idea that dinos and humans "may" have lived together, and that's about the most inane comment I've ever heard. Btw, one thing IS correct; the horseshoe crab IS a descendent of the trilobite, that's a fact, sorry. And I ASKED you if you thought she found living T-Rex cells, that's all. 'Bye
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 I already said cite source on article I quoted from that is not in favor of HS CRAB as ancestral.
Ill cite another since you did not bother to read it or you didn't understand.....^ Gerhard Scholtz & Gregory D. Edgecombe (2005). "Heads, Hox and the phylogenetic position of trilobites". In Stefan Koenemann & Ronald A. Jenner (PDF). Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. Volume 16 of Crustacean issues. CRC Press. pp. 139–165. ISBN 0-8493-3498-5.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 correction,,,,, trilobite as ancestral.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 Darwin was not a scientist, he was an amateur naturalist he had no degree in biology. He was also a preacher and a pigeon breeder. I already told you what my point was on dinosaurs and if you missed it then go back an read it. I did not misread anything concerning T Rex and you can read for yourself.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Whether or not the man had a formal degree in biology makes no difference; the man was a visionary and solidified and began to quantify Evolution. Pigeon breeder? What possible point would you have for mentioning that, except to try and denegrate the man? Also, I guess you really believe that someone found actual non-fossilized, viable blood vessels (with living cells?) in the remains of a T-Rex? Wow...and what I'm asking you is if you believe dinos and man lived together?
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641"The theory does trace living things back through evolutionary stages, yes, but doesn't address how the first proteins came together billions of years ago"
OK ill take your word for it since you know this. Give me mans direct ancestor 97 million years ago and show me the empirical evidence for it. Give me the ancestor for the trilobite and tell me what proof you have that it is ancestral. Were are all the Billions and Billions of missing ancestors of Cambrian phyla?
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
I'm glad you'll take someone else's word for something anyway. Do you know what a horseshoe crab is? I learned in basic high school biology 28 years ago that these animals are direct descendents of trilobytes, didn't you?? And there are some creatures alive today that are descendents of Cambrian life forms; for example, modern whales bear some similarities to a creature called Dimetrodon. And I don't think ANYBODY has found a 97 MYO "direct" descendent of man yet. That's dumb.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641"As Darwin wrestled with natural selection he spent a great deal of time with pigeon breeders, learning their methods. He found their work to be an analogy"
source........ education Berkley.
How do you compare mentioning his skills in pigeon breeding as degrading someone?
Do you think its easy work? This helped him formulate ideas, however he did steal from creationist Edward Bythe's idea of natural selection and took credit for it and no one denies this.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester I asked for the ancestors to trilobites. Do you know what an ancestor means? No one knows if the horse shoe crab is a direct decedent of trilobites .
Once soft-part anatomy had been recovered, the trilobites were originally allied to the Crustacea; however, this suggestion has since fallen out of favour. A relationship with the Chelicerata, in a clade termed Arachnomorpha (Arachnata), was in vogue for some time; a position in the Mandibulata .......source WIKIPEDIA
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641"I guess you really believe that someone found actual non-fossilized, viable blood vessels (with living cells?) in the remains of a T-Rex? Wow...and what I'm asking you is if you believe dinos and man lived together?"
What do you mean, I believe? & when did I say living cells ? I gave you multiple sources? Are you saying everyone is lying?. I already told you no one can no for sure concerning humans and dinos. All we have are ever changing theories. True scientific laws do not change.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@jerico641 I do not believe evolution is wrong. I believe that in spite of the hype Darwin did some good work and people should know about his work, but they should also understand its limitations and the limitations of its assumptions. Darwin could show us how finch beaks vary or how animals can adapt through change but it cannot tell us how animals got here in the first place.........
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
Good, I'm glad Evolution Theory didn't totally elude you. But the theory isn't concerned about how animals "got here" in the first place, it's concern is about how they adapt and change in response to their enviornment. The theory does trace living things back through evolutionary stages, yes, but doesn't address how the first proteins came together billions of years ago; is that your concern about the theory? If so, you're barking up the wrong tree, Sparky.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641 And according to the theory wich you accept, thats exactly how human were supposed to have evolved. If the theory is correct, then we looked more like lemure like creatures or maybe even more smaller, primitive and less intelligent creatures, and when Dinos were still supposed be present. Your question is actually more challenging to evolution as to how could we evolve with these large predators. I think an intelligent human would have a much better chance of surviving.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
You're really telling me that you believe evolution is wrong? Oh, man..where did you learn basic biology? Yes, there were small mammals living on the planet when the dinosaurs were thriving, so what? They're related to our species, yes, but not direct descendants. The death of the dinosaurs was ONE of the things which allowed mammals to evolve, grow larger, and eventually produce a species line which lead to us. But dinos and humans are separated by 70 MILLION years.
jerico641 1 year ago
@jerico641"You're really telling me that you believe evolution is wrong? Oh, man..where did you learn basic biology?"
The principles of basic biology were well known before Darwin. Darwin was not a scientist, biologist, or a geneticists. Pasturer a non evolutionist was the first to observe the principles of homochirality and the basic building blocks of all living things. Mendel a creationist is considered the father of modern genetics. Darwinist simply piggy backed there work on to Darwinism.
benthemiester 1 year ago
@benthemiester
?? I didn't ask you anything about Charles Darwin, I just asked you where you learned Biology. And of course Darwin was a scientist, specifically and most notably, he was a Naturalist. What did you think he was, a plumber? And why all this appeal to authority to try and discredit Darwin? His main contribution was in discovering the mechanism behind evolution, namely natural selection. Nobody ever said he didn't draw from earlier scientific works. So what?
jerico641 1 year ago
I fucking love that even with a editing crew like theirs, it was impossible to make the atheist look worse that fucker conducting the interview. THEY EVEN SINGLED OUT THE ONLY CHICK WITH PIERCINGS. Srsly god should just give up at this point.
eripmave 1 year ago
@emily4732 Continued... Most people do not have the choice whether or not to be baptized as it is done when they are very young and not fully conscious. Also, an atheist could believe in heaven or hell if they chose to. Atheist means the absence of a god or a religion not necessarily the absence of spiritual belief or faith.
Killedkennyagain 1 year ago
@emily4732 It is meaningless, I think that is the point. I watched the original which can be found @ /watch?v=YcxW-A_MGz0&feature=related. And it seemed to be done from a comedic standpoint. I personally found it funny as hell!
"Why not just deny your maker and take your baptism as meaning nothing?" One would ask why deny "your maker" at all, as "your maker" is viewed by you as a fallacy. Any comment an atheist makes toward religion such as, I'm going to hell, is said in jest or satire.
Killedkennyagain 1 year ago
@emily4732 It is meaningless, I think that is the point. I watched the original which can be found @ /watch?v=YcxW-A_MGz0&feature=related. And it seemed to be done from a comedic standpoint. I personally found it funny as hell!
"Why not just deny your maker and take your baptism as meaning nothing?" One would ask why deny "your maker" at all, as "your maker" is viewed by you as a fallacy. Any comment an atheist makes toward religion such as, I'm going to hell, is said in jest or satire.
Killedkennyagain 1 year ago
Whens the next de-baptism sign me up.
615Deathdealer 1 year ago
Again with the F$%ing Stalin and Mao reference. Excuse me, they may have been non-believers, but that does not mean they weren't religious. They instead tried to replace religion. They had communist baptisms, weddings. Everything that a religion offers. Communism was dogmatic, and completely intolerant of critical thinking. Show me a society based on the principles of Thomas Paine which murdered people wholesale. For more please seen nonstampcollector's "hitler the atheist" video.
Newenlightenmentnow 1 year ago
I love this man. We don't need a pope, but if we had one, I would vote for him. Yes if we needed a pope, we would indeed VOTE for him instead of having an appointed group of elites vote for him.
Newenlightenmentnow 1 year ago
"If this offends you, Edwin Kagin doesn't care"
Rock on, Edwin
=)
ImperiousViking 1 year ago
well once again the yanks take things way to far again shocking
buddyjesus1000 1 year ago
this guy gives athiest's a bad name ffs
lupa559 1 year ago
Bad tactics which just feed into the bigotry of others.
Naiant 1 year ago
This is atrocious. Simply turns atheism into yet another organized religion.
swderek 1 year ago
I gotta get GF one of those hairdryers
Jaywed 1 year ago
This is fucking awsome!
RPKGameVids 1 year ago 14
@RPKGameVids so promoting hatred between people who see things differently is awesome? so if people form gangs of muslims, jews, protestants, catholics, or any other belief such as astheism and fought against each other then formed communities of one religion, leading to cities, and states, attacking those with a different point of view, latter on leading to seperatin within countries and religiously ruled governments all against each other believing they are right is awesome?
wildhaunter 9 months ago
The difference with atheists is that we are having fun! I like this one.
tubetib 1 year ago
.....a blow dryer..LMAO I would've never thought of that and mockery is a lot safer than setting people on fire.
HybridD91 1 year ago
@HybridD91 NO FAIR...I didn't know any thing about Camp Quest. Looks more fun than Jesus Camp
HybridD91 1 year ago
OMG!!!!! so "inyourface" by being on youtube and putting adds on billboards...how dare they *rollz eyes again at the stupidity of that bigoted comentator*
you know what ppl used to find sacred? slaughtering baby animals.
LuminousTruth 1 year ago
Look how agressive those Atheists are *rollz eyes and thinks...poor deluded chritians will burn in hell for not confessing their agnosticism*
LuminousTruth 1 year ago
what a disrespectful ignorant man
elyembty 1 year ago
@elyembty
his name is Dan Herris, as the lady explained in the beginning, and he still hasn't lost his job as a commentator.
LuminousTruth 1 year ago
he said " some have found it truly a spiritul cleansing" atheisem is just a religion taken from another one mans view.
elyembty 1 year ago
@elyembty where's the atheist holy book then? Its doctrine? Its scripture?
All he has stated is an opinion, which happens to go outside the definition of atheism.
keithzworld 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
This is what the lord says in 1 Corinthians. "I have the right to do anything" you say- But not everything is beneficial "i have the right to do anything but not everything is constructive. NO one should seek there OWN good, but the good of others.
In His Name- Amen
1234gdawg 1 year ago
This is what the lord says in 1 Corinthians. "I have the right to do anything" you say- But not everything is beneficial "i have the right to do anything but not everything is constructive. NO one should seek there OWN good, but the good of others.
In His Name- Amen
1234gdawg 1 year ago
This isn't an angry comment. just my hope for those who see this video
sad to say I am kind of offended by this, and that's usually pretty hard to do. I'll declare my faith in Christ in this comment, on my channel, and in my works. I hope that the believers who see this video can be strengthened in their faith, and those that do not believe can ask questions about Jesus and find out who he is rather than just blindly say "Yeah, take that, christians"
LeximusMaximus 1 year ago
@LeximusMaximus Atheists HAVE been asking serious questions about Christianity for centuries, but all they ever get in return are evasions and excuses.
megagrey 1 year ago 2
@LeximusMaximus
offense comes from the self, you can only be ashamed if you deserve it. shame is just an excuse for hatred...and clearly these atheists feel offended by your "cleansing" ritual.
LuminousTruth 1 year ago
As an atheist, I am not agree with this mockery and disrespectful ritual... Atheism means no organization based on beliefs .....Total free thinking and individual building of meaning.
tracksgarcia 1 year ago
@tracksgarcia
Atheism means nothing except disbelieve of theists. If you want to start making it a philosophy and way of life that is your decision, but what you are actually doing is adding characteristics to the word that do not apply.
LuminousTruth 1 year ago
I think americans should be banned for telling "news". The rest of the world laugh at americans every day.
styrmirr86 1 year ago
Listen to this biased bullshit. Agresive lolz there like laughing and blowdrying eachother.
p00pdawg 1 year ago 2
Interesting video. I'm not sure that there is an "American religous civil war." I haven't seen any fights or battles over religion in the USA in my lifetime, but perhaps things are more violent where he lives.
tyhouston5 1 year ago
They're splicing out a lot of content. I'd love to hear the whole interview.
IcyNami 1 year ago
Of course they're militant atheists... xD
IcyNami 1 year ago
man i hate how patronizing and condescending the tone of the reporter is. arrogant asshole.
rcmontecalvo 1 year ago 17
@rcmontecalvo
In fairness ABC news HAS to pander to 85% of it's audience....
DannyAces 1 year ago
@rcmontecalvo News in America are so biased.... In Europe this could be anti-atheist PUBLICITY
strapuff 11 months ago
Yeah, this makes Atheism look good. I'm all for freedom to criticize religion but this makes the rest of us Atheists look stupid. This guy isn't any better than watching the 700 Show. We may share a common disbelief but this guy does NOT represent me.
ratdogger 1 year ago
Well, he has a point. We cant let religion be acceptable.
BigBlueSpaceGoat 1 year ago
Something that I don't understand that maybe can be helped by all you intelligent people. Where did the universe come from? Science tells us it came out of something the size of a quark. Science also didn't think quarks existed until we found them with the Stanford Linear accelerator but ancient philosophers realized the possibility of fundamental particles thousands of years ago. Why are we in the perfect place for life to live? If it's an accident, why such an astounding one?
EngineerMK2004 1 year ago
@EngineerMK2004 normally i don't get into debates about religion, it always digresses into name-calling or simply arguing over biblical quotations, none of which interests me. I do however want to correct you on one thing, considering the size and diversity of universe, yes it's an accident that we're here but it's also near mathematical certanty that life will exist somewhere in the universe, just because something's an accident doesn't make it unlikely. C'est la vie
MightyBobzilla 1 year ago
@MightyBobzilla BOB! A mathematical certainty is not an accident! Also, I'd say that wherever life can exist in the universe, that it does exist. The question is, what motivates molecules into organized structures to form systems and eventually discreet functions? It's really more of a process than anyone realizes. Also, a living organism in the third dimension is exactly the same as a dead one, molecularity. There is something extra dimensional that we fail to recognize, now, but we will.
EngineerMK2004 1 year ago
Wow mockery is a war now? Interesting, cuz when religious folks wage a war people tend to die, get tortured, raped and set fire to.
All I see here is freedom of speech in the form of parody.
thechurchofdave 1 year ago
Believers have no problem in mocking something non-believers find important.
Is sacred more prominent than important?
LmfaoGod 1 year ago
where can i do this!
i want.
LmfaoGod 1 year ago
Reasoning with religious nutters is a waste of time. They are of an inferior subspecies I call Homo creationalensis. By definition they are incapable of critical rational thought. Taking the piss out of them is much more fun.
Quote of the day: Poke fun at a creationist and watch it squirm.
FLUSEM666 1 year ago
I fucking cannot believe how intense that reporter assholes looks when he says: "HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS?". So pa-fucking-thetically intense and negative.
YoungNubb 1 year ago
this report is pathetically biased. Fuck ABC, they are copying FOX these days, I suppose?
YoungNubb 1 year ago
It's funny.... to be called a militant atheist you have to write a book, open a blog, start a critical dialogue as you would ANY other issue, or....do a stunt with a hairdryer.
But to be called militant in religion, that means you're strapping bombs to your chest, murdering people with AK's, forming armed groups and lacing every other statement with threats of murder and violence, and being ACTUALLY militant!
Neanderthalcouzin 1 year ago 16
@Neanderthalcouzin Very good comment sir!
Newenlightenmentnow 1 year ago
These Atheists seem to have a really nice start on their religion. I wonder if their church does anything besides wage war on those who believe?
EngineerMK2004 1 year ago
@EngineerMK2004 Ho ho ho. Did you think of that all by yourself or did your guardian angel whisper the words in your ear?
FLUSEM666 1 year ago
Religious people have been "in your face" since religion began. I always hear "i'll pray for you", "in my thoughts and prayers", "god this, god that". We see religious symbols everywhere we go. Churches on every street corner. Politicians, songs, media. It's printed on our money. Religious people have never cared about stating thier beliefs in front of anyone so why should atheist be expected to do the same? Besides I hear religious people mocking other religious beliefs all the time.
massageboy24 1 year ago
Presumably by believers? Well let's see, who the fuck else would deface the billboard?
UltraComboer 1 year ago
Edward Kagin FTW!
PseudoWrestler 1 year ago
15%? Wow, higher than I thought, well done america, you're making great progress.
Atheists/agnostics gathering in a "church-like" place is ridiculous.
Baptisms mean nothing, you're obviously not confident in your beliefs if you think you need a de-baptism.
Note I'm speaking of the people he said feel a "spiritual cleansing".
supertrinko 1 year ago
@supertrinko Adding to that 15% comment, keep that up, raise that number, when it's high enough that politicians won't think it "political suicide" to be secular, or even non-religious, america will make some excellent progress.
supertrinko 1 year ago
@supertrinko There is a difference between spiritualism and religion. Spiritual is about how one feels at that moment. Religion is something that was made up many years ago and other people tell you how to feel and act!
massageboy24 1 year ago
@massageboy24 Atheists do not believe in god, as a result they should not believe a baptism does anything, you obviously see something in baptism if you feel the need to be cleansed of it.
supertrinko 1 year ago
@supertrinko They don't, it was just tongue in cheek.
Neanderthalcouzin 1 year ago
@Neanderthalcouzin The video states there are people who take this seriously. If you read my original comment, you'd know I was referring to them.
supertrinko 1 year ago
@supertrinko I'm not seeing anywhere where they say they genuinly believe it in some magical sense, that would be antithetical to the whole point of it, which is making fun of hokus pokus.
Neanderthalcouzin 1 year ago
@Neanderthalcouzin Did you hear the guy? He said some of them feel a real spiritual cleansing. They believe it is doing something.
supertrinko 1 year ago
@supertrinko Hmmm, you're right. It's somewhat ironic, he's kind of kooky I'll give you that. I think he means it metaphorically, being as he nor anyone else believes in that, it's pretty obvious that it's a silly stunt and it's symbolic, that's why he says 'if you will' it's 'spiritually cleansing'. I'll freely admit it's strange, I wouldn't chose those words, and then again I wouldn't do any of it in the first place I was raised non-religious. The whole video's pretty ridiculous.
Neanderthalcouzin 1 year ago
@supertrinko It's also pretty funny when you re-watch the video and notice the narrator calling it the 'increasingly aggressive atheist community' and meanwhile there's this guy dressed as a wizard blowing a nerdy-looking grinning woman with a hair dryer. If that's aggressive and militant, than bring on militant Islam!
Neanderthalcouzin 1 year ago
@Neanderthalcouzin Consider that many people are converting from their religions to atheism and or non-religion, they are new to godlessness, so stuck in their ways of spirituality and assorted beliefs, while they no longer wish to follow their god, or even believe that he exists. It's pretty tough to just give up those old superstitions.
I remember I didn't want to accept that santa didn't when my friend told me, even when I asked my mother about it. But I did believe them.
supertrinko 1 year ago