Lewis Black: Bush, Creationism and the Old Testament

[Watchmydust]

I just love Mr. Black and his wit...I wonder if he make it all up or hires anyone? He says fuck too much though....opps

[arzadi11]

No wonder the world is sooooo fucked up; God created it in 7 days. He did a bad job for He rushed it. Had God taken His time in creating the world probably people would have had always a good life instead of living in an all miserable life. Thank you God for doing a sloppy job. But we will forgive you.

[1949rickray]

Just think, I know that's difficult for fundamentalist ,religious people to do, but, in a few generations from now most of mankind will look back and say, "Damn, were they really crazy enough to believe that a magical sky daddy created the universe." Why couldn't it have been a magical sky mama, since birth comes from females?" I'll tell you why, because the bible is made of of 66 stories by 40 GUYS, who wanted men to rule the world.

[iambiggus]

@1949rickray word to the sky mutha.

[carmic191]

Uncle Lou!!

[spottybott]

flintstones a documentary tee hee

[gottchem3]

Why are people laughing?

[liennto]

@gottchem3 haha! thats a great comment. you probably don't realize why, but it's funny.

[AMN200768]

Stone cold fucking nuts!! classic line

[IamYou86]

You can't marry a snapping turtle,asshole!! LOLOLAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[CocteauDalighari]

@IamYou86 But, heck, I'd go insane too if I'd just been tricked into leaving family's homeland of 400+ years for a desert, which, is, I'm told, the effing land of milk & honey. Only if scorpions are milk & locusts are honey.

[mythmanjay]

Some Jew should "take time out of his Jewy-Jewy day" to tell me how marriage shifted from 'young woman leaves her parents to be with her husband' to 'single girls on the landscape like locusts in the desert.'?

[Samoaqueen]

@mythmanjay

clarification please?

[mythmanjay]

@Samoaqueen i.e. when did the tradition of 'living with parents until married' get unpopular (was it ever popular?)?

[jackthestunner]

i am a christian and my best friend is an atheist and we get along very well.

[ltflermy]

@jackthestunner Do you and your friend discuss religion?

[Volf99]

Even the POPE admitted that evolution was real. Honestly PROTESTANTS need to get their fucking heads out of the ground!

[deathman1021]

@Volf99 bah, the old pope said that, the new one said condoms help spread aids (not to mention the whole he was a nazi thing), so im not entirely confident in the qualifications of the papacy when questioned about scientific matters

[psteverific]

Really... there are museums like that?

Where... USA I'm guessing, but where can I find one, I've got to see this!

[saltjunkie77]

@psteverific Well, i'm embarrassed to admit it, but there is one in Kentucky. Considering that's the homebase for teabaggers, this shouldn't be surprising.

Creation Museum

2800 Bullittsburg Church Rd.

Petersburg, KY 41080 * Located seven miles west of the Cincinnati Airport

[Martial024]

@GonzalesGal09 Well hes not a real Jew, he doesn't follow "his" book, otherwise he would have been in prison along time ago. He's like the majority of others who claim they are to be one of the crowd and make themselves feel good, but then cherry pick and study rather slothfully.

How can a real Jew not believe in the creation theory? ITS FROM THEIR BOOK!!! Hes not a Jew in the religious sense, hes a phony hypocrite like so many like him, most being Christians.

[saltjunkie77]

@Martial024 That's false. It's as much a culture as it is a religion...remember, they trace their line through the mother for specific bloodline purposes. Besides, Lewis was raised as many young jewish boys, e.g., well educated in the Hebrew language, history, and religion. Yes, he understands the "Old Testament," better than christian followers. He mocks you because YOU ARE WRONG. Watch it again goofy, creationism is BULLSHIT.

[Matthew1944]

@Martial024 Jews don't take the bible literally and accept it as allegory which it is. Most Christians don't take it literally either. Fundamentalist Christians are the only ones who take it literally and that's because they don't understand it, having only an edited, mistranslated and misinterpreted version of the book.

[dave474c]

@Matthew1944 "...having only an edited, mistranslated and misinterpreted version of the book....". What other fucking versions are there? Wake up!

[Matthew1944]

@dave474c There are the catholic bible with 73 books, the KJB with 66 books, the Ethiopean bible that Includes the book of Enoch, and Macabees 1 & 2, the Vulgate bible, The Septuigent that INCLUDES 12 more books in the Old Test. and has LONGER versions of Daniel, Ezeikiel and others, and there are dozens more. The oldest known Bible to date, the "Sinai Bible" housed in the British Museum has an estimated 14,800 differences from today's Bible 

[dave474c]

@Matthew1944 My point is....They're all full of shit

[Matthew1944]

@dave474c Agreed.

[Matthew1944]

@dave474c 2) In just the first five books of the Christian Bible, in comparison to the Torah, there are over 200,000 variants and in 400 instances, the variants change the meaning of the text; 50 of these are of great significance.  The original Torah was first translated to Greek by Hebrew scholars in 150 BC (Septuagint), then re-translated by by Christian scholars and your bible is based on that re-translation.

[andrewkeen24]

@Matthew1944 You can have fifty four million versions of a fairy tale if you want. It's all a fucking fairy tale.

[Matthew1944]

@andrewkeen24 Again, agreed. Most likely Jesus lived but he sure wasn't a man-god.

[andrewkeen24]

@Matthew1944 Yeah there is a good chance that he lived.

[Matthew1944]

@andrewkeen24 It seems that nobody really noticed him during his lifetime, not enough to write about him at least. It wasn't until he was "hijacked" thirty years later that the supernatural started to enter the picture.

[Samoaqueen]

I wonder where he gets his fossils

[rkyeun]

@Samoaqueen

They sell them in giant bins at museum gift stores.

[Dametta13beararms]

Moses got his throut cut by Jeoshua binun

[gregrutz]

Fossil !

[ThelastJohnSilver]

@GonzalesGal09 what? he is an aitheist, It doesn't matter if your born Muslim, Christian OR Jew, if you say: I don't have faith in any higher power, I don't belive in god, Jesus or a holy ghosts, that makes you an atheist! Lewis would shout this and point his old finger at you but Im not him so I just write it without the exclamation marks and the cursing... as he says "I have thoughts... and that can really fuck up the faith-thing".

[swejax]

@ThelastJohnSilver Children are not born any religion..

[98Greenjeans]

i love his eyebrows.

[robvlob]

Since god is said to be eternal I think he had to have been super bored for the bazillion trillion quadrillion years before he decided to create the heavens and earth.

Why did the lazy bastard think he deserved rest after only working 6 days of the infinite time he spent before that sitting on his ass?

Then he expects an eternal payment of ass-kissing, god is a welfare recipient that gets to write out his own check.

That's why reps are so against welfare its reserved for God.

[Woodthorn]

@robvlob Wait, what?

[robvlob]

@Woodthorn God is supposedly eternal, the universe according to some creationists is 6-10K YO if god is eternal why wait till only 6-10K years ago to create everything what did he do for the infinite amount of time before that?

He only worked for 6 days(means a different time period according to some fundamentalists) now he wants eternal payment(ass kissing), and if you don't he will have you tortured for eternity

[cruelbusiness1984]

@GonzalesGal09 u can also hav no spirituality without being a total dick. I totally agree with his views but I do go around saying there's no force or higher power that connects the universe cuz its never been seen. observed. proven, evidence of, nothing that can't b explained and understood thru natural process. a person can't just goin around makin crap up, there needs 2 b evidence 2 b credible.

[Jonstern1983]

I saw him live... he's a lot thiner in person.

[SubVLPer]

@GonzalesGal09 Yeah but that's a double standard. Saying that the christian god or a higher power connects the universe may be offensive to atheist.

[cruelbusiness1984]

@MissAnnie1000 based on what?

[zivlang88]

the flintstons is a documentary

[Tait011]

What a nice high quality, advert free, good audio'D video. Thanks :)

[Mark27nj]

@Tait011 welcome!

[atosov]

"There are people who believe that dinosaurs and men lived together, that they roamed the earth at the same time. . . . They are crazy. They are stone cold fuck nuts. I can't be kind about this, because these people are watching The Flintstones as if it were a documentary."

I gladly take time out of my very Jewy, Jewy day to watch this video.

[AntiNYCristo]

funny #LOL

[Mark27nj]

@GonzalesGal09 Lol, no problem.

Glad you liked the video.

[Mark27nj]

@GonzalesGal09 Who said he was an atheist?

BTW, he did used to be an atheist, but became an agnostic due to mescaline.

At least that's what he says in his book "Me of little faith".

[slickwick45]

@Mark27nj What exactly is mescaline? and why did he become an agnostic because of it?

[Dubonjierugi]

I would love to see a rabbi incorrectly interpret new testament. Although it sounds like what any other priest would say though....

[rapeand]

why is the bible considered anything more than just another book?

[laflugantabastardo]

@rapeand

Because the Romans were great at religious PR.

[andrewkeen24]

@rapeand Because retards read it and brain-wash their children.

[theatlantisrise]

@rapeand Most likely it was all a freak chance. Now, because of it, there are too many freaks who take too many chances out there.

[SnowKid32]

@rapeand Just another book? Lol, stick to YouTube, sir.

[doksekko]

@SnowKid32 What does that mean? If it's not just another book, explain why.

[degenererad]

@rapeand because it got a fuckin rabid bookclub

[ZeddicusZulZorrandor]

@rapeand because it's ancient mother goose tales. And we, as humans, like to honor ancient bull****.

[Mikeybetts]

@rapeand

i ask the same thing about the quran XD

[TheMrKregel]

@rapeand Thats what happens when generations upon generations of children are indoctrinated... it should be a crime

[HedeenJeff]

There are scriptures that reperesent Christ throughout the Old testment.

[Mark27nj]

@HedeenJeff I think it's the other way around.

Christs represents scriptures from the Old Testament.

And in many cases, he represents mistranslations of scriptures from the Old Testament.

[cruelbusiness1984]

@Mark27nj yep, its called self-fullfilling prophecies. there r also 'prophecies' in the old testament that never came true. never. and some that never will

[kalin666]

@HedeenJeff Jew here . . . . no he isn't . . . that's why there are still Jews.

[noelle594]

I just got home from seeing him live at Mansfield University!!! he's so fuckin hilarious!!

[coptersoisoi]

6 days not 7. Is this guy even a Jew?

[merlechmoose]

LOL@People quoting ancient man-written scripture as their proof for anything!

[VishalGReturns]

THAT JEWY JEWY DAY

[Mark27nj]

@MoaiMaea, if your claim is accurate, i still think a literal 7 day interpretation makes more sense.

Since it is based on this 7 day creation that Yahweh declares the Sabbath to be holy.

Why would he declare the Sabbath as holy, if is resting "day" was actually hundreds or millions of years?

So, when it says that he declared the seventh day holy, is he declaring an undefined period of time as holy?

Or does your claim only work for the first six days?

[MoaiMaea]

Oh, not at all. It works perfectly fine for all seven days. See, the Sabbath might very well be a symbolic day that represents said period. Just look at other Jewish holidays or holidays in any culture, really. Yes, there are those ones that commemorate a single event that took place on a single day. However, other ones celebrate a bygone process or a time span in general. From the top of my head Lag baOmer comes to mind. It remembers the Bar Kokhba revolt which lasted several years.

[Mark27nj]

@MoaiMaea. Genesis 2- 3:

"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."

It would make no meaning to sanctify a certain period of time, because that time would pass and not be repeated again.But a specific day would repeat itself, and thus be worth sanctifying.

A specific day is the simpler explanation, without the need to invent symbolisms that are not referenced in the book.

[MoaiMaea]

I didn’t get that. How would a specific day repeat itself? You mean like when something happened on the 1st of July then it would “repeat” itself since next year there would be another 1st of July? In any case, the aforementioned example should have invalidated this objection.

And the simpler explanation isn’t necessarily the right one. Regarding symbolisms, you can find plenty of them in the Bible (especially the Hebrew Testament). So because of this alone mine already makes more sense to me.

[Mark27nj]

@MoaiMaea That is why i quoted the part we are discussing.

It doesn't differentiate between the "period of time" you are suggesting and the actual sabbath.

It isn't mentioned anywhere in the bible.It just says the 7th "yom" is sanctified, and from there on every sabbath is sanctified.

Also, would god need to rest for such a long period of time?(Needing to rest for a full day is ridiculous enough, no?)

In lack of evidence, the simpler explanation should be the one taken in consideration.

[MoaiMaea]

Er, you do know that said “indefinite period of time” could mean anything, right? One second, one millennium, you name it. So the different days of creation don’t even have to be equally long.

And besides, when you find it preposterous that God would rest so long (whatever timespan you have thought of), even calling a week ridiculous, shouldn’t you realize that is sounds weird that an almighty God has to rest in the first place?

Comment Part 1

[Mark27nj]

@MoaiMaea tl;dr

In the bible it only says man rests on the 7th yom because god rested on the 7th yom.

There is no explanation that even though god's yom was of a different length, man would rest for a day in symbolism to god's 7th yom.

The simplest explanation is that both yom's are the same and that's why there's no mention of symbolism.

This argument only started after science figured the age of the earth.Before then nobody doubted it was seven days.

[cruelbusiness1984]

@MoaiMaea what about the fact that plants and animals were created b4 the sun? so for thousands of years or millenia the plants went without sunlight? the whole thing falls apart no matter how one looks at it. just chalk it up 2 misinterpreted hallucinations from bad food and move on

[MoaiMaea]

Look, I’m not defending creationism. I was just criticizing Black’s superficial interpretation of his people’s holy book, the Tanakh, which he apparently doesn’t know all that well.

Still, what exactly are you talking about? According to Genesis 1 there was alright light before he created plants et cetera. Stars were created later on, yes, and obviously the sun is a star as well but this argument is invalid since the light was created beforehand (which makes no sense, I know). Just sayin’ ...

[MoaiMaea]

Answer: misinterpretation, yet again. — By the way, I find it confusing (did I already say so?) that many critics refuse this argument when they themselves us it so often.

Anyways, the word translated here with “rest” (שָׁבַת / sha·vat) has also a whole lot of meanings. And there is no lack of evidence for this either. In only 7 out of 68 instances [I am referring to the NASB fyi] this word is translated with “rest” resp. “rested”. See Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions:

Comment Part 2

[MoaiMaea]

“NASB

H7673a. shabath, [991d]; a prim. root; to cease, desist, rest:-- brought to an end (1), cease (21), ceased (7), ceases (3), did away (2), disappear (1), do away (1), eliminate (3), gone (1), hear no more (1), lacking (1), left without (1), made an end (1), make an end (1), observe (2), put a stop (3), put an end (3), puts an end (1), remove (2), removed (1), rest (4), rested (3), silence (1), stop (2), stopped (1).”

Comment Part 3

[MoaiMaea]

More modern translations do a better job and translate this part of Gen 2,3 with “[B]ecause by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.” (GNB) or “[B]ecause on that day he stopped all his work of creation.” (GW). It even has been translated this way in the Young's Literal Translation: “[F]or in it He hath ceased from all His work[...]”.

You are way too naïve when it comes to dealing with frickin’ thousands of years old texts, mate.

Comment Part 4

[Mark27nj]

@MoaiMaea , so I'm naive because i don't take all meanings into account.Ok.

So how do those modern versions translate Exodus 20:8-11?

Six indefinite periods of time thou shalt work.

But on the 7th indefinite period of time you shouldn't work (...)

For in six indefinite periods of time god made all that good stuff.

But on the 7th indefinite period of time god stopped.

So keep the sabbath holy.

I wonder how the Jews ever figured out how much time they should keep the Sabbath for.

[falloutghoul1]

@Mark27nj & @MoaiMaea

Can't we just enjoy the damn video without a fucking DEBATE?!

[Mark27nj]

@falloutghoul1 no.

[cruelbusiness1984]

@falloutghoul1 then don't read the comment section

[cruelbusiness1984]

@Mark27nj the whole think was meant 2 b taken literally, originally. and its full of contradictions and innaccuracies and is morally bankrupt and should b thrown out

[MoaiMaea]

Isn’t Lewis Black supposedly Jewish? Shouldn’t he know his own fucking language then? The Hebrew word used in Genesis 1 which is usually translated with “day” is יוֹם (jom) and has many meanings. One of them is “an indefinite period of time”. So instead of being a retard and thinking that the creation of the world took place in seven 24 hour cycles (come on, seriously?) you might wanna busy yourself a bit with exegesis.

[hagenar]

@MoaiMaea Wow. Well done. If you can arbitrarily reassign meanings to all words found in the bible, then everything in it is potentially correct!

(don't worry about the sarcastic undertone in my comment- there's no telling what my words might actually mean)

[MoaiMaea]

“arbitrarily”? If there are reasonable doubts that an interpretation of the text’s meaning is wrong and one thus has another interpretation in contemplation (I never said that this is necessarily correct; I just stated that it makes more sense to me), one is acting arbitrarily? Are you serious?

So unless said reassigning of meanings is done by critics of religion (as it has often been done with modern translations of the Bible, primarily the NT) it is done arbitrarily? Don’t be such a hypocrite.

[hagenar]

@MoaiMaea No need to argue with me, dude. I'm a full fledged biblical convert now, thanks to you.

Here's an interpretation that works for me. When the bible's authors wrote about the creation of the world, they didn't have a clue, so they made something up that made god sound great. They succeeded. They could write anything they wanted. They knew their audience was uneducated and servile and wouldn't challenge them.

Do you like science fiction? Also excellent stuff when not taken literally.

[MoaiMaea]

Derp derp derp, there is indeed no need to argue with you, “dude”, since you don’t share the same pivotal idea as a Christian in this matter. So when you believe that God does not exist and that the creation of the Bible results solely from man’s doing (and won’t even contemplate another possibility for the sake of the discussion) it is not very surprising that you will never come to the same inferences as a theist.

In other words: Why did you bother in the first place? Showmanship?

[hagenar]

@MoaiMaea Why did I bother in the first place? Your argument was rude. It was loquacious. It was anti-Semetic. And it was a weak attempt to rationalize the issue. If you were afraid of reading an opposing viewpoint you shouldn't have written what you did.

You dislike Mr Black, or Jewish people in general. Or you felt the debate here was too dominated by atheists. I sometimes feel compelled to oppose people I think are jerks.

You clearly don't believe in this part of the bible either. So HTFU.

[MoaiMaea]

How was my comment anti-Semitic (with two “i”s, genius)?

You would have been a lot more convincing if any of these accusations were true. I dislike neither Mr. Black, in fact I love most of his jokes (especially his segment at TDS), nor Jewish people (which would be retarded) nor did I feel that the debate here was “too dominated by atheists”. Just by people who don’t know anything about modern exegesis (or exegesis at all).

Also, WHAT of it am I supposedly not believing?

[hagenar]

@MoaiMaea Yeah, that e was a pretty awful error.

My first response here was to your comment that proposed "an indefinite period of time" as possible meaning for that biblical passage. That amused me. I had read it as a desperate rationalisation by a self-important Christian. I hadn't read your other comments.

Now I have, it seems that I'd jumped to that conclusion. Nothing else is obvious about you other than your sense of self importance and your desire to use the word 'exegesis' a lot.

[MoaiMaea]

So what synonym would you propose?

Also, have it your way. If you prefer, as I apprehended, flaunting yourself to leading an actual discussion then I guess it can’t be helped.

[MoaiMaea]

So what synonym would you propose?

Also, have it your way. If you prefer, as I apprehended, flaunting yourself to leading an actual discussion then I guess it can’t be helped.

[hagenar]

@MoaiMaea I prefer to subject people or ideas to harsh ridicule then leave. It's the way of YouTube.

Happy Holidays!

[MoaiMaea]

More like: the way of immature cretins. Happy holidays to you nevertheless.

[MansonFan64]

" i just had this dream where lewis black's material was so funny that he had to shout it at everyone" lol

[Knocknagore]

Lewis Black is a very, very funny man. *****

[spangleJ]

Lewis Black - what a discovery! Thanks for posting. 

[prffsrx]

Yahweh said this about the rebellious Jewish people,

"But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till [there was] no remedy."(2 Chronicles 36:16)

"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." (Galations 6:7)

About his mind

"And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind,..." (Romans 1:28)

[Mark27nj]

@gorgeoustxwoman Why did you remove it?

You were absolutely right!

[gorgeoustxwoman]

@Mark27nj The comment that I removed was because I misspelled a word, I posted it correctly right away.

[Mark27nj]

@gorgeoustxwoman Ok, it was marked as spam, maybe that's why i didn't see it.

[gorgeoustxwoman]

@prffsrx LMFAO! It Is so typical that when a person is incapable of thinking independent thoughts, they quote the buy-bull.

[grifd437]

@prffsrx Two people can play the quoting game:)

I'm not sure what your point was exactly, but I take it you don't approve of Lewis Black for theistic reasons. Here's something to think on then:

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

Hebrews 13:2

;-)

[davemelnick]

@grifd437 I think prffsx is just saying to the literal religious nuts (world-wide): stop quoting the bible, etc. They're basically a handbook for many crimes & not humanity works. Very true. However, it sure works when taken astronomically & ONLY then. Just read-up on Mesopotamia, The Dogon & ancient Egypt. ;)

[tercelkisor]

@grifd437 angels dont blaspheme. good try.

[lilmissykato]

@prffsrx  stop quoting our holy texts, stop stealing our stuff and stick to your idol worship... leave us alone.

[gorgeoustxwoman]

"Debating Creationists on the topic of Evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory." - Scott D. Weitzenhoffer

[Mark27nj]

@gorgeoustxwoman LMAO!!!

That made me laugh!

[gorgeoustxwoman]

@Mark27nj It is a great quote. I use it often.

[pamorale]

@gorgeoustxwoman maybe one of the best quotes I've ever about this topic!!

[brpowerful]

@gorgeoustxwoman Ahahaha!:} If you haven't already seen the bill o'reilly "debate" with richard dawkins you should watch it. Bill of course loses and uses a bunch of christian cliques as a substitute for reasoning, and bill to this day still pretends that he "beat" dawkins.....that quote is spot on.

[flumberg]

@gorgeoustxwoman hahahahahha!

[cruelbusiness1984]

@gorgeoustxwoman how true. it's like arguing that trees exist. well, duh

[Kisinkona]

Christians have been doctoring the 'book' for years....it is incredible that we still believe in mythology

[grendelee]

The jurys still out on gravity. If gravitys real, then why are there airplanes?

[pele6922]

"What jury? Where?" My thoughts exactly...

[specialspencer69]

umm actually hes saying both religions are bullshit so listen instead of trying to justify the rediculous notion of creationism

[runnysmokey0304]

FOSSIL

[itsstock09]

what jury......where funniest line of the whole show

[WhiteTiger225]

Wait wait... We nuked school children only? Wow! We were fucking advanced! we had chronological targeting explosive devices! Hell if that's true then we DESERVE to rule the world! Infact, no leader should ever stand alone, they should stand next to a bunch of different people the same age with different agendas to avoid this amazing nuke that can target specifically an age group or vocation XD

[WhiteTiger225]

Yes.. because it was America and Britians duty to defend the world. I love people like you. If we stick our nose where it doesn't belong, we're assholes, if we don't stick our noses where it don't belong, we are assholes.. it's lose/lose with you silly little conspiracy nuts.

[WhiteTiger225]

That is why after the first one dropped on a major military city which provided a flow of currency, supplies, shelter, food to the government and it's soldiers the japanese DID NOT surrender, and then when we dropped the second one AND claimed we had more, the japanese finally surrendered? So a mountain would make them surrender.. but I guess they could care less about a city?

[Bardlettt]

If Lewis Black is gay sign me up for the next parade.

[Bardlettt]

I work fast :) Want to come? How well can you dance on a float to YMCA?

[cruelbusiness1984]

@Bardlettt how did u conclude from this that he might b gay? not that it matters, in the least, in any way shape or form

[klextro]

What did I say was wrong? Look up the battle of Nanking.The men were shot dead and the women were were raped and killed with whatever the Japanese could get their hands on. Tree branches gun barrells and anything else they could get their hands on to rape women and bruitaly kill them while doing it. I'd much rather be vaporized by an atomic bomb than put through what those poor bastards dealt with.What would you rather? getting raped to death with a tree branch or vaporized by an atomic bomb?

[klextro]

It was not a test.They already tested them in New Mexico at the trinity site.Whether you think it was right or wrong the Japanese atrocities had to stop.Look at the "rape of Nanking" the Japanese bruitaly raped and murdered more people in that one chinese city than what one of the bombs killed.Not to mention the Emporer of Japan wanted to surrender even before they were dropped but the leaders of the Japanese military staged a coup d'etat to take him out so they could keep the war going.

[klextro]

had to fight a conventional war with the Japanese which would have meant fighting the Japanese from island to island until they reached mainland Japan. If not for the atomic bombs it would have taken years and many more millions of dead people to end the war in the Pacific.Forget all that though.JFK was a democrat.A liberal. Are you so far out there that you think the democrats took out their own guy?Who do you blame for the meaningless Iraq war which did nothing but rile up more American hate?

[klextro]

Let me tell you something "bub". Im not an American and not a liberal.The American's never bombed Japanese targets in China before Pearl Harbour.That is an outright lie.They may have sailed ships into Japanese waters and shut off all their lights to taunt them but thats a bit different to what you claim. It may have been a liberal president that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan but who cares?Even if it was a conservative president in the long run it saved a lot of lives because they would have

[klextro]

This is comedy. If you have a political agenda thats fine. Youtube is probably not the best forum to express your political beliefs.Why do you bigots claim such a percent of this race is against this and such a percent of this political party is against that? Who cares? Why can't we get past the colour of peoples skin and the political party they fall under and start worrying about important stuff. The U.S does not have universal health care. Do any of you people care? No you obviously don't.

[Maikkeru]

kdbrown777 start thinking for yourself guy.

[Musicsavslives]

kdbrown777

"You need a Hobby"

[kdbrown777]

1. The Tanakh (Old Testament roughly), does not "belong" exclusively to Lewis Black, or any Jewish people for that matter. It is the Word of God, who, after passing it onto the Hebrews, was distributed to the Gentiles in Greek translations known as the "Septuagint." Virtually every Christian holds that the Tanakh is equally important and valid as the Gospels and Epistles of the New Testament.

2. Being Jewish has little to do with having a direct understanding of the Tanakh's meaning.

[rscbrslk]

Good grief. Please take a sense of humor out of petty cash.

[Boomstik1123]

i would like to have the faith to beleive the earth was created inseven days...b....i have thoughts.... and that can really fuck up the faith thing...just ask any chatholic priest!" Mr.Black is in my top 3 comedians list

[rcha1982]

There are Jeeeeews who walk among youuuuu! lol!

[jesus185517]

because they get enough shit from you cons. And Liberals believe you can do your own thing so gays can get married but people have the right to be against it.

[Vardaeregion]

The right to be against it, but not to prohibit it.

I can agree with that.

[calapanpo]

He did make fun of them. Conservatives and liberals are retarded and if you're either you have already failed, you can't argue that you don't view one thing one way an another a different way. PS you started your first sentence as a statement, and ended it as a question, WTF.

[ratfink2099]

I reach for a fossil and go: "FOSSIL". Love it!

[daydreambeliever93]

"These people are watching the Flinstones as if it were a documentary."

LMAO

[osufan2]

this is just simply brilliant.. just brilliant

[killerrex27]

This is the most hilarious shit I've seen in a while

[WTFBSYT]

Letting comedians dictate your beliefs makes you a FOOL

[Mark27nj]

And letting 3000 year old literature, written by goat herders, dictate them, makes you what?

I try not to let anyone dictate my beliefs, but i sure enjoy a good laugh.

[MoaiMaea]

Except that your statement is false and polemic (yeah, right, goat herders having a written language ... you can’t be that stupid). Not that I expected anything less from you since you seem to be as obstinately paradigmatic as any of those morons who think they know their religion.Get off your high horse, will you, bigot?

[JasminaH79]

I love him

[Mark27nj]

I think comedy is one of our best weapons, ahah.

And Lewis Black, and Jorge Carlin, our trained snipers on the field.

[wratched]

I wouldn't put Lewis Black in the same category as George Carlin. Carlin was an outright antitheist; Black seems more against fundamentalism..

[MoaiMaea]

Alas, he seems to know shit about exegesis and theology in general. You know, I think there are already enough people who bash the shit out of dumbfuck Christians who always take the Bible literally and are stubborn retards. His work is obsolete. You don't have to tell people nowadays that it's fucking stupid to believe the world was created in six days. So how about satirist who are explaining why there are intelligent people who don't believe that crap and still call themselves Christians?

[MoaiMaea]

I mean, come on, trained snipers? Don't make me laugh. You watched him mocking Cheney, right? Black is simply "hunting" fundamental Christians instead of quails. They're just as easy to ridicule. And it doesn't even take balls to do so. It's just so endlessly boring to watch ANOTHER guy that points his finger at those dimwits. He is like the Master of Obvious, "revealing" the elephant in the room. He should do something new and take on stupid views of certain Muslims, now THAT would be funny.

[davemelnick]

@Mark27nj You know it! It works great when one is trying to be forced to another's religion & think like 'em. Just laugh at thier media & political heros; they will istantly panic & start quoting scripture. " I'll pray for you..." will also join. LOL -;)

[singer7213]

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[morelltechyahoocom]

lol