we need help... intolerance is one of the worst things this world has to offer, the freedoms of religion and speech go hand in hand. im offended when people think, that they are right and anything you say is wrong, not only that, but everything you say that contradicts them is met with "i dont care, im still right, and you are wrong". are we really that blind?. we need to remember that an opinion, however much you disagree, is only an opinion.
Being an atheist says: "Everything you cherish, base your very life around, and is the focal point of what you believe to be happiness and foundation of life; I dismiss."
The offense is that we dismiss it seemingly with little to no consideration. However most Atheist, myself included, has studied and thought deeply and honestly to find truth and have come to the conclusion, that current god claims can not be backed up by current knowledge and evidence.
Ha! Ha! Listen to all those idiots cry and whine, why don't they get out of their intellectual poopee diapers and wake up and realize this is a democracy and people have a right to post signs like that. Most Christians don't want religion they want a theocracy where they can hang, burn and skin alive people who do not follow their creeds or their cloistered, constipated little straightjacket ideologies. The historic Jesus would dissaprove of their attitude.
This video makes an excellent point; that just because someone states an opinion you don't like or agree with, it doesn't mean they're attacking anybody.
But don't you think atheists can be guilty of this as well as religious people? If a Christian says "I don't believe in evolution" etc., some atheists get upset and offended and decry Christians as a threat to society.
I think both sides are guilty of overreacting. I've certainly been guilty.
Does challenging evolution make someone anti-science?
And how much actual science has been attacked by religious people, compared with the multitude of innovations that went unchallenged? Or is the Scopes monkey trial and Galileo being conflated to cover everything?
By "encroachment", do you mean religious people offering an moral/ethical challenge on how some science and technology can be misused? Are scientists above corruption?
I'm fairly sure that religion doesn't have much to say or advise when it comes to biological research, as the texts involved are rather outdated.
The most problematic thing, in my view, is people like you.
Good people(presumably), who act as the border guard, while the fundamentalists are away, attacking the very things allowing you to hold a moderate belief.(presumably)
Trust me, you're better off without that which you're trying to defend.
@PaDumBumPsh Hey idiot...he's not only a physicist not a climatologist...but he's over 80 years old. He's no expert. What he WAS an expert in has changed a whole hell of a lot in the last 50 years since he GOT his nobel prize. He is probably going senile as well as not knowing what the fuck he is talkin about. Same as you.
@PaDumBumPsh Hey idiot...he's not only a physicist not a climatologist...but he's over 80 years old. He's no expert. What he WAS an expert in has changed a whole hell of a lot in the last 50 years since he GOT his nobel prize. He is probably going senile as well as not knowing what the fuck he is talkin about. Same as you.
Am I encroaching on science if I voice a concern over this?
"The man-made strain of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, which can be transmitted through coughing and sneezing, made the headlines in late November. If released, it has the potential to cause an unprecedented pandemic with could kill hundreds of millions of people."
Google: "Bioterror scare: Killer-flu recipe will go viral?"
@PaDumBumPsh There is so much wrong with what you just said that I dont have any idea where to begin other than to ask if you are mentally handicapped. Truly just about everything you said has something deeply wrong with it. The only thing that doesnt have to be deconstructed to have all that's wrong with it address is the question about scientists and corruption. No they are not.
@PaDumBumPsh a few excellent examples are the scientists who have been bought to say global warming is a hoax, the supposed scientists that support creationism, and the obviously deluded or bought scientists who dont believe the theory of evolution. Very good very well known examples. There are definitely others out there that have been but the difference is...they are not the norm. Religion is systematic deception, Science is about actually learning real verifiable facts.
"Global warming has become a new religion." ~ Ivar Giaever
"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever has resigned as a Fellow from the prestigious American Physical Society to protest the organization’s promotion of man-made global warming fears. Giaever, now a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is one of several prominent scientists to resign from the APS over its global warming position."
DFWCor and FreeThoughtAction are more general in their approach than AmericanAtheist, which tends to single out Christianity over other religions. Maybe that's what Christians are referring to by "attack". That's why I made my video responses to AA.
I also agree with your point about religious people's faith needing to be strong enough to withstand someone's unbelief.
Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Exactly. It isn't fair that those who are athiests are deemed "offensive" and should be kept down, just to please those who are religious.Is it offensive to say "I believe in god" to an athiest? NO. Is it offensive to say "I DONT believe in a god/higher power" to someone who believes in god? NO. It's just a harmless statement. What is offensive: "Religion is horrible, and those who follow it are brain-washed sheep." <--- THIS IS offensive.
Christians see their free speech as the right to suppress all realistic, reasonable, and alternative speech. That is religious fascism being purported to be good loving stewardship---I would say they are blinded to seeing their own sin by proclaiming as their own the righteousness of Christ. They are not forgiven if they do not first confess and then repent of their sin. Proof the callers do not really believe their own dogma.
here's an idea... you pray for the starving kids in africa. well maybe you do. probably not though. why dont you pray this problem away and see if your imaginary friend does something about it?
There was no big bang! It was god that got lonely & made the universe out of nothing...wait...there can`t be nothing `cause there`s him. OK, he made the universe out of himself, then he made a couple of friends, who pissed him off by eating his apples(JUST LIKE MY GODDAMN ROOMMATE!). Sorry...anyway he kicked `em out (like I`m gonna do with my roommate) & cursed them forever.
Oh yea, unless they say they love him (`cause he was so lonely) they will be tortured for eternity? (like my roommate).
@CrankyTiger They may not post billboards because they have to pay for them, if they could mooch them they probably would. We (Atheist)are not alone! The day of the talking monkey is coming to an end with science leading the way.
I love how they say any religion would be offended by it. A large portion of the pagan community is not offended and we actually defend the atheists rights to free speech. I'm sick and tired of the god signs all over the city, but if I were to complain that it was an attack on my belief nothing would happen but ridicule.
I am so happy that I live in a society where I don't have to hide my atheism and where I am not hated because of it. I can't imagene how hard it must be for american atheists to live with all that hate.
atheist arguments sound rock solid initially until they get to matter creating itself and the universe was always there madness and then i run back to the Bible quickly . Bible thumpers any day over a bunch of fossil thumping lunatics.
@whiteliketar It isn't an atheist argument that the universe was always there. That's but one proposed scientific theory of many. The atheist argument for the beginning of the universe is 'We don't know, but if we stop proclaiming religious bullshit and actually try to find out, maybe we will get somewhere'.
Also, if God is the answer for the beginning of matter, where the fuck did God actually come from? Was always there? Sounds like madness to me.
@ihatealderney - it would make sense that you can't figure out God - that's the place where you belong - your presupposition that he dosen't exist is the maddest thing of all. and yes ....do your homework the idiots Carl sagan and neil tyson all beleive when pushed that the universe 'is all there ever was' - couldn't get more stupid than that.
@whiteliketar How about 'you can't figure out the universe'? It's no better nor worse an argument than your God one.
Also, calling Carl Sagan an idiot? You could get more stupid than believing the vague statement you quoted. How about believing in obvious fictional and badly translated books then taking them as historical fact. That's pretty damn retarded.
@ihatealderney ha ha - but the universe left to itself did not materialise into human form - did not split history into two - did not teach us how to live and formed the basis of a lot of our human rights in the west - go hug your infinite universe - I am betting on Christ and his sacrifice - faith will win when logic can go no further. Atheist arguments always sound pretty good ...initially.
@whiteliketar You religious type are all the same. 'Oh! Science doesn't know something; must be God!'. It's so ludicrous because you fail to see that the chances of a complex being such as a God existing to create anything in the first place is less likely than simple chance along with natural selection.
That's the main problem with religious people. You are completely oblivious to natural selection (such a simple concept) and ignore the questions discerning the origin of God. Sheer ignorance.
@ihatealderney Well you atheists types always gravitate to the madness of Chance did it! must be chance plus nothing plus billions of years that created everything ! sounds like like a bunch of crap to me - you run with your empty space doing atheist magic creation or the just as crazy eternal matter crap - I'll keep running to Christ and the Bible.
@whiteliketar What are you even talking about? Evolution, abiogenesis, planetary formation, ect are almost entirely deterministic. They are such complex chaotic(doesn't mean random) systems that we have no choice but to introduce illusionary chance into the model. They are still as nonrandom as any can be in a universe governed by quantum mechanics.
So what are you talking about when you say atheists are drawn to chance?
@SuperMerlin100 everything from nothing - keep up the madness - keep feeding your brain atheist propaganda and see what it does to your conscience - you already believe in relative truth to suit yourself and don't even realise it.
@whiteliketar Firstly, I'm a polytheist. You miss defined this theories and I corrected you on that. I said nothing about their truth values. Are the atheists lying about the definitions of the theories their trying to get us to believe?
"you already believe in relative truth to suit yourself and don't even realise it."
And so does everyone else. We aren't programed to seek truth we're programed (by evolution) to win.
Also you'll never convince anyone of anything talking like that.
@SuperMerlin100 whose fault is it that you have forced yourself to believe the madness of macro -evolution - all you are left with there is the mind -boggling induction ( yes, induction ) that given enough time the impossible becomes the inevitable - please reply with more atheist babble or polytheist madness. lol
@whiteliketar "please reply with more atheist babble or polytheist madness."
Look reply like this (the above quote) is unhelpful. It is making it all to easy to assume that you are a troll or at the very least won't read anything I say. I'm try not to assume that.
Instead of paraphrasing your last reply, why not address my specific points? For example are atheists lying about the definition of their own term or did you simply make a mistake?
@whiteliketar "discoursing" The last time you made an argument (even a bad one) was literally 3 weeks (3 posts) ago.
Once again I am a polytheist.
Look it is really simple; are atheists lying about the definition of their own term when they say "evolution is deterministic"? This is the 3rd time. If you don't answer or otherwise explain yourself, I'm leaving.
Are you trying to convince someone of something or just ranting?
@SuperMerlin100 - you don't even understand your premise or more to the point - your devilishly brainwashed pre-supposition when it comes to evolution being deterministic so i choose to treat your brainwashing in the way i see fit. chance of the gaps clown.
@whiteliketar That's it! Evolution is deterministic by definition. I'm not asking for you to believe the theory. I'm asking for you to acknowledge what it is.
If evolution is an atheist Idea they get to decide what it is.
I can't argue against the bible by saying it claims pi=7, because it doesn't.
"chance of the gaps clown."
I don't believe chance is the answer. Okay either you're not reading what I'm writing or you're a troll.
@SuperMerlin100 ha ha - always knew the hooligan in you was lurking just beneath just beneatht the surface. Polytheism is even more demented than atheism you demented clown.
@whiteliketar please tell what part of the big bang theory states that the universe was spawned ex nihilo because from what i know the bible says god created everything ex nihilo
@stupidtrooper501 please understand your own question completely first - and try to unravel your own pre-supposition about God - If God could be explained you or de-conconstructed by you O master of attheism then he wouldn't be God. please reply with more artheist babble. lol
the religious see every challenge to their beliefs as a threat, be it belief in another god, or a lack of belief in any god . This is what has plagued humanity from the 1st time someone saw something as a miracle or unexplainable and assigned it to a higher power than nature.Personally I think it was fire that people 1st attributed to gods, but since I wasnt there, I will leave it as an assumption. The shame now is that we know better, and yet there are those that want to believe in fantasy
It's all fun and games 'till it gets down to issues like this. Honestly, I'm pretty scared of people like that because you never know how sensitive and furious they'll react to even small things. For example, driving around with an atheist bumper sticker would undoubtedly get your car some damage. I hope I'm just paranoid and not realistic in this view.
@Ansonidak Exactly...I don't think my mother could ever leave christianity even if confronted with facts she absolutely can not get around. she has invested way too much in religion for over 20 years now. it would shake her world..she does not want truth, only these beliefs that in her mind let her make sense of her very difficult life....it is very sad when fragile minds are subjected to indoctrination when young or in a crisis....they rarely are able to extract themselves from it
I think the problem there is that "God" as a blanket term is a concept that many people believe in and have applied to society in significant ways. Vishnu-belief has barely any influence - and the lack thereof has no social stigma that leads nonbelievers to feel alienated - in modern Western society like Yahweh-belief does.
If one group wants to advertise to people that there is a place for support for others who believe as they do this should not be an issue, which is exactly what I see these signs as. It's no different then the local church or the ymca saying hey, you believe this, here are others like you come along. I think we need to all start calling in and complaining that the christian billboards are offensive. Maybe if they got a taste of their medicine some of them would see how childish they are being.
Why do people have a problem with these signs and not with one for say, mcdonalds, when junk food is killing our society faster than cigarettes. Actually I know why they have a problem, fear. Their afraid because we aren't anymore.
The end of this pod, listening to all those poor religious people...how sad...to listen to them fluster and bluster--especially the one who was apparently unaware that her fellow religious persons -do-, in fact, post signs concerning the Big BBQ in the Ground. Sad. :-/
this is all so rediculous, as if atheism is the great inspiring promoter of morality...
its the celebration in freedom from moral restraint.
any morality they do have is from growing up in societies and civilizations that developed in the cradle of religious morality and/or just to have some minimum morality so you can one-up religious people when they point out that you celebrate your freedom from moral restraint.
irreligiousness has always accompanied the downfall of any civilization.
Well spoken. Although I do follow a religious path (albeit an extremely eclectic one), I believe *everyone*, religious or not, should be afforded the same respect and dignity. We're all human in the end.
I'm living in Europe in one of the most atheistic countries in the world. I feel you, be strong out there in US, or any other religious country. Religious people are ridiculed here, whenever they try to unfold their mad propaganda. They're slowly losing power they have left. I never had a problem expressing my opinion freely. So it is possible to overcome this insanity, but still is quite large population believing in new-age crap, so fight still goes on. Don't allow them to teach kids.
@Thunderwing88 go ahead... enlighten all the secretaries and farmers. i hope you can answer 50 phones while doing your job and till a field for your food.
Makes perfect sense now. Facing atheists would be them facing their own lies, and they're just too afraid. It really makes me think that they therefore know somehow (even if it's not consciously) that they are lying.
If your position is well thought out you're anything but offended that someone disagrees. If these people held legitimately derived beliefs then they'd pity the atheists' ignorance rather than be offended.
@TwistedLemniscate Anything that's obviously true in the 'real world' has nothing to fear from criticism does it? It's apparent to me why they want atheists to shut up and not dare dispute their superstition, and christians making a fuss about atheist billboards makes me luagh! They shove their religion down everyones throat but we should be silenced?
What a sad bunch of sectarian fools, filled with submissive religious preaching of hatred that always ends up with bloodshed among their own tribes, and then pointing fingers on others!!!!
The people complaining about this are ridiculous idiots.
"WIFF OWT RELIGION, WHAT WUD YU HAV?"
Logic and the ability to live your life without being controlled by some imaginary being.
How is this offensive? Freedom of religion means you can have freedom from religion as well. By your logic, I can say it is offensive that anyone tells me they are religious because it insults my views on religion.
like you said in another of your vids, people think they are safe in thier religion. they want to think that there is someone up there who can comfort them. someone who understands them. someone who can guide them. and they feel their saftey threatened when anybody suggests their imaginary friend isnt there. it is unfortunate, but often people dont trust thier own judjment, and they wish to be guided. people ought to start believing in themselves
Thank you for making this video. I am Agnostic, I am the only one I know who is not a Christian. I lost many many friends and lost respect from family because of my believes. My marriage has pretty much fallen apart because I am no longer Christian. But I wouldn't change it for the world. I am finally out of the bubble, and my mind has been opened. Christians are the most hypocritical people on this earth IMO.
wow a stupidity -dimension that is reachable trough religion only.i feel offended by those stupid bells and their stupid churches, stealing all the sun. so lets level all churches.... and take that crosses out of our eyes. they are offending us too !
.... dudes there are thousands of kids dying everyday on preventable diseases and hunger. and your only problem is atheist billboards? YOUR GOD WILL LET YOU BURN ETERNALLY FOR THAT >.<
They can't accept the billboards because they have a twisted world view, where hell and heaven is real and where these kind of messages are interpreted as evil.. and turns away from the specific God they have decided.. Is real.
Okay the next time I saw a Billboard with "Jesus can save your soul" (which are everywhere by every corner and street) I'm calling in to complain about it, saying it is offensive to me
I have absolutely no qualm about ridiculing the self deluded retards. I say fuck them. Atheist should never apologize to a fool. They are the ones who have imaginary friends and preach there vile jesus poison to every living person they can get their hands on. They should be ashamed of themselves and the more contempt shown to them the better.
@scotttebben The maker of the video I have no issues with, the billboards I have no issues with and anyone who wants to say there is no God I have no problem with. You I take issue with. Everyone who doesn't think like you is a fool so you want to shame them and treat them with contempt? I don't think like you because I think people should be treated better than that, so go ahead and start your name calling.
I love how "I do not believe" is supposedly an insult to someone else's beliefs. I am sitting here and not believing, apparently I'm insulting people now :P
Buddhism and it's variants are the only forms of religion that at least begin to make sense. The idea that the Universe is one flowing spiritual essence or several essences makes sense in a way, nature and evolution can even be attributed to it. I'm not Buddhist, purely because the lifestyle choices don't suit me, but it at least makes sense.
However a loving bearded man in the sky who loves his creations despite being racist, homophobic, sexist and unusually specific about fashion is stupid
@scaryninja1693 buddism doesn't make sense either. life is not a continuous flow of nondescript "spiritual essense", it's simply a sequence of organised chemical and electrical reactions which work together to self perpetuate. buddhism isn't bad like other religions, though, because it's not really dogmatic, and is often anti - dogmatic.
@Azadeth666 Well obviously news stations are going to choose the most rational and mainstream views to depict on television rather than choose a controversial sect of fools to just get a better story out of it.
how can the faithful find offense in the notion that god doesn't exist? when god just happens to be their ego. this also explains how god just happens to want exactly what they want, god is their ego. Which is ironic, seeing how believers have been known to say that atheists worship themselves
I never pondered atheism until a few years ago. At work one day, most of us decided to pray, except for one girl...another coworker approached the girl trying to get her to join us--I realized most people at work are religious, and how isolating it can be for those who don't believe.
The part in the video with the Preacher and the kids chanted "in the name of Jesus," is just "f"ing sinking. That is plane and simply forcing your religious belief on a child, and that is child abuse.
I'm not atheist, i'm confused (but can't stand mainstream religions). Anyway I heard that atheists are the most hated people. Well you would think for example that christians would hate "satanists" the most. But I'm finding that no, they hate atheists and this video makes it clear to me. It's because it scares them. They are afraid there is no god when they think of an atheist.
@JustABitchyCancer I agree. It explains their reactions VERY well. One of the phone messages even half-admits it, sub-consciously, then stops himself from completing the sentence.
@JustABitchyCancer It's not just Christians. We're hated by pretty much all religious groups. Christian, Hindu, Muslim, etc., we'll demand evidence for all the claims. It's fine if you want to say Shiva is the great creator and destroyer of all, but you'll have to give me some evidence that he actually exists before I'll believe in him. And, that's why theists are afraid. We're making our presence known. Those with "shaken faith" aren't alone anymore. They don't have to return.
@JustABitchyCancer Satanists still believe in their god :P religious people are used to religions, the very option of something outside that is shocking to them.
@JustABitchyCancer They don't hate luciferians (which is what I think you meant, since Satanists are actually a group of anti-theists formed by Anton LaVey) because if you worship Lucifer that means you believe in their god. Atheists don't, and we don't become scared of their threats of eternal damnation.
I follow a mixture of nature based religion (native American) + taoist ideas that meshes well with scientific thought. I find more and more, that a very large number of Christians want to shove their beliefs down our throats and tell us we're wrong, but if we respond in kind....oh watch out, we are being offensive, etc. I know some very open minded Christians, but those few are far outweighed by the close-minded ones.
No one ever complains about religious bilboards, or that "god is comming! may 21st! Save yourself!" bilboard that WAS everywhere. Yet everyone complains about the few athiest bilboards.......... I dont agree with the religious bilboards, but I dont go on the news and whine/cry about them. I take a look, and go on with my life. Yet these people just cant look at those bilboards with losing it.
We drive by Religious Billboards almost everyday and I don't agree with them but i don't complain outside of saying something to my partner. We leave it at that because they do have the right to say it they paid for the billboard.We get more up set if we see the same billboards for months regardless what they say. After about 3 months I think you have hit all the people you are going to hit with a given ad.
Religious people feel attacked by atheists, and atheists feel attacked by religious. And you can't have an opinion that does not fit in the yes or no or you say you don't know any other choice is considered heretic by atheists (usually supported in science)who don't provide real answers to my questions, and religious consider it heretic because i don't believe what they think is right. so yeah i think militant atheists and regular religious people are basically the same dictatorship of the mind
I say all atheists should move to a city away from religious people and create our own civilization. We would have the majority of scientists, doctors, physicists, chemists, etc. Imagine how high tech our city would be. We could have a holiday where everyone would turn off their lights for one night and look up in amazement at our stars in the sky. Heck Idk something creative. Things would be different, better, and more affective
i dont like the billboards that say we people (not just atheist but people in general) are wicked and are going to burn forever but if an atheist tryed to get there right to put them there took away i would be fucking pissed, the religious are hypocrites, almost ALL of them
The people who find these signs offensive are IDIOTS! Honestly, there is no way someone can be offended by people simply saying that there are atheists out there. Oh, my god, these idiots make me angry.
Has anyone else noticed how the religious act perfectly normally and rationally UNTIL the subject of religion comes up? How they act just like atheists 95% of the time, and sort of need to be prompted into remembering that they have to pretend to believe?
We all know why they're offended: because they know full well that there are no supernatural deities and that they're idiots for pretending to believe that there's just ONE exception to this rule! What they're really afraid of is someone telling them out loud something they secretly already agree with and fully understand but think they shouldn't. It's pure, triple-distilled self-loathing hypocrisy: not stupidity, but chronic dishonesty.
@flibbertergibbet : I'm not sure it's dishonesty per se. I don't think most of the "sheep" are really dishonest. I'd say in most cases it's a mixture of self-delusion, ignorance, stupidity, blind obedience to authority, some kind of inferiority complex and an inability to deal with cognitive dissonance in a rational fashion. The leaders, on the other hand, are a different story. You can't convince me that folks like William Lane Craig actually believe a word of their own nonsense...
@OutOfTheBoxThinker Actually, I'm sure a lot of it IS flat deceitfulness. Most of the fervently religious are neither stupid nor credulous about anything except (supposedly) religion. We all know about the "dark night of the soul", the inevitable periods of extreme doubt and sudden, genuine self-awareness that believers go through. If they can't be trusted not to lie to themselves, how can they be trusted not to lie to other people?
@OutOfTheBoxThinker Think about the "Sunday believer": the sort of person who acts just as rationally as an atheist until the two hours or so of the week when they go kneel and pray. That person can't be said to be a true believer, because their religion doesn't reflect in their day-to-day life. So, if they put "Christian" or whatever on their census form, then it's not actually true. It may be that they're lying to themselves rather than to the government, but it's still dishonesty.
Hah, I see billboards and advertisements about Christian stuff around here all the time. It doesn't help I live in CultLand either.
Zapydos2 2 days ago
those people's reactions to the signs were disturbing... deeply disturbing...
red666111 4 days ago
8:22 - Was that dale gribble?
utfishman115 1 week ago
we need help... intolerance is one of the worst things this world has to offer, the freedoms of religion and speech go hand in hand. im offended when people think, that they are right and anything you say is wrong, not only that, but everything you say that contradicts them is met with "i dont care, im still right, and you are wrong". are we really that blind?. we need to remember that an opinion, however much you disagree, is only an opinion.
dafiltafish 2 weeks ago
8:22 Phone trollin'.
BeBoBli 2 weeks ago
Keep praying for us. We like it when you don't do anything.
therealjammit 2 weeks ago 2
i once saw a sign that said help us pull the plug on atheism now your gonna tell me that you dont attack us bull fucking shit
sev0579 2 weeks ago
Imagine you spend 4 years of your life, studying, learning, and finally the day comes you get your Degree.
Being an atheist is like someone with an actual degree telling you what you have is a clown college degree.
When they squeeze your spongy red nose to prove it, you get mad at them and not at the college that ripped you off.
darketernal3 2 weeks ago
@darketernal3 Perfect
krayziedakid 2 weeks ago
Being an atheist says: "Everything you cherish, base your very life around, and is the focal point of what you believe to be happiness and foundation of life; I dismiss."
The offense is that we dismiss it seemingly with little to no consideration. However most Atheist, myself included, has studied and thought deeply and honestly to find truth and have come to the conclusion, that current god claims can not be backed up by current knowledge and evidence.
darketernal3 2 weeks ago
Greatness...
enyskept 1 month ago
“I find your existence offensive” – Quote from everyone who found that sign offensive.
bradkey98765 1 month ago
Religion makes a business out of feeling attacked.
DoctorPlausible 1 month ago 2
Ha! Ha! Listen to all those idiots cry and whine, why don't they get out of their intellectual poopee diapers and wake up and realize this is a democracy and people have a right to post signs like that. Most Christians don't want religion they want a theocracy where they can hang, burn and skin alive people who do not follow their creeds or their cloistered, constipated little straightjacket ideologies. The historic Jesus would dissaprove of their attitude.
MushroomedAnymore 1 month ago
This video makes an excellent point; that just because someone states an opinion you don't like or agree with, it doesn't mean they're attacking anybody.
But don't you think atheists can be guilty of this as well as religious people? If a Christian says "I don't believe in evolution" etc., some atheists get upset and offended and decry Christians as a threat to society.
I think both sides are guilty of overreacting. I've certainly been guilty.
PaDumBumPsh 1 month ago
@PaDumBumPsh Science has massively improved the condition of man.
An attack on science is surely a threat to society.
Or will the encroachment of religion upon science improve society?
uruson 1 month ago 7
@uruson
Does challenging evolution make someone anti-science?
And how much actual science has been attacked by religious people, compared with the multitude of innovations that went unchallenged? Or is the Scopes monkey trial and Galileo being conflated to cover everything?
By "encroachment", do you mean religious people offering an moral/ethical challenge on how some science and technology can be misused? Are scientists above corruption?
PaDumBumPsh 1 month ago
I'm fairly sure that religion doesn't have much to say or advise when it comes to biological research, as the texts involved are rather outdated.
The most problematic thing, in my view, is people like you.
Good people(presumably), who act as the border guard, while the fundamentalists are away, attacking the very things allowing you to hold a moderate belief.(presumably)
Trust me, you're better off without that which you're trying to defend.
uruson 1 month ago
@PaDumBumPsh Hey idiot...he's not only a physicist not a climatologist...but he's over 80 years old. He's no expert. What he WAS an expert in has changed a whole hell of a lot in the last 50 years since he GOT his nobel prize. He is probably going senile as well as not knowing what the fuck he is talkin about. Same as you.
JohnCx666x 3 weeks ago
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@PaDumBumPsh Hey idiot...he's not only a physicist not a climatologist...but he's over 80 years old. He's no expert. What he WAS an expert in has changed a whole hell of a lot in the last 50 years since he GOT his nobel prize. He is probably going senile as well as not knowing what the fuck he is talkin about. Same as you.
JohnCx666x 3 weeks ago
@uruson
Am I encroaching on science if I voice a concern over this?
"The man-made strain of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, which can be transmitted through coughing and sneezing, made the headlines in late November. If released, it has the potential to cause an unprecedented pandemic with could kill hundreds of millions of people."
Google: "Bioterror scare: Killer-flu recipe will go viral?"
PaDumBumPsh 1 month ago
Personally, I never even heard of "god" until I was around 15, when I started hearing something about a "confirmation".
I had a look at the bible, it looked like a book, read like a book, and felt like a book.
I'm pretty sure it's a book.
As you have deeper knowledge of the book, what attributes does god have?
Please be specific. (omniscient? omnipotent? perfectly just? perfectly merciful?)
Just give me a long list, or a short one.
I'm perfectly willing to "see the light", if it's there.
uruson 1 month ago
@PaDumBumPsh There is so much wrong with what you just said that I dont have any idea where to begin other than to ask if you are mentally handicapped. Truly just about everything you said has something deeply wrong with it. The only thing that doesnt have to be deconstructed to have all that's wrong with it address is the question about scientists and corruption. No they are not.
JohnCx666x 4 weeks ago
@PaDumBumPsh a few excellent examples are the scientists who have been bought to say global warming is a hoax, the supposed scientists that support creationism, and the obviously deluded or bought scientists who dont believe the theory of evolution. Very good very well known examples. There are definitely others out there that have been but the difference is...they are not the norm. Religion is systematic deception, Science is about actually learning real verifiable facts.
JohnCx666x 4 weeks ago
@JohnCx666x
"Global warming has become a new religion." ~ Ivar Giaever
"Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever has resigned as a Fellow from the prestigious American Physical Society to protest the organization’s promotion of man-made global warming fears. Giaever, now a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is one of several prominent scientists to resign from the APS over its global warming position."
Tell me, who bought him off?
PaDumBumPsh 4 weeks ago
@PaDumBumPsh When did that sign go up again?
krayziedakid 2 weeks ago
DFWCor and FreeThoughtAction are more general in their approach than AmericanAtheist, which tends to single out Christianity over other religions. Maybe that's what Christians are referring to by "attack". That's why I made my video responses to AA.
I also agree with your point about religious people's faith needing to be strong enough to withstand someone's unbelief.
Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
PaDumBumPsh 1 month ago
i couldnt watch this the darkness made him look really freaky ..... [ awkward ]
tiraluvr941 1 month ago
Exactly. It isn't fair that those who are athiests are deemed "offensive" and should be kept down, just to please those who are religious.Is it offensive to say "I believe in god" to an athiest? NO. Is it offensive to say "I DONT believe in a god/higher power" to someone who believes in god? NO. It's just a harmless statement. What is offensive: "Religion is horrible, and those who follow it are brain-washed sheep." <--- THIS IS offensive.
baahhhFATALITY11 1 month ago
Christians see their free speech as the right to suppress all realistic, reasonable, and alternative speech. That is religious fascism being purported to be good loving stewardship---I would say they are blinded to seeing their own sin by proclaiming as their own the righteousness of Christ. They are not forgiven if they do not first confess and then repent of their sin. Proof the callers do not really believe their own dogma.
JusticeIsWhere 1 month ago
God Fraud = G'aud; They are committing G'aud
JusticeIsWhere 1 month ago
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lol proof if required !! ...why is that so offensive? and how can you say you believe if you are that easily shaken??
dooksization 2 months ago
here's an idea... you pray for the starving kids in africa. well maybe you do. probably not though. why dont you pray this problem away and see if your imaginary friend does something about it?
Imakoochan 2 months ago
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There was no big bang! It was god that got lonely & made the universe out of nothing...wait...there can`t be nothing `cause there`s him. OK, he made the universe out of himself, then he made a couple of friends, who pissed him off by eating his apples(JUST LIKE MY GODDAMN ROOMMATE!). Sorry...anyway he kicked `em out (like I`m gonna do with my roommate) & cursed them forever.
Oh yea, unless they say they love him (`cause he was so lonely) they will be tortured for eternity? (like my roommate).
waycooltoo 2 months ago
@waycooltoo tell your roommate he's a prick for giving me all this original sin. Now I have to go to church and wish it away.
krayziedakid 2 weeks ago
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The christians must be stopped
evilgenius2003 3 months ago
Christians don't post signs? What a bunch of bull that is. Are they blind, everywhere I drive there are Christian signs.
CrankyTiger 3 months ago in playlist Liked 11
@CrankyTiger They may not post billboards because they have to pay for them, if they could mooch them they probably would. We (Atheist)are not alone! The day of the talking monkey is coming to an end with science leading the way.
wahoo056 2 months ago
I love how they say any religion would be offended by it. A large portion of the pagan community is not offended and we actually defend the atheists rights to free speech. I'm sick and tired of the god signs all over the city, but if I were to complain that it was an attack on my belief nothing would happen but ridicule.
CrankyTiger 3 months ago in playlist Liked
You could of course just come to Europe and feel like that pretty much everywhere you go.
idmars10 3 months ago
I am so happy that I live in a society where I don't have to hide my atheism and where I am not hated because of it. I can't imagene how hard it must be for american atheists to live with all that hate.
FreakmundZoid 3 months ago
@FreakmundZoid They can hate me all they want..religious bigots don't intimidate me. I'll fight back and with attitude -Fuck them!
Lennon4ever1 3 months ago
atheist arguments sound rock solid initially until they get to matter creating itself and the universe was always there madness and then i run back to the Bible quickly . Bible thumpers any day over a bunch of fossil thumping lunatics.
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@whiteliketar It isn't an atheist argument that the universe was always there. That's but one proposed scientific theory of many. The atheist argument for the beginning of the universe is 'We don't know, but if we stop proclaiming religious bullshit and actually try to find out, maybe we will get somewhere'.
Also, if God is the answer for the beginning of matter, where the fuck did God actually come from? Was always there? Sounds like madness to me.
ihatealderney 3 months ago
@ihatealderney - it would make sense that you can't figure out God - that's the place where you belong - your presupposition that he dosen't exist is the maddest thing of all. and yes ....do your homework the idiots Carl sagan and neil tyson all beleive when pushed that the universe 'is all there ever was' - couldn't get more stupid than that.
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@whiteliketar How about 'you can't figure out the universe'? It's no better nor worse an argument than your God one.
Also, calling Carl Sagan an idiot? You could get more stupid than believing the vague statement you quoted. How about believing in obvious fictional and badly translated books then taking them as historical fact. That's pretty damn retarded.
ihatealderney 3 months ago
@ihatealderney ha ha - but the universe left to itself did not materialise into human form - did not split history into two - did not teach us how to live and formed the basis of a lot of our human rights in the west - go hug your infinite universe - I am betting on Christ and his sacrifice - faith will win when logic can go no further. Atheist arguments always sound pretty good ...initially.
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@whiteliketar You religious type are all the same. 'Oh! Science doesn't know something; must be God!'. It's so ludicrous because you fail to see that the chances of a complex being such as a God existing to create anything in the first place is less likely than simple chance along with natural selection.
That's the main problem with religious people. You are completely oblivious to natural selection (such a simple concept) and ignore the questions discerning the origin of God. Sheer ignorance.
ihatealderney 3 months ago
@ihatealderney Well you atheists types always gravitate to the madness of Chance did it! must be chance plus nothing plus billions of years that created everything ! sounds like like a bunch of crap to me - you run with your empty space doing atheist magic creation or the just as crazy eternal matter crap - I'll keep running to Christ and the Bible.
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@whiteliketar Did you not read a thing I said? You have to be trollin'.
ihatealderney 3 months ago
@whiteliketar oh its okay. you dont have to trouble your little mind with nasty complicated things. just say god did it all.
dustnut1 3 months ago
@dustnut1 No just that God did it over chance did it - that's all
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@dustnut1 at least a lot better than blind chance doing its thing.
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@whiteliketar Ok, then we can keep on follow the evidence while you can follow a book thats proven wrong.
Sweddude 3 months ago
@whiteliketar What are you even talking about? Evolution, abiogenesis, planetary formation, ect are almost entirely deterministic. They are such complex chaotic(doesn't mean random) systems that we have no choice but to introduce illusionary chance into the model. They are still as nonrandom as any can be in a universe governed by quantum mechanics.
So what are you talking about when you say atheists are drawn to chance?
SuperMerlin100 2 months ago
@SuperMerlin100 everything from nothing - keep up the madness - keep feeding your brain atheist propaganda and see what it does to your conscience - you already believe in relative truth to suit yourself and don't even realise it.
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar Firstly, I'm a polytheist. You miss defined this theories and I corrected you on that. I said nothing about their truth values. Are the atheists lying about the definitions of the theories their trying to get us to believe?
"you already believe in relative truth to suit yourself and don't even realise it."
And so does everyone else. We aren't programed to seek truth we're programed (by evolution) to win.
Also you'll never convince anyone of anything talking like that.
SuperMerlin100 2 months ago
@SuperMerlin100 whose fault is it that you have forced yourself to believe the madness of macro -evolution - all you are left with there is the mind -boggling induction ( yes, induction ) that given enough time the impossible becomes the inevitable - please reply with more atheist babble or polytheist madness. lol
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar "please reply with more atheist babble or polytheist madness."
Look reply like this (the above quote) is unhelpful. It is making it all to easy to assume that you are a troll or at the very least won't read anything I say. I'm try not to assume that.
Instead of paraphrasing your last reply, why not address my specific points? For example are atheists lying about the definition of their own term or did you simply make a mistake?
SuperMerlin100 2 months ago
@SuperMerlin - discoursing with you is like playing chess with a clay pigeon. atheist babble on you tube is monotonous.
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar "discoursing" The last time you made an argument (even a bad one) was literally 3 weeks (3 posts) ago.
Once again I am a polytheist.
Look it is really simple; are atheists lying about the definition of their own term when they say "evolution is deterministic"? This is the 3rd time. If you don't answer or otherwise explain yourself, I'm leaving.
Are you trying to convince someone of something or just ranting?
SuperMerlin100 2 months ago
@SuperMerlin100 - you don't even understand your premise or more to the point - your devilishly brainwashed pre-supposition when it comes to evolution being deterministic so i choose to treat your brainwashing in the way i see fit. chance of the gaps clown.
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar That's it! Evolution is deterministic by definition. I'm not asking for you to believe the theory. I'm asking for you to acknowledge what it is.
If evolution is an atheist Idea they get to decide what it is.
I can't argue against the bible by saying it claims pi=7, because it doesn't.
"chance of the gaps clown."
I don't believe chance is the answer. Okay either you're not reading what I'm writing or you're a troll.
Stupidity can't explain this.
Done. Castrate you!
SuperMerlin100 2 months ago
@SuperMerlin100 ha ha - always knew the hooligan in you was lurking just beneath just beneatht the surface. Polytheism is even more demented than atheism you demented clown.
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar please tell what part of the big bang theory states that the universe was spawned ex nihilo because from what i know the bible says god created everything ex nihilo
stupidtrooper501 2 months ago
@stupidtrooper501 please understand your own question completely first - and try to unravel your own pre-supposition about God - If God could be explained you or de-conconstructed by you O master of attheism then he wouldn't be God. please reply with more artheist babble. lol
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar Please explain where in the big bang theory does it state the universe was created ex nihilo.
stupidtrooper501 2 months ago
@stupidtrooper501 please quit asking questions you don't understand.
whiteliketar 2 months ago
@whiteliketar maybe you dont understand what ex nihilo means but that doesn't mean i do now can you please answer the question
stupidtrooper501 2 months ago
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@whiteliketar maybe you dont understand what ex nihilo means but that doesn't mean i do now can you please answer the question
stupidtrooper501 2 months ago
@whiteliketar I don't think you understand actually.
shadywolf91 2 months ago
@shadywolf91 please speak for yourself
whiteliketar 2 months ago
Americans think the muslims are extremistic? Look at yourselves....
StefanDinkelberg 3 months ago
the religious see every challenge to their beliefs as a threat, be it belief in another god, or a lack of belief in any god . This is what has plagued humanity from the 1st time someone saw something as a miracle or unexplainable and assigned it to a higher power than nature.Personally I think it was fire that people 1st attributed to gods, but since I wasnt there, I will leave it as an assumption. The shame now is that we know better, and yet there are those that want to believe in fantasy
nightkraawler 3 months ago
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nightkraawler 3 months ago
"The people who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs"
-Anonymous
mrquinnie429 3 months ago
It's all fun and games 'till it gets down to issues like this. Honestly, I'm pretty scared of people like that because you never know how sensitive and furious they'll react to even small things. For example, driving around with an atheist bumper sticker would undoubtedly get your car some damage. I hope I'm just paranoid and not realistic in this view.
FHomeBrew 3 months ago
im laughing in sadness at hypocrisy of those people
1drowssap1 4 months ago
Fragile things (like beliefs) are easily broken and must be very carefully protected.
Ansonidak 4 months ago
@Ansonidak Exactly...I don't think my mother could ever leave christianity even if confronted with facts she absolutely can not get around. she has invested way too much in religion for over 20 years now. it would shake her world..she does not want truth, only these beliefs that in her mind let her make sense of her very difficult life....it is very sad when fragile minds are subjected to indoctrination when young or in a crisis....they rarely are able to extract themselves from it
MouthOfTheUnknown 3 months ago
the black chick with the brainwashed nazi kids was nuts!
cjdragon1988 4 months ago
the black chick with the brainwashed nazi kids was nuts!
cjdragon1988 4 months ago
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I think the problem there is that "God" as a blanket term is a concept that many people believe in and have applied to society in significant ways. Vishnu-belief has barely any influence - and the lack thereof has no social stigma that leads nonbelievers to feel alienated - in modern Western society like Yahweh-belief does.
ThatGuyWithHippyHair 4 months ago
The USA is supposed to be in favour of free speech. Don't they even have an important amendment to the Constitution about that?
dianambrown 4 months ago
HAH! I live in Nashville, and I've never even seen an atheist support billboard. They must have taken that down quick. How sad & alienating. :/
Macabresque 4 months ago
Out of sheer curiosity, I wonder what the reaction would be if the sign had read "Don't believe in [Insert Deity Here]".
419Films 4 months ago
If one group wants to advertise to people that there is a place for support for others who believe as they do this should not be an issue, which is exactly what I see these signs as. It's no different then the local church or the ymca saying hey, you believe this, here are others like you come along. I think we need to all start calling in and complaining that the christian billboards are offensive. Maybe if they got a taste of their medicine some of them would see how childish they are being.
CrankyTiger 4 months ago
@CrankyTiger I'm interested in doing that. How exactly do you go about calling in a complaint about a billboard? Never done it before lol
Macabresque 4 months ago
@Macabresque
I believe you just look up the billboard's company ownership then call and give them the location.
CrankyTiger 4 months ago
@CrankyTiger Hmm ok :)
Macabresque 4 months ago
Why do people have a problem with these signs and not with one for say, mcdonalds, when junk food is killing our society faster than cigarettes. Actually I know why they have a problem, fear. Their afraid because we aren't anymore.
subnoize123 4 months ago 5
@subnoize123 *they're*, sir.
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Hayden1911 5 months ago
I find it very depressing that the majority of the people in the world are this stupid.
jpstovall11 5 months ago
@jpstovall11 be happy they are. we don't need enlightened farmers.
some areas give IQ tests to cops because if they have too high of an IQ, they get bored and quit.
keeps the turn-over rate low.
when we have self-sustaining farms, factories that are 100% self-sufficient... THEN we can lose god.
as long as their are dumb jobs, we need dumb people.
so, the issue here is how to get these poor folks out of their dumb-job ruts... poor people, it's quite saddening, I think.
hard labor is rough.
PragPsych 4 months ago
The end of this pod, listening to all those poor religious people...how sad...to listen to them fluster and bluster--especially the one who was apparently unaware that her fellow religious persons -do-, in fact, post signs concerning the Big BBQ in the Ground. Sad. :-/
IzaakTaltos 5 months ago
this is all so rediculous, as if atheism is the great inspiring promoter of morality...
its the celebration in freedom from moral restraint.
any morality they do have is from growing up in societies and civilizations that developed in the cradle of religious morality and/or just to have some minimum morality so you can one-up religious people when they point out that you celebrate your freedom from moral restraint.
irreligiousness has always accompanied the downfall of any civilization.
PCEggo 5 months ago
a society cannot be built on the principle that there no absolute right and wrong.
PCEggo 5 months ago
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"irreligiousness has always accompanied the downfall of any civilization. "
LOL, ignorance is bliss.
mecher3k 4 months ago
Well spoken. Although I do follow a religious path (albeit an extremely eclectic one), I believe *everyone*, religious or not, should be afforded the same respect and dignity. We're all human in the end.
YrNhanioArnaYMor 5 months ago
I'm living in Europe in one of the most atheistic countries in the world. I feel you, be strong out there in US, or any other religious country. Religious people are ridiculed here, whenever they try to unfold their mad propaganda. They're slowly losing power they have left. I never had a problem expressing my opinion freely. So it is possible to overcome this insanity, but still is quite large population believing in new-age crap, so fight still goes on. Don't allow them to teach kids.
SmartK8 5 months ago
They get to bitch about our billboards, but we have to sit down and shut-up about theirs? Does that seem fair? It's a double standard.
Thunderwing88 5 months ago 12
@Thunderwing88 go ahead... enlighten all the secretaries and farmers. i hope you can answer 50 phones while doing your job and till a field for your food.
PragPsych 4 months ago
@Thunderwing88 That's religion for you.
PunkZombie1300 2 months ago
Makes perfect sense now. Facing atheists would be them facing their own lies, and they're just too afraid. It really makes me think that they therefore know somehow (even if it's not consciously) that they are lying.
If your position is well thought out you're anything but offended that someone disagrees. If these people held legitimately derived beliefs then they'd pity the atheists' ignorance rather than be offended.
TwistedLemniscate 5 months ago 21
@TwistedLemniscate Then you see the see thing I see.
philhellenes 5 months ago 7
@philhellenes sorry, not to be a troll or anything, but it's "than", not "then"
Hayden1911 5 months ago
@TwistedLemniscate Anything that's obviously true in the 'real world' has nothing to fear from criticism does it? It's apparent to me why they want atheists to shut up and not dare dispute their superstition, and christians making a fuss about atheist billboards makes me luagh! They shove their religion down everyones throat but we should be silenced?
Lennon4ever1 3 months ago
Can someone give me an adress to the woman preaching to the children so that I may drive 2,000 miles to her house just to punch her in the face?
TheWolf2123 5 months ago
What a sad bunch of sectarian fools, filled with submissive religious preaching of hatred that always ends up with bloodshed among their own tribes, and then pointing fingers on others!!!!
ScoobK9 5 months ago
i could understand them being offended if the sighn says:
dont belive in god!
but it says:
don't belive in god?
WTF?!?
MaxikingNimero 6 months ago
Its religiulous! Opium for the masses!
smugpinnen 6 months ago
The people complaining about this are ridiculous idiots.
"WIFF OWT RELIGION, WHAT WUD YU HAV?"
Logic and the ability to live your life without being controlled by some imaginary being.
How is this offensive? Freedom of religion means you can have freedom from religion as well. By your logic, I can say it is offensive that anyone tells me they are religious because it insults my views on religion.
lyon1535 6 months ago
like you said in another of your vids, people think they are safe in thier religion. they want to think that there is someone up there who can comfort them. someone who understands them. someone who can guide them. and they feel their saftey threatened when anybody suggests their imaginary friend isnt there. it is unfortunate, but often people dont trust thier own judjment, and they wish to be guided. people ought to start believing in themselves
dustnut1 6 months ago 2
@dustnut1 I think you're right on the money here. Have you ever read Alan Watts' The Wisdom of Insecurity? It illustrates your point beautifully.
TwistedLemniscate 5 months ago
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Of course God is real. I found the Garden of Eden He Created. Look at my Channel and see it for yourself.
downyourtube 6 months ago
Commander Shepard? Is that you?
TheBiAtheist 6 months ago
@TheBiAtheist Stargate Atlantis Shepard or Mass Effect Shepard?
'Cuz they're both awesome.
luisdez81 6 months ago
@luisdez81 ME Shepard. I'm not familiar with the SGA one. |:
TheBiAtheist 6 months ago
@TheBiAtheist Ahh, mkay. :-]
luisdez81 6 months ago
@TheBiAtheist I can't wait for ME3.
TheBiAtheist 6 months ago
And yet ironically the ADULT SUPERSTORE billboards all over the interstate highway system elicit nary a peep from the Jesus crowd.
annabellewoods 6 months ago 3
@annabellewoods Didn't you know? Christians love 'sinning'.
TheBiAtheist 6 months ago
you are living to see it! those dinosaurs are almost birds!!!
benny600 6 months ago
Thank you for making this video. I am Agnostic, I am the only one I know who is not a Christian. I lost many many friends and lost respect from family because of my believes. My marriage has pretty much fallen apart because I am no longer Christian. But I wouldn't change it for the world. I am finally out of the bubble, and my mind has been opened. Christians are the most hypocritical people on this earth IMO.
22xomelissa 6 months ago
wow a stupidity -dimension that is reachable trough religion only.i feel offended by those stupid bells and their stupid churches, stealing all the sun. so lets level all churches.... and take that crosses out of our eyes. they are offending us too !
.... dudes there are thousands of kids dying everyday on preventable diseases and hunger. and your only problem is atheist billboards? YOUR GOD WILL LET YOU BURN ETERNALLY FOR THAT >.<
SuperGnuh 6 months ago
They can't accept the billboards because they have a twisted world view, where hell and heaven is real and where these kind of messages are interpreted as evil.. and turns away from the specific God they have decided.. Is real.
aboyborninjune 6 months ago
It's not good for human kind to take foolish fairytales as brutal reality (hell).
We HAVE TO leave the dark age behind.
aboyborninjune 6 months ago
Okay the next time I saw a Billboard with "Jesus can save your soul" (which are everywhere by every corner and street) I'm calling in to complain about it, saying it is offensive to me
PeaceOfTruth 6 months ago 3
Thanks for the video mate.
mynameisian91 6 months ago
I have absolutely no qualm about ridiculing the self deluded retards. I say fuck them. Atheist should never apologize to a fool. They are the ones who have imaginary friends and preach there vile jesus poison to every living person they can get their hands on. They should be ashamed of themselves and the more contempt shown to them the better.
scotttebben 7 months ago
@scotttebben The maker of the video I have no issues with, the billboards I have no issues with and anyone who wants to say there is no God I have no problem with. You I take issue with. Everyone who doesn't think like you is a fool so you want to shame them and treat them with contempt? I don't think like you because I think people should be treated better than that, so go ahead and start your name calling.
MsColdCanada 6 months ago
I love how "I do not believe" is supposedly an insult to someone else's beliefs. I am sitting here and not believing, apparently I'm insulting people now :P
hildegain 7 months ago 3
Buddhism and it's variants are the only forms of religion that at least begin to make sense. The idea that the Universe is one flowing spiritual essence or several essences makes sense in a way, nature and evolution can even be attributed to it. I'm not Buddhist, purely because the lifestyle choices don't suit me, but it at least makes sense.
However a loving bearded man in the sky who loves his creations despite being racist, homophobic, sexist and unusually specific about fashion is stupid
scaryninja1693 7 months ago
@scaryninja1693 buddism doesn't make sense either. life is not a continuous flow of nondescript "spiritual essense", it's simply a sequence of organised chemical and electrical reactions which work together to self perpetuate. buddhism isn't bad like other religions, though, because it's not really dogmatic, and is often anti - dogmatic.
robokill387 6 months ago
Those that desecrate the name of Richard Dawkins (honor be upon him) will Die!
KasparHauser6 7 months ago
Notice that most of the Christians calling who are offended have Southern accents.
Just throwing that out there.
Azadeth666 7 months ago
@Azadeth666 Well obviously news stations are going to choose the most rational and mainstream views to depict on television rather than choose a controversial sect of fools to just get a better story out of it.
AlphonsoTraxler 7 months ago
how can the faithful find offense in the notion that god doesn't exist? when god just happens to be their ego. this also explains how god just happens to want exactly what they want, god is their ego. Which is ironic, seeing how believers have been known to say that atheists worship themselves
manabrau 7 months ago 3
This just goes to show that stupidty runs rampant in the good ol' US of A.
mscubana 7 months ago
To whoever puts up those signs, I appreciate you, and I pray for you whenever I attend church because I am a closeted atheist. Here, Here!?
EnriqueOblivion 7 months ago
I just read the description... I might cry :')
cruelzeppelin666 7 months ago
I never pondered atheism until a few years ago. At work one day, most of us decided to pray, except for one girl...another coworker approached the girl trying to get her to join us--I realized most people at work are religious, and how isolating it can be for those who don't believe.
VAKW75 7 months ago
Thank you for posting this, This jus shows how much of Hypcrites they are. I am a 13 year old Athiest. Thanks I really enjoyed this video
hc6777 7 months ago
The part in the video with the Preacher and the kids chanted "in the name of Jesus," is just "f"ing sinking. That is plane and simply forcing your religious belief on a child, and that is child abuse.
firenearth78 7 months ago
Subbed, this video nearly brought me to tears.
jepoochy524 7 months ago
I know if my employer found out I am not a believer my work environment would become pretty unpleasant.
harris3810 7 months ago
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The religious should be wiped out. For the betterment of the world.
BitterCanuck 7 months ago
I'm not atheist, i'm confused (but can't stand mainstream religions). Anyway I heard that atheists are the most hated people. Well you would think for example that christians would hate "satanists" the most. But I'm finding that no, they hate atheists and this video makes it clear to me. It's because it scares them. They are afraid there is no god when they think of an atheist.
JustABitchyCancer 7 months ago 36
@JustABitchyCancer I agree. It explains their reactions VERY well. One of the phone messages even half-admits it, sub-consciously, then stops himself from completing the sentence.
"Maybe it's YOU who..."
...Disbelieves?
:)
philhellenes 7 months ago 11
@philhellenes oh yeah i noticed that lol
JustABitchyCancer 7 months ago
@JustABitchyCancer It's not just Christians. We're hated by pretty much all religious groups. Christian, Hindu, Muslim, etc., we'll demand evidence for all the claims. It's fine if you want to say Shiva is the great creator and destroyer of all, but you'll have to give me some evidence that he actually exists before I'll believe in him. And, that's why theists are afraid. We're making our presence known. Those with "shaken faith" aren't alone anymore. They don't have to return.
theflamingpi 7 months ago 3
@JustABitchyCancer Satanists still believe in their god :P religious people are used to religions, the very option of something outside that is shocking to them.
emikochan13 6 months ago
@JustABitchyCancer They don't hate luciferians (which is what I think you meant, since Satanists are actually a group of anti-theists formed by Anton LaVey) because if you worship Lucifer that means you believe in their god. Atheists don't, and we don't become scared of their threats of eternal damnation.
shagoosty 6 months ago
I follow a mixture of nature based religion (native American) + taoist ideas that meshes well with scientific thought. I find more and more, that a very large number of Christians want to shove their beliefs down our throats and tell us we're wrong, but if we respond in kind....oh watch out, we are being offensive, etc. I know some very open minded Christians, but those few are far outweighed by the close-minded ones.
CrankyTiger 4 months ago
Wow...I wanted to cry. I might have even shed a tear.
HeyRuka 7 months ago 9
@HeyRuka Just be glad you're not them. :)
philhellenes 7 months ago 8
No one ever complains about religious bilboards, or that "god is comming! may 21st! Save yourself!" bilboard that WAS everywhere. Yet everyone complains about the few athiest bilboards.......... I dont agree with the religious bilboards, but I dont go on the news and whine/cry about them. I take a look, and go on with my life. Yet these people just cant look at those bilboards with losing it.
baahhhFATALITY11 7 months ago 2
We drive by Religious Billboards almost everyday and I don't agree with them but i don't complain outside of saying something to my partner. We leave it at that because they do have the right to say it they paid for the billboard.We get more up set if we see the same billboards for months regardless what they say. After about 3 months I think you have hit all the people you are going to hit with a given ad.
finderfinder100 7 months ago
Religious people feel attacked by atheists, and atheists feel attacked by religious. And you can't have an opinion that does not fit in the yes or no or you say you don't know any other choice is considered heretic by atheists (usually supported in science)who don't provide real answers to my questions, and religious consider it heretic because i don't believe what they think is right. so yeah i think militant atheists and regular religious people are basically the same dictatorship of the mind
SurvivalTrainee 7 months ago
Wow. I had to skip through the last half of the video because of how stupid those people were.
Ryan1468 8 months ago
@Ryan1468 Me too. I couldn't finish it. I actually wanted to cry.
HeyRuka 7 months ago
I say all atheists should move to a city away from religious people and create our own civilization. We would have the majority of scientists, doctors, physicists, chemists, etc. Imagine how high tech our city would be. We could have a holiday where everyone would turn off their lights for one night and look up in amazement at our stars in the sky. Heck Idk something creative. Things would be different, better, and more affective
mio68df 8 months ago 5
i dont like the billboards that say we people (not just atheist but people in general) are wicked and are going to burn forever but if an atheist tryed to get there right to put them there took away i would be fucking pissed, the religious are hypocrites, almost ALL of them
wearestarstuffsagan 8 months ago
The people who find these signs offensive are IDIOTS! Honestly, there is no way someone can be offended by people simply saying that there are atheists out there. Oh, my god, these idiots make me angry.
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poythressstegman 8 months ago
Has anyone else noticed how the religious act perfectly normally and rationally UNTIL the subject of religion comes up? How they act just like atheists 95% of the time, and sort of need to be prompted into remembering that they have to pretend to believe?
flibbertergibbet 8 months ago
We all know why they're offended: because they know full well that there are no supernatural deities and that they're idiots for pretending to believe that there's just ONE exception to this rule! What they're really afraid of is someone telling them out loud something they secretly already agree with and fully understand but think they shouldn't. It's pure, triple-distilled self-loathing hypocrisy: not stupidity, but chronic dishonesty.
flibbertergibbet 8 months ago
@flibbertergibbet : I'm not sure it's dishonesty per se. I don't think most of the "sheep" are really dishonest. I'd say in most cases it's a mixture of self-delusion, ignorance, stupidity, blind obedience to authority, some kind of inferiority complex and an inability to deal with cognitive dissonance in a rational fashion. The leaders, on the other hand, are a different story. You can't convince me that folks like William Lane Craig actually believe a word of their own nonsense...
OutOfTheBoxThinker 8 months ago
@OutOfTheBoxThinker Actually, I'm sure a lot of it IS flat deceitfulness. Most of the fervently religious are neither stupid nor credulous about anything except (supposedly) religion. We all know about the "dark night of the soul", the inevitable periods of extreme doubt and sudden, genuine self-awareness that believers go through. If they can't be trusted not to lie to themselves, how can they be trusted not to lie to other people?
flibbertergibbet 8 months ago
@OutOfTheBoxThinker Think about the "Sunday believer": the sort of person who acts just as rationally as an atheist until the two hours or so of the week when they go kneel and pray. That person can't be said to be a true believer, because their religion doesn't reflect in their day-to-day life. So, if they put "Christian" or whatever on their census form, then it's not actually true. It may be that they're lying to themselves rather than to the government, but it's still dishonesty.
flibbertergibbet 8 months ago