I like watching your videos. You make me think, like I should. It's debatable whether or not God sends weather abruptly, or whether God made the universe, and set in motion- that He actually made the universe to function under 'cause-and-reaction'. Oh, and it's bs that God hates gays. If we're all created in the image of God, then it doesn't make sense that God would hate His own creation. In the words of Bionic Dance, don't run on automatic. Please, think. Oh, and I'm a Christian.
Well the person you talked to dont know much then as God dont send anyone to hell.. We send ourselves there. The evidence is there but its not our fault your a blind fool
+facepalm* I had an argument with some religious nutjob who told me God was going to hurt me and send me to hell just because see no evidence for the existence of some fucking deity.
And God appeard as Jesus Christ so yes he did come in person and say "hey... Your been a bad boy/girl." shows your lack of actual understanding of christianity at all i think. Like i said in one of your other vids... Actually go and research the bible. Go to a christian theology collage and ask questions. Bear in mind im 19 and was athiest for near 18 years.
I think your either talking to false christians or you have to much time. Lol iv never met another christian who says God is speaking to us by the weather lol. Yeh Revelation says there willbe a increse of volcanic/ earthquake etc tiwards the end times but your talking rubbish. And if you think that homosexuality is biologicaly correct then cool lol but then you must lack knowledge in human biology.
so to sum it all up, the religious folk are using natural disasters to explain gods will, however, it's actually just things in the world that they disagree with..
Interesting fact: The UK has the highest density of tornadoes of any country on Earth, but none of them are strong enough to cause any damage. Can anyone tell me what God is trying to tell us?
When I was a child, my mom told me rain was god crying. For a while afterward, I'd sadly look out the window and wonder what the hell I did to make skydaddy cry.
The earthquake was obviously caused by the crumbling of the wall of separation between church and state: It originated in Virginia, halfway between the state capitol (Richmond) and the current national capitol (Washington, D.C.), and extended all the way to the original national capitol (NYC). Thomas Jefferson, author of that separation, in both state and nation, is buried in Monticello, Clearly, the earthquake was caused by Thomas Jefferson rolling over in his grave.
i once when I was 12, I thought God sent a windstorm to stop me and my friends from reading a penthouse forum mag and I stopped it by reading the little mini Bible some guy gave me. Afterward I relazied taht the windstorm was just that- ohter storms happen which are not connected to anything I do, say or think. I hate people claim that God is using storms to screw up hurricanes and close schools then say thank God when they reopen so they don't have to deal with kids at home anymore
theists thank god for everything good that exists and simultaneously don't blame god for bad stuff.
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u know whats really irritating...
when you spend like nearly three hours preparing/cooking tasty dinner, then one says something like "thank you God for giving us this delicious food..." and you want to scream "My name is [...], not God"...
The problem is that they think God causes everything. Since God can't be bad everything must have a meaning and purpose. I dont mind the weather thing that much, what baffles me is when they say it was God's plan for somebody to be murdered/ asaulted/ raped / robbed and still think the criminal is going to Hell. i mean if it was in God's plan for the crime to happen, how is the criminal responsible? Shouldn't he be praised for doing God's will?
Prayer relates to this is exactly the same way. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I want your assistance in praying to God to end the drought in (insert hot, dry, location here...Arizona), so that the farmers in that area can continue to produce food and have income to survive".
What?! Didn't God "know" there was a drought in that area? He must have, if He's omniscient. That means he WANTED there to be a drought. The projection from this is the audacity to "know the mind of God".
@deepshockonYT Somthing about false prophets ,soothsayers and people claiming to converse with the dead...LOL .. But these fundie kooks like Robertson & Bachman have their own interpitations ,that book loaded with ancient scribling has so many contradictions it's a waste of paper & ink........
The visualization of some theist seeing an earthquake and then "feeling" God's voice saying to them "That was for all the gays in your country. Take that. Ha. Now go tell people this is why I did it. You are my messenger so people will believe you." Just made me laugh out loud. Why is that theist privileged to that info but no one else?
Simple. The earthquakes/hurricanes/w-ever that are a message from god are those you want to be one. And the message is always the one that backs up your agenda.
The sun was shining here today. Clearly God loves Germany and approves of the public bashing our foreign affairs secretary's criticism of the UN's intervention in Libya.
Facepalm! I was talking to some bozo the other day. He was saying that the hurricane in NYC was because people are talking about splitting Israel. Apparently the 500 mile wide Irene was heading towards the UN headquarters. What a stupid simpleton.
High priests were weathermen. And the Pharoh, Inca and lots of others I haven't thought of made the sun come up. Often assisted with human entrails. Or some other culturally significant animal.
The reason why high priests are not weathermen today is that some people, well most have figured out things like the water cycle or how to predict when the delta will flood. And that part of the protection racket was shown to be bullshit.
Still meteorology is pretty new and some people need to catch up.
So I guess the fact we don't have any big earthquakes, tornadoes or hurricanes in Europe means God loves Europe more than America. Then how come these religious nut jobs think meteorology is a punishment for homosexuality and de-secularization? If it was the case, Europe wouldn't even exist right now. If anything, they must be God's punishment for the Tea Party, religious indoctrination and homophobia.
Well, God used to speak directly, in the Old Testament. He gave up that habit and installed an ever longer chain of command. First Jebus, then Popes, then Priests, then snakeoil salesman preachers, then Gouvernors of Texas...
Well IF Rick Perry can gather a bunch of cooky crazy Christians to a stadium to pray for America, surely the atheist community can come together and have a unified facepalming moment of 20,000 strong.
God is an abuser - he flies into a rage and destroys shit without warning and leaves his victims searching for an explanation. Just like abuse victims, people find anything they did wrong and think "it must be that thing we did wrong that pushed him into a rage" instead of putting the blame on the abuser.
i dont think religious people believe natural disasters is god speaking, i think they just say it to act dominant, kinda like someone you dont like falls down and hurts themselves you say " HA thats god punishing you for being a dick" they do it to act like their religion is mighty that their god exists, again without proof
Michelle Bachmann thought the earthquake and hurricane were signs from God that America was spending too much and that we need to cut spending. No joke. I saw it on the Young Turks today.
@BionicDance The idea that a hurricane means America is spending too much is ridiculous! However, government does need to cut spending (military? -yes, I say military even though I'm in ROTC). I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of personally owing China $43,000. America is not a Christian nation, it's a debtor's nation.
@coda623 Yeah, my thought on that was, "Sooooo....God wants us to spend less by sending a hurricane our way that will cost us millions in order to recover from the damage? Makes perfect sense!"
@TheMidwestAtheist LOL perfect sense for the delusional maybe , but not for the rational logical thinking people..No doubt thats their train of thought..
The religious don't interpret anything, they just pick and choose which form of weather fits their cause. Multiple people read the bible and get different interpretations. That in itself is a pile of incoherent ignorance. So guess if I see a rainbow it means that all is good....^_^
@LovexxJuliette It's actually a combination of Special Effects™ Fish Bowl and Blue Mayhem, but my hair has also been bleached and dyed multiple times, so not all of what you're seeing can be reproduced. Plus the camera picks it up so it looks different in video than in real life.
The hurricane hitting New York was actually God sneezing. Oh, sure, He can sneeze. One who is able to do anything is able to sneeze. How do I know? Well God told me in my liver.
You can't tell which is the truth because Christians believe that there are "versions" of the truth. I was taught that the truth is the truth and any other "version"is a lie. Isn't there a commandment about that?
Well here is another "Q" for you. If god is real. How can he know everything and give us free will? If we have free will then he will not know what we are going to do. But also if he knows everything then our place in this world is predetermined. What is it free will or does he know everything? "Too many conflicts in religion." P.S. Don't say "I don't believe in a god..." That is not the answer I want. I'm saying "IF" there is one.
you are supposting that in order for god to know everything he would have to be prescient. Predictive foreknowledge works just as well. If i can perfectly predict the future through my perfect knowledge of the present instead of supernatural forsight then free will is still possible.
but as a note i have to say that i believe in neither god nor free will anyway
@Felhaven I can predict a lot of things. The problem with a god is that for the people that believe that, he/she knows everything not most everything. And he/she is never wrong. Once more nothing is 100% anywhere. Nothing that we know of. For there to be something out there that can get 100% of everything right, why can't he/she show him/herself and let all of this just go away. I will say there is one if and only if it can be proven.
As cenk from yougn turks I think it was said, "How do we know he's mad at the goverment excess spending, rather then not putting the money to help the poor.
God loves to torture. He will gleefully inflict physical and/or psychological torture on us in this life, then send us to hell to burn for all eternity on top of it. Jesus was tortured to to death to demonstrate his love for us. The Catholic church has tortured children for centuries... just doing God's work here on Earth.
I love how they preach that "Mankind is fallen" and that "Man is corrupt. Yet, they feel free to interpret thier gods will... and some how he always seems to agree with them.
It's very hard not to feel superior when faced with someone that thinks they can assign divine motives to these events. Lawyer or not all I can think is that this is someone that would throw a virgin into a volcano.
I once had a Flame War with a Theist about interpereting. His position was that Atheistsdon't know how to intereperet the Bible "properly", my position was that interpereting in general (unless it's The Matrix or a poem or something) is inherantly stupid.
It ended when he said something I didn't quite understand, and i said, "I have no idea what you just said, however, I refuse to second guess what you meant, because that would be interpereting".
@dechha1981 That's quite easy: that's "exclusive deity". The problem with a deity that's going to act exclusively is that nobody (except those communicated to directly) will know what this deity wants. Further, there's no way of knowing who's communicated to, and who's just making stuff up.
The answer is "Your deity is limited in its ability to communicate, so there's no way to know what's interpreted correctly and what's pure guesswork, including your statements. Therefore, evidence required".
Speaking of Natural Desasters and "devine intervention", a little while ago thgere was an unusually bad fire in Victoria Australia . It was world news, aparantly.
But the intreresting part is, we don't actually know whether it was natural or arson by a human. All we know is, allot of Victorians wanna bring back the Death penalty and extend it to Arson.
Why would religious people give their god credit for something that, if a human did it, we'd swear revenge?
I think Christians that think the way you described are the kind that have read very little or none at all of the New Testament. The whole premise of I did something wrong so god is going to punish us by demise or weather changes is an old testament way of thinking. I used to be christian, until I found Christianity to be suppressive. Conservative Christianity makes people very close minded because all they do is worship and obey words in a book. Now I guess you could call me a dark pagan.
I once saw something on tV about some hawaiians who think their volcano god wants Hawaii to be independant from the U.S. They have a good cause, but that's beside the point.
Aparantly there was an Earthquake on the day Hawaii was invaded, which meant the god was angry. There was also an Earthquake on a day whenthey were protesting for independance, which meant the god agreed with them.
The exact same sign was interpereted two different ways.
It's easy to determine what God's saying with natural disasters. The default answer is "God hates fags", however, if this is occurring in a society where LGBTs are already marginalized, then obviously, the people there made a pact with the devil, unless of course it's a more secular society, then it's God trying to get rid of as many atheists as possible. Or people are just reading their own prejudices into it.
What makes the belief that god expresses his rage through the weather even more hilarious is the overlap of parts of the southern and northern bible belts and tornado alley.
I recently got blocked for the first time ever by making this argument to someone who thought New York was gonna be punished. I'm very proud (only took one post).
You paint with a very broad brush most of the time. I don't know of any Christians making a claim like this. Not personally anyway. You cannot throw all "Christians" into this group either. I would never claim to Understand God's will, but I do not doubt for a moment that it is there.
All doubters will face the wrath of an Earth cake!
@MrWill7980 Good guess, nice song, but not the one I mangled in my comment. To be fair I altered a real song's lyrics because it popped into my head in response to this videos title "Weather Or Not".
Bionic I love ya girl but you have got to stop sayin things like earthcake lol it was cute but I actually had to do a retake to see if you meant to say it or if it was a accident lmfao plus it made me want cake >.>
It always perplexes me ... why do the religious try to shoe-horn their god in natural phenomena we already understand ? At least put a little effort and use things that are not fully understood like dark-matter or something .... it wouldn't be any more correct but it would be less stupid for one.
"How do you tell the difference?... How do you tell what the message is?"
It all depends on the agenda of the politician/priest who's making the claim :)
Personally, my favourite meteorological "god's sending a message" was when that uber-sized Jesus figure was torched by lightning. I would have THOUGHT that should have been interpreted as god saying, "HEY, remember that 'NO FALSE IDOLS' commandment?"... but apparently they're rebuilding it. Go figure.
Rick Perry recently said that he doesn't believe in man made global warming. I suggested that someone tell him next time he hears thunder its the sound of God facepalming.
I am currently trying to clean up after Irene, i live less than 15 miles from the ocean, I've been through a great many hurricanes and they seem to mess with everyone, God seems to be if anything completely fair, he ignores every one equally...
Very nicely said. I've had this argument with my very religious in-laws, and they always come back with "Well, God created Mother Nature...." My response..."No, He didn't. If God was/is real he didn't exist when the universe was created." Besides, I can see, feel, and hear Mother Nature. God...not so much. Love your hair, BTW!
The storm was supposed to be a category 4 when it hit New York but the storm died down before it got there. If the storm was bad they would have blamed gay marriage but when the opposite happens people won't thank the gays.
On a more serious note the religious people fail to actually learn anything real from whether like the lesson "hurricanes are really bad, climate change almost certainly will increase both frequency and severity of hurricanes, maybe I shouldn't buy a hummer after all...". Not to imply that only vehicles contribute to climate change but its a good start.
Fx in my country we tax unhealthy food where as in the US they are subsidized in various ways. I seriously don't get that at all...
Absolute fail. God doesn't speak to us through the weather. Excuse me while cough up a lung from laughing so hard. God speaks through our hearts. God's influence of benevolence speaks in every human heart whether you believe or not.
@BionicDance Do you want some delicious quake? The earthcake is a lie! Reading the will of the gods through the clouds and weather is pagan stuff. Isn't divining like, condemned in the bible? idk, you're preaching to the choir, that's probably why alot of people have nothing to say other than COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE!COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE!!!11!!one!
And 3 out of every 4 republican candidates for president actually believe this "god sends natural disasters for sins" bullshit. Seriously. This country is doomed.
It's utterly amazing that this superstitious claptrap is still around - I guess that's just an unfortunate consequence of the idea of free speech - you've got to put up with the loonies as well - but wait - these loonies also want to run the country via Bachmann-Denominationalists-Overdrive. Makes me sick.
:D It's easy, whenever you approve of the disaster or it effected people you don't like God approves and sent it as a message, whenever it effects you or something you like and agree with, it was just a natural disaster.
Maybe it's all to do with the psychological phenomena known as projection, or even just the faithful living, ahem, vicariously: their lives have no meaning (because their afterlives will), so they ascribe meaning to the weather.
Instead of face palming... why not step up your intellectual thinking patterns and put them to use on coming up with innovative ways of milking money out of these CASH COWS!
It gets stupider, by the way: I heard someone going on about the terrible weather on the planet right now (clearly because we're becoming more depraved as a species) and used as an example the Japanese tsunami *Hulk Hands Face-Palm*
*cause-and-effect. My bad.
FADFaeb 3 days ago in playlist Atheism
I like watching your videos. You make me think, like I should. It's debatable whether or not God sends weather abruptly, or whether God made the universe, and set in motion- that He actually made the universe to function under 'cause-and-reaction'. Oh, and it's bs that God hates gays. If we're all created in the image of God, then it doesn't make sense that God would hate His own creation. In the words of Bionic Dance, don't run on automatic. Please, think. Oh, and I'm a Christian.
FADFaeb 3 days ago in playlist Atheism
Well the person you talked to dont know much then as God dont send anyone to hell.. We send ourselves there. The evidence is there but its not our fault your a blind fool
BigCalSuth 2 weeks ago
+facepalm* I had an argument with some religious nutjob who told me God was going to hurt me and send me to hell just because see no evidence for the existence of some fucking deity.
MEareCAT 2 weeks ago
And God appeard as Jesus Christ so yes he did come in person and say "hey... Your been a bad boy/girl." shows your lack of actual understanding of christianity at all i think. Like i said in one of your other vids... Actually go and research the bible. Go to a christian theology collage and ask questions. Bear in mind im 19 and was athiest for near 18 years.
BigCalSuth 2 weeks ago
I think your either talking to false christians or you have to much time. Lol iv never met another christian who says God is speaking to us by the weather lol. Yeh Revelation says there willbe a increse of volcanic/ earthquake etc tiwards the end times but your talking rubbish. And if you think that homosexuality is biologicaly correct then cool lol but then you must lack knowledge in human biology.
BigCalSuth 2 weeks ago
so to sum it all up, the religious folk are using natural disasters to explain gods will, however, it's actually just things in the world that they disagree with..
creationofart 4 months ago
Companion Cube and Puppy Doll disapprove of crazy Christians using God to explain teh weatherz
SuperEvilMel 4 months ago
Interesting fact: The UK has the highest density of tornadoes of any country on Earth, but none of them are strong enough to cause any damage. Can anyone tell me what God is trying to tell us?
SoundOfScilence 5 months ago
When I was a child, my mom told me rain was god crying. For a while afterward, I'd sadly look out the window and wonder what the hell I did to make skydaddy cry.
evilotakuneko 5 months ago
i rated, can i have my cake now?
NDoggProductions 5 months ago in playlist More videos from BionicDance
P.S. Monticello is in the general vicinity of the earthquake's center.
NotMuchNU 5 months ago
The earthquake was obviously caused by the crumbling of the wall of separation between church and state: It originated in Virginia, halfway between the state capitol (Richmond) and the current national capitol (Washington, D.C.), and extended all the way to the original national capitol (NYC). Thomas Jefferson, author of that separation, in both state and nation, is buried in Monticello, Clearly, the earthquake was caused by Thomas Jefferson rolling over in his grave.
NotMuchNU 5 months ago in playlist Atheism
...Hey, at least you did fairly well, there. ...And 200th.
meteosurreal 5 months ago
the message is "Christian! Stop acting like jerk ! You are pushing people away from me!"
moestietabarnak 5 months ago in playlist recent
My thought too!! I would like to hear a good answer to that question too!
opaldragon75 5 months ago
i once when I was 12, I thought God sent a windstorm to stop me and my friends from reading a penthouse forum mag and I stopped it by reading the little mini Bible some guy gave me. Afterward I relazied taht the windstorm was just that- ohter storms happen which are not connected to anything I do, say or think. I hate people claim that God is using storms to screw up hurricanes and close schools then say thank God when they reopen so they don't have to deal with kids at home anymore
concord327 5 months ago
theists thank god for everything good that exists and simultaneously don't blame god for bad stuff.
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u know whats really irritating...
when you spend like nearly three hours preparing/cooking tasty dinner, then one says something like "thank you God for giving us this delicious food..." and you want to scream "My name is [...], not God"...
futureorreligion 5 months ago 2
I can has earthcake plz
k0vert 5 months ago
The problem is that they think God causes everything. Since God can't be bad everything must have a meaning and purpose. I dont mind the weather thing that much, what baffles me is when they say it was God's plan for somebody to be murdered/ asaulted/ raped / robbed and still think the criminal is going to Hell. i mean if it was in God's plan for the crime to happen, how is the criminal responsible? Shouldn't he be praised for doing God's will?
geneticbricabrac 5 months ago
Prayer relates to this is exactly the same way. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I want your assistance in praying to God to end the drought in (insert hot, dry, location here...Arizona), so that the farmers in that area can continue to produce food and have income to survive".
What?! Didn't God "know" there was a drought in that area? He must have, if He's omniscient. That means he WANTED there to be a drought. The projection from this is the audacity to "know the mind of God".
Nuff said.
Eldrave20 5 months ago
Didn't the Bible have things -against- interpreting signs to boot? That makes it either funnier or more distressing, depending on things.
deepshockonYT 5 months ago
@deepshockonYT Somthing about false prophets ,soothsayers and people claiming to converse with the dead...LOL .. But these fundie kooks like Robertson & Bachman have their own interpitations ,that book loaded with ancient scribling has so many contradictions it's a waste of paper & ink........
kamphwagon1 5 months ago
The visualization of some theist seeing an earthquake and then "feeling" God's voice saying to them "That was for all the gays in your country. Take that. Ha. Now go tell people this is why I did it. You are my messenger so people will believe you." Just made me laugh out loud. Why is that theist privileged to that info but no one else?
PainefulMass 5 months ago
0:30 Earth Cake *-*
DanielBlueFist 5 months ago
Simple. The earthquakes/hurricanes/w-ever that are a message from god are those you want to be one. And the message is always the one that backs up your agenda.
The sun was shining here today. Clearly God loves Germany and approves of the public bashing our foreign affairs secretary's criticism of the UN's intervention in Libya.
It works ! :)
V0r4xiz 5 months ago
Facepalm! I was talking to some bozo the other day. He was saying that the hurricane in NYC was because people are talking about splitting Israel. Apparently the 500 mile wide Irene was heading towards the UN headquarters. What a stupid simpleton.
AtheismTV 5 months ago
If god speaks through the weather then the faithful are killed as well in natural disasters and if he destroys churches what meesage would that send?
MsOneiroi77 5 months ago
High priests were weathermen. And the Pharoh, Inca and lots of others I haven't thought of made the sun come up. Often assisted with human entrails. Or some other culturally significant animal.
The reason why high priests are not weathermen today is that some people, well most have figured out things like the water cycle or how to predict when the delta will flood. And that part of the protection racket was shown to be bullshit.
Still meteorology is pretty new and some people need to catch up.
Teloculos 5 months ago
i´m facepalming with both hands......taking a deep breath and count to 10....
cocas1000 5 months ago
The problem with God knowing everything is that he failed to win his bet with the devil that Job wouldn't question him.
HimesInu 5 months ago
Loving the hair.
Goddamn earth cakes.
HimesInu 5 months ago
The Image of the Interpretation of the Tornado is hilarious. Final Punch line....
...Lets go back to reading goat guts, less mess.
TheBoyFromNorfolk 5 months ago
"How do you tell which one of them is right?"
None of the above.
I actually love your exasperated facepalms. So much is implied by that little sigh...
L00NGB00W 5 months ago
So I guess the fact we don't have any big earthquakes, tornadoes or hurricanes in Europe means God loves Europe more than America. Then how come these religious nut jobs think meteorology is a punishment for homosexuality and de-secularization? If it was the case, Europe wouldn't even exist right now. If anything, they must be God's punishment for the Tea Party, religious indoctrination and homophobia.
JennyFarlopez 5 months ago 3
they want it to be so, so they say god did it.
bassmatt11 5 months ago
Sometimes they just resort to a general "straying from His ways" excuse..
zionviller 5 months ago
Leave Skippy Alone,he is gay!
Wallabytrack 5 months ago
Well, God used to speak directly, in the Old Testament. He gave up that habit and installed an ever longer chain of command. First Jebus, then Popes, then Priests, then snakeoil salesman preachers, then Gouvernors of Texas...
KaroKoenich 5 months ago
Well IF Rick Perry can gather a bunch of cooky crazy Christians to a stadium to pray for America, surely the atheist community can come together and have a unified facepalming moment of 20,000 strong.
Subjectivity- what a bitch!
FadingEvil 5 months ago
Faith == chowder headed. It's math!
Feralg33k 5 months ago
hurricain Irene was clearly God's way of telling us to use more wind energy...and to start taxing the rich.
TBman256 5 months ago
Companion cube is true!
The cake is a lie
the cake is a lie
the cake is a lie
the cake is a lie
DevelX666 5 months ago
God is an abuser - he flies into a rage and destroys shit without warning and leaves his victims searching for an explanation. Just like abuse victims, people find anything they did wrong and think "it must be that thing we did wrong that pushed him into a rage" instead of putting the blame on the abuser.
Yiab 5 months ago
*face-palm*
I spontaneously used the word 'chowderhead' in a conversation recently. Your videos are wearing off on me!
:)
jssherrard 5 months ago
@jssherrard *mimes reeling in a fishie* :D
BionicDance 5 months ago 8
If weather occurences indicate God's hatred he must have hated Job despite his claim.
Jaybird196 5 months ago
totally a philosoraptor quote right there~
C2D2L2A 5 months ago
Of course, the answer is that most of the world is totally insane. Is this something really new? May lightning strike me down if I'm wrong.
richardpweiss 5 months ago
i dont think religious people believe natural disasters is god speaking, i think they just say it to act dominant, kinda like someone you dont like falls down and hurts themselves you say " HA thats god punishing you for being a dick" they do it to act like their religion is mighty that their god exists, again without proof
TheGeckoNinja 5 months ago
Michelle Bachmann thought the earthquake and hurricane were signs from God that America was spending too much and that we need to cut spending. No joke. I saw it on the Young Turks today.
coda623 5 months ago 7
@coda623 *grin* Whaddaya think INSPIRED this video? :)
BionicDance 5 months ago 7
@BionicDance lol didn't know you were a young turks follower.
it's great to know we have a lunatic in one of the top spots in the 2012 campaign :/
coda623 5 months ago
@BionicDance The idea that a hurricane means America is spending too much is ridiculous! However, government does need to cut spending (military? -yes, I say military even though I'm in ROTC). I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of personally owing China $43,000. America is not a Christian nation, it's a debtor's nation.
FADFaeb 3 days ago in playlist Atheism
@coda623 Yeah, my thought on that was, "Sooooo....God wants us to spend less by sending a hurricane our way that will cost us millions in order to recover from the damage? Makes perfect sense!"
TheMidwestAtheist 5 months ago
@TheMidwestAtheist Lol yes she is crazy
coda623 5 months ago
@TheMidwestAtheist LOL perfect sense for the delusional maybe , but not for the rational logical thinking people..No doubt thats their train of thought..
kamphwagon1 5 months ago
OY! Don't insult Fry. Fry is much smarter than your average religious fundie.
Sines314 5 months ago
The religious don't interpret anything, they just pick and choose which form of weather fits their cause. Multiple people read the bible and get different interpretations. That in itself is a pile of incoherent ignorance. So guess if I see a rainbow it means that all is good....^_^
realigiousrayne 5 months ago
When I first read the title, I almost nerdraged. But then I remembered you enjoy cheesy puns.
Phelan666 5 months ago
@Phelan666 *grin* I'd say "Trust me," in my best Han Solo voice, but you clearly already do. :)
BionicDance 5 months ago
D: What dye did you useee? >_< Ah I really what that colour of purple!
LovexxJuliette 5 months ago
@LovexxJuliette It's actually a combination of Special Effects™ Fish Bowl and Blue Mayhem, but my hair has also been bleached and dyed multiple times, so not all of what you're seeing can be reproduced. Plus the camera picks it up so it looks different in video than in real life.
BionicDance 5 months ago
@BionicDance Ahh. It looks really good on you :D I'm going for a purple a bit lighter but almost like that D:
LovexxJuliette 5 months ago
@LovexxJuliette I was actually going for a bright-bright blue...like Smurf cum, or Superman's uniform. I may be re-dying before much longer.
BionicDance 5 months ago
Homosexuals are maybe 3 percent of the population. {this is the latest, best estimate. This number always seemed realistic to me.}
216trixie 5 months ago
Very good loved the vid and your sexy blue anime hair.
kenshin304 5 months ago
The hurricane hitting New York was actually God sneezing. Oh, sure, He can sneeze. One who is able to do anything is able to sneeze. How do I know? Well God told me in my liver.
lazyperfectionist1 5 months ago
You can't tell which is the truth because Christians believe that there are "versions" of the truth. I was taught that the truth is the truth and any other "version"is a lie. Isn't there a commandment about that?
MrWill7980 5 months ago
Well here is another "Q" for you. If god is real. How can he know everything and give us free will? If we have free will then he will not know what we are going to do. But also if he knows everything then our place in this world is predetermined. What is it free will or does he know everything? "Too many conflicts in religion." P.S. Don't say "I don't believe in a god..." That is not the answer I want. I'm saying "IF" there is one.
wwwwlo 5 months ago
@wwwwlo not nessesarily
you are supposting that in order for god to know everything he would have to be prescient. Predictive foreknowledge works just as well. If i can perfectly predict the future through my perfect knowledge of the present instead of supernatural forsight then free will is still possible.
but as a note i have to say that i believe in neither god nor free will anyway
Felhaven 5 months ago
@Felhaven I can predict a lot of things. The problem with a god is that for the people that believe that, he/she knows everything not most everything. And he/she is never wrong. Once more nothing is 100% anywhere. Nothing that we know of. For there to be something out there that can get 100% of everything right, why can't he/she show him/herself and let all of this just go away. I will say there is one if and only if it can be proven.
wwwwlo 5 months ago
@wwwwlo i love how they believe in a god that knows all and is all powerfull. Yet can be convinced to change it's mind.
Felhaven 5 months ago
Earthcake sounds kinda... dirty. Doesn't sound too appetizing. lmao XD
HappyAtheist76 5 months ago
As cenk from yougn turks I think it was said, "How do we know he's mad at the goverment excess spending, rather then not putting the money to help the poor.
wolfwing1 5 months ago
mmmmmm.... EarthCake.
funwithbonusdotcom 5 months ago
God loves to torture. He will gleefully inflict physical and/or psychological torture on us in this life, then send us to hell to burn for all eternity on top of it. Jesus was tortured to to death to demonstrate his love for us. The Catholic church has tortured children for centuries... just doing God's work here on Earth.
deepashtray 5 months ago
Fri: Is that god?
Bender: No. I'm god. Now kiss my shiny metal ass.
lol
wolfeedarkfang 5 months ago
:32 an earthcake? Is that like a mud pie? eww... or maybe its like rocky road ice cream! mmmm...
Yoshemo1 5 months ago
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HappyCabbie 5 months ago
I love how they preach that "Mankind is fallen" and that "Man is corrupt. Yet, they feel free to interpret thier gods will... and some how he always seems to agree with them.
If will of man = corrupt
and
Gods will = will of man
then
derp.
Felhaven 5 months ago
God told me that the earthquake and hurricane was because we did not raise taxes on the fat cats!
OWC2000 5 months ago
It's very hard not to feel superior when faced with someone that thinks they can assign divine motives to these events. Lawyer or not all I can think is that this is someone that would throw a virgin into a volcano.
WilliamPbrane 5 months ago 2
You'll probably not read this but...
I find you inspiring :D
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tom9152a 5 months ago
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deth2seesuns 5 months ago
I once had a Flame War with a Theist about interpereting. His position was that Atheistsdon't know how to intereperet the Bible "properly", my position was that interpereting in general (unless it's The Matrix or a poem or something) is inherantly stupid.
It ended when he said something I didn't quite understand, and i said, "I have no idea what you just said, however, I refuse to second guess what you meant, because that would be interpereting".
dechha1981 5 months ago
@dechha1981 That's quite easy: that's "exclusive deity". The problem with a deity that's going to act exclusively is that nobody (except those communicated to directly) will know what this deity wants. Further, there's no way of knowing who's communicated to, and who's just making stuff up.
The answer is "Your deity is limited in its ability to communicate, so there's no way to know what's interpreted correctly and what's pure guesswork, including your statements. Therefore, evidence required".
Aaron1975melbourne 5 months ago
@Aaron1975melbourne
Like how He Who Walks Behind The rows only speaks to Izaac.
dechha1981 5 months ago
It concerns me that gay people are now the scapegoat for everything. I wonder if these people still think that a thunderstorm is God bowling.
Jack529Teal 5 months ago
Speaking of Natural Desasters and "devine intervention", a little while ago thgere was an unusually bad fire in Victoria Australia . It was world news, aparantly.
But the intreresting part is, we don't actually know whether it was natural or arson by a human. All we know is, allot of Victorians wanna bring back the Death penalty and extend it to Arson.
Why would religious people give their god credit for something that, if a human did it, we'd swear revenge?
dechha1981 5 months ago
I think Christians that think the way you described are the kind that have read very little or none at all of the New Testament. The whole premise of I did something wrong so god is going to punish us by demise or weather changes is an old testament way of thinking. I used to be christian, until I found Christianity to be suppressive. Conservative Christianity makes people very close minded because all they do is worship and obey words in a book. Now I guess you could call me a dark pagan.
MrJamesbach 5 months ago
Even a religious person isn't dumb enough to stand on a hill studying the behavior of a tornado. Only a meteorologist would do that!
Brandt761 5 months ago
I once saw something on tV about some hawaiians who think their volcano god wants Hawaii to be independant from the U.S. They have a good cause, but that's beside the point.
Aparantly there was an Earthquake on the day Hawaii was invaded, which meant the god was angry. There was also an Earthquake on a day whenthey were protesting for independance, which meant the god agreed with them.
The exact same sign was interpereted two different ways.
dechha1981 5 months ago
"How do you tell?" you ask.
Remember Happy Bunny?
"I'm right.
You're wrong.
Deal with it."
That's how they tell.
Brandt761 5 months ago
Is that a companion cube to your left? Portal is awesome!
globalfraud 5 months ago
@globalfraud Yeah, that's Pan, my Companion Cube plushie. With Howie sitting on top. :)
BionicDance 5 months ago
It's easy to determine what God's saying with natural disasters. The default answer is "God hates fags", however, if this is occurring in a society where LGBTs are already marginalized, then obviously, the people there made a pact with the devil, unless of course it's a more secular society, then it's God trying to get rid of as many atheists as possible. Or people are just reading their own prejudices into it.
ChuckMeIntoHell 5 months ago
What makes the belief that god expresses his rage through the weather even more hilarious is the overlap of parts of the southern and northern bible belts and tornado alley.
MQ7474 5 months ago
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MQ7474 5 months ago
But GOD told me I can feel it in my heart..wait??....NOPE its just gas !!
l33th0b0 5 months ago
I recently got blocked for the first time ever by making this argument to someone who thought New York was gonna be punished. I'm very proud (only took one post).
(;,;)
Brandt761 5 months ago
at :33 she says " earth cake" ....:)
cutlassburnin 5 months ago
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cutlassburnin 5 months ago
If the tornado sent is about bi-sexuals does it spin both ways? Duh-dun-tiss :)
nothingtoyouatall 5 months ago
You paint with a very broad brush most of the time. I don't know of any Christians making a claim like this. Not personally anyway. You cannot throw all "Christians" into this group either. I would never claim to Understand God's will, but I do not doubt for a moment that it is there.
All doubters will face the wrath of an Earth cake!
Sharlamane 5 months ago
Weather or Not, here I come, you can't hide, gonna fiiiiiind you, and ... take ... it ... slowly.
[ Sorry couldn't resist that. If you're reading this and it means nothing to you don't sweat it 8) ]
amlorusso 5 months ago
@amlorusso Sounds like lyrics.
BionicDance 5 months ago
@BionicDance I think it's Blondie: One Way or Another
MrWill7980 5 months ago
@MrWill7980 Good guess, nice song, but not the one I mangled in my comment. To be fair I altered a real song's lyrics because it popped into my head in response to this videos title "Weather Or Not".
watch?v=aIXyKmElvv8&ob
amlorusso 5 months ago
@BionicDance I could be wrong though
MrWill7980 5 months ago
Bionic I love ya girl but you have got to stop sayin things like earthcake lol it was cute but I actually had to do a retake to see if you meant to say it or if it was a accident lmfao plus it made me want cake >.>
USABonez 5 months ago
How cute your teddy bear dice thingy.
JulesManson 5 months ago
I don't know which is creepier. People thinking a deity speaks to them or people thinking a weather geological event is a deity sending a message.
regemo 5 months ago
You probably have enough brilliant content in your library of videos to compile a book. Have you thought of writing one?
mansonweb2 5 months ago
@mansonweb2 I have the beginnings of one in my Rabid-and-Screaming Atheism folder on my computer. :)
BionicDance 5 months ago
God sure does hate the South and midwest considering all those tornadoes, droughts and heatwaves.
TeresielMF 5 months ago
It always perplexes me ... why do the religious try to shoe-horn their god in natural phenomena we already understand ? At least put a little effort and use things that are not fully understood like dark-matter or something .... it wouldn't be any more correct but it would be less stupid for one.
gaglamesh731 5 months ago
The earthquake and hurricane are certainly signs God is mad at us for believing in him
lordcheetah 5 months ago
@lordcheetah
He was a tragic character who was forced to kill his best and only friend because of the prejudice of others.
JamesThWilliams 5 months ago
god needs to send me an earth cake.
TheAnubisDrake 5 months ago 2
@TheAnubisDrake The Earth Cake is a lie.
BionicDance 5 months ago 10
@BionicDance But...but...you said earth cake... :(
TheAnubisDrake 5 months ago
@BionicDance lol portal reference...kinda...
KiDDxGalactic 5 months ago
God talks to us through Companion Cube
lordcheetah 5 months ago
Surely you're not suggesting that Pat Robertson is wrong?
Seriously, though: that guy scares me...
MyTurboReviews 5 months ago
"How do you tell the difference?... How do you tell what the message is?"
It all depends on the agenda of the politician/priest who's making the claim :)
Personally, my favourite meteorological "god's sending a message" was when that uber-sized Jesus figure was torched by lightning. I would have THOUGHT that should have been interpreted as god saying, "HEY, remember that 'NO FALSE IDOLS' commandment?"... but apparently they're rebuilding it. Go figure.
firefly4f4 5 months ago
Yahweh didn't have any problems talking to folks in the Bible? Your heart lacks ears! And if it had them, it'd have troubling hearing anyway.
RadarKat73080 5 months ago
very very good
paulahare2 5 months ago
Rick Perry recently said that he doesn't believe in man made global warming. I suggested that someone tell him next time he hears thunder its the sound of God facepalming.
grnlfe01 5 months ago
Most twisters seem to say this god hates trailer parks.
Darkfirebrand 5 months ago
Maybe god is saying "FOR MY SAKE, DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN."
Darkfirebrand 5 months ago
Do you by chance like the comedian George Carlin?
Antarticfire0 5 months ago
@Antarticfire0 You kidding me? All of my favorite and least favorite people are named George!
There'z Carlin and Lucas on one side, the Bush family on the other! :D
BionicDance 5 months ago 11
@BionicDance
What about George from Of Mice and Men
JamesThWilliams 5 months ago
@JamesThWilliams Not familiar with the fellow.
BionicDance 5 months ago
@BionicDance
You've never read Of Mice and Men, I assumed it was in every schools curriculum at some point.
JamesThWilliams 5 months ago
@JamesThWilliams Nope, never read it.
BionicDance 5 months ago
God, if he exists, ia an autistic unintelligent jerk...
moonlightavenger 5 months ago
0:32 Earthcake
Shmuklidooha 5 months ago
@Shmuklidooha The earthcake is a lie.
BionicDance 5 months ago
@BionicDance An this is why youre awesome =)
Shmuklidooha 5 months ago
Did the recent Hurricane hit New York? If not, then the religious are STILL full of shit.
crazyinsane500 5 months ago
I am currently trying to clean up after Irene, i live less than 15 miles from the ocean, I've been through a great many hurricanes and they seem to mess with everyone, God seems to be if anything completely fair, he ignores every one equally...
Moontanman 5 months ago
Very nicely said. I've had this argument with my very religious in-laws, and they always come back with "Well, God created Mother Nature...." My response..."No, He didn't. If God was/is real he didn't exist when the universe was created." Besides, I can see, feel, and hear Mother Nature. God...not so much. Love your hair, BTW!
mtthws380 5 months ago
The storm was supposed to be a category 4 when it hit New York but the storm died down before it got there. If the storm was bad they would have blamed gay marriage but when the opposite happens people won't thank the gays.
Voicesofhistory 5 months ago
There's a code to all this natural disaster stuff. I think I've worked some of it out:
1. High wind? You have sinned.
2. Sudden gust? The sin is lust.
3. Mighty flood? Too much pud (i.e. greed).
4. Out of food? The country's lewd.
5. Rainy day? Don't be gay.
6. Communicable disease? Failure to please.
7. Limnic eruptions? Disobeying God's instructions.
I don't know what earthquakes mean.
GodPatrol 5 months ago
I thought God wasn't the angry bastard of the old book after he sent his son down for the new book? ¬¬
rockerwere 5 months ago
On a more serious note the religious people fail to actually learn anything real from whether like the lesson "hurricanes are really bad, climate change almost certainly will increase both frequency and severity of hurricanes, maybe I shouldn't buy a hummer after all...". Not to imply that only vehicles contribute to climate change but its a good start.
Fx in my country we tax unhealthy food where as in the US they are subsidized in various ways. I seriously don't get that at all...
karakzanreal 5 months ago
Nah, it's just Ma Nature flipping out over oil disasters & the Teabaggers.
bluecollarcanuck 5 months ago
Absolute fail. God doesn't speak to us through the weather. Excuse me while cough up a lung from laughing so hard. God speaks through our hearts. God's influence of benevolence speaks in every human heart whether you believe or not.
TheStigmadeign 5 months ago
i think its because you suck and your not worth it. ps i am an atheist i just think you suck
SkepsisDub 5 months ago
God is the most powerful retard :)
That also makes the whole "tree of knowledge" thing thing make more sense ;)
karakzanreal 5 months ago
Your companion cube... I can't stop staring at it
Coquipirate 5 months ago 2
@Coquipirate Heh...with all the comments, I'm starting to suspect that putting Pan in the shot was a mistake, even if it might get me more views.
Kinna wanted people to talk about the subject matter, yanno? ;)
BionicDance 5 months ago 2
@BionicDance Do you want some delicious quake? The earthcake is a lie! Reading the will of the gods through the clouds and weather is pagan stuff. Isn't divining like, condemned in the bible? idk, you're preaching to the choir, that's probably why alot of people have nothing to say other than COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE!COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE COMPANION CUBE!!!11!!one!
Coquipirate 5 months ago
@BionicDance
is allbabies doing a blogtv today?
guitar19904 5 months ago
@guitar19904 Not a clue. He never tells me in advance, I just usually happen to be free. :)
BionicDance 5 months ago
Way ahead of ya on the face palm thing.
h8red42 5 months ago
And 3 out of every 4 republican candidates for president actually believe this "god sends natural disasters for sins" bullshit. Seriously. This country is doomed.
bamboo4tameshigiri 5 months ago
The guy playing Jesus in The Passion of the Christ was struck by lightning and they didn't take it as a sign, it's doublethink, like in 1984.
Laughingblades 5 months ago
It's utterly amazing that this superstitious claptrap is still around - I guess that's just an unfortunate consequence of the idea of free speech - you've got to put up with the loonies as well - but wait - these loonies also want to run the country via Bachmann-Denominationalists-Overdrive. Makes me sick.
rictusgate 5 months ago
:D It's easy, whenever you approve of the disaster or it effected people you don't like God approves and sent it as a message, whenever it effects you or something you like and agree with, it was just a natural disaster.
Laughingblades 5 months ago
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Laughingblades 5 months ago
It is a Hard facepalm moment...and it did sound like you said earthcake...
OlGreyWolf58 5 months ago 9
Maybe it's all to do with the psychological phenomena known as projection, or even just the faithful living, ahem, vicariously: their lives have no meaning (because their afterlives will), so they ascribe meaning to the weather.
COEXISTential 5 months ago
Instead of face palming... why not step up your intellectual thinking patterns and put them to use on coming up with innovative ways of milking money out of these CASH COWS!
batfly 5 months ago
It gets stupider, by the way: I heard someone going on about the terrible weather on the planet right now (clearly because we're becoming more depraved as a species) and used as an example the Japanese tsunami *Hulk Hands Face-Palm*
COEXISTential 5 months ago
massive atheism facepalms caused hurricane
C1h9r9e5gie 5 months ago
Clearly the bad weather is because of this video just have to be I asked the storm out side so I know. Lol ;-P
PingeMusic 5 months ago