The Punk Patriot * Religion is Unreasonable

[Arbow1986]

What if I choose not to be a member of your created collected commuinty? Being a real conservative is about individual liberties. I can decided for myself what my own morality is I don't need government to decied that for me .

[missxwhatsername]

Are you familiar with the term morality without religion? What a pathetic dumbfuck.

[Cinnderrellla]

i love PunkPatriot. you guys need to get over it.. this is america and we have freedom of speech. sorry. if you dont likeit. LEAVE! there is lots of places that you have to be 1 religion, and if you speak againstit. you die. and if you dont like it. you should go there. so you can bend over and take it!

[cherylkeil99]

Brilliant, and inspiring. This (and other passionate messages like this) is why you got the Net Roots Nation scholarship.

[jjmcelroy]

He sounded mad. lol. I've got your back PunkPatriot in this E-Argument.

[Mitscherman]

Enjoyed your commentary. Inspirational. Thank you!

[ThePunkPatriot]

@YutubeIsForDumbfucks Watch what you say. You may find the FBI knocking at your door.

[YutubeIsForDumbfucks]

@ThePunkPatriot shut the fuck up you liberal pussy

[ThePunkPatriot]

@YutubeIsForDumbfucks HAHAHA! Wow. Powerful debate skills there. Also, you've been reported for making threats of violence.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@YutubeIsForDumbfucks sweet

[cfreeman5343]

Is the kind of change you talk about possible? And if it is, how does it come around? Does it come through our current political process of electing the officials who will make the changes we want?

Or does it require a more radical social movement of the entire nation?

[ThePunkPatriot]

@cfreeman5343 I've seen it happen on a local level, with families organizing for a better town government, lobbying town hall meetings, and electing new town councilors who were willing to raise taxes slightly to preserve our town's school system from being cut almost entirely.

[jesselakerr]

what a great video man

[yviva]

still, i'd like to see your dreams realized...

[yviva]

did you say anything about religion?

anyway... you make good points. but, your perspective on american history is fpretty pollyanna... this is a land taken by force from the indigenous communities by sociopathic & psychopathic european invaders, a land that engaged in centuries of vicious slavery, massive environmental destruction, and has engaged in ongoing, endless international projects of economic, military & political violence, domination, exploitation & abuse...

[ThePunkPatriot]

@yviva This video was more on the nature of government in general rather than the USA. However, you can say the same thing about any people anywhere in the world. Scandinavian Socialist Democracy is a great model for any modern nation, but Scandinavian history is filled with conquest, pillaging, mass murder, even up until WWII when they were "neutral" selling iron to the Axis, and allowing Nazi troops to move freely through their land.

[yviva]

yeah. & i've heard any number of israelis excuse taking palestinian land because it's happened all over the world, and everybody does it/has done it. this mentality is the refuge of the abuser/colonizer. it's very comfortable to think: this is just human nature. i'm not doing anything everybody else hasn't done. but, did you notice that the africans, the indians, and the asians threw out the colonizers (only after tragically internalizing much trauma, unfortunately)? (cont)

[ThePunkPatriot]

@yviva I'm not saying that it's right, I'm just saying that it happened, which you originally seem to imply that I don't believe.

[yviva]

@ThePunkPatriot

i'm saying that the fact that "it happened" doesn't justify it. the ongoing occupations of tribal homelands take by force is an ongoing crime...

[yviva]

@ThePunkPatriot

anyway, my main point is that the u.s. is not a good country gone bad. it's a bad country, continuing on with one form or another of business as usual. i'm not saying that the goodness or badness is %1000 monolithic. i'm just pointing out the essential nature of the place...

[yviva]

the only difference between those places and north america is that the indigenous communities here were too weakened by population loss due disease imported by europeans and absolutely initially unable to respond to the european level of brutality and treachery, which it took them a very long time to comprehend.

[yviva]

@ThePunkPatriot

the fact that the populations here were logistically unable to rid themselves of european colonizers unlike people in other parts of the world doesn't make the colonization of this place any more justifiable than the colonizing of africa, india, or asia. this is an ongoing criminal situation. that's why, unlike you, i am not a patriot. - x

[ThePunkPatriot]

@yviva I'm also not a polyanna. I am a patriot because I believe in the ideals that our government is supposed to stand for, not because I find the atrocities of history justified-- which I don't.

The two are different issues that should not be conflated.

[XM8rifle]

Could you explain why you think Ronald Reagan fits into that group you mentioned? I'm just curious, really.

[pakalak28]

I hope you are listened to by many.

[geometrololi]

*one man standing ovation*

[KidOmniMan]

I am glad you found your soapbox, keep at it.

[deforrestation]

TPP for president.

[Rennpanzer]

I like the idea, but he looks a little too young. How about TPP for White House Chief of Staff, working for, say, Dennis Kucinich or Jesse Ventura?

This country would be so freakin' AWESOME . . . if we just ran it right.

Imagine what kind of a nation we could have if TPP reached as many people as glenn beck does.

[lord6095]

Ayn Rand's philosophy is exactly opposite of Jesus Christ, yet every christian I know just loves her to death. I have read her books and found her to be a bitter, hateful, overrated bitch...

[yviva]

@lord6095

oddly, most "christians" ignore most of jesus' clearest teachings (give all your money to the poor, non-violence, communal living, accepting & rehabilitating the ostracized members of society, heal the sick, don't be too ideological, are some that come to mind),. there are some exceptions, though. the quakers, for example.

[nero8289]

you do not seem to realy understand Rand. She was not for knocking other people down,She was for the individual liveing for them selfs. She was not aganist individuals helping one another. She was aganist altruism with is sacrificeing your self for another.

[ThePunkPatriot]

I have read, and understand Rand just fine, thanks.

[nero8289]

Sorry my mistake.

[Rennpanzer]

You, Sir, understand a helluva lot more than Rand just fine.

Given the fatalistic direction our nation and our government are headed in, and the inevitable social breakdown that is sure to follow, it is my remorseful opinion that we may, one day, suffer through another revolution.

If that happens, we would do well to have people like you to provide us a moral, intellectual, and ethical compass when the dust and smoke settle. Thank you very much for your eloquence and your insight.

[yviva]

@nero8289

she was a sociopath.

[nero8289]

@yviva How was she a sociopath. Because she had self interest, Because she did not want to live for others? Because she spoke out aganist aultrlism? Can you evin tell me any thing about Objectvism?

[55ella2007k]

Ayn Rand's vision of morality was based on the belief that the instinct of self-preservation would lead to a greater good .This type of philosophy has been entirely discredited by the reality at hand. Rand assumed, from the outset, that all actions regarding self-preservation were neutral. They are not. Human nature can be vindictive, not based on logic and reason, or even animal instinct, which is entirely dismissed in all of Rand's writings. She presumed, logic prevails. It does not.

[ScienceofSelf]

I want this to inspire me to dream, but I just get the feeling that any amount of reform equals hitting snooze on the doomsday alarm. I don't see anything this culture has produced as being compatible with sustaining our existence on this planet. I think there HAS to be a complete breakdown of society before anything can be set right at this stage.

[ScienceofSelf]

It rubbed me the wrong way that you mention anarchy and chaos in the same breath. Government is best which governs not at all... but putting that aside, I'm pausing to pick out the part about public water systems. There wouldn't be such a need for cleaning the water if it hadn't been poisoned by industry in the first place. And even what's cleaned is usually poisoned with fluoride. And not everyone has access if you consider animals living in the wild... but moving on...

[mjdishere]

Great video. I myself have been very anti religious for a long time but what you said about living religiously, not by a word of god but a morality and happiness is really spot on.

I'll pass it on

[Vuji222]

We do get to choose. Majority of people do not completely understand that concept though. I am 28, and only realized in the last two years that I have the ability and right to make choices for myself.

Now, people make choices everyday, yet somehow still manage to give other people credit for their decisions.

Nothing is going to change unless people realize that they as individuals are significant. That their opinions matter. They also need to understand that others opinions are significant

[Vuji222]

too. I think that is where things get complicated. The fact that once people realize that what they believe is important, they denounce others opinions. But those opinions are valid too. We need to communicate and accept.

I am losing my train of thought. Regardless, well said. I love what you do.

dunielle

[Prometheusforliberty]

I enjoyed most of what you had to say, But Ayn Rand's vision of morality was not what you claimed it was. She had a different take on selfishness than the typical view. She wasn't against helping others. She was against the idea of putting others ahead of ones self there's a difference. Also I found it interesting that the closest thing to Ayn Rand in congress Dr.Ron Paul perfectly fits your wish of living by principles and ideas. Just some food for thought.

[TheBoredSwede]

Amen.