The Atheist's "Prayer" of Saint Francis (Crick)

[ReligiousFiction]

What a brilliant man. To know our own tendencies and downfalls is the first step toward correcting and guarding against those tendencies and downfalls.

[grandmajoyce2]

Atheists are great at distorting the beliefs of others. If a thinking person wanted to know the truth about Christianity, they'd most certainly ask an informed Christian, not an atheist. I find it hard to understand what purpose it serves them to knock other's beliefs, on which they are most certainly no authorities. Guess they have nothing better to do. Such emptiness! I'll pray for them.

[SilviaMadame]

@grandmajoyce2 YOU FEEL HURT BY"ATHEISTS" BECAUSE they come across as"attacking"Jesus or God, I am not an atheist personally. I am very mystic & FOLLOWER OF JESUS (words&deeds) . TECHNICALLY ATHEISM DOESN'T EVEN EXIST !! "atheists" are people who feel that RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS are made and dictated by imperfect humans (and not GOD) always in anger with those who integrate a religion (made by imperfect humans) A FEW atheists LOVE GOD (as a SOUL)..but dislike the claims made by religions...

[AfterFauve001]

I'm beginning to watch allot of this type of atheist support videos, and I really am more confused about what the atheist view point is..

I come across claims that certain professions and historical people, are/were atheist, but the research and my experience tells me that is not the case. testimonials, experiences, prayers, devout Atheists ect. (supposedly jokingly).

pathological arguments that distort facts, (dogma).

yet atheism is supposedly, not a religion.

what is it then?

[sikok93453]

@AfterFauve001 Atheism is a lack of belief. Plain and simple.

[AfterFauve001]

@sikok93453 but if only that were the case, everything a posted is apart of atheism, does not sound plain and simple to me.

[sikok93453]

@AfterFauve001 No - that is the case ... each individual may manifest their non-belief in different ways - but atheism was defined by the greeks nearly three thousand years ago.

It is simply non-believing in a deity. Christians are 99% atheists in that they don't believe in 99% of all deities.

[AfterFauve001]

@sikok93453

in other words its all semantics

twist it a certain way and it means what you want it to or a close approximation of,

and there for your right and the other guy is wrong.

I thought that's what religion was.

[sikok93453]

@AfterFauve001 not semantics at all. Atheism = non-belief. How hard is that to understand?

[allan3141]

@sikok93453 Great so what is non-believe in Atheism called. I am serious here. What is that called?

[sikok93453]

@allan3141 um ... you're missing the point - atheism is still non-belief - it's dishonest to promote a false dichotomy

non-"belief" in atheism - isn't possible - it's a double negative ... it would simply be belief of (insert whatever religious teaching here)

[Txsray]

Seems like God always outlives the atheists.

[cmdzie]

@Txsray What exactly does that mean? If you mean a certain belief true or not, well that can be said for many things huh?

[g0jeeta]

OMG richard Dawkins is there! so cool

[ociriszues]

@ usarmycaptainamerica.... You got all that from his statement? If any one is a shitbag its you and you are with out a doubt a fucking waste of space.

[usarmycaptainamerica]

Crick was an absolute shitbag, he was a human being without a fucking ounce of humanity.

He suggested in the British journal Nature that if "a child were considered to be legally born when two days old, it could be examined to see whether it was an 'acceptable member of human society.'" Obviously this is not only an argument for abortion; it's an argument for infanticide.

[g0jeeta]

@usarmycaptainamerica HAAAAh? what?!?! abortion? NOOO that's evil man. Don;t even talk about it. God hates abortionists. He is not powerful enough to simply put a stop to it. He is jealous that we have power to override his imperfect ass.

[Aritokamaru]

@usarmycaptainamerica you do know that you talk about the man who discovered the fundamental base of DNA research right? Research witch greatly helped modern medicine. You should know that not his ideas are what defined him as a great human, but the ideas witch he applied. Think about it, we can't be 100% good. A human (especially one witch searches the benefit of the society) may have some really evil ideas, but he will always apply the good ones.

[shanefairhead]

Francis Crick did not convert to any religion on his death-bed, nor did Darwin, nor did Voltaire, nor did Paine...All these lies are made up by the religious to give credit to themselves. But even if they did it would still prove nothing but the longing for a life to continue, that is never going to.

[5tonyvvvv]

@shanefairhead Homochirality is the stake through the heart for evolution..life by time and chance impossible..biochemical chemistry has reached a dead end paradox!!!..and if u think simple chemicals could some how form life, u dont know real chemistry..u would rather believe in some unknown chemistry than an intelligence..this is why Miller failed to make life in a test tube and no building blocks were ever made or assembled..right and left handed amino acids together are toxic to life..

[philipmarie1854]

@shanefairhead But neither did their writings change anything in religion but enforce it as innocent Catholics who died in the French Revolution refused to give in to their perverted idiocracy. To you life may not go on but to us, it does and with God and Mary in heaven, we have people to hope and listen to us. I'm not sayin you don't (I mean, everyone has friends and family) but God AND Mary give usa bigger reason to live: through them we can save our families and everyone by making them good.

[dylanman89]

is that dawkins at 1.30?

[funincluded]

Yes

[KristineCarpenter]

"Francis was a devout atheist...In fact, on his very last day here on earth..."

I find this quite funny...if they're all atheists, where do they think Francis WENT? Off the earth somewhere...

[Jyotinanda108]

FC became a beleiver in God before he died

[dylanman89]

that may be true i dont know.... but where did u here that?

it was also rumoured that darwin done the same.... religious pple are always treading on scientists repuations, i know it is innate that those of faith manufacture stories from thin air.... but seriously, stop devaluing the lifetime of work these geniuses have provided.

[Subfightr]

Bullshit. Don't lie, and if you are not lieing then you are most likely quoting someone else who lied.

[Jyotinanda108]

actually i got him mixed up with another famous atheist who did so, so its my mistake, i said that 4 moths ago

[Subfightr]

Damnit, dont admit you made a mistake.. now I feel bad :( heh... 1st of all good for you that you can do that. And second.. Its most likely Francis Collins you are thinking of.. Many people have said that Crick was but I think they are mixing the two up. Collins is also HUGE in Genetics, and they both have the same first names and last names are much alike as well. Thank you for your honesty and I am sorry I was so blunt. (bows)

[Jyotinanda108]

haha..honesty is always the best policy.. Thanks for the humilty

[wildboy789789]

4 MONTHS AGO AGAIN!!!!!!! lol

[Scentless]

We don't have too many other idioms for death.

[Zhenobia]

YO! Glory to RATIONAL THINKING!

[aZeroGodist]

Never heared of Francis Crick, thanks for the post, must get his book.

[ufodrawer]

he aided in the discovery of DNA, brilliant man

[IAmBiggestFan]

YOU GUYS ARE STRANGE.

Halloween finished. Didnt you know?

[Dano853]

No clue how they came up with the title to this video

[deportmexico]

this yoism website is wierd, but hey they got a lot of great videos about politics as it meets the regular joe.

[horsie111]

"No newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and that if it fails these tests, it forfeits the right to live."-Francis Crick. Amen, brother?

[alan2a1l]

Never heard or saw this quote, but met and talked with him, as a grad student, and this could well have been intended as dry humor. He was impatient of irrationality and stupidity and this could have been a response to a particularly stupid comment.

[proudfootz]

Amen! The less mysterious life becomes, the less religion can prey on fear and ignorance.