We Think Atheist Ep 4: Do you believe in Zeus?

[gotnatas]

Tis video presumes the thiest isnt living in self imposed denial which most are.

[bluebyte101]

I can actually tell you all for a fact that Zues is real, he came to me in a dream and explained the workings of the world to me and assured me that he is real. What more do you people need, seriously take my word for it Zues is who you should really be following he told me so.

He has set this path before me so that I may turn as many misinformed Christians as I can before I part ways with the living world and meet with Hedes...

Prove me wrong!

[Spyderschwinky]

@bluebyte101 hey dont demand critism, instead do what every other religion did before you: demand respect and privileges above every other religion! oh and don't forget to ask for tax breaks, and think of a great scary punishment for everyone who does not agree with you...a classic ♥

[FiverBeyond]

Your profane depiction of the Invisible Pink Unicorn as male can be forgiven... but mostly because you aren't supporting that blasphemous Flying Spaghetti Monster dogma.

[Pawndurr]

So you're trying to say that your God is a fact and all other Gods are fairy tales? That still does not justify how your "logic, rationality, and discernment" proves that your God is real and all others are false.

It's inevitable that your logic, rationality, and discernment are going to lead you to believe "God" is real. Your subjective view has been shaped by a system of enslavement that has been perfected through thousands of years.

I hope you're not taking offense to this.

[SunnyLEGO]

Faith is not fair.

[rnemky]

It works because no evidence of that particular god's existence exist. The bible, you say? That's just hear/say. Was that god even the writer of the book? No, men wrote it. Maybe that god should have made copyright & signed the book instead of inspiring us with talking snakes & accepting humans as sacrifices. That author was a complete sociopath.

[Matur1n]

So because I don't believe in King Arthur or Sir Galahad, then I can't believe in Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great? Because I don't believe in Prince Charming or Prince Caspian, I can't believe in Prince William or Prince Edward?

[WeThinkAtheist]

I don't see how that's a relevant argument. You're comparing real characters to made up characters; I'm merely referring to made up characters.

[Matur1n]

You are assuming your own conclusion that God is a made up character. He isn't. Nothing about Zeus or Apollo being fake means God is fake, just like nothing about Sir Galahad being fake means Alexander the Great is fake. The implications put forth in the video just don't work.

[excandersham]

but you cannot distinguish between god and zorplax both are equally possible

[Pawndurr]

Zeus and Apollo were as real to their worshipers as your God is to you. They too had profits, scrolls, worshipers. Entire advanced civilizations worshiped those Gods so what makes your god any more real than Zeus or Apollo, or any of the hundreds of Gods throughout history. So the implications have everything to do with it.

I once was a sheep and followed God my shepard blindly, until i started asking questions he couldn't answer. Then all of a sudden, he didn't seem so mighty after all.

[Matur1n]

"Zeus and Apollo were as real to their worshipers as your God is to you"

A youngster reading books about Alexander the Great and Sir Galahad may see both as equally real. But one really is real, the other fictional. What I or some other worshipers you mention "feel" about who we worship, has no relevance to which one is real and which one isn't.

It takes logic, rationality and discernment to decide between Alexander and Galahad, just as it does between God and Zeus.

[Pawndurr]

I have respect for the promotion of love and peace through religion, but it only started out that way. It has now all turned into a system of mind control used to keep us divided along with other ideas such as nationalism, racism, and even gangs. The list of these "ideas" goes on and on and we will all remain divided until we see through the deceptions of our "cultures" and "traditions" and start thinking for ourselves and looking at the world objectively rather than subjectively.

[Matur1n]

"It has now all turned into a system of mind control .."

You don't have to be atheist to disdain the huge church beaucracies, e.g the Catholic church & Southern Baptist Convention. Those become political actors, not followers of Jesus. Christianity, to me, is just 50 families getting together to worship & follow Jesus. There is no one "over" me, no priest or pope or pastor, to control my mind. I can look at the world as objectively as you. Your complaint has nothing to do with Christianity.

[Pawndurr]

I see that you are a true Christian and honestly have a lot respect for that. But you forget that you still see the world through the Bible (I apologize if this is incorrect, i'm only assuming and speaking generally of all Christians).

The Bible is claimed to be "The Word of God" which is a false statement. It is word of man that has been edited over thousands of years with huge parts lost in translation from its original language.

[Pawndurr]

The Bible is a collection of books written by men selectively assembled by other men so that the entire book in whole would fit their own personal ideas and beliefs. It's the same with other religious hand books.