i dont think its god who sends you to hell, but more if you dont accept god, then lucifer has power over you. lucifer is in control of this world... just look at the freemasons and the illuminati who are in control right now. they worship lucifer, and there is so much satanic symbolism in this world, its sickening... its hard to ignore it really.
@LettuceReason "As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
@LettuceReason Hitler was not an atheist. He was Roman Catholic and was never excommunicated, though it is probably more likely he used this link to Christianity to gain support and actually believed in some weird Norse paganism. As for Pol-Pot and Stalin (and Hitler), they are authoritarian rulers who essentially set themselves up as gods and commanded blind obedience from there followers, much like the Judeo-Christian god. Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher, I don't agree with him but how
@LettuceReason (continued) is he so loathed as to earn a place on this list? As for Marquis de Sade, he was a hedonist. Some atheists have been hedonists but most have not. Many religious believers, think the Bacchic rites of the Ancient Mediterranean, have been hedonists. It is not specific to atheism. Let's look briefly at those many religious admire: Abraham-child sacrifice, Jesus-hell, Muhammad-slavery and child sex, Calvin-torture, Luther-antisemitism...etc. Religion has caused great evil.
actually being atheist is natural - I was born that way - I even tried to become christian but found it so hypocritical - to pray and say things you don't believe in - felt so false so I decided to stay true to myself. I trust science approach and practices and try to keep an open mind, accept that supernatural is possible but not probable. I envy people with faith sometimes - ignorance is bliss and source of hope and I hope there is a super being capable of making the world a fair place.
@tracyofbg Without doubt, one of the factors in the emergence of anti-religious ideas and a phalanx of deniers of God, has been the false teachings, the inadequacies and the intellectual perversions of the followers of some religions. The peculiarities and separate characteristics of each religion must, therefore, be individually examined when studying the reasons that have led men to adhere to that religion.
Western intellectuals were aware only of the superstitious aspect of false religion and how the established dogmas of religion lacked all logical basis, so they had no hesitation in condemning religion as such to be baseless. Their judgment was based on their discouraging experiences with their own religion, and it could not fail, then, to be hasty, unrealistic, irrational and illogical.
It is true that certain religions, lacking a connection with the principles of revelation, have been influenced in their appearance and growth by the social environment and similar factors. However, it is illogical to ascribe the foundation of all faiths and religious tendencies to material or economic circumstances and demands, to fear of the terrifying forces of nature, to ignorance or to considerations rejected by science.
What is called science by the *science-worshippers* of the present age and regarded by them as equivalent to the sum total of *reality*, is simply a collection of laws applicable to a single dimension of the world. The result of all human effort and experimentation is a body of knowledge concerning a minute bright dot comparable to the dim light of a candle-surrounded by a dark night enveloping a huge desert of indefinite extent.
All praise is due to ALLAH, the Lord of the Universe.
Is it true that atheists are a small minority in the States? Wiki says something about 86% professing some faith. On u tube, you'd think everyone was born again evangelical. just wondered.
We can feel wind. We can see its effects. There is no other explanation for wind, other than what it is. The only "evidence" you've got for God is the fact that you don't have any better explanation for why we're here. Not that we need a reason.
When I first started watching YT videos I was convinced that nothing could shake my faith in Christ. I was wrong, now I'm an atheist. So I have to say that my greatest atheist influences are all of the atheist Youtubers.
@fsmdidit Right on my friend..... I concur wholeheartedly. And am forever grateful. Look up Robert Green Ingersoll, my personal favorite atheist. Even with all it's flaws, YouTube still kicks ass.
@fsmdidit You are weak my friend, I will pray for you. If you lost faith in Christ, that means you never had it. You are able to be convinced of anything, you lack strength, and courage. I will pray for you. It's sad, that people believe athiests. I guess man created himself right??
@davisne When I'd hear that cliche "they never were truly a believer", back when I was still a Christian, I would think to myself "these judgmental, arrogant people aren't concerned with anything other than feeling superior to this unbeliever." Which I'd like to point out that you proved this with your own words. You call me weak, cowardly, and credulous. Personally I think believers like you are just projecting your inadequacies onto us. And I didn't deconvert easily
@blueray1969 And the best part about that is since no red line came up I didn't think to check my own statement there..lol. That's a lesson learned :/
wow...this is said...not even a sophisticated list of people...try reading a book and learning about both sides before you settle for the crap other people tell you
What about CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS? Let us "not pray"; but rather, hope his physicians are successful in keeping this brilliant man alive and well. My thoughts are with you, Hitch!
Well, I became atheist when I noticed many people contradict what they say. I was quite tired when religious people do everything to make people guilty in order to control the followers.
This only proves what Jesus said when he was talking about the devils kids and God's both being here on earth. He said u can tell them by what they say, what they do and how they act. don't listen to creation listen to the Creator. love ya wake up
You've got all bases covered then. You mean - shock, horror - Jesus predicted some people might not believe him?
I guess you've never read the Qu'ran. Muhammad "miraculously predicts" that there will be unbelievers till the end of time. Must be the truth then - rather than a mythological system which people believe on the basis of remarkably little evidence.
Religion's purpose: You'll accept any old nonsense on faith to continue believing in eternal life i guess.
If you were invited to a feast with all kinds of good meats, would you believe that there has been no one to cook them? But nature is a banquet prepared for us! You have tomatoes & peaches & apples & milk & honey. Who has prepared all these things for mankind? Nature is blind. If you believe in no God, how can you explain that blind nature suceeded in preparing just the things that we need in such plenitude and variety? If you desire more, email me at 1thevoiceoftruth@gmail.com. God is real
Believe it or not, some of us happen to just know stuff without having to look it up on google. We didn't have google for most of my life, and we actually had to learn shit, and I don't have a dick so why don't you run along and play with your own tiny little dangly.
Actually it's been a couple of years since I've read the God Delusion, and yes it was a very good book, but wether or not somebody should be a gnostic atheist is a common debate among atheists and teapot atheist is a common term for somebody who basically thinks the chance of a god's existence is zero but won't say he knows there's no god because you can't prove a negative.
i wish i could just once see the comments on a video be ABOUT THE VIDEO and not a bunch of dick measuring between people showing how many facts they can google in order to disprove the previous comment.
Richard Dawkin's scale of somebody's level of theism is 1-7. 1 being 100% certain there is a god and 7 is 100% certain there isn't a god. Even Dawkins won't call himself a 7. Maybe a 6.999 but not a 7, but he'd also point out that you can't be 100% certain that there are no invisible pink unicorns.
Many atheists also call themselves agnostic. Agnostic literally means not knowing. An agnostic atheist sees no proof that there is a god but doesn't claim to know for a fact that there is no god. Somebody who is 99.9999% sure there is no god is still agnostic. Somebody who is 100% sure there is no god is called a gnostic atheist, but scientists don't like to claim to be 100% sure of things.
@TolpuddleMartyr Carl Sagan made the common mistake of accepting the Christian slander that an atheist is one who asserts that there is no God. I am an atheist but I do not say "There is no God." Rather, I ask, "What the fork are you talking about? God? What is THAT!?" The prefix "a" and "an" means "without" so "atheism" means "without theism"; an atheist is someone without theism, that is, without a god belief. Carl Sagan was without a god belief. He also inspired many to become atheists.
@cliffwalkinfool I'm an atheist, so I'm not trying to claim Carl Sagan for my 'team'. But he said that he was agnostic. If you're going to put that down to a 'common mistake', I would say two things: (a) Carl Sagan was an uncommon man. I doubt he was prone to 'common mistakes' (b) Bertrand Russell described himself as an agnostic. I seriously doubt that one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century made a 'common mistake'.
@jonl34 Actually I myself never knew he was atheist until recently. In fact I didn't realize anyone with a high I.Q. was atheist until about 2 months ago. But that is for certain. I was of course a closest case atheist most of my life.
How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, *unknowing and unperceiving *, is his creator and that of all beings?
No?
Then how can the atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
Your delusions that science has put out the notion of God is purely *rhetorical* and has nothing to do with logical method, because even thousands of scientific experiments could not possibly suffice to demonstrate that no non-material being or factor exists.
Your claim is nothing more than a *fanatical* illusion based on unproven theories. Views such as these derive directly from a system of thought centered on materialism; within it, ....
everything is defined and delimited with reference to materialism.
To interpret materialism in such a sense is in the final analysis strictly meaningless; it would be a superstitious notion involving the perversion of truth, and to regard it as scientific would, in fact, be *treason* to science.
Even if the followers of a religious school of thought had no proofs for their claim, ...
to conclude firmly and forcibly that non- being reigns beyond the sensory realm would be a non-scientific choice, based on imagination and speculation.
Some people try to propagate this *fantasy* in the garb of science and to present their choice as having been dictated by scientific thought. In the final analysis, however, the denial involved in such an assertion is unworthy of science and philosophy, and even *contradicts* empirical logic.
@LettuceReason How can the atheists delude themselve and believe that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
@1tabligh if you are asking my opinion, I believe it is in the form of anger or rebellion against God or the idea of God. Atheism offers no answers to the biggest questions we all have. Why are we here?,what happens after death?, what brings meaning to life?, and what inside me determines right and wrong?
@LettuceReason How can it be supposed that belief in the existence of God is the acceptance of contradiction, whereas belief in the uncaused nature of an effect such as matter is not contradictory?
How could it be believed that matter should itself be the origin of millions of attributes and characteristics and thus be the equivalent of the purposeful, wise and all-knowing Creator?
To each his own thats what I say, I myself am a strong believer, nothing wrong with not believing though. Just don't try to preach to me about there being no God because I'm not going to be preaching to you.
Whats the worst that could happen if all organised religion just stopped and everyone just beleived in thier own ideas of god (or no god) and kept it to themselves, no one would have to fly planes into anything for a start.
It struck me from reading his books that he had a spiritual side to him & therefore probably a religious one, but I guess nothing about the Sky Fairy really protects you from evil (quite the opposite in fact...)
I didn't realize how influential George Carlin was to my way of thinking..but that brings it all back..I was about 10 the first time I heard that... Thank you!
King's recent writing would indicate that he is not an atheist, but his earlier works (regardless of his personal beliefs) gave many people reason to doubt the legitimacy of religion.
It seems that people forget or haven't been exposed to the great existentialists like Camus, Sartre,Nietsche, Dosteofsky and others of that ilk. There is a certain sentiment of picking on religion and god that I appreciate, but I think more important than the denial should be the application of self definement. The first philosophical question a persons asks is whether or not to kill oneself. Paraphrases Camus' philosophical beginning. Better than Hitchen's God is not great.
Congratulations doctor. Unfortunately no matter what educational credentials you have...your always going to be fucking retarded for blindly following religion.
If God dosn't exist, why did He put his Name on the palm of your hand? You did not even know that! He has put the 21letter of the Hebrew Aleph Bet which is the Hebrew Alpha bet in english. This letter is the Shin and it is on the palm of your hand. The Shin stands for ALMIGHTY GOD It is also on the land of Israel and the mountains of Jerusalem. Now you can't say he dose not exist because he proved that he does!
I can't help but to think that the logic in your statement is somewhat flawed. Exactly how does "I have a PHD" equal "therefore my opponent must be stupid"? Anyway I'd be fascinated to know what subject it is that you have a PHD in and what award it is that you've won.
You mean after life - don't you? Because, after all, I am MUCH more likely to have a happy life here on earth WITHOUT the primitive shackles of religion weighing on me. Oh, and I am a very educated EXchristian myself.
really? so youre gonna behave and live like the animals do,wont you.
if there is no God, where is the sense behind civilisation? why dont you run around naked. i mean ,no one can really say anything ,its your right to do say isnt it?
you can have sex whereever with whiomever you want. nobody can stop you, rape is justified.
@Pua8 The number of American atheists are increasing every day and if this country is going to hell in a hand bag (and it is) it sure has nothing to do with our behaving like "animals". Think about it, son. Muslims adhere to even stricter moral "laws" than Christians do as do the Jews so your particular vision of God is not the reason for human morality. There are FAR more people who claim to believe in a God incarcerated in our prison system than otherwise - check it out.
it is not the believe in God ,that makes someone a good person.
it is the submission to Him and the obedience.Hitler also believed in God that does not make him a good person.
you have to submit to the will of the Creator.He best knows His creation,so He is the best Judge.Knower of the seen and unseen. none can bring better laws than God, no doubt here.
@Pua8 Please watch "An Atheist Meets God" by Edward Current here on YouTube. THAT'S how I perceive your idea of "God". I was a born again, spirit filled, theology degreed a-hole at one time and know of what I'm talking about. Read your bible with an open mind - it's all in there.
@Pua8 People with intellect? You mean the bit about ants speaking to humans? The bit about a woman's testimony not being equal to a man's? Or the parts which exhort Muslims to lie in wait for infidels, and ambush and massacre them at every opportunity? Yes, real PhD stuff there.
@Pua8 I said a woman's TESTIMONY, not her physical strength. Ive read the Koran and did not marvel at all, seeing that it's so chaotically arranged, so full of violence and plagiarised verses from older sources- a load of junk, really. I can understand ignorant fanatics being inspired by its gory pages to commit suicide bombings. There is not one single Muslim country I would wish to live in.
@Pua8 I my experience, when a religious person says "I feel sorry for you" to an unbeliever, it's usually a polite way of saying: "I hate you". Your pity would be better expended on those who've been widowed and orphaned by Muslim suicide bombers. A pox on all organised religions!!
@vivalaleta Obviously, you never were a Christian or you just wore the title Christian. You may have some education but you lack wisdom. Religion teaches a moral life, so if you are having "fun" with no regard to morals, I don't even want to say what type of human you are. It's sad that you will live your life as a slave to your temptations and desires, hopefully one day you will come to your senses. I'll pray for ya
@davisne How ignorant you are. I have a degree in theology, spoke in tongues, spent every Sunday Morning and evening and Wednesday eve at church, got immersion babtised in a lake, minnistered on streets and soup houses....Morals are instinctual as science has proven. I am far more "moral" than your disgusting God.
Man, our education system really IS in trouble I see. What did you win your award for, sir? It certainly must have something to do with your creative imagination.
@Pua8 - "Those who rule the world worship the devil" Do you have any evidence for this? Or are you relying on the paranoid dribblings of men like David Icke?
that's what you like huh? punishment, torture, fire and brimstone, for your personal satisfaction, they didn't share you particular superstition and you don't like it... "turn the other cheek, love thy enemy, forgive"... no, that's foreign language to you isn't it saynotodarwin?
we will never be able to disprove a god to people who believe in him. because religious people wear full body armor when it comes to reason. even more so, the less arguments you have to support a theory, the more likely they are to believe it. i always pretend to be a very religious person (various beliefs btw,) when i come across a religious person. it's good for a laugh. "i feel gods presence everywhere i go. we must do gods will" and that kinda stuff. always good for a laugh.
Wow, satan eh? roflmfao. What evil did they do? Not what they said. What did they do that was so evil as for you to proclaim them (aka judge, isn't that heresy for you to think you know the mind of "god") satan or followers of that which *cough* your "god" created?
even if that was true, you're forgetting Thor, Zeus, the Devas, etc. etc. etc.
That's disregarding the fact that much of the bible has been found to be incorrect, as well as the knowledge that things happened much differently than your (and indeed, any religion) claims.
Show me evidence that your god has any kind of effect on this world. Even if that's hard to do, I'm going to make it harder. Show evidence that your god does anything at all, that cannot be attributed to the works of some other god.
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I'd like ONE person to give me ONE scientific evidence to proof anything in the bible wrong. I'd also like to see ONE emperical evidence to prove macro evolution.
hahahhahhaHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAh you are so fucking ignorant its unbelievable, okay he does thousands of miracles, but oh wait, there are still ALOT of kids dying all the time from diseases and don't live past 1 years old. What do you call that?
Nice compilation. Douglas adams is epic. But you GOTTA replace penn and teller with Derren brown!!! His magic and atheism is better imho. thanks for sharing your beliefs, mate. Although I disagree with the order, I agree with Dawkins, an atheist magiacian, dawkins (maybe carlin -- who's brilliant in his atheistic commentary, althoguht am not a huge fan). great stuff. Mine are probably Dawkins, Hitchens, Adams, Derren Brown, and likely the ridiculousness oreligion itself. LOL!
Douglas Adam's argument sounds a bit like Russell's paradox. I would have put him on my list, together with A J Ayer. Fortunately I've been atheist all my life.
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jackskellingtonsora 4 months ago
i dont think its god who sends you to hell, but more if you dont accept god, then lucifer has power over you. lucifer is in control of this world... just look at the freemasons and the illuminati who are in control right now. they worship lucifer, and there is so much satanic symbolism in this world, its sickening... its hard to ignore it really.
ovechkin100 4 months ago
@ovechkin100 that just illogical. If god wanted to he prevent people from going to hell.
thehoogard 4 months ago
@thehoogard strong point... another reason why im on the fence. if god is so mighty how is it we're only saved if we believe haha.
ovechkin100 4 months ago
@ovechkin100 actualy its funny if you realy read the bible it kinda says all lucifer did was he didnt like how god worked and asked him to stop
TheDantestopher 3 weeks ago
@LettuceReason "As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
martinphipps2 5 months ago
I love Douglas Adam's Babelfish logic!
ilsontfouscesromains 5 months ago
Wow, they left out Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, The Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a host of other really fun folks!
LettuceReason 5 months ago
@LettuceReason Hitler was not an atheist. He was Roman Catholic and was never excommunicated, though it is probably more likely he used this link to Christianity to gain support and actually believed in some weird Norse paganism. As for Pol-Pot and Stalin (and Hitler), they are authoritarian rulers who essentially set themselves up as gods and commanded blind obedience from there followers, much like the Judeo-Christian god. Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher, I don't agree with him but how
molatov0 5 months ago
@LettuceReason (continued) is he so loathed as to earn a place on this list? As for Marquis de Sade, he was a hedonist. Some atheists have been hedonists but most have not. Many religious believers, think the Bacchic rites of the Ancient Mediterranean, have been hedonists. It is not specific to atheism. Let's look briefly at those many religious admire: Abraham-child sacrifice, Jesus-hell, Muhammad-slavery and child sex, Calvin-torture, Luther-antisemitism...etc. Religion has caused great evil.
molatov0 5 months ago
Douglas Adams is a great choice.
My top 5 would include Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens and Matt Dillahunty!
8-)
richo61 6 months ago
Where's Christopher Hitchens?:)
SahibJura 6 months ago
Please be aware of Edward Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), Anne Besant (freethinkers Handbook), Robert Ingersoll to name 3.
examinfo 8 months ago
I hate when I promptly vanish in a puff of logic.
LordOfHistory 8 months ago
My list:
1) Richard Dawkins
2) Matt Dillahunty
3) Stephen Hawking
4) Douglas Adams
5) My college Calc 1 teacher (haha)
superfrisbie 8 months ago
Stephen King believes in God. How did he get an honorable mention?
OneEyedJack1970 9 months ago
actually being atheist is natural - I was born that way - I even tried to become christian but found it so hypocritical - to pray and say things you don't believe in - felt so false so I decided to stay true to myself. I trust science approach and practices and try to keep an open mind, accept that supernatural is possible but not probable. I envy people with faith sometimes - ignorance is bliss and source of hope and I hope there is a super being capable of making the world a fair place.
tracyofbg 11 months ago
@tracyofbg Without doubt, one of the factors in the emergence of anti-religious ideas and a phalanx of deniers of God, has been the false teachings, the inadequacies and the intellectual perversions of the followers of some religions. The peculiarities and separate characteristics of each religion must, therefore, be individually examined when studying the reasons that have led men to adhere to that religion.
1tabligh 7 months ago
Western intellectuals were aware only of the superstitious aspect of false religion and how the established dogmas of religion lacked all logical basis, so they had no hesitation in condemning religion as such to be baseless. Their judgment was based on their discouraging experiences with their own religion, and it could not fail, then, to be hasty, unrealistic, irrational and illogical.
1tabligh 7 months ago
It is true that certain religions, lacking a connection with the principles of revelation, have been influenced in their appearance and growth by the social environment and similar factors. However, it is illogical to ascribe the foundation of all faiths and religious tendencies to material or economic circumstances and demands, to fear of the terrifying forces of nature, to ignorance or to considerations rejected by science.
1tabligh 7 months ago
What is called science by the *science-worshippers* of the present age and regarded by them as equivalent to the sum total of *reality*, is simply a collection of laws applicable to a single dimension of the world. The result of all human effort and experimentation is a body of knowledge concerning a minute bright dot comparable to the dim light of a candle-surrounded by a dark night enveloping a huge desert of indefinite extent.
All praise is due to ALLAH, the Lord of the Universe.
1tabligh 7 months ago
Rats ass you theist desperadoes. You propose an untestable transcendent reality. Then speculate on aspects of character.
LMAO.......................
fatcat2939 11 months ago
Hitchens and Bertrand Russell!
mrletternumber 11 months ago 2
RIP George Carlin! I fucking love you!
weirdguy75 11 months ago 8
Gene Roddenberry! Thumbs up:-)
artreyoo 1 year ago
George Carlin really was hilarious, a big inspiration to
BARNEYRAPEDME69 1 year ago
Is it true that atheists are a small minority in the States? Wiki says something about 86% professing some faith. On u tube, you'd think everyone was born again evangelical. just wondered.
blueray1969 1 year ago
Richard Dawkins! Darwin's Rottweiler.
originalmo07 1 year ago
I knew Carlin as gonna be on the list before i even clicked on the link.
lordofbih 1 year ago
so does wind exist since its invisible?? i know God does!!
shamiotzi253 1 year ago
@shamiotzi253 I hope you're a troll.
We can feel wind. We can see its effects. There is no other explanation for wind, other than what it is. The only "evidence" you've got for God is the fact that you don't have any better explanation for why we're here. Not that we need a reason.
rawssremix 1 year ago
Carlin is pretty retarted, I'd love to have a debate with him......but i'm sure he's busy drowning in the lake of fire.
davisne 1 year ago
When I first started watching YT videos I was convinced that nothing could shake my faith in Christ. I was wrong, now I'm an atheist. So I have to say that my greatest atheist influences are all of the atheist Youtubers.
fsmdidit 1 year ago
@fsmdidit Right on my friend..... I concur wholeheartedly. And am forever grateful. Look up Robert Green Ingersoll, my personal favorite atheist. Even with all it's flaws, YouTube still kicks ass.
sparky7718 1 year ago
@fsmdidit You are weak my friend, I will pray for you. If you lost faith in Christ, that means you never had it. You are able to be convinced of anything, you lack strength, and courage. I will pray for you. It's sad, that people believe athiests. I guess man created himself right??
davisne 1 year ago
@davisne When I'd hear that cliche "they never were truly a believer", back when I was still a Christian, I would think to myself "these judgmental, arrogant people aren't concerned with anything other than feeling superior to this unbeliever." Which I'd like to point out that you proved this with your own words. You call me weak, cowardly, and credulous. Personally I think believers like you are just projecting your inadequacies onto us. And I didn't deconvert easily
fsmdidit 1 year ago 2
@davisne You're cute. In a "look how dumb" sort of way. You pray, and I hope for better pubic education.
originalmo07 1 year ago
@originalmo07 what do you need to know? I can tell you all you need to know about pubes :)
blueray1969 1 year ago
@blueray1969 And the best part about that is since no red line came up I didn't think to check my own statement there..lol. That's a lesson learned :/
IamYou86 1 year ago
@IamYou8 What she said....
originalmo07 1 year ago
@IamYou86 it's a classic - you should print it and frame it ! thanks for cheering me up :)
blueray1969 1 year ago
@davisne Yes we do, when we have sex! xD
warmsteel 11 months ago
Bad Religion!!!
IndexFossil1 1 year ago
wow...this is said...not even a sophisticated list of people...try reading a book and learning about both sides before you settle for the crap other people tell you
nolamkp09 1 year ago
Douglas adams is definetely my favorite person of all time
haty24 1 year ago
The truth is, it's a win win situation for me as a Christian. I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.
heribertoc9 1 year ago
@heribertoc9 You're a Christian just in case? Suppose you die and meet Zeus?
phogroian 1 year ago
@phogroian then I meet zeus, for us christians its a win win, for atheists its a win lose.
heribertoc9 1 year ago
@heribertoc9 So the important thing is obedience then, not belief?
meucunt1 1 year ago
Nice picks but Christopher Hitches is the hardest working atheist out there.
m0nkey13 1 year ago
Nice video.
Indigosnakes 1 year ago
What about CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS? Let us "not pray"; but rather, hope his physicians are successful in keeping this brilliant man alive and well. My thoughts are with you, Hitch!
Science35 1 year ago
I like how you say bar religion influenced your atheism when they said that its just a name and half the band believes in god
365073 1 year ago
Well, I became atheist when I noticed many people contradict what they say. I was quite tired when religious people do everything to make people guilty in order to control the followers.
Slimane649 1 year ago
Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, and myself.
BrokenBard 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you're a X-tian.
NickRoeder 1 year ago
I'd go Thomas Paine, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Thomas Jefferson and Bill Nye
mzyzer19 1 year ago 2
This only proves what Jesus said when he was talking about the devils kids and God's both being here on earth. He said u can tell them by what they say, what they do and how they act. don't listen to creation listen to the Creator. love ya wake up
macman3430 1 year ago
@macman3430
You've got all bases covered then. You mean - shock, horror - Jesus predicted some people might not believe him?
I guess you've never read the Qu'ran. Muhammad "miraculously predicts" that there will be unbelievers till the end of time. Must be the truth then - rather than a mythological system which people believe on the basis of remarkably little evidence.
Religion's purpose: You'll accept any old nonsense on faith to continue believing in eternal life i guess.
thisismymoniker 1 year ago
@macman3430
Lol what abuncha Christian loophole bullshit
GnomesAmok 1 year ago
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If you were invited to a feast with all kinds of good meats, would you believe that there has been no one to cook them? But nature is a banquet prepared for us! You have tomatoes & peaches & apples & milk & honey. Who has prepared all these things for mankind? Nature is blind. If you believe in no God, how can you explain that blind nature suceeded in preparing just the things that we need in such plenitude and variety? If you desire more, email me at 1thevoiceoftruth@gmail.com. God is real
1TheVoiceofTruth 1 year ago
Nice.
vjacq88 1 year ago
No Hitchens? you should read "God is not great: how religion poisons everything" that was my first atheist text ever read.
Testifyexe 1 year ago
why should god be a masochist?
sidiqmk 1 year ago
@criscobucketeer
Believe it or not, some of us happen to just know stuff without having to look it up on google. We didn't have google for most of my life, and we actually had to learn shit, and I don't have a dick so why don't you run along and play with your own tiny little dangly.
Primalxbeast 1 year ago
Actually it's been a couple of years since I've read the God Delusion, and yes it was a very good book, but wether or not somebody should be a gnostic atheist is a common debate among atheists and teapot atheist is a common term for somebody who basically thinks the chance of a god's existence is zero but won't say he knows there's no god because you can't prove a negative.
Primalxbeast 1 year ago
i wish i could just once see the comments on a video be ABOUT THE VIDEO and not a bunch of dick measuring between people showing how many facts they can google in order to disprove the previous comment.
criscobucketeer 1 year ago
I do so very love Douglas Adams, what a remarkable man.
dummbatz48 1 year ago
@TolpuddleMartyr
It's weird that you would mention Russell yet not be familiar with the concept of a teapot atheist.
Primalxbeast 1 year ago
Richard Dawkin's scale of somebody's level of theism is 1-7. 1 being 100% certain there is a god and 7 is 100% certain there isn't a god. Even Dawkins won't call himself a 7. Maybe a 6.999 but not a 7, but he'd also point out that you can't be 100% certain that there are no invisible pink unicorns.
Primalxbeast 1 year ago
@Primalxbeast Someone's been reading the God Delusion. Good book though.
DrPaulMutilation 1 year ago
@TolpuddleMartyr
Many atheists also call themselves agnostic. Agnostic literally means not knowing. An agnostic atheist sees no proof that there is a god but doesn't claim to know for a fact that there is no god. Somebody who is 99.9999% sure there is no god is still agnostic. Somebody who is 100% sure there is no god is called a gnostic atheist, but scientists don't like to claim to be 100% sure of things.
Primalxbeast 1 year ago
According to logic, you can't cross a room. Because you'll alwase have half of the rest of the length to cross first.
desasterz 1 year ago
Dam Carl Sagan didnt make your list? Any thumbs up if you think Sagan belongs?
jonl34 1 year ago 51
@jonl34 Carl Sagan wasn't an atheist.
TolpuddleMartyr 1 year ago
@TolpuddleMartyr Carl Sagan made the common mistake of accepting the Christian slander that an atheist is one who asserts that there is no God. I am an atheist but I do not say "There is no God." Rather, I ask, "What the fork are you talking about? God? What is THAT!?" The prefix "a" and "an" means "without" so "atheism" means "without theism"; an atheist is someone without theism, that is, without a god belief. Carl Sagan was without a god belief. He also inspired many to become atheists.
cliffwalkinfool 1 year ago
@cliffwalkinfool I'm an atheist, so I'm not trying to claim Carl Sagan for my 'team'. But he said that he was agnostic. If you're going to put that down to a 'common mistake', I would say two things: (a) Carl Sagan was an uncommon man. I doubt he was prone to 'common mistakes' (b) Bertrand Russell described himself as an agnostic. I seriously doubt that one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century made a 'common mistake'.
TolpuddleMartyr 1 year ago
@jonl34
As the description says, this is the list of the top 5 atheists who influenced *him*, not you.
jursamaj 11 months ago
@jonl34 Actually I myself never knew he was atheist until recently. In fact I didn't realize anyone with a high I.Q. was atheist until about 2 months ago. But that is for certain. I was of course a closest case atheist most of my life.
AdamBoozer 9 months ago
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@AdamBoozer
The atheist Delusion!
How could some of the scientists permit themselves to make a claim that would necessitate knowledge as extensive as the scheme of the universe, when their knowledge of the total scheme of being is *close* to zero, when confronted with a whole mass of unknowns concerning this very earth and tangible, lifeless matter, let alone the whole universe?
1tabligh 7 months ago
Do scientific discoveries and knowledge cause such a scientist to conclude that matter, *unknowing and unperceiving *, is his creator and that of all beings?
No?
Then how can the atheists and some of the scientists delude themselve and *believe* that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
1tabligh 7 months ago
@1tabligh What are you ranting about? Trying to convert strangers on youtube is it? Get a life.
AdamBoozer 6 months ago
@AdamBoozer The atheist Delusion!
Your delusions that science has put out the notion of God is purely *rhetorical* and has nothing to do with logical method, because even thousands of scientific experiments could not possibly suffice to demonstrate that no non-material being or factor exists.
Your claim is nothing more than a *fanatical* illusion based on unproven theories. Views such as these derive directly from a system of thought centered on materialism; within it, ....
1tabligh 6 months ago
everything is defined and delimited with reference to materialism.
To interpret materialism in such a sense is in the final analysis strictly meaningless; it would be a superstitious notion involving the perversion of truth, and to regard it as scientific would, in fact, be *treason* to science.
Even if the followers of a religious school of thought had no proofs for their claim, ...
1tabligh 6 months ago
to conclude firmly and forcibly that non- being reigns beyond the sensory realm would be a non-scientific choice, based on imagination and speculation.
Some people try to propagate this *fantasy* in the garb of science and to present their choice as having been dictated by scientific thought. In the final analysis, however, the denial involved in such an assertion is unworthy of science and philosophy, and even *contradicts* empirical logic.
1tabligh 6 months ago
@1tabligh I was entertained by your phrase "probably more likely", (is that the scientific side of you?)
LettuceReason 5 months ago
@LettuceReason How can the atheists delude themselve and believe that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?
1tabligh 5 months ago
@1tabligh if you are asking my opinion, I believe it is in the form of anger or rebellion against God or the idea of God. Atheism offers no answers to the biggest questions we all have. Why are we here?,what happens after death?, what brings meaning to life?, and what inside me determines right and wrong?
LettuceReason 5 months ago
@LettuceReason How can it be supposed that belief in the existence of God is the acceptance of contradiction, whereas belief in the uncaused nature of an effect such as matter is not contradictory?
How could it be believed that matter should itself be the origin of millions of attributes and characteristics and thus be the equivalent of the purposeful, wise and all-knowing Creator?
1tabligh 5 months ago
this is great carlin ftw
monkadelic13 1 year ago
And Christopher Hitchins.... and me
Avidcomp 1 year ago
To each his own thats what I say, I myself am a strong believer, nothing wrong with not believing though. Just don't try to preach to me about there being no God because I'm not going to be preaching to you.
jambo310 1 year ago
google Doe's Account.
Wintblash 1 year ago
Whats the worst that could happen if all organised religion just stopped and everyone just beleived in thier own ideas of god (or no god) and kept it to themselves, no one would have to fly planes into anything for a start.
wickerman71 1 year ago
@wickerman71
"what is the worst thing that could happen?"
We wouldn't feel guilty about sex
hobbitsarecool 1 year ago
Stephen King's an atheist??
It struck me from reading his books that he had a spiritual side to him & therefore probably a religious one, but I guess nothing about the Sky Fairy really protects you from evil (quite the opposite in fact...)
tdp1909 1 year ago
Baron D'Holbeck and Brian Eno.
alien8ted 1 year ago
This is excellent!
My top 5: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bertrand Russell, Bill Maher, and probably Christopher Hitchens
anetchi 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this. Douglas Adams is my #1 hero and this video was SO AWESOME!!!
BibelotMyFuzball 2 years ago 2
I didn't realize how influential George Carlin was to my way of thinking..but that brings it all back..I was about 10 the first time I heard that... Thank you!
CityzenJane 2 years ago
@CityzenJane
what is the purpose of life.
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 For whom?
CityzenJane 1 year ago
@CityzenJane i beg your pardon? what was your point.. i did not understand.
Pua8 1 year ago
stephen king is debatable if hes an athiest
Dougca1985 2 years ago
King's recent writing would indicate that he is not an atheist, but his earlier works (regardless of his personal beliefs) gave many people reason to doubt the legitimacy of religion.
tosspotovich 2 years ago
It seems that people forget or haven't been exposed to the great existentialists like Camus, Sartre,Nietsche, Dosteofsky and others of that ilk. There is a certain sentiment of picking on religion and god that I appreciate, but I think more important than the denial should be the application of self definement. The first philosophical question a persons asks is whether or not to kill oneself. Paraphrases Camus' philosophical beginning. Better than Hitchen's God is not great.
TheLummer66 2 years ago
Sartre's approach to atheism is completely empowering. I couldn't agree more.
BrooklynRagtag 2 years ago
Congratulations doctor. Unfortunately no matter what educational credentials you have...your always going to be fucking retarded for blindly following religion.
canehdian1987 2 years ago 3
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If God dosn't exist, why did He put his Name on the palm of your hand? You did not even know that! He has put the 21letter of the Hebrew Aleph Bet which is the Hebrew Alpha bet in english. This letter is the Shin and it is on the palm of your hand. The Shin stands for ALMIGHTY GOD It is also on the land of Israel and the mountains of Jerusalem. Now you can't say he dose not exist because he proved that he does!
nations3 2 years ago
"...but he loves you." I busted a freaking gut xD.
di739 2 years ago 3
Sir. You forgot Bill Hicks
wotg 2 years ago 2
Why do great men have to die so young? I wish I paid more attention to these guys when they were alive
SegaFanClub 2 years ago
just so people don't think I'm saying all these guys are dead...
- comment was directed @wotg in reverence to Bill Hicks
damn I hate youtubes comment system
SegaFanClub 2 years ago
@SegaFanClub Because as another great atheist once said "The good die young and pricks live forever" -George Carlin
spez1989 2 years ago
Nice video man.
Loa4EVER 2 years ago
I can't help but to think that the logic in your statement is somewhat flawed. Exactly how does "I have a PHD" equal "therefore my opponent must be stupid"? Anyway I'd be fascinated to know what subject it is that you have a PHD in and what award it is that you've won.
TheHabbadasher 2 years ago
You mean after life - don't you? Because, after all, I am MUCH more likely to have a happy life here on earth WITHOUT the primitive shackles of religion weighing on me. Oh, and I am a very educated EXchristian myself.
vivalaleta 2 years ago 31
@vivalaleta
really? so youre gonna behave and live like the animals do,wont you.
if there is no God, where is the sense behind civilisation? why dont you run around naked. i mean ,no one can really say anything ,its your right to do say isnt it?
you can have sex whereever with whiomever you want. nobody can stop you, rape is justified.
your an animal after all, arent you.
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 The number of American atheists are increasing every day and if this country is going to hell in a hand bag (and it is) it sure has nothing to do with our behaving like "animals". Think about it, son. Muslims adhere to even stricter moral "laws" than Christians do as do the Jews so your particular vision of God is not the reason for human morality. There are FAR more people who claim to believe in a God incarcerated in our prison system than otherwise - check it out.
vivalaleta 1 year ago
@vivalaleta
it is not the believe in God ,that makes someone a good person.
it is the submission to Him and the obedience.Hitler also believed in God that does not make him a good person.
you have to submit to the will of the Creator.He best knows His creation,so He is the best Judge.Knower of the seen and unseen. none can bring better laws than God, no doubt here.
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 Please watch "An Atheist Meets God" by Edward Current here on YouTube. THAT'S how I perceive your idea of "God". I was a born again, spirit filled, theology degreed a-hole at one time and know of what I'm talking about. Read your bible with an open mind - it's all in there.
vivalaleta 1 year ago
@vivalaleta i read the bible, well part of it.
it contains a lot of trash.
read the Qur'an ,this is for people with intellect.
wanna give it a try ?
/watch?v=leSzjKcfP5U
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 People with intellect? You mean the bit about ants speaking to humans? The bit about a woman's testimony not being equal to a man's? Or the parts which exhort Muslims to lie in wait for infidels, and ambush and massacre them at every opportunity? Yes, real PhD stuff there.
coralarch 1 year ago
@coralarch
correct ,people of intellect.
not people who read few lines without looking for their interpretation and then finally judging.
if one would really read Qur'an ,he would be amazed at its wonders.
but people dont use their intellect,rather their ignorance.
all you just quoted are common misinterpretations that are the cause of lack of knowledge.
women are equal to men?
really? well i have never seen a female boxer defeating the world champion.
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 I said a woman's TESTIMONY, not her physical strength. Ive read the Koran and did not marvel at all, seeing that it's so chaotically arranged, so full of violence and plagiarised verses from older sources- a load of junk, really. I can understand ignorant fanatics being inspired by its gory pages to commit suicide bombings. There is not one single Muslim country I would wish to live in.
coralarch 1 year ago 2
@coralarch
then i am sorry for you.
it is written in poetry, if you knew arabic you would taste the beauty of Qur'an, but again ,i feel sorry for you.
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 I my experience, when a religious person says "I feel sorry for you" to an unbeliever, it's usually a polite way of saying: "I hate you". Your pity would be better expended on those who've been widowed and orphaned by Muslim suicide bombers. A pox on all organised religions!!
coralarch 1 year ago 11
@coralarch
no , i really do feel sorry for you.
as for the "suicide bombers" of which most did not really occur ,and if there are some then the victims enter paradise.
and the fool who bombs himself will have to answer why he did that on judgement day.
Pua8 1 year ago
@vivalaleta
primitive shackles?
lets give it a thought, God is the of the Judges, shouldnt He be? I mean He is God.
so to live according to His laws,which are the best ,the laws of Qur'an will cause peace on earth.
there is no muslim state (caliphate) in the world right now, dont blame islam for the foolish "muslim" rulers ,who are puppets of america.
Pua8 1 year ago
@vivalaleta Obviously, you never were a Christian or you just wore the title Christian. You may have some education but you lack wisdom. Religion teaches a moral life, so if you are having "fun" with no regard to morals, I don't even want to say what type of human you are. It's sad that you will live your life as a slave to your temptations and desires, hopefully one day you will come to your senses. I'll pray for ya
davisne 1 year ago
@davisne How ignorant you are. I have a degree in theology, spoke in tongues, spent every Sunday Morning and evening and Wednesday eve at church, got immersion babtised in a lake, minnistered on streets and soup houses....Morals are instinctual as science has proven. I am far more "moral" than your disgusting God.
vivalaleta 1 year ago 5
@vivalaleta God Bless you
tntrampage1 1 year ago
@tntrampage1 Um.....thank you?
vivalaleta 1 year ago
My, didn't YOU just put the moron in oxymoron. Go tell your invisible man on me.....idiot. (and don't forget to send money)
vivalaleta 2 years ago
Man, our education system really IS in trouble I see. What did you win your award for, sir? It certainly must have something to do with your creative imagination.
vivalaleta 2 years ago
smart or not, i dont believe in fairy tales. dont forget to check your closet for the boogy man tonight.
portajohn90 2 years ago 23
@portajohn90
this is really ironic.
those who rule the world worship the devil and you dont believe in God.
Pua8 1 year ago
@Pua8 - "Those who rule the world worship the devil" Do you have any evidence for this? Or are you relying on the paranoid dribblings of men like David Icke?
rogan71 1 year ago 2
@rogan71
clear proof is infront of your eyes
example is the music industry:
watch?v=Hs_VpEGjLJc
Pua8 1 year ago
you sir, are a dumbass.
portajohn90 2 years ago 2
that's what you like huh? punishment, torture, fire and brimstone, for your personal satisfaction, they didn't share you particular superstition and you don't like it... "turn the other cheek, love thy enemy, forgive"... no, that's foreign language to you isn't it saynotodarwin?
DocStrange0123 2 years ago
DNA is such an amazing person, the world got a little darker the day he left.
6x9=42.............so long and thanks for all the fish
zeratul1987 2 years ago 2
This is brilliant and sums up all I need to know about the most successful scan ever invented. I can now move on and enjoy life - while it lasts.
VenomFanqX 2 years ago
An eye for an eye. BUT - Thou shall not kill?
theeventsnetwork 2 years ago 2
God be with you.
theeventsnetwork 2 years ago
oh, saynnotodarwin is back trying to generate and spread his fear
aren't you tired of living in fear?
GorgeGeorg 2 years ago
At the end of your brilliant clip you forgot to mention Frank Zappa!! Damn you!! You have to include Frank!! Great clip :) Remember Frank Zappa!!
invoclone 2 years ago
and you, sir, are living proof
aresres 2 years ago
i have a right to be lost in heaven or hell. two choices. nice free will!
controllerbrain 2 years ago 2
I don't really like Jesus. He's a bit of a dick. Satan's more my type of guy.
controllerbrain 2 years ago 3
we will never be able to disprove a god to people who believe in him. because religious people wear full body armor when it comes to reason. even more so, the less arguments you have to support a theory, the more likely they are to believe it. i always pretend to be a very religious person (various beliefs btw,) when i come across a religious person. it's good for a laugh. "i feel gods presence everywhere i go. we must do gods will" and that kinda stuff. always good for a laugh.
maxlelie 2 years ago 3
Wow, satan eh? roflmfao. What evil did they do? Not what they said. What did they do that was so evil as for you to proclaim them (aka judge, isn't that heresy for you to think you know the mind of "god") satan or followers of that which *cough* your "god" created?
Thulgore 2 years ago
George Carlin would've been my first. But only because he was the first actual atheist I was to hear. Otherwise it was all agnosticism. :p
Thulgore 2 years ago
even if that was true, you're forgetting Thor, Zeus, the Devas, etc. etc. etc.
That's disregarding the fact that much of the bible has been found to be incorrect, as well as the knowledge that things happened much differently than your (and indeed, any religion) claims.
NoxVulpes 2 years ago 3
Show me evidence that your god has any kind of effect on this world. Even if that's hard to do, I'm going to make it harder. Show evidence that your god does anything at all, that cannot be attributed to the works of some other god.
If you can't do this, kindly stop spewing shit.
NoxVulpes 2 years ago 4
The more I read into religion the more I get depressed because it makes me realise how many people actually buy into it.
controllerbrain 2 years ago
he doesn't heal anyone period.
pensego 2 years ago
I <3 George Carlin
SweetSodaChick 2 years ago
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I'd like ONE person to give me ONE scientific evidence to proof anything in the bible wrong. I'd also like to see ONE emperical evidence to prove macro evolution.
micah1116 2 years ago
Burden of proof on you. Good day.
vargulf19 2 years ago
Joshua 10:12 ... you can't stop the sun.
pensego 2 years ago
And has even one of these asserted so-called 'miracles' ever been established as... you know.. actually real, or miraculous?
Or is this just yet more empty blather from religious apologetics?
And no need to feel sorry for us "poor" atheists. We are doing just fine without believing in any of you theists' imaginary friends to comfort us.
adparker314 2 years ago
What the fuck?
espn1337 2 years ago
hahahhahhaHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAh you are so fucking ignorant its unbelievable, okay he does thousands of miracles, but oh wait, there are still ALOT of kids dying all the time from diseases and don't live past 1 years old. What do you call that?
espn1337 2 years ago 2
Nice compilation. Douglas adams is epic. But you GOTTA replace penn and teller with Derren brown!!! His magic and atheism is better imho. thanks for sharing your beliefs, mate. Although I disagree with the order, I agree with Dawkins, an atheist magiacian, dawkins (maybe carlin -- who's brilliant in his atheistic commentary, althoguht am not a huge fan). great stuff. Mine are probably Dawkins, Hitchens, Adams, Derren Brown, and likely the ridiculousness oreligion itself. LOL!
johntkucz 2 years ago 2
The band, Tool.
TheJohnnyDanger 2 years ago
Douglas Adam's argument sounds a bit like Russell's paradox. I would have put him on my list, together with A J Ayer. Fortunately I've been atheist all my life.
Zantorc 2 years ago
why the fuck do people care just live your lives and unless u see god dnt believe in shit......thats wat i do
SSAAMMI 2 years ago