(continue) And it just feels stupid (but I know they mean good) when people say to me that he is in heaven now. Because, if there were heaven and hell and if babies go to heaven if they die inside a womb, then in that logic, every woman should abort their babies to make sure, they go to heaven. But I don´t believe in heaven or hell.
I hate those "God took your babies away, because he needed more angels" comments. Does some people REALLY believe that way??? I mean, IF there were an allmighty God, could not he just make the angels? Why would he do it that way??? Makes no sense. I just miscarried my baby boy a week ago, and I just think, that he don´t have to suffer or feel pain, because he does not exist anymore. Ofcourse this is hard and I feel sorry for the baby, but I just don´t believe in fairytales.
I know a christian woman who really said that her husband went to hell, because he made a suicide... I think that it is awful to think that way! And how can they be happy going to heaven and thinking their loved ones are going to hell or in hell??? They are the selfish ones! And when I was at my grandfathers funeral the religious talk only made me more sad, because they just talked about how God saves believers, but what if the person did not believe???
I'm 19 right now and I have no intention of having children anytime soon. I barely understand the desire to have children... but the first woman's story had me in tears - not one or two glistening drops on my cheek, but full on crying... This whole podcast was wonderful. This is the first one I've heard, but I'll definitely be listening to more. I wish I could show this to my religious friends, but I think they'd take one look at the title and close the window.
That last letter made me think that heh, I guess our genes use our bodies to replicate themselves and then we use our kids' minds to replicate our person as a collection of memes XD No, not internet memes, Richard Dawkins sort of memes :)
Thank you so much for this. My father died last year and this video has helped me to finally, finally grieve. To all other viewers please listen all the way through. It will shake you to your core.
Thank you again, so much. You've finally consoled me with this podcast.
Atheists need to deal with death through rational planning: Make arrangements for cryonic suspension, as I have, and as Christopher Hitchens didn't do despite the fact that he wrote that someone encouraged him to look into it.
Wow, that ending story was really deep. I'm not the emotional type, far from it, but I literally had to fight back tears. Thank you, Seth, for all that you do.
Speaking from experience, people often don't know what to do when someone they care about is experiencing a huge loss. Sometimes they avoid you, not because they don't care, but because they feel helpless.
I am atheist, and 20 years ago I gave birth to a fullterm stillborn baby girl. I thought at the time I would die of grief. The pain was so huge, I couldn't imagine how I would ever live with it. But I did. I had my husband, friends and family, and its very true that time does heal. Now its a memory. Its not a good memory, but it doesn't hurt me anymore. I can look back at it as a terrible time, but I can also say with assurance that the pain will become bearable.
ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)
ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)
ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)
THE SCIENTIFIC CASE AGAINST ATHEISM: Please read this Internet article of mine published in Russia's English Pravda. It will be a real an eye-opener for all who think belief in a Creator is merely subjective blind faith ~ Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology).
THE SCIENTIFIC CASE AGAINST ATHEISM: Please read this Internet article of mine published in Russia's English Pravda. It will be a real an eye-opener for all who think belief in a Creator is merely subjective blind faith ~ Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology).
EINSTEIN CONFIRMED that space and time are just as physical as matter. That's why space and time can be altered by gravity, and space produces particles. Einstein's equations show that the universe couldn’t be eternal. It had a beginning. Einstein believed, because of science, in the existence of God behind the origin and order of the universe. He didn't believe in a personal God like Christians do, but he did believe science pointed to the existence of an all powerful and intelligent Creator
NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Only evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). How were species living, reproducing if their vital structures, organs, and reproductive system hadn't evolved yet? Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic/biological similarities between species
NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Only evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). How were species living, reproducing if their vital structures, organs, and reproductive system hadn't evolved yet? Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic/biological similarities between species
@Mogley52 Not true scientists have proven that we evolved from monkeys by our chromosomes fusing together giving us one less chromosome pair than monkeys. look up chromosome no. 2 telomeres and centromeres.
DAWKINS, HITCHENS, AND HAWKING REFUSE TO DEBATE with creationists who are SCIENTISTS, such as the scientists at The Institute for Creation Research. Dawkins and his friends only debate non-scientist creationists. Read articles by scientists supporting creation at The Institute for Creation Research site.
BLIND WATCHMAKER NO ARGUMENT. Natural selection is no "blind watchmaker" because it can only "select," not produce. It only operates once there is life and reproduction, not before, so it couldn't have been involved in life's origins. A partially-evolved cell (an oxymoron) would quickly disintegrate. It couldn't wait ("survive") millions of years for chance to complete it and then make it living! Read: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM
APES ARE QUITE COMFORTABLE IN HOW THEY WALK, just as humans are quite comfortable in how they walk. Even a slight change in the position of a muscle or bone, for either, would be excruciatingly painful and would not be an advantage for survival. There's no hard evidence that humans evolved from ape-like creatures anymore than there's hard evidence that apes evolved from four-legged-pawed dog-like creatures. Read Internet article: MISSING LINKS THAT NEVER WERE.
GENETIC INFORMATION COULDN'T HAPPEN BY CHANCE, so it's more logical to believe that genetic similarities between all forms of life are due to a common Designer who designed similar functions for similar purposes. It doesn't mean all forms of life are biologically related! "Junk DNA" isn't junk. These non-coding segments of DNA have recently been found to be vital in regulating gene expression. Read my popular Internet article: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM
ALL REAL EVOLUTION ( i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.) in nature is the expression, over time, of already existing genes. Evolution is possible only if there’s information (genes) directing it. Only variations of already existing genes are possible, which means only limited evolution and adaptations are possible. Nature has no ability to invent new genes via random mutations caused by random environmental forces. That’s evolutionary faith, not science. Read my article, WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS!
DO EYES CARRY SCARS OF EVOLUTION? Read this fantastic Internet article by biologist and creationist Brian Thomas. Thomas refutes every argument of a "flawed" design for the eye, and explains how and why the so-called flaw is actually the best thing for the eye. Read the article! It's amazing what facts evolutionists will ignore. Numerous times evolutionists have been proven wrong about their interpretation of a structure as flawed or useless.
DO EYES CARRY SCARS OF EVOLUTION? Read this fantastic Internet article by biologist and creationist Brian Thomas. Thomas refutes every argument of a "flawed" design for the eye, and explains how and why the so-called flaw is actually the best thing for the eye. Read the article! It's amazing what facts evolutionists will ignore. Numerous times evolutionists have been proven wrong about their interpretation of a structure as flawed or useless.
Atheists don't have to put up with this "passing away" nonsense in the 21st Century. You can get yourself and your family signed up for cryonic suspension. I've had my own arrangements for that since 1990. I decided that I wanted to do that back in my teenage years in 1970's "rapture ready" Tulsa after I read Robert Ettinger's book "Man Into Superman." I bought the paperback of that at the Skaggs drugstore/supermarket on the corner of 31st & Garnett.
God or no God have faith in what you beleive dont let anyone tell you otherwise. Your beleif is yoir beleif. I beleive in nothing im not atheistt but i dont beleive in God neccesarily. I beleivr in something higher not God but something else.
@shortcarlm16 Well that is just silly, that doesn't encourage the exchange of ideas. Thats simple closed-mindedness, with such an attitude you can never grow or adjust. You need to be open to new ideas, scrutinise them and adjust your own beliefs accordingly.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm sure this comment will be unseen by the poster but... This meant alot to me. I'm an atheist, dealing with loss at this time. Your words calmed me, and opened wounds at the same time. In time I will conquer this sadness. That is my comfort. My mind is adaptive and WILL defeat my sadness. Thank you again. Lots of love from Georgia. I love your channel.
Really hateful you don't even know me..and all of you are mad cuz I don't believe in the crap that you believe in.and no I will never doubt my GOD maybe you are scared that iam rt..o and your people are the ones that are hateful..they told me drink some bleach.also called a bicth.now that is hateful.so do me a fov and get over yourself!I was also told to kill myself.and that book u know the one and only.I love my bible..
@hellokitty35100 you know tree huggers? earth lovers? those people who pray to the planet? universe even? yeah, they're atheists. no (necessary) belief in God. they're comforted simply by acknowledging their place in a much, much greater system. that can bring about a uniform level of comfort for everyone.
Also, not all atheists hate theists. However theism can cause implications, logical implications, that can cause atheists to dislike theistic behavior.
@hellokitty35100 "The crap that you believe in" Period, atheists don't believe in anything regarding the subject of theism. This is why we are called 'atheists', meaning without a belief in god/s. So what is this "crap" you speak of?
@hellokitty35100 There are things I don't like in this world, things I know to be true because I experience them. But that's the way it is, you just gotta deal with it.
@hellokitty35100 - are you perceiving hate because your beliefs are being rejected? because you're being made to think? because those thoughts are egging you into a lil bit o' doubt?
you don't love these people, you don't love me. you love an idea that was put into your head and built up by you and primitive minds and ideologies.
Don't listen to this bitch (hellokitty35100) this video isn't about her ignore her and just think about the people in the video give people in this same situation a hug anything to help comfort them but don't make this about some lonely old religious bitch.
@FutureScience2012 i would love for you to say that to my husband see how far that will take you.this is the last time iam going to say anything to you cuz your just a waste of my time.you have no morals your a bitter and angry person who needs some help.get some help soon maybe you need to be on some pills for your psychsis.and you are only 18 and that is sad that you are so young and soooooooooooo hateful.
God has always just been a means of excuses for humanity....an entity to credit evil and good to...the easy way to explain life and origin for us...i am sorry about her loss...
the religious are emotionally stunted when it comes to lose in the family, that certainly came across on this podcast. i had a friend that had a huminist funeral, it was so much better, anyone could go to the microphone and say there piece and even joke, it was a celebration of his life, not one mention of god amoungst the attendees, we were all from the punk scene in the uk in 77 and not one had been duped by the church, we were just good people looking out for each other, socialist antichrists
There IS an afterlife. Last night I dreamed I sat with my grandmother and talked, drank tea, and her essence in my dream was pure and direct version of her personality in real life. In my dream space, she existed last night, I experienced her existing. This is the afterlife, the traces we leave in each other's minds, blood and lives. While it might seem superficial that she existed only in my personal dream world, note, we all have unique conceptions of each other, unique filters on the world.
@2Pains1Love characters are alive in a way, they are the remnants of the artist who creates them. This is another way artists can access a type of afterlife that lives on through their work, which effects the real world after they die. Isaac Clarke being really real of course, is absurd, and nor does it in any way follow from the logic of my prior comment.
Thank you so much for this. I lost a loved one 4 weeks ago, and the pain is so great that at times I've even tried to go back to my christian ways, thinking maybe there's some comfort there,and that's why people keep telling me about god and heaven and all that. But in the back of my mind, I know none of it is true. If anything, this is making me atheism stronger. No loving higher being would take an innocent life in such a horrible way, it's unthinkable. It just doesn't make sense.Thanks again.
My aunt was marginally religious at best. After she died as often happens a pastor was farmed out from the funeral home to perform her service. It was all about him and his Jesus and so little about my aunt...I was fucking furious that this asshole used my aunt's death to get on his soapbox. I have never seen such a funeral so little about the person.
I avoided this show for the past few weeks due to my own ongoing struggle with grief. My father committed suicide a few months ago and its just been so brutal. Now I really understand the appeal of the afterlife because I just would want so much to ask him why and if there was anything i could have done and just let him know how much i really cared about him. As an atheist this whole horrible experience has shown me a lot about why religion is so appealing.
interesting, this guy who claim atheists are closer than god than christians even if they don't believe. there is so much hypocricy in this religious world, i'm glad people like him are aware of that.
Atheism is a Religion, because you believe, you have faith there is no God without proof. When you die, it is only then you see the truth.
Go back to the definition of faith. Faith is believing in something without proof. Religion is a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. Atheism is defined as the doctrine or belief that there is no God. Therefore Atheism is a religion.
@SunTzuing There is not absolutely no proof there is proof for the big bang and the bible has very ignorant things in it Athiesm is believeing but it is not faith so S.T.F.U
I believe in the Big Bang. I believe God used evolution to create man. I believe in modern science. But I am also a Christian who understands that the Council of Nicea in 325 AD to put the bible together to gain some consensus on Christianity, years and years before modern science. That doesn't negate the document or some of the miracles witnessed and documented within it.
@SunTzuing The bible also says that women shouldn't talk when a man is talking. And that nobody that wrote about jesus met him. You would take an old book over modern science with heaps and heaps of evidence and proof?
@SunTzuing Your view is still based on no evidence and is incredible anthropocentric. The 100 billion galaxies with around 100 billion stars estimated to be in every one of them was all created so that one species out of millions could exist on one planet in the vast array of the universe. When your beliefs are phrased that way do they not seem a little insane? You indirectly agree to that view based on your statement.
@SunTzuing ...*headdesk* That does not require faith in anything, only the humble aknowlegment that "I don't know". On the contrary, you need to have faith to believe that there is something after death, be it an afterlife of some sort, reincarnation or other.
Aso to your previous comment: alledged miracles, only to be found within this one religious "document"....
@SunTzuing There is no evidence of life after death, all evidence indicates that there is likely nothing after death. So to believe that death is an end is not faith. No one knows for certain, but there is a spectrum of likelihood. Belief that death is the end is a belief that is most consistent with available data (compared to faith in afterlife, which has no supporting data whatsoever).
@SunTzuing *facepalm* Atheism means the lack of faith of any kind. Atheists don't belive in any deity, sky-daddy or other supernatural being that may or may not have been a "creator". Atheism doe not have a priesthood, a central teatching system nor any "holy place" for rituals/worship.
I always wonder why is it so hard for certain people to actually use Google to find out about these things, but they still find their way here to expose their lack of knowledge and understanding...
@SunTzuing Atheism is the opposite of all types of religious beliefs. The absence of them. Including the basic idea of believing in any god/gods. I don't have a lot of faith when I say I don't believe Santa Claus exists. Or that I don't think unicorns are real. I don't have a lot of faith when I say that Superman and Harry Potter are only real in the worlds of fiction. God is the same way.
@SunTzuing We don't kiss any imaginary ass/friend like you guys do. (a.k.a worshipping) We worship nothing. not the biology book, not Charles Darwin nor science. We use logic and reason not blind faith! We have disbelief but we are open to changes. Unlike religious people. We do not confine ourselves to one book! Great podcast. This is thus far may favorite! Thanks alot!
Since my wife left me the road of greif has been hard. As an ex-catholic atheist I don't believe in false consolation, but somehow I keep having to resist the old childhood habit of praying and crying to a nonexistent deity. Swearing however helps - and makes more sense. Crying to gods is nonsense because - if our loss is caused by our own weakness, or by the mistrust and indifference of another person - getting angry with ourselves is much more constructive than shifting the blame.
My father died when I was 18, after being in a hospital for a year. He had lots of siblings and his mother, all of them very religious. My father my mother and I had always been atheists. During his stay in the hospital we had to hear them talk about a miracle for him, they were in denial, we wern't and we had to deal with their anger for it. They insisted on having a church memorial, the priest didn't even knew who his wife and daugther were, he kept pointing at the wrong people during sermon.
Robert the Christian at 1 hour, made absolutely no sense whatsoever, but I think he was trying to be complimentary, at least. From HIS perspective, what he said made perfect sense, even though it was twisted up in his own personal superstitious belief system. One would have to subscribe to those beliefs to even begin to agree with what he was saying, but I understand that he thought he was offering a favorable commentary. Off topic, though.
One of the most moving thing i've heard was the story about a friends granparents.
His granmother died at the age of 95and the grandfather was told by a religious friends thats she's gone to a better place to live for ever. and he said
"No don't say that she lived 85 years of a great life, and 10 years of pain she finaly now rid of that why would you want her to "live" forever watching all her family members die and follow her, she is now free of anything" It was something along those lines
I really like all of your podcasts, but I think this will be seen as a classic. There is such a thirst for understanding how to deal with grief, loss and the utterly inconsolable fact of death of loved ones that I've no doubt this will be consulted for many years to come by the bereaved. Well, done, Sir, very well done indeed.
This video is so timely for me. My grandma is dying. She has lived a full life and now her body just can't keep up. My family keeps posting on facebook to pray for her to be strong enough to survive surgery. I'd love to have her around for a bit longer but I'm realistic enough to know that even if she survives the surgery her body will give out eventually. This will be my first loss post Christianity. Oddly enough it's comforting to actually FEEL and work through the emotions.
A couple of years ago, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. He was going to die and he was having doubts during this time about an after-life. When he was on his deathbed, one of his GRAND-CHILDREN came into the room (sent by his mother) and said, "If you do not accept Jesus, Then you will burn in hell." Now remember that I was not there but my mom was and that is the gist of what he said. Then they had the AUDACITY to show up at his funeral. I will never Accept them as family. NEVER.
A couple of years ago, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. He was going to die and he was having doubts during this time about an after-life. When he was on his deathbed, one of his GRAND-CHILDREN came into the room (sent by his mother) and said, "If you do not accept Jesus, Then you will burn in hell." Now remember that I was not there but my mom was and that is the gist of what he said. Then they had the AUDACITY to show up at his funeral. I will never Accept them as family. NEVER.
People gotta have better things to say when they witness someone make a recovery. The guy was fighting for his life on a bed, not flying in the damn sky.
@Richy15251 Its the first one i have listened to and it's actually quite exceptional. So real and deep. If only more of the world was like this it might be a better place. I subscribed.
I can understand the decision of the woman who didn't try to save her babies, but don't ever give up just because the odds are against you! Doctors don't know everything...you never know what you'll miss out on when you choose the easy way out.
This podcast was incredible. I want to thank you so much for posting it. I'm currently caring for my dying Mum. She has Stage IV cancer . . . the kind you don't recover from. I tried searching for good internet sources on dealing with death from an atheist standpoint and was unlucky in my findings. I'm subscribed to you because of your other videos so I was ecstatic when I saw the topic of this podcast. I will refer to this later to help with writing my Mum's eulogy. Thankyou.
"I'll pray for you" is as good of a thing to say as anything. There's not really much you can do for someone else's grief except to show support.
Everyone deals with death in their own way. If you get offended by someone's religious comments, it's YOU who are using the grief as a soapbox for your beliefs.
I would like to know what the sermon would have been about if the young woman was an omitted atheist. The problem with Christianity is that it is not all happiness and rainbows. It's a quite a horrible scenario, if a person for some reason rejects that faith. An eternal punishment for someone who just doesn't see a reason to believe in that. That seems worse than death.
Does your dad use sign language or did he get the implants after he already knew verbal language? I've been learning ASL and so far all the Deaf people I've met are pretty religious...It turns out that sign language was originally used by hearing people to preach. The first Deaf schools were mostly catholic and the other students in my class knew ASL from sermons. Wouldn't you think that the Deaf would be a bit more reluctant to believe in a god that sequestered them from most of society?
@CakeFace579 My father never learned sign language. I think it was a pride thing. My mother even learned to sign in the hopes that she would encourage him, but he insisted in lip-reading. A very, very difficult way to go. But I'll admit, he got pretty damn good at it.
My biggest thought about dad is this: After all of those healing services that produced no result, I wonder if he felt responsible. It was his fault. He didn't "have enough faith." Makes me livid.
@TheThinkingAtheist I've always sort of wondered that about people with disabilities and faith...If they think it's all their fault and they deserve to be punished. It makes me sad to think some people consider themselves sinful just for being human. It's horrible. Many people who are born Deaf refuse implants for themselves and their children because it's "the way God made them." Implants are actually a sort of controversy, at least in the South. I'm glad your dad was able to qualify for them!
I watched a film recently, wasn't amazing but I liked it, called 'rabbit hole', dealing with a parents grief over the death of a child... and the comfort that was taken in a scientific possibility, about the nature of the infinite universe, by the mother and those involved in the death, while rejecting the religious notions.
Somehow we get a person who hates America, jesus preachers who are a little to close to god, angsty teenages, empty minded drones, and the few who actually see through the conspiracy theories, just as well as they see through religion.
@layhayla Of course we're not alone in the world. We have each other. We have the earth and the stars and many things besides. It is clear religion has stolen much from you, layhayla: your intellect, your hope, your appreciation of the present. Don't you worry though, there's still time for you to accept evidence and reason, to reclaim your dignity and face death without fear and without guilt. Renounce faith and welcome reality into your life. Then you shall know peace, dear.
@darkmiles22 Your looking for man to save you when the only one that can save you is Jesus.I will NEVER renounce My Lord.My REASON for being alive is my Father in Heaven.There's still time for you to renounce your ideas and lack of faith for: EVERLASTING LIFE =)
@Rooroo05 I prefer a woman savior - easier on the eyes, y'know. Still, I'm going to need some evidence before I believe the loyalty for everlasting life is even a real offer, and even then I might need to shop around. Valhalla offers unending mead and wenches and manly sport, which sounds much more tempting really. Then again there's so much happening here on earth; I might just go for Lord Krishna and another turn on the merry-go-round. Or I maybe I'll dance with Mother Kali. Choices, choices.
@darkmiles22 Your knee like every other man,woman and child WILL bow to Him... so NO.. you have no choice in that matter however like every other person He gives you a choice.. that choice is either Life or death.You state "there's so much happening here on earth" there will be NO earth after He returns,I warn you repent... Ask His Forgiveness before it's too late.I was a lost soul as you are not so very long ago,I am am now happy in my heart and know that nothing on this earth matters but Him.
Very beautiful, moving episode. Just goes to show that someone can still find meaning in life--and death--while being a nonbeliever.
jajohnson7809 1 week ago
(continue) And it just feels stupid (but I know they mean good) when people say to me that he is in heaven now. Because, if there were heaven and hell and if babies go to heaven if they die inside a womb, then in that logic, every woman should abort their babies to make sure, they go to heaven. But I don´t believe in heaven or hell.
bruhjustaja 1 week ago
I hate those "God took your babies away, because he needed more angels" comments. Does some people REALLY believe that way??? I mean, IF there were an allmighty God, could not he just make the angels? Why would he do it that way??? Makes no sense. I just miscarried my baby boy a week ago, and I just think, that he don´t have to suffer or feel pain, because he does not exist anymore. Ofcourse this is hard and I feel sorry for the baby, but I just don´t believe in fairytales.
bruhjustaja 1 week ago
I know a christian woman who really said that her husband went to hell, because he made a suicide... I think that it is awful to think that way! And how can they be happy going to heaven and thinking their loved ones are going to hell or in hell??? They are the selfish ones! And when I was at my grandfathers funeral the religious talk only made me more sad, because they just talked about how God saves believers, but what if the person did not believe???
bruhjustaja 1 week ago
I'm 19 right now and I have no intention of having children anytime soon. I barely understand the desire to have children... but the first woman's story had me in tears - not one or two glistening drops on my cheek, but full on crying... This whole podcast was wonderful. This is the first one I've heard, but I'll definitely be listening to more. I wish I could show this to my religious friends, but I think they'd take one look at the title and close the window.
EdwardIsAPixie 2 weeks ago
That last letter made me think that heh, I guess our genes use our bodies to replicate themselves and then we use our kids' minds to replicate our person as a collection of memes XD No, not internet memes, Richard Dawkins sort of memes :)
minagica 1 month ago
Wow! Probably the best show of any kind I have ever seen/heard.
LilDrummerBoy74 1 month ago
This was great.
sqhschief 1 month ago
The facts of life
Schiklegruber82 2 months ago
Thanks for this. It was needed today.
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Thank you so much for this. My father died last year and this video has helped me to finally, finally grieve. To all other viewers please listen all the way through. It will shake you to your core.
Thank you again, so much. You've finally consoled me with this podcast.
TheSurrealcast 2 months ago
Atheists need to deal with death through rational planning: Make arrangements for cryonic suspension, as I have, and as Christopher Hitchens didn't do despite the fact that he wrote that someone encouraged him to look into it.
MrAdvancedAtheist 2 months ago
One of the reasons i can't stand religion is because i love women.
Well, not all of them always but you know what i mean. Without women, this planet would be so boring.
Mosquedwellers, biblefundies, mor(m)ons/orthodox jews(insertfairytale of choice), you are the vermin of progress with your supressing of women
It's been long enough already so STFU
sonykroket 2 months ago
Wow, that ending story was really deep. I'm not the emotional type, far from it, but I literally had to fight back tears. Thank you, Seth, for all that you do.
tyjet66 2 months ago
I'm not so sure but did you use this music in the intro?
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2Pains1Love 3 months ago
I really dug the music in on this honestly one
tbsjs 3 months ago
Everyone who is hurting and has lost someone, I'm sorry *hugs*
MeepullStewray 3 months ago
Speaking from experience, people often don't know what to do when someone they care about is experiencing a huge loss. Sometimes they avoid you, not because they don't care, but because they feel helpless.
nancy6ify 4 months ago
I am atheist, and 20 years ago I gave birth to a fullterm stillborn baby girl. I thought at the time I would die of grief. The pain was so huge, I couldn't imagine how I would ever live with it. But I did. I had my husband, friends and family, and its very true that time does heal. Now its a memory. Its not a good memory, but it doesn't hurt me anymore. I can look back at it as a terrible time, but I can also say with assurance that the pain will become bearable.
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ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)
Mogley52 5 months ago
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ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)
Mogley52 5 months ago
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ALTHOUGH I'M A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN (Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches eternal torment or suffering. The Bible teaches eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scriptures have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. ~Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)
Mogley52 5 months ago
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THE SCIENTIFIC CASE AGAINST ATHEISM: Please read this Internet article of mine published in Russia's English Pravda. It will be a real an eye-opener for all who think belief in a Creator is merely subjective blind faith ~ Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology).
Mogley52 5 months ago
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THE SCIENTIFIC CASE AGAINST ATHEISM: Please read this Internet article of mine published in Russia's English Pravda. It will be a real an eye-opener for all who think belief in a Creator is merely subjective blind faith ~ Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology).
Mogley52 5 months ago
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EINSTEIN CONFIRMED that space and time are just as physical as matter. That's why space and time can be altered by gravity, and space produces particles. Einstein's equations show that the universe couldn’t be eternal. It had a beginning. Einstein believed, because of science, in the existence of God behind the origin and order of the universe. He didn't believe in a personal God like Christians do, but he did believe science pointed to the existence of an all powerful and intelligent Creator
Mogley52 5 months ago
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NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Only evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). How were species living, reproducing if their vital structures, organs, and reproductive system hadn't evolved yet? Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic/biological similarities between species
Mogley52 5 months ago
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NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Only evolution within "kinds" is genetically possible (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.), but not evolution across "kinds" (i.e. from worm to human). How were species living, reproducing if their vital structures, organs, and reproductive system hadn't evolved yet? Read my Pravda Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS! I discuss: Punctuated Equilibrium, "Junk DNA," genetics, mutations, natural selection, fossils, genetic/biological similarities between species
Mogley52 5 months ago
@Mogley52 Not true scientists have proven that we evolved from monkeys by our chromosomes fusing together giving us one less chromosome pair than monkeys. look up chromosome no. 2 telomeres and centromeres.
QuiteNot 5 months ago
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DAWKINS, HITCHENS, AND HAWKING REFUSE TO DEBATE with creationists who are SCIENTISTS, such as the scientists at The Institute for Creation Research. Dawkins and his friends only debate non-scientist creationists. Read articles by scientists supporting creation at The Institute for Creation Research site.
Mogley52 5 months ago
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BLIND WATCHMAKER NO ARGUMENT. Natural selection is no "blind watchmaker" because it can only "select," not produce. It only operates once there is life and reproduction, not before, so it couldn't have been involved in life's origins. A partially-evolved cell (an oxymoron) would quickly disintegrate. It couldn't wait ("survive") millions of years for chance to complete it and then make it living! Read: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM
Mogley52 5 months ago
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APES ARE QUITE COMFORTABLE IN HOW THEY WALK, just as humans are quite comfortable in how they walk. Even a slight change in the position of a muscle or bone, for either, would be excruciatingly painful and would not be an advantage for survival. There's no hard evidence that humans evolved from ape-like creatures anymore than there's hard evidence that apes evolved from four-legged-pawed dog-like creatures. Read Internet article: MISSING LINKS THAT NEVER WERE.
Mogley52 5 months ago
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GENETIC INFORMATION COULDN'T HAPPEN BY CHANCE, so it's more logical to believe that genetic similarities between all forms of life are due to a common Designer who designed similar functions for similar purposes. It doesn't mean all forms of life are biologically related! "Junk DNA" isn't junk. These non-coding segments of DNA have recently been found to be vital in regulating gene expression. Read my popular Internet article: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM
Mogley52 5 months ago
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ALL REAL EVOLUTION ( i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, etc.) in nature is the expression, over time, of already existing genes. Evolution is possible only if there’s information (genes) directing it. Only variations of already existing genes are possible, which means only limited evolution and adaptations are possible. Nature has no ability to invent new genes via random mutations caused by random environmental forces. That’s evolutionary faith, not science. Read my article, WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS!
Mogley52 5 months ago
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DO EYES CARRY SCARS OF EVOLUTION? Read this fantastic Internet article by biologist and creationist Brian Thomas. Thomas refutes every argument of a "flawed" design for the eye, and explains how and why the so-called flaw is actually the best thing for the eye. Read the article! It's amazing what facts evolutionists will ignore. Numerous times evolutionists have been proven wrong about their interpretation of a structure as flawed or useless.
Mogley52 5 months ago
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DO EYES CARRY SCARS OF EVOLUTION? Read this fantastic Internet article by biologist and creationist Brian Thomas. Thomas refutes every argument of a "flawed" design for the eye, and explains how and why the so-called flaw is actually the best thing for the eye. Read the article! It's amazing what facts evolutionists will ignore. Numerous times evolutionists have been proven wrong about their interpretation of a structure as flawed or useless.
Mogley52 5 months ago
Atheists don't have to put up with this "passing away" nonsense in the 21st Century. You can get yourself and your family signed up for cryonic suspension. I've had my own arrangements for that since 1990. I decided that I wanted to do that back in my teenage years in 1970's "rapture ready" Tulsa after I read Robert Ettinger's book "Man Into Superman." I bought the paperback of that at the Skaggs drugstore/supermarket on the corner of 31st & Garnett.
MrAdvancedAtheist 6 months ago
love the utro :)
suReEgg 6 months ago
7 people have no emotions.... Haha.. must be Army Drill Instructors...
2eelShmeal 6 months ago
Cosmic vending machine...I like that.
ThePunkAssAtheistKid 7 months ago
God or no God have faith in what you beleive dont let anyone tell you otherwise. Your beleif is yoir beleif. I beleive in nothing im not atheistt but i dont beleive in God neccesarily. I beleivr in something higher not God but something else.
shortcarlm16 8 months ago
@shortcarlm16 well that still makes you an atheist but i get what your saying
FutureScience2012 7 months ago
@shortcarlm16 Well that is just silly, that doesn't encourage the exchange of ideas. Thats simple closed-mindedness, with such an attitude you can never grow or adjust. You need to be open to new ideas, scrutinise them and adjust your own beliefs accordingly.
TheMundaneMadcap 7 months ago
Thank you so much for this video. I'm sure this comment will be unseen by the poster but... This meant alot to me. I'm an atheist, dealing with loss at this time. Your words calmed me, and opened wounds at the same time. In time I will conquer this sadness. That is my comfort. My mind is adaptive and WILL defeat my sadness. Thank you again. Lots of love from Georgia. I love your channel.
7jshelto 8 months ago
Really hateful you don't even know me..and all of you are mad cuz I don't believe in the crap that you believe in.and no I will never doubt my GOD maybe you are scared that iam rt..o and your people are the ones that are hateful..they told me drink some bleach.also called a bicth.now that is hateful.so do me a fov and get over yourself!I was also told to kill myself.and that book u know the one and only.I love my bible..
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 you know tree huggers? earth lovers? those people who pray to the planet? universe even? yeah, they're atheists. no (necessary) belief in God. they're comforted simply by acknowledging their place in a much, much greater system. that can bring about a uniform level of comfort for everyone.
Also, not all atheists hate theists. However theism can cause implications, logical implications, that can cause atheists to dislike theistic behavior.
Like assuming all atheists hate you.
executableapplet 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 "The crap that you believe in" Period, atheists don't believe in anything regarding the subject of theism. This is why we are called 'atheists', meaning without a belief in god/s. So what is this "crap" you speak of?
themongru 7 months ago
@themongru wow don't You have something better to do then annoying me?
hellokitty35100 7 months ago
@hellokitty35100 I'm just correcting you, if knowing the truth annoys you then that's sad.
themongru 7 months ago
@hellokitty35100 There are things I don't like in this world, things I know to be true because I experience them. But that's the way it is, you just gotta deal with it.
themongru 7 months ago
how doyou people live like this hateing any one who believe in GOD?must be a very sad life.
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 - are you perceiving hate because your beliefs are being rejected? because you're being made to think? because those thoughts are egging you into a lil bit o' doubt?
you don't love these people, you don't love me. you love an idea that was put into your head and built up by you and primitive minds and ideologies.
the hate is in that book you value. read it
cover to cover
GodsArePeopleToo 8 months ago
Don't listen to this bitch (hellokitty35100) this video isn't about her ignore her and just think about the people in the video give people in this same situation a hug anything to help comfort them but don't make this about some lonely old religious bitch.
FutureScience2012 8 months ago
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hellokitty35100 8 months ago
@FutureScience2012 i would love for you to say that to my husband see how far that will take you.this is the last time iam going to say anything to you cuz your just a waste of my time.you have no morals your a bitter and angry person who needs some help.get some help soon maybe you need to be on some pills for your psychsis.and you are only 18 and that is sad that you are so young and soooooooooooo hateful.
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
1:09:39 is the sadist thing you will here it makes you cry.
FutureScience2012 8 months ago
i love you guys too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!kisses..PS JESUS LOVES TOO!
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 your scared of whats happening to your religion, you know its fading and you cant do anything about.
FutureScience2012 8 months ago
@FutureScience2012 it's not about religion it's about my lord and saver jesus and that will never go anywhere!PS LOVE YOU TOO!
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
i love you guys too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!kisses
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
The end of the show was so beautiful, how he read the letter and the music played while he read its poetry. That letter made me cry.
FutureScience2012 8 months ago
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Starr9909 9 months ago
the lord jesus...u can never convince me otherwise...GOD BLESS
hellokitty35100 9 months ago
@hellokitty35100 Ahhh, ignorance at its best.
suicidefilming 9 months ago
@suicidefilming you shouldn't talk about yourself like that...
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 Nothing better than a child using a pathetic Ad Hominem argument to make themselves look stupider. Please, keep talking.
suicidefilming 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 ignorance is the death of society
Kiddoftheirks 9 months ago
@Kiddoftheirks you shouldn't talk about yourself like that!!!!!
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
@hellokitty35100 youre part of society too dumbfuck
Kiddoftheirks 8 months ago
your wrong GOD is real...
hellokitty35100 9 months ago
@hellokitty35100, which one there`s thousands of them
mooroopoo 9 months ago
@mooroopoo The god SHE believes in of course.
knucks360 9 months ago
@hellokitty35100 **You're
LoveMusic814 9 months ago
@hellokitty35100 go fuck yourself and do humanity a favor and move out of this country, Atheist are rising while you are falling.
FutureScience2012 8 months ago
@FutureScience2012 your wrong GOD is real that is what everyone is mad about that is sooooooooooooo funny over sensitive atheist....
hellokitty35100 8 months ago
The last message was beautiful :)
1bzoe 10 months ago
@1bzoe im crying right now
FutureScience2012 8 months ago
God has always just been a means of excuses for humanity....an entity to credit evil and good to...the easy way to explain life and origin for us...i am sorry about her loss...
destructcode21 10 months ago
the religious are emotionally stunted when it comes to lose in the family, that certainly came across on this podcast. i had a friend that had a huminist funeral, it was so much better, anyone could go to the microphone and say there piece and even joke, it was a celebration of his life, not one mention of god amoungst the attendees, we were all from the punk scene in the uk in 77 and not one had been duped by the church, we were just good people looking out for each other, socialist antichrists
kram83au 11 months ago
There IS an afterlife. Last night I dreamed I sat with my grandmother and talked, drank tea, and her essence in my dream was pure and direct version of her personality in real life. In my dream space, she existed last night, I experienced her existing. This is the afterlife, the traces we leave in each other's minds, blood and lives. While it might seem superficial that she existed only in my personal dream world, note, we all have unique conceptions of each other, unique filters on the world.
enigmism4life 11 months ago
@enigmism4life Last night I talked with Isaac Clarke in his suit, talking about how to kill necromorphs in fastest way, so he really exists, huh?
2Pains1Love 10 months ago
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zabzin 10 months ago
@2Pains1Love characters are alive in a way, they are the remnants of the artist who creates them. This is another way artists can access a type of afterlife that lives on through their work, which effects the real world after they die. Isaac Clarke being really real of course, is absurd, and nor does it in any way follow from the logic of my prior comment.
enigmism4life 10 months ago
Thank you so much for this. I lost a loved one 4 weeks ago, and the pain is so great that at times I've even tried to go back to my christian ways, thinking maybe there's some comfort there,and that's why people keep telling me about god and heaven and all that. But in the back of my mind, I know none of it is true. If anything, this is making me atheism stronger. No loving higher being would take an innocent life in such a horrible way, it's unthinkable. It just doesn't make sense.Thanks again.
piegirl02 11 months ago
Why does god have an unlisted number?
JOHNINCOLUMBUS 11 months ago
My aunt was marginally religious at best. After she died as often happens a pastor was farmed out from the funeral home to perform her service. It was all about him and his Jesus and so little about my aunt...I was fucking furious that this asshole used my aunt's death to get on his soapbox. I have never seen such a funeral so little about the person.
xrayman7040 11 months ago
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Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
Ravvedetevi adunque, e convertitevi; acciocchè i vostri peccati sien cancellati, e tempi di refrigerio vengano dalla presenza del Signore,
Así que, arrepentíos y convertíos, para que sean borrados vuestros pecados; pues que vendrán los tiempos del refrigerio de la presencia del Señor,
GedoMazou 11 months ago
I avoided this show for the past few weeks due to my own ongoing struggle with grief. My father committed suicide a few months ago and its just been so brutal. Now I really understand the appeal of the afterlife because I just would want so much to ask him why and if there was anything i could have done and just let him know how much i really cared about him. As an atheist this whole horrible experience has shown me a lot about why religion is so appealing.
Thanks for the show,
darklordrandy 1 year ago
@darklordrandy Sorry about your loss
lilpoindexter 1 year ago
interesting, this guy who claim atheists are closer than god than christians even if they don't believe. there is so much hypocricy in this religious world, i'm glad people like him are aware of that.
zecle 1 year ago
Thank you for putting your podcasts on itunes and putting them for free. I figured the least I could do is thank you
nibbers97 1 year ago
Atheism is a Religion, because you believe, you have faith there is no God without proof. When you die, it is only then you see the truth.
Go back to the definition of faith. Faith is believing in something without proof. Religion is a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. Atheism is defined as the doctrine or belief that there is no God. Therefore Atheism is a religion.
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Allen West 2012
SunTzuing 1 year ago
@SunTzuing There is not absolutely no proof there is proof for the big bang and the bible has very ignorant things in it Athiesm is believeing but it is not faith so S.T.F.U
nibbers97 1 year ago
@nibbers97
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I believe in the Big Bang. I believe God used evolution to create man. I believe in modern science. But I am also a Christian who understands that the Council of Nicea in 325 AD to put the bible together to gain some consensus on Christianity, years and years before modern science. That doesn't negate the document or some of the miracles witnessed and documented within it.
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SunTzuing 1 year ago
@SunTzuing The bible also says that women shouldn't talk when a man is talking. And that nobody that wrote about jesus met him. You would take an old book over modern science with heaps and heaps of evidence and proof?
metime00 1 year ago
@SunTzuing Your view is still based on no evidence and is incredible anthropocentric. The 100 billion galaxies with around 100 billion stars estimated to be in every one of them was all created so that one species out of millions could exist on one planet in the vast array of the universe. When your beliefs are phrased that way do they not seem a little insane? You indirectly agree to that view based on your statement.
MVT44 1 year ago
@nibbers97
You lack faith in a deity, but you have faith there's nothing after death, that is your doctrine, by definition your faith.
SunTzuing 1 year ago
@SunTzuing ...*headdesk* That does not require faith in anything, only the humble aknowlegment that "I don't know". On the contrary, you need to have faith to believe that there is something after death, be it an afterlife of some sort, reincarnation or other.
Aso to your previous comment: alledged miracles, only to be found within this one religious "document"....
Arkticus 1 year ago
@SunTzuing There is no evidence of life after death, all evidence indicates that there is likely nothing after death. So to believe that death is an end is not faith. No one knows for certain, but there is a spectrum of likelihood. Belief that death is the end is a belief that is most consistent with available data (compared to faith in afterlife, which has no supporting data whatsoever).
TheCycadsAreAudible 11 months ago
@SunTzuing *facepalm* Atheism means the lack of faith of any kind. Atheists don't belive in any deity, sky-daddy or other supernatural being that may or may not have been a "creator". Atheism doe not have a priesthood, a central teatching system nor any "holy place" for rituals/worship.
I always wonder why is it so hard for certain people to actually use Google to find out about these things, but they still find their way here to expose their lack of knowledge and understanding...
Arkticus 1 year ago
@SunTzuing Atheism is the opposite of all types of religious beliefs. The absence of them. Including the basic idea of believing in any god/gods. I don't have a lot of faith when I say I don't believe Santa Claus exists. Or that I don't think unicorns are real. I don't have a lot of faith when I say that Superman and Harry Potter are only real in the worlds of fiction. God is the same way.
luvtheheavenAGAIN 11 months ago
@SunTzuing We don't kiss any imaginary ass/friend like you guys do. (a.k.a worshipping) We worship nothing. not the biology book, not Charles Darwin nor science. We use logic and reason not blind faith! We have disbelief but we are open to changes. Unlike religious people. We do not confine ourselves to one book! Great podcast. This is thus far may favorite! Thanks alot!
bebeLUVnardo 10 months ago
Since my wife left me the road of greif has been hard. As an ex-catholic atheist I don't believe in false consolation, but somehow I keep having to resist the old childhood habit of praying and crying to a nonexistent deity. Swearing however helps - and makes more sense. Crying to gods is nonsense because - if our loss is caused by our own weakness, or by the mistrust and indifference of another person - getting angry with ourselves is much more constructive than shifting the blame.
8DX 1 year ago
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My father died when I was 18, after being in a hospital for a year. He had lots of siblings and his mother, all of them very religious. My father my mother and I had always been atheists. During his stay in the hospital we had to hear them talk about a miracle for him, they were in denial, we wern't and we had to deal with their anger for it. They insisted on having a church memorial, the priest didn't even knew who his wife and daugther were, he kept pointing at the wrong people during sermon.
Moreba 1 year ago
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Moreba 1 year ago
Robert the Christian at 1 hour, made absolutely no sense whatsoever, but I think he was trying to be complimentary, at least. From HIS perspective, what he said made perfect sense, even though it was twisted up in his own personal superstitious belief system. One would have to subscribe to those beliefs to even begin to agree with what he was saying, but I understand that he thought he was offering a favorable commentary. Off topic, though.
AnnaMayEyes 1 year ago
Damn, I missed this one. I really wanted to attend this. But thanks for these uploads.
ravi00090 1 year ago
One of the most moving thing i've heard was the story about a friends granparents.
His granmother died at the age of 95and the grandfather was told by a religious friends thats she's gone to a better place to live for ever. and he said
"No don't say that she lived 85 years of a great life, and 10 years of pain she finaly now rid of that why would you want her to "live" forever watching all her family members die and follow her, she is now free of anything" It was something along those lines
kainbloodheart 1 year ago
you cut me out of the podcast...
thanks
ImYourDeity 1 year ago
Listening to this was very insightful and worth every minute.
LegendaryZody 1 year ago
I'm glad this podcast took place recently. I just found out I lost one of my best friends to suicide...
RIP Sarah, I will never forget you.
dd1987x 1 year ago
I really like all of your podcasts, but I think this will be seen as a classic. There is such a thirst for understanding how to deal with grief, loss and the utterly inconsolable fact of death of loved ones that I've no doubt this will be consulted for many years to come by the bereaved. Well, done, Sir, very well done indeed.
rohanwotan2 1 year ago
This video is so timely for me. My grandma is dying. She has lived a full life and now her body just can't keep up. My family keeps posting on facebook to pray for her to be strong enough to survive surgery. I'd love to have her around for a bit longer but I'm realistic enough to know that even if she survives the surgery her body will give out eventually. This will be my first loss post Christianity. Oddly enough it's comforting to actually FEEL and work through the emotions.
shutterbugwink 1 year ago
There is a woman named Sally on the show talking about the death of her son,Nathan.
This seems to be Nathan Davis.Someone made a documantary about him.
PantherPassant 1 year ago
ATHEISTS!!! YOUR ALL FUCKING GAY SHITS!!!
atheistdestroyer1 1 year ago
@atheistdestroyer1 wow, you sure told us...
say hi to your imaginary friend for me =]
lukemarkbrady 1 year ago
@atheistdestroyer1 your nice
ImYourDeity 1 year ago
@atheistdestroyer1 jeez, that's a good argument you have there, I'm sure your god is very proud
Thicite 1 year ago
whats the song at the end?
jesriljr 1 year ago
Dang it, I was fine til the end. Those are great words of hope. Seth this was amazing and much needed. Thank you for putting this out there. *hugs*
shotwench2210 1 year ago
more please :)
XXSUPER17XX 1 year ago
A couple of years ago, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. He was going to die and he was having doubts during this time about an after-life. When he was on his deathbed, one of his GRAND-CHILDREN came into the room (sent by his mother) and said, "If you do not accept Jesus, Then you will burn in hell." Now remember that I was not there but my mom was and that is the gist of what he said. Then they had the AUDACITY to show up at his funeral. I will never Accept them as family. NEVER.
tr0ll00l 1 year ago
A couple of years ago, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. He was going to die and he was having doubts during this time about an after-life. When he was on his deathbed, one of his GRAND-CHILDREN came into the room (sent by his mother) and said, "If you do not accept Jesus, Then you will burn in hell." Now remember that I was not there but my mom was and that is the gist of what he said. Then they had the AUDACITY to show up at his funeral. I will never Accept them as family. NEVER.
tr0ll00l 1 year ago
People gotta have better things to say when they witness someone make a recovery. The guy was fighting for his life on a bed, not flying in the damn sky.
SamuelHans 1 year ago
always love listening to the podcast :)
Richy15251 1 year ago
@Richy15251 Its the first one i have listened to and it's actually quite exceptional. So real and deep. If only more of the world was like this it might be a better place. I subscribed.
MVT44 1 year ago
@MVT44 I agree completely, it really was touching to listen to
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xxxMST3Kxxx 1 year ago
I can understand the decision of the woman who didn't try to save her babies, but don't ever give up just because the odds are against you! Doctors don't know everything...you never know what you'll miss out on when you choose the easy way out.
FluffyFeralMarmot 1 year ago
This podcast was incredible. I want to thank you so much for posting it. I'm currently caring for my dying Mum. She has Stage IV cancer . . . the kind you don't recover from. I tried searching for good internet sources on dealing with death from an atheist standpoint and was unlucky in my findings. I'm subscribed to you because of your other videos so I was ecstatic when I saw the topic of this podcast. I will refer to this later to help with writing my Mum's eulogy. Thankyou.
dancecommanderrr 1 year ago
Being an ex army soldier i was agnostic and seen some fucked up shit in my day. This was a very excellent podcast!
gravekeepersven 1 year ago
"I'll pray for you" is as good of a thing to say as anything. There's not really much you can do for someone else's grief except to show support.
Everyone deals with death in their own way. If you get offended by someone's religious comments, it's YOU who are using the grief as a soapbox for your beliefs.
FluffyFeralMarmot 1 year ago
I would like to know what the sermon would have been about if the young woman was an omitted atheist. The problem with Christianity is that it is not all happiness and rainbows. It's a quite a horrible scenario, if a person for some reason rejects that faith. An eternal punishment for someone who just doesn't see a reason to believe in that. That seems worse than death.
HighCardWins 1 year ago
Very moving ...
Bio4ce1 1 year ago
Very touching, very nice. I really liked this one.
DevelX666 1 year ago
some shit is just unfixable
loosekarrott 1 year ago
Seth you bastard, that music at the ends almost killed me :P
Jeycuasi 1 year ago
@Jeycuasi Tear jerker express!!
soulsanctuarymusic1 1 year ago
0:50:23 i know it's sad but ROFL !
zecle 1 year ago
@zecle huh?
MAlgMAlg1 1 year ago
one of the most insightful and best radio voices i've heard. thank you.
mingsrobot 1 year ago
I hate crying. Damn you TTA. DAMN YOU.
notabook 1 year ago
Sally's story was the most inspiring for me.
wavymavy 1 year ago
Wow, Seth, you're good with the comforting words. Seriously!
wavymavy 1 year ago
Does your dad use sign language or did he get the implants after he already knew verbal language? I've been learning ASL and so far all the Deaf people I've met are pretty religious...It turns out that sign language was originally used by hearing people to preach. The first Deaf schools were mostly catholic and the other students in my class knew ASL from sermons. Wouldn't you think that the Deaf would be a bit more reluctant to believe in a god that sequestered them from most of society?
CakeFace579 1 year ago
@CakeFace579 My father never learned sign language. I think it was a pride thing. My mother even learned to sign in the hopes that she would encourage him, but he insisted in lip-reading. A very, very difficult way to go. But I'll admit, he got pretty damn good at it.
My biggest thought about dad is this: After all of those healing services that produced no result, I wonder if he felt responsible. It was his fault. He didn't "have enough faith." Makes me livid.
TheThinkingAtheist 1 year ago
@TheThinkingAtheist I've always sort of wondered that about people with disabilities and faith...If they think it's all their fault and they deserve to be punished. It makes me sad to think some people consider themselves sinful just for being human. It's horrible. Many people who are born Deaf refuse implants for themselves and their children because it's "the way God made them." Implants are actually a sort of controversy, at least in the South. I'm glad your dad was able to qualify for them!
CakeFace579 1 year ago
Excellent video. Productive discussion.
stardust005 1 year ago
I need the song that was playing at the end
qapiojg 1 year ago
I watched a film recently, wasn't amazing but I liked it, called 'rabbit hole', dealing with a parents grief over the death of a child... and the comfort that was taken in a scientific possibility, about the nature of the infinite universe, by the mother and those involved in the death, while rejecting the religious notions.
kendrawhisp 1 year ago
Somehow we get a person who hates America, jesus preachers who are a little to close to god, angsty teenages, empty minded drones, and the few who actually see through the conspiracy theories, just as well as they see through religion.
Akadou 1 year ago
Grief with a cultural belief or not; We all feel it. This is a great call.
truvelocity 1 year ago
This is sad... people listen JESUS is YOUR ANSWER.Your not alone in the world.. Take heart He loves you! =)
layhayla 1 year ago
@layhayla Jesus is the answer? What was the question?
askegg 1 year ago
@layhayla These people's tragedies are not your soap box.
lazyperfectionist1 1 year ago
@layhayla Of course we're not alone in the world. We have each other. We have the earth and the stars and many things besides. It is clear religion has stolen much from you, layhayla: your intellect, your hope, your appreciation of the present. Don't you worry though, there's still time for you to accept evidence and reason, to reclaim your dignity and face death without fear and without guilt. Renounce faith and welcome reality into your life. Then you shall know peace, dear.
darkmiles22 1 year ago
@darkmiles22 Your looking for man to save you when the only one that can save you is Jesus.I will NEVER renounce My Lord.My REASON for being alive is my Father in Heaven.There's still time for you to renounce your ideas and lack of faith for: EVERLASTING LIFE =)
Rooroo05 1 year ago
@Rooroo05 I prefer a woman savior - easier on the eyes, y'know. Still, I'm going to need some evidence before I believe the loyalty for everlasting life is even a real offer, and even then I might need to shop around. Valhalla offers unending mead and wenches and manly sport, which sounds much more tempting really. Then again there's so much happening here on earth; I might just go for Lord Krishna and another turn on the merry-go-round. Or I maybe I'll dance with Mother Kali. Choices, choices.
darkmiles22 1 year ago
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Rooroo05 1 year ago
@darkmiles22 Your knee like every other man,woman and child WILL bow to Him... so NO.. you have no choice in that matter however like every other person He gives you a choice.. that choice is either Life or death.You state "there's so much happening here on earth" there will be NO earth after He returns,I warn you repent... Ask His Forgiveness before it's too late.I was a lost soul as you are not so very long ago,I am am now happy in my heart and know that nothing on this earth matters but Him.
Rooroo05 1 year ago
@Rooroo05 You're such a pleasant authoritarian cultist.
GodofCider 1 year ago
@GodofCider I am a pleasant person yes,but I am no "authoritarian cultist" I am only trying to witness to people... thank you and good day.
Rooroo05 1 year ago
@Rooroo05 I thought it was a fairly accurate description; especially given the post I replied to.
You seem pleasant. You evidently adhere to a cult; and it's authoritarian.
GodofCider 1 year ago