Hitler and Stalin thought they were living gods and were going to replace the gods of old. They were not atheists.
I disagree with one of the speakers though. He was too kind. Religious indoctrination is not like having one's hand tied behind one's back. It is like Chinese foot binding of girls. Once the foot was bound and broken, the damage was permanent. The minds of the religious, broken in childhood, can not be made well. It is going to take centuries to rid this planet of religion.
Great compilation overall. I could have done without that overly strident/mournful piano score though, especially at the end when it seemed to get louder and obscure what Hitchens was saying. I didn't like the choppy cuts for the Hitchens bit either. I've seen that clip in its original form and think it was powerful enough without the editing flourishes. But that's my bias.
@sfajaxel I didn't edit the Hitchens clip footage at all. The only thing I've added is the music. I wonder why the "choppy cuts" didn't bother you when you watched the original? Similarly, while you're bothered by the music I've used, I'm sure you barely notice the music used invariably in television documentaries.
I think the quote from Wole Soyinka is beautiful, but since english is not my first language I had trouble hearing/understanding one part of it. He says: "But since you have so many religions in the world, and there's only one humanity, both in terms of physiological claimes, as well as..." And I can't properly hear the next thing he says. Something with Chatter?
@OnnoSlot1988 "....as well as by United Nations charter, the one humanity, and the fundamental claims of humanity, have to take precedence over the conflicting claims of religion."
Notice how so many of these brave non-believers are from Europe, whose population (for the most part) has bid a steady farewell to religion over the past 60-odd years? When oh when will the U.S.A. wake up and realize that religion is one great big con that suppresses free thought, rationality, logic, and honest human curiosity?
@javaholic451 When? Maybe after a terrible economic depression- when we have to pick up a hammer again. Maybe when we find ourselves to hungry and busy to go to church.
I'm really curious why are no atheist philosophers actually quoted here, serious ones. Most of these people just happen to be atheists with a view. I'm sure there are a few atheists who would cover their face in shame at the arguments for atheism that are plainly invalid that are sometimes presented here.
@evechad "it is important to know that authors know nothing more about god than me or you"
You singled out "science fiction" writers first, implying that other writers have more insight than them. Now you're just saying "authors". You need to clarify your opinion.
What sort of people DO you think have "insight" on the topic of god?
It's not when religions are destroyed that we'll live in a better place. It's the moment when all humans don't need religions that will shape a better future.
wow, how one-sided. why not ask dostoyevsky, kierkegaard, or tolstoy or john milton or flannery o'connor what they think about God. I never would have watched this if I knew it was dedicated to Christopher Hitchens and biased that way, but obviously it was the JPararajasingham's intent to manipulate the viewers' experience in this way, leaving that info out until the end. Well done doctor!
I hate talking about my atheism simply because people always say things like, "how can you be so sure", or "prove God doesn't exist" etc.. And can't give them a straight answer because it is so ridiculous. There is obviously not a God, it doesn't need questioning. I cant get my head around just how bafflingly obvious that is.
I want to applaud Hitchens for making so much sense, and for really hitting home by comparing religion with a totalitarian system... especially since democracy is so valued in North America, that final argument was all the more effective.
@siryknott27 That's hardly an indication of anything. I don't buy into this nonsense and yet I "own" several. I didn't pay a cent for any of them. They were handed out at schools/business', or gifted by redneck family members. It's likely many a household (and hotel) has at least one bible in them, and yet the majority of them aren't being read and just collect dust.
So what is the value of being the #1 Bestseller? Maybe that of being (on average) the most neglected book in the world.
@xTkAx Gid didn't write shit. Traditions and myths that improve social stability got reworked and handed down through thousands of editors, long before 'Jesus Christ', if he even ever existed.
Love one another?
Tell that to the pope, who sits on his ten billion dollar throne while he tells Africa that using condoms causes AIDS, increasing poverty and sickness.
Tell that to Israelis and Palestines, who have been murdering eachother while secular thinking got us to the moon and to quantum physics
Without love we'll never have peace. We all know the world needs more love, so just be mindful of that secular thinking, because it did cause a big mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, where many perished. LOVE ONE ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!
@xTkAx No, what caused that was a clash between (religious, in the case of America) ideologies and an irrational proliferation of the nuclear arsenal.
Science or nature aren't benign or malign, they are indifferent.
You manage to completely ignore my points...
The very computer you are typing on was created by reasonable people working together regardless of gender, orientation, ideological conviction or ethnicity.
Tolerance and an open mind help that, and love, to progress.
@MelleB90 Hey science is cool! If it wasn't for the printing press, the word of God in the Holy Bible may not have spread around the world, and may not have helped so many people that it has helped. In time religion and science will each depend on each other... even einstien knew that!!!
@xTkAx Are you trying to imply that secular thinking is necessarily unloving? In my opinion, religious teachings offer more reasons to hate and fear one another than secularist thinking, as xenophobia is a very common occurrence in religious text. Churches encourage closing oneself to "corruption," which means shutting out anyone who disagrees with dogma. Doesn't sound very loving to me.
I can't even begin to touch on all the things wrong with your very simplified understanding of WWII.
@TheGooseHerder Hey, i'm only saying if we loved one another that may not have happened. I understand your opinion, but do you know that the key lesson in the holy bible is to "Love one another"? Thats what works, thats what we should do!!! Everyone knows the world needs more love too!!!
@xTkAx And everyone who disagrees is going to hell. Right. You are getting ripped of your free mind, friend, but go on, i don't really give a shit. Neither does anybody else. You are alone, because you put your faith in something, disregarding all else.
@masterathedark Assuming things about people never really got anyone anywhere good. But you can't deny the world needs more love, and we should love one another at all costs!!!!
@xTkAx No. There is no such thing as "love" and "peace", especially when you talk about them being worldwide. The world will never know "peace", because as long as 2 people remain on it, there won't be any. And why, I ask you, would you put your precious mind into loving someone, who does not love you back and who does not give two shits about you? I deny that the world needs more love. I say it needs more brains.
@masterathedark Hey, you have your choices, and i can respect that! As for me, i'll choose love, because my brain can sense that the world already has an over abundance of apathy and hate, and can see how it's so inefficient!!! God urges us to love one another, because it's excellent and the best way of life, so we should do!
@entropede You better beleive, it welcome to nazi german! your going to be my offical T-bagger. you get to run around and t bag all the religous people. who are you to tell me WHY i am your god now, bow before me and my bad grammer!
@eovogt when u get rid of religion,, then you eventually will find your self creating a new one.. because religion is man made... /watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY
@eovogt Demolition is a product of destruction. Destruction comes from anger, anger comes from hate. When everyone stops using hate, we will all live in a better place. :)
@cats4god Although I agree with your end statement, destruction, like creation, is a natural and necessary process. Is lightning angry when it sparks a forest fire that destroys hundreds of square miles of wildlife? No, yet despite the environmental carnage within a couple hundred years a new, lush forest will be birthed in the ashes.
I think people (on both sides of this argument) are too attached to the image of God as a man with a white beard that lives in the clouds. "God" is a concept meant to explain the unknown. As we learn more about the universe and the laws that govern it, rather than claim that these ideas DISPROVE God, why can we not simply agree that they ARE God?
@baaman00 because that would be building up a false dichotomy and God has specific attributes, namely that He spirit.. and as we learn more about how the universe operates, then we understand HOW God did it,because everyone by now should know stuff doesn't just create itself.
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I feel so fucking ashamed that our socalled "thinkers" of this planet are so utterly retarded in there mind. Either they are retarded or it is a conspiracy.
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WOW! IT'S AMAZING HOW SOME EDUCATED MEN ON THIS EARTH CAN BE SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY DECEIVED! "Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!" - KING DAVID (Psalm 14:1)
This really blew me away...so many truly great people, whom I respect so very much, saying things that are SO true, and so rarely publicly acknowledged.
I was literally weeping with mingled joy (that one man could be such an unbelievably erudite and great thinker) and loss (that he is so sadly no longer with us) to hear Christopher Hitchens' speech at the very end of the video.
Great video. Coming from another (although insignificant in comparison) pragmatic Scot. The sooner we can be free, the better. Only thing is now I miss Christopher Hitchins again.No idea if that is good or bad? We miss you big guy.
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I think it's mostly the deceptiveness that bothers me with these videos. (After all, I've seen enough anti-theistic irrationality to no longer be surprised by it.) Rather than title this as such for what's clearly a childish "gotcha" game, why not be honest and just call this series "Quotes From Atheistic ___" or more honestly "Otherwise Intelligent People With Hateful Philosophies"? Perhaps you're interested in making converts, but anti-theism itself is counterintuitive to that goal...
@thequiet194 So many mistakes in your comment. Firstly, you don't seem to know what anti-theism is. Secondly, not all the speakers in these videos are atheists, so your suggestion would be deceptive. Thirdly, it is the norm for elite scientists and philosophers to be irreligious, so my original title choice was making that point. This video title choice was only to be in keeping with the series. Fourthly, it states right at the beginning that the speakers in this are disbelievers.
@thequiet194 To believe something for which there is not even a shred of proof is irrational. The rejections of such claims isn't. Your definition of "hateful" is laughable at best. It is not hate to ignore, mock or disagree with. Theists have a nasty habit of crying "discrimination" or "bigotry" when they don't get their own way all the time. To assert that your beliefs are nonsense is not hateful. We should not be forced to ratify your imaginary friend. That is the spirit of vids like these.
@davidiainmcmahon Then are you willing to accept that your approach to religion further embeds fundamentalism? Religion has continually evolved through self-critique, while outside critique often gives the worst sects just the "persecution" cry they need to stick around. By attacking all religion, rather than specific doctrines, you make things perpetually worse - something that has empirical effects on millions of groups, LGBT a primary example. Is that worth the fun of mockery to you?
@thequiet194 So now atheists are to blame for the bad behaviour of the religious? When the retaliation to criticism is barbarism then the blame rests solely with the barbarians. Giving in to their every whim will not make them less dogmatic. When religion is strong it gives itself license to be even more dogmatic, not less. Fundamentalists are only bad when the fundamentals of your religion are so abhorrent as is the case with monotheism.
@davidiainmcmahon Atheists are not to blame for religion's wrongs, and neither are anti-theists for that matter. (Don't confuse the two, thanks. Glad to be part of the first, but shudder at the thought of being grouped with the latter.) However, secular communities do have a responsibility to go about the debate in a way which brings change. "Fundamentalists are only bad when the fundamentals are bad", by the way, is exactly my point. Pressure them to change the fundamentals if needed!
@thequiet194 It is the core assertion of religion that is worth fighting. The excuse to do anything you like and shirk responsibility on to god(s). No-one has a right to make up facts. There is not a single religion that does not do this (apart from Deism which can scarcely be called a religion), Secularism has forced religion into line. That's why the pope can no longer have your tortured for owning a bible in your own language. Theocrats never give up any power willingly. Dogma is always bad.
@davidiainmcmahon Common misconception. Theists, at least any that I know of, have yet to make any claim. A belief is not an absolute claim, it is, at best, a guess. Ironically, the popular anti-theistic meme has it right when it states "It wouldn't be called faith if it were based on facts." Anti-theists, on the other hand, seem to make claims every day. I can't browse through Tumblr without seeing the absolutist nonsense of "God isn't real", which puts the burden of proof on the atheist.
@rtarbinar You're right, there are theists who make absolute claims - creationists, flood historians and the like - but I don't know any of them personally. (Thankfully!)
@FryderykFChopin I concur, hell is a hateful thing! That's why I fight so hard to get people to target doctrines like the concept of hell over a generalized attack on all religion. Because only the former will actually result in anything changing - theists simply become too defensive when attacking all religion.
its not a hateful thing, its a hateful idea. and the hate is in imagining such a perverted fantasy to be true. the violence of the myth and the violence with which it was imposed on two thousand years of human history are one and the same. even the lonely fragments of morality adrift in the overall diseased narrative of the bible are in fact the products of reason which were co-opted with bald cynicism by the authors and editors of the bible.
@zackmahal Theists have the power to change this "perverted fantasy", as they have done by declaring large parts metaphorical. Encourage them to change the perverted parts of their doctrine, and recognize that the doctrine is the problem and not theism itself.
oh sure, agreed. reformation is a positive step but I still think the myths themselves are a poor starting point for any system of ethics. what little there is to be found existed prior to any religious text still in use and was the direct result of reasoned thought. and there exists something directly observable, infinitely (from a human perspective) mysterious and much more worthy of our attentions, meditations and reverence: the Universe
As opposed to Christianity, Judaism and Islam that hates Gays and Blacks and that women are inferior to men and are only useful to cook, clean and make babies with as all those doctrines promote?
@Beriaal This is one of the exceedingly few parts of the video with which I disagree. A world free of religion would almost certainly be better than our current world, but to say that religion is the only thing holding us back from "a great place" is hyperbole.
Excellent video. Again, these are only 30 writers, so I would not expect this to be complete. As for there being no Dawkins, well that would be too obvious. Isn't better to have one other author we didn't know about saying these things? The arguments are sound, thoughtful, reasoned, honest, and it is a shame they will never convince most people otherwise, though it would be interesting to hear them try to rebut, or attempt to debate any of these people on the issue.
@squeeker1992 I don't think Hitchens could lead atheists, he was pro-Iraq war and slightly pro-life, I liked him for being different, but he was too different to lead (unless atheists start changing their views).
@Golkarian There isn't any such label or station of "leader of the atheists". But if there were, it would not be anyone other than Hitchens hands down. It's always been basically silently understood that the 4 horsemen did have a hierarchy. Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett in that order. Now I figure Micheal Shermer will become the latest 4th horseman but am unsure yet who'll be the leader whether Harris or Dawkins. I'm leaning Harris for practical reasons.
Great compilation, once again. Hitchens' quote at the end is so fucking brilliant. Probably the most eloquent thing I've ever heard anyone say on the subject.
@SofaKingT its not illogical to believe in God. ppl are afraid of facing God on judgment day, and the thought of being morally responsible to Him is abhorrent to them so they try to deny His existence
@JPararajasingham Ok it is your channel, you can do whatever you want. But I would like to ask something. I just read a article in the NewScientist in which, Alexander Valenkin had came to the conclusion the the Universe had a beginning. How does your atheism relate to this?
@TheAwesomeMaths Considering you were keen to use Valenkin as the expert to cite, are you not intersted in what he has to say about it? Why do you want my opinion, I'm not a physicist.
@TheAwesomeMaths There is no reason why more "nature" can't be beyond the observable Universe. And indeed subatomic particle behaviour, quantum fluctuations and the mathematics of M-theory imply that there is.
@TheAwesomeMaths "The eternal universe is not illogical is just not true"
I don't mean our observable universe, I mean whatever total reality is. Why can't total nature/reality, whatever that may be, be eternal, in the same way you think God can be eternal?
@JPararajasingham Well the Universe, or Multiverse, contains all matter, space, time and energy( in short, the material/natural realm) and so something that is outside space and time is not part of the natural realm. I can sugest a good channel on Youtube called TheisticThinker where the issue of a Universe that began is addresed and its implications.
@TheAwesomeMaths "something that is outside space and time is not part of the natural realm."
Semantics. Whether you call eternal existence "more nature" or "supernature" is irrelevant. What's relevant is that neither the atheist nor the theist necessarily denies that existence is eternal. You cannot really get away from existence somehow always being there. But you additionally think that within the eternal existence resides a superbeing, whereas I do not.
@JPararajasingham But if the Universe came into existence 13.7 billion years ago from absolute nothing, which was no properties, then there is no other other explination besides the supernatural, because any natural explanation would be part of the Universe.
@TheAwesomeMaths "But if the Universe came into existence 13.7 billion years ago from absolute nothing, which was no properties, then there is no other other explination besides the supernatural, because any natural explanation would be part of the Universe."
You have to distinguish between:
1. The OBSERVABLE universe (which began)
2. Nature beyond the observable (multiverse, quantum vacuum).
3, Eternal existence/reality
There are natural explanations beyond the observable.
@TheAwesomeMaths "The article showed that even the Multiverse, would require a beginning."
Which is why I first mentioned:
1. An eternal existence with eternal universe-producing properties vs.
2. An eternal existence with an eternal universe-producing superbeing.
Why is the latter superior?
NB. You shifted gears when you talked about this universe beginning 13.7 bya, which is why I asked you to disinguish between the various layers of existence.
@TheAwesomeMaths "If that eternal existence is absolute nothing the you are right, but it does not have universe-producing properties"
Explain to me why, within baseline existence, you won't allow for the possibility of non-mental universe-producing properties, but you will allow for a universe-producing super-mind. Explain clearly why a "mind" is the ONLY possible answer.
@TheAwesomeMaths "Cosmology is the beginning of space, time, matter and energy so what else could exist outside the Universe?"
Eternal existence with physics we can't yet comprehend. It's not necessarily a superbeing.
We are evolved to only understand reality in terms of space and time. I recognise this limitation, but the fact that natural explanations keep superceding supernatural speculations of the past, I hold out for the likelihood that more nature will be found.
@TheAwesomeMaths "I do not consider there are various layers of existence, there is only existence and non-existence."
If existence doesn't have different layers or realms, then why can't we see God or heaven? Or do you think they are just far away near the edges of the universe, and this is why we cannot detect them?
@JPararajasingham Those might be considered different layers of reality.Higher dimensions can be detected by us because we live in a 3 dimensional world.
I want to ask you, if something does not have space and time and it is not formed out of matter or energy do you think it exists?
@TheAwesomeMaths "if something does not have space and time and it is not formed out of matter or energy do you think it exists?"
(1) Our brains evolved to think in terms of 3D, solid matter and linear time. Evidence is the ONLY thing that can and should convince us that space can bend, time can vary, and that other dimensions exist. Thinking alone could never have convinced us of such counter-intuitive truths. In the same way, your question can only be answered with a speculative, "maybe".
@TheAwesomeMaths "if something does not have space and time and it is not formed out of matter or energy do you think it exists?"
(2) Since God apparantly created space, time, matter and energy, he cannot be composed of them. So presumably you believe something can exist without any of the above? I certainly wouldn't base my entire worldview on such a speculative concept. It gives far too much credit to human mental capability, hence why I refer to it as an intellectually arrogant worldview.
Number 8.Good is good?By who? I kill you I get money good for me bad you for?This superficial view on morals that is self-refuting.How can you explain something to be true if you claim you need no proof that it is true?What is the difference if I said the same for rape?"There are hundreds of people that disagree that rape is bad but because we believe we are right they right we need no proof or arguments because were not fundamental group.Rape is good because it's good!Circular reasoning.
Hitler and Stalin thought they were living gods and were going to replace the gods of old. They were not atheists.
I disagree with one of the speakers though. He was too kind. Religious indoctrination is not like having one's hand tied behind one's back. It is like Chinese foot binding of girls. Once the foot was bound and broken, the damage was permanent. The minds of the religious, broken in childhood, can not be made well. It is going to take centuries to rid this planet of religion.
sfajaxel 4 days ago
Great compilation overall. I could have done without that overly strident/mournful piano score though, especially at the end when it seemed to get louder and obscure what Hitchens was saying. I didn't like the choppy cuts for the Hitchens bit either. I've seen that clip in its original form and think it was powerful enough without the editing flourishes. But that's my bias.
sfajaxel 4 days ago
@sfajaxel I didn't edit the Hitchens clip footage at all. The only thing I've added is the music. I wonder why the "choppy cuts" didn't bother you when you watched the original? Similarly, while you're bothered by the music I've used, I'm sure you barely notice the music used invariably in television documentaries.
Anyway, thanks for the comment.
JPararajasingham 4 days ago
Isaac Asimov is a favorite of mine.
ORagnar 6 days ago
This is great, but I find it odd that Ayn Rand is not included here.
ORagnar 6 days ago
LOL. Gore Vidal is so awesomely gay. lol. i love him.
mleonsmith 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Thank you for putting together some of the best vids I've had the pleasure of viewing on YT.
Outstanding Job Sir...
GB0318 1 week ago
I think the quote from Wole Soyinka is beautiful, but since english is not my first language I had trouble hearing/understanding one part of it. He says: "But since you have so many religions in the world, and there's only one humanity, both in terms of physiological claimes, as well as..." And I can't properly hear the next thing he says. Something with Chatter?
OnnoSlot1988 1 week ago
@OnnoSlot1988 "....as well as by United Nations charter, the one humanity, and the fundamental claims of humanity, have to take precedence over the conflicting claims of religion."
JPararajasingham 1 week ago
Well done, thanks for posting!
andygray 2 weeks ago
Notice how so many of these brave non-believers are from Europe, whose population (for the most part) has bid a steady farewell to religion over the past 60-odd years? When oh when will the U.S.A. wake up and realize that religion is one great big con that suppresses free thought, rationality, logic, and honest human curiosity?
javaholic451 2 weeks ago
@javaholic451 When? Maybe after a terrible economic depression- when we have to pick up a hammer again. Maybe when we find ourselves to hungry and busy to go to church.
Jeffersonwazright 2 weeks ago
Great work! Congrats!
joka2103 2 weeks ago
speaking about something you know SHIT about...yeah.. I like it.
MaikUniversum 2 weeks ago
Wonderful collection - thank you for this!
richo61 2 weeks ago
@evechad
Au contraire - writers of fiction understand human desires and dreams and fears very well - and this is the source of all gods and spirits.
richo61 2 weeks ago
I'm really curious why are no atheist philosophers actually quoted here, serious ones. Most of these people just happen to be atheists with a view. I'm sure there are a few atheists who would cover their face in shame at the arguments for atheism that are plainly invalid that are sometimes presented here.
nathanksimpson 2 weeks ago
@nathanksimpson This video is part of a series. Go to my channel, I have two other videos with 100 scientists and philosophers.
JPararajasingham 2 weeks ago
Alguem, por favor, legende em portugues...
satolep 2 weeks ago
@evechad "it is important to know that authors know nothing more about god than me or you"
You singled out "science fiction" writers first, implying that other writers have more insight than them. Now you're just saying "authors". You need to clarify your opinion.
What sort of people DO you think have "insight" on the topic of god?
JPararajasingham 2 weeks ago
@evechad "thinking science fiction writers have some insight on this topic is pretty funny."
Doesn't stop theists referencing the creators of Narnia and Middle Earth though, does it?
JPararajasingham 2 weeks ago 3
More people are starting to understand, the world is moving forward. Maybe we're actually getting smarter as a whole. Nice thoughts
Joe3junk 3 weeks ago
Totally brilliant. Thanks to Paul Mumford for sending this link to me. Godless Paul !
tedgrant2 3 weeks ago
It's not when religions are destroyed that we'll live in a better place. It's the moment when all humans don't need religions that will shape a better future.
BitSymphony 3 weeks ago 3
12 people are still delusional
SHEEPOFSATAN 3 weeks ago
thank you to god, for making me an atheist.
bax2684 3 weeks ago
wow, how one-sided. why not ask dostoyevsky, kierkegaard, or tolstoy or john milton or flannery o'connor what they think about God. I never would have watched this if I knew it was dedicated to Christopher Hitchens and biased that way, but obviously it was the JPararajasingham's intent to manipulate the viewers' experience in this way, leaving that info out until the end. Well done doctor!
elcat9091 3 weeks ago
@elcat9091
"wow, how one-sided" - Where are the rules stating I should be multi-sided? Go elsewhere for other viewpoints.
"why not ask dostoyevsky, kierkegaard, or tolstoy or john milton" - You've got audiovisual clips of these guys, have you?
"leaving that info out until the end" - I state the speakers are disbelievers within 10 seconds.
"Well done doctor!" - No no, well done to you sir for completely misjudging and misreading the video, and making the worst comment to date.
JPararajasingham 3 weeks ago 34
@JPararajasingham Is it okay with you if I mirror this video on my channel?
It's a channel promoting Science, Humanism, Secularism and Atheism.
CrimsonReason 2 weeks ago
Two points...
1) "Pararajasingham", really? Sounds like "Pastafarianism"
2) The universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster
jasonantonacci 3 weeks ago
How didn't you put Carl Sagan on this list?
felchs 3 weeks ago
I hate talking about my atheism simply because people always say things like, "how can you be so sure", or "prove God doesn't exist" etc.. And can't give them a straight answer because it is so ridiculous. There is obviously not a God, it doesn't need questioning. I cant get my head around just how bafflingly obvious that is.
mitchellele 3 weeks ago
religion, government, love/ don't belong on youtube lol. too many opinionated people
blackraven3000 3 weeks ago
I want to applaud Hitchens for making so much sense, and for really hitting home by comparing religion with a totalitarian system... especially since democracy is so valued in North America, that final argument was all the more effective.
KidOnTheNet 3 weeks ago
I'd like to know from where DNAs segment is from. does anybody know?
PsychoWedge 3 weeks ago
All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin
Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright
TripakaBlankman 3 weeks ago 2
30 writers give God a good kicking. Bible still the number one bestseller. Get over it bitches.
siryknott27 3 weeks ago
@siryknott27 That's hardly an indication of anything. I don't buy into this nonsense and yet I "own" several. I didn't pay a cent for any of them. They were handed out at schools/business', or gifted by redneck family members. It's likely many a household (and hotel) has at least one bible in them, and yet the majority of them aren't being read and just collect dust.
So what is the value of being the #1 Bestseller? Maybe that of being (on average) the most neglected book in the world.
DrifterRise 3 weeks ago 3
@DrifterRise It was meant ironically :)
siryknott27 3 weeks ago
@siryknott27 Son of a...
Hey, it sounded good :P .
DrifterRise 3 weeks ago
@siryknott27 it's hardly riveting prose
angrywhenroused 3 weeks ago
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It seems more like 30 disgruntled writers, jealous that they didnt write the greatest story ever told. God did though, He is real, and awesome!!
LOVE ONE ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!!
xTkAx 3 weeks ago
@xTkAx Gid didn't write shit. Traditions and myths that improve social stability got reworked and handed down through thousands of editors, long before 'Jesus Christ', if he even ever existed.
Love one another?
Tell that to the pope, who sits on his ten billion dollar throne while he tells Africa that using condoms causes AIDS, increasing poverty and sickness.
Tell that to Israelis and Palestines, who have been murdering eachother while secular thinking got us to the moon and to quantum physics
MelleB90 3 weeks ago 23
Without love we'll never have peace. We all know the world needs more love, so just be mindful of that secular thinking, because it did cause a big mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, where many perished. LOVE ONE ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!
xTkAx 3 weeks ago
@xTkAx No, what caused that was a clash between (religious, in the case of America) ideologies and an irrational proliferation of the nuclear arsenal.
Science or nature aren't benign or malign, they are indifferent.
You manage to completely ignore my points...
The very computer you are typing on was created by reasonable people working together regardless of gender, orientation, ideological conviction or ethnicity.
Tolerance and an open mind help that, and love, to progress.
Religion halts it.
MelleB90 3 weeks ago
@MelleB90 Hey science is cool! If it wasn't for the printing press, the word of God in the Holy Bible may not have spread around the world, and may not have helped so many people that it has helped. In time religion and science will each depend on each other... even einstien knew that!!!
xTkAx 3 weeks ago
@xTkAx Are you trying to imply that secular thinking is necessarily unloving? In my opinion, religious teachings offer more reasons to hate and fear one another than secularist thinking, as xenophobia is a very common occurrence in religious text. Churches encourage closing oneself to "corruption," which means shutting out anyone who disagrees with dogma. Doesn't sound very loving to me.
I can't even begin to touch on all the things wrong with your very simplified understanding of WWII.
TheGooseHerder 3 weeks ago
@TheGooseHerder Hey, i'm only saying if we loved one another that may not have happened. I understand your opinion, but do you know that the key lesson in the holy bible is to "Love one another"? Thats what works, thats what we should do!!! Everyone knows the world needs more love too!!!
xTkAx 3 weeks ago
@MelleB90 Don't you dare make the Israel-Palestine conflict about religion you dolt.
normalkuriboh 3 weeks ago
@normalkuriboh Interesting point. What do you believe the Israel-Palestine conflict is all about?
cats4god 3 weeks ago
@cats4god Land. This is nothing new, ask any scholar, better yet; Google it.
normalkuriboh 3 weeks ago
@normalkuriboh But it is about religions debate me if you dare.
eovogt 3 weeks ago
@eovogt Sorry man, I'm a devout atheist.
normalkuriboh 3 weeks ago
@xTkAx The greatest story ever told? The Bible? Not only is most of that book plagiarized, but it's not even that good of a story.
ninjajesus81 3 weeks ago
@xTkAx And everyone who disagrees is going to hell. Right. You are getting ripped of your free mind, friend, but go on, i don't really give a shit. Neither does anybody else. You are alone, because you put your faith in something, disregarding all else.
masterathedark 3 weeks ago
@masterathedark Assuming things about people never really got anyone anywhere good. But you can't deny the world needs more love, and we should love one another at all costs!!!!
xTkAx 3 weeks ago
@xTkAx No. There is no such thing as "love" and "peace", especially when you talk about them being worldwide. The world will never know "peace", because as long as 2 people remain on it, there won't be any. And why, I ask you, would you put your precious mind into loving someone, who does not love you back and who does not give two shits about you? I deny that the world needs more love. I say it needs more brains.
masterathedark 3 weeks ago
@masterathedark Hey, you have your choices, and i can respect that! As for me, i'll choose love, because my brain can sense that the world already has an over abundance of apathy and hate, and can see how it's so inefficient!!! God urges us to love one another, because it's excellent and the best way of life, so we should do!
xTkAx 3 weeks ago
@masterathedark I say you're both fucking retarded. The world needs love, but it doesn't need a God.
MrInsaneA 3 weeks ago
Well compiled sir, well compiled. It's a great watch
claudegreengrass81 3 weeks ago
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30 minutes of BULL. they're all atheists who slander god.This video should be taken down, in my honest opinion. its 30 minutes of human sickness
blackraven3000 3 weeks ago
@blackraven3000 Video should be taken down? Why? Ever heard of freedom of expression? Should all religious videos be taken down as well?
entropede 3 weeks ago
@entropede You better beleive, it welcome to nazi german! your going to be my offical T-bagger. you get to run around and t bag all the religous people. who are you to tell me WHY i am your god now, bow before me and my bad grammer!
blackraven3000 3 weeks ago
@blackraven3000 you're comment is that of human sickness. if you do not agree with what is being presented, then offer a valid argument.
abraxasworld1 3 weeks ago
Did anyone else think Ken Follett looks like jiminy Glick?
ThePzero86 3 weeks ago
Is it a coincidence that the vast majority of the most intelligent people on the planet past and present reject/ed religion?
SquareRo0o0t 3 weeks ago
When we demolish religion we will all live in a better place,
eovogt 3 weeks ago 39
@eovogt when u get rid of religion,, then you eventually will find your self creating a new one.. because religion is man made... /watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY
Gods0n1 3 weeks ago
@eovogt Demolition is a product of destruction. Destruction comes from anger, anger comes from hate. When everyone stops using hate, we will all live in a better place. :)
cats4god 3 weeks ago
@cats4god Although I agree with your end statement, destruction, like creation, is a natural and necessary process. Is lightning angry when it sparks a forest fire that destroys hundreds of square miles of wildlife? No, yet despite the environmental carnage within a couple hundred years a new, lush forest will be birthed in the ashes.
torchizzle 3 weeks ago
@cats4god You're right but religion causes hate. I agree with you completely, but i have no hatred and many people who rely on science do as well.
eovogt 3 weeks ago
@eovogt If we could all just get along and not put religion in front of peace we would be better off.
eovogt 3 weeks ago
@eovogt that means total anarchy. And anarchy is not chaos. It's order.
MaikUniversum 2 weeks ago
i've had my comment's deleted multiple times this week so all i can say is that this video just touches the subject.
eovogt 3 weeks ago
8 people have no freedom of thought
eovogt 3 weeks ago
@eovogt you mean 8 people watch FOX
eovogt 3 weeks ago
I think this video just helped me realize I'm an atheist. Scary, but true.
sarahelizabethe1 4 weeks ago 3
I think people (on both sides of this argument) are too attached to the image of God as a man with a white beard that lives in the clouds. "God" is a concept meant to explain the unknown. As we learn more about the universe and the laws that govern it, rather than claim that these ideas DISPROVE God, why can we not simply agree that they ARE God?
baaman00 4 weeks ago
@baaman00 because that would be building up a false dichotomy and God has specific attributes, namely that He spirit.. and as we learn more about how the universe operates, then we understand HOW God did it,because everyone by now should know stuff doesn't just create itself.
Gods0n1 4 weeks ago
Excellent choice of music.
hurriquake856 4 weeks ago
Aww, out of all the interesting things Philip Pullman has said on the subject... :/
lynxdaemonskye 4 weeks ago
I would hope that others watch this all the way through. Good perceptions.
Sirisian 4 weeks ago
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I feel so fucking ashamed that our socalled "thinkers" of this planet are so utterly retarded in there mind. Either they are retarded or it is a conspiracy.
Metatronicus 4 weeks ago
@Metatronicus *their *so called. Nice troll. Love it.
russspooner 4 weeks ago 3
Faith is unnatural. Goes against laws of nature.
vmorgun 4 weeks ago
This raised my pores. I am in good company.
KDN888 4 weeks ago
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WOW! IT'S AMAZING HOW SOME EDUCATED MEN ON THIS EARTH CAN BE SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY DECEIVED! "Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!" - KING DAVID (Psalm 14:1)
danameizjoe 4 weeks ago
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i sincerely hope you see the irony in your comment, because damn, that is fucking funny
h4zy13 4 weeks ago
Freakin' loved it, and subscribed. Thank You.
Ciwan2 1 month ago
This really blew me away...so many truly great people, whom I respect so very much, saying things that are SO true, and so rarely publicly acknowledged.
I was literally weeping with mingled joy (that one man could be such an unbelievably erudite and great thinker) and loss (that he is so sadly no longer with us) to hear Christopher Hitchens' speech at the very end of the video.
Druzil100 1 month ago
where can I find the full video of that Hitchens's speech..??
f4350 1 month ago
@f4350 It's from "Collision (The Movie) - Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson". You can find it on YouTube.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
Great video. Coming from another (although insignificant in comparison) pragmatic Scot. The sooner we can be free, the better. Only thing is now I miss Christopher Hitchins again.No idea if that is good or bad? We miss you big guy.
davidiainmcmahon 1 month ago
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I think it's mostly the deceptiveness that bothers me with these videos. (After all, I've seen enough anti-theistic irrationality to no longer be surprised by it.) Rather than title this as such for what's clearly a childish "gotcha" game, why not be honest and just call this series "Quotes From Atheistic ___" or more honestly "Otherwise Intelligent People With Hateful Philosophies"? Perhaps you're interested in making converts, but anti-theism itself is counterintuitive to that goal...
thequiet194 1 month ago
@thequiet194 So many mistakes in your comment. Firstly, you don't seem to know what anti-theism is. Secondly, not all the speakers in these videos are atheists, so your suggestion would be deceptive. Thirdly, it is the norm for elite scientists and philosophers to be irreligious, so my original title choice was making that point. This video title choice was only to be in keeping with the series. Fourthly, it states right at the beginning that the speakers in this are disbelievers.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago 36
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Yes, thank God for "elite scientists" and the "norm".
kbddd 1 month ago
@thequiet194 To believe something for which there is not even a shred of proof is irrational. The rejections of such claims isn't. Your definition of "hateful" is laughable at best. It is not hate to ignore, mock or disagree with. Theists have a nasty habit of crying "discrimination" or "bigotry" when they don't get their own way all the time. To assert that your beliefs are nonsense is not hateful. We should not be forced to ratify your imaginary friend. That is the spirit of vids like these.
davidiainmcmahon 1 month ago
@davidiainmcmahon Then are you willing to accept that your approach to religion further embeds fundamentalism? Religion has continually evolved through self-critique, while outside critique often gives the worst sects just the "persecution" cry they need to stick around. By attacking all religion, rather than specific doctrines, you make things perpetually worse - something that has empirical effects on millions of groups, LGBT a primary example. Is that worth the fun of mockery to you?
thequiet194 1 month ago
@thequiet194 So now atheists are to blame for the bad behaviour of the religious? When the retaliation to criticism is barbarism then the blame rests solely with the barbarians. Giving in to their every whim will not make them less dogmatic. When religion is strong it gives itself license to be even more dogmatic, not less. Fundamentalists are only bad when the fundamentals of your religion are so abhorrent as is the case with monotheism.
davidiainmcmahon 1 month ago
@davidiainmcmahon Atheists are not to blame for religion's wrongs, and neither are anti-theists for that matter. (Don't confuse the two, thanks. Glad to be part of the first, but shudder at the thought of being grouped with the latter.) However, secular communities do have a responsibility to go about the debate in a way which brings change. "Fundamentalists are only bad when the fundamentals are bad", by the way, is exactly my point. Pressure them to change the fundamentals if needed!
thequiet194 1 month ago
@thequiet194 It is the core assertion of religion that is worth fighting. The excuse to do anything you like and shirk responsibility on to god(s). No-one has a right to make up facts. There is not a single religion that does not do this (apart from Deism which can scarcely be called a religion), Secularism has forced religion into line. That's why the pope can no longer have your tortured for owning a bible in your own language. Theocrats never give up any power willingly. Dogma is always bad.
davidiainmcmahon 1 month ago
@davidiainmcmahon Common misconception. Theists, at least any that I know of, have yet to make any claim. A belief is not an absolute claim, it is, at best, a guess. Ironically, the popular anti-theistic meme has it right when it states "It wouldn't be called faith if it were based on facts." Anti-theists, on the other hand, seem to make claims every day. I can't browse through Tumblr without seeing the absolutist nonsense of "God isn't real", which puts the burden of proof on the atheist.
thequiet194 1 month ago
@thequiet194 dude, you don't know of ANY theists who make ANY claims??? you must not get out much. :P
rtarbinar 1 month ago
@rtarbinar You're right, there are theists who make absolute claims - creationists, flood historians and the like - but I don't know any of them personally. (Thankfully!)
thequiet194 1 month ago
@thequiet194 'Hateful Philosophies' What the hell are you talking about?
Christian: 'You're going to go to hell unless you believe as I do'.
Thats a hateful philosophy.
FryderykFChopin 1 month ago in playlist "Speaking About God" Series
@FryderykFChopin I concur, hell is a hateful thing! That's why I fight so hard to get people to target doctrines like the concept of hell over a generalized attack on all religion. Because only the former will actually result in anything changing - theists simply become too defensive when attacking all religion.
thequiet194 1 month ago
@thequiet194
its not a hateful thing, its a hateful idea. and the hate is in imagining such a perverted fantasy to be true. the violence of the myth and the violence with which it was imposed on two thousand years of human history are one and the same. even the lonely fragments of morality adrift in the overall diseased narrative of the bible are in fact the products of reason which were co-opted with bald cynicism by the authors and editors of the bible.
zackmahal 1 month ago
@zackmahal Theists have the power to change this "perverted fantasy", as they have done by declaring large parts metaphorical. Encourage them to change the perverted parts of their doctrine, and recognize that the doctrine is the problem and not theism itself.
thequiet194 1 month ago
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oh sure, agreed. reformation is a positive step but I still think the myths themselves are a poor starting point for any system of ethics. what little there is to be found existed prior to any religious text still in use and was the direct result of reasoned thought. and there exists something directly observable, infinitely (from a human perspective) mysterious and much more worthy of our attentions, meditations and reverence: the Universe
zackmahal 1 month ago
@thequiet194 Hateful Philosophies?
As opposed to Christianity, Judaism and Islam that hates Gays and Blacks and that women are inferior to men and are only useful to cook, clean and make babies with as all those doctrines promote?
Yeah sounds reaaaaaaal 'loving'....
Darrellmeaney 1 month ago
Excellent.
With Hitchens slam dunking the point at the end...........thanks.
AutoBahnForever 1 month ago
This was a fantastic watch, thanks very much for the upload :)
Perception001 1 month ago 2
@Beriaal This is one of the exceedingly few parts of the video with which I disagree. A world free of religion would almost certainly be better than our current world, but to say that religion is the only thing holding us back from "a great place" is hyperbole.
TennysonXII 1 month ago
Thanks for this exellent Compilation here's one more 31.- Fernando Vallejo - Colombian Writer
TCallejasw 1 month ago in playlist More videos from JPararajasingham
Beautiful video..
oswade90 1 month ago
beautiful
hawkertruffelsnout 1 month ago
Great work. Thank you. The war on ignorance rages on.
b14blah 1 month ago
Excellent video. Again, these are only 30 writers, so I would not expect this to be complete. As for there being no Dawkins, well that would be too obvious. Isn't better to have one other author we didn't know about saying these things? The arguments are sound, thoughtful, reasoned, honest, and it is a shame they will never convince most people otherwise, though it would be interesting to hear them try to rebut, or attempt to debate any of these people on the issue.
jamescastelli 1 month ago
Sorry to trivialise an excellent and, I would say, important video, but Wole Soyinka looks fantastic.
DrAltais 1 month ago
was there no Dawkins? or am i so used to seeing him he blurred into the backdrop?
meadowsirl 1 month ago
I must thank you for this masterful video compilation which, by the way, I have just added to my rather inclusive selection of Favorites.
AULhall 1 month ago
Damn... Hitchens was so damn epic. I hope someone like him will come forth and lead us
squeeker1992 1 month ago
@squeeker1992 I don't think Hitchens could lead atheists, he was pro-Iraq war and slightly pro-life, I liked him for being different, but he was too different to lead (unless atheists start changing their views).
Golkarian 1 month ago
@Golkarian There isn't any such label or station of "leader of the atheists". But if there were, it would not be anyone other than Hitchens hands down. It's always been basically silently understood that the 4 horsemen did have a hierarchy. Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett in that order. Now I figure Micheal Shermer will become the latest 4th horseman but am unsure yet who'll be the leader whether Harris or Dawkins. I'm leaning Harris for practical reasons.
splicedenergy 1 month ago
Great compilation, once again. Hitchens' quote at the end is so fucking brilliant. Probably the most eloquent thing I've ever heard anyone say on the subject.
SofaKingT 1 month ago 31
@SofaKingT its not illogical to believe in God. ppl are afraid of facing God on judgment day, and the thought of being morally responsible to Him is abhorrent to them so they try to deny His existence
- the movie "180" by ray comfort
Gods0n1 4 weeks ago
@Gods0n1 no god no fear. Believe what you want but it's no way to run a society.
angrywhenroused 3 weeks ago
@angrywhenroused no God no morality... believe what you want, but a society will crumble without right and wrong.
Gods0n1 3 weeks ago
@JPararajasingham Ok it is your channel, you can do whatever you want. But I would like to ask something. I just read a article in the NewScientist in which, Alexander Valenkin had came to the conclusion the the Universe had a beginning. How does your atheism relate to this?
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "Alexander Valenkin had came to the conclusion the the Universe had a beginning. How does your atheism relate to this?"
Valenkin speaks about his own atheism on my other video ("Another 50"). And I agree with his conclusion.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham You do realise that if the Universe( the natural real) had a beginning, then you as an athesit have options:
A) To say the Universe came from nothing
B) To avoid that by saying it was caused by the supernatural(i.e. God)
I do not think Valenkin is an atheist, I think he is more of an Deist/Panthesit
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "I do not think Valenkin is an atheist, I think he is more of an Deist/Panthesit"
Watch my video and see what he says. He specifically rejects any use of the term god, even to describe the laws of nature.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham What about my question?
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths Considering you were keen to use Valenkin as the expert to cite, are you not intersted in what he has to say about it? Why do you want my opinion, I'm not a physicist.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham You are an atheist and this posses a problem for you, doesn't?
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths I don't agree with your false dichotomy, so it poses no problem for me.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham What is false about it?
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths There is no reason why more "nature" can't be beyond the observable Universe. And indeed subatomic particle behaviour, quantum fluctuations and the mathematics of M-theory imply that there is.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham He analysed the ideea of a Multiverse and even that would have to have a beginning.
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "He analysed the ideea of a Multiverse and even that would have to have a beginning."
So would God.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths Why do you think an eternal universe is illogical, but an eternal god is logical?
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham The eternal universe is not illogical is just not true
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "The eternal universe is not illogical is just not true"
I don't mean our observable universe, I mean whatever total reality is. Why can't total nature/reality, whatever that may be, be eternal, in the same way you think God can be eternal?
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
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@JPararajasingham So I was reading your guys' conversation and had my interest peaked by this statement:
"There is no reason why more "nature" can't be beyond the observable Universe."
At that point, why call it, whatever it is, nature? First off, how do you define "nature"?
M3PanoS 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham Well the Universe, or Multiverse, contains all matter, space, time and energy( in short, the material/natural realm) and so something that is outside space and time is not part of the natural realm. I can sugest a good channel on Youtube called TheisticThinker where the issue of a Universe that began is addresed and its implications.
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "something that is outside space and time is not part of the natural realm."
Semantics. Whether you call eternal existence "more nature" or "supernature" is irrelevant. What's relevant is that neither the atheist nor the theist necessarily denies that existence is eternal. You cannot really get away from existence somehow always being there. But you additionally think that within the eternal existence resides a superbeing, whereas I do not.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham But if the Universe came into existence 13.7 billion years ago from absolute nothing, which was no properties, then there is no other other explination besides the supernatural, because any natural explanation would be part of the Universe.
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "But if the Universe came into existence 13.7 billion years ago from absolute nothing, which was no properties, then there is no other other explination besides the supernatural, because any natural explanation would be part of the Universe."
You have to distinguish between:
1. The OBSERVABLE universe (which began)
2. Nature beyond the observable (multiverse, quantum vacuum).
3, Eternal existence/reality
There are natural explanations beyond the observable.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
@JPararajasingham The article showed that even the Multiverse, would require a beginning.
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "The article showed that even the Multiverse, would require a beginning."
Which is why I first mentioned:
1. An eternal existence with eternal universe-producing properties vs.
2. An eternal existence with an eternal universe-producing superbeing.
Why is the latter superior?
NB. You shifted gears when you talked about this universe beginning 13.7 bya, which is why I asked you to disinguish between the various layers of existence.
JPararajasingham 4 weeks ago
@JPararajasingham 1. If that eternal existence is absolute nothing the you are right, but it does not have universe-producing properties
In Cosmology is the beginning of space, time, matter and energy so what else could exist outside the Universe?
I do not consider there are various layers of existence, there is only existence and non-existence.
TheAwesomeMaths 4 weeks ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "If that eternal existence is absolute nothing the you are right, but it does not have universe-producing properties"
Explain to me why, within baseline existence, you won't allow for the possibility of non-mental universe-producing properties, but you will allow for a universe-producing super-mind. Explain clearly why a "mind" is the ONLY possible answer.
JPararajasingham 4 weeks ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "Cosmology is the beginning of space, time, matter and energy so what else could exist outside the Universe?"
Eternal existence with physics we can't yet comprehend. It's not necessarily a superbeing.
We are evolved to only understand reality in terms of space and time. I recognise this limitation, but the fact that natural explanations keep superceding supernatural speculations of the past, I hold out for the likelihood that more nature will be found.
JPararajasingham 4 weeks ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "I do not consider there are various layers of existence, there is only existence and non-existence."
If existence doesn't have different layers or realms, then why can't we see God or heaven? Or do you think they are just far away near the edges of the universe, and this is why we cannot detect them?
JPararajasingham 4 weeks ago
@JPararajasingham Those might be considered different layers of reality.Higher dimensions can be detected by us because we live in a 3 dimensional world.
I want to ask you, if something does not have space and time and it is not formed out of matter or energy do you think it exists?
TheAwesomeMaths 3 weeks ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "if something does not have space and time and it is not formed out of matter or energy do you think it exists?"
(1) Our brains evolved to think in terms of 3D, solid matter and linear time. Evidence is the ONLY thing that can and should convince us that space can bend, time can vary, and that other dimensions exist. Thinking alone could never have convinced us of such counter-intuitive truths. In the same way, your question can only be answered with a speculative, "maybe".
JPararajasingham 3 weeks ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "if something does not have space and time and it is not formed out of matter or energy do you think it exists?"
(2) Since God apparantly created space, time, matter and energy, he cannot be composed of them. So presumably you believe something can exist without any of the above? I certainly wouldn't base my entire worldview on such a speculative concept. It gives far too much credit to human mental capability, hence why I refer to it as an intellectually arrogant worldview.
JPararajasingham 3 weeks ago
@JPararajasingham why didn't you say in the title '30 Renowned Atheist Writers Speaking About God'?
TheAwesomeMaths 1 month ago
@TheAwesomeMaths "why didn't you say in the title '30 Renowned Atheist Writers Speaking About God'?"
If you wait for a few seconds into the video, it says very clearly in the introduction that they are disbelivers.
JPararajasingham 1 month ago
These are always entertaining.
TheSyrupMan 1 month ago
Wonderful compilation.
Mahoivlich 1 month ago
Number 8.Good is good?By who? I kill you I get money good for me bad you for?This superficial view on morals that is self-refuting.How can you explain something to be true if you claim you need no proof that it is true?What is the difference if I said the same for rape?"There are hundreds of people that disagree that rape is bad but because we believe we are right they right we need no proof or arguments because were not fundamental group.Rape is good because it's good!Circular reasoning.
ninetailschris 1 month ago
Swear I heard a bit of two girls one cup!...
bucketcat1 1 month ago
Great job. Thank you!
mjlgaard 1 month ago 2
Great compilation! Thanks for putting this together.
adrianaheguy 1 month ago 2
Thank you so much for this superb compilation. Your effort is very much appreciated. I too salute you sir.
bryandibben 1 month ago