2) Most people are introduced to their religion of choice in childhood.
There certainly is a correlation. Causation can only be demonstrated if we have a mechanism. Wait... actually... I think we have one...
How is her statement that gullibility makes one more likely to be religious (or susceptible to religion) being presumptuous? It's seems like something few people would disagree with. You may have thought she said it backwards.
i kno these comments are a little old, but here is jus a little "gullible" food for thought...there is proof of a painter, in his painting!! it couldnt exist without the painter ( not being literal, i kno hes an artist) and a building shows there was a builder... i dont kno, but that could mean that creation PROVES there is a creator!! jus saying!! im not a fancy college student or n e thing so im gunna not use a bunch of huge words for people to argue about! but its really not hard to see!
I'm just wondering what we're talking about when you say "creation" though. Because, if you're talking about the natural world, we have easily explainable natural processes leading to pretty much everything that people like to invoke God as the cause of.
Most people are gullible idiots. That's not too hard to figure out.
Now, I'm not saying religious people are by idiots because of their religion. Just because they're people.
But most atheists are idiots, too. They accept authority figures as blindly and as unthinkingly as any person of faith.
But as a bonus, their very method of self-identification is idiotic. They can never KNOW there is no God. If they were honest, they'd have to label themselves as being agnostic.
A + Theist = "Not one who believes in a god." = "One who does Not believe in a god."
Atheist = One who does not believe in a God.
You might notice that this is quite different from explicitly stating that there is no god. That's because atheists need not explicitly state such things. An atheist can be an atheist simply by rejecting the crappy evidence thrown at him.
Yes, by all means... let's get all pedantic here... Then you go ask any and all atheists you know if there's a God. NOT "do you believe in God", mind you.
And let me know the results of your survey. And even though you don't believe it, God's watching you so be honest about it.
Yes many people are gullible. Is that surprising? Accepting something without proof is gullible. Oh, well excuse me... unless you have this evidence that proves your religion to be true? You don't? Then, yes, you and all of them are gullible.
This. Is intelligence. Not meaningless ranting based on nothing but your own hatred towards other's beliefs, Angry Little Girl. You have been, I am most pleased to say, PWND!!!!!
You arrogant prick! You say that billions of religious people must know better than a few million atheists? One word: Intelligence. That is why we can all agree that our planet is a globe, and not flat (or square). And also why assume that just because she's a teenager she knows less than you, or lacks in common sense? Asshole!
i7nvd, I'm glad you're not a journalist with your choice of 'reliable sources'. A Christian Philosopher?! LOL. Apparently a high school career can give some people more than a degree can give to others. It's a matter of IQ.
Wow. Now that is the way a control freak works. These ppl have these credentials so you should listen to them! LOL I'll bet anyone this guy couldn't make an independent thought if his life depended on it. Also he gives her props about fact checking and then goes on to promote philosophical debates as a way to find the answer. It's kinda hard to check facts about religion bro. jjason55740 rips yer whole arguement to shreds in the response video. check em out. He does it more politely too. =D
I'm listed as a Catholic since I don't want to piss off my dad...I'm not a Catholic. A lot of other people are in the same situation....hence the 5 billion statistic.
you seem very gullible allow me to explain how,u arrived home from work and you find your girlfriend naked in bed a your best friend standing in front of the TV with the Debbie does Dallas porno on and when you ask whats going on she tells you that your best friend just came over to help recalibrate your television picture and that porno is most suited to do that and you being the sucker that you are fall for it.
Majoritive public opinion doesn't decide the truth, that's what seeking verifiable evidence is for- your argument aginst doesn't work if your evidence is purely based on going with the flow, compared to person yor commenting on this failure comes immature... and why are you so bitter? I like it when people are impassioned but making personal attacks shadows anything of value you might have to say... sadly no value in this video, just another bitter Christian lashing out.
Majoritive public opinion doesn't decide the truth, that's what seeking verifiable evidence is for- your argument aginst doesn't work if your evidence is purely based on going with the flow, compared to person yor commenting on this failure comes immature... and why are you so bitter? I like it when people are impassioned but making personal attacks shadows anything of value you might have to say... sadly no value in this video, just another bitter Christian lashing out.
Majoritive public opinion doesn't decide the truth, that's what seeking verifiable evidence is for- your argument aginst doesn't work if your evidence is purely based on going with the flow, compared to person yor commenting on this failure comes immature... and why are you so bitter? I like it when people are impassioned but making personal attacks shadows anything of value you might have to say... sadly no value in this video, just a bitter Christian lashing out
Amazing. Great,great job pointing out AngryLittleGirl's mistakes without being harsh or mean. I totally 100% agree with you! Thanks for posting this video !
religion is a disease and like a disease it does run in the family.
also those "religions" are all different and say all the other religions are wrong with no apparent evidence.
We know the the Hindu gods are mythical so we can conclude the Hindus are misled.
The only reason why Christians can't say that about there religion is because they won't apply the same argument the did to Hindu theology/ mythology to there own Judea christian theology/mythology.
Men are capable of lies correct? ...and men wrote the scrolls that would eventually be the bible? ...and other men picked and chose which scrolls made it into the bible and which ones were tossed out? ...and you believe every word? That is pretty fucking gullible.
She never said she was and btw and said dont trust what she said also i would like to point out that in fact we have no proof of any religion besides what people say and people are a evil and corrupted creature i would also like to point out i believe in God and heaven and hell how ever i dont agreee with the church because they dont really knw for them self im just saying it is just trusting someone's words people should think for them self not let a book or anything eles tell them what to do
YouTube is overrun with atheists. Hence all the atheist comments below. Look at any video relating to atheism / theism / debating, and you will find that 90% of the comments are from that of biased atheist opinions.
are you sure you responded to the right vid? i know its a bit to late and hundreds of people must have said it befor but you should watch her vid same 5 times more and keep in mind that it is about gullibility maybe you see the actual point than. but you dont have to erase this vid after that it really helps people to understand the gullible video. and if 5 billion people dont change there minds no matter what anybody says than they are just the opposite of gullible close minded and ignorant
Nice vid. You are correct in the numbers as it relates to religions. But you fail to mention that "Gods" have been worshiped since man first realized he was more intelligent than the animals he was hunting. If people in religion are not gulible, then why are there so many different ones? Also, why did the christian/jewish god create Adam with a low I.Q.? :)
Hmmm... a pandemic of the religion disease... that's interesting. LMAO... you had me rolling. Great job on your clear and thoughtful video. Hope she got the message. BTW... I guess I have the disease too. It's not contagious is it? I wouldn't want to get anyone sick. Peace...
too bad paul bell wrote an article in mensa magazine stating that out of 43 studies on the realationship between ones religous belief and ones intelligence since 1927 all but 4 showed an inverse connection
i may not be out of high school but im pretty sure that means the smarter one is the less religious one is
i7nvd: If you want to respond to Jessica her true account is "AngrylittleGiri", and not "AngrylittleGirl". The latter, as I understand it, is run by a guy.
Using the masses does not work, it is possible for everyone to be wrong, it has happened before, I am an atheist, and without really knowing how many hindus/christians... there are I formed my opinions... am I wrong because less people agree with me than with you...
You are committing the logical fallacies argumentum ad populum, argumentum ad verecundiam, and hominem. I'm sure that you have been informed of this by now.
I used to be religious, until I studied history and archeology to fill in the gaps of my knowledge.
I see your point, but you have to take into account that in the East, countries like India have religion incorporated into their societies, Its in their laws, in their workplaces, its in every aspects of life . Therefore Religion is forced upon them through their society. It would be easier to pretend to be religious rather than actually have a spiritual mind.+ Countries like USA their "church" is not that spiritual, religion is more patriotic.
dbes02.... The whole point of religion is to have faith in something WITHOUT evidence or physical proof.
But if you want some sort of evidence...
A long time ago, there was this guy. We'll call him Jesus. He walked on water. I'd believe that over the straight-out theory of absolutely NOTHING in the black void all of a sudden without explanation becoming what we know of today as the universe.
Religion is gullible. Look for it in a dictionary and try finding arguments against this without appealing to numbers. It's illogical.
The number of people sustaining a theory have no influence over it, it was a time when people thought the Earth was flat, guess what, it isn't
It's not important who is presenting the argument, but the argument IS importing. Saying the argument is not valid because is presented by somebody in high-school only shows you are unable to use logic.
It is also to remember at that time how many people didn't think the Earth was flat nor did they think Earth was round. They didn't know simply because there was not enough information.
darkforce, you say there are "absurd" Gods, but the cristian God might be absurd to other cultures as well. That said, we shouldn't classify our beliefs, because one isn't better than the other, it's just a cultural matter that influences pleople's choice.
Or of course wishful thinking, or following the trends of cultural beliefs. Of course that's with perticular god's. As far as the concept of God in general, I would definitely disagree with here that it is guillible to believe. You would have to include einstein, gallileo, capernicus, darwin, and other great scientists as guillable.
I don't totally disagree with you as I believe there is a God. However, pointing out that 90+% of humanity believed/believies in God is not a very convincing argument. One obcvious reason is that most people in ancient times believed in very obsurd god's which we would consider only very gullible people could possibly believe in today. On the other hand, I wouldn't say believing in obsurd God's (meaning ones I don't believe in) is as much guillible as just ignorance or laziness of intellect.
The numbers of adherents has no bearing on the truth. The fact is humans believe things based on their emotional needs rather than what is true.
In addition, you don't need to be an expert to make correct deductions about the world. It does not take a theology degree to see the low probability of truth religion. Therefore, it is obvious the masses are not using reason to come to the truth. More than that, they don't even realize the high probability of error, thus I think guillible applies.
5'ed. Hit on every point, you used research and not opinions, and you maintained a calm and friendly air throughout your response. My only regret is that she probably wont even pay this brilliant argument a second thought.
...do is respect their beliefs and accept that you don't hold all the answers.There are, indeed, many corrupt clericals inside the Church but what gives people hope isn't the institution itself but the idea of a being who watches over them in their best/worst moments. We can't just ignore these feelings for we're becoming an artificial society and destroying ourselves with wars(a consequence of the CAPITALISM LOGIC). If religion can help us with this task I'll be the first to support it.
It's been a long time since I wrote that and, I must admit, I have changed my position. I still believe religion might give people hope, but I would never support it. But not because of the reason you mentioned, for there have been wars for all kinds of reasons and most of the times religion was just an excuse. I believe nowadays religion is nothing but a control system and atheism is a religion that blindly believes in science. I believe neither of them can avoid the "artificiality"
and the reification of our society. On the contrary, they are essential to sustain our way of life. Religion is a part of the "Capitalist Logic" that I mentioned and so is science. Perhaps a philosophical approach would be better in order to reflect on our society.
The problem is]n't the way we understand our world (in a logical or religious way)but how we do it.We can do it in a polite and respectful way, helping others and trying to change what is wrong, but we can also impose an ideology and criticize others instead of debating and helping those who need.You chose to criticize but you proposed no solution to change our sad reality.You probably ignore the fact that many religious people are doing much more than you to change it and the least you can..
VitalSigns your arguments are empty and inocous.You say you "have the balls to accept the truth", but what truth? Yours? Can you prove God doesn't exist just by observing nature?I am also an atheist but I'm not pretentious enough to disrespect other's point of view and think that logic and reason are the only answers to our problems, because they may lead to terrible things as well. Hitler's logic, for example, caused millions of deaths "for the greater good",what kind of logic is that?
@GamaMagnum you're very cool. thanks for not shoving your point of view down everyone's throat like so many other people do these days.. appreciated! ;
Thank you for this response. I have a lot of the same beliefs as her, but I think she is the worst at arguing for her cause. She sounds like a prick. There is no other way to put it. I don't believe I am better that anyone who has a religion, but she apparently does. And by the way the numbers do matter. This proves that she thinks that she somehow is smarter than those 6 billion people because she isn't "gullible."
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Ok dude you just made a complete total ass of yourself. What in the hell does the number of religious people have to do with how gullible they are? You are a faggot! There should be some kind of punishment due legally when someone acts as retarded as you do.
He said what he believed and we should respect it.Although ALgirl didn't say she was a reliable source, in her videos she acted as if she was one, because she analised religion in a unilateral and naive way.I don't care if she is in high school or in university, but she can't disrespect something as important(and millenary) as Religion, which is a path of hope and comprehension for many people.If she wanted a debate, she introduced the subject the worst way possible...
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"she can't disrespect something as important as religion"...That is a perfectly good reason why one SHOULD question, critique, and disrespect it! It has such a huge influence on so many people!! Would you want to let something as influential as religion taint the minds of all the gullible people in the world?? What kind of argument is it to say that something is more valid simply because billions of people believe it to be true? A non-argument...a worthless piece of shit argument.
when I said she couldn't disrespect something as important as religion, I meant she had no right of saying god doesn't exist by imposing her way of thinking to others.If she belives He doesn't exist that's her problem, but she can't simply say all the others are wrong and that these people are gullible for believing in Relegion.Everyone should have the right to chose to believe it or not and all beliefs should be respected; however, it doesn't mean everybody has to agree with it...
Moreover, people should always be critical but to do that, a debate is always necessary, as well as trying to understand the other's point of view.You didn't respect my argument and just like she did you tried to impose your way of thinking...Don't you think that if so many people believe in Religion it's because it gives people hope?Religion is a powerful weapon if we know how to use it, which means we can be critical and believe in God at the same time, numbers are just a consequence of that..
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Retardation overload...
Dude, if you are someone who CHOOSES his beliefs based on what gives you hope, you should expect people to bash your beliefs. I could choose to believe that my teddy bear protects me...Now wouldn't you say that person is deluded? Isn't it being completely gullible to take the word of the bible as truth when there are no other sources to back it up?
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I do not CHOOSE my beliefs like an ignorant religious fool. Do you think I like the fact that there is no afterlife and that we just die and decompose in the dirt? No...but I don't give myself false hope by believing in fairy tales. I have the balls to accept the truth whereas you base your beliefs off of what you WANT to be true. I never put any faith claims into anything. All my observations and evidences I see in the world are based on logic and reason.
1) Truth is not a democracy. It doesn't matter if 5 people or a 5 billion people believe something. It doesn't make it any truer. Although if you wanted to go down that road, you would need to explain why the majority of top American scientists (95%+ was the last poll I saw) are atheists.
2) Religion *is* a disease, rationality is the cure.
3) Your ad hominem attacks don't add any credibility to your argument. You might want to consider taking a logic course.
I guess you haven't seen the Three Stooges. Nyuk, nyuk. nyuk. Fakesagan, CapnOawesome, AmazingAtheist. Watch them poke their eyes out. Then watch Healthy Addict put on a monthly freak show (for kids) and ratings. If all the Christians were taken out of the world we'd have nothing but chaos down here. I understand completely.
There are hundreds of videos on Youtube made by atheists who feel they have to decapitate and make fun of JezuzFreek and VenomfangX. These are foul and despicable. Yet both Christians have not retaliated in kind. I know which side is kookie and which is irrational. I've made my stand. I stand with JF and VFX. I don't want have ANYTHING to do with this world and the highschool mentality and hatefulness that has to do with atheism.
The high school mentality has nothing to do with atheism. It has everything to do with You tube.
But, that said, in the case of VFX, what little of him i have picket up form a quick search, the reason he is lampunde is that he trys to talk on a subject he doesn't actually understand and makes him self look stupid.
If you desire to avoid parady, do not lay your self open to it. Especially in an enviroment like the internet.
While i don't think ALG was describing religion as a disease, it is an entirely resonable anlogy.
When religion is looked at form a frame of reference that includes Meme Theory, religions behaviour even begins to look remarkably like the behaviour of a retro-virus. After all, people do sometimes come into faith, after exposure, and children do usually grow up into the same faith as their parents. Like a host self, becoming infected by a virus and which incorperates itself into future copies.
Ad Populum is fallacy, not a point. There are, in fact, far more atheists than you say (I, for example, would be registered Catholic, but am an atheist - and myself know many others like that), though that is also irrelevant. 100% of the world's population believed it was flat at one time - that did't make them any less deluded or gullible. Religion, though not a desease, is a delusion based on ignorance like ancient superstitions were - only it has stuck due to the numbers conserving it.
Ad Populum is fallacy, not a point. There are, in fact, far more atheists than you say (I, for example, would be registered Catholic, but am an atheist - and myself know many others like that), though that is also irrelevant. 100% of the world's population believed it was flat at one time - that did't make them any less deluded or gullible. Religion, though not a desease, is a delusion based on ignorance like ancient superstitions were - only it has stuck due to the numbers conserving it.
Since when does a high quantity of believers make anything more reliable? By that logic, the world would be flat and bloodletting via leeches would be a miracle cure.
Just because a brilliant philosopher believes something does not make it any more reliable, it is not evidence, and no matter what the issue is, if you believe something without a shred of evidence, you are (by definition) gullible.
And if a philosopher's beliefs are proof, what about all the great non-religious philosophers?
I believe that scientists and philosophers alike have wanted to expand their knowledge of what makes the world and the universe tick,but while staying in the boundaries of their religion.Rather than saying a god created it,they wanted to study and research more on the subject,which is what we have today.Athiesm is a simple religion,but also complicated.We believe in science.Other religions are just confusing and stand in the way of exploring the universe and curing diseases.
i have never done any drugs or drank or even smoked a cigaret.
just becouse im not relios dose not effect my morality
i'd make a beter christian the alot of pepole with there afers and there drugs and stuff
there are murders that go to church some even clam to kill for god.
others just go into confession and ask for forgiveness the presets that turn them in end up geting kicked out of the chuch the ones who don't nothing bad happens to them
Very well said. Not so sure about some of your facts, though:3/4 billion hindus? That can't be right... India's population is currently 2nd in the world and they a predominantly hindu... how can only 3/4 bill be hindu? It's gotta be more than that, surely. And it's "who are Muslim", not Islam.
haha... no. religion, believe it or not, is a way of explaining different events that took place, that take place and that will take place. these beliefs have been around for crap loads of time and guess what? they still are around!!! so youre err "truth"... is a LIE!!! I know I have pissed you off and I hope you will think first before you lash out at me.
No you didn't piss me off. Don't get so defensive. "Lash out"? Your congregation likes to play the victim, don't they.
Your religion does not prove a thing. Just because it has been around and is still around today is really to the credit of the human fear of the unknown and death.
To claim that you understand the nature of God is a false claim by its very nature because that is something that cannot be known. You have the burden of proof, buddy.
Our "congregation"? love to play the vitim, do they? I hope you aren't refering to the RCs. You clearly misundertood. All I am saying is that there are many theories as to why we live etc. Ask yourself these questions. What's your answer? It's most likely a scientific idea. Science hasn't covered everything. Religion has been passed down for many a year and it explains all the things science can't cover. There may be a day when science proves religion wrong, but that day is not today.
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"Science hasn't covered everything. Religion has been passed down for many a year and it explains all the things science can't cover. There may be a day when science proves religion wrong, but that day is not today."
That is such a stupid sentiment that I'm convinced that you're joking. If you were not that would mean that you would prefer a junk, hack, flakey, obviously man-made cultural construction as an explination to no explination at all.
I always thought that their are two kinds of religions, one is because some people are realy convinced and realy in to it not because they were raidsed this way. The other comes as a consequence of having nothing to baleive in: if u look well, the most religious people in the world are the poorest and the ones in war... who have no hope from life anymore. So I think it helps the latter group by giving them some hope to life that only RELIGION, or a certain baleife can give.
If the group is big or small, 5.7bil or 0.3bil it doesn't mean any r right so try not basing urself on opinions. I can c that u don't base urself on anything scientific. As the comment before said, philosophy is not a science and religion is surely not.
You cant apply statistics this way. 600 years ago most people believed the world was flat and stationary ore else we would fall off or get blown off by the wind if the earth was spinning 1040 miles per hour. But you have a point, you never know the trueth for 100%
inquisitive as you're asking the orignal poster to be. Otherwise you're committing a similar error. I understand it was an honest mistake and one that people make all the time.But it's important to incorporate cultural sensitivity into any contentious topic, as well. Other than that, really great response. Thanks for taking the time to post. Cheers!
thanks for your solid contribution to the dialogue going on here. Your friendly tone and balanced approach bring a level of clarity and calm needed to a difficult forum. but DUDE!!! people who PRACTICE Islam are called MUSMLIMS. You can't say people who are "ISLAM." When incorporating data about other religions it's important to be just as unassuming and
The numbers of "religious" people you list are erroneous. The number who actually practice their respective religion is minute in comparison to the estimated numbers.
For what it's worth, I agree with you completely. Technically, I don't consider your response to be "ad hominem," as rabittts said. It seems like you were simply being ironic in order to prove a point. I think rabittts just wanted to impress you with "big" words, IMO. Anyway, well said.
you idiot the world needs religions to bring about stability read lod of the rings by golding itexplores how man is inheriently evil which they r as without rules all cveman were killers but it is through rules we have created peaceful society and religin was the first tool in creatig the peacefu soicety so im not supporting that religions are true but your narow mindedness towards them is laughable
Ohohoho! Hang on there, You can't spread 'believes' about a religion that doesen't exist! Atheism is just a word for people that don't have a religion..
And come on now mate, she's just a wee lass, no need for the sarcasm.
Your fallacies include: Appeal to Popularity, Appeal to Authority, and Ad Hominem.. I watched the whole video, though, so you are at least interesting! :)
Great Video, well thought out, not distracted with over editing but enough to ease out the false starts in my opinion. HOW many Agnostics are there???? We who are Agnostic, just don't know and haven't got a clue as to how anyone can get so positive that there is or is not a "GOD". Really do you know how many of us there are??? You seem well informed. HarOLD
1) Children are the ultimate in gullibility.
2) Most people are introduced to their religion of choice in childhood.
There certainly is a correlation. Causation can only be demonstrated if we have a mechanism. Wait... actually... I think we have one...
How is her statement that gullibility makes one more likely to be religious (or susceptible to religion) being presumptuous? It's seems like something few people would disagree with. You may have thought she said it backwards.
100percentrekkie 2 days ago
i kno these comments are a little old, but here is jus a little "gullible" food for thought...there is proof of a painter, in his painting!! it couldnt exist without the painter ( not being literal, i kno hes an artist) and a building shows there was a builder... i dont kno, but that could mean that creation PROVES there is a creator!! jus saying!! im not a fancy college student or n e thing so im gunna not use a bunch of huge words for people to argue about! but its really not hard to see!
Kaybee239 2 weeks ago
@Kaybee239
You're correct; a creation would imply a creator.
I'm just wondering what we're talking about when you say "creation" though. Because, if you're talking about the natural world, we have easily explainable natural processes leading to pretty much everything that people like to invoke God as the cause of.
100percentrekkie 2 days ago
Most people are gullible idiots. That's not too hard to figure out.
Now, I'm not saying religious people are by idiots because of their religion. Just because they're people.
But most atheists are idiots, too. They accept authority figures as blindly and as unthinkingly as any person of faith.
But as a bonus, their very method of self-identification is idiotic. They can never KNOW there is no God. If they were honest, they'd have to label themselves as being agnostic.
mmaier2112 2 months ago
@mmaier2112
I sense much confusion in this one.
Atheist = A + Theist
A = "Not"
Theist = "One who believes in a god."
A + Theist = "Not one who believes in a god." = "One who does Not believe in a god."
Atheist = One who does not believe in a God.
You might notice that this is quite different from explicitly stating that there is no god. That's because atheists need not explicitly state such things. An atheist can be an atheist simply by rejecting the crappy evidence thrown at him.
100percentrekkie 2 days ago
@100percentrekkie
Please: Grow up.
Yes, by all means... let's get all pedantic here... Then you go ask any and all atheists you know if there's a God. NOT "do you believe in God", mind you.
And let me know the results of your survey. And even though you don't believe it, God's watching you so be honest about it.
mmaier2112 1 day ago
Yes many people are gullible. Is that surprising? Accepting something without proof is gullible. Oh, well excuse me... unless you have this evidence that proves your religion to be true? You don't? Then, yes, you and all of them are gullible.
iMagUdspEllr 5 months ago
01:54 - 02:02 LMAO!!
DJShade707 5 months ago
He sounds like Jessie Esienberg!
BelowTheGreenLine 5 months ago
There are less atheists than theists because there are more stupid people than smart people. Simple.
gargantacortador 8 months ago
This. Is intelligence. Not meaningless ranting based on nothing but your own hatred towards other's beliefs, Angry Little Girl. You have been, I am most pleased to say, PWND!!!!!
cosmickaleidoscopic 8 months ago
@cosmickaleidoscopic I disagree you fucking idiot.
gargantacortador 8 months ago
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@gargantacortador, oh that's interesting, wait are you telling me this because you think i care?
cosmickaleidoscopic 8 months ago
owned.
MrJaimesantos9 8 months ago
i believe she was a freshman in college when she made the video lol college freshman think they know the world lol
runtubefantasy 10 months ago
get a shave and a haircut. You look like a bum on crack.
oldlite 10 months ago
@oldlite lol you're telling that to him almost 4 years after he posted this video?
qweiopasdz 10 months ago
@qweiopasdz I sure hope he has bathe the last 4 years
oldlite 10 months ago
@oldlite Hahaha :D:D:D
150cent 9 months ago
You arrogant prick! You say that billions of religious people must know better than a few million atheists? One word: Intelligence. That is why we can all agree that our planet is a globe, and not flat (or square). And also why assume that just because she's a teenager she knows less than you, or lacks in common sense? Asshole!
swinetastic 11 months ago
I like her logic too. The ones who are being fooled are often the majority. Think of the Holocaust man... Not really that out of the ordinary.
GuitarMannnnnn 11 months ago
Im curious why you Canadians call ham Canadian Bacon
kmayergator 1 year ago
i7nvd, I'm glad you're not a journalist with your choice of 'reliable sources'. A Christian Philosopher?! LOL. Apparently a high school career can give some people more than a degree can give to others. It's a matter of IQ.
blackylester 1 year ago
The guy bitched slapped her at the end..LOL I hope she goes into Porno.
CardinalRaker 1 year ago
I liked this. I am agnostic, but this is why Atheist are hated, They are an assholes
CardinalRaker 1 year ago
this guy is really douchy
lets follow the logic, when einstein found out relativity he was the most gullible fuck on earth until he spread his gullibility around.
flyingturtle22 1 year ago
Thank you, Dude! Good job.
75Cee 1 year ago
Wow. Now that is the way a control freak works. These ppl have these credentials so you should listen to them! LOL I'll bet anyone this guy couldn't make an independent thought if his life depended on it. Also he gives her props about fact checking and then goes on to promote philosophical debates as a way to find the answer. It's kinda hard to check facts about religion bro. jjason55740 rips yer whole arguement to shreds in the response video. check em out. He does it more politely too. =D
Rhinotaur82 1 year ago
I'm listed as a Catholic since I don't want to piss off my dad...I'm not a Catholic. A lot of other people are in the same situation....hence the 5 billion statistic.
dooovde 1 year ago
you seem very gullible allow me to explain how,u arrived home from work and you find your girlfriend naked in bed a your best friend standing in front of the TV with the Debbie does Dallas porno on and when you ask whats going on she tells you that your best friend just came over to help recalibrate your television picture and that porno is most suited to do that and you being the sucker that you are fall for it.
3CCosta 1 year ago
look at yourself in the mirror... you're a fucking fag
jlt5007 1 year ago
Majoritive public opinion doesn't decide the truth, that's what seeking verifiable evidence is for- your argument aginst doesn't work if your evidence is purely based on going with the flow, compared to person yor commenting on this failure comes immature... and why are you so bitter? I like it when people are impassioned but making personal attacks shadows anything of value you might have to say... sadly no value in this video, just another bitter Christian lashing out.
boozenfags 1 year ago
Majoritive public opinion doesn't decide the truth, that's what seeking verifiable evidence is for- your argument aginst doesn't work if your evidence is purely based on going with the flow, compared to person yor commenting on this failure comes immature... and why are you so bitter? I like it when people are impassioned but making personal attacks shadows anything of value you might have to say... sadly no value in this video, just another bitter Christian lashing out.
boozenfags 1 year ago
Majoritive public opinion doesn't decide the truth, that's what seeking verifiable evidence is for- your argument aginst doesn't work if your evidence is purely based on going with the flow, compared to person yor commenting on this failure comes immature... and why are you so bitter? I like it when people are impassioned but making personal attacks shadows anything of value you might have to say... sadly no value in this video, just a bitter Christian lashing out
boozenfags 1 year ago
Amazing. Great,great job pointing out AngryLittleGirl's mistakes without being harsh or mean. I totally 100% agree with you! Thanks for posting this video !
monicalc123 1 year ago
religion is a disease and like a disease it does run in the family.
also those "religions" are all different and say all the other religions are wrong with no apparent evidence.
We know the the Hindu gods are mythical so we can conclude the Hindus are misled.
The only reason why Christians can't say that about there religion is because they won't apply the same argument the did to Hindu theology/ mythology to there own Judea christian theology/mythology.
jjason55740 2 years ago
I honestly don't think that because the masses believe something, it makes it real. I am a Christian, but this is a slightly weak arguement.
TheFluorineMartyr 2 years ago
yes
Men are capable of lies correct? ...and men wrote the scrolls that would eventually be the bible? ...and other men picked and chose which scrolls made it into the bible and which ones were tossed out? ...and you believe every word? That is pretty fucking gullible.
jtrubilla 2 years ago
You must be very proud of you know, big boy.
MrBipoX 2 years ago
She never said she was and btw and said dont trust what she said also i would like to point out that in fact we have no proof of any religion besides what people say and people are a evil and corrupted creature i would also like to point out i believe in God and heaven and hell how ever i dont agreee with the church because they dont really knw for them self im just saying it is just trusting someone's words people should think for them self not let a book or anything eles tell them what to do
plji 2 years ago
YouTube is overrun with atheists. Hence all the atheist comments below. Look at any video relating to atheism / theism / debating, and you will find that 90% of the comments are from that of biased atheist opinions.
emnity33 2 years ago 3
I disagree. Only if you go onto atheist made vids, or those replying to atheist vids will you find over 50% atheists.
jtrubilla 2 years ago
Why would you reply to month old comments?
emnity33 2 years ago
does it matter? What you said wasn't true a month ago, and it's still not true.
jtrubilla 2 years ago
are you sure you responded to the right vid? i know its a bit to late and hundreds of people must have said it befor but you should watch her vid same 5 times more and keep in mind that it is about gullibility maybe you see the actual point than. but you dont have to erase this vid after that it really helps people to understand the gullible video. and if 5 billion people dont change there minds no matter what anybody says than they are just the opposite of gullible close minded and ignorant
steffankaizer 2 years ago
Nice vid. You are correct in the numbers as it relates to religions. But you fail to mention that "Gods" have been worshiped since man first realized he was more intelligent than the animals he was hunting. If people in religion are not gulible, then why are there so many different ones? Also, why did the christian/jewish god create Adam with a low I.Q.? :)
12monkeys5 2 years ago
Hmmm... a pandemic of the religion disease... that's interesting. LMAO... you had me rolling. Great job on your clear and thoughtful video. Hope she got the message. BTW... I guess I have the disease too. It's not contagious is it? I wouldn't want to get anyone sick. Peace...
MeTube2oo7 2 years ago
too bad paul bell wrote an article in mensa magazine stating that out of 43 studies on the realationship between ones religous belief and ones intelligence since 1927 all but 4 showed an inverse connection
i may not be out of high school but im pretty sure that means the smarter one is the less religious one is
dylansaysgrrr 2 years ago
i7nvd: If you want to respond to Jessica her true account is "AngrylittleGiri", and not "AngrylittleGirl". The latter, as I understand it, is run by a guy.
DirzoRasec 2 years ago
ur my hero in7d
drrrugs 2 years ago
Using the masses does not work, it is possible for everyone to be wrong, it has happened before, I am an atheist, and without really knowing how many hindus/christians... there are I formed my opinions... am I wrong because less people agree with me than with you...
Davnios 3 years ago
You are committing the logical fallacies argumentum ad populum, argumentum ad verecundiam, and hominem. I'm sure that you have been informed of this by now.
I used to be religious, until I studied history and archeology to fill in the gaps of my knowledge.
CamdenBloke 3 years ago
*ad hominem, sorry.
CamdenBloke 3 years ago
I see your point, but you have to take into account that in the East, countries like India have religion incorporated into their societies, Its in their laws, in their workplaces, its in every aspects of life . Therefore Religion is forced upon them through their society. It would be easier to pretend to be religious rather than actually have a spiritual mind.+ Countries like USA their "church" is not that spiritual, religion is more patriotic.
arcticmunchy 3 years ago
imaginary friends = gullible
LIBBMW 3 years ago 2
great video, disregard the faggots who flame this.
534417 3 years ago
great video i think you understood her "point" and i think you totally put her in her place. Thanks for making the video.
x19mustang69x 3 years ago
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You missed the point of her video, fag miester.
morningatmora 3 years ago
Perhaps the little girl didn't make her point very clear. If she tries to be tricky and fails, who's fault is that?
Zaimoren 3 years ago
dbes02.... The whole point of religion is to have faith in something WITHOUT evidence or physical proof.
But if you want some sort of evidence...
A long time ago, there was this guy. We'll call him Jesus. He walked on water. I'd believe that over the straight-out theory of absolutely NOTHING in the black void all of a sudden without explanation becoming what we know of today as the universe.
I'm willing to be I just won statistically.
CyelX 3 years ago
Your brushing all religions with broad stroke with paint of Christianity. Not all theist believe in God because of blind fate.
ahmarsidd 3 years ago
Religion is gullible. Look for it in a dictionary and try finding arguments against this without appealing to numbers. It's illogical.
The number of people sustaining a theory have no influence over it, it was a time when people thought the Earth was flat, guess what, it isn't
It's not important who is presenting the argument, but the argument IS importing. Saying the argument is not valid because is presented by somebody in high-school only shows you are unable to use logic.
alexdobrinbv 3 years ago
It is also to remember at that time how many people didn't think the Earth was flat nor did they think Earth was round. They didn't know simply because there was not enough information.
ahmarsidd 3 years ago
darkforce, you say there are "absurd" Gods, but the cristian God might be absurd to other cultures as well. That said, we shouldn't classify our beliefs, because one isn't better than the other, it's just a cultural matter that influences pleople's choice.
Necator161 3 years ago
Or of course wishful thinking, or following the trends of cultural beliefs. Of course that's with perticular god's. As far as the concept of God in general, I would definitely disagree with here that it is guillible to believe. You would have to include einstein, gallileo, capernicus, darwin, and other great scientists as guillable.
darkforce333 3 years ago
I don't totally disagree with you as I believe there is a God. However, pointing out that 90+% of humanity believed/believies in God is not a very convincing argument. One obcvious reason is that most people in ancient times believed in very obsurd god's which we would consider only very gullible people could possibly believe in today. On the other hand, I wouldn't say believing in obsurd God's (meaning ones I don't believe in) is as much guillible as just ignorance or laziness of intellect.
darkforce333 3 years ago
dbes02, you say it is a fallacious argument. Prove it.
Necator161 3 years ago
Argumentum ad populum is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it.
So I see your Christian philosopher and raise you an atheist philosopher:
"Religious belief of all kinds shares the same intellectual respectability, evidential base, and rationality as belief in the existence of fairies."
AC Grayling
If a Christian philosopher wants to think there is something beyond matter and energy, then let him/her show evidence. GULLIBLE
dbes02 3 years ago
The numbers of adherents has no bearing on the truth. The fact is humans believe things based on their emotional needs rather than what is true.
In addition, you don't need to be an expert to make correct deductions about the world. It does not take a theology degree to see the low probability of truth religion. Therefore, it is obvious the masses are not using reason to come to the truth. More than that, they don't even realize the high probability of error, thus I think guillible applies.
sumadartsan 3 years ago
Just 3000 years ago people believed the world to be flat. Therefore majority isn't always right. You can't vote on reality.
jesokingcryst 3 years ago
great to hear someone with a bit of intelligence after listening to that pathetic illiterate offensive being
3474515 3 years ago
5'ed. Hit on every point, you used research and not opinions, and you maintained a calm and friendly air throughout your response. My only regret is that she probably wont even pay this brilliant argument a second thought.
daxam2 3 years ago 4
...do is respect their beliefs and accept that you don't hold all the answers.There are, indeed, many corrupt clericals inside the Church but what gives people hope isn't the institution itself but the idea of a being who watches over them in their best/worst moments. We can't just ignore these feelings for we're becoming an artificial society and destroying ourselves with wars(a consequence of the CAPITALISM LOGIC). If religion can help us with this task I'll be the first to support it.
GamaMagnum 3 years ago 10
@GamaMagnum Religion is the one causing this lol, every major war has revolved around it. That is the problem.
brett6666 8 months ago
@brett6666
It's been a long time since I wrote that and, I must admit, I have changed my position. I still believe religion might give people hope, but I would never support it. But not because of the reason you mentioned, for there have been wars for all kinds of reasons and most of the times religion was just an excuse. I believe nowadays religion is nothing but a control system and atheism is a religion that blindly believes in science. I believe neither of them can avoid the "artificiality"
GamaMagnum 8 months ago
@brett6666
and the reification of our society. On the contrary, they are essential to sustain our way of life. Religion is a part of the "Capitalist Logic" that I mentioned and so is science. Perhaps a philosophical approach would be better in order to reflect on our society.
GamaMagnum 8 months ago
The problem is]n't the way we understand our world (in a logical or religious way)but how we do it.We can do it in a polite and respectful way, helping others and trying to change what is wrong, but we can also impose an ideology and criticize others instead of debating and helping those who need.You chose to criticize but you proposed no solution to change our sad reality.You probably ignore the fact that many religious people are doing much more than you to change it and the least you can..
GamaMagnum 3 years ago 8
VitalSigns your arguments are empty and inocous.You say you "have the balls to accept the truth", but what truth? Yours? Can you prove God doesn't exist just by observing nature?I am also an atheist but I'm not pretentious enough to disrespect other's point of view and think that logic and reason are the only answers to our problems, because they may lead to terrible things as well. Hitler's logic, for example, caused millions of deaths "for the greater good",what kind of logic is that?
GamaMagnum 3 years ago 12
@GamaMagnum you're very cool. thanks for not shoving your point of view down everyone's throat like so many other people do these days.. appreciated! ;
howaboutjenna 9 months ago
Thank you for this response. I have a lot of the same beliefs as her, but I think she is the worst at arguing for her cause. She sounds like a prick. There is no other way to put it. I don't believe I am better that anyone who has a religion, but she apparently does. And by the way the numbers do matter. This proves that she thinks that she somehow is smarter than those 6 billion people because she isn't "gullible."
mythTURNStoLEGEND 3 years ago 3
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Ok dude you just made a complete total ass of yourself. What in the hell does the number of religious people have to do with how gullible they are? You are a faggot! There should be some kind of punishment due legally when someone acts as retarded as you do.
VitalSigns1 3 years ago
He said what he believed and we should respect it.Although ALgirl didn't say she was a reliable source, in her videos she acted as if she was one, because she analised religion in a unilateral and naive way.I don't care if she is in high school or in university, but she can't disrespect something as important(and millenary) as Religion, which is a path of hope and comprehension for many people.If she wanted a debate, she introduced the subject the worst way possible...
GamaMagnum 3 years ago 4
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"she can't disrespect something as important as religion"...That is a perfectly good reason why one SHOULD question, critique, and disrespect it! It has such a huge influence on so many people!! Would you want to let something as influential as religion taint the minds of all the gullible people in the world?? What kind of argument is it to say that something is more valid simply because billions of people believe it to be true? A non-argument...a worthless piece of shit argument.
VitalSigns1 3 years ago
when I said she couldn't disrespect something as important as religion, I meant she had no right of saying god doesn't exist by imposing her way of thinking to others.If she belives He doesn't exist that's her problem, but she can't simply say all the others are wrong and that these people are gullible for believing in Relegion.Everyone should have the right to chose to believe it or not and all beliefs should be respected; however, it doesn't mean everybody has to agree with it...
GamaMagnum 3 years ago 5
Moreover, people should always be critical but to do that, a debate is always necessary, as well as trying to understand the other's point of view.You didn't respect my argument and just like she did you tried to impose your way of thinking...Don't you think that if so many people believe in Religion it's because it gives people hope?Religion is a powerful weapon if we know how to use it, which means we can be critical and believe in God at the same time, numbers are just a consequence of that..
GamaMagnum 3 years ago 9
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Retardation overload...
Dude, if you are someone who CHOOSES his beliefs based on what gives you hope, you should expect people to bash your beliefs. I could choose to believe that my teddy bear protects me...Now wouldn't you say that person is deluded? Isn't it being completely gullible to take the word of the bible as truth when there are no other sources to back it up?
VitalSigns1 3 years ago
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I do not CHOOSE my beliefs like an ignorant religious fool. Do you think I like the fact that there is no afterlife and that we just die and decompose in the dirt? No...but I don't give myself false hope by believing in fairy tales. I have the balls to accept the truth whereas you base your beliefs off of what you WANT to be true. I never put any faith claims into anything. All my observations and evidences I see in the world are based on logic and reason.
VitalSigns1 3 years ago
dude you're a fag lol
VitalSigns1 3 years ago
Also...she did not state that she was a reliable source so mocking her high school education does nothing but negate your argument.
Smartass8504 3 years ago
She did not state that atheists are not gullible. So your argument regarding that...are pointless.
Also...just because a large percentage of people believe in something it does not make it true..also bad logic.
Smartass8504 3 years ago
UGH...
couldn't see the whole thing because YOU DIDN'T GET HER POINT!!!
rc87 3 years ago
hahahha Your very smart man good job
spoton8 3 years ago
oh - i looked up your stats. Pretty close.. most likely.
2006 census Atheists USA 3 - 5 % 8,790,840 of the population. Lookit - i found that missing 5% that her chemistry teacher was talking about.
dickr4chicks 3 years ago
great video.
best part "I do not believe your high school education is a reliable source just yet"
hahahahah!!!!
dickr4chicks 3 years ago
A couple of points:
1) Truth is not a democracy. It doesn't matter if 5 people or a 5 billion people believe something. It doesn't make it any truer. Although if you wanted to go down that road, you would need to explain why the majority of top American scientists (95%+ was the last poll I saw) are atheists.
2) Religion *is* a disease, rationality is the cure.
3) Your ad hominem attacks don't add any credibility to your argument. You might want to consider taking a logic course.
corporateceo 3 years ago
Religion is a disease. That's why all the atheists are smashing themselves to bits on Youtube.
VortexDelta 3 years ago 2
Funny, i haven't seen an atheist smash them selves to peices anywhere.
sleepymagpie 3 years ago
I have. Why haven't you?
VortexDelta 3 years ago 2
largely because i have been to busy trying not to laugh at christian fundies.
Seriously, the abject desplays of ignorance and misunderstanding are never ending source of ammusement. ID: the joke that keeps on giving.
sleepymagpie 3 years ago
I guess you haven't seen the Three Stooges. Nyuk, nyuk. nyuk. Fakesagan, CapnOawesome, AmazingAtheist. Watch them poke their eyes out. Then watch Healthy Addict put on a monthly freak show (for kids) and ratings. If all the Christians were taken out of the world we'd have nothing but chaos down here. I understand completely.
VortexDelta 3 years ago
Nope, not seen them, no real care to, have you 'kookie religios' to laugh at ;)
sleepymagpie 3 years ago
There are hundreds of videos on Youtube made by atheists who feel they have to decapitate and make fun of JezuzFreek and VenomfangX. These are foul and despicable. Yet both Christians have not retaliated in kind. I know which side is kookie and which is irrational. I've made my stand. I stand with JF and VFX. I don't want have ANYTHING to do with this world and the highschool mentality and hatefulness that has to do with atheism.
VortexDelta 3 years ago
The high school mentality has nothing to do with atheism. It has everything to do with You tube.
But, that said, in the case of VFX, what little of him i have picket up form a quick search, the reason he is lampunde is that he trys to talk on a subject he doesn't actually understand and makes him self look stupid.
If you desire to avoid parady, do not lay your self open to it. Especially in an enviroment like the internet.
sleepymagpie 3 years ago
While i don't think ALG was describing religion as a disease, it is an entirely resonable anlogy.
When religion is looked at form a frame of reference that includes Meme Theory, religions behaviour even begins to look remarkably like the behaviour of a retro-virus. After all, people do sometimes come into faith, after exposure, and children do usually grow up into the same faith as their parents. Like a host self, becoming infected by a virus and which incorperates itself into future copies.
sleepymagpie 3 years ago
As for susceptibility. There is evidence that a gene called VMAT2 is responcible for a pre-disposition towards spirituality.
sleepymagpie 3 years ago
You make a better point
tonyslongroad 3 years ago
Ad Populum is fallacy, not a point. There are, in fact, far more atheists than you say (I, for example, would be registered Catholic, but am an atheist - and myself know many others like that), though that is also irrelevant. 100% of the world's population believed it was flat at one time - that did't make them any less deluded or gullible. Religion, though not a desease, is a delusion based on ignorance like ancient superstitions were - only it has stuck due to the numbers conserving it.
Uxoriouswidow 3 years ago
Ad Populum is fallacy, not a point. There are, in fact, far more atheists than you say (I, for example, would be registered Catholic, but am an atheist - and myself know many others like that), though that is also irrelevant. 100% of the world's population believed it was flat at one time - that did't make them any less deluded or gullible. Religion, though not a desease, is a delusion based on ignorance like ancient superstitions were - only it has stuck due to the numbers conserving it.
Uxoriouswidow 3 years ago
Since when does a high quantity of believers make anything more reliable? By that logic, the world would be flat and bloodletting via leeches would be a miracle cure.
Just because a brilliant philosopher believes something does not make it any more reliable, it is not evidence, and no matter what the issue is, if you believe something without a shred of evidence, you are (by definition) gullible.
And if a philosopher's beliefs are proof, what about all the great non-religious philosophers?
wanderingivie 3 years ago
I think you are one person that has there head on straight. i'm subscribing ;)
supportbra 3 years ago
I believe that scientists and philosophers alike have wanted to expand their knowledge of what makes the world and the universe tick,but while staying in the boundaries of their religion.Rather than saying a god created it,they wanted to study and research more on the subject,which is what we have today.Athiesm is a simple religion,but also complicated.We believe in science.Other religions are just confusing and stand in the way of exploring the universe and curing diseases.
DRp350 3 years ago
Atheism is not a religion.
YourTubeSpellChecker 3 years ago
Yes it is
you have to believe that there is no god, just as christianity is a religion because you have to believe that there is a god
scotzbhoy 3 years ago
where is this boot u are talking aboot?
jutlandia 3 years ago
my problum is not with religon it is with some of the pepole that follow them.
the pepole who go crazy and say sicence is evile like back in the day dinosores are not real god put the bones down there to give us somthing to do
or harry potter is evile and anyone who reads it will burn in hell
i beleve that none of that is in the bible
theendofit 3 years ago 3
im a crack addict like u, too!
ashkanlion23 3 years ago
why are you calling me a crack addict?
i have never done any drugs or drank or even smoked a cigaret.
just becouse im not relios dose not effect my morality
i'd make a beter christian the alot of pepole with there afers and there drugs and stuff
there are murders that go to church some even clam to kill for god.
others just go into confession and ask for forgiveness the presets that turn them in end up geting kicked out of the chuch the ones who don't nothing bad happens to them
theendofit 3 years ago
....because i cant understand what you're saying. It's your spelling mostly that turns me off
ashkanlion23 3 years ago
Not all Religions are a disease, just the ones that have a tendency to kill people. Like the Crusades and Salem Witch Trials. *hint*
Sepero1 4 years ago
...or scientology...
kanebhon 3 years ago
Haha, my comment got voted down. There must still be some of those 'crusaders' still around. :-)
Sepero1 3 years ago
You're a very smart person. Every single thing that girl said could be debated, and you made a good rebuttal. :] Nice job.
SeldomKnown3 4 years ago 2
Very well said. Not so sure about some of your facts, though:3/4 billion hindus? That can't be right... India's population is currently 2nd in the world and they a predominantly hindu... how can only 3/4 bill be hindu? It's gotta be more than that, surely. And it's "who are Muslim", not Islam.
coldicedrat 4 years ago
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Being religious = Gulible
Sorry if the truth hurts.
lollygager3664 4 years ago
haha... no. religion, believe it or not, is a way of explaining different events that took place, that take place and that will take place. these beliefs have been around for crap loads of time and guess what? they still are around!!! so youre err "truth"... is a LIE!!! I know I have pissed you off and I hope you will think first before you lash out at me.
coldicedrat 4 years ago 2
No you didn't piss me off. Don't get so defensive. "Lash out"? Your congregation likes to play the victim, don't they.
Your religion does not prove a thing. Just because it has been around and is still around today is really to the credit of the human fear of the unknown and death.
To claim that you understand the nature of God is a false claim by its very nature because that is something that cannot be known. You have the burden of proof, buddy.
Your religion sucks. Your vlog sucked.
lollygager3664 4 years ago
Our "congregation"? love to play the vitim, do they? I hope you aren't refering to the RCs. You clearly misundertood. All I am saying is that there are many theories as to why we live etc. Ask yourself these questions. What's your answer? It's most likely a scientific idea. Science hasn't covered everything. Religion has been passed down for many a year and it explains all the things science can't cover. There may be a day when science proves religion wrong, but that day is not today.
coldicedrat 4 years ago
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"Science hasn't covered everything. Religion has been passed down for many a year and it explains all the things science can't cover. There may be a day when science proves religion wrong, but that day is not today."
That is such a stupid sentiment that I'm convinced that you're joking. If you were not that would mean that you would prefer a junk, hack, flakey, obviously man-made cultural construction as an explination to no explination at all.
A child can see through this and they do.
lollygager3664 4 years ago
there is shit lots of people that are religious, and that would be a argument for them not being gullible, cause they are lots...
the more people you put together the lowest you drop the collective IQ level, a mob as the IQ of an oyster, mass is no proof of credibility...
niclamerix 4 years ago
I always thought that their are two kinds of religions, one is because some people are realy convinced and realy in to it not because they were raidsed this way. The other comes as a consequence of having nothing to baleive in: if u look well, the most religious people in the world are the poorest and the ones in war... who have no hope from life anymore. So I think it helps the latter group by giving them some hope to life that only RELIGION, or a certain baleife can give.
cyberJamilonc 4 years ago
If the group is big or small, 5.7bil or 0.3bil it doesn't mean any r right so try not basing urself on opinions. I can c that u don't base urself on anything scientific. As the comment before said, philosophy is not a science and religion is surely not.
cyberJamilonc 4 years ago
You cant apply statistics this way. 600 years ago most people believed the world was flat and stationary ore else we would fall off or get blown off by the wind if the earth was spinning 1040 miles per hour. But you have a point, you never know the trueth for 100%
And philosophy is no science.
freethinkerbell 4 years ago
thank you =]
batwithhat 4 years ago
lol nice statement did u include people in africa in your numbers of religion? If so what category do they fall under?
drblake 4 years ago
inquisitive as you're asking the orignal poster to be. Otherwise you're committing a similar error. I understand it was an honest mistake and one that people make all the time.But it's important to incorporate cultural sensitivity into any contentious topic, as well. Other than that, really great response. Thanks for taking the time to post. Cheers!
ShannonGuy 4 years ago
thanks for your solid contribution to the dialogue going on here. Your friendly tone and balanced approach bring a level of clarity and calm needed to a difficult forum. but DUDE!!! people who PRACTICE Islam are called MUSMLIMS. You can't say people who are "ISLAM." When incorporating data about other religions it's important to be just as unassuming and
ShannonGuy 4 years ago
The numbers of "religious" people you list are erroneous. The number who actually practice their respective religion is minute in comparison to the estimated numbers.
buckfastercrew 4 years ago
For what it's worth, I agree with you completely. Technically, I don't consider your response to be "ad hominem," as rabittts said. It seems like you were simply being ironic in order to prove a point. I think rabittts just wanted to impress you with "big" words, IMO. Anyway, well said.
GimmeAJeep 4 years ago
Angrylittlegirl believes in science and reason over myth and superstition.
Many parts of the world use to engage in human sacrifice. That doesn't make it right.
You also attacked her personally without trying to make sense of her arguments. Here is an analysis.
watch?v=xJGLo58nu-c
globetrvllr2 4 years ago
dude you're awesome thank you for replying this way
nadcml 4 years ago
where did you get all your numbers... the things i wonder..........
ohh.. and religion is like a disease and people who believe it are gullible.. it's like they don't think for themselves...
and whatever.. too many words.. not enough space.
imma make you a video response homie. :]
Mikayla004 4 years ago
you idiot the world needs religions to bring about stability read lod of the rings by golding itexplores how man is inheriently evil which they r as without rules all cveman were killers but it is through rules we have created peaceful society and religin was the first tool in creatig the peacefu soicety so im not supporting that religions are true but your narow mindedness towards them is laughable
odan1990o 4 years ago
Modern philosophy brought many of the good things we take for granted, such as individual rights and representative government.
Religion did not. We had torture, inquisitions, witch hunts, and massive religious wars before the Enlightenment.
globetrvllr2 4 years ago
Oh and by the way, you want her to be more careful with her words? who gave you the right to sensor anyone?
sericecho 4 years ago
First off she didnt say that religious people ARE gullible, she said to CHECK the facts. Thats all.. you drew your own conclusions.
sericecho 4 years ago
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
--Mark Twain
cda6590 4 years ago
Steven Hawkings smartest man in the world. NOT RELIGIOUS.
yorktown83 4 years ago
good job
god bless =]
kathylis87 4 years ago
Very nice response. Made some greats points against that whacked out girl.
MasterShake12321 4 years ago
Ohohoho! Hang on there, You can't spread 'believes' about a religion that doesen't exist! Atheism is just a word for people that don't have a religion..
And come on now mate, she's just a wee lass, no need for the sarcasm.
CaptJustice 4 years ago
Your fallacies include: Appeal to Popularity, Appeal to Authority, and Ad Hominem.. I watched the whole video, though, so you are at least interesting! :)
rabbittts 4 years ago
Great Video, well thought out, not distracted with over editing but enough to ease out the false starts in my opinion. HOW many Agnostics are there???? We who are Agnostic, just don't know and haven't got a clue as to how anyone can get so positive that there is or is not a "GOD". Really do you know how many of us there are??? You seem well informed. HarOLD
hquillin 4 years ago
Usually, agnostics are counted in with the "atheist group."
cda6590 4 years ago
Thanks
hquillin 4 years ago
I agree, she pretty make makes an argument in a box without looking at the facts.
bjduerst 4 years ago 2