Religion Is Inimical To Rational Thought. I Am Against It.
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Creationists/Preachers: DO NOT send me private messages. If you have something to say, in your own words, post it in my channel comments.

If you spam, troll, are vulgar or copy and paste from your holy book, you're likely to be deleted and/or blocked.
About Me:
 
I think there are no such things as gods, an afterlife or the supernatural, except as they exist as concepts in the minds of humans. I also think that religion has done and continues to do much more harm to the human race than good.

Everyone has the absolute right to their religious belief. I fully respect that right. I am, however, under no obligation to respect that belief itself or to keep quiet when that belief impacts my life in an intrusive manner.

I do not hate God, nor do I blame God for a loss or an unanswered prayer. I am not in denial, I am not being rebellious and I am not looking for an excuse to be selfish or evil. I don't have unresolved childhood issues, nor am I an instrument of Satan. My issues are with religion, which is real, not God, whom I believe is not.

The nature of these gods is always vague and undefined and most annoyingly, plastic. Suggest a test and it is always redefined safely away from the risk.

My interaction with others on YouTube will mirror the attitude, maturity and demeanor of the person I am responding to. Religion should be subject to the same criticism as any other topic. No exceptions; no special dispensations.

If, after investigating all the available areas of inquiry, your beliefs still include a 6,000 year old earth, a boatload of animals, dinosaurs and man living together or that two people named Adam and Eve are your most distant relatives, expect absolutely no intellectual respect from me whatsoever.

My basic creed in life: Don't do to another what you would not want done to you. This doesn't require religion or a belief in any god.

And despite what I said about religion, I do worship Phoebe Cates and Danica McKellar, and I follow professional tennis...religiously. ;-)

If you've made it this far, thanks for taking the time to read!
Interests:
Neuropsychology, meteorology, astrophysics, theoretical physics, cosmology, philosophy, reading, chess, aikido, tennis, bowling, woodworking, and cooking, among others. I also like humor, honesty, random acts of kindness, good conversation and people who love animals.
Channel Comments
LocusOfReason (7 minutes ago)
Everything that mankind has learned about the nature of existence is in conflict with the Bible. In addition, what you are saying is that mankind has not derived any truths in over 2000 years. That, of course, is clearly the thinking of a person who bases their life around wishes, hopes, comfort and dreams...not truth.

You are a minority even in your own cult, Blacky. The one minority that can be and has been factually proven to be wrong. That should speak volumes about your ability to lie to yourself and then to others. I can't prove your god doesn't exist, but I can prove that your characterization of your religion is wrong.

How is it that I am an atheist and do not fear death in the slightest?
blackaboe (1 hour ago)
ergo, - I guarantee You're dead wrong, We can argue this on My channel IF You want where there is no interruptions and hostilities on this Topic. - Maybe one or two segments at a time or less per day, - I don't have enough time to spend at present. - I'm a Slow Typer.

Locus - I HAVE The Truth, - I Don't ignore it or run from it, - And it's Never in Conflict with The Bible. - As long as We rightly divide IT.
ergonomover (4 hours ago)
Black, calm down - I don't hate your bible. I would go as far as Einstein and say the stories are honorable if childish and primitive. I'm seeing more and more examples of the differences between copies, evidence of intense editing over centuries - all seeking better align the story with the needs of the Church. I think there is more entertainment and more valuable truth in other books.

Locus: thanks for featuring that vid, it is heartwarming you did that.
LocusOfReason (16 hours ago)
Blacky, the reason that atheists argue with you is that, above all else, we value truth over anything else. In all aspects of our lives. Some people value other things over truth. Those people are usually religious. See, I apply the same standards of truth determination to everything. Religious claims are no exceptions. You and others like you make an exception for religion because to you, the value of wishful thinking and the empty promises religion offers is more important to you.

I'm a skeptic when it comes to most everything that is presented to me as fact. Not just religion. If I see a claim and I am interested enough in it, I don't accept that claim on face value. I investigate, compare opinions and get the consensus of experts in whatever field that claim involves. Believing things blindly or from one source is a sure way to intellectual ruin if truth is your primary goal.
blackaboe (20 hours ago)
Ergo, - If That's what they Say, - it's only because Tyndale"s Bible was very Good and Close to perfection, because it is using essentially the same underlying text types that The Kjv uses. {Unlike all of the new PER-versions of today} - I Never denyed that they were very close, it's just that the KJV Bible was Not an "85% COPY" of the Tyndale Bible. - Why do You Feel so compelled to argue with me against The King James Bible? - Because You Hate It, - as All other reprobates DO.

Locus. - I will be getting back to you on that article, letting you know what I think about IT. - I answered a couple other of your questions but they were marked as spam and wouldn't go up again.
ergonomover (22 hours ago)
Black (hole-of-a-brain): I figured you would have a selective memory to go along with your cherry-picking of science and scripture; you are utterly predictable. So you've forgotten how you told me I could call your klv a modified Tyndale Bible - which is only fitting since it is true; scholars estimate up to 85% of Tyndale's work was copied by King James' scribes. I haven't forgotten how you failed to address my points and was reduced to pretending they didn't exist! It was hilarious. Of course, a two-bit creationist like yourself will deny evidence today like he did yesterday, and then backslide into total betrayal of humanity with arrogant fear-mongering. Shows what kind of failed human being you have become.
Keep showing onlookers how you bash valuable science and embrace eternal torture, genocide, rape, slavery, incest, infanticide, homophobia, sexism, pseudoscience, and talking snakes. Your fringe will continue to dwindle.
LiveFastDieHung (1 day ago)
Christ-on-a-stake! threatening me again?... you're EXTREMELY lucky your not on my door step telling me this!- Hell, give me a random bus stop to sit for this incipient, cock mongrel to come along to! you're also fortunate LoR is forgiving and allowing you to bombard his friends with pitiful guilt trips!- everytime someones asks for proof you come back pulpit pounding with self-righteous gusto... I suggest you don't come back until you learn to defend your book in a non-threatening manner as you somehow feel appointed into doing by these disturbing voices in your head you've had since believing in a book written and re-written by a bunch of evil men and kings to control people and countries, not much unlike Santa was used to regulate childrens behvior.
doubtingED (1 day ago)
But let us not forget that poor old Black is willfully ignorant (a bad faith decision to avoid becoming informed about something as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might promt). He "chooses" to be stupid even though his own sense of reason knows that what he claims is totally absurd & completely ridiculous. Now he is so emersed in religious deceit & deception that his old stuborn pride will not even let his common sense show. I guess he feels he has reached a higher status within an uneducated congregation of morons than he could ever acheive in reality like as an uneducated grease-monkey mechanic. Ain't that right Black???
LocusOfReason (1 day ago)
Blacky, the only way the Bible is going to burn anyone's ass is if it's set on fire and someone sits on it. Do you realize that the people judged by the Bible are only done so by sanctimonious loons like yourself? Do you know that Old Testament law only applies to those who choose to live in cowardice and fear of bronze age myths and social control mechanisms?

Do you know you're not under the grace of any god at all and that you are solely responsible for your actions and don't get a free ride just by saying that some guy who died 2000 years ago takes the rap?

Do you realize you are about one post away from again being blocked from this channel for your empty threats, ignorant missives, your inability to give explanatory responses to cogent questions, your willful disregard for facts and having the intellectual agility of a small soap dish?
blackaboe (1 day ago)
LivDie - OK. then, - It's gonna Burn his butt, - it's gonna burn your's too if you don't get right with God,, - Ass is a good Bible-word - and you do have one. - Do you realize that Thats the book that you'll be judged by? Yes the laws of God, Did You Know that YOU Are under The Old Testament Law in away without Christ, and the penalties for breaking It have eternal consequences. I'm under The Grace of God, - My sins are forgiven. I'm going strait to heaven when I die. - Thanks to Jesus Christ. - Amen.
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