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"The loyalty to Charles Darwin and his theory". WTF? Anyone who has read Darwin can see he was wrong about a lot of things. He just changed the paradigm. We know more about biology and evolution now than we did in the 1850s because scientists don't accept things as unalterable truths. Religi...

John 3:16: God, rather than just forgiving sins to show that he loves us, decides to demonstrate his "love" by having his own son tortured and murdered. Can someone explain to me why this verse is supposed to make me accept Christianity, instead of rejecting it as vile barbarism?

@robbpoz

Amen. I was there for that game. Almost left after Pujols made it 7-1 on a grand slam, but Delgado and Beltran brought them back. I love the 2006 team. If only they could have gone a little farther....

"Your kid can still pray before any test they didn't study for." Classic!

I do love that they hang up on her just as she's about to go into another blathering you're-going-to-hell quote.

Well done, sir. In a head-to-head between you and Newt, I think we know who the "Real American" is.

Fine video, but one thing is glaringly absent: that archaeological evidence strongly suggests that the Exodus story is entirely mythical. There were never any Hebrew slaves in Egypt, they didn't wander the desert for 40 years, and they never conquered any territory in ancient Israel. Without th...

Mets fan here who was too young to appreciate how great Carter was with the Expos or Mets. Wish Gary and the Expos were both still with us.

I'd go further and say that the Bible was written by men who had less knowledge than might have been found in their day. After all, the Bible twice says the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is 3:1, which is a pretty bad approximation of pi, especially when you realize that other...

The story of Elijah calling the bears to kill children is up there with the genocide of the Amalekites among the most appalling stories in the "good" book.

@TaylorX04

Hell sounds more interesting to me anyway. In hell, you've got Aristotle, Confucius, Spinoza, Thomas Jefferson, Nietzsche, Voltaire, and Christopher Hitchens. In heaven, you've got....Jerry Falwell and Oral Roberts. I know which group with whom I'd rather spend eternity.

Very interesting video. I'm an atheist and am not even sure Jesus actually existed. However, it's not far-fetched to think that a tyrant like Pilate may have considered Jesus to be a rabble-rouser and decided to have him executed without consulting the Sanhedrin at all. In such a case, crucifi...

@333dvd2 Yes, the original document that begins "We The People....". It contains not one reference to any god, nor to Jesus, and splits church from state in multiple locations. The foundation of the United States is secular. To claim otherwise is as absurd as claiming that the Book of Genesis ...

@IfUrGivingIn Darwinian evolution is a fact, and it's this fact that I'm drawing upon for my position. Also, I'm not the one making assumptions about god. Those who claim god exists are making assumptions, since they have no evidence to back up their claims.

I'd be interested to know where yo...

I think the world's greatest practical joke would be to take a worn-out old wooden boat and airlift it onto the slopes of Mt. Ararat under the cover of night. Too bad I don't have the means to carry this out :-P

This caller gives one of the most honest reasons why people believe in god. They're afraid of what happens after death. That's perfectly understandable, as I'm an atheist and I'm unnerved by the idea of death. Of course, that fear doesn't make the idea that Jesus rose from the dead to save me ...

I visited Crater Lake in Oregon last summer and as much as I marveled at the beauty and majesty of the thing, I had a moment where I felt sorry for the park rangers there. You see, the huge volcanic eruption that created the crater occurred about 7,700 years ago, and I can just picture knucklehe...

Dillahunty is rapidly becoming my new favorite public atheist now that Christopher Hitchens is gone (may Zeus have mercy on his soul). I really think we need more "Red State" (for lack of a better term) Americans to come out as nonbelievers if we are to get believers in this country to accept us...

I like how Matt realizes he'd pay to preach to Christians. Me too. I'd like them to question their own beliefs. One of the greatest conversations I ever had was with a Muslim from Saudi Arabia. I asked him how he knew the Quran was correct. It was obvious by his reaction that he had never ev...

@deboles

Um, you haven't backed up your assertion that gay marriage is wrong, you just ranted incoherently. If this is the best you can do, no wonder 50% of the US population now thinks gay marriage should be legal (and 71% of college freshman think so). The opponents of gay marriage have no ...

Yes, it does sound insane. Most religious beliefs sound insane, it's just that we take them as normal because so many people accept them. I mean, if I were standing on a street corner with a cup of wine and loaf a bread and was telling people that they are the literal body and blood of Groucho ...

Ever notice how former Christians (like Matt or myself) seem to know the Bible better than the believers do? I guess that makes sense, since it's easier to believe if you think the Bible is just the Sermon on the Mount and the Good Samaritan, and not a whole lot of genocide and cruelty and gener...

Am I the only one who thinks hell would be preferable to spending eternity with the deranged tyrant that is the God of the Bible? I mean, it would be like spending eternity with Kim Jong-Il. No thanks. I'll take my chances with the Devil (not that I believe in God or the Devil).

The Mormon baptism of the dead is creepy. I mean, I'll tell the Christians and the Muslims and the Scientologists to kiss my ass until the day I die, but then the Mormons will come after me when I'm dead. I need to make sure my next of kin promise to un-baptize me too.

@armelix73

You may be right, but I think it's possible that he was insane. Ever listen to Wesley Willis? In his hundreds of songs, there are lots of themes and phrases that get repeated over and over again, and Wesley does use a lot of clever similes and metaphors. Wesley was a paranoid schi...

@MegaLiftman

Christopher Hitchens used to say that religion was man's first attempt at philosophy, as alchemy was his first attempt at chemistry, and astrology his first attempt as astronomy.

Most importantly, Jesus loses the battle with his enemies. What religion is going to base itself on its divine hero not conquering his enemies, but ending up executed as a common criminal? Early Christians appear to have had a real problem with the crucifixion narrative.

@3234718 Yes. Much of what's on youtube from Christians attacking atheism is semi-literate attacks on straw men. "Hilter was an athiest!" (no) "A cat can't turn into a dog!" (no one who understands evolution would claim that a cat could turn into a dog). This guy sounds like someone I would l...

Has Robertson said anything about the Washington State Senate passing a gay marriage bill yet? I mean, that's a state that can literally have fire and brimstone rain down upon it, given all the volcanoes there. The problem, of course, is that when Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980, it did no harm ...

I'm glad the host brought up the story of Noah's Ark, because I really do believe it to be the most ridiculous story in the Bible, even more than the Garden of Eden. Apparently Noah traveled to South America to collect Llamas, to Australia to collect all the marsupials, to the arctic to collect ...

I'm glad you've laid it out so starkly, and correctly so. If one believes in the Bible, one cannot also be a scientist. There are far too many people who try to pretend faith and science are compatible. I knew I was onto something as a child when reading about the planets and the dinosaurs, an...

I thought this was supposed to be a defense of the Bible, and not a laughably ignorant rant about biology and cosmology? I guess ranting about things you don't understand is easier than explaining how Noah managed to get pairs of the 250,000 species of beetles, plus Llamas from South America, pl...

I'm not sure what's more horrifying, your ignorance of biology or your ignorance of cosmology. I'm literally laughing at your babbling about matter "floating" in space prior to the Big Bang. Please try to learn about the subjects you attack before you attack them.

Also, what do you think bacte...

Oh, and good for Buddha and Muhammad for expressing those thoughts full of skepticism. All people should question every belief they have.

Also, it's flatly false that atoms and the spherical earth were unknown at the time of the Bible. Epicurus, who lived 300 years before Jesus, suggested the existence of atoms (he was also pretty close to an atheist, as he didn't believe the gods intervened on earth). The Greeks also know the ea...