My Falsehoods

FOR MY FOLLOW UP: http://nanonarcissus.livejournal.com/3988.html

I can guarantee I'll get heat for this video. Prepare for a full on torrent of upset atheists in the comment section.

The reason I chose these is because they're all controversial atheist opinions. I've taken a lot of heat because of them in the past, especially as some see them as horrifyingly tolerant of religion. I'm often attacked and ridiculed for not seeing the world in as black and white terms as other atheists.

It can often be difficult to maintain your rationality in the face of such constant pressure. This is why this video is so hard for me, and why it is so ever pertinent to the topic of irrationality.

But its interesting to see how people respond. They either:
1)Accuse me of being brainwashed by theists.
2)Tell me its a common misconception and proceed to recite a common atheist line correcting me, as if I know nothing about what most people say on the subject.

And I used to be exactly the same.

Very rarely do I hear a fresh argument, only the recycled ones I used to use myself. Are they now somehow more valid than when I used them?

These behaviours are often the result of the sort of irrationalities this series will cover. Hopefully afterwards you'll be a little more enlightened to them.

Eugenie Scott on God and science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GViS6Z2Y7L0

Is God Science?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4I2ZxX3FM

The Burden of Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj2iIjD80bQ

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[itrubsthelotion4]

i'm too busy looking at his INCREDIBLY MILKY SKIN and lean body.

[AtheistJohn]

The mirror behind you creates some distracting overlaps of your ear growing out of your neck, but perhaps some of your subscribers are into that sort of thing ;)

[julzabro]

Atheism is an opinion/position taken on due to reasonable deduction. Yes, there CAN be, some, seemingly MORE rational theists than others but if a person continues believing in a a tyrannical, mythalogical skydaddy...I STILL question their motives AND their rationale. In fact, the FEW theists who seem to know their doctrines well are, imho, closer to atheism than the rest, U did make good points here!

[RuinSonic]

@Clutchology I agree for the most part about what you said about God and the burden of proof but I think the way you said it was wrong. We don't have a burden of proof as atheists to rationally reject a God. We do have a burden to debunk arguments against it in order to be rational.

A-theism is without belief in God. If I don't know if it's going to rain tomorrow I will probably lack belief that it will rain tomorrow, but this doesn't imply I believe or think it probably won't rain tomorrow.

[RuinSonic]

@Clutchology I don't use the word lack of belief because of how people have been confused by it and try to use it as a means to run away from the burden of proof, but in reality lack of belief in God is just a minimalistic form of not accepting that there is a God or believing there is no God implicitly (such as by the way you think about reality or your worldview).

[FluggleBubble]

i have learnt a lot. thank you.

[johnfin4]

I'm thinking that with a finite number possible synapses in a human mind it would not be possible to fathom the infinite-however because we exist we are connected to the infinite. I'm inclined to think that it is more the nature of our place in the infinite and if we are comfortable with that that is the issue rather than a belief or lack of it.

[jennyrgar]

is it rational if i admit that i believe in god for experiencing a life long chain of impossible experiences that have been filtered out through logical explanations and other unique causes such as damage to perception tools, environment, others influences or mentality?

[IceysMoment]

i agree with you clutch ;)

thats why i dont need to make a video YET :p

[alwaysright10000]

Huh?

[itrubsthelotion4]

@caifan i'm hard too. look at his smooth milky lean body. as long as i have a face clutch has a place to sit in this world. thanks and have a blessed day