Discovering Religion: Ep 21 - Ultimate Accountability and The Loss of Free Will

The twenty-first installment of my original series, "Discovering Religion", and the second episode in the "Morality" miniseries. In this episode I examine the philosophical implications of ultimate accountability and how a belief in heaven/hell destroys the theistic concept of free will and makes genuine belief in God utterly impossible.

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LINKS CITED:

Sam Harris "The Moral Landscape" audiobook.
Chapter 2. 1:39:15 - The Illusion of Free Will
http://tinyurl.com/3en3pmd

Note: You can listen to the entire audiobook on my secondary channel, youtube.com/DRCited. If you enjoy this book please purchase it for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgX2_WRIfAs

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VIDEO CITED:
Clips taken from the following movies:

Austin Powers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/

Nineteen Eighty-Four
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

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MUSIC CITED:

"New Fish" - Track 3 - "The Shawshank Redemption" Soundtrack

"Alone in Kyoto" - Air
http://youtu.be/QJ4Pm0N8s78

"Brooks Was Here" - Track 7 - "The Shawshank Redemption" Soundtrack

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PLAYLIST:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=70E757541E8576D7 

TRANSCRIPT:
http://discoveringreligion.net/?p=484

WEBSITE:
http://www.discoveringreligion.net

FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Discovering-Religion/143122652390020?ref=ts 

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Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Ultimate
• Accountability
• Free
• Will
• Heaven
• Hell

[standingontruth1]

Are you ready to die?

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Have u lied? Have u stolen? Jesus said if you look at a woman with lust you have committed adultery with here in your heart. have u done that?

If God judge’s u by the Ten Commandments will u be innocent or guilty? Heaven or Hell? Does this concern you?

Do u need a Savior from your sins?

Jesus came, lived a sinless life, died (for our sins) and rose again on the third day.

needgod.com

[DiscoveringReligion]

@standingontruth1

Do you think what you are stating is original or that an atheist hasn't been exposed to these fallacious arguments thousands of times? You cannot use the threat of thought-crime to scare us. We are fully aware of our evolved nature and claiming that lusting after a woman is equivalent to committing adultery is pure and utter rubbish. I am young, therefore I am not ready to die. But hopefully I will grow old and when my body can no longer sustain my life, yes, I will be ready.

[knucks360]

@DiscoveringReligion These are some awesome videos you have here! I convinced a good friend of mine(who was a Christian) to watch some of these.Eventually,he started to doubt his beliefs,and start thinking for himself!

[stratovani]

You can choose a ready guide

In some celestial voice.

If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears

And kindness that can kill;

I will choose a path that's clear-

I will choose free will! - Rush, Freewill

[cynt123able]

Very happy I discovered this channel.

[luomio]

Watch "one-third of the holocaust" for an eye opening documentary about the holocaust.

[8698gil]

I dislike the idea of worship, I find groveling and begging to be extremely demeaning and distasteful.

[Nemnah]

@gato123452 haha yes gotta love woman, they are eyegasms

[Nemnah]

@DiscoveringReligion well said

[Hichamouallaf]

great videos....thanks..im looking forward to watch the next video

[Mectrixctic]

@gato123452

Matt 19:12

For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

No, I'm not crazy, I was born this way!

[TheKainMan]

@standingontruth1 Then I shall go murder my atheist neighbour, his son and his wife, his dogs and cats and take his virgin daughter as my property, beat her until she cannot stand for one or two days, and if she ever gets pregnant by another man I shall remove her child from her, toss him off a cliff, then stone her to death for behaving in such an inappropriate way.

After I've done all that, I think I'm qualified enough to get into heaven.

Love and Peace!

Also, you're an idiot.

[gato123452]

@standingontruth1 if Jesus never saw a women with lust than that means he was gay, becasue every Heterosexual man see's a women with lust, and Homosexuals don't.