Phil Zuckerman - Atheists, Agnostics, and the Irreligious [1/9]

Atheists, Agnostics, and the Irreligious - what the social sciences reveal

A lecture on the sociological differences secular and religious societies.
Recorded at Copenhagen University, 25 November 2010.

Parts 1-4 are the lecture, 5-9 are the Q&A session.
Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DBA72753557710DC
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udkf1vK4zr4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslJKpYG2ZY
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvQA_RkjAlA
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjUC_KqXsvY
Q&A 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTCetoTGQsM
Q&A 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naGjHekdSmc
Q&A 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlKbRiM41bw
Q&A 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZzMARa9Q4
Q&A 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFkNAs_hHcA

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[AteistiskSelskab]

@valu777 Zeus is alive - where is the body? I've got "written proof" too... Look here: Zeus is alive!!!

[AteistiskSelskab]

@valu777 "written proof" - you gotta be kidding. All mythology is probably proof enough to uncritical thinkers like you... Zeus is ak

[AGrandt]

@valu777 Quit the condescending tone, making us out to be "idiots" and in need of being "saved", Saved from what exactly?

From my point of you, you are no better than the thug with a gun, asking people to get on their knees and hand over their wallet, or he'll shoot them, but if they do as he says, they'll be saved?

You are the one living in a fantasy, a violent fantasy, filled with hate, racism, oppression and death. It is not healthy.

[BBFNTL]

@valu777 Does it say "Argument from ignorance" on your passport?

[valu777]

@doaftheloaf /watch?v=v_oKEaQ577w

[doaftheloaf]

@valu777 bullshit. the persecution only began in the last years of the reign of nero, a full three decades after jesus allegedly lived. and the early writings by the believers that mention him at all originate well after this. and there is no secular mention of him until after that.

and i'd like to see this proof you have of these "signs and wonders" you cite. i've never seen ANYONE raise a dead person back to life.

[valu777]

@doaftheloaf did you know in his time they killed all the Christians , no one was game to write any thing for fear of persecution , but many early writings by believers who had the faith and courage to write survive , furthermore Christians of today are showing the signs and wonders of Jesus casting out demons healing the sick raising the dead , all signs of the truth , praise the Lord Jesus

[AGrandt]

@doaftheloaf I can't believe valu777 is still at it here, I gave up making sense of his ramblings months ago.

A chaotic pendulum makes more sense than valu777, though he is about as easy to predict as gravity.

[doaftheloaf]

@valu777 "wow now thats the hand of God right there in the date it even crosses at the c ross"

no, it crosses at the date of his alleged birth. or more accurately, it crosses at the date where those aforementioned church officials agreed to place it.

and as for your bible quote, it's totally irrelevant to anything we're talking about, and i don't believe your mythology book anyway.

[doaftheloaf]

@valu777 yes, lots of people have written about jesus. do you know what the word contemporary means?

nobody IN HIS TIME had anything to say about him. no one who wrote about jesus ever met him. some, ir not all, of the gospels date to the second century. and of course, there were plenty of people living at the time and in the region where the gospels say jesus lived, and who wrote about the types of things jesus is said to have done, and they don't say a thing about him.

[doaftheloaf]

@valu777 the reason the calendar is based on jesus' birth is because some high-ranking church officials decided to center the calendar on what they thought was the year of his birth. this would have happened some time after christianity became the roman official religion, at least three centuries after the supposed life of jesus. the church would never have had the power to do so before that.

[doaftheloaf]

@valu777 the calendar is based on the supposed date of jesus birth, which they've gotten wrong - even if he did exist, he was not born at the year of the turn of the common era (BC to AD), nor does anyone know the actual time of year. the gospels themselves seem to suggest he was born in around 6 BC, or 4 AD, depending on which gospel writer you read, because of the events the gospels tie to them, such as caesar taxing the world, or herod's reign, etc...

[doaftheloaf]

@AGrandt that's because they never think about it.

[valu777]

@doaftheloaf please be awakened in Jesus name ? there are many many extra bibliial writings about Jesus , in fact he is the subject of more books than any other person , even our calander is based on him ???

wow now thats the hand of God right there in the date it even crosses at the c ross

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." – Revelation 12:11