"Is moderate religion okay?" (Evil Robot)

Evil Robot answers the question "is moderate religion okay?" The answer, incidentally, is no.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Religion
• moderate
• EvilRobot
• neotropic9

[mavaddat]

"Aid and comfort to extremists..."

Ugh, this was an awesome video until you said that. This is a classic Bushism and Republican Party sound bite. This kind of clichéd rhetoric has no place in the vocabulary of a true Evil Robot.

[neotropic9]

Would you prefer "help and support"? It's not rhetoric -it's words.

[mavaddat]

Dude, rhetoric is made of words. What else could rhetoric be if not words? You do realize this, right?

Don't get me wrong. I think your point is fundamentally correct (that moderates insulate extremists from criticism), but I think it's worse than lazy to use rhetoric. It also erodes the argument itself.

Check out George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," 1946. It explains my point much better.

[neotropic9]

Rhetoric is empty words.

[fantasy0coach]

Religious moderates deny their religion with their actions every day.......they are simply keeping a foot in both camps.......enjoying the riches of atheist science, while claiming to believe in god.

In reality it is hypocritical and ludicrous, and they are only supporting oppression where it suits them. Selfish, bigotted assholes.

[Jarezev]

It still doesn't. There is nothing left in the universe that requires God in order to explain. In fact, it only raises more questions, such as who created God? Allways existed? Then how come the universe couldn't have existed for ever, and how can something exist without the existence of time itself?

There is no reason to believe in God. There is not a shred of evidence in favour of that. Ever thought how the world would look without God? Exactly the same. So why does God exist?

[rmcdaniel423]

@neotropic9 wrote "Rhetoric is empty words."

Wrong.

"Rhetoric is the art and study of the use of language with persuasive effect." - Wikipedia

Whether you like the phrase he used or not, whether you think it is merely a "clichéd sound bite" or not, is irrelevant. If it has a "persuasive effect" on others, or is at the very least intended to persuade (however successfully or unsuccessfully), then it is valid rhetoric.

Your pathetic attempts to be the police of language are "empty words".

[Genesis1GodCreated]

Have you ever wondered why the human fingerprint is so diverse? Think about it, there are approximately 6.9 billion people on this earth and there are no two fingerprints alike. If fingerprints were alike fingerprinting technology would be obsolete. If we all came about by chance and random selection don't you think that i could be possible to have some duplicates? Uniqueness in such multiplicity says one thing, created for a purpose!!!! That purpose you ask?? To know God.

[Madsponge]

I don't think extremists are closer to religious texts, they usually blow them waaaaay out of proportion and misenterprate a lot of things.

[raccoonlord]

You know what's funny bout all the religious bashing? It's mostly done by staunch atheists. you know what's funny about staunch atheists? They really like logic. you know what's funny about logic? It's a process of a semantic time binding circuit. you know when we develop that? Seven years old.

Do you know the first thing it does? Justify everything you've done up to that point. Logic just fucked itself in the ass.

[JamesJimRaynor]

The problem is that extremists by themselves are no threat, they are unpopular. The thing is that they are apart of the "popular" party, (like the Christians) therefore become more of a problem.

[EarthCitizen81]

Well explained and directly to the point. I applaud this video.

[WarmWeatherGuy]

"Moderate" religion is just a gateway delusion.

[ZardexM]

Precisely!

Everything we know about the universe is consistent with the process of evolution that is completely indifferent to what it does.

There is no reason to think there should be any "meaning" to our existence simply because we, as a result to evolution, have ended up imagining our own lives as meaningful.

If we didn't want meaning in our lives we would not pursue to succeed and reproduce.

The "idea/s" of God/s is/are just another obvious and inevitable result of evolution.

[ZardexM]

What's even worse about moderates is that they impose a culture of inconsistency. They both support fanatics AND apologize religion at the same time. They are two faced liars to themselves and everyone else, as they answer with secular values against secular criticism while at the same time supporting fanaticism and the idea that inconsistent faith deserves respect.