Comedians Bill Burr and Marc Maron on Religion

Clip from Bill Burr's podcast "The Monday Morning Podcast" in which he and guest Marc Maron discuss their thoughts on religion and the people who believe in it.

Link to the podcast homepage:
http://www.billburr.com/mmpc.htm

Link to this episode:
http://www.billburr.com/podcast/MMPC_2010-04-05.mp3

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• religion
• theism
• atheism
• heaven
• hell
• science
• creationism
• bible
• jesus
• christ
• god
• faith
• belief
• comedy
• bill
• burr
• marc
• maron

[electricmaster23]

I gave up on Christianity when I was able to process data logistically on my own and took fear out of the equation. I have no problem with a majority of the moral lessons taught in bible, but today, many of the ancient Christian rules and 'God's commandments' are obsolete and just wrong, (slavery, women can't teach men, earth is flat, man co-existed with dinosaurs, earth is only 7000 years old etc etc.) and simply ignored, even by the most fanatical Christian.

[theinquisitor]

@electricmaster23, I'm afraid some Christians do in fact believe that man co-existed with dinosaurs and that the world is only 6000 years old. Look up the "Creation Museum". It has a model of a triceratops with a saddle on it. I'm not sure about the flat-earth thing, but there was a recent conference about Geocentrism called "Galileo was wrong". It's pretty sad.

[DomTrentproductions]

@theinquisitor

That was a very intelligent way of putting it. I would like to be able to see two sides of such an argument without biased opinion or sensitive reluctance. I would like to sit perfectly in the middle. I guess such an ability would be un human. For the fact that all knowledge is unknown is the soul reason this argument is even in existence.

[theinquisitor]

@DomTrentproductions, if you want to see such an argument there are plenty of places you can find them. There's a public access TV show made in Austin, Texas called "The Atheist Experience". Theists are encouraged to call in and say "what they believe and why" and the hosts of the show then respond. The callers are often incoherent and their argumentation is poor. You can find many clips of it on youtube. Most religious people don't believe in the sophisticated apologists variety of religion.

[DomTrentproductions]

These guys are both fucking assholes. I know more science than both of them. I personally dont know if i really believe in god. But thats not the point! Thats what makes people so special and great. We can do more good with just our mind and imagination than the fact s that show us how apparently alone we all are.

[theinquisitor]

@DomTrentproductions, haven't you ever talked to religious people who talk the way these two describe? Sure there are sophisticated religious thinkers, including scientists, but their criticisms stand when applied to the type of people they're referring to. They do paint theists with too broad a brush, but as far as the "just believe and don't worry about the arguments against it" attitude, I think what they say stands. The problem is the lack of thought, religion is just the result of that.

[andrewtheman19]

Anyone who has ever tried to explain evolution can appreciate this rant...

[SBV123]

THANK YOU Marc for mentioning conspiracy theorists using the same bullshit no logic. I'm tired of conspiracy nutjobs getting a free pass on this stuff. Same ignorant people, different fascinations.

[cheechanchux]

Word

[83redrose83]

Everything they're saying is awesome and on point!

[BrainRotMenacer]

@MeyerL10 Marc Maron is great, and Christianity did not invent the golden rule. Far from it.

And religion is the only thing keeping you from being an asshole? Sorry, but that alone makes you an asshole.

[CoolerKing37]

@MeyerL10 "If the world all is a big nothing, and If I didn't have religion holding me back, I would go Machiavellian and just say "fuck everyone, me first!" That's why so many people get into politics.

[kakashi76767]

Houdini isnt in hell, he would have escaped.

[megamanthehitman]

actually a lot of that stuff has been proven. Science and Christianity exist as an equal. It is not complete ignorant, one could say you are ignorant for not lending the other check to be slaped. More then an attack on religon its an attack on christianity. There is balance in science and christianity. BOth have things that remain un-seeable, and therefore people say both have things unproven. If we were all psycho in the brain we would have completion.

[MindstormRecs]

Marc Maron sounds like a pushy douche

[keithkosmal]

It's a dangerous thing to group every person that believes in God into a category where we all act the same way. I'm a Christian and there's plenty of people that believe in God that I know that make me bash my head into a wall. As for atheists, there's probably a lot of people that give them a bad name too.