Joss Whedon on Humanism

Joss Whedon receives the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at Harvard University's Memorial Church.
~ 10 April 2009 ~

Camera 1, Editor: Tiffanie Hsu
Camera 2: Nick Shearer

Courtesy of the Harvard Humanist Society

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Education

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• joss whedon
• humanism
• award
• harvard
• Memorial Church

[fdasherv]

O.K. kids, enough is enough. Evolution is a done deal, there's no going backward on it. If this was a court of law, the jury would come back in approval "beyond a shadow of a doubt". In fact, even without the fossil record, evolution is proven by genetics. Yes, proven, you idiots. If you want to stay stupid, keep it to yourself.

[OverlordShamala]

@TheSilverDragon

You want science rejected despite the mountain of evidence supporting it but you want your beliefs accepted despite the lack of evidence. All because the discoveries made by science threaten your dogmas.

[TheDjwildcard]

@ActuallyLiam "In Whedon we trust" is the mantra his fanatics deify him and his works, treating them like the Biblical texts of Geek culture. You can prefer Sam Harris all you like, more power to you. But the touchy one is you, for you engaged a YouTube user, where as I commented on this video, clearly I wouldn't go out of my way to say such comment; specially if Humanism is the topic. Speaking of which, humor brings people together, go to Cracked and search Joss Whedon cliche's.

[ActuallyLiam]

@TheDjwildcard Did he not say, "These are old news for me" as in he has read them. You're a little touchy aren't you. I've never read them and I'm an Atheist. If anything he is giving them as much credit as they deserve. You need to stop treating them like the Biblical texts of Atheism. They're not. I prefer Sam Harris' books myself his way of using morality in religious arguments is interesting. But I certainly wouldn't put down the science prospective of Dawkins

[TheDjwildcard]

Please sir, don't insult Hitchens' book "God is not great" and Dawkins' "God Dilution" by calling them old news. Then proceeding to state that the most important thing is where do we go from here without giving an answer. It's pretty arrogant, selfish, egotistical, and poor of character out of someone who has done very little compared to Hitchens and Dawkins. That kind of childish witty remark might work on your cancelled projects, but no one is cancelling Atheism. Thank you.

[manuellopez1956]

Joss for Prez

[richardaberdeen]

@antipyrene I didn't say people were any better, I said they weren't any worse. Ask some survivors of Hiroishma, Nazi concentration camps and people who have seen the skin burned off of their own children in Iraq if they think people are improving. Try again.

[antipyrene]

@richardaberdeen If you really think life was better when society was dominated by religion, move to Iran

[richardaberdeen]

@antipyrene [ continuing ] What came out of the so-called "age of enlightenment' was the rise of European and American imperialism, the global slave trade, the American, French, Russian, Chinese and other major revolutions, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, modern weapons of mass destruction and global mass pollution and now ongoing global corporate enslavement of the masses. There is absolutely ZERO evidence that people today are more moral or even as moral, as the people of ancient Egypt, Babylon and China

[richardaberdeen]

@antipyrene When you are talking about history, you don't begin in the Middle Ages and, when you are talking about people, you don't talk about just people in "the developed world". People in the developed world are responsible in large part, for the mass pollution of our planet, the starvation of billions and the pollution of their drinking water. And what goes around, eventually comes around; there is more poverty in the U.S. and Europe today than any time since WWII. You are full of shit.

[antipyrene]

@richardaberdeen Life in developed world today is vastly better than the middle ages

[T0pcatFilms]

thumbsed up when he talked about the enemy of humanism. Hate. It should be the enemy of Christianity too, i think there was a guy, Jesus i think, talked about loving enemies.... I'm Christian and a lot of the reason i love Joss Whedon is that his message is more Christian than a lot of Christians. People debating faith is pointless, if we're debating on anything lets debate on something that can be substanciated.