Cenk Gives A Speech On Religion

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) gives a speech after accepting the Emperor Has No Clothes Award at the Freedom From Religion Foundation convention in Madison Wisconsin.

Filmed and Edited by Andrew Napier.

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[BrooklynJEW7]

See this is how agnostics and athiest should approach things when they talk about religion. Dont bash it, dont stereotype. Use facts and logic. Thats how we will get our point across. If you sit there and scream fuck religion, fuck god, fuck the bible etc. then youll only seem like a fool. Dont stoop to that level. Cenk does it best.

[ridewave444]

Go Cenk!

[TheSolitaryTraveller]

Slowly explaining and putting your idea out there in a controlled and understandable way is how to change peoples minds.

Well trying to force another idea or way of thinking down someones throat always fails

[Clawed1234]

la illah ila Allah

[Stm11111]

@ivaflimkien

haha thats a joke! A rise in young people? When the numbers of the entire church going population has been cut by 40% in 30 years. Source of survey?

Since 1979, people have attended church less. People are finding out that religion is utter crap and has no actual meaning. The number is expected to be 60% by 2020.

I could give fuck if your church is full. The numbers all around, are dying. What does that say? Religion is dying.

[ivaflimkien]

@Stm11111 Righttttttttttt, continue hoping and dreaming away loser-from the audience in front of Cenk, they're the ones who have the oldies. Funnily enough, surveys show a rise in the religious fervour among the new generation-and most of the people (20s) I know are very religious (and most of them are, like me, in university). My parish church is always full of worshippers.

And I live in Europe-the least religious continent. I suggest you never visit African churches or you'll commit suicide.

[Stm11111]

@ivaflimkien

Oh please. You'll find every angle to attack a person by. "The Young Turks" was a humorous reference to a radical group. Fuck Christianity. Fuck Muslims. Fuck Any religion. What would his logic be for the end of Christianity? To raise the number of atheists?

Religion is dying. The demographic who attends church the most nowadays are people of the ages 50-65. Churches are shutting down. Attendances are dipping to a low.

"Yanks" "Farts"....

[ivaflimkien]

Lol dude you're standing here before these old angry atheist farts (talk about the religious having mostly old people supporting them LOL) when we all know that you, Cenk Ugyur, are a Muslim and you DON'T want the end of religion AT ALL-you only want the end of Christianity.

Look at the name you created, the 'Young Turks'-they were a radical group of Turkish youths, fiercely Muslim and anti Christian. Where the FUCK is your atheism and liberalism? Hypocrite

Ah well, yanks you're fucked anyway

[bartonim]

'Why do you think God hates shrimp.' That was great!

[teknoah]

I agree w/ Cenk. Read the religious texts, and the history of religion. Doing this would not only make you want freedom from religion, but protection from religious domination... Religious texts as the Quran & the Christian Bible promote intolerance and violence towards non-believers and women. I admire Cenk's "tolerance" approach, but I'd like to see him take a more firm approach and reveal the true colors of Islam. Reading the Quran for 3 minutes is enough to see what it's about....

[JRserver]

@RottenRroses It's called the Christ Myth Theory. Cenk probably got this out of "Religulous" and trust me, anyone who studies this stuff will tell you that the Christ Myth Theory 100% bogus. A popular example is that the Persian god Krishna was also born to a virgin, and considering that Krishna's mother had eight children before him.....yeah, enough said.

[treefireguy]

I LOVE seeing the older folks there.