An emotive lead up to the Global Atheist Convention 2010

Something that was thrown together as a concept video piece for the Global Atheist Convention 2010 in Melbourne Australia.

http://www.atheistconvention.org.au

http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au

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• lords resistance army
• christianity
• islam
• judaism
• atheism
• atheist
• convention

[jimburp]

that vid confuses religion with politics, displaying countries culturally devastated by colonialism, which advocated ENLIGHTENMENT views of rationalism over native superstitious MUMBO JUMBO, which lead to the disintegration of cultural structure. This leads to severe disparity which in turn leads to FUNDAMENTALISM in whatever form is at hand, including NATIONALISM (Nazis). Atheism is a form of fundamentalism, in its advocacy of intellectual superiority.

[ngrep]

@jimburp politics has always been driven by religion. It still is. Many of the arguments atm are based around religious concepts (abortion, gay marriage etc all from concepts of the soul and religious scripture). The civil war in the US is a great example of folk defining right and wrong on both sides via scripture.

Atheism is simply a lack of theism, a lack of a belief in a god. I find it laughable you seem to equate that with intellectual superiority ... why?

[jimburp]

@ngrep if you want to negate religion, it has to be all religion, including indigenous culture, so that these people can be brought into the 21st century, as the Chinese like to refer to the Tibetan Buddhists. Here is a case of Atheist Colonialism, right on TV.

[ngrep]

@jimburp that's a straw man, I am not out to negate religion only the religious influence that has so much power in our lives. Decisions should be made on using reasoning and logic, not on convictions of a religious group influencing arguments of equality based on scripture, being absolved from income tax and as here in Australia, funded to teach christianity in our public schools leaving the children of disbelievers to sit doing nothing. Atheism is not a dogma it is a disbelief in a claim.

[jimburp]

@ngrep "Decisions should be made on using reasoning and logic", which / whose reasoning and logic? Are you going to tell indigenous Australians their reasoning and logic is inferior? Where are your scenes of Chinese atrocities on Tibetan monks? Your inclusion of certain atrocities committed by certain religions at the exclusion of others is a simple and base form of PROPAGANDA. THIS way is THE RIGHT WAY, THAT WAY IS EVIL! etc...etc...

[ngrep]

@jimburp I couldn't fit in every religion the whole thing was about impressions to hit home over a broad topic, there is around 34,000 religions. There is 38,000 denominations of christianity alone. The largest terrorist group in the world is the christian Lords Resistance Army (you can see children in the video members of it) that has killed more people than Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda combined. Reasoning and logic looks at issues without scripture bias that claims a truth without evidence.

[jimburp]

@hardinmichael1981 culture, politics, economy, is all power based, even the so called AGE OF REASON, which is a dinosaur in current so called POST MODERNIST theory. All argument supporting any theory base is propaganda, and the atheist argument is as power driven as any other, only that it claims to be superior to all others, making it an obvious hypocrisy.

[hardinmichael1981]

@jimburp it's not so much about "politics" as it's about economics. Politics is just another form of economics in disguise. Colonies are not formed because the good people of the west want to enlighten the rest of the world but because they want to use every means at their disposal (and every weapon in their arsenal) to EXPLOIT the rest of the world. Ever notice how POOR people tend to be the most religious?

[factvfiction]

A shift away from medievil superstitution can only lead us forward to a more passionate and reasoned earth. The atheist convention was a superb step in that direction for many Australians. keep chipping down the ugly walls of religion that seperate us and take away our rights as women, as school children and as peace makers.

[tanyahhhh]

I like hot dogs..