Dave Allen on Religion

Comedian Dave Allen remembers his introduction to religion - his first day of school!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Dave
• Allen
• Religion
• School
• Standup
• Nuns
• Dublin
• Ireland

[wildtatz]

its about indoctrination of children!!

starts at early age when the brains are open for that shit like santa easterbunny and all that bull!!

[SkullVodka]

I to this day cannot fathom why grown adults believe in this absolute nonsense. Time to grow up christ tards.

[stretch654]

@MumblingMickey "knob shaped helmets" - LOL !

[LABCall]

@MumblingMickey Fair enough - although I'd quibble at your use of the word "reason", there's nothing reasoned about a combination of superstition and mythology, which is what religion boils down to in the end. But I'll give you the rest of it.

[MumblingMickey]

@stretch654 Its well past copyright protection at this point... I'd say you are free to download it...it was directed, starred and produced by Chaplin, he owned it all...

I seen it twice or three times, but not in the last 10 years or more.

And despite people hating Hitler, they can say what they like about the man. But he certainly turned out the best dressed troops in Europe... Leather boots and knob shaped helmets...he should of been a fashion designer.

[MumblingMickey]

@LABCall THE belief itself is 'reason' a property of the mind but the ability to believe it in the first place without skeptical analysis, to simply say 'you know what, I'll play it safe' THAT is instinctive.

I'd suggest that over the past 20k years humans have reasoned the belief they have into religion, but the facility that allows that is actually dying off.

More than that I could suggest a way to test it too... I'd love to be proven wrong, or right, either one is fine.

[MumblingMickey]

So if you are wondering why there might be an increase all of a sudden in people who don't believe the 'rustle in the bush'. Well there is no impetus to run, no longer a predator to weed out the people who won't run.

There is no penalty for those that point out the bush is moving in the wind . Even if there was a predator it would most likely end up being a jacket or something.

And since we won't be going back to the African savanna any time soon that won't be changing.

[MumblingMickey]

@LABCall Okay, well those that lack the 'instinct' to run away will be eaten more often than their fearful counterparts who run 'all the time'

When you consider that predators usually attack from a blind side and preferably when their prey is eating or drinking... well maybe the flighty sort will end up hungry or thirsty but alive, and the slow coaches would be well fed but also soon lunch themselves.

Religion was created... but the ability to 'believe things' is not, its instinctive.

[Tarynus]

If he's not in the cupboard and he's not under the stairs, then I guess that means God's not Omnipresent

[epicdeed]

Too funny! How stupid religion is...

[LABCall]

@MumblingMickey I see what you're getting at, but I think you're mixing up "belief" with "instinct". Running like hell from a rustling bush in case there's a predator behind it is an instinct, religion is a belief, and the two are not the same thing. Religion was created as a means of explaining away the unknown - and also as an antidote to man's fear of his own mortality.

[leaba]

Funny man, used to watch him on TV years ago!