The Non Believers Beliefs with PZ Myers

A short film about atheists, agnostics, skeptics, humanists and non-believers in general; about what they believe and why, where do they get their moral systems if not from religion.
Produced and directed by Scott Carnegie and Gem Newman, of The Winnipeg Skeptics

http://winnipegskeptics.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• athiest
• agnostic
• skeptic
• humanist
• non-believer
• science
• morals
• values
• religion
• catholic
• muslim
• lutheran
• pz myers

[spacep0d]

You misspelled 'atheists' and 'believe' in your description.

[winnipegskeptics]

@spacep0d Fixed! Thanks for catching it.

[OCDninja11]

We need videos like these. I'm tired of the "what stops you from running around raping everything"? mantra. Good on you folks for putting this together.

[RobotUnicornNazi]

Amen... LOL JK

... but seriously.

[MsHojat]

There's a lady at 9:35 that talks about having difficulty accepting the lack of an afterlife. I think this is pretty dumb. This is because believing in an afterlife, while perhaps a bit hopeful/naive/whatever (haven't found the best descriptor), isn't really a problem. One could maybe consider the belief in an afterlife to be a religion, but without a god it would still be an atheist religion. Believe in afterlife if that's what makes you comfortable. Personally I don't need it.

[qigong1001]

@victoriamaendel All I'm saying is science is Satan's tool...and by tool, I mean 'penis.'

[qigong1001]

The only morality atheists care about is how much butt sex is too much butt sex. You book readers just dont get it. Sceince = ButtSex. The more sceince you reed, the more butt sex you will have with each other. And believe me, the devil will be giving you the biggest butt sex of all when you all die. Butt sex! 

[lesliesaund]

That either shuts them up, or leads to a conversation about how the bible says slaves should be treated.

"So when the bible says you can only keep your slaves for six years and let them go on the seventh... do you think you should keep the slave till the last min. or do you think you should own them then after six years and one day, let them have a bit of freedom the first month and a bit more the second, ect."

Something to that effect....

[lesliesaund]

When religious people ask me the "without god, what stops you from just going around raping and murdering" question

I usually reply by asking "are you saying that if the bible condoned raping and murdering you would go around raping and murdering?"

[IAMED2]

@OCDninja11 Sometimes I am scared that the people who ask that question would really just do that if they didn't have their religion.

[spacep0d]

It's really great to hear atheists speaking-freely. Religious answers just piss me off and make me think the person isn't really thinking.