Ricky Gervais on Atheism ......this is funny

His first mistake was a talking snake....lmao

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• jesus
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[stoicfan]

xD priceless. My parents always come at me and say "because he gave you free will to do what you please because he's loving." So that's just a way of making me question myself and my thinking whether I'm bad or a sinner as they say. So that's how they keep you in the religion, through fear of your being able to think outside of what's been indoctrinated to you at birth. I'm happy I'm an atheist and I feel bad for the kids that have been told the same things. Thumbs up if you agree with me.

[godlessandveryhappy]

@stoicfan So true, its the guilt that they make you feel. Religion should be banned from schools, its just indoctrination and I consider it to be child abuse.

[BlueMoonz55]

Gervais is as close to god in the christian sense as it comes.

[daisyshizzle]

My parents force me to go to a catholic school and the teachers that believe really just sound childish and idiotic to me. I stopped believing a while ago.

[zeealpal]

@gamegloss What do you mean Time Manipulation isn't real...? Have you watched Doctor Who :P

[melhuddleston]

Only sad thing is-Someone is right, and Someone is wrong!! I do believe and will always will! No one will ever change my mind, or my heart! IF I am saying IF you have any doubts wouldn't you rather be wrong in the end that their is no God (which their is) than to be wrong that there is? (Cause you wont like that out come)

[kandykirby]

ffs

[SuperBenzid]

I stopped believing in god as soon as I found out Santa wasn't real. It was obvious after that.

[TheOkami1113]

@stoicfan Theism is all about false dichotomies. Especially Abraham-related religions. You either accept something and get a bun; or you don't accept it, and go to hell. Wow, that's a choice. Religion is all about making the alternative so nefarious, so trifling, so nasty that you HAVE to choice the other. That's how they get you. good point, though.

[coolguy111ish]

this is exactly the same thing he said on big think

[gamegloss]

I was never really pushed one way or another as a child. But then again, my mother drilled the whole Santa thing into me with such conviction as to deserve an Oscar nomination, but I don´t have a single memory of actually believing her, of believing in Santa, magic, time manipulation, and all the other impossibilities implicit in that Story. I guess I assumed it was an elaborate role play of some kind. The moment I had the sensibilities to know reality from fiction, I became an atheist.

[sonicwingnut]

I feel very lucky that as a child my mother decided that I should be able to make up my own mind. Although here in England I think it's becoming increasingly secular, religion's almost exactly what Gervais described it as. It's strange how out of a large group of my peers and friends, the genuinely religious ones are the odd ones out. I argue with them of course although as respectfully as possible, because respect and friendship are a bit more important than religion.