PAUL KELLY - God Told Me To

A music video directed by Natasha Pincus for Paul Kelly's "God Told Me To"

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[yakboy69]

I believe the bible is a factual document. I also believe in santa clause, the easter bunny and the tooth fairy. What a bunch of self deluding tools you are.

Paul kelly, you rock.

[divingdonkey]

WOW.  Just, wow.

Have been lucky enough to see PK play this song live a few times now. I simply can't believe he's been writing such fantastic material for nearly 30 years.

[Adam James Gee]

What you believe is reverent only to you, Believing any thing is the domain of fool's, and that you are.

[SauronsEye]

I watched this.

[dingosinspace]

Awesome song. There seems to be a lot of people claiming that "God told them to" as an excuse for horrific acts.

[MrMickthemonster]

Absolute work of art. Probably one of the best film clips i've seen.

[coffeewisp16]

God's work is different now. We may not change the past, but we can change the future.

[sirsurfalot2012]

1.&2. Greetings. The 911 murderers had an undeniable misconception they believed to be faith in God but their actions were unGodly so they didn't have a real fear of punishment for their crimes. No doubt they, as Stalin, are now aware of their sins and lamenting them in the world beyond.

Religious/atheist murderers like these people all acted like "paranoid...sociopaths" who were unaware of their grevious errors.

There is clear historical evidence Muhammad, the Bab and Bahaullah existed.

[dragontype123]

You imply 1. if you are a theist, you can't murder due to 'holy fear' and 2. you can only murder if you don't believe in God. But this is refuted by the many examples of religion-based murder.

Moreover, I am an atheist, I oppose murder. Stalin, Pol Pot, Zedong, etc. murdered because they were paranoid, psychotic sociopaths, not because of anything to do with religion.

And you reminded me - I don't know why I mentioned the prophets at all when there's nothing to even support their existence.

[sirsurfalot2012]

Makes no difference whether their murders were in the name of atheism or not. They murdered because they had no holy fear of a higher power.

The Prophets didn't do any of the crimes you have mentioned and ascribe to them. Contraception didn't even exist when any of Them were around. I understand however that some folks tend to confuse the actions of a man made institution such as the Catholic Church with the teachings of Jesus and that sort of thing. The Private Pope went against the General JC.

[dragontype123]

The USSR was atheist, but there is no evidence suggesting its murders were in the name of atheism. However, there's ample evidence suggesting that many murders were committed in the name of religion - the Crusades, the Inquisition, 9/11, suicide bombings, even the holy prophets of the major religions partook in murder. Not to mention the many other disgraces of religion like slavery, paedophilia, destruction of indigenous cultures, and denunciation of contraception, abortion & same-sex marriage

[sirsurfalot2012]

A disingenous attempt to dis religion perhaps? Exodus is one of the books of the Pentateuch, not the Gospels, and that translation you have of the Holy Quran appears to be a dodgy one. It says in that first chapter The Cow: "Fight...those that fight against you but do not attack them first." "True believers" whatever their Faith do not commit crimes in the name of the Almighty, especially murder. Extremists behave far worse than agnostics and moderate believers, even worse than many atheists.