Faith is what you use when you don't have evidence. I respect anyone that chooses to believes on faith. But I will choose evidence over faith anytime!

Truly beautiful. Even if I consider myself an athiest.

Stephen is being a manchild here

You misspelled theist*

All religions are human inventions, All gods are human inventions, And every believer Acknowledges this about all the other religions and all the other gods, While insisting, with equal sincerity and Equal lack of evidence, That theirs the one and only true exception, We humans made god in our image, Not the other way around, God and religion is a social construct.

This is laughable.. nothing here just assertion and shallow reasoning

We Atheists depend on observable evidence, While Theists believe without evidence, Religion and creationism is fairy tale, The Bible cannot prove the Bible, neither can the Quran prove the Quran. Claiming That your religious beliefs are true, is quite different from demonstrating That it is true.

browner and dumber every year

A loaded question, and a straw man.

I don't think atheism is posible. Like Pessoa said, we just turned our faith from god to humanity. Western religion lost most part of its foundations, the meaning it ofers has so little meaning right now. Hinduism or budism on the other hand has a more "probable" aproach to the idea of god.

You mention Mao and Stalin without mentioning that these men tried to elevate themselves to "Godhood" by becoming completely untouchable. Think of Autocrats like the North Korean lunatics with their 500 foot statue of Kim Il Sung. Saddam Hussein and his towering posters, and their absolute untouchability. They are the Gods in thei realms.

Does it matter? You're gonna end up dead anyhow.

No matter who we are or what we believe, life has meaning for us. Meaning is intrinsic to consciousness. No god required.

Life and the universe are far from meaningless to an atheist. However, superstitions, cults, lying preachers, and made up stories about things that never happened, and the utterances of hateful bigoted and ruthless religious people playing the long game of subverting the world? Yup. That part is utterly meaningless to an atheist as well as the words coming from the mouths of the superstitious.

can theism escape neuroticism?

Your viedos are soothing and worth watching, great content keep it up.

I am an atheist but I do like a challenge

I were a christian until around 13 years old. And realising that what i've been taught and brought up with contradicted reality the way i viewed reality having made me a much more happier and joyful person after leaving christianity behind. And let's not forget that some people that's being theistic also showing some nihilistic behaviour and also let's not forget that depending on which flavour of religion or denomination it's actually being promoted at being a good thing being nihilistic with just their version of religious flavour that they're ascribing to.

Is there even something like that? Those atheists that i knowing of are not being nihilistic. But if you're comparing nihilistic behaviour and thought processes there's definitly some theistic persons showing nihilistic behaviour.

Philosophically speaking, when a person replaces god with void, it means that the person was already empty before its journey. In other words: nihilism is for the pussies. If you feel void in this journey, better go to a psychiatrist to prescribe you some medication for the rest of your life. You are not welcomed.

Your arguments belie your belief - after listening to this entire video, I can claim that you are a true, dyed-in-the-wool theist. As an atheist, I do not stand at the edge of the void. I march into it. Theism, and more specifically religion, is the philosophy of the lazy, who prefer to stand and admire, waiting for salvation, while atheists march forth. At some point, theists are forced to take hesitant steps forward because to not do so and to deny the progress made by atheism would appear foolish. Any progress that humanity makes is DESPITE theism, not because of it.

I don't think life has a "purpose." Yes, I'm an atheist but that doesn't mean I think life is essentially a waste. It's a beautiful thing. It can be scary but its not pointless.

Believing in "God" doesn't eradicate nihilism. It almost makes it worse, thinking some grand creator being created this place and us creatures and we're supposed to praise and be endlessly grateful for the world of wage and debt slavery we live in. Then delude ourselves believing that this loving creator will save us from what he created as long as we're obedient and loving without question. Makes it much worse.

Of course it can

No.

The atrocities by Russia and China were the result of Communist ideologies. They had communist party and not atheist party. Imperialism, extreme nationalism, fascism, tribalism has given us death & destruction. Add religious ideology to the list, the othering of people, us and them.

:) great video.

the truth about atheism is that it was simply reactionary

This is such a stupid video clearly made by some religious butt-hurt person. Hand-picking facts to suit your cause - sound familiar? Its called manipulation.

We do not need to ask why we are here, why there is something rather than nothing...These are unanswerable questions unless we answer honestly: we do not know and cannot in principle know. We just need to live our lives as best we can. Philosopher John Gray suggests we live," just to see." A better response I think than the 3000 yeas of bad ideas, which constitutes the totality of religious belief.

Are you A.I. I think you could best serve the humans with a channel that explores who really rules the world. The anarchists, the ones with no rulers. Please excuse my use of the word serve.

Religion is just another form of power and control. It's not based on anything real or provides anything useful. All religions are silly.

As someone who is drawn closely to agnosticism, I can say that religion is not the problem. It's the fact most individuals would use radical ideologies, cultist mentalities, and demagogues to push the people towards a narrowed goal and agenda, using a pretext as a tool (including religion if used as a tool). Forget the talk about religious superstitious most people discuss on these issues. In the political context, the moment a religion is toppled, it is replaced by another cult of personality, regardless of the ideology (e.g. Rome toppling its kingdom to have a republic in its founding years, only to be turned as an empire by Augustus [who was turned the first Roman emperor], French revolution toppling the last French king, only to have an empire under Napoleon, Russian revolution killing the last Tsar, only to have a brutal authoritarian dictatorships under Lenin and Stalin, Turkish war of liberation where they removed the decadent Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire, only to replace him with the glorious and venerated image of Ataturk, Germany toppling the monarchy in the aftermath of WWI, only to have a brutal authoritarian dictatorship under the infamous Austrian painter before and during WWII, other monarchical states like Albania, Romania, Iran, Egypt, China, and Korea who replaced their emperors and kings with cultist figures [Hoxha, Ceausescu, Khomeni, Nasser, Mao, and Kim Jong Un]). You see this pattern in every occasion in every attempt they tried to have an enlightened revolution, only to turn into brutal authoritarian dictatorships. And the various dictatorships have different variations depending on the context of the time period. And to topple all of that, most common people confuse the cult of personality for a new form of religious worshipping, making them believe that any form of worship or veneration is considered to be a form of religious bigotry. Imagine the Warhammer 40k, where the man, who drove away the decadent gods and replaced their era with progressive and developed scientific breakthroughs, ended up becoming the worshipped Emperor of Mankind? Same situation can be applied to any country that attempts to re-establish a new form of revolution that would turn up as a dictatorship. Now, there are people like Niccolo Machiavelli and George Orwell, the last being an atheist in his personal life, who addressed these kinds of topics regarding power that uses pretexts, like religious wars, ("Power is not a means but an end. One does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard the revolution. One makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship"...[End Quote] - O'Brien from 1984)", but never publicly decried that religion is the root of evil in mankind's nature, only the demagogues who are pushing forward a narrow-minded agenda contradicted by the wishes of many people.

You’re thesis statement is wrong which makes the premise of this video arguing against a straw man. I’ve never personally heard any atheists argue that religion itself makes you a bad person. Religion simply encourages and justifies some of the worst atrocities the world has ever seen. Would there be slavery without religion? Yes. But religion codified rules for who should be enslaved, how they should be treated and by whom they should be enslaved. Would there be genocide without religion? Yes. But religion encourages the slaughter of non-believers and heretics.

Humams are not inherently evil. We, as a species, evolved ro be interdependent. As someone else pointed , it is social structures and hierarchies that create and motivate "evil " behaviour. We can't look ar wolves im captivity and assume that, socially, wolves are aggressive in the wild. We cant look at neurotic bears in captivity and assume they are also so in the wild. And, historically, the church and religion was always one of the factors for motivated evil behaviors through an assertion of pseudo social structures, or the idea of it. All this is true about religions that sedate people's ability to think critically and instill varying degrees of fundamentalism when and where these same religions are the social norm. Soncalled Abrahamic religions are a good example.

The problem is that a good person will do good and an evil person will do evil, but to get a good person to do evil, it takes religion.

USSR and China!!!! Load of BS from that point forward. It’s a good thesis statement, but got to throw some real brain at it. Russians are hyper religious and superstitious; irregardless of USSR. The orthodox were a pillar of society even during Stalin. China not being religious is utter stupidity.

Indeed, why should religion be treated any differently? All religions are based on superstition. Fortunately, I live in a country in which our constitution is based on secular principles. That is exactly how it should be. I don't want our government implementing legislation based on superstitious beliefs. I have no problem with people sustaining their own religious beliefs. It's a free country so one can believe anything you want. Just keep it out of legislation.

It is not the evil that is all religion that stops me being in one of them, it is that all religion is based on nonsense. Show me the evidence that would stand impirical examination, and I will examen it.

There are two areas with huge suffering and continual atrocities. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Zionist genocide- Both are fuelled by religion. The comments about meaning in life ignore the fact that dozens of stupid superstitions have answers that contradict each other.

Religion is demonstrably ridiculous.

Wait wait wait. If religion is not delusion, what is it? Can you show even a single example where something supernaturakl was actually REAL? Was it right about the origin of life? Was it actually right about the origin of languages? Was it even right about love? FFS, in most cases people prohibiting a pair of adults from loving each other did it because of religious reasons in the name of their fake gods.

Atheist is cultspeech for outsider

Religion needs to be improved and not removed. It needs to be made rational by removing the concept of magic man spying on you.

Religion is the last remnant of a medieval superstitious belief in magic. There`s witchcraft, demons, evil spirits, curses, blessings and talking animals. Have you seen the bible? It`s like an ancient boring Harry Potter book How can humanity progress with it`s head stuck up it`s ancient superstitious ass? If belief in such things is the only way you can find what you call meaning, I feel sorry for you

I have watched some of your videos. And i see yor doubt. Trust me if you look more in to it you will end up on atheist side. Trust me you will be welcome. And even if im wrong we are happy you are looking in to it. Im liveing big fat like and sub one you my man ❤

Atheism is not a worldview, you can't refer to atheists as a group with similiar beliefs. There's no such things as atheistic regime, arguments or beliefs. Pointing out that attrocities can be commited in the name of something else than religion doesn't prove that religions don't cause wars. Nobody claims it's the sole source of bad things. Also comparing the wars to consumerism or social media is just a terrible analogy. Of course science hasn't answered the questions from 3:12, that's not what it does. That's what philosophy is for. You don't need a religion for it.

I have written a novel in which the Vatican reforms the Catholic Church institution by deciding that it can no longer support the fraud of religion but will, in future, support and empower the people who are the Earth's rightful political authority above which exists no other. It's reason for doing this is that, in view of global warming's threat to soon end life on the planet to which criminal wars exempt from emissions reductions are the biggest contributor, the human family needs to start believing in ourselves and in our human capabilities. The book is called A Twist in The Tale of The Devil and it's written by a person and not an an atheist, a religious term which I find insulting to thoughtful people's intelligence.

This video is misguided from the beginning. Atheists absolutely think the the "root of all evil" is human behavior. Religion is a superstition that facilitates awful human behavior. The good that is attributed to religious social structures is the same good that can be accomplished by any large active community of humans with a common purpose. You can say the same about the bad attributed to religious social structures. The difference, of course, is that religious social structures, world wide, are by far the most powerful social structures that exist, apart from some governments (and maybe some corporations). The manifestation of any religion is through the community of its adherents. The beliefs and actions of the believers is the religion. Additionally, atheism is fundamentally just a lack of belief in any god. Some atheists also critique some religions, but that isn't a requirement of all atheists.

God`s that do not exist outside the minds of the gullible ,ignorant and uneducated cannot die.