MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUSSSSSSS

Especially since a lot of "being you" goes on at "lower" levels in your brain and body: We are not conscious of most of the input we receive, from our eyes, our ears, skin, glands and so on, and much of the processing of this input also happens without our conscious knowledge. We are pretty complicated items! :)

He is also giving the Pope an Italian accent. The last Italian pope died in 1978. That should give you an idea how old this is. Almost everybody on TV was a chainsmoking alcoholic back then.

He's not a Brit, he's Irish

In fact, the atheist is someone who's blindfolded in a dark room not willing to look for a black cat that he claims isn't there, whereas the pope is like someone who is blindfolded in a dark room claiming there's a black cat simply because he's found it.

It makes no difference, as it's established beforehand that there is no cat.

​@@khymaaren You can't find something that isn't there.

@@bazcuda Hence the punchline...

Do you mean you used to love this "god" guy, until you realized he wasn't there? As an atheist raised Catholic, I can relate.

@@canadaclaret Dave Allen, when he had a show on TV. He wasn’t mean, always clever, good hearted. I was raised Catholic, then went to a Protestant boys school in Alberta. As far as I remember, it never made sense. (The why do they try so hard, to pretend to know). The louder and more dazzling the carnival. The more obvious it’s a carnival. With all its confidence tricksters, narcissists, thief’s, and hidden Jewels.

Some of us would be trying to put the fire out.

I have heard that too many times, and its really ignorant, because why would an atheist pray and which god would that atheist pray to? An atheist is a person who does not believe in a god, so it would make no sense to pray to one. And if the atheist would decide to pray, he has thousands of gods to choose from, with equally nonsensical myths. So which one should he choose? Usually an atheist would try to fix the situation, instead of hoping someone else would magically come and do it for him.

The atheist is the one looking for the parachute.

So you're saying religion is driven by fear. You might be on to something there.

​ @CgGoil There's a difference in how people act when they are in fear of death and when not. The base for the quote is that when a situation is wihtout hope and without anything the person themselves can do but wait, it is an option that makes the time go by and if it doesn't help, it didn't make the situation any worse or harm anyone, and if it does help, then it helped.

He always will be.

pride goes before the fall.

@@chamicels The truth is not pride.

The earliest biblical writings are in Aramaic, not greek, it was translated ( wrongly) into greek

You should _absolutely_ go to the Vatican and insist that they proclaim you to be the new pope. Don't take no for an answer!

@@NastyLittleBagginses I tried once. Long story.

what a foolish....... babble

Sorry if this is too deep for most but it must be said: And yet the photon goes back in time to decide if it is a particle, or a wave should you choose to turn the light on to measure it with your eyes. THE people of faith are those that do not believe in Intelligent Design. To have such faith to believe no "great programmer" was needed to balance all that we see and interact with is a tremendously ludicrous amount of faith. The amount of 1 in a million things that happened so that our sun doesn't just fly apart well before we exist is staggering. Hydrogen and helium wouldn't have captured electrons, and the elements would have never made the initial stars and those stars never would have exploded to make the matter that makes us... without a tremendous unfathomable amount of balance created by the programmer. The *faith required* to proport atheism is possible is truly _staggering._ What makes the sun not fly apart *is the very breath* of that black cat you would assume we cannot possess. The black cat's path is... everywhere... in everything. Cross the black cats path, ignoring its ever presence at one's own peril.

@@rolandwoltman7835 Only the straw man of atheism requires faith, and it only makes sense if you are innumerate and fallacious. A) The reason the sun doesn't fly apart is not the breath of god, but gravity. B) "Atheism" is a lack of belief, and a lack of a belief is certainly possible as it occurs inside someone's head. Atheism isn't a claim, a state of existence, or a cookie recipe. C) Randomness is very, very stable and doesn't require a programmer. D) Asserting a "programmer" explains nothing (because it ostensibly explains everything, everywhere, no matter what it is or how it presents itself--"the programmer did it" adds nothing). E) The universe didn't have a "goal", much less the existence of humanity (or life...or you). I know it's hard to imagine, but the universe doesn't revolve around the goal of YOU existing. (And the likelihood of you winning the billion dollar lotter is MUCH higher than 1 in a million, yet someone still wins. Mathematically, saying GOD made that person win is completely lacking sense. You might as well say a unicorn did it because you don't understand probabilities. F) Randomness always leads to balance, no programmer needed. G) The "observation" of the particle doesn't change its position because a "mind" observes it. It changes its position because in order TO observe it, you have to hit it with a photon (light), which changes its position. No physicist is going to say quantum superposition requires a disembodied mind (or a regular human one imposing magical observational qualities) to explain it. H) There was nothing too deep for me in your post, but I hope anyone else who reads this will be educated.

@@rolandwoltman7835 That's just stupid

@@collynha6952 Like I said, sorry if it too deep for you.