Religion is...: Joseph Bell at TEDxYouth@TyneBridge

[@nhadyalawes6802]

Thank you Joe, you are very intelligent. " Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein

[@18dot7]

And faith without evidence is idiotic.

[@lukeblahnik8644]

Einstein also wrote, (shortly before his death), "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

[@killerklipz]

Why do you have to be religious to believe in god? Can't you believe in him quietly and on your own

[@akyled7]

Sure you can. You can go on living your whole life acting like a normal nonbeliever, but still have belief in God. But it won't do anything for you. The purpose isn't to be religious, it's to be a follower of God and not wanting to live on, hiding your faith. Jesus died for us publicly, so we should live for him publicly

[@elizabeththomas104]

I think you may believe in him quietly, but being quiet about it has absolutely nothing to do if you,personally, are religious.

[@rebecalucena1702]

When he truly knows God and Jesus Christ, he will change his mind. May God have mercy on these people who think like that, they don't know what they say.

[@amks...9423]

why don't you live without policing moral on thieves, murder etc but not on ideology whether it's moral or not

[@honeypot2483]

great speech :) thanks :)

[@honeypot2483]

very well written i lovvee it

[@lukeblahnik8644]

I think, (at least at the beginning of this recording), his message is to love everyone, and I can appreciate that, but he’s forgetting something. Sometimes certain ideologies need to change. Not long ago the majority of people on the planet believed slavery was a good and necessary institution. If Joe Bell was alive then he would’ve said stop blaming the slave holders for everything you abolitionists. Of course, today I think most everyone would agree it was a good thing people fought to end slavery, and succeeded in doing so. Systems change for various reasons. Today I think the enhanced understanding of equality, the dense global population, and the recent scientific advancements are having a huge influence on cultures, and inspiring a great deal more secularism. A major war or natural disaster could change that, but for now it couldn’t be clearer that secularism is the waive of the future. That being said, most atheists don’t care if people have faith. They believe in equality in both life and in death. It’s most religious people who don’t. They still live by the old school, and discriminatory way of thinking that everyone has to be their religion to be saved. It’s an obsolete and militant way of thinking. There’s a comment to this post from a year ago that appears to be a primary example. People, like Pope Francis, continue to modernize religion to help ensure its survival, which I appreciate. I hope the whole, “you have to be like us, or else” garbage goes soon too. There’s no place in today’s world for such nonsense. And as for his notion that science and religion can be unified, religions accepting evolution and the Big Bang theories, as many are doing now, is a step in that direction, but they’d have to abandon their specific personal gods as well, and I think that would defy being a religion. Different religions have different gods, and they can’t all be correct. Scientists, like Isaac Newton, did not believe in personal gods. More like Einstein, gods to them were the sum of the laws of nature. This is the only god that could ever work universally, and I doubt religious people, whether they follow Yahweh, Shiva, Jesus, Mohammed, etc..would ever go along with that. Religions need personal gods, which physicists and astronomers clearly reject. Furthermore, how can evolution be real in a world made in six days roughly six thousand years ago. A newer version of the Bible is needed Pope Francis. If the Hebrew god isn’t a magician, as the pope has recently stated, and evolution and the Big Bang theories are acceptable, the crazy story of creation has to go. Regardless, religion and science CANNOT be unified. And I don’t know any atheists who think religious people are fascists. That’s absurd. Fascism is a radical right wing economic system that condones the belief in a natural social order, the exact opposite of communism, the most radical of left wing economic ideologies. It has nothing to do with religious beliefs, or lack thereof. He sounds like a hypocrite in the end of this recording, saying don’t hate people, while he himself appears to express hatred towards atheists based on the deluded notion that they hate religion, (which most don’t). He sounds like a confused person who doesn’t know what to believe in, so he unsuccessfully tries to merge everything together as one, while clinging to the notion of an afterlife, which only religion can offer him, as atheism dismisses belief in such an unsubstantiated and nature defying concept. Millions of atheists are proof that people don’t need to do that to make life livable, as he suggests. Perhaps he just couldn’t let go…making unsupported, and from an evidential standpoint, incorrect claims that atheists are responsible for fading religious beliefs couldn’t bring his son back. People should learn to let go…it’s called growing up and facing reality. Where nature created us there’s nothing to blame for the things about life we may consider unfair, because nature didn’t know what it was doing. It’s up to us to fix the things about life we don’t like, and thanks to science we’re doing a pretty good job of it so far.

[@rebecalucena1702]

When you truly know God and Jesus Christ, you will change your mind. May God have mercy on these people who think like that, they don't know what they say.

[@lukeblahnik8644]

If this god character and Jesus character were real, and actually created everything and everyone, everyone would truly know them. The fact that only a minority of people indoctrinated into religions that follow these characters claim to know them is near proof they don’t exist. (As well as the facts that there is no credible evidence for their existence, they defy known laws of nature, and the idea that they’re real is more ridiculous than the the idea that Santa Clause is real.

[@angela-lauradinu1265]

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