The All-Time Best Arguments Against Religion

Explore the most compelling critiques of religion in this concise video, delving into thought-provoking arguments challenging its beliefs and practices, with Richard Dawkins & Christopher Hitchens.
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[@richardcrouse9074]

I asked my Mother as a child “What about the other gods that different people believe in and the different rules they have?” She said, “They are all the same god”. I asked further why god makes different rules for different people then? She almost slapped me a told me never to question god. This was the beginning of my disbelief.

[@dorkception2012]

I was in a bit better situation, I've caused a ruckus only at my theology teachers hours. She was fed up with my "ridiculous questions", as she told to my parents, and she asked them to not let me participate because I upset the other children! No other kids gave a single eff to that she always dodged and red herringed her way out of the questions, that was the moment for me when I have realised that woman was a liar and a deceiver.

[@StephenAmora]

I can relate except I asked my grandmother who used to take us to church every Sunday.

[@jovialbivouacker99]

@@Indianaparadise Likewise with my mother, who became a JW shortly after her father killed himself and she was lead to believe that she would see him again, soon.🙄 Thank goodness my father never fell for any of their tactics and BS, and passed away an agnostic. He may have even been an atheist, but he never discussed religion. He was just faithful to my mother and respected her beliefs without converting. (This was despite her lifelong attempts!).

[@SlavaPunta]

I asked those exact questions! Unfortunately I was told my doubts was god testing my faith and was convinced that I'd never get to the right answer (god) if I was asking the wrong questions (being skeptical). Which was a really gross way to tell an impressionable young adult to just stop thinking. Ironically, it was an overly aggressive bible study leader basically threatening me that I absolutely can't read the bible on my own. Saying "god's work is far to complex for me to understand without PROPER guidance" that pushed me over the edge. I was immediately curious to what I wasn't supposed to find. And technically, she was right. Reading the "good book" at face value - without skipping over the really gross parts - and knowing what was actually in that thing was horrifying.

[@dorkception2012]

​@@jovialbivouacker99 I can understand that your mom would've been more realaxed if she could achieve that her family would join her in the afterlife however, as you have said, your dad never tried to reason your mom out of her religion. I can understand both of them, they must have loved each other very much!

[@samf7192]

Napoleon Said: Religion to the wise is false, to the common is true, to the leaders it's useful.

[@aximute]

It's a quote from Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

[@daydays12]

Exactly @@aximute

[@svsv123]

Napolean was lunatic who destroyed many kingdoms. Why should one listen to such evil personality?

[@anitafevnando947]

Should correct it as Politician not leaders

[@lad4830]

Didn't Seneca say that?

[@claytonbigsby1]

I'd rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question. *edit: 1K likes...This is a quote from Richard Feynman

[@mugambejonathan4151]

That's being so submissive!

[@karlvelazquez4306]

I understand that. But what makes you think you can’t questions them? We aren’t supposed to just follow blindly

[@gregsanich5183]

Yeah In all my years of investigating into christianity, and all the clergy, ministers, academics I've interviewed & spoken with, have all welcomed my questions, inquiries and skepticism eagerly and with enthusiasm. I have never encountered this trope of discouraging inquiry & questions, and have only ever experienced the exact opposite to be true.

[@karlvelazquez4306]

@@gregsanich5183 that sounds lovely!

[@claytonbigsby1]

@@mugambejonathan4151 satire,... right?

[@mariavassallo1260]

"You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.

[@JuliusTurner-hm6ff]

That's has nothing to do with it. Someone's definition of right could be "you cussed out my mother so that gave me the right to shoot you". This is why cults, and dictators exist because of people being allowed to display what they believe is "right", without being checked. God (I don't believe in religion) is the mediator of singling out the real right and wrong. You leave that to humans then you'll have a constant divided world of war and cruelty.

[@martam4142]

Silly atheists always appealing to the self-evident truth of morality.

[@Mr_CyberCookie]

The problem isn't knowing right from wrong the problem is being able to justify morality. Atheism has no basis for morality at all. Either morality is objective and God exists or morality is all relative and you can't objectively tell right from wrong. Every moral objection will fail and every moral decision is relative in this worldview. I do not accept the premise required for atheism (Moral relativism). In conclusion: you don't need to believe in God to know right from wrong you need God to justify why you know right from wrong. God exists we are sinners and luckily for us God has mercy and he gave his only son so that we may believe in him, not perish but have eternal life.

[@absoluteunit6427]

@@diegomalvado4622 homie you cant just "nu uh" 2000+ years of abrahamic teology , hunderds of philosophers and countless historians

[@Mr_CyberCookie]

@@diegomalvado4622 Science and religion are not mutually exclusive. To find out whether these miracles are possible we should not turn to science however because a miracle by definition is something that is not supposed to happen. Instead we should look at whether there is a God or not for which I've found the following arguments compelling. 1. The moral argument; I have explained it briefly in my previous comment but I urge you to find out more about this one in particular. 2. The Cosmological argument which states: The universe has a beginning and it had to have been started by something or someone that is outside of space, time and matter. So a spaceless, timeless, immaterial, eternal and all powerful being had to have started it. What's being that would fit that description? 3. The teleological argument which states that the order and design of the cosmos points to a intelligent designer. please don't take it from me go find out from debates or videos' about these subjects and find out for yourself. If you got all the way here thank you very much for reading and considering my view point, may God bless you on your journey to the truth 🙏

[@r0bw00d]

"How can so many people be wrong?" Have you looked around? Being wrong is an act that humanity excels at!

[@danielpotapczuk2155]

Didn't you listen to Albert Einstein? He said that there are only two things that have no limit. The universe and human stupidity. The fact that so many people believe in gods shows proof that he was right.

[@r0bw00d]

@@danielpotapczuk2155 You've replied to the wrong person.

[@danielpotapczuk2155]

@@r0bw00d Oh sorry. Guess I need to reply this to the other person instead.

[@blisguy]

@@danielpotapczuk2155 Think of how dumb the average person is. Then realize that half the world is dumber than that.

[@briansmith3791]

Dawkins is wrong on many things, important things. He praised the warmonger John McCain as a "good man", has "no sympathy" for Julian Assange and worse of all, supports Israel even as it mass-murders children.

[@MeetMitch]

"Everybody in this room, I would guess, knows what it's like not to believe in the God of another religion." Just about sums it up.

[@derreckwalls7508]

Not "just about"... that absolutely sums it up completely. I've asked 72 people in the comments what criteria they used to determine that the God of the Bible is real and not any of the other gods, and 68 times the question was ignored entirely. The others gave answers that anyone of any belief could say about their gods, like "I've felt God's presence" or because their sacred text tells them so. They simply can't seem to understand that they have no more evidence for the existence of their god than anyone else does. Then they say something equally ridiculous like "if you had experience God you would know the truth." Even after I say I used to experience God's presence all the time when I believed, and other people experience the presence of their god, they say, "well, they've been deceived!" I don't know whether I should bang _my_ head against the wall or _theirs._ 😂

[@DeathAwaitsYourSoul]

​@@derreckwalls7508 Definitely theirs. Who knows, it might actually knock some sense into them.

[@derreckwalls7508]

@@DeathAwaitsYourSoul Yeah, they've probably already given me a headache, so the least I could do would be to return the favor.

[@gregsanich5183]

@@derreckwalls7508 huh, it always seemed obvious to me that all the worlds diff religions are simply diff cultures attempts to conceptualize the same fundamental concept: a creator. Some may have done a better job than others, but ofc none of them got it perfect. How could they? I doubt humans even have the capacity to properly conceptualize such a thing in its totality if indeed it does exist. So I'm not sure it really matters what particular cultural conceptualization of god a person subscribes to, I can't imagine that if such a thing exists, it would be so provincial as to care how we cgose to conceptualize a concept that's beyond our ability to properly understand. Seems like it would be an unreasonable expectation for him to expect us to personify him correctly when there is no correct personification. .....you know what I mean? You can't really get an answer wrong when there is no right answer. ..... can you?

[@U-Thought]

Once I became conscious about my religion (Christianity) in my early teens, I started asking questions(do you hear a voice answering you when you pray?) to my fellow church brothers and sisters....they would say I should come to church and to fast n pray more often....smiling...forward to present day(now24) l'm too deep to turn back...I'm not PhD Mr.Wise

[@onionhead5780]

My grandpa had a lot to say about religion and god. He believed before we had written law that religion was manufactured by man to keep control of the masses and prevent lawlessness. He used to say he didn’t need to believe in a god to be a good person but some people did need this belief to behave civilized. He also said many people are weak minded and are afraid of death so they need to believe in some afterlife. They can’t accept the fact that when they die or a loved one dies that it’s the end of their existence.

[@chahatshahzaib5380]

Very same I tell people.

[@6ix9inenoalbum43]

this absolutely

[@subumbrela4582]

Yes. The truth was corrupted exactly for the reason exposed by you. But still, you can't believe we came into existence out of the blue.

[@tinyjim123]

First, I'd question the rationale to conclude that religion was manufactured to control the masses. Christianity, for example, was hated by government in the first century. Second, I wonder what he meant by "good". Third, his explanation of the afterlife might be true for some, but I could just as easily say people willfully remain ignorant of God to convince themselves they can live however they'd like.

[@MunsterMc]

@@tinyjim123 1) Until "government" realised it was a great means of controlling the people. 2) And I can wonder what he meant by god, afterlife, afraid etc but it doesn't advance the intellectual debate much. 3) You could just as easily say that some people remain wilfully ignorant of the existance of fairies or elves or the Easter Bunny. You can't remain wilfully ignorant of something that doesn't exist and if you claim it does exist its up to you to prove that it does and me to prove it doesn't.

[@bramwall]

the only difference between religion and mythology is time

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

Most people have heard “Jesus/God loves you”. Does that mean they have a relationship with God and will go to heaven? Depends on the individual. A relationship is 2 sided, you receive love and you give love back. God showed His love by suffering, dying on the cross and rising from the dead for you, now you show Love back by repenting of your sins (lying, stealing, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) and believing in Jesus as your Lord and saviour so that Heaven is in your future not hell.

[@julian7934]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 It's all made up bullsht

[@discokids8273]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363many Christian’s say that you need to believe in god to go to heaven, but why must you threaten me for me to follow?

[@TTV_dark_vase57]

@@JoaquimVieira7that’s just not true 😂, any person with a brain would know that if free will exist then there cannot be a omniscient God… if so explain

[@TTV_dark_vase57]

@@JoaquimVieira7 you’ve completely missed my point, Your god is all knowing, meaning he knew YOU, he knew you before he created adam and eve he knew me and he knew everything was going to happen this way, He knew the war in ukraine was going to happen or the war in isreal or the cruders…. all before ANYTHING existed…. so since our life’s all throught have been calculated, thought over, and already planned throught, how is that free will?

[@Richard-b5r9v]

It's quite simple. God was created by mankind not the other way around

[@charlesbrightman4237]

Just like those who call Nature 'Mother Nature' and those who call Earth 'Mother Earth'. Humans like to personify things to better relate to them, but in the end, it's still humans personify things to better relate to them. Nature is just Nature and Earth is just Earth.

[@CheckmateSurvivor]

Once you realise the real shape of the Earth you will stop being an atheist.

[@zaclovesschool2273]

our understanding of god was created by us, our interpretations of the forces of the universe some call god, are created by us. But we did not create those forces, they created us. We just tend to argue over the why's and how's. Science and spirituality could work very well together if open minded on both ends. But for one reason or another, both try to isolate themselves from the other. The bible does that by directly contradicting learned science, while science can do it by dismissing claims without bothering to invest more into it. We have limited resources afterall, gotta be somewhat choosey so I understand that.

[@wiskyjack_7143]

Possible. But it still leaves the question…who or what created us? By our own established laws of nature and physics…we can’t exist 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

@@zaclovesschool2273 Any evidence for this MASSIVE assersion? The bible does not claim to be infallable.

[@davehoward22]

The pure accident of when and where you were born deciding what religious persuasion you are says it all.

[@petermatthiesen8288]

Yes. I asked that question to hard believers in Brazil: "What if you were born in a muslim country ?" But they still think they would believe in christ and said: there is also christians in muslim countries. I was 5 years in Brazil, got enough religion.

[@micklumsden3956]

It’s a fair point! But there are other explanations. And there are other voices to listen to who are at least as wise and experienced as Prof Dawkins

[@Cannae_]

You forgot the fact that some people have the ability to think for themselves. That's why I believe I'm a Christian because I'm not letting anyone(including scientists) tell me what is true and what is false.

[@davehoward22]

@@Cannae_ Your a christian because you were born in the last hundred years to a christian family and country where that religion is the majority,nothing to do with thinking for yourself. Im guessing your not from somewhere like india,the middle east or china?

[@edeledeledel5490]

@@micklumsden3956 BUT if they are god-botherers of any stripe they are deluded.

[@Hezoyam10]

First rule of every religion. Never question the religion

[@timy9197]

That’s not a real thing

[@cursedcat6467]

Thats how they have survived this long

[@alok.01]

Not quite true, I am not much of a believer of God but I was born Hindu and I actually love my religion because it gives me freedom to not even believe in God and the freedom to question it. I doubt I will get this much freedom in other religions. In short I am just glad I was born in Sanatan Dharma

[@sg5587]

Maybe some Indians have moderated their religion but it wasn't long ago you had the hindu caste system with the Untouchables. A discriminatory social hierarchy chosen at birth. All the misogynistic rules about widows can't re marry and have to dress in white forever. And the weird shaming of women having periods. You seem to be the chilled ones but I'm sure there are a few crazy religious zealots out in rural India.@@alok.01

[@justtep7092]

I was born in Mormonism, biggest lie!! Lucky I got out of it a couple years ago and I'm 38 now. I feel bad for the elderly ones living their lives in lie and suffering

[@sashajasper497]

At 9 years old I went to christian scripture class at school. I remember questioning the teacher on many of his claims, questions he couldn't answer. I was then permanently kicked out to sit among the children of other religions under a tree outside. It was at that age that I came to several realisations about religion and several realisations about myself, namely to always question everything people tell you and to always think for yourself. That was nearly 40 years ago and the experience was invaluable.

[@Gaslo1]

Im sorry you experienced that, that’s not how us as Christians are supposed to treat others, Don’t let a bad experience with Christianity drive you away from it, it’s a relationship with Jesus, if someone claiming to be a Christian treats you like that I question that church. And if you are worried about evidence , there is an insane amount of testimonies of how Jesus saved many people and changed their lives, if you just search the word testimony on the search bar many testimonies about Jesus saving pops up, I also have a testimony of how he saved me, if you have any questions let me know

[@DavidHarvey-po9le]

Their own religion tells us to question everything - Jesus - and then they don't when it threatens them - not their faith - but their money.

[@BreathLife777]

✝️ALL RELIGION IS FAKE. HELL IS REAL!!🚨JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY!!!!!GOD HAS SEEN YOUR CRIMES: ALL LIARS, PERVERTS, THIEVES, WIKED, EVIL, GOD HATERS, WILL GO TO HELL. JESUS PAID THE FINE ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL BEFORE TOU DIE IN YOUR SINS AND ARE GIVEN JUSTICE BY GOD

[@oranges557]

​@@Gaslo1no, jesus didnt save any lifes, you absolute tool. These are not evidence. Its the same as the people who say "i pray that i get this job", then they get said job and contribute it to god. This is incredibly peasant behavior. He didnt leave christianity because he was treated bad at church. He left because there are questions wich have no answers/ ridiculous answers in christianity. Its a flawed religion, like all others.

[@stuartbroadhurst7523]

Yes my experience was very similar. I asked ‘if there’s a God why didn’t I arrive with this knowledge’, then I realised that the Gods are allocated based on zip or post code. I was asked not to be sent to Sunday school, so I went fishing instead. I then taught myself and looked at the history of the planets, evolution and Geology. I pretty much taught myself throughout life being 66 now. I studied printmaking so quickly realised the Bible was man made. We don’t know everything but certainly don’t need a God to explain life.

[@martkell6469]

For me it was very simple. I was around 12 years old, and I couldn't help but think where all these miracles are, these divine interventions. How convenient it happened so long ago but no longer. That being said my parents were wonderful and never forced religion upon me. I think religion would die out if parents didn't brain wash their children to merely believe.

[@kaspervhauschildt]

i grew up in an atheist home, and i am a christian now, so i do not think so... and the bible specificaly said that the time of miricales would come to an end

[@donnyh3497]

​@@kaspervhauschildt how convenient. If that's the case then there's no reason to believe in that nonsense

[@LastBastian]

​@@kaspervhauschildtAnd you didn't reason out or come up with these stories on your own did you. God didn't show up and explain anything to you either. Humans told these stories to you.

[@donnyh3497]

@@owenallen5733 god is imaginary and you will never even know that you were wrong

[@donnyh3497]

@@owenallen5733 I am very patient little owen. I lead a dream life. What am I patiently waiting for little owen? Your imaginary friend? If you're waiting for your god to return then it is you who needs to be patient because that god only exists in your imagination, wee owen

[@ontplates]

Humans cannot fathom the idea that once you die, thats it, game over. Thus religion was created, with all it's stories to comfort those and give them the thought that life will go on once we cease to live on earth.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

Most people have heard “Jesus/God loves you”. Does that mean they have a relationship with God and will go to heaven? Depends on the individual. A relationship is 2 sided, you receive love and you give love back. God showed His love by suffering, dying on the cross and rising from the dead for you, now you show Love back by repenting of your sins (lying, stealing, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) and believing in Jesus as your Lord and saviour so that Heaven is in your future not hell.

[@anasbancha]

do you think that all of the mankind was created just like that randomly with no reason to live just born to die ; i don t think so

[@anasbancha]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 how can god suffer and die if he is that weak he ain t a god ; that is a man how can you worshipp a man that is like me and you ; read about islam it makes sens and answers all the questions

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@anasbancha Jesus died as a sacrifice to pay the penalty a judge judges you on the bad you do not the good DO YOU FOLLOW THE DEAD OR THE IVING? Would you ask a car mechanic advice for a health issue? Likewise, why are you listening to dead people on advice on life? Jesus not only died but rose from the dead claiming victory over death. Muhammad is dead, Buddha is dead, Charles Darwin is dead, but Jesus is alive forevermore Luke 24:6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ”

[@Fullyautomagic]

You don’t know what happens when you die.

[@user-we8gk7pe2s]

Never believe anyone who hears voices , sees visions or has books dictated to them. Job done

[@gratefulkm]

all i can see is someone looking at a screen

[@mbongenidube7282]

or someone who believes all animals on earth were once in one boat...there were also talking donkeys.

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

@@mbongenidube7282all but dinosaurs because creationists don’t believe the world is that old. In their minds someone must have buried them as a joke.

[@jijisuka2708]

Then, believe in SOMEBODY who disbelief in god? A small weirdo who seems so arrogant 😂

[@Akbarkhan20]

And believe the people whose own statements contradicts and make sure never to use your brain.

[@alfredbautista3165]

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" - Richard Dawkins

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@alfredbautista3165]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 have you been in heaven?

[@JasonBassel]

And when I asked undisputed proof that HIV is the main driver behind AIDS, I am labeled as an AIDS denialist. When asked if how fluoridated water can prevent tooth decay then I am a crazy conspiracy theorist. Same BS like the church days, you can't question just accept.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@alfredbautista3165 yes Heaven has many sections God through the Holy Spirit has shown me several things relating to the afterlife with the purpose of convincing people like yourself. Stuff like Heaven and Hell, Angels, and evil Spirits the Lord Jesus (not worthy at all), a miracle happened to me that saved my life (thank you God) & so much more. I am more than happy to give further details.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@alfredbautista3165 Yes and hell

[@Artman1]

I wouldn't call them deluded, just lied to. It's easier to lie to someone than convince them they've been lied to.

[@PinHeadThePopeOfHell]

Well yes they were lied to and therefore are now delusional. The two are not mutually exclusive. Just because it's religious-based does not exclude the fact of the delusion. If you think a magical sky daddy wizard exists with zero evidence you are in fact delusional it doesn't matter how you got that way.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

No, you have been lied to.

[@PinHeadThePopeOfHell]

Yes they have been lied to.... and therefore deluded they are not mutually exclusive

[@grantandrew619]

hearing lies does NOT by itself cause delusion. they choose to believe the delusion that are all gods

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

​@@grantandrew619 No, we believe because we buy the claims that are being presented. That's like what you complain about christians telling you. Also, stop saying the phrase "gods" in a deragatory way, polytheism is just as rational as monothiesm, and that is to say, yes, indeed rational. Stop saying that there is "no evidence" for, well, anything, as what one might interpet as evidence varies from person to person.

[@gbone7581]

A wise man once told me - When it comes to religion and politics all logic goes out the window!

[@sync2597]

Again silly quote

[@lad4830]

Explain?@@sync2597

[@timeames2509]

​@@sync2597What's silly is the Bible.

[@sync2597]

@@timeames2509 what's silly is assuming religion doesn't use logic which is blatantly untrue, there's definitely illogical arguments and illogical occurrences throughout religion but the religion a whole isn't necessarily illogical

[@c-ronos]

​@@sync2597 You are to believe god is perfect. And if so, how could it be that a perfect being made an imperfect illogical book? Human is considered an imperfect being. That explains why all religions are full of errors. It is the doing of humans. Your entire idea of religion is based on the concept of "belief". What tells you god made religion? Nothing but belief. Rational thinking will lead you to believe otherwise. And that explains why the best rational thinkers like nietzsche didn't believe in religion.

[@MrClingclong]

When I was about 8, our headmaster at my primary school in Cornwall in the mid nineteen seventies told us that god made everything, all the fish in the sea, every leaf on the trees and you and me. When I asked him if god made us, then who made god? A reasonable question I thought, but my headmaster shouted at me and said that I must never ask that question! How ludicrous, I thought, and that was the last time I bothered with religion, it's all the same, you have to be an idiot to believe in god.

[@zach4832]

I wouldn’t say “idiot.” God(s) could very well be real, it just might be so far off from our perception of what a god entails. Truth is we don’t know. I’m agnostic myself, I think being extreme in any regard is dangerous as we don’t know whether a god-like being exists or not.

[@jimmywasha6910]

If your story is true it only shows that both you and your headmaster were idiots, that's very unfortunate. I hope you've developed better understanding

[@michaelhollon5332]

The human brain cannot fathom what the actual truth is

[@RictusHolloweye]

Some time around 1980 I asked my minister why God created Hell in the first place. I got a word salad in response, a plethora of platitudes that didn't come close to explaining my query. I was about ten years old at the time, and I realised that these people had no actual answers. They had claims about the nature of reality but could not support it with any evidence or even a logical or reasonable argument. Being only a child at the time I did not have the vocabulary, let alone the experience or knowledge, to express how utterly my elders had failed to convince me to believe in their fantasies.

[@jimmywasha6910]

@@RictusHolloweye any honest seeker of the truth has gone through such an experience, it only means that religious leaders pretend to have all the answers. People need to strive to create their own personal relationships with God and interpret scripture using their own minds. Everything that has gone through human hands has been corrupted with bias and selfishness, but all these things put together cannot dismiss the existence of God.

[@vikaluksena]

"Arguing with a smart person is difficult, arguing with a stupid person is damn near impossible"

[@realilty]

And arguing with an atheist is the dumbest...

[@Angygoku]

​@@realiltyhow

[@realilty]

@@Angygoku You're living in a universe full of life, just one of billions and you can't realize there is a creator! Honestly you guys are denser than a mule... Planets orbit the sun in precise order to sustain life on earth and too many other example's. You guys are dupider than dupid!

[@DeanWinchester-dn2ti]

​​@@realiltyjust the results of probabilities and an extremely large universe. In the milky way alone there are by scientific estimates at least 300 million planets that could potentionally support life. And there are hundreds of billions of galaxies many even larger than the milky way in the observable universe

[@realilty]

@@DeanWinchester-dn2ti Exactly which gives even more credence to a creator. I will tell you your truth to yourself. You are in denial. There is some reason that you are... I however am not and have found him. As I've said to people before, radio waves have always existed, but before it's discovery it was imperceptible. Much the same way you have to tune your consciousness to detect God's signal. Just because you haven't received him has no bearing on his real existence. He is the creator of the universe and our planet is perfectly situated by him to sustain life. You understanding is primitive... I'm on the right side of truth... You aren't, like every arrogant ignorant atheist.

[@willmpet]

“We are risen apes, not fallen angels” Andy Thompson MD

[@Lordidude]

We are apes

[@Captain-Cosmo]

Poetically true and scientifically accurate.

[@oppothumbs1]

Andy Thompson, Modern Demigod? It's from Desmond Morris, in The Naked Ape.

[@Captain-Cosmo]

@@oppothumbs1 Correct. And repeated in both the book and documentary series, The Human Animal. Superb stuff.

[@chili015]

​@Captain-Cosmo - Actually, not scientifically accurate. Science hypothesizes humans are derived from apes, but hasn't yet connected the final link to definitively say it's true. For people who trust in the proofs of science, they cannot, with conscience, say humans rose from apes. It's why scientists still study the topic to this day due to their uncertainties. The fact you believe it to be true is your "faith" in the incomplete science, which has a blissful sense of irony.

[@onsenguy]

it's a curious fact that, the religion a person chooses to believe in, with few exceptions, depends heavily on where in the world they were brought up, which points to theological truth being subjective and strongly influenced by geography.

[@ConDual020]

"Freedom is the first 5 minutes when I was born crying, naked, without name, without sin, without directions, without human hatred" "5 mins after my birth, they decide my name, nationality, religion & sect & I spend rest of my life *foolishly* defending something I didn't *choose* ." 😜

[@brianmi40]

@@ConDual020 toss gender in there as well.

[@davehoward22]

AND WHEN they were born.

[@onsenguy]

@@davehoward22 very true.

[@user-gv9un1xb4b]

Are there aliens? Does Sasquatch exist? If people want to they will tear apart anything they do not like or agree with.

[@BryanSchaeber]

This is precisely why im an atheist

[@dorkception2012]

I thought you are an anti-theist. To be real, I am more of an anti-theist myself. I can not stand pepole who just stand there and lie to your face and scam others for profit because they use a tool that so many people find useful and true! Eff those people!

[@niccovisconti1712]

....and everyone on this planet is an atheist.

[@KHABIB-TIME]

Around a thousand years ago Imam Muhammad Al Ghazali told story of a man walking in the jungle. A roaring lion ran towards him and the man ran as fast as he could to escape from it. He noticed a well in front of him and he jumped inside hoping to escape from the lion. As he was falling inside the well, he grabbed onto the rope and saved himself. The man was so relieved but when he looked down he saw a big snake at the bottom of the well. It had its jaws wide open ready to swallow him up. The man then looked up and saw two mice nibbling at the rope. A black mouse and a white were both chewing into the rope. The scary lion was still prowling outside the well. The man's heart was pounding as he wondered how he could escape from this. Then he noticed a honeycomb in front of him which had delicious honey dripping from it. He stuck his finger into the honey and put it inside his mouth. It was delicious and for a moment he forgot about the lion, the snake and the two mice chewing at the rope. Imam Ghazali explained that the lion is like the angel of death which is always looming above us. The snake was like his grave which all humans will face. The black mouse and white mouse were like the day and night which are always nibbling at our life (the rope). The honey was like this dunya which with its momentary sweetness makes us forget the death and the eternal life.

[@kaspervhauschildt]

because you heard a bunch of non answers?

[@dorkception2012]

@@kaspervhauschildt LOL, the holy warrior of "whatifism" has arrived!

[@goldenera4ever]

It kills me when people who have, say, been diagnosed with cancer, go through months of treatment, go into remission and then say something like, "I give all the glory to God" or "God is good". Really?! Science had nothing to do with it? Wel, I say to those people, when/if the cancer comes back just stay home and pray and see how that works for you.

[@mahum6652]

Because there is a concept in religion, esp islam, of doing everything you can to the best of your ability, with all the tools in your possession, to solve the problem youre being faced with, disease or whatever. And THEN leave it up to god. Its not just sitting idly and waiting for god to magically cure ur disease. You just have to do your part, and leave God to do His

[@goldenera4ever]

@@mahum6652 that's what a religious person would say. "God helps those who helps themselves", right? "God has a plan", right? It's all BS.

[@suhailshaikh8529]

​​@@goldenera4ever religion is the way of entertaining yourself if science is hard to understand 😂

[@johnbrown6189]

@@mahum6652 God did his part, he gave you the cancer he created.

[@nef5305]

The fact that we live in a society where this kind of videos even have to be made is "a disgrace to the human species" - Richard Dawkins I absolutely love this channel and videos like this promoting this incredible people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, are a lighthouse of reason. Thank you...

[@scotthullinger4684]

The thing I hate about those two guys, Dawkins and Hitchens, is that they cannot disprove the belief of any person any more than they can prove and demonstrate their own beliefs. They hold everyone but themselves to a single particular standard of evaluation. After all, when you're an atheist, you don't believe in spiritual manifestations. It's just a one way street with them. They're closed minded in the extreme. The same for all other like minded people. They want ME to prove something to them which they themselves are NOT capable of disproving. Always putting the cart before the horse -

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@Leo-io4bq]

@@scotthullinger4684 Your "spiritual manifestations" are useless. Those things don't exist. But if they do, not a single product of society needs this concept. It's clear you have no idea how scientific work and methods of achieving knowledge works. When you propose a new idea, it's your burden to prove it. You are not supposed to force that on anyone else. Else, why won't I just say, that there is a flying spaghetti monster, which I call my god and force disproving its existence on you.. It gets even worse when you say that a certain god lives beyond time and space and won't ever interact with it, making it impossible to detect it. Then saying "but you can't disprove it" is foolish.

[@heather1985october]

@@scotthullinger4684 The burden of proof is upon you.

[@DeanWinchester-dn2ti]

​@@scotthullinger4684it is simply impossible to proof the non existance of something. If i say Santa Claus is real try to proof that he does not exist. That is the reason religious people have to proof their gods existance and not others having to disprove it.

[@not-mohitff6668]

The greatest manipulator is the person who created religion

[@theRealDavidn]

All for money. If i was less honest id have started a religion and stripped a whole load of my followers of their life savings

[@jkboredom5433]

Wait till you find out who the real manipulator is

[@milenamilena4495]

agree, and many false prophets have sent people away, renouncing their connection with a higher power, renouncing their ability to create from ideas and life energy that's all around. God is a private business, intimate and personal

[@BreathLife777]

✝️ALL RELIGION IS FAKE. HELL IS REAL!!🚨JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY!!!!!GOD HAS SEEN YOUR CRIMES: ALL LIARS, PERVERTS, THIEVES, WIKED, EVIL, GOD HATERS, WILL GO TO HELL. JESUS PAID THE FINE ON THE CROSS. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL BEFORE TOU DIE IN YOUR SINS AND ARE GIVEN JUSTICE BY GOD

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@milenamilena4495 MOST of we atheists believe God to be an esoteric creation of man, and in reality, doesn't actually exist. I've been exposed to and/or participated in approximately 20 different religions, mostly in my youth, but am now a bon a fide member of Reverend Le Roy's "Church of What's Happenin NOW!" BHE

[@ryandubyah2345]

I began questioning the stories and ‘facts’ that religion provided about 30 years ago. Since then, especially since I realized that the smartest people on earth will be the ones to always ask questions, I couldn’t just be the obedient little puppy and follow along. I felt such a need to question so much and to discover as much as I could for myself. I remember my opa (grandfather) telling me during a conversation of the matter “well if you don’t believe in god then what good are you to anyone”. Oddly enough I’ll always recall that statement in fondness. It showed me very clearly how narrow minded heavily religious people are when challenged in the least. I try my best not to engage in the conversation with religious people such as most of my family because there’s really no point to it in the end. Why dissuade them from their beliefs if that’s where they draw their strength from? But they’ll never challenge me on my stance either, because then I will gladly defend my points which they refuse to hear. Personally I believe religion was founded of a fear of mortality and and a basic guideline of moral code. Nothing more.

[@andreaseneci3636]

Religion is just something that whatever happens will always be there. They believe because they need something that keep them going on. But it's all in their mind, I'd rather drawing my strength from love for my family, friends and, if I'll be lucky, for a wife. Something that is real

[@akatsukisama1035]

Im not that old to be able to know about any arguments of the church from 20ish years ago, but religion is a big topic for my parents. As far as I can remember I was raised and born in religion. I was taught in it. I had to study it and I had to live with it. Yes I believed it. My brothers friend asked me one time “How do you know if god was real if you explored the unknown instead of invoking god when you don’t know something?“. And this was one of the first questions that made me refuse to believe in god. I can now say, that I’m an atheist. But when I talked with my father about faith, I asked him why he believed in god and all I got as a reply was that he had somehow failed in teaching me, his son, in faith and religion. This just makes me wonder sometimes how can you be so upset and hurt over a question where I have a different opinion on? My grandmother raised my dad got be very strong in his faith and my mother too was from a strong religious household. And both of them still believe in god and rarely just very rarely we engage in what they might call “bullshit“ or what I call a debate on religion. I tried talking to me mother once and my argumentation resonated with her it seems, but apparently to no avail. Because it seemed like she understood what I said and that made her ponder but that was all to it. I’ve never heard her talk about it again what I said. And when I was talking with my dad once about religion he basically asked what I wanted to argue on, and the way he asked there was something so off about it, it just want levelheaded, it wasn’t like him. This just really showed me how religion can change people. How parents can view their child like a heretic. And this was what I remembered when reading OPs comment

[@ryandubyah2345]

@@andreaseneci3636that’s exactly where I draw my strength from too. That and I’m a big fan of just being out in nature so I tend to just let myself absorb it while I’m out on a hike or something. I’ll die one day, I can’t control that and I don’t fear it. I have no choice but to accept the fact so why fabricate ideas about what happens afterward? I just don’t have that insecurity. What matters to me is that my wife and kids (hopefully grandkids too at the time) are taken care of because they knew I loved them in life.

[@Madman6505]

Some believe spirituality wasn't just founded on fear but selected into our physiology by it. Matthew Alper wrote a book called "The God Part of the Brain" that describes the theory. It would account for the near universality of religion of some form, across all recorded history. And you can account for atheists by looking at the capacity for religious impulse on a bell curve--in addition to the fact that some people value reason over faith, so the logical part of their brain tends to override the religious part.

[@geofreyr]

how about before you just "personally I believe religion was founded on fear", or whatever, you actually learn about the origin of religion? How about that? Then you might learn that you'd be generally, wrong, because there's no evidence of that, it's just some foolish idea.

[@rocketrudolf3854]

“How can so many people be so wrong “ history has shown people have a really good skill set for exactly that.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@diogo8830]

​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363Why do we have to regret things like this? Because it supposedly angers an all-powerful celestial being who has no emotions? Why does a perfect being feel there is no alternative but to send someone who doesn't regret doing a bunch of specific things he doesn't like to eternal torture?

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@diogo8830 Its not simply regretting actions its stopping sin which is highly offensive to God, Sin takes you to hell but repenting and Believing the good news of Jesus Christ to be saved from your sins . Jesus loves you man and wants to save you in this dark world

[@abubaseet]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Did Jesus tell you to like your own comment?

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@abubaseet People underestimate hell, it is bad because it is separation from God. In a vision I was shown a person who claimed to be Christian but started fornication (premarital sex), He died relatively young and went to hell forever (1 Cor 6:9). God’s holiness means He will not coexist with sinners forever therefore Repent (Luke 13:3) and have a relationship with Jesus.

[@Semmster]

The root of so many of humanity's problems; how can so many people be wrong? Really? It's why I have an almost atavistic distaste of groups and crowds.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

No, religion is the cause of NONE of our problems. What is the cause of ALL of them is capitalism.

[@pathfinder1273]

I suggest to you that the root of humanity problems is humanity itself. It is they who have distorted and corrupted religion (and pretty much everything else) in order to gain power and control.

[@magooccna]

It's called "bandwagon fallacy"

[@jerrycallender7604]

Infants are sacrificed for indoctrination before they can hold up their heads and are raised to believe they'll be cast into a pit of fire if the child doesn't believe the lies the child KNOWS are lies.

[@jbowman5544]

It’s called indoctrination

[@albertsnijders7566]

I'ts when I answer the question: "Do you believe in God" with: "Which one"? "Can you be a bit more specific, because there are many" . It usually stops further conversation, which suits me well to be honest.

[@lad4830]

I just say no. My conversations end when I'm told "Everything has it's creator" and I say "Well if that's the case who created god?" I got slapped twice, punched once and screamed at dozen times. Such a peaceful thing this religion innit?

[@albertsnijders7566]

@@lad4830 People (or better said, religious fanatics) are crazy.

[@yes-gs2rd]

@@lad4830 Well to be fair nothing would have created (a) god. Think about the why is there something rather than nothing? question. Why and how does anything exist at all? Whatever it is it has to be something completely incomprehensible to us. I'm not religious but to me a higher being is not something that's impossible because impossible is the reason we exist.

[@lad4830]

I keep it even more simple than that. "We don't have enough evidence supporting nor denying the existence of any higher power therefore there is no reason in giving it any thought"@@yes-gs2rd

[@yes-gs2rd]

@lad4830 Yeah but we don't have evidence for anything at all, it's just a possible option. How are we supposed to figure anything out at all if we just ignore everything that doesn't have evidence.

[@Glennn7]

“Religion Poisons Everything” - Christopher Hitchens

[@doneestoner9945]

I sure do miss Hitchens

[@sonofednawelthorpe8609]

It certainly does. I knew I was gay from being a child. I liked Dave Clark from DC5 and Paul Jones from Manfred Man. The church saying I was evil and that kind of rhetoric I knew they were full of nonsense

[@BobbyFriston]

Hitchens poisoned himself.

[@douglascutler1037]

Hitchens and Dawkins both miss the point: religion is not a cause, it's a symptom. Alex O'Connor seems to grasp this. The underlying cause is biology. So easy and kind of it's own kind of adversarial tribalism to cast all the blame on religion. Look instead to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology: Aggressive, emotionally-charged tribalism and all-knowing-alpha syndrome is in our genes handed down from millions of years of primate evolution in small, competitive groups with hierarchical structures. Even the chimpazees are now observed enacting war-like behaviour on neighbouring groups. And so it has been throughout human history. That being said, a rational critic of religion is still valid and a big part of the path forward. Sometimes when the underlying cause is hard to address you still have to treat the symptoms.

[@aiya5777]

Hitchens was a smoker, no wonder he got cancer and then he blamed God for it, what a loser

[@elizabethgaspodnetich4322]

I was raised christian and I didn't even question it until I was about 22 years old because I got into an argument with some guy in a bar, of all places, and the argument was about life and how it started. If when the earth formed there was no life, then there must have been a god to create life because "life cannot come from nothing." I asked, "Well, then where did god come from?" and I got the same answer I always get, "Well you silly woman, God is eternal, he always has been. He has no beginning and no end." From that moment on I read the bible and really paid attention to what it said, who said what and why. This book was written by men who did not understand how space works, or how life can start out of just some simple chemicals. I am an atheist from that day forward and I never looked back, that was 40 years ago. It feels great to shake all that guilt and fear off of my spirit and just live a good life that I want to live. I am good and moral loving person and I love my life! I don't have much, we drive old cars, we live in a mobile home on some property out in the scrub brush we bought 30 years ago, and when the Jehovah's witnesses come around to tell me about their god, I always let them talk, then I tell them about atheism! They don't like that so much, but I had to listen to them they can by gum listen to me!

[@blackholeentry3489]

That, by the way, is my favorite question to pose the religious....HOW did God somehow manage to create himself out of nothing? In 1950, my folks moved to Laurelwood, OR....primarily a Seventh Day Adventist community. All the schools there were tuition, and with three school age children, my crop picking folks couldn't afford to send us there, so, with five kids, three of we school age children walked a full two miles to a small one room school where one teacher taught about 25 kids in grades one through seven, a wide variety of subjects. About seven weeks prior to the ending of the school year, my parents moved about 25 miles away to be closer to the glove factory where my mother worked, while I elected to stay with an older couple so I could finish the school year. The time I spent with them, they forced me to attend thier SDA church....which I fully credit with starting me down the path of becoming the solid atheist.....which I still remain to this day! On the last day of school, I had my bicycle packed with all of my belongings, rode to school for half a day, and then rode the 25 miles on to where my folks had moved to. I am honest, have worked hard all my life (never retired until I was 70) always treated people the way I want to be treated....and, my Aussie wife....similar story and we both share similar beliefs. If being exposed to SDA wasn't bad enough......I spent quite a bit of time with my ex SIL when I divorced her sister, who is a lifetime Jehovah's Witless, and have attended various conventions over the years with her....Talk about two equally screwed up religions......both JWs and SDAs. It is a well known fact.....The lower the IQ, the more religious one tends to be....a fact I often point out to the religious I so often find myself debating. Also....just FYI.....I've been a lifetime knowledgeable astronomer and geologist (both amatuer, of course!)...although I have taken college classes on both subjects, nothing beats field experience! and...I do have several large telescopes. One final tale......several years ago, in New York City, a sidewalk stand was set up, passersby were asked in they would participate in a short religious 'survey'....those who agreed were first asked which of the three major religons they identified with, then asked questions specific to their religion. From this, a surprising and totally unexpected result emerged....the ones who identified themselves as atheists, consistently answered the questions more accurately then did any of the ones claiming to be religious....which goes a long way in explaining why they are atheists in the first place! And, talk about driving old cars....I drive an 88 Pontiac Fiero V6 5 speed...the only true mid-engine car ever made in America.......NEVER bought a new car in my life! New motorcycles? Well, that's another story....but, I always paid cash....and ZERO interest. BHE

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@blackholeentry3489 In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 OK...Please Do me favor by telling me EXACTLY just HOW do I go about locating this invisible god who has NEVER once left a single shread of evidence of his existance! Also, don't quote the bible...a book penned solely by men....men who were focused on creating a NEW religion, but men nonetheless. Perhaps you can 'introduce' me to a book (any book) penned by the man himself...or, should I say, "The God Himself!? " And. lest ye doth forget.....Religion and Collosal Ignorance do tend to co-exist together, hand in hand, just like peas in a pod! Also, just FYI....I have never sinned even once in my entire 83 year old life...except when I accidently ate that 2nd bucket of Florida Deep Fried Alligator at Key West, FL! This barely clad woman told me, IF you can eat ALL of this alligator, then you can have me for dessert! What's a man to do? BHE

[@vincenthoper2072]

​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 why did you choose the abrahamic god as your personal deity?

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@blackholeentry3489 If you just look with lust once you need a saviour or even one bad thought. Be Humble and turn to Jesus . Jesus wants to forgive you your many transgressions, turning to Jesus will be the best decision you madde in your entire life. Heaven is calling you today to Repent and Believe the Gospel you have nothing to lose but everything to gain

[@vls3771]

A Christian parent who always put science down and always argued its irrelevance .his daughter had a brain tumor removed a life saving procedure one of the surgeons said" stay humble sir science just saved your daughters life"

[@Lordidude]

"That happened" lmao sure

[@Ex-Mohammed_Anwar]

I'm questioning this story but it's true science save lives, myths divides people and make them killing each others..

[@davidwillis44]

Yet science has hit the wall in the creation of the universe, the creation of life, and consciousness.

[@Lordidude]

@davidwillis4497 Yes science does not have answers to some questions. Why would that make god the correct answer by default? And at that especially your god? Also what happens when science finds the answer in the future? Would that mean there is no god?

[@davidwillis44]

@@Lordidude I didn't say it was. You people act as if that's the only other option

[@vicsanchez5100]

Question everyone and everything...don't just believe.

[@gweilospur5877]

Are we supposed to just believe that?

[@brianmi40]

@@gweilospur5877 If you'd understood the statement you wouldn't have needed to ask.

[@gweilospur5877]

@@brianmi40 I’m questioning that.

[@brianmi40]

@@gweilospur5877 Good, now read his FIRST and FOURTH words again. Got it now? But by ALL MEANS, let's waste a couple more hours on your tap dancing while I continue to point out you're doing EXACTLY WHAT HE SUGGESTED.

[@gweilospur5877]

@@brianmi40 Yes I know, he suggested questioning everything so I am questioning everything. Doesn’t take a genius…..

[@EverydayEntertainment202]

Once I truly realized how many gods there were, the origins of Yahweh, the thousands of confusing interpretations of ALL faiths, thousands of denominations, thousands of gods, it made it that much easier to not believe in the genocidal Christian god & realize I was an atheist to all those other Gods, that it made it much more easier to become atheist for that God. Cheers to mental freedom & love. No longer shackled to the prison of religion. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@charlesbrightman4237]

Consider also: Reference the Bible: "IF" God interacted with humans in human discernable ways, then why cannot modern science prove God's existence? Even with modern technologies that even exceed what humans can discern on their own. Is it because God does not actually exist except for as a concept alone? It's all just basically fairy tales?

[@zankodo7542]

How is Jesus genocidal? Non Cristian here

[@ga6589]

@@zankodo7542 The god of the Bible murdered nearly every human on the planet, including innocent children and babies. We call that genocide.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

What if those other gods are real, too. I worship Ahura Mazda, yet I am agnostic about the existance of Thor, for example. Also, no, religion is not a mental prison. It is not dogma. It is not belief without evidence.

[@Obligate.Carnivore]

@@zankodo7542did you not read the book? God became man! jesus is god. God id genocidal=jesus is genocidal…understand now?

[@lindadennis7435]

I really wanted to believe. I wanted to belong. I question everything. As a person with some sensitive abilities I knew what the minister was saying was absolutely wrong. I asked my mother several questions and she had no answers, got so fed up she just yelled "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BELIEVE". I asked my boss, who was a Deacon in his church, a question why would God do this or that. The answer was BECAUSE HE CAN . I know for a fact that not all souls cross over. I get it if a soul is waiting for a spouse or if someone was really bad in life and they continue here either out of fear or like continuing their chaos here. BUT their are hundreds, maybe thousands of childrens souls that never cross over. WHY? I pray for them. They haven't done any thing wrong. If there is an all loving God why doesn't he help them? I could go on for hours.

[@Felicity2121]

So you believe in god then

[@lindadennis7435]

I do not believe in religion. The bible was rewritten many times with each ones interpretation and leaving out much of the written documentation. Fabled stories of the birth of Jesus are ridiculous. He wasn't born in a manger, he wasn't born in Bethlehem, he wasn't born in December and certainly not born in the year 00. The wise men followed the north star.. brightest in the sky. Excuse me Polaris is around the 47th brightest. You think when you get older you will have life figured out. I am more confused than ever. I don't know if God exists. I do know there is balance between good and evil. There are multiple kinds of devil's and they don't look human form. Demons as well. so I assume there must be a balance of good. I simply cannot figure out why 6000 people had to be tortured, starved, and gassed to teach the world a lesson as in the Holocaust. If we are all being reborn to learn lessons to evolve why isn't humanity getting better? I sage and salt my home every month to only let love and light in. It works. I pray every day but I don't know who or what is listening.

[@lindadennis7435]

​@@Felicity2121 should be 6 million typo

[@Felicity2121]

@@lindadennis7435 I knew what you meant hun. Isn’t praying a solemn request to a god? Or don’t you see your communication is not in the biblical sense/definition. Demons only come from the “hell” that religion has implanted into our minds and thoughts.

[@lindadennis7435]

Not in the biblical sense. I pray to all that is good in the universe. If God is omnipresent then ok. Don't be fooled, demons are very real. I have seen them. (Not mine). They exist just like elementals.

[@travisjazzbo3490]

As religious people mightily struggle with mental gymnastics to make their beliefs make sense - the secular person says: 'God didn't create man... Man created Gods' Poof... suddenly it all makes sense... It's the only thing that makes sense... However, the stubborn religious person says - then how are we here? Why? You can't create something out of nothing! Secularist: How was your God created then? It's not easy to get out of fear-based thinking... but logic and reason are always the best path

[@charlescarter2072]

But believers don’t think that their God was created. Believers believe (in general) that God is eternal.

[@travisjazzbo3490]

@@charlescarter2072 Yes. I know... In the same breath where they claim EVERYTHING had to be created, they make the exception for their God. They make a rule, and then immediately plead for an exception

[@charlescarter2072]

@@travisjazzbo3490 but in saying that, general atheist beliefs up until recently were that the universe itself was eternal. It does seem like special pleading though, I will say that. I do like listening to the arguments though, they are interesting and make you think.

[@michaeldoherty7434]

That’s an easy argument to answer and it has nothing to do with a belief in god or not. If God created the universe etc and also created time then God is not bound by time. You need time to create something and since God would exist outside of time then they have no creator……they have no beginning nor end which is something that we cannot comprehend. So irrespective of whether god exists or not, by definition God has no creator. A similar argument would be where did the universe come from if time started at the Big Bang. If there is no time before the Big Bang then the universe did not come from anything as there was no time and therefore it’s a meaningless question. What exists without time……we cannot answer that question.

[@colintravi2025]

So many fools and yet so intelligent. To dismiss the idea that there is no deity is simply idiotic. The simple answer is why are there so many gods is that all bar one are demons purporting to be demons. The one true god revealed himself in the bible and sacrificed his only son to becreconciled to him because of our sinful and wicked state. Science plays a major part in life and faith does not dismiss this. However, issues around carbon dating and big bang are flawed. The fossil record can be answered by the great flood. The bog question is where does morality come from.? Who set the rules? No rules. No accountability and you can live your life committing as much rape, pillage and plunder without eternal consequences. Then we are no better than animals and genocide can be justified. I'll trust in an all powerful deity who decides the rules and will hold all of us to account.

[@le0_fx]

"We dont HAVE bodys, we ARE bodys" is so powerfull, damn (6:00)

[@the_one_empire]

You arent the body but rather the mind/saul in it if you expiriences where difrent you woud not be the same person maiby the same bodi but not the same person with in

[@rickdelatour5355]

@@the_one_empire the brain is a organ in the body, is it not?

[@le0_fx]

@@the_one_empirebut then I may please ask, where do you draw the line? The YOU can't see through thy bodys eyes, it can just whitness what the mind creates from the optical stimulus. The YOU can not feel anything in the fingertips but the sensation the brain creates. the YOU can't walk and move without your muscle memory and one awfully complex feedback loop of action-reaction, all happening in your brain without YOU even noticing. Consciousness is being presented with what the mind works out for YOU. What YOU decide to do is done by the body. body and soul/spirit is so inheritly intervowen, I can't see any reason to make such a clear cut. I and YOU are one with your body, so care for it, respect it, enjoy it. it's magical, but without the magic!

[@abhuju22]

what is conscience then

[@jonathanrao6498]

The difference is subtle and depending on the conversation this can be true or false. Our language has its limits. It is good to to highlight the monism between mind and matter. So if you don't want to get stuck in the hard problem of consciousness you have to reject materialism and posit that everything is mental in nature, that is to say everything is experiential as many philosophers have argued in the past. However there is a claim of identity when you say I am "thing x", this claim is paradoxical in nature. For something to exist in reality as we intend it, it must have a certain set of constrains. Simple constrains, a certain degree of transcendence, leading to a progressive complexification. You see this clearly if you are a musician. A certain set of constrains is necessary for anything to be created, however these constrains are not the thing in itself, which in this case is the unique and original music composed, which can stay within the boundaries or explore, transcends outside of them, to a certain, proximal, extent. If you suffer from social anxiety, you HAVE social anxiety, that is your biological and psychological predispositions are tilted in a certain way, however you ARE not that social anxiety. You can transcend it through knowledge, pushing off the fence to a certain extent. But who are YOU exactly? is it not evident that you arise as the product of many psychological drives who interact through oppositional processing, what thought is YOU, and where do these thoughts come from? Here is why Jung is so brilliant. The ego (which is the center of your conscious experience) is in the Self but is not the Self. The Self is mind at large, if we want to trace this back to that idealist perspective mentioned above. The self is the center and the totality of the system, like the Sun, you take that away and everything falls apart. This is very close to the concept of God, as Campbell puts it, God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere. So yes of course one could say there is no real difference between me and everything else, which is what people come to understand after many years of meditation, and in this I am my body, just as I am oxygen, water, nutrients, energy, and so on, all the way to literally anything that exists (I need existence to exist for me to exist), but there's also that undeniable fact that I am this one unique testimony and explorer of reality. The image of the point centered in the circle really speaks to this concept. You are nothing but a point in the Self, there's this difference in dimensionality that is crucial to understand in my opinion.

[@badbatch78]

The fact is, as a child, I was never convinced of a god. My dad would sit and read the Bible beside our beds, but I found it strange. As he got older his belief faded. He died as a humanist, a stoic and he had a humanist ceremony. Myths are only fun when they don't fundamentally govern societies.

[@8eyes]

What is an humanist? Don't worry I'm not religious.

[@badbatch78]

@@8eyes to accept scientific method as a way to explain the universe and reject the supernatural. This then becomes atheism or agnosticism at its core.

[@8eyes]

@@badbatch78 So I as an atheist is automatically an humanist? Neat.

[@badbatch78]

@@8eyes not unless you subscribe to the idea of the scientific method as the explanation for all that surrounds us. Some atheists still have spiritual belief. Atheism is the rejection of organised religion and deities.

[@8eyes]

I became an atheist because the incomprehensible threat of hell is what ironically forced me to disbelief. The possibility of some invincible evil might enternal eternally damn me for committing any sin or not fully believing drove me insane. I wasn't able to an, worthy, good, or even have more restraint over my uncontrollable anger like I desperately wanted to. So eventually rejected any belief in god because I truly understood that too much fear is an bad and chaotic thing.

[@arjn1]

The man interrupting the speaker on every statement, was just proving his point.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Heaven, Hell, God, Devil, Angels....ALL have one fact in common....Each and every one are soley the creations of man! There is independant evidence supporting a Man named Jesus once walked the face of this earth....that he was the son of some esoteric god? Highly debatable. BHE

[@NERDYGAMETURDY]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 meh...spacewizard

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@NERDYGAMETURDY In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@blackholeentry3489 God through the Holy Spirit has shown me several things relating to the afterlife with the purpose of convincing people like yourself. Stuff like Heaven and Hell, Angels, and evil Spirits the Lord Jesus (not worthy at all), a miracle happened to me that saved my life (thank you God) & so much more. I am more than happy to give further details.

[@XYisnotXX]

He grants himself logic, he grants himself reason, he grants himself truth, he grants himself an entire worldview despite the fact that he has a completely unjustified starting position!

[@druegeme]

and he is quite religious about it

[@barrylyndongurley]

Respectfully, could you explain what you mean by "completely unjustified, starting position?" Thanks.

[@micklumsden3956]

I think the post is commenting on the fact that Richard begins by saying there is not a shred of evidence for the existence of any supernatural being. Many theists would disagree - but if (somehow) you know that all theists are deluded, you can dismiss any evidence they present and continue to claim that “there is not a shred of evidence for the existence of a supernatural being”. I think Richard is a fabulous scientist and communicator - but in this statement I do not think that he is behaving as a good scientist.

[@07087joenj]

his statements still stands...where is the evidence for any supernatural claim? there is none, nada,....zippo...@@micklumsden3956

[@Eagles_Eye]

I was raised religious, but as an aspy things just didn’t click in my head. I asked some hard questions back in church that no one was able to answer other than “ we believe that…” that was enough for me to look at science, to which the church always said “ scientists are wrong and it’s the devil trying to deceive us” yet they are fully willing to use everything in their daily lives that currently are possible thanks to science.

[@dorkception2012]

I have never met such a despiteful, dishonest bunch of people as the people who work for the Church. Thank god I don't have to go to there every Sunday! ;)

[@Eagles_Eye]

@@dorkception2012 not only work but the people going there, not all ofcourse. But I notice allot of people i personally know, go to church every Sunday. Bunch of lying hypocrites that won’t hesitate to lie to insurance companies, lie about who did what, cheat on their wives/husbands while already having kids. Etc. meanwhile they only care about their reputation in the church “ yeah yeah I’m very sorry that I got caught doing something naughty,.. I’m very sorry… really I am” while not actually doing anything to make up for the shit they did. “ god forgave me” sure pall. measles vaccine, “ it’s devils work, you’re not allowed to use medicine to avoid becoming sick” Young kid dies: “ it was god’s will” no its called negligence. Someone gets healed by a surgeon: “ thank god for giving the surgeon his knowledge” nah, his experience and studying gave him the knowledge, give the man some credit for his skills

[@SamuelBlack84]

And, conveniently, they're able to discern the difference between the truth of their own god rather than their so-called deceiver boogeyman

[@Yarsyoutube]

I understand this, even as a religious Muslim everyone should question their own faith and get the answers in a respectful way. If someone didn’t question their faith, they wouldn’t be loyal to the faith

[@MrMarco855]

@EaglesEye I've never met such a dishonest group as atheists. The claim you're making is not unlike most claims I've read in these blogs. They're fake, invented for effect.

[@cfrack697]

Religion was created for control. Religion only works by fear. Fear of the unknown, so we make up idols and create rules to look up to for guidance. The Bible is essentially a guidebook on how to live an honest life, just like other holy texts from other cultures, which is why there are so many.

[@danielpotapczuk2155]

And fear of death. Which brings even more proof. If the life in heaven is so much better than on earth, why do religious people fight against their body dying? Why do they want to live as many yesrs as possible? They could be happy going to heaven. But they are not because deep inside they can feel that they only have that one life to live. That is proof that heaven does not exist.

[@MrMarco855]

@cfrack On the contrary, many atheists are in great fear of their existence ending. Life as you know is gone forever, you're gone forever, you're forgotten about by everyone. What purpose is there to have a life if there's nothing beyond?

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@cfrack697]

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 and you are a crazy individual who puts your ideas on others to oppress, indoctrinate, and create division in societies all in the name of some ideological figure that fits what ever "problem" your currently having. Right now, Christianity is failing because your group of people are following a charlatan, a crook, and an adulterer all because he's telling you what you want to hear. Maybe you should be asking yourself, WWJD?

[@heather1985october]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Did you ever take a moment to wonder if you had been born into a Buddhist family, and raised as a Buddhist, then right now, at this exact moment, you would be praising Buddha? Or, if you had been born into a Muslim family, you would right now, at this exact moment, be singing the praises of Allah and bowing down in the direction of Mecca and quoting from the Koran. If you are honest you will admit that what I say is true. However, I'm sure you will ignore my questions...

[@amigos2841]

Reading through the religious people weak arguments here makes me chuckle

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@amigos2841]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 no I'm alright because I don't believe the earth is 6000 years old, I don't believe we live in a glass dome too, I don't believe in a flat earth I will stick to Buddha

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@amigos2841 Buddha is dead, Jesus is alive forevermore DO YOU FOLLOW THE DEAD OR THE IVING? Would you ask a car mechanic advice for a health issue? Likewise, why are you listening to dead people on advice on life? Jesus not only died but rose from the dead claiming victory over death. So when Jesus speaks to you through His servants you ought to listen.

[@amigos2841]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 he don't though, the only references to his resurrection is from books written in the 2nd century which scholars agree was not written by the names on the gospels, in a court of law there is no evidence to prove that

[@jlshoem]

Carl Sagan once said that he saw no evidence that there is a god, and he saw no evidence that there is not.

[@dorkception2012]

Do you need evidence for everything that does not exist? Are there evidence against Unicorns, Zeus, Santa Claus?

[@fredlss89]

of course how do you prove something invisible doesn't exist? that's where believers hide

[@songarmy4717]

it’s trying to prove how this life which is physical and very much exists came to be: by chance or intention? now ask, how has anything been created in this world? do babies pop out of thin air? what’s created must require a creator. it’s a basic, unquestionable, non-negotiable law of life. how can one argue that existence came from nothing if everything that exists at this very moment was created by someone/something at one point or another?

[@jlshoem]

@@songarmy4717If there is no logical answer to a question, you don't create one.

[@liquidmetal5616]

the non-existent things are endless. If i say i met was a dinosour in my previous life you couldnt prove it otherwise. So the claim makers have to prove their point not the other way around.

[@hansdy]

If someone asks me a question that i don't know the answer to, I'd rather admit and tell them 'I don't know' and then search and find out the answer. Rather than saying 'God made it'

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

[@MARIOMAKER-wk8vy]

​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363my friend, if you are going to believe in a god, that is fine, but going out of your way to harass a ton of people in a KZbin comment section is probably not exactly what god had in mind...

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@MARIOMAKER-wk8vy Receive the love of God or the Hate of the devil. Be Holy or be sinful. Choose light or stay in the darkness. Be selfless or selfish. Life or death. Right or wrong. Win or lose. Sins forgiven or spend eternity paying for your sins. Heaven or Hell. Choose life, choose Jesus today.

[@adampeterson8820]

Interesting how a child with an imaginary friend is cause for suspicion all the while most adults on this planet have one.

[@tommccliesh9280]

indeed

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@tommccliesh9280 In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@BeastCake1349]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363There is absolutely no physical evidence of what you just said. None. Zero. Zilch.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@BeastCake1349 Yhere is Creation (puppies, trees, animals and humans) proves there is a creator Demons come out in the name of Jesus therefore Jesus is God WHO GETS ALL THE ATTENTION? Evil is against good, which religion or God is attacked the most? Whose Name gets taken in Vain? There are 2 million gods yet Jesus is attacked the most, why do you think that is? Rev 1:18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

[@BeastCake1349]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363🤦🏻‍♂️

[@michaelbean2478]

I really detest the way people throw the word "theory" around like it is by religious believers and flat earthers because they imply that it is nothing more than a guess or an unsubstantiated idea that has no inherent merit. A theory is something that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be true. The term "conspiracy theory" is self contradictory.

[@ross-carlson]

THIS. So many think theory = idea I had where that's basically a hypothesis. A theory, in scientific terms, is the closest we get to say "this is true" - as science, being ever changing, will NEVER make that kind of declaration. I truly wish more people understood this.

[@FactStorm]

It is usually the case that all shades and stripes of superstitious people tend to be scientifically illiterate. Horoscopers, religious folk, flat earthers, global warming deniers, homophobes - all of these groups are pseudoscientific gremlins.

[@zaclovesschool2273]

well to be fair conspiracy theories exist as theories that havent been proven yet due to lacking evidence suspected to have been hidden intentionally. Many of those have come true, many are complete bs. just a case by case thing, same with spirituality. Some are applicable and extremely useful, while many are dogmatic and poisonous to a culture.

[@grantandrew619]

no bro you're wrong. not all theories are proven, that is the difference between theory and fact. i.e. conspiracy facts are proven conspiracies. maybe look up theory in the dictionary......

[@alexevans2011]

@@grantandrew619nah dude go to school. Literally take a basic college course that’s even tangentially related to writing a scientific paper and you’ll see what theory means and why they tell you that theory does not mean the same thing as hypothesis and you cannot say my theory is blank when you really mean my hypothesis is blank

[@lelandarcher4760]

To believe is to accept something as true without absolute certainty.

[@lifescott9809]

No, it is to accept something without evidence.

[@lelandarcher4760]

@@lifescott9809 What is the value of evidence if it's not true? A school dictionary could explain.

[@uretaanid4405]

Going by that logic you can't believe in anything. Only thing you can believe is that your thoughts exist. Cogito ergo sum @@lifescott9809

[@micklumsden3956]

We only ever believe things based on our interpretation of evidence. I believe my partner loves me. I believe because there is evidence. The evidence is not proof. I can never be certain - but I believe

[@geofreyr]

same for you too..

[@EverydayEntertainment202]

I hate those people who wrote the Bible and created this mess, all for control and fear. And that goes for all those who create religions.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@EverydayEntertainment202]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 out of all the thousands of man made gods since humans have been here, you expect me to worship YOUR god because a piece of paper that’s been translated thousands of times tells me that they’re the true god? Tell ur god to stop hiding and reveal himself if he isn’t such a coward, if he exists.

[@1tsbag134]

​@@EverydayEntertainment202 You have historical proof of Jesus existing in roman scripts. Even roman emperors were quoted with their opinion on Him.

[@EverydayEntertainment202]

@@1tsbag134 there might’ve been a person named “Jesus” but keep in mind, how can you take into consideration that everything that was WRITTEN about these accounts are all true and none of them aren’t just stories or anything for control? Did you live back then to say with 100% certainty that everything written was authentic and true and real? Humans have been around for 300k+ years. What about the religion s from back then? What about all the stories of the thousands of gods that have been told and written down? Why aren’t we worshipping them? If you are born in the USA, you’re most likely raised Christian/catholic. If you’re born in Mexico, you’re most likely raised catholic. If you’re born in the Middle East, you’re probably Muslim, and so forth. It just so happens that YOU, a human in this era are automatically born into the right religion. What about those of 300,000 years ago to our time? What about those that served Thor, Zeus, Hades, Or El Shaddai?

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@EverydayEntertainment202 There are many wrong answers to 2+2, some say 3 others 5 some even say 3.9 9but only Jesus is true and He says 4 God through the Holy Spirit has shown me several things relating to the afterlife with the purpose of convincing people like yourself. Stuff like Heaven and Hell, Angels, ,evil Spirits, the Lord Jesus (not worthy at all), a miracle happened to me that saved my life (thank you God) & so much more. I am more than happy to give further details.

[@nanireddy633]

The concept of God/Reigion has been,since the time immemorial, a very useful tool to control 'inhuman'' humans,sometimes maniacal masses. I fully endorse Dr Albert Einstein's opinion: "Religion/God is a product and expression of human weaknesses"

[@scotthullinger4684]

Albert Einstein also said this: "I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist ... I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings".

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

Hi there! Jesus says to you today: "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28 May God bless you! 😊

[@briansmith3791]

@@scotthullinger4684 Prof David Bohm, colleague and protege of Einstein said, " Einstein had some notion of a non-personal God which had created the universe, and that Man would somehow understand the Plan on which it was created". ( talk with David Suzuki. 21mins).

[@scotthullinger4684]

@@briansmith3791 - Yeah? Just fine. So how does that observation fit into any sort of argument or discussion? Einstein was a theist. But his concept of the character of God is immaterial. It's nothing more than a personal opinion. Good for Einstein. Let's examine the second half of his thought ... that man would somehow understand the plan on which the universe was created. Some men have a pretty good idea regarding this, the reason for its existence, and hence our own existence. However, other men somehow believe that God is entirely a wrathful, angry, unloving God.

[@briansmith3791]

@@scotthullinger4684 I was replying to a comment on Einstein's view on God, sorry if that annoyed you. And Einstein wasn't a theist, his God was a non-personal God. Yes, some people have a very negative view of God and i understand that. The God (s) of Religion are nonsense; any omnipotent Being who allows the horrors on Earth is a monster. We have observable evidence for one fine-tuned universe. The universal fine-tuning argument rules out ALL Religious Gods. Whatever created the universe cannot interfere, except through consciousness.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

I think the question "Why is there something rather than nothing" is a red herring. Nothing isn't possible. There was always something. Even the concept of always requires the belief that this is a timeline. Eternal existence is fairly obvious to me, and eliminated the need for a creator at all.

[@CactusCowboyDan]

It’s annoying how people seem to misunderstand or haven’t bothered to understand what “nothing” actually means.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@CactusCowboyDan I can't speak for others, but I accept that it is difficult for many.

[@grantandrew619]

what a load of waffle. Nothing is possible. eternal existence is not possible

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@grantandrew619 Show me nothing. C'mon, man Let's have it. Go ahead and tell us how nothing is a thing without it being a thing. And then you can explain how something can come from nothing. Yes, that is what a creator would have to do.

[@ashesagainst7236]

Why is nothing not possible?

[@davidjack9217]

As an atheist I asked my christian relative why she believed in god. She replied that it was a matter of faith without the requirement of proof. Her answer reflected a typical 'ignorant' view of the world, with very selective appreciation of the 'harm' caused by religion. She definitely was not willing to accept that religions were the biggest cause of human deaths throughout history.

[@joeterezaboss6801]

U are mistaken religion was just a tag ,the selfish kings used it to justify their evil deeds , uk it's wrong when Christianity itself tells o be non violent and the crusades were violent ofc it's common sense according to our human psychology and thoughts to let PPL die simply so they fought back and it became a struggle for power and authority nothing else , it's like u are using it for your personal belief when the religion itself tells u to be honest and humble u are doing the opposite then it's evident that u are more of a sinner than an average atheist criminal cuz he without knowing he is committing out of his non sanity or stuff like that , even Hitl#r was an asshole , religion has comapritivly more morals than on avg a atheist can cultivate on his own I'm not saying atheist are mad wild PPL but religion can put some sense of morals and stuff from childhood so mostly u don't need to gain them by experience or something

[@TheLiteCrafter]

​​@@trevors2063I haven't actually dealt with evolution all that much, so I can't speak to the verifiability of it. But it seems to me that you are committing a god of the gaps here, since the premise that evolution is false does not logically conclude to God is real.

[@heinrich6294]

​@@trevors2063why do you need intelligence to create order? Just because a system seems to be complex it doesn't mean that it need to be created by someone complex. That's a logical fallacy

[@davidjack9217]

@@trevors2063 - No!! It is not chance, it is evolution, unfortunately your viewpoint will always be the one behind the blindfold !!!!!

[@TheLiteCrafter]

@@trevors2063 Sure but you cannot possibly know that intelligence is required as you have not witnessed it being used for that purpose so your statement would be an assumption at best. And to compare belief in evolution, which as has been pointed out does have some evidence to go for it, to one in religion, which in turn does not, seems highly illogical to me.

[@STEVE-gp2cm]

Once, I questioned why I believe in God, and that was the first time I had doubts. I started learning, asking myself questions about how we were made, how it all began, and watched many creationist vs. evolutionist debates. Everything seemed to imply that God exists or that some kind of creator does. Now, I'm on a journey to find out which one. For now, the Bible seems like the best option. For those of you who say, "The first rule of religion is not to question it," I must say, don’t fall into disbelief just because a priest didn’t want to answer your questions. There are many fake religious people. If you have questions, use books like the Bible-don’t blindly believe in the church because it can be corrupted.

[@mrhlcp]

If you follow even remotely sound and logical thinking, you would NEVER believe in a god. “Everything seemed to imply that god exists” no no NO. That’s what we called confirmation bias and arguments from ignorance. I cannot grasp how people, who are not biologists at all, think you say say “nope, that evolution doesn’t make sense in my head” either because it goes against what you already believe, or because you just couldn’t get it to make sense in those 4 seconds you tried. Stupidity at its best

[@SchoolAccount-g8n]

When you get to the bottom of every single theory for creation, it all comes down to one single thing creating all of this around us. A lot of atheists say(I've seen multiple other theories, but they all amount to something randomly start producing life and matter) that the Big Bang created everything, which has been proven false. The thing they can't admit is that deep down, they know, their argument for what created everything is worse than ours.

[@damienschwass9354]

@@SchoolAccount-g8nthe big bang happened, cope harder

[@mrhlcp]

@@SchoolAccount-g8n 1. You don’t have the slightest idea about science and its methods 2. The Big Bang theory is an observed fact and even better a scientific theory (which is the highest point in science) 3. A scientific theory means that it explains EVERY observation and calculations and can predict the future correctly independently. 4. It is not a “big bang vs god”. There is no competition for the Big Bang theory, or else it would not be a scientific theory. 5. The creationist “theory” is not even a hypothesis! 6. You, and every other religious fools, can ONLY make arguments from logical fallacies. They all come from “I can’t imagine how this can be, therefore for.” 7. Magic is the equivalent of explaining with god. Substitute the word magic for god, and it’ll be just as sound

[@mrhlcp]

@@damienschwass9354 Yep, there are ZERO arguments against the Big Bang, you can go watch it in a telescope

[@plaguedoct0r]

I actually fairly strongly agree with the title of this video. Great job!

[@azizurrahmansalarzai4532]

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[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

[@StephenGangi]

I don't care what someone else believes... 1) As long as they don't tell me I have to believe it.Don't tell me a "bunch of stuff" and demand I have to "have faith", 2) as long as they don't tell me what I can or can't do, based what THEY believe. If you push, you get pushed back. So don't cry that we are "persecuting" you. Just leave us alone. We don't need to be saved, least of all, by you. If you can't do something because of your religion, that's your business. If I can't do something because of your religion, well that just won't work for me.

[@MrMarco855]

@user-ut7hh Can you tell atheists they shouldn't call for an end to all religion. That's far worse than being bothered by someone that's trying to save you for eternity.

[@Jess-kn1wk]

​​The temple of Satan if fighting for freedom of religion and theyre nontheists. Not a member. Just a peice of info

[@Jess-kn1wk]

​@@MrMarco855 There's a nontheistic group fighting for freedom of religion. They're called the Temple of Satan (they dont believe in him.) Not a member either. Just some info.

[@Bi0Dr01d]

​@@MrMarco855 Very good point. To add to what you're saying, why is secular society allowed to superimpose transgenderism, workism, cursing in movies, sex scenes, and the values of secular society is literally crammed down the Christian's throat, but the Christian is the one who's not allowed to share his faith? The audacity of the above statement is incredible.

[@BryanSchaeber]

This is precisely why im an anti-theist

[@ross-carlson]

I don't go quite that far - as you're now making a claim that you have to provide evidence for. So if you claim there is no "god" how do you prove that? How can you prove or disprove something that can't be falsified? I'm genuinely asking. I simply say there is no evidence for any "god(s)" so I don't believe the claim - but I also think there is no way to prove there is NO "god(s)" so you're in the same illogical boat as the theists.

[@jamesferguson4408]

@@ross-carlsonI think the lack of anything but warmed-over arguments to support the claim over thousands of years is proof that there is nothing to the claim that a god exists.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

Anti-Thiesm is an imperialist lie that is meant to justify the west genociding and plundering the global south.

[@Laneline5000]

Hell yeah man!

[@Mortgageman145]

Anti-theist is a strong term, I do believe that it is just preferable to lose religion all together, however, there is a lot of good in religion, such as community and forgiveness. In fact, I think that community aspect of religion would be a measurable loss for the world. That being said, the bad does indeed outweigh the good

[@aabbccaabbcc9457]

"How can so many ppl be wrong?" Well, let me put it this way, "Sometimes majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side".

[@realilty]

Says well by a fool lol

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@realilty In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY

[@realilty]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Better than believing is to know him... Someone could say I believe then go about sinning and think they're saved... Doesn't add up my man. As for me I believe in Jesus Krishna Rama Mohamad Buddha etc. It's the one God who incarnates as different prophets to speak to different people and cultures...

[@_Damion]

We don't have bodies, we are bodies! 🙏

[@Lolly4twDasOrginal]

Is there literature you would recommend?

[@hr6kl3jy0l]

The fact that religions all embrace the concept of blasphemy is the evidence of weakness of their argumentation.

[@jackm5339]

Would you swear at your mum? Its the same idea

[@hr6kl3jy0l]

@@jackm5339 The notion of blasphemy proves that these religions have more to do with politics than with spirituality.

[@jackm5339]

@@hr6kl3jy0lwhat are u talking about bro. Blasphemy is showing contempt to or insulting God. How does that idea show weakness?

[@hr6kl3jy0l]

@@jackm5339 In many countries, expressing an atheist opinion is sufficient to justify blasphemy.

[@jounisuninen]

@@hr6kl3jy0l "The fact that religions all embrace the concept of blasphemy ..." I haven't seen that concept in Buddhism. I don't think that it would exist generally in Asian religions.

[@dimitru6024]

God didn't make us. We made god.

[@sheilastutz6436]

First there's a circle of influence, then it spreads to a community, where all needs to agree on a belief system.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

Most people have heard “Jesus/God loves you”. Does that mean they have a relationship with God and will go to heaven? Depends on the individual. A relationship is 2 sided, you receive love and you give love back. God showed His love by suffering, dying on the cross and rising from the dead for you, now you show Love back by repenting of your sins (lying, stealing, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) and believing in Jesus as your Lord and saviour so that Heaven is in your future not hell.

[@lordprotector3367]

Since the 1980s (when I was young) I always posited the religious idea of an omnipotent protector providing comfort, rules and support is an extension of the comfort of being a child, who can ultimately rely on the security of a parent. I've never seen anyone else put forward this idea, apart from Hitchens, which I've just seen. It's a shame he didn't elaborate on it.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@suprhealth5173]

Any religion which do not gives the freedom to find your own path of seeking is a scam. Infact you dont need any religion to seek the truths.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

God is the epitome of Holiness because He is sinlessly perfect, A sinner (liar, sexually immoral, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, thief etc) cannot be in the presence of God or else he will be utterly consumed therefore repent of your sins and put your faith in Jesus as your Lord and Saviour to go to Heaven.

[@der_kleine_mann8529]

Wrong

[@alter7521]

​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 1 Timothy 2:12

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@der_kleine_mann8529 Receive the love of God or the Hate of the devil. Be Holy or be sinful. Choose light or stay in the darkness. Be selfless or selfish. Life or death. Right or wrong. Win or lose. Sins forgiven or spend eternity paying for your sins. Heaven or Hell. Choose life, choose Jesus today.

[@anantsharma5596]

Religion vs logic ✖️ Religion and logic ✔️

[@larryparis925]

Hitchen's and Dawkins' were and are among the best advocates for our species' intellectual development.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

[@MrMarco855]

@larryparis925 They're influencing many that will follow them into a place that nobody wants to go to. That's not intellectual development, it's very foolish behavior.

[@larryparis925]

@@MrMarco855 I think I'll rank their accomplishments above your make-believe world.

[@MrMarco855]

@@larryparis925 More foolish behavior. They are/were selling something, I'm not.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@MrMarco855 Most people have heard “Jesus/God loves you”. Does that mean they have a relationship with God and will go to heaven? Depends on the individual. A relationship is 2 sided, you receive love and you give love back. God showed His love by suffering, dying on the cross and rising from the dead for you, now you show Love back by repenting of your sins (lying, stealing, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) and believing in Jesus as your Lord and saviour so that Heaven is in your future not hell.

[@WhereOceansMeeet]

I was brought up to form my own perspective on religion. Despite extensive reading and experiencing diverse cultures in numerous countries, I haven't discovered any evidence supporting the existence of a God beyond written accounts and others' testimonies. Nevertheless, I believe individuals are entitled to their religious beliefs as long as they keep them personal and refrain from using their convictions to manipulate or oppress others.

[@donnyh3497]

Same here. My father wouldn't let any tell me that any particular religion was true and when I asked him if a god existed, he would say "that's for you to figure out for yourself". When left unindoctrinated, most people will figure out that there's no reason to believe in gods.

[@dukeallen432]

I say you call out people’s BS and religion does interfere with my liberties

[@ramaraksha01]

And yet the top 2 religions of today are those that have a rich history of mass murder, shedding blood of innocents who did not believe as they did. If the Buddha was born in Christian or Muslim lands, he would have been branded a heretic, an infidel & been tortured and lynched! His writings burnt, his followers killed! There would be no Buddhism today! Fortunately for the Buddha & others like him were born in Hindu India - a faith that teaches respect for all views But alas, our skin is dark and so we get no credit- just heaps of abuse from a Christian/Islamic media Even today, these two religions go around the world spewing hate - threatening brutal hell to unbelievers! OPENLY! And amazingly no one speaks up Our morals are biased morals

[@azizurrahmansalarzai4532]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6mqm2uwmdmpia8si=jbdW8D_o8JgE96Lm

[@Yarsyoutube]

I can give you certain miracles from the Quran that support the existence of God. Additionally, the Quran hasn’t been altered for thousands of years

[@kendallewis8391]

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing. Blaise Pascal

[@m-h1269]

Take a moment to think about how dumb that argument is in relation to belief.

[@TheLiteCrafter]

Ah yes, Pascal's wager- a great argument for theism. That is of course if we assume that there is only one true god (ie. your god) and that this god is not able to tell apart a true believer from a false one (ie. a stupid god). Yes what an astonishingly good argument that is.

[@jounisuninen]

Believing in God is not equal to knowing God. Bible however states that if you believe in God (Lord Jesus) and acknowledge Him as your saviour you'll be saved. One must remember that not all have similar level of faith.

[@Necklessped]

So lame though

[@myinfo9406]

Lame, lazy, manipulative

[@AlcibiadesMD]

“Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity has come of age, it should be left behind.” -Sigmund Freud

[@realilty]

Pick on religion. But God still exists

[@trentwise3762]

@@realilty not based on your actions he doesn't. if he did you would do a lot better at actually practicing what you preach.

[@realilty]

@@trentwise3762 Considering you don't believe in God your point doesn't even matter... You can't argue in support of something you don't believe in anyways.

[@trentwise3762]

@@realilty super smart logic bud. "YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT BELIEF SO YOU POINTING OUT HOW I DON"T FOLLOW MY RELIGION DOESN'T COUNT!" hahah i guess that's about as logical as one can expect someone of your belief to be hahaha

[@trentwise3762]

@@realilty " You can't argue in support of something you don't believe in anyways." i guess debate teams aren't a thing to you apparently hahaha dude you need to finish 6th grade. your attempts at deflecting your hypocritical lifestyle are just getting more sad

[@user-sz5ve6yl9q]

"How can so many people be wrong?" A question of profound importance!

[@davidrexford586]

The reality is People don’t like the idea of someone creating them and would rather be their own God. As a further note, you cannot understand God with your own intellect because Gods intellect is higher than man’s very limited intellect and you must be saved and born again of the Holy Spirit . Once that transpires, the Spirit of God will converse with your own spirit in Supernatural ways as well as showing you the miraculous things in your midst.

[@churly9717]

What did god say to your spirit? ​@@davidrexford586

[@grantandrew619]

a profoundly stupid question

[@Mortgageman145]

@@davidrexford586 When I began doubting my faith, it was this very argument (fear was also a factor), that kept my belief in God to exist further. However this argument proofs redundant. How can you with an open and functioning mind, admitting to humanities limited intellect, say that while you cannot understand God, you can still somehow understand that he is all loving, all knowing and all powerful, moreover, how can you claim that you understand that the Bible is the one true inspired word of God. With your reasoning, you cannot know anything about God but of course you will claim you do which is an appealing double standard. How do you know that the Qur’an or the Torah isn’t the one true inspired word of God? All those religions can use the same argument, thus the argument doesn’t really get us anywhere

[@Mortgageman145]

@@grantandrew619 That was Piers Morgan who asked that no? I don’t think he believes in God, I think he was more asking the question for the audience

[@SoCoolScience]

God creates Satan knowing hes going to rebel, God creates humans knowing said rebel will turn his creation, God punishes said creation for the crimes of said rebel, So why the f*ck create said rebel in the first place!?!?!

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@Jess-kn1wk]

EXACTLY why does God even bother in creating us? Unless he takes satifaction in watching us suffer.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@Jess-kn1wk God created you in order to have a relationship with you a relationship is 2 sided . God loves you and you love Him back. Ezekiel 33:11-Say unto them: 'As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.

[@InCaseYouDidntKnowIHaveYouTube]

​@@Jess-kn1wkImagine having a child that's predicted to have down syndrome, will you give it a chance to live and love it or will you just get an abortion?

[@1tsbag134]

Yet he literally gives all humans a second chance to ascend into the heaven.

[@gregDino32]

I believe and follow the muffin man .

[@Captain-Cosmo]

And God commanded them "Thou shalt have no other muffin men before me."

[@CarDaddy24]

Thanks for the laugh!

[@ricgordon-Atix-]

best comment on the best comment section I've ever seen in 1000 years if civilisation collapses and all information is lost you might be God

[@nicolasm.8947]

@@ricgordon-Atix-its just stuipid, what do you guys know if he exists or not 🤣

[@mikebellamy]

MIRACLES OF ATHEISM: Like what about these; 1- energy from nothing violates the 1st law 2- Matter from energy also violates the 1st law 3- Stars from clouds of H2 violates the 2nd law 4- Galaxies from stars also violating the 2nd law 5- Clusters of galaxies also violating the 2nd law 6- Solar systems of planets orbiting stars violating the law of conservation of angular momentum 7- CMBR from a random process accurate to 1 / 100,000 o a degree over 93e9 lt yrs 8- Abiogenesis of life violates 2nd law 9- Evolution of life also violates the 2nd law 10- Human consciousness from random chemistry etc.. etc.. etc..

[@yodaas7902]

Which 1st and 2nd laws are you talking about and how exactly do these things violate them? You just stated a bunch of things without any evidence to back them up with.

[@mikebellamy]

@@yodaas7902 Well start with the basics: dU = dQ + dW (Energy change in a system) Only WORK can create ORDER But WORK (product of vectors) = DIRECTED ENERGY implying a CHOICE is required implying a MIND! 100% observation for human creations Stars, Galaxies, life all ORDERED? Logical conclusion the Biblical creator GOD!

[@yodaas7902]

@@mikebellamy Literally how do you come to the conclusion that intelligent life is required for physical laws to apply?

[@mikebellamy]

@@yodaas7902 I don't..

[@tyamada21]

A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@tyamada21]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 You need to stop using the good name of Jesus in order to threaten and bully people, or you might end up in the junk bin that you speak of.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@tyamada21 I’m not threatening anyone, it is not in my power to cast anyone into hell. Hell is separation from God for your sins all you must do to go to Heaven is to repent and believe the good news of Jesus Christ.

[@jmdsservantofgod8405]

It’s not religion vs logic It’s faith vs logic

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@takemasagoshakiha8642]

All religions teaches the same concept. Be good, do good, no perverted sexuality, etc… basically a moral compass that guides individuals through the labyrinth of existence. It teaches us to do things that create positive vibe. A good karmic signal to send out to the world, universe or god in order to receive its equivalent laws of attraction in return. In other words, you reap what you sow. It’s us who interpret god & religion differently from our own perspectives. Like 6 blind men feeling a gigantic elephant for the first time. The man near the head would say, “I feel an elephant is a fearsome beast armed with 2 sharp horns so big one can only imagine where it ends. It has a thick long trunk that can squeeze and suffocate you at an instant. Yet, it is so gentle that it doesn’t harm a blind man.” The man at the back would say, “I feel nothing fearsome about this creature It’s a thick round and dull creature with massive face, no eyes, a tiny stinky mouth with no tongue (butt hole) and has a skinny long nose (tail) with hairy tip flicking around.” The men at the legs felt only a thick pole of flesh and nothing more while the one under the belly say an elephant is a floating creature. Though with different perspectives about the elephant, they all agree that the elephant is a gentle creature. Different religion and atheist who only believe in the law of the universe are merely different vein in the body leading to one heart. The heart is the law of karma which is regarded as a fundamental cosmic law governing the universe (the relationship between a being’s mental or physical action and the consequences following that action). One may call that the all mighty god, others may call it the ever mysterious universe. Some may believe that god is everything and everywhere, while others say god is nowhere. Every single one of them are neither wrong nor right. Each individual’s own perspective is their own reality. A really governed by the 12 Karmic laws and the 3 laws of attraction of the Universe…. We call that God!

[@abrown372]

🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ I have a 2yr Old and I mentally struggle with the idea of my daughter growing up to be a mindless slave. Because the masses make it that you get ridiculed, persecuted, and dismissed just for asking questions even ITS A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@aemiliadelroba4022]

I don’t think we can put logic into religion equation. Religion based on faith which means accepting things without proof or logic or evidence.

[@Paine137]

So…. delusion.

[@pathfinder1273]

No, that is not faith, that is superstition. "Atheists" always insist on differentiating between their stance and that of agnostics, yet they are clueless to the subtleties of faith. More hypocrisy.

[@jounisuninen]

"Religion based on faith which means accepting things without proof or logic or evidence." - Like the religion called Evolution ... Right.

[@mongerhxh]

@@Paine137 yes but it’s also delusion trying to prove it with logic, or was that what you meant?

[@Paine137]

@@mongerhxh Disregard my last comment, please. Yes, that’s what I meant. The religious conveniently remove their version of sky dictator from the constraints of logic, even though their sky dictator is born of illogic. They always move the boundary of their expanding ignorance to save their imaginary saviors.

[@trollemctrollersen]

"An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support." Fulton J Sheen

[@brianmi40]

Today, we would call that a Deepity.

[@dennyworthington6641]

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Voltaire

[@scotthullinger4684]

Man will never be free until he is allowed to worship God as he sees fit. Damn Voltaire - We have NO need to constantly be strangled by the insanity of atheists. Theists leave atheists alone. But atheists are hell-bent on always being in the face of believers. That's the TRUTH - Just examine KZbin. And by the way ... 99% of believers sure as hell don't follow nor admire the model of the televangelists.

[@dennyworthington6641]

@@scotthullinger4684 Over the millenia H. sapiens have conjured thousands of gods. Which of these gods do you worship or have you conjured your own personal god? Since all religions can't be right, how do you know your god/religion is the one true god? With some exceptions, the vast majority of believers tend to follow and embrace the religion of their parents or community in which they were raised. That should tell you all you need to know about religion in general.

[@scotthullinger4684]

@@dennyworthington6641 - Most people, even religions people, don't necessarily seek truth. This hardly means that truth does not exist, because it does. We only need to learn how to detect truth, plus rejecting error and falsehood. This comes, in part, from directly asking God. Many people are fooled by men, but nobody is fooled by God. The men who fool you are the men who pervert the revealed word, and who reject every known fact even in cases where there are many written records of witnesses, and written records of the prophets themselves. Most people have a poor bullshit detector. Believe it or not ... not every believer follows the average televangelist. Those are the lunatics, both on the stage and in the audience. False prophets have existed since day one -

[@MetaphysicalZero]

@@dennyworthington6641 I conjure Judas the one who betrayed Jesus and has the code to apply in the scriptures and decipher them based on the number 666. What do I you say about it?

[@dennyworthington6641]

@@scotthullinger4684 Which god(s) are you referring to in your comment? Over the millennia, H. sapiens have conjured thousands of gods. Please be specific. Do you embrace one god, but reject the thousands of others?

[@devaspeaks]

"When Dinkan created the world he also made sure people might question his existence. But, just because people question them, his existence doesn't become a lie." Verse 16,Page 42 -BalaMangalam

[@AMD45663]

It's not the eyes that are blind, It is their hearts.

[@hilurmohammed2023]

They have strong faith in atheism tho 😂

[@bobs182]

Your are right. Religious belief is instinctual rather than intellectual.

[@abdiadan4837]

Very uneducated at all and if educated at all educated wrongly; bkos they they dont use logics and critical reasoning;

[@AMD45663]

@@abdiadan4837 And you do?

[@Yarsyoutube]

@@AMD45663my fellow Muslim I’m shocked by this comment section I’m shocked to see one of my own fighting against them 😂

[@djamesdean4328]

the thing about being religious or atheist is that with just couple of scrolling in KZbin you'll find videos exactly like this , people with high knowledge and education explaining why we need to believe in god and they will be as convincing as this , the point is whatever your a believer or not, just make sure to get the answer of that from deeply within you and take responsibility for it for the rest of your life , so stop getting influenced by one argument agains the other in this matter .

[@dorkception2012]

So is this video was about to believe in a god?

[@davidrexford586]

I tell people they can believe in God.. or not and it’s an individual decision made by every individual person and yet I will hear unbelievers saying I am Forcing them to believe in God. I fear most unbelievers are not as capable of understanding anything I say towards them and they just want to nit pick me in a juvenile like manner. They love to put words in the mouths of those who dare say anything about believing in God by Faith, let alone seeing Gods divine handiwork in the human body let alone the design of ordinary plant life around them. Of course there are many more examples of a divine pattern to it all, the seen and unseen.

[@dorkception2012]

@@davidrexford586 You said you are being nitpicked? Maybe because you talk about unproven claims like those have been founded on evidence, and not opinions, my friend. I don't want to sound condescending, I think you really would like to help, but you have to understand that you do the opposite of that. Learn what is a claim, what is a fact and what is an advice, because you clearly have no idea about the difference. Stay helpful, but please, do some reading, and people won't belittle you in the future!

[@SamuelBlack84]

I trust to logic every time

[@davidrexford586]

@@dorkception2012I haven’t met an Atheist yet who doesn’t believe in any Supernatural entity that may be in existence, unseen. But those same people will believe a tree makes oxygen from their exhaled carbon dioxide, unseen from their eyes if they stand in front of a tree and hopefully get a glimpse of the process. Then again you probably don’t even understand what I am saying and that’s unfortunate. I believe in God by Faith and just like that tree makes oxygen unseen by my eyes I believe in God that works UNSEEN on my behalf.

[@ludgerleissner3122]

Notice how uncomfortable the person on the right of Hitchens became , almost incapable of delivering an argument. The truth, the logic in what Hitchens delivered was overwhelming.

[@MrMarco855]

@ludger I think he was stunned by Hitchens ignorance.

[@ludgerleissner3122]

@@MrMarco855 People, such as yourself, who insist that this religious nonsense trumps logic, fact and common sense are arrogant. Not only that, but you believe you are on some higher moral ground than those who reject your nonsense. Arguing with a bible thumping imbecile is no different than arguing with a stupid person. Quote: "Never argue with stupid people for they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience" - Mark Twain.

[@ludgerleissner3122]

@@MrMarco855 People, such as yourself, who insist that this religious nonsense trumps logic, fact and common sense are arrogant. Not only that, but you believe you are on some higher moral ground than those who reject your nonsense. Arguing with a bible thumping imbecile is no different than arguing with a stupid person. Quote: "Never argue with stupid people for they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience" - Mark Twain.

[@der_kleine_mann8529]

Could you name the arguments?

[@sharedaccount1639]

sure so much truth like "we are bodies". this pretty much means we are only matter and nothing else. well, if we are just matter then alive and dead people are pretty much the same thing. it is obvious that when we are alive we are more than just bodies.

[@DennisRoeder-x1x]

Once, in Denmark, I told god he was a sham. I used English and this was in a very private moment. Then, I was told, in German, GLAUB AN MIR. I never saw who said this. Dennis Roeder

[@joshuathomas512]

thanks for making this channel

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

[@Dr.BenjiBuddy]

I think religion is pretty brilliant. It explains what people don't understand. It offers people comfort and support. It helps people deal with grief. It makes people behave and obey laws, because they will be judged after death... Lots of good stuff. I can see why people can't even consider the possibility of God being fake. It would be very painful and scary to loose all of that comfort if you've been religious all your life.

[@brianmi40]

It's brilliance is exceeded by far by it's danger. Steven Weinberg: "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion"

[@Dr.BenjiBuddy]

@@brianmi40 yes there are many bad sides to religion in general. It has caused many deaths even wars... I was more looking at the individual level, how it could be a beautiful thing as it can also make bad people do good things. For a lot of people it is the way of life. They will never abandon it because their lives would fall apart and they would feel completely lost.

[@brianmi40]

@@Dr.BenjiBuddy At ALL LEVELS there are no benefits from religion that cannot be accomplished also through secular means. Living a delusional life is ALREADY LOST. it doesn't get WORSE when you abandon the delusion. As any psychologist would tell you: Psychological Principles Involved with living a delusional life: Reality Testing: Reality testing is a fundamental psychological process that allows individuals to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Delusions impair this ability, leading to a distorted perception of reality23. Cognitive Dissonance: Cognitive dissonance occurs when there is a conflict between beliefs and reality. Living a delusional life can create significant cognitive dissonance, which can lead to stress, anxiety, and other mental health issues1. Coping Mechanisms: Delusions can sometimes serve as maladaptive coping mechanisms to deal with stress or trauma. While they might provide temporary relief, they often lead to further psychological issues and impairments in social and occupational functioning14. Metacognition: Metacognition involves awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes. Delusional individuals often have impaired metacognition, making it difficult for them to recognize and correct their false beliefs1. Social and Interpersonal Relationships: Delusions can severely impact social interactions and relationships. They often lead to isolation, mistrust, and conflicts with others, which can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and depression4. Treatment and Management Psychotherapy: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is often used to help individuals challenge and change their delusional beliefs. It focuses on improving reality testing and reducing the distress associated with delusions34. Medication: Antipsychotic medications can be effective in reducing the intensity of delusions and improving overall mental health3. Support Systems: Building a strong support system and encouraging social interactions can help individuals with delusional disorders feel more connected and less isolated4. In conclusion, while delusions might offer a temporary escape from a harsh reality, they generally lead to more significant psychological and social problems. Addressing the underlying issues through therapy and support is crucial for improving mental health and overall well-being. YOUR CONCLUSION is tantamount to recognizing a person is ILL and just suggesting to "let them be".

[@davideddy5877]

Dawkins and Hitchens are my Gods, not literally, they just say weveryhting that I believe but are not capable of explaining coherently.

[@PGGreatOak]

And THAT'S okay. You can have moments to try and figure out the universe and how this all happened, that's alright, but by coming to the conclusion that you will not know everything is wonderful.

[@VestalNumbre]

Enough Examine Jesus.+ 16 All Scripture is inspired of God+ and beneficial for teaching,+ for reproving, for setting things straight,+ for disciplining in righteousness,+ 17 s

[@Mcfreddo]

@@VestalNumbreThat would be crazy to try that.

[@jounisuninen]

For some reason they lose every single debate with creationists ...

[@davideddy5877]

I have no idea what you are watching. Dawkins, Hitchins and Stephen Fry wipe the floor with these delusional creationists@@jounisuninen

[@Brotheral-pb1oj]

Religion is man's attempt to understand his existence by means of his own intellect. "True " Christianity is man's admission of his insignificance in his existence!

[@brianmi40]

What is this "true" Christianity of which you speak? Science has been QUITE clear about our insignificance in such a huge universe, so I see no need for Iron Age mythology to be involved to understand that.

[@Brotheral-pb1oj]

@brianmi40 LOL! Please forgive me, but I've never heard of "True Christianity" being referred to as "Iron Age Mythology"! Yet I agree with you that science informs us of our insignificance in comparison to all we can behold in this world. But True Christianity is the admission of our insignificance in that we understand and believe the message of the Gospel of Christ that what we " naturally " feel, assume and think is irrelevant to the purpose of our existence. We understand that we were created to please our creator. Jesus teaches us that only way to please God is to LOVE GOD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS MINDS AND SOULS, and to LOVE OUR Neighbors as OUR SELVES! That's pretty much True Christianity in a nutshell. But who wants to do that? Very few!

[@jamtoast3555]

The way our bodies work. The world. The universe. It's no way an accident. It's most definitely designed. Maybe not by a god but we are definitely designed

[@INJILIyaUTUKUFU]

*EYES without SIGHT* = blinded minds kzbin.info/www/bejne/eobPd5Z7l7Z2nNksi=_WsrCdxFO5Nrxy4n

[@heinrich6294]

That's a logical fallacy lol. Just because something is complex you cannot not declare something simple as true

[@davidkelly132]

I'm losing IQ by just reading comments

[@INJILIyaUTUKUFU]

SIMPLE LOGIC, in every *DESIGN* there *MUST* be a *DESIGNER* Even a kindergarten student can easily grasp this simple TRUTH

[@SamuelBlack84]

Scientology for you

[@southernkiwi6017]

I have always wondered what god was doing the week before he created the world.?? Probaly down at the pub getting drunk,

[@joeterezaboss6801]

That's sums up your sanity to a mustard seed 😂😂😂😂, bro a defination of God is being omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent, so what j said is totally irrelevant no matter the fact God is real or not ,that wholly tells why u could be n atheist 😂😂😂

[@heinrich6294]

Destroying the last world he created full of happiness and joy

[@hilurmohammed2023]

21:16) We did not create in sport the heavens and the earth and all that lies between the two. (21:17) Had it been Our will to find a pastime, We would have found one near at hand; if at all We were inclined to do so.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Playing golf, obviously

[@brianmi40]

Based upon the Old Testament, he was pretty much a prick UNTIL he had a "Son", and then chilled out at least a bit and turned over a new leaf morally...

[@StaticRealist2050]

Often, it is more comforting to embrace a desirable falsehood than confront an unpleasant reality. Let's envision a deity who possesses an unwavering sense of optimism, firmly believing that all things will eventually fall into place following the creation of the universe. In many ways, this portrayal of God aligns with our shared human experience and can be deemed the most relatable and plausible conception of a divine being.

[@dobythedog]

Both work as a phrase; you just need the context though. The theory of evolution is verifiable fact. However, sometimes I'll say something like "I have a theory that my fuel pump is causing my car to stall". Yes, it's not a 'theory' in a scientific sense, but people know what it means. However, yes, the religious do get it wrong a lot when they say that evolution is 'just a theory'. A theory is the best and most tested explanation for something that science can achieve. A belief in a god is just blind faith.

[@StaticRealist2050]

@@dobythedogIt's not blind faith; it's more of a skeptical faith. It provides me with hope for an afterlife where I can reunite with the people I care about. Even if my beliefs prove to be untrue, they still offer me hope, moral guidance, and a sense of purpose in life. I am uncertain about the existence of a higher power, but belief in God is not always based on logical explanations. We are grappling with the supernatural and the unknown.

[@dukeallen432]

Above: don’t need to lie to myself. I’m okay with dying and ceasing to exist as all living things on this planet. Liberating. Don’t be so intellectually lazy.

[@StaticRealist2050]

@@dukeallen432 I'm not being intellectually lazy I'm believing something that gives me hope. Kinda believing both evolutionary and creationists standpoints. I'm basically an Agnostic Christian.

[@dobythedog]

@@StaticRealist2050 So you're clinging to a comfort blanket then rather than thinking critically. No god would be as incompetent or vindictive as to condemn the world to suffering, disease and death, just because some couple disobeyed him and ate a fruit 6,000 years ago! That's some vindictive and frankly childish behaviour.

[@Lindsaybkk]

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[@jeffgurchak6908]

My humble opinion is that nobody has a clue what happens after we pass.

[@realilty]

Your opinion is a bit wrong. Near death experiences are giving a little glimpse and there's tibetan yogis who know what the after life is like...

[@philsmith4218]

& I'm going to work with Santa & his hot wife😅

[@mrhlcp]

@@realilty So called “near death experiences” does not give clues to anything else that how a person with a brain that lacks oxygen etc. reacts. It has nothing to do with being dead. We know very well what happens after we die: our bodies decay. That’s it. This isn’t a fantasy

[@trentwise3762]

@@realilty yeah as mrhlcp said, those "near death experiences" are just synapsis's in your brain firing off trying to figure out what's wrong with you. and as for those yogis, i mean yeah, years of isolation and lack of proper sustenance will get you seeing things you might interpret as the afterlife

[@realilty]

@@trentwise3762 Lol are you serious!?😄 You think yogis have gained powers clarity bliss wisdom and knowledge by being malnourished... Can you tell me do you guys say these things because it makes you feel better? Are you stoned rn? I've spent years studying these subjects... The tone you guys carrys is so nonchalant, ignorant and arrogant. Yet it's totally wrong. Your brain has to be working and have oxygen for synapses to fire or hallucinate for that matter. These experiences have happened when the brain is clinically dead... No oxygen flow to the brain... Also there are some cases of a relative dying while the patient is in the hospital. No one tells the patient as to save them grief in such a fragile state. The patient then goes into cardiac arrest and has an nde and sees there dead relative... This is fact. This is now being studied by Dr.s... Dr Bruce greyson and Sam parnia are just 2 names. So now what are you going to say to that? Or are you going to not respond because your burnt now lol. I honestly think you guys are just trolls... I've noticed when ignorant commenters encounter someone educated on a topic they flee because they are ignorant and know it.

[@muzyshayk8006]

Lack of proof is not the ultimate proof that God doesn’t exist.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@betsymassie1040]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 W

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

@@betsymassie1040 Here is why you need Jesus. You’re like a man about to jump off a plane without a parachute and his plan is to flap his arms to save himself and I'd say “don't do that use the parachute “(Jesus is the parachute).; you are already a slave to your sins- yet God came to set the captives free. (The truth shall set you free- Jesus said I am the way the Truth and the Life) Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[@evydaemon]

It‘s nice to hear some little sense in times like these.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

[@betsymassie1040]

More like retardation 😂

[@PaulDawson-hi5yu]

There are 5 growth rings in life....1. rebellion...2 repentance...3 request for God's glory...4.revelation...5. response through worship. This guy is at stage 1

[@galileog8945]

And you are presumably at level 5...of the stupidity scale.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

[@DrRamasubbu]

Where is he now​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

[@MisterCantaloupe]

My main issue with religion: there are so many religions, and they all claim to be the real one.

[@Yarsyoutube]

I understand this issue, but religion is a personal thing each people should choose for themselves. Don’t let anyone ruin your perception of any religion, it’s up to you totally

[@MisterCantaloupe]

@@Yarsyoutube I guess the real reason I decided I didn't want to be Christian anymore was because I didn't want to go to church. I just didn't feel like committing to praying or going or anything. I'd rather just not be religious and not have to do anyone that stuff.

[@Yarsyoutube]

@@MisterCantaloupe I’m saying this as a Muslim, but how can you reject a faith you haven’t practiced properly yet?

[@Yarsyoutube]

@@MisterCantaloupe that’s like saying I hate fruit, but I’ve only eaten apples and I’ve disliked them

[@MisterCantaloupe]

@@Yarsyoutube because I'm lazy. I honestly don't care. Before, I only participated because they said I'd go to hell.

[@MeetMitch]

When you discover the progresson of Yahweh throughout history, it really becomes clear how ridiculous religion is.

[@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363]

Most people have heard “Jesus/God loves you”. Does that mean they have a relationship with God and will go to heaven? Depends on the individual. A relationship is 2 sided, you receive love and you give love back. God showed His love by suffering, dying on the cross and rising from the dead for you, now you show Love back by repenting of your sins (lying, stealing, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) and believing in Jesus as your Lord and saviour so that Heaven is in your future not hell.

[@TTV_dark_vase57]

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363the only problem is that if god is all knowing, how do we have feel will? how to we make our own choices? it’s already been safer and planned by somone who’s been here before our time?

[@johnpaologuido2357]

@@TTV_dark_vase57 Because God gave us free will, the ability to make our own choices etc.

[@TTV_dark_vase57]

@@johnpaologuido2357 how it is our own choices when it’s pre determined

[@johnpaologuido2357]

@@TTV_dark_vase57 It is our own choices, God is above time and space so he simply can see what we are gonna do

[@Squirty___]

Nobody truly knows, every religion has it's own interpretation and is permitted to have such. To call anyone deluded for any one belief is in itself deluded.

[@maylingng4107]

Ignorance and delusion needs to be exposed!

[@brianmi40]

Shouldn't we all agree that the only logical and rational stance to take is to WITHHOLD BELIEF in anything UNTIL AFTER SUFFICIENT RATIONAL EVIDENCE has been PROVIDED and CONFIRMED especially when it ALTERS ONE'S WORLDVIEW?

[@maylingng4107]

@@brianmi40 That is what we do in science.