Top 20 Most Controversial People in History

They're heroes to some and villains to others. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the twenty figures in history whose actions, beliefs, and/or policies have been subjects of heavy debate. Our countdown of controversial people in history includes Thomas Edison, Karl Marx, Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, Christopher Columbus, and more! What do you make of these people? Let us know in the comments below!
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[@WatchMojo]

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[@lilpenny1982]

My Top 5 most controversial people in the 21st century: #1 Benjamin Netanyahu #2 Volodymyr Zelenskyy #3 Jeffrey Epstein #4 Donald Trump #5 Harvey Weinstein

[@zanethind]

Vince McMahon is also very controversial

[@duncan3998]

Worst list.

[@djch33zy_b4con6]

Pavlov?

[@CainNuke]

You: We wont be mentioning “eidolf” Hitler Me: stopped the video and moved on.

[@BjornWithASlash]

“We will be leaving out people like Adolf Hitler” *has multiple baby Hitlers on the list*

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Same

[@KlubPolo]

Shows a video of Benjamin Netanyahu and speaks about “Adolf Hitler”. That’s when I decided to stop watching your video.

[@stenbak88]

Baby Hitlers? In comparison to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and many more make Hitler look like a school boy

[@kajgod999]

EXACTLY! I literally said that to my partner several times during the video.

[@Basackwrds]

As per robot chicken...little hiiiitler. Such a scamp!

[@user-gi8pk9uc7q]

Edison was a credit thief!

[@50shadesofgeek41]

He was a business man, doing business...

[@MenteMaestra91]

​@@50shadesofgeek41That sounds even worse.

[@warh1story563]

Oliver Cromwell was pm of the Uk in 17th century, King Henry VIII was the king during the 16 century. That’s like a century apart.

[@ninjathedeadguy2655]

Oliver Cromwell wasn’t a prime minister!!

[@MicheleOverton-mb8it]

Thomas Cromwell was Henry's buddy I think from childhood

[@debraduhon958]

That's when I stopped watching the video

[@aaronpatton15]

1) Oliver Cromwell was not prime minister. Prime Ministers didn’t exist back then. He was Lord Protector. 2) the UK also didn’t exist back then. It was formed in 1801.

[@MoonMan3000]

Mao Zedong anyone?

[@Barricade379]

Stalin Hoxha The whole Kim family Really Mojo?

[@Grimlock1979]

None of those are controversial. They are like Hitler.

[@user-ee3qi1rz8g]

Where is Kim Jong-un on that list?

[@VesnaVK]

​@@user-ee3qi1rz8ghe's not controversial.

[@AlmostEthical]

Demonetisation?

[@tu8mama]

"Universally regarded as monsters, like Adolf Hitler" while showing a picture of Netanyahu... seems about right.

[@Barricade379]

And Putin

[@Skygrey2943]

It's pretty ironic.

[@medazizmhenni2249]

I had the same thought

[@jhonduran9424]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Classy @watchmojo classy.

[@paulcoleman441]

Henry VIII was king during the Tudor Period, reigning 1509 - 1547, Oliver Cromwell was a Parliamentarian and active during the reign of Charles I before leading the Commonwealth of England between 1653 - 1657. This is a full century apart. Please can you check the facts before uploading?

[@user-bs5ys4vo7e]

WHERE IS MAO TSE-TUNG?

[@brontewcat]

They said they were not including people saying people such as Hitler so I think Mao falls into that category.

[@SiVlog1989]

"Future leader Henry VIII"?? Henry VIII died in 1547 and Oliver Cromwell died in 1658, over 100 years later

[@tanzytalks5456]

Superfascism

[@Jaime.Lannister]

That's WOKEMOJO for ya

[@SirsasthNigam.]

@@Jaime.Lannister I have no issue with well-reasoned criticism. But using the word "woke" lets me know you wear your head for decoration, not for thinking. - Th3Birdman

[@Jaime.Lannister]

@@SirsasthNigam. Sometimes. A good amount of common sense does the trick, something you don't have

[@user-kd4oo3xq3l]

​​@@SirsasthNigam. Come on man. As a long time WatchMojo fan, they had gone to shit and dug itself as far back as they could. I used to love the lists they made both favorable and distasteful ones, but right now, it's no secret that the liberal bias is showing up big time. You can use your eyes and ears if you want

[@Ri_F]

Jerry Heil and alyona alyona are so iconic that they created a real life Mama Teresa! 🥰

[@MarquisDeSacks]

Showing Benjamin Netanyahu whilst saying "Adolph Hitler" - WatchMojo knew what they were doing 😉

[@mamc1986]

It was kind of funny, I hate to say it. I’m not a fan of Netanyahu myself.

[@Superfan109]

@@mamc1986I don’t think hardly anyone is 🤔

[@annndanu2785]

monsters am I right?

[@joshuafc10]

WatchMojo is antisemetic

[@ludonymous526]

@@MarquisDeSacks Netanyahu is Hitler 2.0, pretty much.

[@enigma6149]

Missed out Gandhi

[@kingbeef66]

Yeah, he sounds on par with Mother Teresa.

[@dionnelson7371]

I feel like Martin Luther King Jr was named after Martin Luther

[@jonah.donohue]

What?

[@MicheleOverton-mb8it]

I always wondered!💖

[@lp-xl9ld]

He was, actually. His father was originally Michael King and after a trip to Germany he legally changed his name to Martin Luther King and his son became Martin Luther King Jr.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

Christians : Its crusade time Jesus: (facepalm)

[@johnfarmer888]

Didn't expect to hear the great Kevin Conroy as the narrator on a Thomas Edison documentary

[@darvish2012]

There is a person that should absolutely be on this list: Fritz Habor. Habor was a German scientist who helped save half of the world's population, but at the same time, he helped kill millions of soldiers in World War 1. If that's not considered controversial, I don't know what is.

[@Windowseat1998..]

How is the Savior of the World a controversial figure? 🤦🏿

[@alfredolarsi5600]

Who's the savior of the world?

[@Windowseat1998..]

@@alfredolarsi5600 Jesus

[@lanceelamparo1757]

People literally and figuratively fight over his teachings for centuries. So the reason for the controversy was pretty much how we react to it. And we are taught to be good, but we just fight over whether or not what we do is good.

[@jacobgutow-ellis1612]

“Netanyahu facing criticism for failing to anticipate and prevent the Israel-Hamas War.” Um Watchmojo it’s the not war he failed to anticipate that angered Israelis it was the failure to anticipate the Oct 7th massacre that started the war. Minor nitpick but don’t underestimate the power of word choice. Otherwise Netanyahu is absolutely controversial and I’m not a fan of him or his government.

[@Superfan109]

Agreed. And can’t they just give that country back to its natives?? 🤷‍♂️

[@kfireven]

​@@Superfan109 The native Jewish people are already back in their ancestral homeland in Israel, a real success story of decolonization.

[@Skygrey2943]

​​@@kfirevenRubbish. Most of the Jewish people there are of Eastern European heritage. They were last there in biblical times and were given Palestine by the British.

[@medazizmhenni2249]

​@@kfireven they're just European colonizers. They aren't native to that land.

[@kfireven]

@@medazizmhenni2249 Wrong. DNA checks, and the Jewish traditions and physical history can prove this undeniable belonging.

[@duncanwood2712]

Goes to show these people are controversial when people are complaining about them being placed on this list.

[@TamarahTalksTV]

4:56 Oh My God! I Learned About Maximilien Earlier Today In Summer School! What A Cool And Wonderful Coincidence.

[@nicholasclark4401]

Your forgot Muhammad

[@shackdaddy7106]

Regarding Russia except for eight months in 1917 and about six years in the 90s. It has always been a authoritarian state. communism is exactly the same as fascism. They both require dictatorships to enforce it.

[@LTHBDC]

Leaving out hitler while showing natanyahu is not right

[@nomadyk4445]

WTF? WatchMojo show video of Israel’s Netanyahu w the voice over describing Hitler? I can’t continue this video, that was too cringe.

[@jacobjozenes2710]

Man you guys need better fact check

[@darkmulawin]

1:15 holy shit I didn't know the late Kevin Conroy did narrating in a documentary.

[@aaronwurtzel7287]

Are you considering Mao in the list with Hitler?

[@markoaurelius3780]

You didn't mention Muhammad.

[@unknown5150variable]

Would you? Well, lol dum me, I guess you did. But it would have been hard to talk about him, what they gonna do show a black screen. Actually, yeah they shoulda.

[@nathantowns2043]

Uh spoilers!

[@rockingbeat]

They like being alive

[@ahmedmaklad6527]

of course they didn't mention him because they don't want to be seen as Islamophobic considering the fact he was Pedophile and warlord

[@jamisonlamkin5576]

Ummm…

[@cinemaniac8586]

What about Muhammad?

[@diyaa_ulqamar]

What? Compared to the diabolical people listed??? Come on, buddy. Use your brain!!!

[@diyaa_ulqamar]

Or is it the standard IGNORANCE of the western education of him??? SAME OL' WARLORD, LUSTFUL AND GREEDY??? COME ON, BUDDY!!! Because HE forces you to question your already collapsing government and society???

[@diyaa_ulqamar]

Or is it the standard IGNORANCE of the western education of him??? SAME OL' WARLORD, LUSTFUL AND GREEDY??? COME ON, BUDDY!!! Because HE forces you to question your already collapsing government and society???

[@cinemaniac8586]

@@diyaa_ulqamar So your position is that Jesus is diabolical? Even though his message during the entirety of his life was one of love, acceptance, and forgiveness.

[@diyaa_ulqamar]

​@@cinemaniac8586I was questioning your understanding but your comment does not negate accountability, punishment and finally redemption. LOVE, MERCY, FORGIVENESS AND THE LIKE has its place. PROPBALY WHY THEY FEATURED HIM IN THE LIST. HIS STANCE ON HUMANITY ITSELF!!!??? Yes people have done a lot of bad in the name of religion. But that does mean it's on the person himself rather the people carrying the narrative..

[@vaibhavgupta6633]

What about Elon Musk?

[@ahmedmaklad6527]

what has done that was controversial

[@vaibhavgupta6633]

@@ahmedmaklad6527 he is a very polarizing figure.

[@ahmedmaklad6527]

@@vaibhavgupta6633 how

[@werthmelissa]

Sure and he even bought Twitter and I'm still in horror of him rebranding it as X.

[@CanesFan88]

Lol eat a Tide Pod

[@sarmiento3510]

Was that Kevin conroy talking about Edison?

[@user-gi8pk9uc7q]

Marx didn't know what Lenin and Stalin and those who came after them would do with his system!

[@mooseduck]

Being pro Marx and anti Lenin is contradictory.

[@ardrossankid]

What no Justin Trudeau?

[@matthewmccarty8191]

I guess when you attack the working class and target truckers in the name of Liberal Control and economic manipulation your considered a saint by the media

[@ferociousgumby]

He's just not important enough.

[@nintendolife25]

Wow….I can’t believe Henry Ford actually said those things about women.

[@unknown5150variable]

He used to put a copy of, "protocols.of the elders.of.zion" in the glove box of new cars (probably the most infamous of an.ti.sem.et.ic propaganda). He was awful all the way around.

[@user-ee3qi1rz8g]

Really? I am not surprised, since female workers for Ford were treated differently for further decades. There is even a movie about it... It's a british movie called "Made in Dagenham". In 1968, the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the United Kingdom. In addition to the thousands of male employees, there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied, the women, represented by the shop steward and Rita O'Grady, work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better deal. However, Rita learns that there is a larger issue in this dispute considering that women are paid an appalling fraction of the men's wages for the same work across the board on the sole basis of their sex. Refusing to tolerate this inequality any longer, O'Grady leads a strike by her fellow machinists for equal pay for equal work. What follows would test the patience of all involved in a grinding labour and political struggle that ultimately would advance the cause of women's rights around the world.

[@Mosesthewhiteboy]

The guy tried to stage a fascist coup in America. It doesn't surprise me at all that he was a misogynist.

[@mikeyburns4200]

Figured Nixon, Putin and Napoleon would end up on this list. But Netanyahu, Trump and Jesus? WHOLE different story.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Convicted felon Trump was literally quoting Hitler during his Veterans Day speech last year.

[@Groovey-kj6eu]

Jesus was Jewish?

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

@@mikeyburns4200 Trump literally has a cult

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@Groovey-kj6eu everyone was Jewish while Jesus was alive, at least in that region. There was no such thing as Christianity until after his death.

[@courtneyhaling3787]

Valid to have Trump on here. Modern day Hitler and monster.

[@x40unce]

We need a 2020 version of what “controversial people” are 😂 that would be so funny but interesting

[@Nola5427]

Anyone that has a different opinon than most ppl, ppl are to sensitive these days and they are looking for things to get offended at!

[@christigmc]

Because of Nixon my parents were able to immigrate to the US and I was born and raised in the US. However Watergate was unforgivable.

[@kevinanderson815]

Napoleon's wife was the reason he reinstated slavery in the French colonies.

[@lokimikko3516]

Why wasn't Mohammed on the list?? Islam has been just as, if not more, controversial as Christianity. At least Jesus didn't marry a 9 year old.

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

21:21 "Dwindled the native population by as much as eighty per cent" makes no sense, grammatically, mathematically, or ideologically.

[@shreyashvaidya2773]

"We'll always be a villain in someone else's story"

[@iaincampbell6959]

"If the world hates you, just remember it has hated me first" - Jesus Christ; John 15 :18

[@makamanb]

Oliver Cromwell literally banned Christmas, football, dancing, singing, horse racing and theatre because he was a Puritan.

[@CIS101]

Nixon looks like a saint compared to some Republicans today

[@ahmedmaklad6527]

how

[@CIS101]

@@ahmedmaklad6527 Well for one thing he behaved in a far more presidential, and dignified manner to start with. But that's just to start with.

[@puck9103]

💯

[@Mosesthewhiteboy]

The guy who spearheaded the war on drugs and subjection of minorities in America and is the center of the Watergate scandal is worse than political figures today?

[@bb62bb62]

or ALL Democrats today

[@lindabb621]

😮 Trump’s at the TOP 🔝 in the history of the USA.

[@TobiasReturns]

Jim Jones?

[@ferociousgumby]

I wouldn't call him "controversial". He was just plain evil.

[@familygash7500]

This channel really needs to stop making historical/political videos, since they don't even try to hide their biases.

[@matthewmccarty8191]

💯

[@mukuluprince5893]

Mohammed?

[@frankcortes6852]

WM don’t want to be labeled as Islamophobic 😱

[@Zeuken]

1:13 Hearing Kevin Conroy's voice again in various things makes me better again.🥲

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Number 1 Jesse Katsopolis He married Rebecca Donaldson (Aunt Becky) and It pissed me off for some strange reason several decades In Fact

[@ricardopirata515]

Have Mercy

[@teamcook28]

He wanted to get Michelle Tanner. He's basically a monster.

[@Mapletz27]

No Winston Churchill? Peter is definitely on something...

[@ROCKONplaceboforever]

This is a interesting list 👏 good job WatchMojo

[@erickurse7605]

Henry Ford also was known supporter Hitler, even taking pictures and giving Hitler a car for a present.

[@shreyashvaidya2773]

He even berated his son till he died

[@madqtofficial3451]

Edison version of the light bulb is not that efficient today, the light bulb you use today is primarily from Tesla and is more energy efficient

[@zanethind]

Tbf any inventor has come with their fair share of controversy. Edison was not the only one to have controversy

[@ferociousgumby]

You forgot Donald Somebodyorother.

[@DerStammtischphilosoph]

Putin? Nixon? This is about the history of the world, right? Rome alone had 20 people more significantly controversial than half of this list.

[@marybarry2230]

Oliver Cromwell almost wiped out the entire Irish nation. It was practically the first holocaust.

[@haileysampson2063]

That’s weird. Seems you forgot the part where Trump said to peacefully protest lol. Also weird how Obama isn’t on here even though he jailed journalists and race relations got WORSE under him somehow. Gotta love WatchMojo lol

[@haileysampson2063]

Seems like free speech only matters when others take it away lol

[@kanukki84]

Mother Theresa was not a kind and warm person, she thought suffering was good.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

And deliberately withheld treatment so the people in her care could "get closer to God by suffering"

[@lindabb621]

Yay my confirmation name, being a martyr 101.

[@roshanchachane142]

@@hectorsmommy1717 She bought her way to Sainthood. It cost her millions of dollars, which she collected from various evil sources.

[@gondwanaland3238]

Many, many years ago I saw an interview with that woman. She stated that she happy that the sick and destitute people of Kolkata, Calcutta then, could die in the arms of jesus. Of course she was talking about life long Hindus and Muslims. I was disgusted.

[@roshanchachane142]

@@gondwanaland3238 I still have the clippings of her interview.

[@mikeawesome9212]

Trump was one of the best american presidents..... cry more wokemojo.

[@rn6312]

George Carlin once said think about how stupid the average person and then realize half of them are stupider than that. You fit into that bottom quotient.

[@mgs2014]

Where is sleepy Joe????

[@alfredolarsi5600]

Rest your brain, mgs, too much thinking will kill you.

[@orlandowilliamson691]

😂😂​@@alfredolarsi5600

[@jurreteerenstra421]

Never thought i would hear Batman narrating about Thomas Edison

[@garytruthteller2606]

Pretty cool. Two big gripes: Trump in the same breath/list as Jesus -- and the Insurance ad where the chick says she "LOVES her current insurance company, but..". Ay yi yi yi yi for freakin' yi

[@BrianRetro]

Gandhi should be on this list.

[@mpierre3026]

To the victors the dictation of history. Castro was not the best, but he didn't destroy the Cuban economy, the US embargo on Cuba did that

[@LucasLondo]

Jesus was real was crucified and rose from the dead

[@mikekirylo6115]

I unsubscribed mojo because of Jesus. Who makes these recommendations? Christ haters.

[@killerquan1349]

Shut up 😂

[@accidental-life]

Lmfao!

[@LucasLondo]

@killerquan1349 you shut up you think it's funny to speak blasphemy

[@TheJimiStrato]

Facts

[@l.t.h2o487]

It's not Jesus fault he was trying to lead us to a right path in reallity its the people who used his teaching tfor there own selfish desires as a Orthodox my self I disagree with your opinion Im sorry if I offended you but Im just saying the truth

[@nathanaelcard6442]

Jesus does NOT belong on this list, especially amongst the other people on this list. “But that’s all we know,” have you never read the Bible? 🤦‍♂️

[@bluegold1026]

No mention of Mao Zedong? Also is it surprising that almost every single person on this list was the subject of an episode of Epic Rap Battles of History?

[@RolandBoy87]

You forgot Bill Cosby

[@MaxPower-vf8kt]

Toronto did a pretty good job with the Panamerican games, which is significantly smaller. But they were under budget and had a significant legacy. I live in a city 4 hours away and we got a grant to start a wheelchair basketball program, because of the games. It costs $2-3,000 for a basic chair. A bunch of infrastructure projects were already needed, and in the works, and the games just supercharged the timeline. They utilized the Jays stadium for opening and closing and held track at a local university. They brought in temporary stands to extend capacity. The long term low income housing was a HUGE hit. Part of the athlete housing became part of a local college, another part a university, another part lower income (assisted) housing (IE national team athletes training at nearby facilities can access that housing for cheap, if they continue to meet training targets). Listen, it wasn’t perfect. But it was an example of how games can be done. With one being multiple athlete housing areas to spread out the sports to areas that were appropriate to host.

[@theunorthodoxorthodox3328]

So you guys forgot Muhammed or just didn't have the balls?

[@frankcortes6852]

They didn’t have the guts. They don’t want to be labeled as Islamophobics.

[@magdalenadavalji]

Yes, but they have no problem of putting Jesus in 1st place. Just disgusting.

[@LucasLondo]

Do not speak blasphemy

[@FirstLast-qf1df]

15:26 I thought there were less than 2,000 native Cubans left.

[@joshuaflask3091]

Thing is it's like did Christoper Columbus really discover America because um he didn't even do that. If you want to get technical Columbus landed on the Bahamas in 1492 , which we are living in now; the vikings landed in Greenland and made numerous settlement some of which are still set up today starting in 1021 C.E. So even if you want to say that both vikings and Columbus are both controversial, even if you want to say that both Greenland and Bahamas are part of the America,, which Is a hard argument I would say at best, since Greenland belongs to Canada and Bahamas belongs to Caribbean which is a subregion of America. 1021 is 1021 common era over 1000 years ago which is longer than 1492 which is which is somewhere around 450 years ago from a pure mathematical,, numerical, and facts base it's just lies

[@VJAllison1974]

Actually Greenland doesn't belong to Canada. It's part of Denmark - says the Canadian.

[@umairuddinshaikh9433]

not jesus on the first lmao

[@CIS101]

Yeah I was shocked when I learned those things about Edison years. No pun was intended, but now it is. Anyway, I don't admire him nor Columbus much anymore.

[@joeyaknow7006]

Martin King's utopian ideals of racial equality?? Utopian? Come on. Reasonable and sensible.

[@randomdefender1532]

I wonder how salty the comments will be?

[@josh72456]

I didn’t know of Oliver Cromwell, Maximilien Robespierre, Benjamin Netanyahu, Niccolo Machiavelli and Silvio Berlusconi.

[@Kneedragon1962]

Yeah, I might have ordered them slightly different, but I think you mostly list the right people. If you're going to list Jesus (which I will accept) then you should also mention Mohammed. Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are all based on the same Old Testament. They are 3 different flavours of what is essentially (at its beginnings) the same religion. Yeah, I know, those 3 religions don't get along today, but they all come from the same starting beliefs. Allah, Yehweh, and God the Father, they're all the same animal.

[@kurthill9070]

tell me how it turns out when you confront those abrahamic religions with such a strong and broad statement. Even Buddhists and Hindus cannot agree on whether Gautama Buddha was another avatar of Vishnu or not.

[@kanukki84]

Many Christians don't even realize that we don't really know anything about the historical Jesus, his life or teachings. The Gospels are not historical writings or contemporary writings.

[@Kneedragon1962]

@@kurthill9070 ~ LOL. Kurt, it doesn't always go over very well. Some people, even ones who are believers, see it and accept it. Some get cranky and want to punch me. I am a cynical agnostic. I think if anybody is right, it's most likely the Atheists, but I don't know they're right any more than I know the Pope's unlisted private number. There are a few things I would accept as evidence, circumstantial, but there's nothing that comes close to 'Proof'. I would hope, if there is a 'supreme being' of some sort, it's nothing like the animal described in the bible. I'm not about to go back down that rabbit hole. I can see a logical case for a soul, which may live on after the body dies. It may not happen for everyone, but I can see a case it does happen sometimes. I can see a case one of those souls went off exploring, and had a look in a black hole, and found their way through the worm-hole, came out in a new universe. That new universe didn't just wink out again like a virtual particle, because the Observer was there to watch the fireworks display. My observer didn't create the universe, and has almost no 'power' over it. Anything she can't get her head around, it may not be able to exist. That's not the same as parting the Red Sea or killing a generation of little boys in Egypt. [aside] If you have got the power to part the Red Sea, then why didn't you teleport the Juice to their promised land, and stop the Egyptians from chasing them? Why was it necessary to kill thousands of little Egyptian boys? [end aside] Not saying I believe this ~ I'm saying it's something I could believe, with a bit of evidence. No, the King James is not evidence. It's junk mail. It's a sales brochure for a new Cadillac. It's a reason for Jim Jones to mix up some Kool-Aid.

[@kurthill9070]

​@@Kneedragon1962lol glad we have an understanding. what I appreciate about atheism is at least one hypothetical imposition: if someone is in need of help, and there is no deity, what will you do? some folks believe that they need a deity to know morality, and it shows. atheists are world accepting and have contributed many good things to the world.

[@Kneedragon1962]

@@kurthill9070 ~ Morning. Still sorting through this one. Some folks do feel the need to invoke a deity when the subject of morality comes up. [sigh] Yeah, some do. Some can't accept there's any reason for existence at all without a deity. I don't know if there is a deity or not. I can see one argument which is quazi-scientific, which demands the attention and comprehension (at least partly) of some kind of sentient being, for 'reality' to even exist. I'm not sure that's right, but I'm not sure it's wrong either. But the concept that morality can't exist without religion, that's just dumb. Do they say we have no conscience or sense of right and wrong without God and Koom-bah-Ya? Have Atheists contributed? Well, I do love listening to Richard Dawkins. I don't always agree completely with him, but I do enjoy listening. Rather the same as I don't always agree completely with Bernie Sanders or Robert Reich ~ but I do enjoy listening to them. I'm trying for a TLDR way to say this. There is a central question to reality and life and character and personality, which everybody has to answer constantly, and that's the balance between selfish and generous, between self interest and the good of the group. The ideal, is a reasonable compromise. [aside: I do take a very similar view of political balance ~ Left Wing v Right Wing. My personal sympathy is slightly left of centre, but the 'Right' answer is the one that works with 'this' group of people. The ideal is some fairly moderate centre position that all sane people can occupy and live in.] Somebody who is too selfish and too self centred, is not good, but somebody who is too generous and too giving, they get presented as some kind of shining example, but in real life, such people are weirdos. Now we present those people as a shining example, but they're odd. Mother Terrisa is one example. Leonard Cheshire is another. Point is, all morality is a bit like this. We want to encourage people to behave in ways that are good for the group, the society, the race, the species. We bring up our children, teach them about decency and honour. We house-train our pets, so they don't dump in the hallway. The pets know all too well about being naughty or being nice. You don't have to sit on Santa's knee to know about it, and you don't need to Know Jesus to know about it. It's conditioning, and we have these moral concepts that tie it all together in almost sensible & logical ways. None of that requires fairies at the bottom of the garden or grand holy spooks in the sky. It doesn't mean there aren't any ~ it means they're optional.

[@100nu77]

Teresa was a monster

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

🤔 Quite a debatable list, but definitely interesting! 🌍

[@shawnwing-kovarik9762]

Where is the Roman Emperor, Nero?

[@Duelinator]

Martin Luther’s work was not antisemitic and I’m a devout Lutheran

[@scottlemiere2024]

Netanyahu should have been on the list with Hitler, there is very litter difference between the two men.

[@brandyhuber5323]

Netanyahu feels that being called out for his leadership decisions is fueling antisemitism. Not his following through with those decisions; just being called out for them. Really my dude? Your actions aren't the problem, but people pointing them out are. SMH.

[@Tuiiim1]

I agree with all that's said in the video. But I find it curious that people despised Napoleon for the incessant wars, and the US continues financing and participating in senseless wars. They despise Che Guevara for the execution of people and yet have death rows and murder millions every year. They point out the fact that Karl Marx's ideology inspired totalitarianism, and yet all the countries they mentioned were deliberately influenced by US military forces, dooming them to fail as a socialist state and in some cases becoming so anti-capitalist that they indeed became the worst places to live. I do not defend any deeds that those men did. But I find it important to look at the other side of things and see how the US plays a big part in most of the current world's problems nowadays.

[@rexerexer66]

I completely disagree with #1 Jesus is a great person not controversial so there should be someone else like Mao

[@DioDiablo702]

WokeMojo brainwashed in the Trump hate train

[@djch33zy_b4con6]

What about Pavlov?

[@asl2g4u]

1:13 was that batman's voice?? (Kevin Conroy)

[@manfrommarsZT]

Karl Mars? Really? Spare me

[@benjaminpityo4899]

Grain of salt since this is a woke left channel

[@worldofdoom995]

putting christ on here while ignoring Muhammed is a blatant case of hypocrisy.

[@quefuetato5779]

How come people don’t talk about the prophet Muhammad and all the great things he did? Scared? Political correctness?

[@michaeilagreen3947]

they didnt talk about her doing drugs in the back of stewies car

[@TheWarmachine375]

I'm just here to read the comments and eat popcorn.

[@supposedhumanmars]

Same 🍿

[@Nola5427]

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[@Groovey-kj6eu]

The devil ?

[@KenMasters.]

The devil is a spirit, not a person.

[@alfredolarsi5600]

They are talking about real people, not scary monsters of superstition inspiration.

[@KenMasters.]

@@alfredolarsi5600 The devil is real, just ask Hollywood.