I could not say it better myself.
Sam Harris=Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC0ePcUhbps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GBOPhWP0Oc
That is all.
Amen.
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Sam Harris=Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC0ePcUhbps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GBOPhWP0Oc
That is all.
Amen.
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I’ve watched that episode. Ben was being a pussy and acting as if he was the next Ghandi. He never got the point of what the other two were talking about. Politically correctness to the max.
ben needs to stick to acting
This is not that. This is the best of Sam Harris.
(laughter) I enjoy these things just to see how flustered the other side gets.
But It’s annoying how quickly atheists jump to science as if they are its secret keeper. Atheism/theism are more starting philosophies than grounded in fact. Guys like Sam Harris are good at suavely flinging shit at theists, but it’s not like they’re more in the know.
Above is less a theism/atheism gripe, more of a “science as cult” gripe.
I’d like to agree with you on principle that people know nothing. But in this case, it’s ridiculous to believe in something that cannot be seen and approve of edicts from religions that are rooted in ancient barbarism.
Based solely on religious edicts, no of course not. If the survival of faith depended on Southern Baptists knowing what they were talking about, it would be a sad world indeed.
It’s real easy to want to defend religion just to toss grenades at insane liberals. However, it is my belief that organized religion, over time, has caused more pain and anguish than good.
Plus it’s childish rubbish.
i think the fault lies in man on the pain and suffering part. free will is a hard concept to mesh against an omnipotent God, if one is being honest
But man created religion no?
religion is to God, as a reflection is the substabce. the odds of us having this conversation are literally 1/infinity
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“don’t Bogart that joint my friend …
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When I posted. You had ben afleck video when he was on bill maher with Harris. Regardless he sucked at defending the indefensible.
It was wrongly titled. I replaced it.
Let me just say, in no way am I trying to convince any of you that God is an absurd theory conjured up by power crazed men. However, the larger point here is that people need to take responsibility for their own lives and quit chalking things up to divine destiny.
As one Marist Brother said in one of my high school religion classes: “…if God does not exist then I’d hate to be doing all this for nothing” and then he swung his cord.
Religion/belief is what you make it. Very few can handle not knowing anything. Having no fucking clue is perfectly okay to me.
Most debates are won by the person with the most brains and carisma, facts and talking points be damned.
So true.
We need another Christopher Hitchens.
Salman Rushdie had the best commentary. I think you might like it.
http://www.englishpen.org/campaigns/salman-rushdie-condemns-attack-on-charlie-hebdo/
Not that I am against religion or religious people but I think we are at a point where we should be able to discuss/critique 3,000 year old myths with the consequences of death or litigation.
Freedom of speech, yes.
Yup, but sadly our freedom of speech is being attacked in order not to offend others sensitivities.
With out
You got to love how you all demand free will from God and when he gives it to you and we all make a total fucking mess of it all we want to blame God. GOD is love and patience and giving and omnipotent…Satan can’t create ONE thing good, all he can do is counterfeit…fake love , fake security (wealth and greed), fake wisdom (boastful knowledge)…You believe in God? So what, demons know damn well he exists! If you think you’re going to get through life outsmarting satan and dodging God, you’re fooling yourself.
blah, blah, blah
rubbish
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… whether you agree with the comment or disagree with the comment …
… “rubbish” is an unfair dismissal of his honest opinion !
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Believe me … I’m NOT a big “religion guy” … but, I felt the comment was remarkably coherent !!!
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… now if you’ll please excuse me I think I see a tuba ovah there that I will go stick my head inside … uhhh … Inside of !
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I certainly don’t believe in demons. God maybe, but not demons, and not even Satan. God is all powerful so satan can be nothing more than an extension of God.
Nobody ‘demanded’ free will from God. He chose to give it.
Fly is saying that religion, a man made perception of God, has driven a group of barbarians to cause havoc and death driven by a doctrine that is essentially fueled by religion alone. If we were talking about communism instead of religion, no one would make a peep, but as soon as you bring up religion, the conversation runs into a wall. Frustrating
Some of us are not blaming it all on “religion.” It is crazed people with a crazy religion. You can say all religion is crazy, but all religious people do not act like that. And some athiests do cause havoc and death as well.
And ironically supported by people who call themselves progressives.
Dalai Lama is a religious figure. You can’t blame religion in a blanket way for this violence. Barbaric religions are not at all the same as religions of peace. One really has to question if Islam is a ‘religion of peace.’ Much horrific violence is committed by zealot Islamics based on their religion and their reading of Koran. Of course Christianity has it’s violent elements, particularly in history. KKK meetings usually had a local pastor member leading prayers. But the abolitionist movements and underground railroad were church based as well.
Im just saying you cant blame all violence on religion. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were athiests.
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blah, blah, blah
rubbish
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That shows original thinking.
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… it was a joke and a reference to a previous …
Oh never mind !
SIGH !!!
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Sorry, I didn’t see the smiley face until later. My bad.
Hitler was an atheist, therefore all atheists are psychopathic killers.
Not all, just a few. Same as religious people.
You know what I believe, I believe religious conversations should be held at 4 am, fueled by a scotch and cocaine binge. The rest of the time, it’s not worth the air in your lungs.
I don’t know how to even start but I took care of my mother as she was passing away in my home, she had hospice 24 seven . there were things that took place in that room while she was dying and they could not be explained including sounds whistling and then my mother who did not believe in God told me that she had met her angels and I asked her did they pop in mom or did they float in? and she looked at me and as serious as can be she said no they walked in just like you do there is God , there is something else that we cannot see
I understand if you have not been through such an event there’s no way you’re going to believe. This is one thing that has to happen to you and only then you will know it’s real
Violent people will use any justification they can find for the violent things they do. They will use religion too, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the violence was caused by the religion. It just means that the religion has some power that they can grab and take advantage of.
Religion is like a piece of clear plastic wrap– for those who can see through it. It’s used by violent people as a public relations tool.
The violent people are not doing religion. They’re doing something else– fighting for the power to dominate their country or something.
Religion is usually just a bunch of folks stories. But if they are popular enough folks stories, someone will grab them for advertising purposes.
What part of believing in a higher power do you not agree with? You liberals are worse than religion. You do not even see the scam you worship. They are playing you the fool based on nothing but your own gullibility.
A few years ago I read a story about a woman and one of her adopted daughters going down to Bolivia to help out an orphanage. I decided I wanted to send her a donation and did. A few months later the woman and her husband sent me an email that they prayed and God wanted them to adopt another overseas child (they already had four). They said it would cost $33k and God told them they would not pay for it. I wished them luck but a few months later I felt God wanting me to send them money and I sent them 3k. Then another few months later that sent me a picture of a little girl from China. She had this really short hair that made her look like a boy, a big frown on her face, scars around her ankles where the orphanage had tied her to her bed at night and she had been born with one arm. God wanted me to send them more money to this family and I said look at her she’s broken, she can’t be helped and besides I’ve never even met these people. But God kept asking me. I finally sent them 12k more so they could pay the rest of their fees. When they finally got her to the states they invited me to their town to meet them and the little girl. When I went into the restaurant I saw that little girl standing on a chair and her face and smile lit up the whole room like an angel. That’s how God works.
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YOU … are either a Saint !
… the most generous caring human being I have ever come across …
or, the most gullible fool on God’s Earth !
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Very nice sheik. You got more than $15K worth of happiness from that.
Not to be flippant Shiek, but that had nothing at all to do with God. You made that happen and know one secretly spoke to you in silent tones to convince you to make that generous donation.
Hey Shiek, I’m going to adopt a Rottweiler please send me a few grand LOL!!
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