Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!" Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over. That was from Emo Phillips, and one of my all time favorite jokes.
In your initial example; the part that got me going was that the earliest copy of the complaint was 200 years old, but your traffic infraction only happened 35 years ago. Proof of a timeless cop, monitoring our behavior on the highway.
I mainly comment in order to push this video and even more the channel! Support is well deserved because the videos are excellently produced and the text is always will written. You consider a lot of knowledge about scripture as known. Sometimes a Bible reference could bring more cleaerity. However most of the viewers will know what you mean. Great content!
Wow! I’m sooo glad I subscribed to you! This is what I’ve been looking for. I’m atheist for a while now but have wanted to fine tune and clarify my beliefs (and disbeliefs) in order to communicate with believers, and you dear sir, deliver! Wonderful presentation. I’m looking forward to catching up on all your past work, and keep up with your present. Thanks so much! 😍
I remember when a Christian friend asked me to read that book. I’d heard enough about it to know it was bogus, but I agreed. It was so easy to trash the horrible arguments and stories in the book. I sent him a whole list of references. Remarkably, he took them somewhat seriously. He still hasn’t decoverted, but he’s come a long way. Maybe one day he’ll take the final step.
I missed the atheist meeting once. Was almost converted to Islam. Now I never miss a meeting just in case I don't have the mental strength to fight off weak theistic arguments that I might come across. Just to be safe.
I don't believe Strobel was ever an Atheist in any purposeful way. He plays the "former atheist" card because it plays well and is lucrative. I was given his book several years ago, which contained a Forward describing what caused him to begin this "investigation" in the first place....centered around his wife's growing faith. In this forward he doesn't really describe himself as an atheist, as someone who came to a logical conclusion about the existence of god. Instead he described himself as someone who hadn't put much thought into the subject.
That's the thing about the term atheist. It doesn't say anything about why you don't believe in a god. So he's able to use the term in a deceiving way but still have it be valid.
I agree. I think this this was a cash cow for him. I've seriously thought of converting to Christianity, writing a book, making a fortune, and then converting back. It would be a really good way to retire.
As the victim of years of parental abuse, I always thought how much societies of the past And current would have been if one of the 10 commandments was "Thou shalt not abuse children in any way" Instead we have "Thou shalt not covet" like your neighbor's Tesla and such..
Yeah, those Ten Commandments were a bit crap, weren't they? Thou shalt not rape? Thou shalt not treat people as property? Who among us couldn't improve on the recommendations of the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving Creator of everything? D'oh!!!
Yeah... Sorry about that. It's hard doing this all on your own. Things slip by and at a certain point, you can't even see the problems because you're so used to seeing it and thinking its okay. Most of the time, I have someone checking this stuff for me. This time, because it was late in the month and I needed to get it up, I had to rush it. D'oh!!! I'll correct it in the book.
You'd hope that hearsay of an eye witness thirty years ago wouldn't be enough to convict or even raise a trial to convict anyone of anything...you'd hope. You'd hope that if said eye witness didn't even remember being an eye witness it would hold even less weight.
@@LadyhawksLairDotCom Back in the 70s, there was a religious anthology series on Sunday mornings in Michigan and it produced an episode called "God on trial." I'm not quite certain of the series title, but I think it may have been called "Insight".
people who apologetically say 'god had to work with the times' or some variant think they are somehow sidestepping this issue. a personal, loving god could never have allowed humans to normalize shitty behavior.
And it's also sidestepping the concept of a timeless deity. If it were timeless, why exactly would it need to "work with the times?" It's nonsense. It's an admission that their god concept shifts with society, and that alone negates the idea of a timeless, all-knowing deity, and the concept of objective morality as well.
Yes- reasonable to give 3 reasons the Bible is not inerrant/fallible: time lag in writings (witnesses becoming writers full of faulty recollections and wishful thinking); lack of both sides presented in the parsing of all sacred writings (church decided what would be canonical vs. not accepted); translation and language problems (interpretation). Looking forward to your next chapter.
As was mentioned a few comments back, "hearsay" was misspelled as "heresay". I saw two other spelling/fonting errors: The word "altar," as in an altar for worship was spelled "alter" and when Brian said the word "geography" the font read "geology". I only decided I'd better keep track of them after I saw the second one, and figured you were doing it on purpose, and were maybe going to throw a quiz at us at the end. Excellent piece, as always.
Brian. See Sai's comment below. It's called copy editing. Otherwise, damn! this series is awesome! If this series had been the first thing that I'd seen when I was a devout Roman Catholic, it would would not have taken me 25+ years to become an apatheist. Please keep up the good work and ... yes... copy editing.
Excellent comments on the obvious fact that the bible is totally man-made. Why couldn't I see it when I was a believer? The brainwashing was strong in this one.
Hey Brian, here's something I've been wondering about for a while: You've been doing these videos for a long time now, and you're content is always fantastic. In several of your videos I've seen you promoting other atheist youtubers (good on you), but I've never seen any of them giving you props, as they do for others in the Atheist community. What's up with that?
@@skwozies3083 not sure but probably was it just obvious he lying about being atheists , but Christian’s love hearing of how some nonbeliever as cum to know god and Jesus,
The various anonymous writers of the NT were as divided and conflicted as modern believers. The very Greek ideas that give the NT its flavour were very foreign to the place Jesus supposedly lived and the religion that Jesus was part of, namely Judaism. It is also interesting to note that the Pharisees were a small group and none were living and operating in the area Jesus supposedly had his "ministry" in. Yet he was supposedly plagued by Pharisees.
Thank you Mr. Deity. The planet Earth needs more people to freely think for themselves. It has yet to reach a class one civilization. Mainly because of closed minded brainwashing religions that can't be questioned by their followers. Exposing the sky friends and superstitions for what the are is a big help, Unfortunately its going to take a lot of time to sink in and time may be running out for the many. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
X and Y are both safe. Sorry to even point it out, as your clear and strong speaking style will always win the day, but I actually paused the video several times to check if someone was in my yard. Perhaps the most obvious is the vehicle sounds starting about 5:34 for around 30 seconds. Then again about 6:55 there is idle or revving noise for about 30 seconds, and finally (a bit more muffled, like a lawnmower or plane) starting about 9:51 and coming in and out for almost the next 3 minutes.
It's the first time that I see one of your videos that was why I was wondering if you are Chuck :-) And about the religion, why can't we simply say it was simply an error of evolution and thus thereby ending this long-lasting and complicated case of religion! :-)
Lord of Fire One cannot destroy that which does not exist. Also, destruction, as well as creation, is simply either the rearranging of matter or the conversion of energy into matter and vice versa.
That's another inconsistency in religion because the answer is both yes and no. God is an immortal being which means he can't be destroyed but at least with Greek and Roman gods, there is a way to kill a God. How can they be immortal if they can be killed? Actually that seems to be a problem within all fiction. Immortal means can't die but yet every immortal creature can die. Vampires are immortal but they have a long list full of things that can kill them. Really it just seems to be a long life span but there's a big difference between long life span and can't die. Immortality is like the one plot hole that writers keep using despite the fact it makes no sense what so ever.
Religion can best be compared to a virus which has gained immunity, over thousands of years, to the contradictory gains in knowledge and morality that should have destroyed it. Looking at American Christianity of 200 years ago, which espoused slavery, to Christians of today (who usually don't), you can see that religion at first opposes, denies, and then moves though allowing and, ultimately embracing those things that once should have killed it. Eventually, some purveyors will even claim that their religion CAME UP with those things (example: there are Muslims - I think Dr. Usama Hasan is one - who claim the Koran, read correctly, taught evolution before it was accepted today). In a few years their apologists and theologians will have completely reinterpreted their holy book and it'll become mainstream among their faithful, and they'll probably claim to have invented the theory! Sadly, this god in the mind cannot be destroyed. Like polio, I hope it becomes vanishingly rare, but never will it be completely gone.
dont try to fool us brian, you a silver fox of the best order, 35 years ago i imagine you as exactly the same, like morgan freeman or patrick stewart who came out of the womb old and lovable and who never age i assume sacrifices to the devil were involved for that magic power
In southern cali we did seminary, l.d.s., early mornings, before high-school. It was mandatory for driving privileges. The sports teams, basketball and softball, were a lot of fun and I could bring my friends along. WTF happened? We had "electric" mormons doing pschedelics trying to harmonize. The tolerance, I felt back then, in cali, has disappeared. My family moved to Utah and Idaho and became preppies of sorts, hoping for "end times". WTF.
Michael Hardin I believe that was my Line 6 classical. One of my all time favorite guitars (I was classically trained). I also have their electric that can sound like almost any other guitar, and a 1979 Strat.
I think if I went back in time and made a holy book, I would make it hard to understand: if it wasn't there would be no reason to have a church, and a church is a great place to meet new people. I find it much more difficult to make new friends since leaving religion.
That's one of the things religion relies so much on. The fact is, religion creates communities where you are assured everyone thinks the same as you do, there is nothing better than echo chambers where everyone has fun and pats themselves on their backs. But that is why, also, when you come out of religion, you search for new communities, and find friends in places where people gather for their hobby, their interests, or just to spend time together, like discos.
Jarb2104 That religion does this is generally a good thing, because it brings people together and keeps them out of cults. Even an echo chamber isn't necessarily bad; hell, your example of clubs based on hobbies are just echo chambers based on the idea that said hobby is cool. Furthermore, what if they can't find any such communities because they're all feminist echo chambers and the person gets chased out, what then?
GeatMaster I never said that, in that regard, religion was bad, or even that echo chambers were a bad thing, no where in my statement I am criticizing or advocating for anything in it. I am just stating something religion relies on to thrive, and how can it be shifted to different kinds of communities, for those who leave religion behind. Specially when the community they rely on, is heavily build on something that is no longer part of their beliefs.
There is really nothing much to add, you've covered it all. Anyway...a confusing stupid book, that has no special redeeming features when compared to similar religious tombs of other beliefs, for which each adherent finds their book completely reasonable, and the others - 'bat-shit-crazy', why doesn't this occur to them? Why are those indoctrinated into their religion incapable of recognising it?
zstxkn I have something called the One Man Crew. It’s a motorized dolly. In case you’re unaware, I do video production professionally - have since 2001. I have a ridiculous amount of equipment.
Lol… just noticed upon reloading this page again that an ad for POO-POURRI preceded the video… and I thought how nice it would be if all the deluded Christian trolling comments could be similarly quarantined… their stench "trapped in a [virtual] porcelain prison" where their nonsense would be isolated to one another in an echo chamber of superstitious thought.
The interpretation of the buy-bull has always bothered me, if gawd is supposed to be all knowing shouldn't his intelligence to create a book for humans not need interpretation? Was he so inept that interpreting those words to suit your present narrative be a perversion of his words and therefore blasphemous? 🤭
I personally believe Ezekiel 23:20 is the word of the the all powerful creator of everything (animal porn). PS I'm wearing "Obviously.. that's the down side" today, I wondered this morning just how many countries would kill me for it?
God is transcendent: he is not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients. But God is imaginary. He cannot be "i" (such that i²=-1) since i is algebraic, not transcendent. Therefore God is the product of i and a transcendental number, e.g. π. So we have: God = iπ. So we can say that God=ln(-1) (plus a constant).
Atheist meetings? The religious already think that we hold secret meetings some where worshiping Satan. Why would would you say that even as a joke? Someone's going to hear that, take your statement at face value as a literal statement of fact, and make references to it that an Atheist admitted to attending meetings with other Atheists. At least do air quotes when you say stuff like that. Or have those words on the screen making it a little more obvious that you're joking. You're trying to convince others to convert to Atheism but if you're including jokes that you have to already be an Atheist to understand what's the point of including them at all? Unless of course you're just trying to make videos that are just entertaining to Atheists in which case what's the point of these educational style videos when we already know all this stuff. I kinda of preferred the other style of videos that was just for entertainment purposes because that's where subtle jokes like Atheist meetings really would of worked. But here it just seems out of place.
Everything that is believed to be known about god comes from one source, the bible. If the statements concerning your innocence from the only witness to your case can be proven to be false and shown to be ignorant to the circumstances surrounding your case then that's it my friends, check and mate, end of story, full stop. Yet it lives on. Kind'a like our current president.
@@huffpappy and if the consequence for not being convinced of his lack of clarity is an eternal lake of fire, what does that make him? Spoiler alert: the most monumental piece of shit our petty minds could conceivably muster up... and then a whooooole lot more.
But... but... the bible is the word of god, because the bible says that the bible is the word of god. >_> Actually, now that I think about it I can't recall, is there a literal verse in the bible that claims that it is the word of god? Or have the religious always assumed that it is because somebody else simply told them that it is?
stellarfirefly All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 That's as close as it gets, methinks. I'm assuming "all scripture" includes only what Timothy considered to be God's word. It seems it would be pretty arrogant to deem his own words as such, thus excluding them. I do like the term "God-breathed" though. It makes me wonder about her lung capacity and the possibility of divine halitosis.
2 Tim 3:16 isn't enough. A verse is needed that says God can't lie or can only tell the truth. Look at Titus 1:2, Heb 6:18, (God can't lie); and Psalms 119:160, 2 Sam 7:28, (God is truthful). Now the Bible is circular in stating that what it states is truthful.
We have God's holy word? All religions can be easily deconstructed at their outset. What's the truth claim of Judaism and Christianity? Simple, we have a book written by men who were inspired by the Abrahamic God. Question: did the authors say they were inspired by God, or did God say he inspired the authors? Big difference. One could be believable. The other is hooey.
Strobel's a step above Bruggencate. It's a small step, but there's worse than Strobel. I know. It hurts my brain and terrifies me too. But there's worse than Strobel. Barely.
The case for christ is blatantly dishonest. My family references it constantly and they don't buy that it's incorrect. Confirmation bias is a bitch. Sadly, I don't think most christians will believe you. More likely I'd guess most are just going to say, "Nuh-uh, that's not true!" -_- -_- -_-
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He
said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in
God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He
said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said,
"Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I
said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said,
"Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or
Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative
Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes
Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said,
"Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern
Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern
Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said,
"Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I
said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
That was from Emo Phillips, and one of my all time favorite jokes.
That's fucking hysterical! You made me LOL!!! Thanks for that.
Emo is a genius!
Man... so glad I found this channel
This series definitely needs MORE VIEWS.
Please RECOMMEND this channel in other debunk video comments.
Incredible. This is definitely an underrated channel. With the passing of Hitchens we are in need of more great Atheist spokespeople.
Hitch lives!!!
Should have more views. Plus the exit/outro music is hypnotic.
Thank you Mr. Deity
In your initial example; the part that got me going was that the earliest copy of the complaint was 200 years old, but your traffic infraction only happened 35 years ago. Proof of a timeless cop, monitoring our behavior on the highway.
This is wonderful channel - thank you
Great work as always Brian! Concise, coherent, clear and edifying. Everything the Scriptures aren't.
This is what my brain always thinks but my mouth always manages to fuck up.
Not being even remotely brilliant myself, but I know it when I see it. And I see it here.
I mainly comment in order to push this video and even more the channel!
Support is well deserved because the videos are excellently produced and the text is always will written.
You consider a lot of knowledge about scripture as known. Sometimes a Bible reference could bring more cleaerity. However most of the viewers will know what you mean.
Great content!
GREAT VIDEOS SIR.
I find myself TAKING NOTES on almost all of them.
Wow! I’m sooo glad I subscribed to you! This is what I’ve been looking for. I’m atheist for a while now but have wanted to fine tune and clarify my beliefs (and disbeliefs) in order to communicate with believers, and you dear sir, deliver! Wonderful presentation. I’m looking forward to catching up on all your past work, and keep up with your present.
Thanks so much! 😍
I remember when a Christian friend asked me to read that book. I’d heard enough about it to know it was bogus, but I agreed. It was so easy to trash the horrible arguments and stories in the book. I sent him a whole list of references. Remarkably, he took them somewhat seriously. He still hasn’t decoverted, but he’s come a long way. Maybe one day he’ll take the final step.
Well done, my friend!!!
Very well put - one of your best, Mr D!
Good stuff.
Great series so far, Mister. Thanks for sharing it with us!
I missed the atheist meeting once. Was almost converted to Islam. Now I never miss a meeting just in case I don't have the mental strength to fight off weak theistic arguments that I might come across. Just to be safe.
Nice.
Benjamin Disraeli: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Me: "There are lies, damn lies, and religions."
That was really, really good Brian!
wow. well said. nobody else is as eloquent or as logical.
great job as always
Tip of the cap, good work sir!
Well done
I don't believe Strobel was ever an Atheist in any purposeful way. He plays the "former atheist" card because it plays well and is lucrative. I was given his book several years ago, which contained a Forward describing what caused him to begin this "investigation" in the first place....centered around his wife's growing faith. In this forward he doesn't really describe himself as an atheist, as someone who came to a logical conclusion about the existence of god. Instead he described himself as someone who hadn't put much thought into the subject.
That's the thing about the term atheist. It doesn't say anything about why you don't believe in a god. So he's able to use the term in a deceiving way but still have it be valid.
True... but he was obviously an attorney because he lies out his ass and doesn't even feel it anymore.
I agree. I think this this was a cash cow for him. I've seriously thought of converting to Christianity, writing a book, making a fortune, and then converting back. It would be a really good way to retire.
Excellent video!
Excellent evisceration, as always.
As the victim of years of parental abuse, I always thought how much societies of the past And current would have been if one of the 10 commandments was "Thou shalt not abuse children in any way" Instead we have "Thou shalt not covet" like your neighbor's Tesla and such..
Yeah, those Ten Commandments were a bit crap, weren't they? Thou shalt not rape? Thou shalt not treat people as property? Who among us couldn't improve on the recommendations of the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving Creator of everything? D'oh!!!
Really like this series :)
3:11 it's "hearsay" not "heresay"; 4:36 "altar" not "alter"
Yeah... Sorry about that. It's hard doing this all on your own. Things slip by and at a certain point, you can't even see the problems because you're so used to seeing it and thinking its okay. Most of the time, I have someone checking this stuff for me. This time, because it was late in the month and I needed to get it up, I had to rush it. D'oh!!! I'll correct it in the book.
misterdeity Also if you really want to be technical, it's multi-level hearsay _within_ hearsay. www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_805
This is your best series
Well put!
Great effort, thanks. (P.S. @4:33 altar not alter)
Great Video.
Yes, Yes, Yes and another YES EXACTLY!!!!
Glad I made a token contribution to your Patreon acct… perhaps it's time to do it again.
You'd hope that hearsay of an eye witness thirty years ago wouldn't be enough to convict or even raise a trial to convict anyone of anything...you'd hope. You'd hope that if said eye witness didn't even remember being an eye witness it would hold even less weight.
Good video.
Do a mock trial. That would be good fun.
Ever see _God on Trial_ ? That's an interesting movie.
@@LadyhawksLairDotCom Back in the 70s, there was a religious anthology series on Sunday mornings in Michigan and it produced an episode called "God on trial." I'm not quite certain of the series title, but I think it may have been called "Insight".
There is a movie about the Case for Christ coming out in April. Can't wait until Mr Deity reviews it.
A truly "holy book" would need no interpretation. In fact it wouldn't be a book - it would be a page.
Robert A So well said. And so succinctly.
Glad I stumbled upon you. Do you have a de-conversion video?
Neither does Mark's gospel narrative have any literary precedent. It's almost as if he made up the story up whole cloth.
people who apologetically say 'god had to work with the times' or some variant think they are somehow sidestepping this issue.
a personal, loving god could never have allowed humans to normalize shitty behavior.
And it's also sidestepping the concept of a timeless deity. If it were timeless, why exactly would it need to "work with the times?" It's nonsense. It's an admission that their god concept shifts with society, and that alone negates the idea of a timeless, all-knowing deity, and the concept of objective morality as well.
Yes- reasonable to give 3 reasons the Bible is not inerrant/fallible: time lag in writings (witnesses becoming writers full of faulty recollections and wishful thinking); lack of both sides presented in the parsing of all sacred writings (church decided what would be canonical vs. not accepted); translation and language problems (interpretation). Looking forward to your next chapter.
Great job!
Brilliant ❤
As was mentioned a few comments back, "hearsay" was misspelled as "heresay". I saw two other spelling/fonting errors: The word "altar," as in an altar for worship was spelled "alter" and when Brian said the word "geography" the font read "geology". I only decided I'd better keep track of them after I saw the second one, and figured you were doing it on purpose, and were maybe going to throw a quiz at us at the end. Excellent piece, as always.
wordplay is often an integral part of satire.
Brian. See Sai's comment below. It's called copy editing. Otherwise, damn! this series is awesome! If this series had been the first thing that I'd seen when I was a devout Roman Catholic, it would would not have taken me 25+ years to become an apatheist. Please keep up the good work and ... yes... copy editing.
Apatheist?
I just learned a new word.
Thank you!
Excellent comments on the obvious fact that the bible is totally man-made. Why couldn't I see it when I was a believer? The brainwashing was strong in this one.
Hey Brian, here's something I've been wondering about for a while: You've been doing these videos for a long time now, and you're content is always fantastic. In several of your videos I've seen you promoting other atheist youtubers (good on you), but I've never seen any of them giving you props, as they do for others in the Atheist community. What's up with that?
Lee strobel isnt fooling any atheist with his bogus I used to be an atheist. He just claims he used to be boost book sales.
If memory serves, wasn't he a pastor of a church during the time he was supposedly an "Atheist"?
@@skwozies3083 not sure but probably was it just obvious he lying about being atheists , but Christian’s love hearing of how some nonbeliever as cum to know god and
Jesus,
The various anonymous writers of the NT were as divided and conflicted as modern believers. The very Greek ideas that give the NT its flavour were very foreign to the place Jesus supposedly lived and the religion that Jesus was part of, namely Judaism. It is also interesting to note that the Pharisees were a small group and none were living and operating in the area Jesus supposedly had his "ministry" in. Yet he was supposedly plagued by Pharisees.
Thank you Mr. Deity. The planet Earth needs more people to freely think for themselves. It has yet to reach a class one civilization. Mainly because of closed minded brainwashing religions that can't be questioned by their followers. Exposing the sky friends and superstitions for what the are is a big help, Unfortunately its going to take a lot of time to sink in and time may be running out for the many. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
Excellent!
Brian, I caught a couple typos in the text of this video. "Heresay" should be "hearsay" and "alter" should be "altar."
George Maschke and it showed "geology" when Brian said "geography"
George Maschke here I say, this heresy about heresay is just hearsay.
George Maschke to alter an altar is to falter.
George Maschke some people possibly prefer pedantry over poetry. A Pew Poll might provide possible points of proof for such people. Possibly.
Yeah, rushed this out and didn't get people to look at it first. My bad.
God won't tell you exactly what God wants, but will put you through hell if you don't figure it out. If there is such a being, it's obviously a woman.
Oh!!! That hurt.
Why is the Golden Rule so insurmountably difficult?
AMEN
>Heresay
>Alter
Please have somebody proofread the text that appears in the videos.
It's done on purpose as a kind of fun thing for watchers to spot
Great stuff as always, but what's with the background noise? Did you record this next to a fleet refueling station?
I didn't hear anything in the background until the music began to rise at 12:45. Is that what you're referring to?
I'm not hearing any background noise either. Are these noises saying anything to you? They're not saying, "Kill x or y" are they?
X and Y are both safe. Sorry to even point it out, as your clear and strong speaking style will always win the day, but I actually paused the video several times to check if someone was in my yard. Perhaps the most obvious is the vehicle sounds starting about 5:34 for around 30 seconds. Then again about 6:55 there is idle or revving noise for about 30 seconds, and finally (a bit more muffled, like a lawnmower or plane) starting about 9:51 and coming in and out for almost the next 3 minutes.
I hear them. Definitely engine noises. Completely ruined atheism for me. I now must convert to Catholicism. thanks Brain.
It's the first time that I see one of your videos that was why I was wondering if you are Chuck :-) And about the religion, why can't we simply say it was simply an error of evolution and thus thereby ending this long-lasting and complicated case of religion! :-)
6:12 Listed Geology, said Geography.
I always like to see if youz guyz are paying attention. Good catch.
And you spelled altar wrong.
Also, it's hearsay, not heresay.
Don't worry about that 35-year-old traffic ticket. The limitations period for traffic tickets is usually about 30 days.
Michael Sommers lol not in Maryland .... after 30 days the penalties can be pretty hefty...
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Even in Maryland they can't serve you with a traffic ticket 35 years after the alleged offense.
I heard your closing line as "The God _Destruction_", which now begs the question, can God be destroyed?
Lord of Fire One cannot destroy that which does not exist. Also, destruction, as well as creation, is simply either the rearranging of matter or the conversion of energy into matter and vice versa.
Hopey Changey
That's what I get for asking the obvious, huh?
Lord of Fire Ha! Sorry to be such a nerdy buzzkill. Still, there are many oblivious among us to whom these things are obviously not quite so obvious.
That's another inconsistency in religion because the answer is both yes and no. God is an immortal being which means he can't be destroyed but at least with Greek and Roman gods, there is a way to kill a God. How can they be immortal if they can be killed?
Actually that seems to be a problem within all fiction. Immortal means can't die but yet every immortal creature can die. Vampires are immortal but they have a long list full of things that can kill them. Really it just seems to be a long life span but there's a big difference between long life span and can't die. Immortality is like the one plot hole that writers keep using despite the fact it makes no sense what so ever.
Religion can best be compared to a virus which has gained immunity, over thousands of years, to the contradictory gains in knowledge and morality that should have destroyed it. Looking at American Christianity of 200 years ago, which espoused slavery, to Christians of today (who usually don't), you can see that religion at first opposes, denies, and then moves though allowing and, ultimately embracing those things that once should have killed it. Eventually, some purveyors will even claim that their religion CAME UP with those things (example: there are Muslims - I think Dr. Usama Hasan is one - who claim the Koran, read correctly, taught evolution before it was accepted today). In a few years their apologists and theologians will have completely reinterpreted their holy book and it'll become mainstream among their faithful, and they'll probably claim to have invented the theory! Sadly, this god in the mind cannot be destroyed. Like polio, I hope it becomes vanishingly rare, but never will it be completely gone.
dont try to fool us brian, you a silver fox of the best order, 35 years ago i imagine you as exactly the same, like morgan freeman or patrick stewart who came out of the womb old and lovable and who never age
i assume sacrifices to the devil were involved for that magic power
Hahahahahaha!!!!
In southern cali we did seminary, l.d.s., early mornings, before high-school. It was mandatory for driving privileges. The sports teams, basketball and softball, were a lot of fun and I could bring my friends along. WTF happened? We had "electric" mormons doing pschedelics trying to harmonize. The tolerance, I felt back then, in cali, has disappeared. My family moved to Utah and Idaho and became preppies of sorts, hoping for "end times". WTF.
hearsay ,,, that's how the word is spelled
What model of guitar is that?
Michael Hardin I believe that was my Line 6 classical. One of my all time favorite guitars (I was classically trained). I also have their electric that can sound like almost any other guitar, and a 1979 Strat.
misterdeity
Thanks for the reply. Keep on Rockin'!
I love this series!
"Hearsay". "Altar".
Bueno!
I think if I went back in time and made a holy book, I would make it hard to understand: if it wasn't there would be no reason to have a church, and a church is a great place to meet new people. I find it much more difficult to make new friends since leaving religion.
That's one of the things religion relies so much on. The fact is, religion creates communities where you are assured everyone thinks the same as you do, there is nothing better than echo chambers where everyone has fun and pats themselves on their backs.
But that is why, also, when you come out of religion, you search for new communities, and find friends in places where people gather for their hobby, their interests, or just to spend time together, like discos.
Jarb2104 That religion does this is generally a good thing, because it brings people together and keeps them out of cults. Even an echo chamber isn't necessarily bad; hell, your example of clubs based on hobbies are just echo chambers based on the idea that said hobby is cool.
Furthermore, what if they can't find any such communities because they're all feminist echo chambers and the person gets chased out, what then?
GeatMaster
I never said that, in that regard, religion was bad, or even that echo chambers were a bad thing, no where in my statement I am criticizing or advocating for anything in it.
I am just stating something religion relies on to thrive, and how can it be shifted to different kinds of communities, for those who leave religion behind. Specially when the community they rely on, is heavily build on something that is no longer part of their beliefs.
“Alter” should be altered.
OMG Cat scan!!!!
There is really nothing much to add, you've covered it all.
Anyway...a confusing stupid book, that has no special redeeming features when compared to similar religious tombs of other beliefs, for which each adherent finds their book completely reasonable, and the others - 'bat-shit-crazy', why doesn't this occur to them?
Why are those indoctrinated into their religion incapable of recognising it?
*The ambiguous bible;* = _"Gods Big Book Of Multiple Choice Answers"_
how do you get the camera to slowly move around like that? or are the background and foreground composited?
zstxkn I have something called the One Man Crew. It’s a motorized dolly. In case you’re unaware, I do video production professionally - have since 2001. I have a ridiculous amount of equipment.
I cringe at believers
Lol… just noticed upon reloading this page again that an ad for POO-POURRI preceded the video… and I thought how nice it would be if all the deluded Christian trolling comments could be similarly quarantined… their stench "trapped in a [virtual] porcelain prison" where their nonsense would be isolated to one another in an echo chamber of superstitious thought.
The interpretation of the buy-bull has always bothered me, if gawd is supposed to be all knowing shouldn't his intelligence to create a book for humans not need interpretation? Was he so inept that interpreting those words to suit your present narrative be a perversion of his words and therefore blasphemous? 🤭
"Hearsay", and "altar", I guess ;)
I personally believe Ezekiel 23:20 is the word of the the all powerful creator of everything (animal porn). PS I'm wearing "Obviously.. that's the down side" today, I wondered this morning just how many countries would kill me for it?
Awwwww yeah!
This.is. Greit. Thanks
If I was to combine a history hat with economics hat then the faith books make some sense. But out dated.
You wouldn't bother with decapitating a dove... but I think that boiling a baby goat in it's mothers milk will make _my_ list!
Hearsay, not "heresay". Just sayin'
And "altar", not "alter"
And grammar nazi not grammer nazi. Muhahahahaha
Polly Pockets And “spelling”not “grammar“. 😜
Wow, you are definitely my platonic man crush to out crush all others.
I wanna make videos...or a podcast together 🙁...please...🖖
I’d be happy to come on a podcast.
God is transcendent: he is not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients. But God is imaginary. He cannot be "i" (such that i²=-1) since i is algebraic, not transcendent. Therefore God is the product of i and a transcendental number, e.g. π. So we have: God = iπ. So we can say that God=ln(-1) (plus a constant).
You forgot to carry the 1.
Atheist meetings? The religious already think that we hold secret meetings some where worshiping Satan. Why would would you say that even as a joke? Someone's going to hear that, take your statement at face value as a literal statement of fact, and make references to it that an Atheist admitted to attending meetings with other Atheists.
At least do air quotes when you say stuff like that. Or have those words on the screen making it a little more obvious that you're joking. You're trying to convince others to convert to Atheism but if you're including jokes that you have to already be an Atheist to understand what's the point of including them at all?
Unless of course you're just trying to make videos that are just entertaining to Atheists in which case what's the point of these educational style videos when we already know all this stuff. I kinda of preferred the other style of videos that was just for entertainment purposes because that's where subtle jokes like Atheist meetings really would of worked. But here it just seems out of place.
Everything that is believed to be known about god comes from one source, the bible. If the statements concerning your innocence from the only witness to your case can be proven to be false and shown to be ignorant to the circumstances surrounding your case then that's it my friends, check and mate, end of story, full stop. Yet it lives on. Kind'a like our current president.
“Hearsay” I.e. You say what you heard.
What if God did not want his word to be clear?
Then he succeeded. Usually someone taking the time to author a book wants to be understood. Maybe God is just a big idiot.
@@huffpappy and if the consequence for not being convinced of his lack of clarity is an eternal lake of fire, what does that make him?
Spoiler alert: the most monumental piece of shit our petty minds could conceivably muster up... and then a whooooole lot more.
But... but... the bible is the word of god, because the bible says that the bible is the word of god. >_>
Actually, now that I think about it I can't recall, is there a literal verse in the bible that claims that it is the word of god? Or have the religious always assumed that it is because somebody else simply told them that it is?
stellarfirefly There is only a verse saying the scriptures are edifying or some such thing. If I'm remembering correctly.
stellarfirefly All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17
That's as close as it gets, methinks. I'm assuming "all scripture" includes only what Timothy considered to be God's word. It seems it would be pretty arrogant to deem his own words as such, thus excluding them. I do like the term "God-breathed" though. It makes me wonder about her lung capacity and the possibility of divine halitosis.
2 Tim 3:16 isn't enough. A verse is needed that says God can't lie or can only tell the truth. Look at Titus 1:2, Heb 6:18, (God can't lie); and Psalms 119:160, 2 Sam 7:28, (God is truthful). Now the Bible is circular in stating that what it states is truthful.
We have God's holy word? All religions can be easily deconstructed at their outset. What's the truth claim of Judaism and Christianity? Simple, we have a book written by men who were inspired by the Abrahamic God.
Question: did the authors say they were inspired by God, or did God say he inspired the authors? Big difference. One could be believable. The other is hooey.
Ho come on, Lee strobel ?
That's the lowest low hanging fruit...
(although I can't find a high hanging fruit apologist...)
Strobel's a step above Bruggencate. It's a small step, but there's worse than Strobel.
I know. It hurts my brain and terrifies me too. But there's worse than Strobel. Barely.
Awww, c'mon! Ray Comfort isn't lower? Seriously??? [grin!]
Troubleshooter125
Ray Comfort isn't dead yet ?
I though he was...
Then you're right !
Really? Are there any apologists that are more credible?
God is the aztec god lol?
The case for christ is blatantly dishonest. My family references it constantly and they don't buy that it's incorrect. Confirmation bias is a bitch.
Sadly, I don't think most christians will believe you. More likely I'd guess most are just going to say, "Nuh-uh, that's not true!" -_- -_- -_-
i don't know what if all the power over peoples live goes to my head, who would want that power... mmmmm
Worst communicator ..
Other than your spouse..
Good stuf!!