Their IGNORANCE is palpable... and yet eclipsed by their arrogance
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Stupid "investment". shares in art do NOT rise as fast or surely as actual art pieces. Or stocks, even now.
Stephen, if you can't figure out for yourself why the stock market commodification of legacy art is egregious and disgusting, then I'm flabbergasted. I never figured you for a guy who'd want to act as an agent of capitalist hegemony, and always imagined that your rationality and humanity extended beyond the realm of abstract philosophical critique. You've earned your first dislike from me with the regret that I can't click the icon at least 10 times. My subscription to your channel is on probation until I see a walk-back.
I'm going to unbend and offer you a brief summary of why this kind of thing is bad: If schemes like this are not a losing bet for investors, then their intended effect will bid up the price of significant art to a level where it is not only beyond the reach of non-billionaire individuals, but beyond the reach of public institutions, removing it from the cultural commonwealth at large, and consigning it to the palaces of the overlords. Comprende? Are you in favor of the democratization of art and culture, or the enemy of that idea?
Looks a scam. Bad idea selling “investment” without knowing 100% what’s behind it. Even if it was legit, investing can generate losses as well as profits and I would never tell people what to do with their money without being absolutely clear about the risks.
Everyone is trying to sell me shit. It never fucking ends.
This is why I gave up on cable TV.
I'm curious to know what's in it for you. _How do you benefit?_ ($)
"obnoxious, selfish, always clamoring to be first, screaming to be recognized as the best, first reaction is always anger and petulance, everyone is beneath Him... condescending, bullying child". I legit thought the author was introducing us to the God of the Old Testament.
I thought he was talking about all the online preachers and apologists. You know, the group that has exponentially more members.
lol oh stop it ! you starting to sound like "god choosen" lool
That’s also a perfect description of Donald Trump.
All of these comments. Lol Christian apologetics, and complaints regarding atheism, are nothing but hypocritical projection so strong it would blow a hole through the moon.
Noice
A Priest, a Rabi and an Imam walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and asks "Is this some kind of a joke?"
And he replies, "Of course not, it's a hat for every occasion." I mean, seriously, has that guy ever been to a bar? Has anyone ever walked through the doors and proclaimed, "I'm an atheist, yo!"
If I was the bartender I would make them put their money down first.
Add guru too
I straight up chortled.
Given your time of the joke I guessed the plot twist of the joke…
It was Halloween and all three were Atheists dressed in what their three scary figures…
…and they all drank happily every after.
As has been said many times, there is nobody more arrogant than somebody who genuinely believes everything on this planet, and indeed, the entire universe, was created just for them. That the creator of the universe cares deeply about them personally, and is watching them all the time. That they are the creator of the universe's greatest achievement.
The irony of them as theists saying they follow the science whilst also calling us athiests pseudo intellectual is unreal. Ah yes, the people who believe things solely because an ancient book said so are definitely way more scientific than the people who look for tangible evidence in dna or fossils or carbon dating etc etc etc
Can anyone prove 100% that carbon dating is accurate? Has anyone witnessed the big bang? Has anyone witnessed a species evolving to another species?
To completely believe that these theories have been 100% proven is an act of faith. No different to any other faith.
That book is incomplete it needs the following chapters:. 1. Top fashion tips for atheists 2. Banana bread recipes for atheists 3. Airport hacks for atheists and 4. Advanced knitting for atheists.
> Banana bread recipes for atheists
There's a Ray Comfort joke hiding in here...
The End Is Near. Send Me Your Money. You Don't Need It.
Faith! the word that always comes along after reason and logic disappear. Faith is the stuff that lotteries thrive on.
Oh, Stephen. You make me laugh and cry at the same time. I adore you.
Again, awesome work sir! Thank you.
What strikes me so much is how consistent theists are when they reference “god” without ever telling us the NAME of the god they are referring to.
Thanks for this. The Gish-gallop technique is a favorite of the theists. Specially one that accuses the atheists of being religious.
There's a reason why every dogmatic religion ever asserted by mankind started very localized & is not surprisingly derived from the culture of that region, but most people are unable/unwilling to connect-the-dots. At this point in time, abstract forms of Deism are the only remotely plausible forms of theism - but the complete lack of dogma means that people can't use it for power, manipulation & control.
100% Projection, ignorance and LIES!
The definition of Faith is a “strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof” and “a strongly held belief or theory”.
The definition of opinion is “a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge”.
These definitions are nearly identical and it can therefore be said that faith is nothing more than an opinion.
When life’s circumstances (all life) is confidently examined it becomes clear that what we know of the universe and our existence in it, is vastly outweighed by what we don’t know. Most of what we believe then is faith or opinion that has been handed down to us from our parents or caregivers and strongly based upon the region of the world we were born into. While some individuals find fault with their natal beliefs, many cling to these psychological lifelines and never search for other possible explanations outside of the comfortable lies they have been given.
Does it matter so much how we label ourselves to identify what we came to believe, or is it enough to accept that we are searching for a truth that may eventually lead us to an understanding that our only purpose might just be to survive as a species for as long as we possibly can before a change erupts within our universe that forces our elimination or mutation into something unrecognizable to our present identity?
What divides people are their individual beliefs and while we’re squandering our limited number of breaths on debating unknowns, we fail to acknowledge that when that change comes upon us, holding onto our individual faith (opinion) won’t be an option. Change will materialize whether or not we are physiologically or psychologically equipped to survive within that changed environment.
While our species lives on day to day, we continue murdering each other widely based upon unknown and unproven labels and ideologies. But the processes driving the universe don’t recognize or acknowledge what we believe or how we feel. There doesn’t appear to be any moral glue holding the universe together. There only seems to be one rule for survival whether we are a single individual or an infinite range of species-there are no rules and there are no gods keeping score.
It's never too late to agree on the one thing that unites us all-survival-until it's too late. Adapt, change, survive or be eliminated. Those are the only options.
These guys are the perfect example of ignorant arrogance. I don’t believe they even buy into the garage they spout. It surely seems to make them financially comfortable though.
I’m a conservative in terms of government policy and I’m embarrassed by these people. I’m reminded of a Sam Harris quote when he was asked what he would accept as proof of god and responded “the proof you would demand for any idea in your life other than religion”
As an atheist reading the r/debateanatheist subreddit I see arrogance and feelings of superiority all the time
quite a good job done here, sir 👍
They are human constructs, all of it is, but not all human constructs are faith systems.
I actually didn't the impression that it was a best selling book. This is not the first time I heard someone speak of a book that was written by a "best selling author." There's plenty here to debunk without the need to grasp for straws.
Speaking disparagingly of atheists - "And there are so many versions of this,". This coming from a man who follows one particular version of Christianity from the 3,000 possible alternative sects available. Irony so thick you could cut it with a knife.
As many have said here, the claims are just so ridiculously wrong that I can't even be mad -- if a person truly believes in those lies, then they're either a tapeworm that I should not waste my time with or have been indoctrinated to a level where I can only feel pity for them lol.
You mirror my own feelings. I see saw between laughing and being sad at their level of ignorance and projection.
I mean... I've been an atheist for about 25 years now. I'm pretty chilled about it now. I don't feel the urge to prove theists wrong anymore. But when I JUST became an atheist? Yeah, that description of the ARROGANT, PETULANT PRICK was quite ACCURATE! haha
It is people like Dawkins & Hitchens I left Christian faith to become a pagan.
Just a quick tip, every time yall say "sky daddy" or "bronze age fairy tale" youre really doin more harm than good, it just gives these people ammo and has never changed anyone's perspective.
I’m a Christian, and I can confirm what you’re saying.
I’ve not commented on any posts, aside from yours, because I can tell when people are hostile. My point is that normal Christians will be totally cool about someone not believing in God.
Being a person that mocks other peoples beliefs makes you a dick, not an atheist. Like you said, it gives us ammo.
@@therealgingerbeardman no I'm an atheist that's also an asshole
@@therealgingerbeardman Thanks for the tips. But to be fair, when I ask them to define their terms-meaning god-they don't have a definition, so how do you know what they are talking about? I didn't think I needed to come up with a definition as I don't use the term but I use imaginary being. Open to better definitions though.
@@2Question-Everything Seeking truth always leads to God the Creator.
You can start with any path to begin seeking truth, and it will eventually end up in an infinite loop.
For example:
Our best theory on the creation of all things is that a Big Bang was the beginning of time, space, matter, energy, etc.
In order for a bang to be created, there would have to be enough time that existed before the bang to allow enough energy build up to cause a bang.
What caused the energy to build up and start the bang?
What created whatever caused the energy build up?
What created the thing that created the thing? (You’ve entered an infinite loop here.)
The only way out of this loop is to accept something always existed as far back as we can understand infinity.
What created infinity? What created the thing that created infinity? (Welcome back to the loop)
That’s God, the creator.
What created God?
So all these have been pointed out to be "qualities" of the religious, and this bloke's answer is to go:
"Nuuh, that's you, that is."
Truly they put "History Today" to shame.
So, Michael never said (As I understand him) that there are no smart atheists. He accused the New Atheists (Dawkins and co) of not knowing what they're talking about, which is demonstrably true. Dawkins got a bunch of theistic arguments patently wrong because he doesn't know any philosophy, yet fancied himself capable of writing a book about it. So pointing at the proportion of atheists among "great scientists" (I'd like to see the source on that tbh, because I'm curious how "great" is defined) is a non-sequitur - Dawkins remains a midwit - and to suggest otherwise is to lie about what the man actually said.
Great video, thanks Stephen.
Thank you so much!!!!!
That joke he did, i don´t think i ever heard such a bad joke before....
That opening 30 seconds is breathtaking. I think the only thing close to right he said is about philosophical materialism, and I don't think that's a hard and fast rule. I'm not sure he even knows what a "Faith" or "Faith System" is from the way he uses those words.
As a Christian (more of a None these days) I find these two men to be overwhelmingly Evangelical.
The atheist Vegan and Crossfitter joke was funny even tho I literally never mention my atheism
As one of your Christian viewers, I also find the smug arrogance of these two equal parts ironic and tragic.
daily wire? nay , the daily wipe.
Saying that American Christians typically want something closer to social Darwinism under your definition is entirely incorrect. Just as not believing in a god doesn’t mean you hate those who believe, denying the usefulness of increased government power, influence, and spending on welfare doesn’t mean you hate those who would be on the receiving end of those benefits or wish to see their wealth and prosperity decrease. It simply means that they have differing opinions on how to go about approaching the issue. At best, this statement was ignorance, at worst it was an intentional mis characterization I would’ve thought you above.
did that chap really say that believing in the exsistance of invisible men in the sky is highbrow?! i think that neither Anthony and Michael have never actually met any atheists. they are very insecure to be so bothered. religious people remind me of people who, when not wanting to hear the truth, put their fingers in their ears and mutter 'la la la' loudly. i can't understand why the different religions can't get on as the zealots in all of the seem to believe the same things. i try so hard to be kind but religious like these make me so sad and angry with their intolerance and hate. why do they need to be so awful? these two seem to be what they are accusing atheists of being. atheists need to spend time and effort in thinking through their thoughts and beliefs rather than just accepting ideas passed down without reflection.
love to see Knowles do a reaction video to this video
love you man
I grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland and I had religion shoved down my neck from a very early age. I became an Atheist after over fifty years believing in the Bible; a big book of Bronze Age fairy tales. Now I am actually free. I have just subscribed to the channel. Keep up the good work!
Welcome!
Nice ! Be carefull we are a little vulerable after losing a faith, and often search an other one, be careful of cult.
now that's unfair, only half of it is from the bronze age, the other half is from antiquity !
A significant portion of the bible is actually iron age, not bronze.
Welcome Rob.
If people keep telling you theyre an Atheist within the first few minutes of meeting you, its probably because you're spouting religious dogma at them and not even caring to notice.
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Yeah, prettymuch the only people that I tell right away that I'm an atheist, is anyone that knocks on my door holding their holy book, or anyone that mentions jesus (or equivalent) in their first sentence to me.
@@carlosa4852 Mormons? 🤔
@@carlosa4852 me too! Or if I’m busy, I just say “no” and shut the door, if I answered it at all.
I never mention I'm an atheist unless I'm asked or very annoyed by religious banter
Ahhh Michael Knowles. The guy who, unironically, converted back to Catholicism because of the Ontological Argument. The argument that even Thomas Aquinas thought was dog shit
The peak of intellect arises
The argument for god that disproves the god of the bible lol.
The funniest part is he has no clue how bad his theology and religious history are. It’s middle school level arguments at best he puts out
It's all projection from these religious freaks.
They have no original thoughts and only repackage the same bronze age mythology. 🙄
These guys believe this trash for purely emotional reasons. That's why they come across as so defensive.
I think he even (re)joined the Catholic Church when the sexual abuse came out.
The best quote by far is "Once you understand it's a faith system, then their arrogance makes sense"
Yeah, I noticed that too. Don’t think they thought that one through.
@@willroberts336 do they ever think anything through?
@@eh9618 Faith encourages not to, so... I'm guessing: nope. And eh... - no pun intended, but you do make it a fun one regardless - We've come full circle I suppose, because you know, _once you understand it's a faith system, then their arrogance makes sense,_ I guess :) Comment thread complete :p
The problem is these religious freaks still think having faith is a VIRTUE. 😬
Self report
Michael Knowles calling atheists “pseudo intellectual blowhards” is the peak of irony.
Literally everything he says is projection, he’s the embodiment of degeneracy
"Being a religious believer is a constant struggle against the logic of the universe"
I don't understand how a religious person can say this out loud without their brain immediately going "wait a minute..."
No matter how hard I try, I just can't imagine the state of mind required for this.
The see "logic" as a curse word.
"It takes just as much faith to be an atheist" has always tickled me. Imagine if an atheist said "it takes just as much skepticism to be a theist".
When a christian apologists says that i take as a big win, imagine taking the big winner card god itself gave you, which even the bible puts in a pedestal, and throwing it to the trashcan because 'everyone has it' including the non collectors.
I was born an atheist, I spent my entire life not having faith in any supernatural concept. When I hear a theist tell me that I have "faith" in something, I immediately loose interest in their viewpoint, because they just showed me an inability to see beyond their preconceptions.
@@13shadowwolf Exactly, our beliefs really do shape how we see the world. It's hard to explain but it's really like putting on a different pair of glasses and seeing different things you didn't see before. But some people are just stuck in their ways, and even if you ELI5 it, they don't understand. Like you said it's best not to waste time on people like that.
When someone says that, ask them, "How much faith does it take to not believe in leprechauns?"
that one always sounded to me like "you use the same stupid method i do, checkmate"
It's always hilarious when people of faith consider the phrase "it is just a faith" as a disparaging argument against something.
I do not think you understand what they are arguing. They are not disparaging faith. They are disparaging some atheists who think atheism is not a faith commitment. Of course, atheism has been redefined to mean almost nothing. Gone is the classical definition and in its place is just only an agnostic negative.
@@carlpeterson8182 the literal word is an agnostic negative. But it’s a way to understand something that is fundamentally different than what they understand in terms of something they do understand. It’s sort of true, but not really very accurate
That's not faith. With real faith you can move mountains! The issue or problem that people don't recognize or understand is where is your heart at?
@@enginerdy No it does not. It literally means no or against theism. Classically it was a belief that God does not exist. Agnostic was I do not know if God exists. theism is a belief in God. But then some atheists changed the definition to just mean I do not believe God exists because I do not see any evidence for God, but I do not know if he does or not. This was because the former definition is pretty untenable. But what happened is that atheism became almost nothing. Just a nonbelief. I am of the opinion that I almost do not care if someone says they are an atheist anymore. I want to know their worldview. Just saying you're an atheist is easy because you do not have defend anything. You are the perpetual critic with no responsibility to really think and come up with something.
@@carlpeterson8182 true, I don't understand what they are arguing, no doubt about that. I am also no fan of agnosticism semantics and stressing the difference between "I do not believe A" and "I believe not A". Yet, it clearly _is_ a valid position to say "I don't know, I don't have enough information". The world would be a much better place if more people would take this position more often.
“Sometimes we are even respectful of those with whom we disagree” just says it all really. Congrats for sometimes reaching the bare minimum of being a decent, and not arrogant, human being… I guess. The bar is literally on the floor I guess for these guys.
Hey, low bars work for William Lane Craig!
Arrogance at its best. They're doing atheists a favor by acknowledging their existence . 🤯😬
Yes we should be respectful regardless of our beliefs
it's also a lie. knowles is a bottom of the barrel fascist propagandist. he spends every waking moment being the worst human being he could possibly be.
The bare minimum is too much for them too, they'd rather wipe out anyone that isn't 100% like them than coexist with the rest of us.
the projection is so strong I feel like I'm in a movie theater
And the movie is not even good
@@popiko282 I want my money back
"'Dunning-Kruger,' Latin for 'Daily Wire'" 😂😂
A Christian, a republican and a creationist walk into a bar…
And then Anthony DeStefano says: "One beer please.“
underrated joke !
He should visit the UK. You want a disused church, we have plenty.
That's a really good one Rami.
At first I didn't get it but I knew I must be missing something.
After a little more thought then... doh! the one person (Anthony) is all of those things.
Very clever!
The Christian couldn’t have been a catholic
Not all Republicans are Christians. Some are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, secular, etc.
I just can't take Michael Knowles seriously. He's so aggressively wrong about everything it's genuinely funny.
Transgenderism?
I always get his ads and it’s extremely annoying.
Check out Aron Ra's series on David C. Pack. If you think Michael Knowles is a golden case of Dunning-Kruger.
I've never found the words to describe him but that's exactly it. He is so aggressively wrong to the point where it's sad
Michael Knowles is an anti intellectual scoundrel to the bone. Though unlike the average scrapers at the bottom of the barrel, he’s also despicably malicious and wilfully dishonest.
If you’re unsure about a given topic, you can safely rely on Michael Knowles to provide the exact wrong take and then know what to avoid.
Been watching Dunning Krueger - which is Latin for Daily Wire. I almost spit out my coffee
Best joke in the whole video 😂
"The greatest threat to knowledge is not ignorance. The greatest threat to knowledge is the illusion of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking
wow... this is staggering. The levels of projection are incredible.
It's just the usual mindset of this tools. Straw man and victimism. So sad and sick.
I love it! :p
I mean, I love a challenge, but... that doesn't mean I can't also love shoveling in the dirt for some crap :D I mean, plants've gotta root somewhere. Dang, this shit is easy. Theists are so ironic (in the archaic meaning of the word), you can literally start a sentence with whatever and make it a proper metaphor and not even mean to insult them and it'll still happen naturally.
Arrogance, ignorance, ruthlessness, intolerance, shallowness, cowardice. Yep, they nailed it.
IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!
Read Orwell? They adopted it. 1984 is an inversion of 1948.
A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".
All right wing memes are strawmen. Then they beg the question
In classical rhetoric and logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.
And when that fails they will make an appeal to populism, which is the basis of Authoritarian Communism
argumentum ad populum (plural argumenta ad populum) (rhetoric) A fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges that “if many believe so, it is so”.
Or cry "Fake News"
Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition must be false because it contradicts one's personal expectations or beliefs, or is difficult to imagine.
The second most common strategy is to gaslight.
Gaslighting describes the systematic pattern of abuse by which the abuser manipulates factual information to give the victim the impression that they cannot trust their own senses. They may repeatedly focus on their own feelings in order to make the victim feel guilty for hurting them. Psychologists recognise this as being part of the grooming process seen so often in cases of Child Sexual Exploitation.
Strange how every right wing influencer, shitposter, and troll use the same populist rhetoric used by sexual predators to confound their victims,
Isn't that just *so weird*
The last ditch effort is to Poison the Well... which is a cocktail of the fallacies listed above. Designed to leave the opponent stumped as to which claim to unpack and address, by which time the agent provocateur has moved onto a different talking point or personal attack.
That's because Reich Whingers are Bullshivics;
Bolshevik, bull, civic-minded, demagogue), a person who gains political power by appealing to individuals feeling's instincts, & prejudices in a fashion that is considered manipulative & myopic; an individual who incessantly reiterates equivalent petty issues, until these are generally taken seriously
_There are citizens with valid complaints & issues, but invariably the meeting will have to deal with some Bullshivic & his personal gripe of "supreme importance".
America is a People's Democratic Republic with a Constitutional document, just like China, Iran, N Korea and the USSR. Patriotism and Communism are identical phenom, where the Party demands total loyalty, above even truth.
"Claim everything, deny everything, explain nothing".
Prescott Bush
"Deny, Disinform, deflect."
Roger Stone
"Accuse your enemy of that which you are guilty of"
Saul Alinksy
"Blame the Victim"
Protocol 23
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
George Orwell, 1984
The Reich Whinge are America's Authoritarian Communist Party
"Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what"
Roy Cohn
Once you understand these bad faith strategies their nonsense becomes easy to rebuff
My Monday started off bad & listening to those two didn't help. The arrogance & ignorance of them practically overwhelmed me. Thank you for doing what you do. ✌️
Listening to them is the peak of irony. The fact that they are calling all atheists ignorant and arrogant… actually no, anybody who is not them ignorant and arrogant is just peak.
I think listening to the two of them be so bombastically abusive to people simply because they don't agree with them has some more to tempt me into Dawkins' "mocking in the streets" of theists than anything else.
They are utterly insufferable.
@@martinmckee5333 yes insufferable definitely hits the nail on the head
This diatribe by DeStefano and Knowles is straight-up hate speech. Kudos to Stephen for deconstructing it intellectually, but it actually doesn't even merit treatment at that level. It's rim full of factual untruth. Terbaccy chawin' preachers have been spewing this stuff for a long time, but this foul video is meant to provide a more "intellectual" rubric for desired programs of repression. They point straight away at the political dimensions of what they're saying. They speak in outraged terms of the power atheists have gained. Just what power would that be? The power to get a book published, after all the eons of shunning? The power to speak our mind in public with a somewhat reduced danger of reprisal, compared to the past? These guys definitely want a return to stigma and mockery. They definitely don't want us to ever see the power to make a plausible run for a public office. Still at this day, that's virtually impossible. These guys think that's appropriate and want it to stay that way, and this is their project to see that it does, at the very least. The vitriolic tone of their discourse, however, makes it clear that they privately hope for worse consequences for the ungodly. Their little video is one more item of the current right wing American movement toward a fascist order. We atheists have a sacrament of abortion and euthanasia? We're right in blood libel territory here. This rhetoric is the intellectual grounding for ideas right next door to QAnon fantasies of pedophilic rituals of sexual torture murder or the Nazi's infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." These guys are sinister.
It's indoctrination, same thing they do in MLM and Cults. They've weaponised it.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim's mind. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and control over the other person, by distorting reality and forcing them to question their own judgment and intuition to give the victim the impression that they cannot trust their own senses. They may repeatedly focus on their own feelings in order to make the victim feel guilty for hurting them. Psychologists recognise this as being part of the grooming process seen so often in cases of Child Sexual Exploitation.
Strange how right wingers and every other shitposter and troll use the same populist rhetoric used by sexual predators to *GROOM* and confound their victims,
Isn't that just *so weird*
"Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what"
Roy Cohn
The glaringly obvious irony that they are describing themselves, is truly nauseating.
Was thinking to myself "Is this guy a 24 hour theatre? Because he just won't stop projecting."
Always accuse your enemy of what you are doing.
I am also amused by the way the guest paints this picture of atheists having a unified culture and philosophy, then the host says, "And there are so many versions of this," and neither of them appears to recognize the irony of it.
Exactly. These guys are truly the worst.
Damn I just realize how dumb i am not realizing that while watching it hahaha
I enjoy the argument of pointing out that a lack of belief is still a choice, whether or not you believe the probability exceeds the probability of alternatives.
Most atheists are fully aware of and receptive of this concept. Many others are not.
My argument is based in the desire to proof free will explicitly(if possible), not whether or not someone knows the minds of gods that may or may not exist.
Atheism, for some, does infact become a belief system on occassion for some people. They presuppose many ideas that perhaps are incorrect, because they are potentially unwilling to deal with probabilities(some which can quantified, and others that currently cannot be quantified).
Human beings oftentimes tie their self worth and sense of being into certainties. And our shared reality does not exactly serve up certainties on a silver platter.
We make best guesses. And sometimes even best guesses are wrong, when new ideas are discovered.
@@py_a_thon
You've claimed that "a lack of belief is still a choice." Is it? How would that work, exactly? It seems to be an absurd claim at face value.
To give a simple counterexample to your claim, you at this moment already LACK A BELIEF in an infinite number of propositions, namely those which you've never considered, much less chosen.
What exactly do you believe concerning the formation of silicates on the moon? When did you make that choice? Could it be said that you made any choice on the question until it was raised just now?
@@starfishsystems There are 2 options.
Option A and Option B.
Which door do you choose? A, B, neither or Both?
That isn't ignorance. That's malice. That's blatantly lying about shit they've been corrected on.
"FEAR IS THE MOTHER OF ALL GODS" - Lucretius. ...
Should be on a freaking T-SHIRT.
I love it.
Ancient Greek philosophy is worth your time to investigate.
Simple Formula: FEAR + IMAGINATION = GOD(s)
Interesting they named Sephiroth's mother 'Lucretia', 😅
When all you've known is privilege, equality feels like oppression
How is going to vote with your wife akin to feeling oppressed?
@@iseriver3982 I don’t know if the context has flown over your head, but I feel the need to clarify.
The religious, specifically Christian, political, social, and cultural domination over the USA has been palpable since (ironically) just after its rather secular inception.
Ceding, or more accurately, fumbling absolute control over the means of dictation, knowledge acquisition and distribution, and other spheres where credible intellectual capacity are necessary, subjects those having secured their presuppositions to uncomfortable narrative conflict.
The burden they are subject to is not that of an average person having his modest means stripped, leaving him destitute, but more akin to an eccentric king having the observatory sheared from the summit of the hill in the town he owns. This was a rising of the tide ruining the religious institution’s pristine view of the horizon by peppering it with boats. And like course is being trodden once again, with those proselytizing the new religion presuming their way is the median, blind to their affluence.
@@iseriver3982 Good for you you can vote without problems... and have a legally recognized wife... it is almost as if you already got the privilege.
This has strong aphoristic value. Well said there.
@@georgeabreu6392 It's already an aphorism. They didn't come up with it on their own. And it barely even applies to this video unless you force it to. It's vapid.
The best advice concerning religion was given to me by my very religious father: "When you go to church and kneel in prayer, keep one eye open." That was his code for, don't believe everything that you are told - think for yourself.
Are you sure he didn’t mean, “watch out for the priest/pastor/preacher, he may try some “funny business”, when you’re on your knees”?
Either way, best advice ever.
That’s a nice story. Good for your dad. Let’s take it to the next, logical step. Stop kneeling before those who lie.
Last time i saw this much projection i had to pay for a movie ticket
🤣
I can guarantee that this person didn't even meet an athiest, he is just saying the most stereotypical thing you can hear on the Christianity side of the internet whenever they are trying to make fun of atheism and atheists
How arrogant, ruthless and ignorant.
He probably has met plenty, but didn't realize it because they didn't match his wild description.
Yep had this very argument recently when my friend was shocked I don't believe in God and he spouted a bunch of crap at me so I said stop getting your info about topics from people who are against it.
Well... not necessarily. They might have met, talked with, even debated a lot of atheists.
But because of their delusi... sorry, "faith", they simply disregarded anything they were told.
Strawmen atheists are just so much easier to deny than real ones.
What's really bizarre is that they seem to be describing themselves when they describe atheists. Every wild accusation is actually a confession.
"Fear is the Mother of ALL Gods. Death is nothing to us" - Lucretius (40 BC)
When the apologist reveals that they think that there is only one alternative to theistic moral objectivism and its called "moral relativism", you know that they have no f*ing clue
The brainrot is on another level haha.
Absolutely. It exposes that fact that they have no knowledge whatever of the whole realm of ethical philosophy, and have never listened to or read one scrap of the ethical philosophy of any of the atheists that they are strawmanning. The religious right wing have created a fictional construction of atheism as a social phenomenon and have no concern whatever to even find out whether this construction has any cognate in reality. These guys in this video are describing atheism as a coherent religion with sacraments of euthanasia and abortion. This is fascist blood libel propaganda. These bozos need to be told that atheism not a religion; it is not even a thing of any sort. There is only a spectrum of people who share a common point of agreement on only one topic-- that none of them believe in any gods. They also seem to be completely unaware that there's a $h!t ton of right wing atheists, that many of them are Ayn Rand libertarians, and that that camp is where Social Darwinism has its strongest focus.
Not even all apologists are ethical objectivists like Kant. A lot of them support divine command theory, which is a form of ethical subjectivism.
I was brought up Catholic. Catholic school from preschool through college. It's all I ever knew. My becoming an atheist is simply due to the rise of the internet. For the first time, I was able to investigate the claims of Catholicism.
Good on you for staying curious. I know so many people my age who simply don’t spend time thinking about existence or religion
Ironically I was catholic too, and my first step was because the church couldnt stop the scandals it had, thanks to the internet.
Once their authority was cracked, the house of cards fell down.
Rudy Guiliani, Bill Barr (whose Father hired Epstein at Dalton's Girl's ) and Pat Cipollone are Opus Dei, meaning "Great Work" a Masonic reference. Trump's Pastor Norman Vincent Peale was a 33rd Degree Master Mason, and the Queen's Brother in Law was the World Freemason Grandmaster until he turned 81, the age Albert Pike died.
Knight of Malta and Epstein associate Robert Mercer has used his financial data-driven background to tap into the political data economy by investing in outlets focused on targeted messaging. He has been vocal about his dislike for mainstream media, an opinion he shares with his former political advisor, Steve Bannon. With investments in Breitbart, the production company Glittering Steel, and an election management firm specializing in “psychographic” profiling, the Mercer’s are shaping how information is packaged and what information people receive. Guardian reporter, Carole Cadwalladr describes it as a “multi-million dollar propaganda network…waging war on mainstream media."
33% of the Senate is Roman Catholic, vs 22% of the population. The founders of the CIA, FBI, DC and the designers of the Pentagon were all Catholic, so too Tucker Carlson, Beck, Prager, Hannity, Spicer, O'Reilly, Ingram, Pence, Hawley, Blasio, Manafort, Prince, Devos, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas, Gates, Fauci, Abbott, Manchin, Comey, Rogan, Jones, Dore, Kulinksi, Rubin, Pool, Peterson, Dice, Cernovich, Crowder, Molyneux, Fuentes, Yilanopouse, Rumsfeld, Pompeo, Spencer, Bolton, Abrams, Stone, Desantis, Bezos, Cuomo, Pelosi, Biden, Harris, Maddow, Maher, Colbert, Hayes, Cooper, Toocy, McEnany, Collins, Rubio, Cruz, Gutfeld, Mattis, Richardson, Ryan, Huckabee, Gingrich, Cotton, Sessions, Guiliani, Flynn, Bannon, Barr, Christie, Richardson, Melania, Kelly, Conway, Gionet, Johnson, May, Blair, Thatcher, Trudeau, Merkle, Tusk, Farage, Morgan, Cowell, Ventura, Bolsanaro, Putin, Posobiec, Corbett, Robinson, Woods, Icke, Camp, Duke, Kirk, Watson, Iverson, Ball, House. 7/9 Supreme Court Justices are Roman Catholic
Pro life is a foundational Roman tenet.
Someone paid over half a billion dollars to install Kavanaugh and Barrett on the Supreme Court. DC was even called Rome on the Potomac, or New Jerusalem when it was founded by Francis Pope.
Baron Mayer Amschel Rotschild (1744 -1812), was a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Mayer Rotschild sent sons to establish banking operations in London, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Naples.
Wikipedia
"The NWO will begin Sept 17th 2001 during Rosh Hashanah Feast of Trumpets, Resurrection of the Dead, the year 6000 of the Great Pyramid Calendar, in order to cleanse the Earth and Humanity in preparation for his Kingdom on Earth"
British Israel Foundation memo 1922.
Same year Boris Johnson's Great Grandad and Architect of the Armenian genocide Mustafa Ali Kemal sent Trump's Grandad Baron Don Von Drumph to America from Vienna Bavaria, Capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
At plus 2 degrees we can't grow grain at scale, 9 billion people will lose 90% of their food supply. The Club of Rome did a study in the 80s predicting plus 5 degrees, and covered it up.
Oil giants Shell and BP are planning for global temperatures to rise as much as 5°C by the middle of the century. The level is more than double the upper limit committed to by most countries in the world under the Paris Climate Agreement, which both companies publicly support. Oct 27, 2017 (BP and Shell expecting catastrophic 5°C global warming by 2050)
Methane from Beef farming makes up 52% of all greenhouse gases, and is 90% subsidized. Banning Beef subsidies could stall climate change overnight, but guess who runs the Beef Racket...
Suffering of the infidel (unbaptised) is considered Holy in Catholicism, just ask Saint Mother Teresa, who denied anesthetic to her patients...
"If any one saith that true and natural water is not of necessity for baptism, and on that account wrests to some sort of metaphor those words of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost...' Let Him Be Anathama." -COUNCIL OF TRENT Sess VII Canon II On Baptism 1545AD
Matthew 3:11: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.” The fire in this passage refers to the fire or inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
"Furthermore we declare we proclaim we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation, that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff"
Pope Boniface VIII, "Unam Sanctam" (Rome 1302)
"There is no graver offense than heresy... and therefore it must be rooted out with fire and sword"
Catholic Encyclopedia volume 14 (1911): 767-768
"A heretic merits the pains of fire... by the Gospel, the canons, civil law and custom, heretics must be burned"
American Textbook of Popery p164 (quoting from the directory for the Inquisitors)
"The true baptism is not by water but fire."
Prophyry of Tyre 300AD
"I propose an Aryan Semitic Alliance to create a superior Caucasian race"
UK PM Benjamin Disraeli 1890
"Today I declare the Crusades won"
General Edmunde Allenby upon capturing Jerusalem 1917
"The New World Order will be ruled from the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem"
Ben Gurion, Israeli PM to the London Scionist Foundation 1945
"But they want nothing but Palestine, because Palestine constitutes the geostrategic center of world control"
Dr Nehum Goldmann, 1957, founder of the World Jewish Congress and President of the World Zionist Organization
Trump and Hitler literally come from the same town, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Tito, Franz Ferdinand, Orwell, Freud, Johnson, and Trump all come from Vienna Bavaria capital of the Holy Roman Empire. Pro life is a foundational Roman tenet. Trump used Hitler's book of speeches _My New Order_ verbatim at his rallies. He has friends who greet him with a hail Zeus and click of the heels, his name in Gematria is _Messiah_ Baron is the same word as _Fuhrer_ denoting a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire.
Donald (King) John (the Baptist) Trump (G.O.A.T) was born during a Super Wolf Blood Moon 7 days before the Summer solstice under Orion the Mighty Hunter, 700 days before the founding of Israel. He was inaugurated on the Centenary of the Bolshevik revolution and the capture of Jerusalem aged 70yrs 7 months and 7 days, he moved the embassy to Jerusalem on israel's 70th anniversary and lives on the 66th floor of 666ft Trump tower with a giant mural of Zeus on his penthouse ceiling. Seig hail is the Greek salute to Zeus, or the Sun
In October the Supreme Court will give States electors rule over their own elections, and have their own electors on standby. They're going to edge democrats out of power altogether, and you can't stop them by playing according to their rules because the system is rigged, it was always rigged, that's why we need to demand Direct Democracy without parties or politicians
Representative Democracy hasn't worked in over 50 years because politicians will always come from the monied classes and be beholden to their Corporate Donors, only way we avoid this apocalypse is to stage a Velvet Revolution to install a Scaled Direct Democracy. Citizen Initiated Referendums with thresholds and a Social Contract using Blockchain technology means communities can vote their own policies without parties or politicians. Banning Beef, Oil, and Fishing Subsidies would stall climate change and habitat degradation overnight. Thorium Energy renders their global oil monopoly obsolete. Police can be actively policed by an independent public authority with the power to prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
Or we can bend over and accept our Orwellian future
You were led into sin by the internet? Such weakness! Are you also now a homosexual?
@@imperialmotoring3789 No, sexuality isn't a belief.
Ah yes, my sacrament of euthanasia. I have to admit I sometimes really hate having to get up early on Sunday mornings to go snuff someone out at the hospital.
Do you use "Sciencedeitified" objects to complete the ritual or are you more of a hands-on person? I personally go with unblessed items as well, a sharpened crucifix with mathematic formulas carved on it and some holy hydrogen.
@@Mangaka-ml6xo My coven of atheists demands I use a pillow, but holding it over the person's face takes so much effort, and the muffled screaming is very distressing.
Does anyone have any tips? How do you all handle it?
@@tbotalpha8133 Loudly count the numbers of Pi !
I just sleep in before I do it.
I have learned that one thing abusive people do is to tell the person they're abusing that they know what they're thinking.
"Watching a bit of Dunning-Kruger, Latin for the Daily Wire..."
Apparently this quote was exactly what I needed today. 😂 Thanks RR!
Unironically you could replace every word Atheist in that book with Christian and it'd be instantly more accurate.
The crossroads of Goebells and Poe.
Spot on
This is the last death roar of a movement that viscerally knows deep down that they lost the culture.
Goosebumps every time I hear his voice. Hitch was just too good for this world.
Lol got me twice
That statement is almost biblical,but i think i know what you mean,he was brilliant.
If you want a Hitchens treat, listen to the Dishcast podcast from September 24. It’s a previously unpublished private conversation over wine between Hitch and Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan, the interesting, thoughtful guy who only becomes insufferable when he gets dewy eyed about Jesus, being calmly schooled by that wonderful voice.
If ever there was reincarnation that man deserved it and this world needs him still.
@@markcostello5120 he had said "if i find there is some kind of life after death it would be a surprise. I quite like surprises."
Truly the most terrifying of Halloween videos on TH-cam.
If Anthony actually believes his own words, he should get gold in Mental Gymnastics.
i'm saying this more and more these days, but, do we really want these sorts of people on our team? i prefer them to stay "christian" or whatever it really is, cos it ain't religion.
that Dunning Kruger/Daily Wire jab came out of nowhere and was exquisite. Honestly, you could have just said that and that would have told the whole story.
"Religion was created when the first con-man met the first sucker."
Samuel Clemens
I just had a Convo with my very "right" coworker about taxation. She had the argument that Elon, and the like, are all within their legal rights to use the system to keep as much money as they can. My rejection was that on a more moral basis they have an obligation to give back to the country that made them, in the form of taxation. And she kept coming back to "it's legal" yes, it may be but that doesn't mean it's moral. But yes, here in murica, us atheist do infact believe in more Jesus like concepts than do most religious people. It's comical
A person who had recently become an atheist, mentioned how now they had to deal with guilt. When she was a believer and had wronged anyone, she could just ask for forgiveness and that made it all right. After she no longer had the get out card, she had to actually do something positive to right her wrongs.
@@grahvis that is the most child like understanding of repentance I’ve ever heard. No wonder she became an atheist.
@@Casual_Cthulhu _And [Jesus] said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and _*_become like little children,_*_ you will never enter the kingdom of heaven._ (Matthew 18:3)
@@NelemNaru LMAO DAMN
Is that what you do? Just asking. And why does he have a moral obligation to pay more taxes than he is legally required to do so? One can give back to the country without paying any more tax. in fact, many would say that paying more tax is definitely NOT the best way to give more back to the country. you can do much more with the money without giving it to the government.
Also, corporate income is double taxed. It is taxes at the business and then the personal level. But most who decry that corporations do not pay tax conveniently forget that.
I almost want to write a book and copy the names of all his chapters, except I would just change the last word from atheists to Christians.
Yes. Just leave athiest in there, cross it out in red, and write theist above it. Mock them as hard as you can. Maybe, maaaaayyybee it will get their attention.
I think the point is that you SHOULDN'T mock other beliefs. Anyone who shows intolerance to other beliefs are at best ignorant.
@@mattpowell6291 NO!! Mock beliefs all you want - all religious beliefs are mockworthy - just be kind to the person, especially the ones incapacitated by said religious beliefs.
These guys are deserving of the Kent Hovind Award. Wilfully wrong at every level at every turn in every way. It's hilarious. That said I will attribute this to malice rather than ignorance. Not wanting to know moves them there. (EDIT) This would have made for a splendid and wonderful Low Fruit episode, too. I hope those might one day return!
Lowfruit will return, and soon :) ty
@@rationalityrules it's not low fruit anymore. It's now an under fruit.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim's mind. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and control over the other person, by distorting reality and forcing them to question their own judgment and intuition to give the victim the impression that they cannot trust their own senses. They may repeatedly focus on their own feelings in order to make the victim feel guilty for hurting them. Psychologists recognise this as being part of the grooming process seen so often in cases of Child Sexual Exploitation.
Strange how right wingers and every other shitposter and troll use the same populist rhetoric used by sexual predators to *GROOM* and confound their victims,
Isn't that just *so weird*
"Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack, lie and attack, publicity no matter what, win no matter what"
Roy Cohn
You surly and sublimely expressed this behavior and rightly bestowed its deserved honorarium and recognition.
Let me add another possibly area for awards and accolades leveraging your observation. Core to maintaining a religious movement is persistence in light of new and better information; it is maliciously ignorant and thusly, malevolent by its very nature. Malice as to intent, ignorant to facts, and malevolent in purpose. It's what every religion's theocratic model requires to maintain its "believers". There is not one religion without believers or belief system and all of their origin stories are lies. By definition, religion is a cult. It is why all religions are taught to children by their religious elders, and why all religions are doctrinally dogmatic. Otherwise, all persistent faiths would not persist; a house made of cards, inside a hurricane, is not a guarantee that the hurricane will not move.
@@imaginativeskydadytm1389 They're so low hanging they're basically potatoes.
Coincidentally, they have the intellect of one, and a kinda off one at that.
I was raised Catholic but became an atheist at 23 while coming to terms with my mortality while dealing with a lethal disease. The reason being that was the first time in my life I realized I had no control over what was about to happen to me. That incredibly humbling experience was responsible for shifting my entire perspective of the world around me 180 degrees. My new perspective was an epiphany discovering what a powerful, clarifying and beautiful thing humility can be. From that point forward rather than view the world in the selfish manner I had always done in the past from the inside out as something to subdue and dominate, instead for the first time I saw the world from the opposite perspective of the outside in realizing and accepting that there are many mysteries and powerful forces like my mortality that are totally beyond my control and that is ok! Consequently I must accept and seek harmony with them. By contrast in hindsight I realize how organized religion appeals to peoples fears and vanity to seduce and brainwash them by promising them spiritual domination over death, the universe and everything in the hereafter for eternity in exchange for their obedience and $ in the here and now. How ridicules that is yet millions of people fall for it like I once did. Oh and that lethal disease fortunately turned out to be a misdiagnosis!
Happy to hear it was just a misdiagnosis! That's the one time you *want* the doctors to make a mistake, eh?
The projection is beautiful
I am honestly convinced that most, if not all, apologist are without honesty themselves.
Certainly appears that way.
Dunning-Kruger, Latin for Daily Wire. That is an S-tier joke there, Stephen. Chef's kiss.
I thought we were communist, now we’re social Darwinist’s???
Anthony couldn't decide whether to buy a new suit or a new microphone. And then he apparently just decided to do neither.
HAHAHAHA! You're horrible! I love it! :D But maybe, maybe he just went for an all 90's look for Halloween and decided on Fox Mulder to go with the gullible wishful thinking that would actually be justified in Mulder's universe, but not so much here, in actual reality.
And then he figured to go with a 90's headset, bad hair, and a cultist or cultists scholar background in a dark reddish filter to go with the theme of investigating the supernatural.
I mean, if he actually aimed for that, I think he did an amazing job! :D If he didn't... well... sigh... I give up.
It's amazing that the gish galloping was so dense that it basically takes an entire 20 minute video to dissect a single sentence. 😂
It's a whole strategy. Lies can run on swift hooves, but the truth has to walk with care to its destination.
So you can fatigue the truth by simply outpacing it with nonsense.
I'm somewhat happy that their only response is this childish attack towards atheism. Because that means we finally won. If that is all the bullets they have left, then a bullet with no substance doesn't do anything but show their fellow linemen how weak they truly have become.
Still shouldn't stop there though, just cuz they run out of points doesn't mean they'll stop acting like they won and make their congregation vote for their shit in elections
Winning should mean institutional power. Them and their ilk have gotten Roe v Wade overturned.
@@tomisaacson2762 Agreed. We haven't won if superstitious people who believe in magic can still strongly determine our laws.
Well, looks like atheists can just recline back and let these theists run their mouths and do all the work for us. What was he thinking?! Accusing atheism of requiring faith and treating that like an issue is beyond silly.
And both the ignorance and arrogance are shadowed by their hatred.
Oh. I'm less than 30 seconds in and I already feel like I've been hit by a direct beam of purified stupid from headset man and glasses dude
They're projecting so hard, they're blotting out the sun.
To me your channel is easily one of the most important on youtube. Thanks!
A lot can be said about Hitchens and a lot has, I love him and his way of cutting through while being more eloquent than most. And I almost always agree .
Truth be told, I have the idea that a little bit of pushing down/ arrogance / mockery is almost inevitable when explaining why you do or don't believe. Even when trying to do it as non judgmental as possible. It's just a subject where people have really strong opinions about in general.
They might as well claim the same thing about non-stamp-collectors.
I became a stamp collector yesterday as I have to post mail occasionally. I will give it up when I run out of stock.
What would we call a person who has faith they have a stamp but can't find it?
Hard to find mint,no perfs. Always the way! I collected people who used to collect people who collected stamps........
I have more respect for this guy than the non stamp collector. The stamp collector is a guy who hates Christians and I'm disappointed he's an Aussie. This guy actually confronts "Christians" who should be confronted.
@@mattpowell6291
Is this real one who hangs out with ken hovey as friends with benefits and says silly stuff about science?
@@VaughanMcCue If it isn't I'd change my name when coming to a place like this.
That Daily Wire joke was excellent. Well done.
I agree with you on everything excepting the idea that criticism of others should wait until we have “cleaned our own room” - everyone is an unfinished project! We can still criticize others while we are plagued with inconsistencies and errant, illogical thinking - as long as we recognize and admit that we have these faults.
But then aren’t you judging people based off of your own “illogical thinking”?
@@_Sloppyham
I don’t think so.
We can be both completely stupid and wise (or not quite so stupid perhaps) at the same time.
There are examples you can think of, I am sure, among your friends and acquaintances.
@@brianjones3191 a little confused. You first said you can still criticize people while having illogical thinking and I pointed out how if you have illogical thinking then you are criticizing people with said illogical thinking. If this is true, then the criticism isn’t really valid.
Then there is your reply which, apologies, I can’t really understand.
@@_Sloppyham
Ok - a ridiculous example:
A serial killer informs the police about an arsonist he has seen starting fires.
Meanwhile, the arsonist finds out about the serial killer’s crimes and also tells the police about the killer.
Both are right to be offended and to inform on the other, while at the same time behaving and thinking entirely wrongly.
We are all hypocrites and see faults in others while being blind to our own.
It is a fact of life, and we either live with it or are pure and never criticise anyone else.
How do you get better without a good debate, exposing yourself to other ideas and then vetting them?
Something I find interesting in these discussions is how often they ignore nontheistic religion. I am glad you mentioned Buddhism. I am a modern Satanist. I am a member of The Satanic Temple. I m an atheist that doesn't believe in anything supernatural. His conseption of atheism doesn't apply to me. Not all of it anyway. The first tenet of my religion states: "One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason." Congregations of The Satanic Temple are required to engage in charity work. That doesn't sound like social Darwinism. Furthermore TST has social justice as a core belief. The second tenet of TST says: "The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions". The LaVeyan Satanism however does believe in social Darwinism. The Church of Satan has straight up said they are eugenicists. LaVey was a believer in survival of the fittest. He used the Latin term Lex Talionis; the law of the talon. The Satanic Bible was published in 1968. So LaVey had an outdated view of evolution. But the CoS dogmatically hangs on to his views. By contrast the the fifth tenet of TST says: "Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs." We now understand that humans are a social species and a ruthless "might makes right" attitude like the one espoused by the CoS is detrimental to the survival of our species.
So you can't lump all atheists into a single box other than the one labeled "lack of belief in a god or gods". The diversity of views just among religious atheists is enough to illustrate that. But theists like this guy want to lump us all together so we are easier to demonize. Atheistic Satanists holding a "mensturatin for Satan" drive to collect menstrual products to donate to the poor; ends up shattering that narrative. I myself would love to have a religious building to run a vegan soup kitchen type of deal where anyone can come and get free food without having people try to convert them. On a more political level I am in favor of Universal Basic Income and Universal health care. Welfare and a more just economic system should make these types of religious acts of charity largely obsolete. I love the idea of the helping the less fortunate. But I love the idea of these people not needing the help even more.
I'm an atheist who neither believes or disbelieves in a materialist basis of reality. I consider myself a philosophical Taoist who thinks that the basis of reality is necessarily mysterious and beyond the scope of verbal conceptualization and cannot be described by terms such as supernaturalism or materialism, or described in language at all. I definitely disbelieve in any gods and think that the concept of a God or gods is fundamentally a pernicious concept. My philosophical, political, and cultural attitudes are very much at odds with many atheists I have met, beyond our common rejection of the God belief. You could also say that I am a methodological materialist and rationalist, but not an ontological one.
I think that the attempt to characterize atheists as some kind of coherent or homogenous group is more disingenuous and malign than simply ignorant. It comes out of a wish to identify atheists with particular terms that will be seen as objectionable in popular culture.
The accusation of Social Darwinism is particularly egregious. Social Darwinism is far removed from my own ideas about ethics and the outlook of most atheists that I have known. It is actually not the position of most people who believe in the truth of Darwinist evolution at all. Social Darwinism is built on a misconception of the dynamics of biological evolution. It was formulated by people who never had a good understanding of the theory, but wanted to exploit it for regressive political and economic purposes. Social Darwinism does not legitimately hold the title of Darwinism at all, and it is not a scientific theory.
Great video, unfortunatley I can't say the same about the sponsor. Contemporary art has mainly been killed by this art market created by people completly insensitive for piece of art and only sees them as a mean to gain more wealth.
Usually I don't complain about sponsors, I'm so used to see them everywhere on TH-cam that it doesn't matter to me anymore. But as an art enthousiast myself, seeing someone promoting the kind of structure that contribute to destroying it, it doesn't sit well with me. I'm inviting you to look into the state of contemporary art and see what it has become. Moreover this company looks like the kind to make people believe easy money is possible and exploiting the ones too naive to believe them. I really think it's better to stop associate with this brand and other similar one.
Baptiste
Totally agree with you.
I know youtubers can't be too fussy on who advertises with them and this may not be fair but channels like rationality rules are judged to a higher standard than other channels.