I guess it depends if a presupposition underlies the question asked. I can easily think of an explanation from evolution by natural selection. This doesn’t mean I’m right, of course. But if it’s consistent with the science, it’s more believable (to me, at least) than any conclusion we can prematurely jump to. Just my $0.02.
@@sirrevzalot I don't think I'm jumping to a conclusion. Rather, I'm asking the question, Is the "[predisposition] to seeing causality [as the] best explanation for religious belief" jumping to a conclusion? How could one know that for sure? It may be simply begging the question. But I will not jump to that conclusion.
@@billwassner1433 Ah, thank you for clarifying the question. I guess I’m not the person to whom your question is directed, but for my part, labeling something the best explanation doesn’t make it the ultimate explanation (i.e., a conclusive end to the question). It may simply be the best one’s yet heard or the best one available at the time. That’s why I shared above that I’d find a natural explanation more believable than one that needs to invoke the mysteries to connect the dots. It’s not the only nor the last thing I’d consider in making a decision, but it’d hold more weight for me than a theological explanation. And I don’t think you jumped to a conclusion. My point was to state a natural explanation, if consistent with the science, is more believable to me than any conclusion we could otherwise jump to. To my knowledge, I didn’t see you make that error 🙂
I believe that religious experience and the power it has to motivate communities of people is something that has been naturally selected for. Whether right or wrong in its assumptions, culturally, it serves its purpose to push cooperation and 'togetherness' forward; allowing a more powerful force to overcome adversity. I'm not religious at all and don't believe in a God but this is where I feel that the sense of 'something else' comes from; a desire to fit in and work together for a common goal. It's kept groups of people alive for thousands of years and has proven very effective to that end.
My dear Mr. Kohm I’ve just mentioned your videos over some 10 years, I have just came to mention to the world that just have washing’s that my great impersionist author (Mr. Kohn) is the perfect personal that I’ve encompined and lovid and great accompanied and the sevelaral years of your exclamation of their the notion of Christ vs. God , I’ve gotten you my real truth that God is my true truth to the universe, and that my God is Christ only is my great human lover of my real God of the universe. I love your work Mr. Kuhn, Thank you for all. dB
Religious belief is caused by two of our problems: there are scary things in this world that we can't control, and we know that. So it's comforting to believe in a power that can control those things and that might be inclined to help us if we ask nicely. God is that power, and religion is how we gain God's favour.
What simplistic explanations ! Innate spiritual (rather than religious) belief is universal even though this may be sublimated by overriding conventional religious rituals or dogmas. (Or perhaps even by intellectual arrogance). Spiritual understanding has little to do with wishful thinking or indoctrination but rather by an inner awareness of the true nature of life. Unfortunately, for some, materialism gives a kind of three dimensional sense of security. Rather like not daring to look outside the box because there might be something there that contradicts one's mental construct. Now that would be frightening wouldn't it!
Drives for curiosity is a very simplistic way to explain the desire and innate search for the transcendent. Curiosity, need for explanation, and search for patterns are not the reason why we are religious. We could claim that those behaviors are a result of our being religious and not the other way around. None of those characteristics are necessary for survival and reproduction. The reason must lie beyond an evolutionary explanation.
Various reasons are given for the appearance of religion along the lines of fear of this or that natural phenomenon or fear of death. But then what about the Japanese who have no such religion and as far as anyone knows, never did. Were they simply fearless?
Ey, and ecstasy and awe, and the unconscious or subconscious, perhaps a touch of of irrationality. The experience is compelling, but the conclusion is heavily dependant on reasoning skill most people don't bother to develop.
...I knew a devout female catholic in Italy. She was British and in her 40's. With six children and one on the way. She nearly died in pregnancy because it was going against God's plan. However, this same woman was on a dating site and had over a dozen different lovers. Her husband was very aware and I'd bet that some of the kids are not his. They are both deeply religious.
Abdul Haseeb Shaikh I don’t have to disprove gods. The person/people making the claim of existence must provide the proof. And, until they are defined (consistently) so we can investigate their existence, they can’t be claimed to exist. Believers have a long way to go before a god is ‘proven’. That’s why it’s called ‘faith’ - belief ‘without’ evidence.
@@matejbludsky8410 Off course you can prove God exist that is very easy all you need is an exorcist priest role you take that route you will the coolest walking the block.
I hope if we eventually populate another planet we exclude religion from it. Imagine the prosperity of a society with only those who do what that the evidence bests suggests.
The first structure known to have ever been built by human beings was Göbekli Tepe. It is a temple complex constructed by hunter-gatherers around a skull cult c. 12,000-10,000 years ago, way before agriculture and civilisation emerged. Thus, religious beliefs are primary and arise as a set of reactions to the fact of death... like everything else that follows. Source: www.archaeology.org/issues/281-1801/features/6165-turkey-neolithic-skull-cult
Is it just me or does Robert seemed to be avoiding looking into Buddhism? I won't be surprised if he was, because life has no real meaning where Buddhism is concerned. Any meaning in life is artificial or superficial. There is no creator God in Buddhism too. Buddhism does not talk about the oneness of everything like Hinduism. It would be hard for Robert to fit Buddhism into his videos I supposed. :)
There reason is because he has a close relationship with China en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lawrence_Kuhn and they would be very unhappy if he started to explore anything the Dali Lama might have to say.
What causes religious belief? Answer: Ignorance. We don’t know anything about ourselves, the cosmic source we come from, nor the life we’re existing in, so historically, we needed a guide. Something written down to guide us. Especially since our relationships and familial experiences are disharmonious and have been for thousands of years and counting. So we needed something to give us a direction and tell us how to live and relate to each other in order to calm the disharmony down a bit and enable us to live on into the far future. Truth, without religion we’d be an extinct species by now. We needed something to guide us through the banes of darkness and ignorance and help us to endure it and religion was that guide. Religion kept us ignorant and living in pain, but still helped us to survive as a species. Some peeps today are still looking to religion to find and maintain a relationship and following what is says to do to the letter.
What causes religious beliefs? im not a traditional believer, religion is create by visions from the body, this visions are responsible religions and esoteric belief, is going on whit me, and I belief quantum science is the answer, biology I don't think so. in this life and the next one estay in the light.
How can a renowned prof in a nice office confuse a superstitious beleif in ghosts (which works as he describes) with cognitive mechanisms that lead to or support worshiping the creator and the Christian belief in Christ and the revelations received from him or the prophecies. predicting his coming, acts and destiny?
Let the data D be "Many people believes in gods." Formerly there is only one hypothesis to explain D: H1 = "There is a god." Now we have the alternative H2 = "It is evolved" Would H2 makes H1 less believable?
I have a theory on religion; I think it has to do with the life force to survive and this plays out in the high powered human mind. Humans need to survive where no other animal or life form has had to, the afterlife. There is a void there and it needs to be filled. We need to survive, even when we are gone. I believe the cause is fractal in that survival is universal to life and it repeats in secular beliefs too. I wrote up my ideas here: 'Religion an Emergent Fractal Structure Formed From the Life Force Survival' www.academia.edu/19725656/Religion_an_Emergent_Fractal_Structure_Formed_From_the_Life_Force_Survival
if god is real! Do you really think God wants you to pray for him ? to do all this cinema ! all the music and festival! I don't know I am not a god but if I were a god ! I would tell everyone . enjoy life and be nice to all being animals, human, that's it don t waste your time !
Yeah, thats true, although I think people who feel superior for holding/not holding certain beliefs are being unreasonable. At no time do we choose our beliefs, we are simply convinced, then our brain works overtime to defend any beliefs. There is nothing about a flat earther believer that makes them inferior, for example, they have just been raised in such a way that a flat earth argument convinced them, and there is no reason to think that we would believe differently in their circumstances.
when fear of death supersedes your critical faculties ,there has to be a god i have to see my little doggie in heaven ,and live forever, hope there is one and the theists get stuck with their mother in law and listening to rap music for eternity
Our father who art in heaven ... teaches the the Son of Man, the Logos incarnate. Perhaps it is not random that we are persons in the image of God , interpersonal relationship is so important for us, and we have father and mother from whom we directly receive the life and our personality. So theologically nothing surprising in what you say , it does not contradict the truth believed by Christians , fits in with the style of the Revelation.
How can any believer IN any religion not see that others with contradicting beliefs use the same three ingredients for their beliefs: 1: Personal experience, 2: Apologetics, 3: Faith. And, when you realize it, how can you still believe in your version/religion? The best religion is Life! It is amazing. Closer To Truth.. but never close enough to find out... It's a thought-provoking series. Thanks
It’s all about ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), this part of brain is also responsible for believing! If it has electrical activity, then we believe, if not, suddenly God goes away for long holiday!!! It’s all about Brain activities!
Time to Reason Humanity made 2 huge mistakes. We created Money And God and so we got stuck on this Paradise Planet which we are destroying! 2 fantasies which we care about and ignore reality!
I pose a challenge to Dr. Kuhn: Dr. Kuhn - you have been searching for answers to many questions about the world, the universe and the nature a/o existence of G-d. You are trained in science and know that one of the key requirements for the success of a theory, is its ability to successfully predict results. I propose to you, that, if you are sincerely interested in discovering the truth of the G-d hypothesis, you would do well to, at a minimum, conduct an experiment that might help you gain some knowledge about it - how it works, what are the benefits, and what truths, either deductively or inductively, etc... You have often expressed that you would be delighted to discover the truth of G-d's existence. Your own ancestral religion is Judaism - and so, I suggest that you spend some time - perhaps a year or so, in complete observance of the laws and rituals of your religion. In other words, try it - and maybe you will like it. I know that you often say that you don't merely want what feels good if it is not truthful - and I think that's fine. Perhaps, you will only discover an inductive basis for religion - that is, living a religious life will reveal it's "truth" - or even its utility. My point is - religion (particularly Judaism) is experiential in the main - not merely conceptual and subject to philosophical or scientific analysis. If I wanted to convince you of how tasty chocolate ice cream is - I certainly would not engage you in a discussion about its properties, but I would insist that you taste it, and see if that works for you. Religion may be just that type of experience. Now lest you say that is not enough support for belief - well I would remind you that you have interviewed many important scholars who have presented you with many very cogent, coherent and profound ideas in support of religion, so it's not as though there is no reasonable basis for belief. Perhaps not absolute proof, but who says that is what the Creator wants to show us? We make all of our most consequential life choices without absolute certainty as to the right way to proceed through life. Why should a choice to live a religious life be different? Let me leave you with one thought that came to me while debating an atheist, which actually caused him to take up my challenge. I reflected that there are 3 possible responses to the question of the existence of G-d: One can select atheism - one can select theism, and one can choose agnosticism. The problem is that there are only 2 choices for a person to take in terms of observance (particularly in the case of Judaism) which requires the observance of a great many laws and commandments. When sunset, Friday night comes, a person must choose to observe or not to observe. There are only 2 possibilities of action against 3 possibilities of belief. This is a serious asymmetry. It is an interesting fact that almost all "agnostics" choose not to observe. And why is that? I won't discuss the psychology of this phenomenon now, but it is quite interesting. At a minimum, I think it reveals a clear bias and non intellectual factor in one's choice. There is quite a lot to do - many obligations that one incurs in living a religious life - and frankly, most people don't want to make the effort or challenge one's own inclinations that may require one to temper "doing their own thing". To put it bluntly, there is just too much stuff one has to do (particularly as an orthodox Jew). In fact, I would say that, in the debate between the theist and the atheist - the theist starts out way ahead in objectivity. Why? Because the atheist has a clear and strong interest in avoiding having to do all this stuff. It seems to me a sincere agnostic should observe - and that is what I suggest for you, Dr. Kuhn. I respect very much your honesty about expressing your desire for G-d to truly exist - I think that is the only healthy position, intellectually. I am highly suspicious of atheists who proclaim that they don't want there to be a G-d who is benevolent and would be the ground of all being - explaining all things for us. Let me leave it there for now. I would be delighted if someone reading my words, is able to convey this to Dr. Kuhn. And tell him that I have enjoyed his Closer to Truth program for a few years now.
To me specifically Christianity opens up a way of transcending the inadequacy of our own goodness and of what we could be but fail to be and offers a road to a possible redemption of not only myself but to the universe. This in my mind is expressed in the Catholic Confiteor: I confess to God Almighty, before the whole company of heaven, and to you my brothers and sisters , that I have sinned in thought, word, and deed; in what I have done and in what I have failed to do. The problem of the inability to live up to the good exists whether God exists or not but those who downplay the problem are in my opinion not looking deeply at the problem. It is at its core the problem of evil and how we as perpetrators in this evil can somehow have hope that we can overcome it.
Hmm, I don’t see it. If a god exists then there is hope to transcend all this and if there is not the need would still exist but could never be realized.
All the more the need. Human history is awash in personal and corporate monstrosities since the dawn of time. It is the possibility of transcending this both individually and corporately is precisely what I was talking about.
“I don't want to believe. I want to know.” Carl Sagan How Our Brain Creates Delusion Of God. In this documentary, narrated by the author of the book Phantom of the Brain - V Ramachandran explains the case of a man suffering from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy(TLE).
@Androva J. He is just an agitated, fundamentalist going on a rant defending his faith, dogma, god (whoever the god may be) and the messenger. Just ignore. They will never answer to simple direct questions. They know how to twist and go tap dancing avoiding scrutiny.
@S Gloobal There's a planet in the Andromeda galaxy, inhabited by gummi bears. One of them has a son, who you can ask for guidance in life. Just close your eyes and speak to him. If you do not believe me, it is because you have been indoctrinated not to do so. Do you believe in elfs and fairies? If not, you have been indoctrinated. Do you believe in Poseidon? Thor? Brahma? You need to take a good look at your sense of logic, my friend.
Your hypothesis can even be proven statistically..... if a religious person tells me where they grew up as a child I can predict their religion within a 98% confidence interval.
@S Gloobal Ah you believe in the god of the gaps, I see. Not too much shame in that. It had been the common practice for millennia, beginning with all the creation myths of the world’s many religions: “We don’t know how all this came to be - so let’s come up with a story and point to magic.” And “we don’t know why the people of the World speak many different languages - let’s make up a story about that as well.” I’m glad I mentioned Thor already. He was our (I’m Danish) god of thunder. “We do not understand this phenomenon in the sky - it must be the work of a god.” We had our Thunder God, and you have your Big Bang God. Well, you are in good company, my friend. Even Newton, when he reached his limits concerning the many bodies problem, invoked God to adjust the clockwork of the heavens. Later on the problem was solved, and “God” had to be put into the next pocket of ignorance. Well, a better way to go, is to let go of the fear of the sentence “I don’t know (yet)” instead of invoking magic at the horizon of our current knowledge. That is the starting point in order to gain new knowledge. Also, you do not explain anything by invoking a god, because you are left with the task of explaining ‘him’.
@S Gloobal You put ‘God’ in place of our lack of knowledge - that is the god of the gaps argument. Now you are even speaking of “a prime mover” - yet another example of the god of the gaps arguments. Why would you need a 'prime mover'? And why would you just come up with a figment of your imagination and state that it does not need an explanation? Everything could have existed forever in different forms of matter and energi. There is no need for your magic friend. But you just put him in without any evidence in an attempt to discredit further scientific studies. I feel so sorry for you, but you seem pretty set in your ways, and of course I can’t help you, when you do not master logical reasoning. What good does your 'prime mover' even do, if there is nothing to move?
Think this is the only episode ive watched that you actually came to a conclusion,and in a categorical manner no less!!! Not sure how or why you came to these conclusions,but your sure did!!! Id say curiosity is what comes naturally to humans and certainly NOT religion!!! Thanks again.. (y)
I'm sick of antireligionists attempting to reduce religion to "wrong facts". There is a lot more to it, it is a realm of human expression, and if you get rid of religion, you will lose your language.
I see it as a sense of community, a need to bond with others in like and kind. That is, for most, but not all as there are those that wander off by themselves to seek a deeper understanding and meaning of what they think God is. Perhaps they're looking for an answer to this weird existence, a mind boggling enigma to say the least
Makes sense. The concept of religion is a modern perspectively. In today's world we rely on political authorities, businessmen, medical authorities and entertainers etc for guidance filtered through media. In the ancient world religion authorities were the main game in town for learning about the origin of life and guidance.
Every student knows a wise man. Does one truly think of themselves solely their lifetime without any outside human interaction?Is every thought or dream solely your own conjured? To deny your spiritual conscience is to deny your humanism.
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
Yes once upon a time that question was very mysterious. But now we know what causes that malady. It's simple. In my case i was put into a parochial primary school where Christian doctrine was ubiquitous. I'm sure other folks were introduced to their own beliefs in similar ways. Immersion in an environment that supports such indoctrination. No matter what the particular flavor, brand, persuasion, or ethnicity. And once exposed as a youth . . . such conditioning becomes more and more difficult to undo as we get older. Difficult but not impossible. Critical thinking and the trials of life can help set us straight.
@5:30 "...Science can never disprove God. It's not a falsifiable question..." Science cannot logically prove nonexistence. For science to prove that God does not exist would require omniscience. In other words, science would have to have the very ability of all-knowing God to disprove the non-existence of all-knowing God…
Science is not meant to disprove god but rather research the World we live in. Science needs evidences , patterns, discoveries, crazie scientists , but God is just about our faith and only that. Science has no power to disprove God.
@wim develder And you're going to listen to and believe every jerk on the planet Earth? Congratulations. You've just disproved the existence of a brain where you should have one. !!! Keep it up and I'm sure your kids will be proud of you!
" God is everywhere." ( 1 Timothy 1:17 ) (Revelation 22:12-16) God our Creator is the most Powerful, the Invisible, Immortal, Eternal, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, the root and the offspring, the bright morning star ⭐, the Eternal Energy that creates, holds and transforms everything in the Universe /Cosmos." " Energy is everywhere." Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only transforms (physics/chemistry), i.e., Energy IN = Energy OUT The Alpha = Omega The first = the last The beginning = the end The root = the offspring The bright morning star ⭐. " The Sun 🌞 is the main source of energy that gives heat and light energy to sustain life on our mother paradise planet earth 🌏. Without the Sun 🌞, there is no life on earth 🌏. " Humans represent three major components, i.e., (Energy our Creator + Physical Body + Spirit/ Wisdom/Consciousness) = the Trinity. Humans represent the Trinity. This proves that God is always with us." " Our energy is what we call our soul, it is immortal." @ my timeline, Rey Romeo Labrador Viray/ Rey Romeo L Viray, Facebook 🙏 Good morning! 💖✌️💡🌞⭐🇵🇭🌏
This whole video is laughable. Why is religious belief any different than the thousands of other things people believe? As if somehow the topic of what you believe determines a different pathway to that belief. People believe in religion because they have experience sufficient for them to subjectively decide, period. By the way, that guy who says kids think a carrot turns into a lion doesn't have kids. After object permanence sets in, NO child would think like he suggests. Then the woman says repetition creates belief has never tried to get a kid or teenager to do something they don't want to do. It amazes me how many Phd s in whatever can't think well and see obvious flaws in what they are saying. Finally, a guy simply states religious experience is varried and questions reducing it to some mental trip. Stewart Kaufman gets it, imo. Notice the host just stares at him and clearly doesn't get it.
Christianity: The belief that a Jew who was born to a virgin and who was his own father, can turn water to wine, walk on water, became a zombie after being dead for 3 days, can make you live forever in an enchanted invisible place if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in all humanity because a woman, who was made from a man's rib, was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Religious belief is not the effect of a cause. It is the destination in search of Truth, one way to reach it is by rejecting falsehood it requires criteria for judgement which was revealed in Islam. No other religion were able to say that religion is responsible to see the judgement served correctly because they had not received the criteria for judgement at their time. But in 2001 Jesus said " I am one of the followers of Islam ". There you have it.
In my opinion, the fear of death is one of the reasons. Since the beginning of time, people have sought for ways to achieve immortality, or at least, to live as long as possible. Eventually they learned that biological immortality is not possible. Religions fill this need nicely with the promise of eternal life after death.
Much of the earliest religious beliefs we know about did *not* have pleasant beliefs about the afterlife. More plausible for people today, but not a great theory for its origins.
Bruce Hood "we are indoctrinating children"...now we question if we indoctrinate with race, gender identity, national identity..or they put everything on the table.
Brilliant video. If only there were more people like Mr. Kuhn saying: "Hey, this is what I believe - so let's first consider the opposite of what I think is true."
Did you notice that when it comes to religion he NEVER asks the tough questions? Like 1. What does one DO in Heaven? Is Heaven one vast Retirement Home? Billions of people just sitting about doing nothing? And idle, useless, pointless existence for eternity? How does that make any sense? 2. What about the loved ones down on earth? Could they be starving? Sick with Covid19? suffering? Homeless? Children going to bed hungry? Daughter being abused by Mom's new boyfriend? NONE ASK! It seems people stop caring once they get to heaven or once promised eternal pleasures of the flesh they stop asking questions
@@ramaraksha01 exactly! when you try and pin it down. heaven makes no sense. the tv show the good place pokes fun at this in their last season when they visit "heaven"
@@fisher7865 Heaven is a metaphor for the Womb, Childhood - a time of joy & happiness - no work, few cares - our parents kept us in a safe bubble - watched over us, kept their troubles to themselves "Mommy lost her job? don't worry she will get another soon Daddy is sick, has to go to the hospital? Don't worry it is nothing, he will be back soon" Amazingly BILLIONS of people think they can run back to Mommy, be children again this time for eternity A magic Nanny will keep them in a safe bubble - will feed, protect, shelter, care and keep them away from the big bad real world! Honestly, how any educated, intelligent being thinks that Heaven makes any sense is beyond me . What works are the lack of questions I keep asking - what does one DO in Heaven? Can you describe a DAY? ONE DAY? And these people run from such a question! What is amazing is that none of the followers will ask such a question And even more amazing - none from the media! And when I write to newspapers asking such a question and saying Heaven is a metaphor - I cannot get published! The Christian/Islamic media doing its thing to protect religion
@@ramaraksha01 and is someone going to enjoy heaven knowing that a loved one went to hell? Is someone that believes in God yet is a criminal or a narcissist going to heaven? Is someone that’s a good person helps society (because they have a good heart and not for brownie points to heaven) and doesn’t believe in God going to hell? Definitely makes zero sense to me.
@@KAT-dg6el I know - what is amazing is that such questions are never asked! Those that are converting - do they not ask themselves such questions? Their families, friends, coworkers, people who have helped them thru tough times are to be dumped into hell? Amazing how easy it is to turn even good people into callous Nazis - ready to throw entire families, women, children & even babies into hell! Even more chilling - I live in the US, & I can't get such questions published - no newspaper or magazine will publish my letters! All this media covering up for religious hate
This video is the example of when a presupposition is confused with a conclusion. You start from the postulate that the world is mechanical and of no need to sustaining then you conclude that the world is mechanical. Voilà!
I think that Religious Belief came from our reasoning minds. There is a natural sequence involved. 1) It started with the idea that there must be a creator of everything. This idea caught on. It spread through the population and it was accepted. 2) Another idea came about that was built on the first idea. The idea was to control the behavior of others(believers in the first idea). At this point, the second idea came about for purely selfish reasons. This controlling idea probably came about when someone said something like "the creator wants you to....." or "the creator spoke to me and said...". At first it was all about using other weak mind individuals to do your own bidding. Those that took advantage soon became the leaders in their own populations. At this point, the purpose of Religious Belief changed. It went from being used for purely selfish reasons to being used also as an early form of government. It's hard to imagine that the top leaders in government would lie to get what they want. Surely, that never happens.
S Gloobal No, religion is not “false”, it’s all 100% real. All 4,200 of them. Just like if your mom & dad named you say “Timothy”, that’s real, just like all the other hundreds of thousands that were named Timothy. Never let someone or any “knowledge” tell you that your name is “false”. 😉
S Gloobal 😀 Why are you attributing the word “false” to any of my commentary, when, where, did I invoke it or evoke it (except when responding to you) ?
S Gloobal People are indeed indoctrinated; but that doesn’t mean that they don’t believe. You were told what your name was, since you were an infant, you were indoctrinated that your is, what your name is; hence, you believe that that is what your name is.
S Gloobal You can find literature to support whatever you want to believe, including that Earth is flat, Moon landing was fake, 9/11 was an inside job, the Roswell sightings have evolved over the years to keep credulous impressionable people captivated. The world is not about what is true, it’s about what can you get people to believe. And it sounds like you have made up your mind, it’s perhaps encoded in your brain. And I have no particular impetus to alter it. 😀
I can talk for myself 😊 I need to be free from slavery to mind. Mind is source of all suffering but, it has the ability to free us from suffering if we use it correctly
@Time to Reason partially correct Mind in not what we are. It arises from Self but, gets distracted by fake world. When we carefully observe to find the source of mind, it disappears into Self. That is state of Nirvana. Thoughtless state. Self and God are realised to be identical in that state.
What is religion? To me it is like this:- There is one thing that is directly obvious - I exist, I feel, and so on. (INSIDE) There is other thing that is obvious by the virtue of direct perception - There are others like me, also there are things. (OUTSIDE) The brain somehow believes that there's something that encompasses both of the above. (ALL-AROUND) Religion is a set of ideas, doctrines, rituals that reconciles all three. P. S: I am not religious. P. P. S: is that even possible, to be not religious?
I like how you write about it. Much better than simplistic “comfort”, “bainwashing”, “money”, ... Religion comes from searching for truth and attempts to develop a coherent system that explains what we percieve and helps navigate our human condition.
Personally, I don't think people choose their beliefs. I tend to think that I could likely believe any religion if I had the exact same upbringing as the people of that religion, and likely, any religious person with my upbringing would end up atheist. Sure, there are some biological differences between people, and that likely makes soke difference, but we also don't choose our biology.
I don't defend any _particular_ conception of God, as represented by the different religions. But I do identify a couple of things common to all the major religions that I _do_ "believe" in, in a generic sense, which give me _the essential thing valued_ which all the major religions offer to their believers, and I get this without subscribing to any particular conceptualization of God. Religions exist because people die and we want to understand what that is all about: why we die and what _it_ (the fact that we die) tells us about our present life experience that could/should matter to us. Does it tell us something about our current existence that we should care about? But perhaps the biggest question we ask about death is _does the death of our bodies mean that we Minds will cease to exist for all time?_ It's a big question because of the implications of any answer we might come up with. If when our bodies die we thinking things cease to exist forever, then it cannot possibly matter what we end up doing with our lives, whether we were A Living Saint or a terrifying Mass Murderer. Once you die--under this assumption--it's not going to matter what you did in your life as a human, period. Were you evil? Why not? ALL of the major religions answer these basic questions in the same basic way. They all say that 1) we continue to exist after our bodies die, and 2) what we do or don't do in this life _matters_ (will have an impact on our experience in the next life). These are the two generic religious beliefs that I fully embrace. But that's _all_ I believe with any amount of certainty. If anyone asks me for any details about the Afterlife or what I do/don't believe about God, I don't have an answer for them. My answer is always the same: I don't know. But I do know enough to fully embrace the meaning I see in this life.
What causes any belief? We live in a contingent universe where all things come into existence by some cause. To believe a universe comprised of contingent existence came from nothingness and is causeless would be akin to believing a chair appears from nowhere. Everything in our universe was created by some cause. Why then would anybody assume there is no cause for all creation itself? To believe existence merely exists by no cause whatsoever makes no logical sense. The irony is that many who choose to disbelieve in the existence of God would claim that those who do believe are ignorant. However just from analyzing creation and the physical universe, it would be illogical to believe that the universe is causeless.
That doesn't explain anything. What created "God" then? Believing the universe is infinite and eternal is just as absurd as believing there is an intelligence that is the absolute ground of all being and has no beginning or end. I also think this is a little disengenious because this argument alone is not enough to convince someone that God exists. There are other motivating factors like fear and the desire to be socially accepted.
That is exactly why science exists: it is caused some people’s need to understand the causal relationships. Science cannot create something new, that doesn’t exist in the universe, even when doing fusion of two atoms that may yield a new atom which hasn’t existed in the universe, the process is of transformation and NOT of creation. The only creative process has been done at the beginning of the universe and humans have not been given the gift of creation, but of mere transformation and wonder of causal relation.
Darkspace completely false. Not all people believe in God out of fear, but that is an aspect. It is not exclusive and you cannot generalize. The utter fact that this whole universe led to my existence as a personal being through it’s causal relationships unfolding leads me to believe that there is a fundamental personal nature in the cause of the universe. The original cause caused a personal being to exist, thus it must have a fundamental aspect to it making it also personal. That is what makes me believe not just in an abstract God, but also a Personal God.
@@darkspace5762In your argument you made an assumption that God is a physical being or bound by the laws of the physical universe. Whatever created the universe cannot by definition be the universe itself, but something greater. God or the "creator" must inherently be greater than the universe in scope. Look around and you shall see all creation exists in different levels. The mineral kingdom exists and possesses certain qualities, the plant kingdom exists and possesses all the qualities of the mineral kingdom but also has the power to grow, the animal kingdom possesses all the powers of the plant kingdom but also has the power to think, and lastly mankind has the power of abstract thought which is completely absent in animals. Just as the plant is totally incapable of understanding the powers and potentials of the animals, man would not be inherently capable of understanding a creation which is greater than himself (God), however we can see from our power of abstract thought that we are but a part of creation and we must abide by the principles that all observable creation abides by. Tell me then, what thing can science show that does not have a cause? That is not created by some process? You will not find an answer since it is a fundamental law of the universe.. the law of cause an effect. I believe a belief in God not only is consistent with and in harmony with scientific thinking, but it also is the only logically rational answer as well.
@@Mishk I'm not reading your whole comment. It really doesn't make a difference to me whether "God" is material or immaterial. The fact remains that God is in some sense A BEING. God in some sense "exists", whether material or immaterial, and thus had to have a cause.
So, God created man in his own image, In the Image of God he created him; Male and female he created them. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. (Genesis 1: 27, 31) How can you believe this stuff?!
Humans possess a genetic memory that tells them that they were "created" for a purpose by a "being" that they assume has benevolent feelings towards that which it " created". Because humans were rendered dysfunctional by this "creator", we have translated what is a "subconscious memory" into stories of Gods doing the creation for little other than to worship said God. This is a totally wrong and dysfunctional belief, but hard to contradict because the other option for human "creation" is not palatable for humans because of our misguided belief that we humans are a special breed that is very likely the most superior life- form in existence.
12:27ish First: It is one's 'self' who is conscious. 'Self' is an entity of the abstract kind. The self is the unique thought that represents its self. The self slowly comes into existence in response to experience and the gradual accumulation of memories of experience (which dance unconsciously together via synaptic logic (driven by Krebs cycle understood)) The vast majority of memories are of culture, not wilderness. Human culture has become an ecosystem to which humans have adapted in perfect accordance with the evolutionary process. 'The Self', your self, my self, all selfs, are the current results of human adaptation to our cultural ecosystem. Last: It is one's 'self' who is conscious.
It seems many human brains have a great fear of the unknown and things it doesn't understand, as well as also having pleasure with the emotion of fear itself. Dogma, superstition, group think, and magic fill in the gaps and create a psychological relief or thrill! If you understand this, it then becomes easy to exploit this vulnerability, you can give them relief or the thrill they need and in return demand complete allegiance. The more brains are correctly educated, the less these gaps will need to be filled.
I was a non believer until I asked Christ to prove to me in a sincere way that he was real it was at that moment I received the Holy Spirit. Recieving in my doubt took away all disbelief that I had. Plan of Salvation Romans 3:23 Romans 5:8 Romans 6:23 John 3:16 John 3:3 Revelation 3:20 John 1:12
She isn’t doing real science. She’s making a huge leap to show horn her pre conceived notions about belief as opposed to actually looking at the world evidence. I think I’m general, Robert’s consistent pursuit speaks volumes about his belief and I commend him and support his continued efforts to thwart the spirit of i know better that runs rampantly unchecked in the scientific community.
5:40 I have a (possibly) quick question, Doc, if you don't mind..? Thank you! So... Have there been any tests done where, 1. the temporal lobe was "shut down", be it chemically, or by the direct or indirect application of electrical current, or by some other means; AND, 2. there was testing of the phenomenon of experiencing (or not experiencing) a "presence" via some other possible route? And, finally; 3. If so, what was shown...or implicated...IOW, To where did the data point us, if at all? Again, thank you! Go Bluejays! 🙂
anyone who woke up this morning and watched this video or did anything did so with the belief in one construct or another. the people in this video are using one construct (material monism) to describe another construct (dualism). belief in any construct comes from cultural training and personal experience, and as noumenal reality is greater than our sense perception and cognitive ability constructs are necessary for functionality.
I love these episodes... but I never agree with Robert at the end when he says he's "getting closer to truth." These questions are unanswerable in any definitive way that would satisfy me.
What I know would amaze you. Nature is God and we are among those living in it.😊 Another country heard from another village another God. It all started when some man said I have something I want to tell you. #youtube #war ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
"The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and shall say, DESTROY them !" (Deuteronomy 33:27) "But I say unto you, LOVE your enemies, bless them that curse you" (Matthew 5:44) "I and my Father are one !" (John 10:30). I hope that helps you get closer to truth !
It would be helpful to preface all discussions about “religion” by the caveat “biblical religions”. The religions of South Asia are so fundamentally different that they cannot be painted by the same brush. Nevertheless, that does not diminish the value of what is discussed here about the other major religions.
People who believe in "God" can get along fine, even feel commaderie. It's when they start to define that God that the knives come out. I once told a childhood neighbor, that based on his behavior, he didn't really love God. He got mad, "Yes I do!" .. and hit me. 😁
A device that reveals the sensitivity of faith in the development of Darwin and the multiverse. If you question this worship, there is no doubt that you will be expelled by the multiple gods of atheism. This bloody struggle opposes and supports freedom.
It's very simple to know the truth. Think for yourself. Be honest with yourself and ask a simple question. If there is no God (i.e. an eternal being with infinite power AND intelligence WHO createD everything we SEE, HEAR, FEEL, TASTE, SMELL, THE ABILITY TO TALK, WALK, DO MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, ART, MUSIC LITERATURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE CAN DO PLUS EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE WHICH WERE KNOWN HAD A BEGINNING ) HOW COULD IT ALL COME ABOUT IF THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE? CAN NON INFINITE UNINTELLIGENT, NONE LIVING NONE DETECABLE i. e. (Not matter, energy, space or time) therefore NOTHING , AS SCIENTISTS SAY, BRING ALL THIS NON REQUIREMENTS INTO EXISTENCE? IF YOUR ANSWER IS THERE IS NO NEED FOR GOD THEN YOU HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO AND I'M ALL EARS AND EYES WAITING FOR YOUR EXPLANATION. NOW THERE'S A NEED FOR EYES AND EARS, IT'S WAITING FOR YOUR.
@@rubiks6 who made that rule that caps are yelling? Caps add emphasis. Written words don't make sound, but yelling does. I get what you're saying but it shouldn't be an issue. What matters is what is written not how it is written. If something needs to be listen to and not passed over, it needs to be emphasized. I don't know how to underline text so I use Caps. I'm tired of people overlooking basic realities because they don't want to face the TRUTH. Thanks for your advice.
For people who don’t know the mathematical equation that makes a brain I don’t doubt that you have no idea what the brain is doing. You people crack me up. You refuse to understand the image … a better question is what paradigm could not accept an idea that a brain is made in an image. And that image has a beginning and an ending and is simultaneously infinite and finite. It’s like sir Arthur Evans refusing to accept that Linear A and B could not be Greek. Do have a nice rest of your life . Btw I can’t imagine that you’ll understand the other information you’re missing.
Projecting parental imagoes onto the unknown. Children pass through a stage where parents have magical powers. Religious people remain fixated in that stage.
How about believing in God (not Organized Religion) because it gives one a feeling of peace and a Presence to be with that doesn't depend on group conformance or defense of one's belief. I have personal experiences that reinforce my beliefs and that's enough for me. Each individual has to find their own path, to either accept or reject a belief in God. My experience and faith works only for me.
I would say that there is a difference between religion and spirituality. Some people live by the word and not so much the spirit, while others live by the spirit and less by the word.
11:30 - “we have a mind that is predisposed to seeing causality” Best explanation for religious belief 👏👏
Yes. But another form of the question, "Is there a God?" is "Why do we have a mind predisposed in this way?"
I guess it depends if a presupposition underlies the question asked. I can easily think of an explanation from evolution by natural selection. This doesn’t mean I’m right, of course. But if it’s consistent with the science, it’s more believable (to me, at least) than any conclusion we can prematurely jump to. Just my $0.02.
@@sirrevzalot I don't think I'm jumping to a conclusion. Rather, I'm asking the question, Is the "[predisposition] to seeing causality [as the] best explanation for religious belief" jumping to a conclusion? How could one know that for sure? It may be simply begging the question. But I will not jump to that conclusion.
@@billwassner1433 Ah, thank you for clarifying the question. I guess I’m not the person to whom your question is directed, but for my part, labeling something the best explanation doesn’t make it the ultimate explanation (i.e., a conclusive end to the question). It may simply be the best one’s yet heard or the best one available at the time. That’s why I shared above that I’d find a natural explanation more believable than one that needs to invoke the mysteries to connect the dots. It’s not the only nor the last thing I’d consider in making a decision, but it’d hold more weight for me than a theological explanation.
And I don’t think you jumped to a conclusion. My point was to state a natural explanation, if consistent with the science, is more believable to me than any conclusion we could otherwise jump to. To my knowledge, I didn’t see you make that error 🙂
@@sirrevzalot Good point
Closer to Truth asks great questions and by the end of almost every episode I find myself feeling further from truth.....
Couldn't agree more 😞
So true bro
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know
When it comes to the infinities involved with existence, closer and further are one and the same.
It seems to you like you're getting farther but in reality you're very close to truth
I believe that religious experience and the power it has to motivate communities of people is something that has been naturally selected for. Whether right or wrong in its assumptions, culturally, it serves its purpose to push cooperation and 'togetherness' forward; allowing a more powerful force to overcome adversity.
I'm not religious at all and don't believe in a God but this is where I feel that the sense of 'something else' comes from; a desire to fit in and work together for a common goal. It's kept groups of people alive for thousands of years and has proven very effective to that end.
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I love your work Mr. Kuhn,
Thank you for all.
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Religious belief is caused by two of our problems: there are scary things in this world that we can't control, and we know that. So it's comforting to believe in a power that can control those things and that might be inclined to help us if we ask nicely. God is that power, and religion is how we gain God's favour.
What simplistic explanations ! Innate spiritual (rather than religious) belief is universal even though this may be sublimated by overriding conventional religious rituals or dogmas. (Or perhaps even by intellectual arrogance).
Spiritual understanding has little to do with wishful thinking or indoctrination but rather by an inner awareness of the true nature of life.
Unfortunately, for some, materialism gives a kind of three dimensional sense of security. Rather like not daring to look outside the box because there might be something there that contradicts one's mental construct. Now that would be frightening wouldn't it!
social inequality that makes most of us believed religions.
Drives for curiosity is a very simplistic way to explain the desire and innate search for the transcendent. Curiosity, need for explanation, and search for patterns are not the reason why we are religious. We could claim that those behaviors are a result of our being religious and not the other way around. None of those characteristics are necessary for survival and reproduction. The reason must lie beyond an evolutionary explanation.
Various reasons are given for the appearance of religion along the lines of fear of this or that natural phenomenon or fear of death. But then what about the Japanese who have no such religion and as far as anyone knows, never did. Were they simply fearless?
What causes religious belief? Two things: Ignorance and fear.
Ey, and ecstasy and awe, and the unconscious or subconscious, perhaps a touch of of irrationality. The experience is compelling, but the conclusion is heavily dependant on reasoning skill most people don't bother to develop.
By stimulating the visual cortex area one can become more or less sensitive to light, but nobody concludes from that that light is based in the brain.
...I knew a devout female catholic in Italy. She was British and in her 40's. With six children and one on the way. She nearly died in pregnancy because it was going against God's plan. However, this same woman was on a dating site and had over a dozen different lovers. Her husband was very aware and I'd bet that some of the kids are not his. They are both deeply religious.
"You can't disprove God.. it's a non falsifiable question"
Exactly, you can't also prove god exists 😆
Abdul Haseeb Shaikh I don’t have to disprove gods. The person/people making the claim of existence must provide the proof. And, until they are defined (consistently) so we can investigate their existence, they can’t be claimed to exist. Believers have a long way to go before a god is ‘proven’. That’s why it’s called ‘faith’ - belief ‘without’ evidence.
Bill K Fully agreed this is the right epistemological stand
Bill K “faith” does not mean belief without evidence.
@@matejbludsky8410 Off course you can prove God exist that is very easy all you need is an exorcist priest role you take that route you will the coolest walking the block.
I hope if we eventually populate another planet we exclude religion from it. Imagine the prosperity of a society with only those who do what that the evidence bests suggests.
@@aaronclarke7732 well if that doesn't happen then I hope atleast one day my dad comes back from the corner store.
Education certainly helps! King Solomon was one of the wisest people to have lived - read what he wrote.
The first structure known to have ever been built by human beings was Göbekli Tepe. It is a temple complex constructed by hunter-gatherers around a skull cult c. 12,000-10,000 years ago, way before agriculture and civilisation emerged. Thus, religious beliefs are primary and arise as a set of reactions to the fact of death... like everything else that follows.
Source: www.archaeology.org/issues/281-1801/features/6165-turkey-neolithic-skull-cult
Is it just me or does Robert seemed to be avoiding looking into Buddhism? I won't be surprised if he was, because life has no real meaning where Buddhism is concerned. Any meaning in life is artificial or superficial. There is no creator God in Buddhism too. Buddhism does not talk about the oneness of everything like Hinduism. It would be hard for Robert to fit Buddhism into his videos I supposed. :)
There reason is because he has a close relationship with China en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lawrence_Kuhn and they would be very unhappy if he started to explore anything the Dali Lama might have to say.
@@digitalmarketingconsultant6139 If so, then he is not as intellectually honest as I thought he was.
I think there are three in agreement that are much closer to truth here in this thread 😂🤔😭
@@Soli_Deo_Gloria_. I've unsubscribed. I have decided that it is at best going round in circles and at worst, spiralling away from the truth. Haha.
What causes religious belief? Answer: Ignorance. We don’t know anything about ourselves, the cosmic source we come from, nor the life we’re existing in, so historically, we needed a guide. Something written down to guide us. Especially since our relationships and familial experiences are disharmonious and have been for thousands of years and counting. So we needed something to give us a direction and tell us how to live and relate to each other in order to calm the disharmony down a bit and enable us to live on into the far future.
Truth, without religion we’d be an extinct species by now. We needed something to guide us through the banes of darkness and ignorance and help us to endure it and religion was that guide. Religion kept us ignorant and living in pain, but still helped us to survive as a species. Some peeps today are still looking to religion to find and maintain a relationship and following what is says to do to the letter.
Fear is the birth place of religion in human mind.
What causes religious beliefs? im not a traditional believer, religion is create by visions from the body, this visions are responsible religions and esoteric belief, is going on whit me, and I belief quantum science is the answer, biology I don't think so. in this life and the next one estay in the light.
How can a renowned prof in a nice office confuse a superstitious beleif in ghosts (which works as he describes) with cognitive mechanisms that lead to or support worshiping the creator and the Christian belief in Christ and the revelations received from him or the prophecies. predicting his coming, acts and destiny?
Mental laziness results in religious belief.
Let the data D be "Many people believes in gods."
Formerly there is only one hypothesis to explain D: H1 = "There is a god."
Now we have the alternative H2 = "It is evolved"
Would H2 makes H1 less believable?
Fear + childhood = Fundamental Christians.
Hey razony... I like this equation better: Trust + Becoming like a Child = Followers of Jesus
@@johnbrzykcy3076 Fine with me!
I have a theory on religion; I think it has to do with the life force to survive and this plays out in the high powered human mind. Humans need to survive where no other animal or life form has had to, the afterlife. There is a void there and it needs to be filled. We need to survive, even when we are gone. I believe the cause is fractal in that survival is universal to life and it repeats in secular beliefs too. I wrote up my ideas here: 'Religion an Emergent Fractal Structure Formed From the Life Force Survival' www.academia.edu/19725656/Religion_an_Emergent_Fractal_Structure_Formed_From_the_Life_Force_Survival
People remember, so things and events can't vanish into oblivion. Don't you want to be remembered?
if god is real! Do you really think God wants you to pray for him ? to do all this cinema ! all the music and festival! I don't know I am not a god but if I were a god ! I would tell everyone . enjoy life and be nice to all being animals, human, that's it don t waste your time !
@S Gloobal could you elaborate ?
"if god is real" he would know the best for his creation. Knowing that prayer and meditation are essential fr the human psyche (I'm not Christian)
Thank god you are just poop on this earth
Perfect topic for some ego flexing in comment section
Yeah, thats true, although I think people who feel superior for holding/not holding certain beliefs are being unreasonable. At no time do we choose our beliefs, we are simply convinced, then our brain works overtime to defend any beliefs. There is nothing about a flat earther believer that makes them inferior, for example, they have just been raised in such a way that a flat earth argument convinced them, and there is no reason to think that we would believe differently in their circumstances.
I guess that doesn't include you? 😂
@@davidflynn6790 watch the devil and father amorth trailer.
God is Santa for grown ups
More accurately, the flying spaghetti monster is Santa for atheists
@@-JSLAK 😂😂
when fear of death supersedes your critical faculties ,there has to be a god i have to see my little doggie in heaven ,and live forever, hope there is one and the theists get stuck with their mother in law and listening to rap music for eternity
"Our fathers are our first gods" -Carlos Santana. The desire to be comforted by something bigger than ourselves in the face of fear and uncertainty.
I always saw my dad as a teacher not a god. I didn't need much training. He let me find my own world view instead of imprinting his own.
@@thomasridley8675 The best kind of teacher. All my best. M.
@@mahamudra8150 ✌️👍
Our father who art in heaven ... teaches the the Son of Man, the Logos incarnate. Perhaps it is not random that we are persons in the image of God , interpersonal relationship is so important for us, and we have father and mother from whom we directly receive the life and our personality. So theologically nothing surprising in what you say , it does not contradict the truth believed by Christians , fits in with the style of the Revelation.
@@jozsefnemeth935 We were not created in the image of God.....God was created in the image of us. Just my opinion. Best wishes.
How can any believer IN any religion not see that others with contradicting beliefs use the same three ingredients for their beliefs: 1: Personal experience, 2: Apologetics, 3: Faith.
And, when you realize it, how can you still believe in your version/religion?
The best religion is Life! It is amazing.
Closer To Truth.. but never close enough to find out... It's a thought-provoking series. Thanks
It’s all about ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), this part of brain is also responsible for believing! If it has electrical activity, then we believe, if not, suddenly God goes away for long holiday!!!
It’s all about Brain activities!
Time to Reason Humanity made 2 huge mistakes. We created Money And God and so we got stuck on this Paradise Planet which we are destroying! 2 fantasies which we care about and ignore reality!
I pose a challenge to Dr. Kuhn: Dr. Kuhn - you have been searching for answers to many questions about the world, the universe and the nature a/o existence of G-d. You are trained in science and know that one of the key requirements for the success of a theory, is its ability to successfully predict results. I propose to you, that, if you are sincerely interested in discovering the truth of the G-d hypothesis, you would do well to, at a minimum, conduct an experiment that might help you gain some knowledge about it - how it works, what are the benefits, and what truths, either deductively or inductively, etc... You have often expressed that you would be delighted to discover the truth of G-d's existence. Your own ancestral religion is Judaism - and so, I suggest that you spend some time - perhaps a year or so, in complete observance of the laws and rituals of your religion. In other words, try it - and maybe you will like it. I know that you often say that you don't merely want what feels good if it is not truthful - and I think that's fine. Perhaps, you will only discover an inductive basis for religion - that is, living a religious life will reveal it's "truth" - or even its utility. My point is - religion (particularly Judaism) is experiential in the main - not merely conceptual and subject to philosophical or scientific analysis. If I wanted to convince you of how tasty chocolate ice cream is - I certainly would not engage you in a discussion about its properties, but I would insist that you taste it, and see if that works for you. Religion may be just that type of experience. Now lest you say that is not enough support for belief - well I would remind you that you have interviewed many important scholars who have presented you with many very cogent, coherent and profound ideas in support of religion, so it's not as though there is no reasonable basis for belief. Perhaps not absolute proof, but who says that is what the Creator wants to show us? We make all of our most consequential life choices without absolute certainty as to the right way to proceed through life. Why should a choice to live a religious life be different? Let me leave you with one thought that came to me while debating an atheist, which actually caused him to take up my challenge. I reflected that there are 3 possible responses to the question of the existence of G-d: One can select atheism - one can select theism, and one can choose agnosticism. The problem is that there are only 2 choices for a person to take in terms of observance (particularly in the case of Judaism) which requires the observance of a great many laws and commandments. When sunset, Friday night comes, a person must choose to observe or not to observe. There are only 2 possibilities of action against 3 possibilities of belief. This is a serious asymmetry. It is an interesting fact that almost all "agnostics" choose not to observe. And why is that? I won't discuss the psychology of this phenomenon now, but it is quite interesting. At a minimum, I think it reveals a clear bias and non intellectual factor in one's choice. There is quite a lot to do - many obligations that one incurs in living a religious life - and frankly, most people don't want to make the effort or challenge one's own inclinations that may require one to temper "doing their own thing". To put it bluntly, there is just too much stuff one has to do (particularly as an orthodox Jew). In fact, I would say that, in the debate between the theist and the atheist - the theist starts out way ahead in objectivity. Why? Because the atheist has a clear and strong interest in avoiding having to do all this stuff. It seems to me a sincere agnostic should observe - and that is what I suggest for you, Dr. Kuhn. I respect very much your honesty about expressing your desire for G-d to truly exist - I think that is the only healthy position, intellectually. I am highly suspicious of atheists who proclaim that they don't want there to be a G-d who is benevolent and would be the ground of all being - explaining all things for us. Let me leave it there for now. I would be delighted if someone reading my words, is able to convey this to Dr. Kuhn. And tell him that I have enjoyed his Closer to Truth program for a few years now.
Nicely written.
Many geneticists believe that there is a religious gene - I think that would explain a lot
I agree!
To me specifically Christianity opens up a way of transcending the inadequacy of our own goodness and of what we could be but fail to be and offers a road to a possible redemption of not only myself but to the universe. This in my mind is expressed in the Catholic Confiteor: I confess to God Almighty, before the whole company of heaven, and to you my brothers and sisters , that I have sinned in thought, word, and deed; in what I have done and in what I have failed to do. The problem of the inability to live up to the good exists whether God exists or not but those who downplay the problem are in my opinion not looking deeply at the problem. It is at its core the problem of evil and how we as perpetrators in this evil can somehow have hope that we can overcome it.
Hmm, I don’t see it. If a god exists then there is hope to transcend all this and if there is not the need would still exist but could never be realized.
Shame about all that pedophelia though
All the more the need. Human history is awash in personal and corporate monstrosities since the dawn of time. It is the possibility of transcending this both individually and corporately is precisely what I was talking about.
Fear of death, childhood indoctrination and good old wishful thinking.
snukkelpuppie Short and to the point. Good statement. I would only add in guilt.
Just as atheists thinking that from an explosión comes out a working clock with sufficient time.
All believers is logically atheist about others fairy tales belief
A ML And theists think it was magic. Religions just try to explain one mystery with another made up mystery. How is that any kind of explanation?
“I don't want to believe. I want to know.” Carl Sagan
How Our Brain Creates Delusion Of God. In this documentary, narrated by the author of the book Phantom of the Brain - V Ramachandran explains the case of a man suffering from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy(TLE).
Primary cause: Childhood indoctrination
@Androva J.
He is just an agitated, fundamentalist going on a rant defending his faith, dogma, god (whoever the god may be) and the messenger. Just ignore. They will never answer to simple direct questions. They know how to twist and go tap dancing avoiding scrutiny.
@S Gloobal There's a planet in the Andromeda galaxy, inhabited by gummi bears. One of them has a son, who you can ask for guidance in life. Just close your eyes and speak to him. If you do not believe me, it is because you have been indoctrinated not to do so. Do you believe in elfs and fairies? If not, you have been indoctrinated. Do you believe in Poseidon? Thor? Brahma? You need to take a good look at your sense of logic, my friend.
Your hypothesis can even be proven statistically..... if a religious person tells me where they grew up as a child I can predict their religion within a 98% confidence interval.
@S Gloobal Ah you believe in the god of the gaps, I see. Not too much shame in that. It had been the common practice for millennia, beginning with all the creation myths of the world’s many religions: “We don’t know how all this came to be - so let’s come up with a story and point to magic.” And “we don’t know why the people of the World speak many different languages - let’s make up a story about that as well.”
I’m glad I mentioned Thor already. He was our (I’m Danish) god of thunder. “We do not understand this phenomenon in the sky - it must be the work of a god.” We had our Thunder God, and you have your Big Bang God.
Well, you are in good company, my friend. Even Newton, when he reached his limits concerning the many bodies problem, invoked God to adjust the clockwork of the heavens. Later on the problem was solved, and “God” had to be put into the next pocket of ignorance.
Well, a better way to go, is to let go of the fear of the sentence “I don’t know (yet)” instead of invoking magic at the horizon of our current knowledge. That is the starting point in order to gain new knowledge.
Also, you do not explain anything by invoking a god, because you are left with the task of explaining ‘him’.
@S Gloobal You put ‘God’ in place of our lack of knowledge - that is the god of the gaps argument.
Now you are even speaking of “a prime mover” - yet another example of the god of the gaps arguments.
Why would you need a 'prime mover'? And why would you just come up with a figment of your imagination and state that it does not need an explanation? Everything could have existed forever in different forms of matter and energi. There is no need for your magic friend. But you just put him in without any evidence in an attempt to discredit further scientific studies. I feel so sorry for you, but you seem pretty set in your ways, and of course I can’t help you, when you do not master logical reasoning. What good does your 'prime mover' even do, if there is nothing to move?
Think this is the only episode ive watched that you actually came to a conclusion,and in a categorical manner no less!!! Not sure how or why you came to these conclusions,but your sure did!!! Id say curiosity is what comes naturally to humans and certainly NOT religion!!! Thanks again.. (y)
I love the Aenima-esque beginning of this show. ;)
learn to swim
I'm sick of antireligionists attempting to reduce religion to "wrong facts". There is a lot more to it, it is a realm of human expression, and if you get rid of religion, you will lose your language.
I see it as a sense of community, a need to bond with others in like and kind. That is, for most, but not all as there are those that wander off by themselves to seek a deeper understanding and meaning of what they think God is. Perhaps they're looking for an answer to this weird existence, a mind boggling enigma to say the least
Kuhn is fearless. He asks questions and gets chastised about some of them from some but he persists. The only stupid question is the one not asked.
Makes sense. The concept of religion is a modern perspectively. In today's world we rely on political authorities, businessmen, medical authorities and entertainers etc for guidance filtered through media. In the ancient world religion authorities were the main game in town for learning about the origin of life and guidance.
A wise man ( Paul Brunton ) once said that Organized Religion was created for the Masses. Those unable or unwilling to think for themselves.
Every student knows a wise man. Does one truly think of themselves solely their lifetime without any outside human interaction?Is every thought or dream solely your own conjured? To deny your spiritual conscience is to deny your humanism.
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'...
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE...
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave.
The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist.
For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is.
Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment.
The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing.
The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists.
Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’.
On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication.
For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.
NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
Yes once upon a time that question was very mysterious. But now we know what causes that malady. It's simple. In my case i was put into a parochial primary school where Christian doctrine was ubiquitous. I'm sure other folks were introduced to their own beliefs in similar ways. Immersion in an environment that supports such indoctrination. No matter what the particular flavor, brand, persuasion, or ethnicity. And once exposed as a youth . . . such conditioning becomes more and more difficult to undo as we get older. Difficult but not impossible. Critical thinking and the trials of life can help set us straight.
@5:30 "...Science can never disprove God. It's not a falsifiable question..." Science cannot logically prove nonexistence. For science to prove that God does not exist would require omniscience. In other words, science would have to have the very ability of all-knowing God to disprove the non-existence of all-knowing God…
Science is not meant to disprove god but rather research the World we live in. Science needs evidences , patterns, discoveries, crazie scientists , but God is just about our faith and only that. Science has no power to disprove God.
@wim develder And you're going to listen to and believe every jerk on the planet Earth? Congratulations. You've just disproved the existence of a brain where you should have one. !!! Keep it up and I'm sure your kids will be proud of you!
" God is everywhere."
( 1 Timothy 1:17 )
(Revelation 22:12-16)
God our Creator is the most Powerful, the Invisible, Immortal, Eternal, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, the root and the offspring, the bright morning star ⭐, the Eternal Energy that creates, holds and transforms everything in the Universe /Cosmos."
" Energy is everywhere."
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only transforms (physics/chemistry), i.e.,
Energy IN = Energy OUT
The Alpha = Omega
The first = the last
The beginning = the end
The root = the offspring
The bright morning star ⭐. " The Sun 🌞 is the main source of energy that gives heat and light energy to sustain life on our mother paradise planet earth 🌏. Without the Sun 🌞, there is no life on earth 🌏.
" Humans represent three major components, i.e., (Energy our Creator + Physical Body + Spirit/ Wisdom/Consciousness) = the Trinity. Humans represent the Trinity. This proves that God is always with us."
" Our energy is what we call our soul, it is immortal."
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This whole video is laughable. Why is religious belief any different than the thousands of other things people believe? As if somehow the topic of what you believe determines a different pathway to that belief. People believe in religion because they have experience sufficient for them to subjectively decide, period.
By the way, that guy who says kids think a carrot turns into a lion doesn't have kids. After object permanence sets in, NO child would think like he suggests. Then the woman says repetition creates belief has never tried to get a kid or teenager to do something they don't want to do. It amazes me how many Phd s in whatever can't think well and see obvious flaws in what they are saying. Finally, a guy simply states religious experience is varried and questions reducing it to some mental trip.
Stewart Kaufman gets it, imo. Notice the host just stares at him and clearly doesn't get it.
Christianity: The belief that a Jew who was born to a virgin and who was his own father, can turn water to wine, walk on water, became a zombie after being dead for 3 days, can make you live forever in an enchanted invisible place if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in all humanity because a woman, who was made from a man's rib, was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Religious belief is not the effect of a cause. It is the destination in search of Truth, one way to reach it is by rejecting falsehood it requires criteria for judgement which was revealed in Islam. No other religion were able to say that religion is responsible to see the judgement served correctly because they had not received the criteria for judgement at their time. But in 2001 Jesus said " I am one of the followers of Islam ". There you have it.
In my opinion, the fear of death is one of the reasons. Since the beginning of time, people have sought for ways to achieve immortality, or at least, to live as long as possible. Eventually they learned that biological immortality is not possible. Religions fill this need nicely with the promise of eternal life after death.
Totally agree!
While that might have some truth too it it doesn't explain. Athiest that. Have changed there mind about there being a god and afterlife.
I like it your comment @ Dt
Much of the earliest religious beliefs we know about did *not* have pleasant beliefs about the afterlife. More plausible for people today, but not a great theory for its origins.
Religion and Atheist exist because God exist.
Belief in itself is religious. Lot of religious people on this thread
While it depends on what one means by religion, belief, religious or other, is often a desire to find certainty in the transcendent.
Bruce Hood "we are indoctrinating children"...now we question if we indoctrinate with race, gender identity, national identity..or they put everything on the table.
If god touches u in this life u believe in him if he does not u don't believe in him .same as heroin addict can only experience its effects.
The more we understand nature the less we need the supernatural and the more satisfaction there is in feeling apart of the unfolding universe.
Brilliant video. If only there were more people like Mr. Kuhn saying: "Hey, this is what I believe - so let's first consider the opposite of what I think is true."
Did you notice that when it comes to religion he NEVER asks the tough questions?
Like 1. What does one DO in Heaven? Is Heaven one vast Retirement Home? Billions of people just sitting about doing nothing? And idle, useless, pointless existence for eternity?
How does that make any sense?
2. What about the loved ones down on earth? Could they be starving? Sick with Covid19? suffering? Homeless? Children going to bed hungry? Daughter being abused by Mom's new boyfriend?
NONE ASK! It seems people stop caring once they get to heaven or once promised eternal pleasures of the flesh they stop asking questions
@@ramaraksha01 exactly! when you try and pin it down. heaven makes no sense. the tv show the good place pokes fun at this in their last season when they visit "heaven"
@@fisher7865 Heaven is a metaphor for the Womb, Childhood - a time of joy & happiness - no work, few cares - our parents kept us in a safe bubble - watched over us, kept their troubles to themselves
"Mommy lost her job? don't worry she will get another soon
Daddy is sick, has to go to the hospital? Don't worry it is nothing, he will be back soon"
Amazingly BILLIONS of people think they can run back to Mommy, be children again this time for eternity
A magic Nanny will keep them in a safe bubble - will feed, protect, shelter, care and keep them away from the big bad real world!
Honestly, how any educated, intelligent being thinks that Heaven makes any sense is beyond me
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What works are the lack of questions
I keep asking - what does one DO in Heaven? Can you describe a DAY? ONE DAY?
And these people run from such a question!
What is amazing is that none of the followers will ask such a question
And even more amazing - none from the media!
And when I write to newspapers asking such a question and saying Heaven is a metaphor - I cannot get published!
The Christian/Islamic media doing its thing to protect religion
@@ramaraksha01 and is someone going to enjoy heaven knowing that a loved one went to hell?
Is someone that believes in God yet is a criminal or a narcissist going to heaven? Is someone that’s a good person helps society (because they have a good heart and not for brownie points to heaven) and doesn’t believe in God going to hell?
Definitely makes zero sense to me.
@@KAT-dg6el I know - what is amazing is that such questions are never asked!
Those that are converting - do they not ask themselves such questions? Their families, friends, coworkers, people who have helped them thru tough times are to be dumped into hell?
Amazing how easy it is to turn even good people into callous Nazis - ready to throw entire families, women, children & even babies into hell!
Even more chilling - I live in the US, & I can't get such questions published - no newspaper or magazine will publish my letters!
All this media covering up for religious hate
It's a necessary component of the human mind
This video is the example of when a presupposition is confused with a conclusion. You start from the postulate that the world is mechanical and of no need to sustaining then you conclude that the world is mechanical. Voilà!
I think that Religious Belief came from our reasoning minds. There is a natural sequence involved. 1) It started with the idea that there must be a creator of everything. This idea caught on. It spread through the population and it was accepted. 2) Another idea came about that was built on the first idea. The idea was to control the behavior of others(believers in the first idea). At this point, the second idea came about for purely selfish reasons. This controlling idea probably came about when someone said something like "the creator wants you to....." or "the creator spoke to me and said...". At first it was all about using other weak mind individuals to do your own bidding. Those that took advantage soon became the leaders in their own populations. At this point, the purpose of Religious Belief changed. It went from being used for purely selfish reasons to being used also as an early form of government. It's hard to imagine that the top leaders in government would lie to get what they want. Surely, that never happens.
Very well said
Beautiful video which does bring us Closer To Truth.
A vacuum of knowledge and indoctrination!
Surely you mean "A vacuum of knowledge and (an abundance of) indoctrination" ?
S Gloobal No, religion is not “false”, it’s all 100% real. All 4,200 of them. Just like if your mom & dad named you say “Timothy”, that’s real, just like all the other hundreds of thousands that were named Timothy. Never let someone or any “knowledge” tell you that your name is “false”. 😉
S Gloobal 😀 Why are you attributing the word “false” to any of my commentary, when, where, did I invoke it or evoke it (except when responding to you) ?
S Gloobal People are indeed indoctrinated; but that doesn’t mean that they don’t believe. You were told what your name was, since you were an infant, you were indoctrinated that your is, what your name is; hence, you believe that that is what your name is.
S Gloobal You can find literature to support whatever you want to believe, including that Earth is flat, Moon landing was fake, 9/11 was an inside job, the Roswell sightings have evolved over the years to keep credulous impressionable people captivated.
The world is not about what is true, it’s about what can you get people to believe. And it sounds like you have made up your mind, it’s perhaps encoded in your brain. And I have no particular impetus to alter it. 😀
I can talk for myself 😊
I need to be free from slavery to mind.
Mind is source of all suffering but, it has the ability to free us from suffering if we use it correctly
@Time to Reason partially correct
Mind in not what we are. It arises from Self but, gets distracted by fake world. When we carefully observe to find the source of mind, it disappears into Self. That is state of Nirvana. Thoughtless state. Self and God are realised to be identical in that state.
For a big clame, big prof is needed. If we duplicate a "miracle" then it's not a miracle.
Observing your surroundings and inner intuition. I
What is religion?
To me it is like this:-
There is one thing that is directly obvious - I exist, I feel, and so on. (INSIDE)
There is other thing that is obvious by the virtue of direct perception - There are others like me, also there are things. (OUTSIDE)
The brain somehow believes that there's something that encompasses both of the above. (ALL-AROUND)
Religion is a set of ideas, doctrines, rituals that reconciles all three.
P. S: I am not religious.
P. P. S: is that even possible, to be not religious?
I like how you write about it. Much better than simplistic “comfort”, “bainwashing”, “money”, ... Religion comes from searching for truth and attempts to develop a coherent system that explains what we percieve and helps navigate our human condition.
Khun looks more like Einstein in this video....
Einstein was handsome.
The imagination that we are eternal, and with begining and without end.
Personally, I don't think people choose their beliefs. I tend to think that I could likely believe any religion if I had the exact same upbringing as the people of that religion, and likely, any religious person with my upbringing would end up atheist. Sure, there are some biological differences between people, and that likely makes soke difference, but we also don't choose our biology.
I don't defend any _particular_ conception of God, as represented by the different religions. But I do identify a couple of things common to all the major religions that I _do_ "believe" in, in a generic sense, which give me _the essential thing valued_ which all the major religions offer to their believers, and I get this without subscribing to any particular conceptualization of God.
Religions exist because people die and we want to understand what that is all about: why we die and what _it_ (the fact that we die) tells us about our present life experience that could/should matter to us. Does it tell us something about our current existence that we should care about? But perhaps the biggest question we ask about death is _does the death of our bodies mean that we Minds will cease to exist for all time?_
It's a big question because of the implications of any answer we might come up with. If when our bodies die we thinking things cease to exist forever, then it cannot possibly matter what we end up doing with our lives, whether we were A Living Saint or a terrifying Mass Murderer. Once you die--under this assumption--it's not going to matter what you did in your life as a human, period. Were you evil? Why not?
ALL of the major religions answer these basic questions in the same basic way. They all say that 1) we continue to exist after our bodies die, and 2) what we do or don't do in this life _matters_ (will have an impact on our experience in the next life).
These are the two generic religious beliefs that I fully embrace. But that's _all_ I believe with any amount of certainty. If anyone asks me for any details about the Afterlife or what I do/don't believe about God, I don't have an answer for them. My answer is always the same: I don't know. But I do know enough to fully embrace the meaning I see in this life.
With respect, the informations, released , it’s not for the reason to the people to believe something, but it’s to think !
What causes any belief? We live in a contingent universe where all things come into existence by some cause. To believe a universe comprised of contingent existence came from nothingness and is causeless would be akin to believing a chair appears from nowhere. Everything in our universe was created by some cause. Why then would anybody assume there is no cause for all creation itself? To believe existence merely exists by no cause whatsoever makes no logical sense. The irony is that many who choose to disbelieve in the existence of God would claim that those who do believe are ignorant. However just from analyzing creation and the physical universe, it would be illogical to believe that the universe is causeless.
That doesn't explain anything. What created "God" then? Believing the universe is infinite and eternal is just as absurd as believing there is an intelligence that is the absolute ground of all being and has no beginning or end. I also think this is a little disengenious because this argument alone is not enough to convince someone that God exists. There are other motivating factors like fear and the desire to be socially accepted.
That is exactly why science exists: it is caused some people’s need to understand the causal relationships. Science cannot create something new, that doesn’t exist in the universe, even when doing fusion of two atoms that may yield a new atom which hasn’t existed in the universe, the process is of transformation and NOT of creation. The only creative process has been done at the beginning of the universe and humans have not been given the gift of creation, but of mere transformation and wonder of causal relation.
Darkspace completely false. Not all people believe in God out of fear, but that is an aspect. It is not exclusive and you cannot generalize. The utter fact that this whole universe led to my existence as a personal being through it’s causal relationships unfolding leads me to believe that there is a fundamental personal nature in the cause of the universe. The original cause caused a personal being to exist, thus it must have a fundamental aspect to it making it also personal. That is what makes me believe not just in an abstract God, but also a Personal God.
@@darkspace5762In your argument you made an assumption that God is a physical being or bound by the laws of the physical universe. Whatever created the universe cannot by definition be the universe itself, but something greater. God or the "creator" must inherently be greater than the universe in scope. Look around and you shall see all creation exists in different levels. The mineral kingdom exists and possesses certain qualities, the plant kingdom exists and possesses all the qualities of the mineral kingdom but also has the power to grow, the animal kingdom possesses all the powers of the plant kingdom but also has the power to think, and lastly mankind has the power of abstract thought which is completely absent in animals. Just as the plant is totally incapable of understanding the powers and potentials of the animals, man would not be inherently capable of understanding a creation which is greater than himself (God), however we can see from our power of abstract thought that we are but a part of creation and we must abide by the principles that all observable creation abides by. Tell me then, what thing can science show that does not have a cause? That is not created by some process? You will not find an answer since it is a fundamental law of the universe.. the law of cause an effect. I believe a belief in God not only is consistent with and in harmony with scientific thinking, but it also is the only logically rational answer as well.
@@Mishk I'm not reading your whole comment. It really doesn't make a difference to me whether "God" is material or immaterial. The fact remains that God is in some sense A BEING. God in some sense "exists", whether material or immaterial, and thus had to have a cause.
So, God created man in his own image,
In the Image of God he created him;
Male and female he created them.
God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good.
(Genesis 1: 27, 31)
How can you believe this stuff?!
Children ask mommas questions and they learn to make up answers and culture builds answers into stories. KaBooM!!!!!
The question is simple and, at the same time, decisive: how to differentiate between FAITH in a god and IMAGINATION that there is such a god??
Fear. And ignorance. Period.
Humans possess a genetic memory that tells them that they were "created" for a purpose by a "being" that they assume has benevolent feelings towards that which it " created".
Because humans were rendered dysfunctional by this "creator", we have translated what is a "subconscious memory" into stories of Gods doing the creation for little other than to worship said God.
This is a totally wrong and dysfunctional belief, but hard to contradict because the other option for human "creation" is not palatable for humans because of our misguided belief that we humans are a special breed that is very likely the most superior life- form in existence.
12:27ish
First: It is one's 'self' who is conscious.
'Self' is an entity of the abstract kind.
The self is the unique thought that represents its self.
The self slowly comes into existence in response to
experience and the gradual accumulation of memories of experience
(which dance unconsciously together via synaptic logic
(driven by Krebs cycle understood))
The vast majority of memories are of culture, not wilderness.
Human culture has become an ecosystem
to which humans have adapted
in perfect accordance
with the evolutionary process.
'The Self', your self, my self, all selfs,
are the current results of human adaptation to our cultural ecosystem.
Last: It is one's 'self' who is conscious.
It seems many human brains have a great fear of the unknown and things it doesn't understand, as well as also having pleasure with the emotion of fear itself. Dogma, superstition, group think, and magic fill in the gaps and create a psychological relief or thrill! If you understand this, it then becomes easy to exploit this vulnerability, you can give them relief or the thrill they need and in return demand complete allegiance. The more brains are correctly educated, the less these gaps will need to be filled.
I was a non believer until I asked Christ to prove to me in a sincere way that he was real it was at that moment I received the Holy Spirit. Recieving in my doubt took away all disbelief that I had. Plan of Salvation
Romans 3:23
Romans 5:8
Romans 6:23
John 3:16
John 3:3
Revelation 3:20
John 1:12
She isn’t doing real science. She’s making a huge leap to show horn her pre conceived notions about belief as opposed to actually looking at the world evidence. I think I’m general, Robert’s consistent pursuit speaks volumes about his belief and I commend him and support his continued efforts to thwart the spirit of i know better that runs rampantly unchecked in the scientific community.
5:40 I have a (possibly) quick question, Doc, if you don't mind..?
Thank you! So...
Have there been any tests done where,
1. the temporal lobe was "shut down", be it chemically, or by the direct or indirect application of electrical current, or by some other means; AND,
2. there was testing of the phenomenon of experiencing (or not experiencing) a "presence" via some other possible route? And, finally;
3. If so, what was shown...or implicated...IOW, To where did the data point us, if at all?
Again, thank you!
Go Bluejays!
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anyone who woke up this morning and watched this video or did anything did so with the belief in one construct or another. the people in this video are using one construct (material monism) to describe another construct (dualism). belief in any construct comes from cultural training and personal experience, and as noumenal reality is greater than our sense perception and cognitive ability constructs are necessary for functionality.
I love these episodes... but I never agree with Robert at the end when he says he's "getting closer to truth." These questions are unanswerable in any definitive way that would satisfy me.
What I know would amaze you. Nature is God and we are among those living in it.😊 Another country heard from another village another God. It all started when some man said I have something I want to tell you. #youtube #war ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
"The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee and shall say, DESTROY them !" (Deuteronomy 33:27)
"But I say unto you, LOVE your enemies, bless them that curse you" (Matthew 5:44)
"I and my Father are one !" (John 10:30). I hope that helps you get closer to truth !
It would be helpful to preface all discussions about “religion” by the caveat “biblical religions”. The religions of South Asia are so fundamentally different that they cannot be painted by the same brush. Nevertheless, that does not diminish the value of what is discussed here about the other major religions.
People who believe in "God" can get along fine, even feel commaderie. It's when they start to define that God that the knives come out. I once told a childhood neighbor, that based on his behavior, he didn't really love God. He got mad, "Yes I do!" .. and hit me. 😁
What causes religious belief [ Ignorance ]
What causes atheism? Ignorance
I believe in dog.
Indoctrination !!!!
Religious belief is justified because we are in need from every aspect of life. And especially when facing death of one’s own and his loved ones.
A device that reveals the sensitivity of faith in the development of Darwin and the multiverse. If you question this worship, there is no doubt that you will be expelled by the multiple gods of atheism. This bloody struggle opposes and supports freedom.
It's very simple to know the truth. Think for yourself. Be honest with yourself and ask a simple question. If there is no God (i.e. an eternal being with infinite power AND intelligence WHO createD everything we SEE, HEAR, FEEL, TASTE, SMELL, THE ABILITY TO TALK, WALK, DO MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, ART, MUSIC LITERATURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE CAN DO PLUS EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE WHICH WERE KNOWN HAD A BEGINNING ) HOW COULD IT ALL COME ABOUT IF THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE? CAN NON INFINITE UNINTELLIGENT, NONE LIVING NONE DETECABLE i. e. (Not matter, energy, space or time) therefore NOTHING , AS SCIENTISTS SAY, BRING ALL THIS NON REQUIREMENTS INTO EXISTENCE? IF YOUR ANSWER IS THERE IS NO NEED FOR GOD THEN YOU HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO AND I'M ALL EARS AND EYES WAITING FOR YOUR EXPLANATION. NOW THERE'S A NEED FOR EYES AND EARS, IT'S WAITING FOR YOUR.
@@rubiks6 same reason you used caps. It makes it easier to see and hopefully easier to understand.
@@rubiks6 who made that rule that caps are yelling? Caps add emphasis. Written words don't make sound, but yelling does. I get what you're saying but it shouldn't be an issue. What matters is what is written not how it is written. If something needs to be listen to and not passed over, it needs to be emphasized. I don't know how to underline text so I use Caps. I'm tired of people overlooking basic realities because they don't want to face the TRUTH. Thanks for your advice.
I find it very difficult for someone that never experienced the power of Satan to really understand God and his power.
For people who don’t know the mathematical equation that makes a brain I don’t doubt that you have no idea what the brain is doing.
You people crack me up.
You refuse to understand the image … a better question is what paradigm could not accept an idea that a brain is made in an image.
And that image has a beginning and an ending and is simultaneously infinite and finite.
It’s like sir Arthur Evans refusing to accept that Linear A and B could not be Greek.
Do have a nice rest of your life .
Btw I can’t imagine that you’ll understand the other information you’re missing.
Projecting parental imagoes onto the unknown. Children pass through a stage where parents have magical powers. Religious people remain fixated in that stage.
@@rubiks6 Many kids are afraid of atheist synthetic purity and introverted violence, so they seek shelter in religious sects.
@@rubiks6 lol. Psychological regression to infantile states is common.
@@xspotbox4400 lol. They prefer the organized killing in the name of various deities. Got it.
@@rubiks6 Well, you can choose friends.
@@publiusovidius7386 How is death penalty any different?
Too many adds.
How about believing in God (not Organized Religion) because it gives one a feeling of peace and a Presence to be with that doesn't depend on group conformance or defense of one's belief. I have personal experiences that reinforce my beliefs and that's enough for me. Each individual has to find their own path, to either accept or reject a belief in God. My experience and faith works only for me.
I would say that there is a difference between religion and spirituality. Some people live by the word and not so much the spirit, while others live by the spirit and less by the word.
I know a dimension that is the breathing house of the devil. Are the Christian churches.
Metaphysician philosopher