I have just come across your channel and I have been binge watching your series "Everything Wrong with Genesis." It is absolutely amazing! I love the way you present it. I was raised in the Christian church, and Christianity had fully traumatized my life with its horribly insane teachings that left me asking, What the ...? It is a trauma that doesn't ever leave you no matter how many years have passed. I have to keep reminding myself on a nearly daily basis that I'm not the crazy one here because I can not accept those teachings. I am one of those who dared to ask questions. The one that got me into the most trouble was Easter. Never ask about Easter!!! I have listened to other atheist (which, by the way, I am not - I still have a belief in a higher presence, just not Christian) and some of them are almost as aggressive in their fight against Christianity as Christians are in their fight for it, and they often leave me confused or defensive. You, however, have a completely different way of presenting the Bible and the religion which adds clarity and ration. It's not only educational but so entertaining. I enjoy your videos so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and humor with us.
I take my moral values from the bible... (signed D. Trump) you could also take your morals from '50 shades of Grey', you would probably be a better person.
This episode sounded like God got into franchising - pitch some tents and build an altar somewhere and Got grants you exclusive rights within that particular region!
Did you mean to spell "God" in your third sentence? You have "Got" written instead. I am not trying to annoy you just letting you know about the typo. Edit: sorry Mark and everyone else for the hypocrisy. I corrected Mark for his grammar without checking my own. This will be the last time I correct someone else's grammar online. Check the replies underneath this one to see the aftermath of my original comment.
@@pagedprawn3760 Did you mean to spell "you" in your first sentence? You have "u" written instead. I am not trying to annoy you just letting you know about the typo.
If people who believe this stuff are in heaven, heaven must be a gathering of monstrously immoral people. ...no normal person should be so shameless as to sell this garbage to another human being in bright smile.
Lot is the mythical ancestor of Ammon and Moab, this chapter explains why these people exist in the east of the Dead Sea. And as we'll find out in Genesis 18, the Israelites had didn't look too kindly on them to give them a decent origin story how they came to be.
I'm sure one of these geezers who wrote the bible also wrote a chapter on all the unspeakable acts they did in Gomorra, but that didn't make it to the bible...
Gosh, when I was a middle schooler in a Christian school, I remember stumbling into that chapter and having my first epiphany of how absolutely absurd the Bible could be. Judges 19 holds a special place in my heart today.
I wish I could give you a hundred likes! The sarcasm/flippant remarks were brilliant. In Genesis God wasn't the omnipotent, etc. he became later. Bart Ehrman in his book "God's Problem" shows how God evolved through the Bible into what he is today. Yes, doctrine evolves!
@@scottstollery2191 Thanks, I'll check it out. Remember that one of the versions of the creation story has "let us create. . . ." Also if God/Yahweh is the ONLY one why do the 10 Commandments say "Thou shalt have no other Gods beside me"? If he's the only one what's the point of that commandment? The lame modern Christian interpretation about it meaning that we shouldn't worship money, fame, cars, etcetera doesn't cut it with me. Remember also that the doctrine of the Trinity is not taught in the Bible no matter how many apologists try to extract that from the text. Thanks again.
@@fpcoleman57 You're welcome. One of the interesting things about the book I mentioned is that it took hundreds of years for early christianity to sort out their doctrine, including things like the trinity, and many devout people were labeled heretics along the way. This obviously continues to this day as there are an incredible number of varying sects under the umbrella of christianity. So your original comment about "doctrine evolving" was spot-on.
@@scottstollery2191 I forgot that I have Richard E. Rubenstein's book "When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome" which is useful background on the evolution of Christian doctrine particularly during the 4th century. Another doctrine not found in the Bible is the change of the day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday. If this interests you the classic work on the subject was published by the the Roman Catholic Church. Well, they do admit that they did it! Samuele Bacchiocchi: "From Sabbath to Sunday". It runs to about 370 A4 pages! Carlyle B. Haynes also produced a shorter version of the research involved. The Church allowed Bacchiocchi full access to their archives even though he wasn't a Catholic! Whatever Christians, particularly fundamentalists may say and believe -- they are wrong!
@@fpcoleman57 It would be interesting to do a comparison of Rubenstein and Ehrman's books. After Ehrman's book came out, christian writers quickly put out a book trying to refute his scholarship. From reviews I have read on the book, they tried to rebut him using the typical theological arguments, rather than prove him wrong using actual scholarship. There seems to be an incredibly wide gap between what scholars say about the bible, people like Rubenstein and Ehrman, who study it for decades and understand the historical contexts, and the fundamental faithful. I appreciate your suggestions and replies!
gotta keep it vague so you can move the goalposts around without giving up the con. once you start getting into details about how not to use candlestick and the bowl of grapes people are gonna ask more questions you're not ready to answer
Friendly Atheist, Hemant, oh damn, I laughed so hard. I think we really need to tell a bunch of the televangelists how and why they are soddomites! Kenneth Copeland, bakker, olsreen, and the old cryptkeeper 700 club guys! LMAO 👍🏾👏💝☮️🎃🐝
@@1dylanflowang who is jealous of their riches and fame? It wouldn't be any atheist I know. Most have scruples unlike televangelists who con millions out of their followers, most of whom are sick or elderly. Cons, all of them. There are, I'm sure, true believers who are hard working ministers, pastors and such, but not on TV. Those are just gross! 💝☮️🎃🐝
Faith is based upon that which cannot be proven, without faith their is no manipulation, without manipulation their is no fear, and without fear their is no power and that is all religion is a way for a few to gain power over the many RELIGION NEEDS TO END!!!!!
Hope you will continue the bible reading, I enjoy listening your reading. You have made the mean of it clear. I look forward to your new episodes to come.
So Abram committed sins through greed and by using wife and also did not help the poor but God was pleased. Shows that God only ever cared about himself and his followers and occasionally remembers his promises. Remind you of someone?
At last! A Bible debunker who is entertaining as well as insightful. Having read these passages long ago, he brings it all back to me and validates the same questions that I had going back to adolescence . I wish some people i know who are Biblical fundamentalists would open their minds just once and see the obvious contradictions, unscientific claims, and immorality found in the “Good Book”! But if I tried to point out all these things that disprove this book as the word of any god, the recipient would cover his/her ears and cry “How DARE you mock the Word of God! You are a blasphemer and are going to HELL”. Well, most of us CIVILIZED people are against slavery, genocide, racism, and misogyny. And that makes them MORE MORAL than the “God of the Bible”.
"... the Canaanites and the parasites were also living in the land at that time." Wait, wut? I wasn't reading a long. Dafuque you just say? **rewinds** "...The Canaanites and the Perizzites..." ROFL XD I'm a grown child, sue me XD
God wasn't mad about Ham seeing Noah naked. Only Noah was mad and the curse upon Ham's son Canaan was a curse from Noah. I'm just saying because can't stand Christians misrepresenting atheists. So to point out that little detail is just being fair. Anyway, I don't understand why Noah would have the power to curse a whole nation. It's ridiculous really.
We all know what happens to a cinematic universe when your comic book story arcs are authored by a loose committee of writers who never actually met each other and worked at different times from varying sources of inspiration. Then you account for some bouts of outright theft from other existing cinematic franchises with just changing the names and a few minor details to disguise it and you get Ben Affleck as both Batman and Daredevil... ummm I mean Abram or Abraham and Shemp or Schecky or shallots - I lost track TBH.
hahaha you are too funny Friendly Atheist, love your videos and how true they are, love to show these to some of my christian friends and see what bullshit excuses they can come up with
I do not hope this atheist 'does' more of the Bible. He's reading this sacred book as though it were a history book, which it is not. He's not giving any proper insight into the truths the Bible contains.
Make your mind up - If it's true, given that it concerns events from hundreds to thousands of years ago, that DOES make it a history book. Personally, I agree with your first sentiment, that it is NOT a history book, because there is precious little history in it, but a lot of supernatural stories.
Isn't it funny that everytime when those early Genesis Chapters try to lead over form one thing to the next the "now" is a total Non sequitur and has nothing to do with the previous story? Noah had such a clash too with the same purpose: declaring the people were bad and deserved what they got...
Just to pitch in a little bit late, on the idea that "there was no death before the fall" Aron Ra makes the point that there was. God put fruits about so that Adam and eve may eat. They had digestive systems. What would happen if they didn't eat? There was a tree of life. If they did, they would presumably gain eternal life as they gained knowledge from the other. Why put the tree there at all if it would only give them what they already have?
Please get rid of the background noise. It's very irritating to certain people. It's not that we simply dislike it. It's because it gets to be like fingernails on a blackboard after only a short while. To many of us, it makes the video unwatchable long before it's done.
To be fair, pastoralist societies measure wealth in terms of flocks and herds - this requires lots of grazing land to maintain. So it made sense for two rich pastoralists to part ways to avoid conflict over grazing land. But the rest of your criticisms of this chapter are quite valid.
To Tony Clifford: Mr. Clifford, I copied your text so that I could address several points one by one: Interesting that you say “ despite all conflicts, doubts and questions ...” . That is the whole point really. You know there are issues, but are prepared to overlook them anyway. That is what makes no sense, to me at least, and I’m sure to many, if not most atheists. As for “I doubt I’ll ever embrace atheism”, isn’t that saying you will never think logically, listen to the evidence, or lack of it, to make an informed decision, but instead just accept everything on faith, despite the issues you have already outlined? I like to believe I am the most logical, down-to-earth person I know. Sometimes, I must remind myself to be rational and logical, because logic can be one’s worst nightmare when it is working against one. It is so easy to think emotionally and not logically. This is something that drives me crazy about people in authority. They think they have a license to not make sense at times when logic and facts go against them. I fully get that the whole concept of Christianity defies logic: She got pregnant without doing, well, you-know-what. Everyone knows who he purportedly is at his birth, yet any record-keepers “disappear” until he is, like, 12 and he disappears for a couple of days, and mom and dad find him with some rabbis. The records stop until he is 30, he multiplies food, walks on water, raises pals from the dead and ultimately rises from the dead himself. And, it is my understanding (though I don’t recall seeing it in the New Testament) that his mother does not just die; she flies up to Heaven herself, body and all. Sure, I can see where people would go, “wait a minute” about all this. I am also aware that there were hundreds of accounts of Jesus’s life but that early popes and councils picked out the stories which suited them and the political/social situation at the time. One story says that some kid picked a fight with Jesus when they were both kids and Jesus used his power to “do something” to this kid, and it was not pretty. Then the flood - you seem to be making a guess based on what suits your beliefs. I’m sure you could come up with other possible scenarios, but they all would likely not have much (any) evidence - isn’t the bible pretty clear there was ONE ark, that carried ALL animals? Where is there evidence of technology to quickly build a boat capable of carrying a couple of generations of people, livestock and food, let alone have enough space to carry some of the nearby wildlife (let alone the kangaroos and polar bears from far away lands)? Does it seem reasonable that animal farmers would have a boat prebuilt “just in case god decides to flood the land and kill everyone”? No, I have heard several atheists say that science has long since proved that the so-called “Great Flood” could never have happened, because such a disaster would leave some kind of evidence down on the ocean floors, perhaps, like fossils and rings on large trees, with each ring indicating one year of the tree’s life. And Africa looking like it must have once fit onto America. But, suppose there was a flood caused by a river overflowing. What else would a farmer do but try to salvage his animals? Animals are very valuable to farmers. As I said, what did you have in that part of the world, then? A lot of communities far from each other. Not a lot of reading and writing was done at that time, unless Dad had the $ to send you to school. So, I’m guessing that each town had, say, 3 guys who could read and write. This gave them huge power to put spin on stuff. And you know how things get exaggerated as things get repeated over and over. As for Jesus, first of all, I can’t help observing that, while atheists argue about him being God’s son, I have yet to hear an atheist say that he never existed in the first place. They do not argue that point; it seems that they dispute his identity, but not his existence. I am supposing that they accept a lot of the historical records on him as legitimate. I have a theory about him - maybe he was like the televangelists or street preachers of today - lots of charm, good looks, easily likeable and maybe he made quite an impression on people. I have also pointed out that, for someone who so much supposedly preached peace, he seems to be the only guy around who turned violent - when he confronts the money-changers in the temple; he smacks the guys around and throws furniture!
Jesus never existed in the first place. There you go. "I am supposing that they accept a lot of the historical records on him as legitimate. " Nope, although you *do* raise a very interesting point - most historians agree on two things where Jesus is concerned: (1) that he existed, and (2) that the historical record does little, if anything at all, to support this. Your theory about Jesus is actually pretty close to the historical consensus - that if he existed, he was most likely a charming person with great oratory skills who made an impression on lots of people. Personally, as I said, I don't think he existed - I think the character is most likely an amalgam of various preachers at the time, which in the telling and retelling of the stories before being committed to writing, became a unique literary invention. Could I say categorically that you are wrong and I am right? Absolutely not! Loved your post, by the way. Well thought out and nicely put!
I can just see the writers room Writer 1-Okay we have to finish the story of abram and then get to lot Writer 2- okay I had an idea, what if we could establish lots existence in this story somehow W1- that sounds way to difficult W2- no it’s super easy barely and inconvenience, all we do is say lot is Abrams nephew or something snd make him tag along for the journey
Atheists can't state these words ONLY whilst their right palm is placed on the Holy Bible (KJV) --> I refuse to have freemasonic gay sex with fellow atheists 😱 ✝️The Only Way.Jn.3:7✝️
Look up the 3rd law of thermodynamics. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. That's a science law guys... So with that being said... How did the first gasses get here to intertwine with eachother to cause the big bang? If matter cannot be created nor destroyed then the only logical answer is is that there is in fact a being far greater and more powerful than our minds could ever comprehend and this being can create whatever it desires. Therefore I call this being God. And why is a He divine? Well He created the universe so what makes Him not divine?
@@davidhyker6303 *Look up the 3rd law of thermodynamics.* I did, it destroys notion of God being created out of nothing;) It destroys every claim of god, thanks:)
good video, can you maybe make a video explaining how genesis 13 should be written? since you said this reading of the text is wrong, so what is the right version? as my christian friends always say "criticism without alternative is futile" will be looking forward to your video about how it should be written instead :) cheers
between God and Satan i think people chose to worship the evil one, God. Or Satan is really God etc... seriously. It's backwards as far as which is Good and which one is Bad and why..
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So now we have an entire population of people who are all directly related but some are described as herders even though they are possibly brothers, grandchildren or cousins.
Wow, who would’ve thought that the definition of a Sodomite is a metaphor for a greedy, arrogant, lazy person who doesn’t give a shit about others beside themselves. Maybe according to Ezekiel, we were looking at it all wrong. I thought the term “sodomite” is a biblical term homophobes use to justify their hatred towards the lgbt. From the way you’re describing it, Friendly Atheist, that can reflect back at the author of Genesis and its defenders.
AMAZING. the power of. Literature. Surely the bible is not the word of GOD. OR GODS. its the word of. Creative crazy men. But there is something the we cant dinye. Us humans we are. A piont of attention within a infinite stat of consciousness. Haviing an experiance. Called labels. My job. My name. We are not labels jobs or names. We are consciousness. Living a thing called life. 👭👬👪👫😘💖
You, everyone really, should read the Bible cover to cover. Especially Christian's! It is the greatest force out there, for creating atheists! Then, you check other religions, see how those who follow the closest act, you become anti theists. 👍🏾👏💝☮️🎃🐝
god was quite the chatterbox back in the day.
And now he doesn't show up at all
@@keithdunham8139 hey, now. That's not entirely true. He shows himself to schizophrenics all the time
@@MegaVirus700 and his chosen disciple Florida man!
Weird that as soon as science advanced the less we hear him 🤷
Then God realized no matter how much genocide he committed he would not be able to fix us humans so he abandonned us.
But god was omnipotent, omnipresent and all knowing, surely he doesn’t need a table to hear us
Not just a table. You gotta have some incense and candles, maybe a stone carving.
Dana Campbell wow seems a hard
Well, you would think so now wouldn't you.
@@danacampbell8331 : well, if you don't set the mood, it's just a casual conversation.
@@nicolasandre9886 holy shit, god is just a niceguy who needs to be appeased or he'll call us sinful whores.
"Left?"
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"Right, left, right?"
"Right, left."
"Right?"
"Yes, right."
"Right?"
"Yes - NO LEFT!!!"
...Third base.
I have just come across your channel and I have been binge watching your series "Everything Wrong with Genesis." It is absolutely amazing! I love the way you present it. I was raised in the Christian church, and Christianity had fully traumatized my life with its horribly insane teachings that left me asking, What the ...? It is a trauma that doesn't ever leave you no matter how many years have passed. I have to keep reminding myself on a nearly daily basis that I'm not the crazy one here because I can not accept those teachings. I am one of those who dared to ask questions. The one that got me into the most trouble was Easter. Never ask about Easter!!! I have listened to other atheist (which, by the way, I am not - I still have a belief in a higher presence, just not Christian) and some of them are almost as aggressive in their fight against Christianity as Christians are in their fight for it, and they often leave me confused or defensive. You, however, have a completely different way of presenting the Bible and the religion which adds clarity and ration. It's not only educational but so entertaining. I enjoy your videos so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and humor with us.
Egyptian leaders ogling over Abraham's 90yr old sister/wife is an interesting image
This is when the writers heard of foreshadowing but missed the part where it's supposed to be indirect I guess :P
I missed the part where that's my problem
"This is before Jesus died on a cross, but first 3 wise men came to q manger" lmao spoiler alert lol 😆
Are you going to do the whole Bible? Because please do the whole Bible.
Friendly atheist's annotated bible reading.
We will probably have to wait almost 2 years till he gets to the book of revelations 😂.
Yes, please do the Whole Bible!! I am learning so much. Was brainwashed by the cult J Witnesses in my childhood.
I really hope he does ❤👏🏻👏🏻
@@tacos394 Maybe do Job next or Matthew. If you thought the Old Testament was messed up, you really won't like the new one.
I take my moral values from the bible... (signed D. Trump)
you could also take your morals from '50 shades of Grey', you would probably be a better person.
Or...
The Shining!???
Ah yes. My morals from. The bible. Murder is wrong. -BeatingMySlavesIsRight-
This episode sounded like God got into franchising - pitch some tents and build an altar somewhere and Got grants you exclusive rights within that particular region!
Did you mean to spell "God" in your third sentence? You have "Got" written instead. I am not trying to annoy you just letting you know about the typo.
Edit: sorry Mark and everyone else for the hypocrisy. I corrected Mark for his grammar without checking my own. This will be the last time I correct someone else's grammar online.
Check the replies underneath this one to see the aftermath of my original comment.
@@pagedprawn3760 Did you mean to spell "you" in your first sentence? You have "u" written instead. I am not trying to annoy you just letting you know about the typo.
@@LarryThePhotoGuy thx for letting me know
If people who believe this stuff are in heaven, heaven must be a gathering of monstrously immoral people.
...no normal person should be so shameless as to sell this garbage to another human being in bright smile.
Lot is the mythical ancestor of Ammon and Moab, this chapter explains why these people exist in the east of the Dead Sea. And as we'll find out in Genesis 18, the Israelites had didn't look too kindly on them to give them a decent origin story how they came to be.
They were sinning greatly? Was the Bible written by Donald Trump?
The were sinning like no one else had ever seen sinning.
Believe me!
No, Barrack Obama!!!
I got the best sins, they're the best sins
Make sin great again
I'm sure one of these geezers who wrote the bible also wrote a chapter on all the unspeakable acts they did in Gomorra,
but that didn't make it to the bible...
Which non canonical passage can I find that in?
@@pagedprawn3760 It doesn't actually exist sadly.
@@JohanKylander lost to history?
Another lesson on how not to worship. Seriously, the bible is as immoral as can be.
I can’t wait till He gets to the part where the dude cuts up the concubine into 12 pieces
Gosh, when I was a middle schooler in a Christian school, I remember stumbling into that chapter and having my first epiphany of how absolutely absurd the Bible could be. Judges 19 holds a special place in my heart today.
Love your "everything wrong with genesis" series...what do we need to do for an exodus series?
I'm hoping he does the entire bible this way. That would be awesome. And he'd definitely deserve a trophy for it, or something. :)
@@mischarowe it would take forever, but he should publish this series as a book and do the entire bible. lol
@@michaelshort2388 He's still going though. Which I count as a plus. Whatever he's willing to do. :)
...that he finishes Genesis?
That was too short! Give us more 😁
A book filled with bloodshed, incest lying pimping misoginistic old men, who needs them?
I wish I could give you a hundred likes!
The sarcasm/flippant remarks were brilliant. In Genesis God wasn't the omnipotent, etc. he became later.
Bart Ehrman in his book "God's Problem" shows how God evolved through the Bible into what he is today. Yes, doctrine evolves!
Ehrman's book, How Jesus Became God, is a must-read as well! Apparently it wasn't a rare thing to be bestowed the title of God back in the day...
@@scottstollery2191
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Remember that one of the versions of the creation story has "let us create. . . ."
Also if God/Yahweh is the ONLY one why do the 10 Commandments say "Thou shalt have no other Gods beside me"? If he's the only one what's the point of that commandment? The lame modern Christian interpretation about it meaning that we shouldn't worship money, fame, cars, etcetera doesn't cut it with me.
Remember also that the doctrine of the Trinity is not taught in the Bible no matter how many apologists try to extract that from the text.
Thanks again.
@@fpcoleman57 You're welcome. One of the interesting things about the book I mentioned is that it took hundreds of years for early christianity to sort out their doctrine, including things like the trinity, and many devout people were labeled heretics along the way. This obviously continues to this day as there are an incredible number of varying sects under the umbrella of christianity. So your original comment about "doctrine evolving" was spot-on.
@@scottstollery2191
I forgot that I have Richard E. Rubenstein's book "When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome" which is useful background on the evolution of Christian doctrine particularly during the 4th century.
Another doctrine not found in the Bible is the change of the day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday. If this interests you the classic work on the subject was published by the the Roman Catholic Church. Well, they do admit that they did it! Samuele Bacchiocchi: "From Sabbath to Sunday". It runs to about 370 A4 pages! Carlyle B. Haynes also produced a shorter version of the research involved. The Church allowed Bacchiocchi full access to their archives even though he wasn't a Catholic!
Whatever Christians, particularly fundamentalists may say and believe -- they are wrong!
@@fpcoleman57 It would be interesting to do a comparison of Rubenstein and Ehrman's books. After Ehrman's book came out, christian writers quickly put out a book trying to refute his scholarship. From reviews I have read on the book, they tried to rebut him using the typical theological arguments, rather than prove him wrong using actual scholarship. There seems to be an incredibly wide gap between what scholars say about the bible, people like Rubenstein and Ehrman, who study it for decades and understand the historical contexts, and the fundamental faithful. I appreciate your suggestions and replies!
I must admit I pretty much live for these videos
If you hadn't made the "pitched his tent near Sodom" joke, I would've made it in a comment. :D
Third person writing.. Who observe these events in order to right it down.
Good question
Plot Twist: It's God's diary
i love this channel, guy is hilarious. I am learning so much, never had the patience to read this nonsense, omg this is awesome
Hold on, sinning greatly? God hasn't even given them the rules yet! That doesn't happen until the next couple of books.
gotta keep it vague so you can move the goalposts around without giving up the con. once you start getting into details about how not to use candlestick and the bowl of grapes people are gonna ask more questions you're not ready to answer
Friendly Atheist, Hemant, oh damn, I laughed so hard. I think we really need to tell a bunch of the televangelists how and why they are soddomites! Kenneth Copeland, bakker, olsreen, and the old cryptkeeper 700 club guys! LMAO 👍🏾👏💝☮️🎃🐝
"...old cryptkeeper 700 club guys": love it; best thing I've seen yet!
@@lynnmarler2157 😁😘
hes just jealous of their riches and fame lol
@@1dylanflowang who is jealous of their riches and fame? It wouldn't be any atheist I know. Most have scruples unlike televangelists who con millions out of their followers, most of whom are sick or elderly. Cons, all of them. There are, I'm sure, true believers who are hard working ministers, pastors and such, but not on TV. Those are just gross! 💝☮️🎃🐝
The televangalist are mites sod.
Man, was the bible always this...dry?
Faith is based upon that which cannot be proven, without faith their is no manipulation, without manipulation their is no fear, and without fear their is no power and that is all religion is a way for a few to gain power over the many
RELIGION NEEDS TO END!!!!!
Hope you will continue the bible reading, I enjoy listening your reading. You have made the mean of it clear. I look forward to your new episodes to come.
So Abram committed sins through greed and by using wife and also did not help the poor but God was pleased. Shows that God only ever cared about himself and his followers and occasionally remembers his promises. Remind you of someone?
I'm so glad to have found your channel! Intelligent, interesting, hilarious, thought provoking for a new exJW!👍🌸😂
When i heard Abram became rich I expected him to return and help his ppl but naw he just didn't want to deal with that lol.
I can't believe how hateful The Friendly Atheist is.
At last! A Bible debunker who is entertaining as well as insightful. Having read these passages long ago, he brings it all back to me and validates the same questions that I had going back to adolescence . I wish some people i know who are Biblical fundamentalists would open their minds just once and see the obvious contradictions, unscientific claims, and immorality found in the “Good Book”! But if I tried to point out all these things that disprove this book as the word of any god, the recipient would cover his/her ears and cry “How DARE you mock the Word of God! You are a blasphemer and are going to HELL”. Well, most of us CIVILIZED people are against slavery, genocide, racism, and misogyny. And that makes them MORE MORAL than the “God of the Bible”.
I'd like someone to explain to me how god is good?
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Uh ... nope, can't do it. ;)
@@mischarowe
Lucky for us he ain't real.
Ohh thats easy just define good as gods acts...
Ive seen that one used unironically
Simple.. He let you Live..
@@makoybolando9904
Who's he?
I`m having such a blast watching this series. i would love you if you could do the whole Bible. that would be amazing. Thank you.
I have preteen sense of humor; every time I hear about "pitching tents", I'm like, "Tee hee hee..."
"... the Canaanites and the parasites were also living in the land at that time."
Wait, wut? I wasn't reading a long. Dafuque you just say? **rewinds**
"...The Canaanites and the Perizzites..."
ROFL XD
I'm a grown child, sue me XD
U released 2 chapters in the same week? How come? Or can we be expecting a daily release in the near future?
HOLIDAY TREAT!
@@FriendlyAtheist1 will you be doing the whole bible?Or just Genesis.
@@Jcon4002 he said on anothe video that he might.
I can't stop watching. This is so great! Did you make all this up yourself or do you have a ..... ghost writer??? (pun intended)
All this stuff about Abram's offspring, his wife is barren...he can't have offspring...
What's up with the multiple names for God in the Bible???
Another great mic drop. you rock.
I got a pureflix commercial before seeing this
Love this series! 😁👍
I really hope you do the whole Bible ❤
God wasn't mad about Ham seeing Noah naked. Only Noah was mad and the curse upon Ham's son Canaan was a curse from Noah. I'm just saying because can't stand Christians misrepresenting atheists. So to point out that little detail is just being fair.
Anyway, I don't understand why Noah would have the power to curse a whole nation. It's ridiculous really.
I'm glad to hear someone recognizing that the chrsitian stories truly express republican values, and that it's a dangerous thing.
We all know what happens to a cinematic universe when your comic book story arcs are authored by a loose committee of writers who never actually met each other and worked at different times from varying sources of inspiration. Then you account for some bouts of outright theft from other existing cinematic franchises with just changing the names and a few minor details to disguise it and you get Ben Affleck as both Batman and Daredevil... ummm I mean Abram or Abraham and Shemp or Schecky or shallots - I lost track TBH.
I love your storytelling.
hahaha you are too funny Friendly Atheist, love your videos and how true they are, love to show these to some of my christian friends and see what bullshit excuses they can come up with
I guess Ezekiel forgot about the rape mob
"good thing there's no famine anywhere" -friendly atheist 2020.
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Did it just say the lords garden? I thought eden was destroyed by the flood?
I am an atheist as well I understand 5 languages but I don't pray I'm watching from Alaska
Will you make the movie?
I can't wait until you do Chapter 39 - Joseph and his fashion "Faux Pas?" And his million brothers?
*_Waiting for Genesis 38!_*
The Ten Plagues, the Exodus, the Wanderings and the conquest of Canaan by Joshua are all myth. Don't take my word for it. Wiki it!
I do not hope this atheist 'does' more of the Bible. He's reading this sacred book as though it were a history book, which it is not. He's not giving any proper insight into the truths the Bible contains.
Make your mind up - If it's true, given that it concerns events from hundreds to thousands of years ago, that DOES make it a history book.
Personally, I agree with your first sentiment, that it is NOT a history book, because there is precious little history in it, but a lot of supernatural stories.
Every word of the bible is true! - but when the words group together to form sentences, that’s when the crap begins.
Abraham was the first biblical pimp! Hahaha
Yes, he was.
So true about the televangelists and also those not on TV.
All of the dislikes are angry christians
SAYEST THOU?
Yeah, all 2 of them!
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All of the cities rejected by "god," called evil, were simply the ones who followed other gods. Adding human foibles not needed.
Isn't it funny that everytime when those early Genesis Chapters try to lead over form one thing to the next the "now" is a total Non sequitur and has nothing to do with the previous story?
Noah had such a clash too with the same purpose: declaring the people were bad and deserved what they got...
Yay! More stories from the Wholly Babble! lol
None of this book makes any since
This was enlightening I love your character
Why does everyone eventually go east? There has to be a coastline somewhere doesn't there?
God is imaginary.
Just to pitch in a little bit late, on the idea that "there was no death before the fall" Aron Ra makes the point that there was.
God put fruits about so that Adam and eve may eat. They had digestive systems. What would happen if they didn't eat?
There was a tree of life. If they did, they would presumably gain eternal life as they gained knowledge from the other. Why put the tree there at all if it would only give them what they already have?
Please get rid of the background noise. It's very irritating to certain people. It's not that we simply dislike it. It's because it gets to be like fingernails on a blackboard after only a short while. To many of us, it makes the video unwatchable long before it's done.
To be fair, pastoralist societies measure wealth in terms of flocks and herds - this requires lots of grazing land to maintain. So it made sense for two rich pastoralists to part ways to avoid conflict over grazing land.
But the rest of your criticisms of this chapter are quite valid.
To Tony Clifford:
Mr. Clifford,
I copied your text so that I could address several points one by one:
Interesting
that you say “ despite all conflicts, doubts and questions ...” . That is the
whole point really. You know there are issues, but are prepared to overlook
them anyway. That is what makes no sense, to me at least, and I’m sure to many,
if not most atheists. As for “I doubt I’ll ever embrace atheism”, isn’t that
saying you will never think logically, listen to the evidence, or lack of it,
to make an informed decision, but instead just accept everything on faith,
despite the issues you have already outlined?
I like to
believe I am the most logical, down-to-earth person I know. Sometimes, I must remind myself to be rational
and logical, because logic can be one’s worst nightmare when it is working
against one. It is so easy to think
emotionally and not logically. This is
something that drives me crazy about people in authority. They think they have a license to not make
sense at times when logic and facts go against them.
I fully get
that the whole concept of Christianity defies logic: She got pregnant without doing, well,
you-know-what. Everyone knows who he
purportedly is at his birth, yet any record-keepers “disappear” until he is,
like, 12 and he disappears for a couple of days, and mom and dad find him with
some rabbis. The records stop until he
is 30, he multiplies food, walks on water, raises pals from the dead and
ultimately rises from the dead himself.
And, it is my understanding (though I don’t recall seeing it in the New
Testament) that his mother does not just die; she flies up to Heaven herself,
body and all. Sure, I can see where
people would go, “wait a minute” about all this. I am also aware that there were hundreds of accounts
of Jesus’s life but that early popes and councils picked out the stories which
suited them and the political/social situation at the time. One story says that some kid picked a fight
with Jesus when they were both kids and Jesus used his power to “do something”
to this kid, and it was not pretty.
Then the
flood - you seem to be making a guess based on what suits your beliefs. I’m
sure you could come up with other possible scenarios, but they all would likely
not have much (any) evidence - isn’t the bible pretty clear there was ONE ark,
that carried ALL animals? Where is there evidence of technology to quickly
build a boat capable of carrying a couple of generations of people, livestock
and food, let alone have enough space to carry some of the nearby wildlife (let
alone the kangaroos and polar bears from far away lands)? Does it seem
reasonable that animal farmers would have a boat prebuilt “just in case god
decides to flood the land and kill everyone”?
No, I have
heard several atheists say that science has long since proved that the
so-called “Great Flood” could never have happened, because such a disaster
would leave some kind of evidence down on the ocean floors, perhaps, like
fossils and rings on large trees, with each ring indicating one year of the
tree’s life. And Africa looking like it
must have once fit onto America. But,
suppose there was a flood caused by a river overflowing. What else would a farmer do but try to salvage
his animals? Animals are very valuable
to farmers. As I said, what did you have
in that part of the world, then? A lot
of communities far from each other. Not
a lot of reading and writing was done at that time, unless Dad had the $ to
send you to school. So, I’m guessing
that each town had, say, 3 guys who could read and write. This gave them huge power to put spin on
stuff. And you know how things get exaggerated
as things get repeated over and over.
As for Jesus,
first of all, I can’t help observing that, while atheists argue about him being
God’s son, I have yet to hear an atheist say that he never existed in the first
place. They do not argue that point; it
seems that they dispute his identity, but not his existence. I am supposing that they accept a lot of the
historical records on him as legitimate.
I have a theory about him - maybe he was like the televangelists or
street preachers of today - lots of charm, good looks, easily likeable and
maybe he made quite an impression on people.
I have also pointed out that, for someone who so much supposedly preached
peace, he seems to be the only guy around who turned violent - when he
confronts the money-changers in the temple; he smacks the guys around and
throws furniture!
Jesus never existed in the first place.
There you go.
"I am supposing that they accept a lot of the
historical records on him as legitimate. "
Nope, although you *do* raise a very interesting point - most historians agree on two things where Jesus is concerned: (1) that he existed, and (2) that the historical record does little, if anything at all, to support this.
Your theory about Jesus is actually pretty close to the historical consensus - that if he existed, he was most likely a charming person with great oratory skills who made an impression on lots of people.
Personally, as I said, I don't think he existed - I think the character is most likely an amalgam of various preachers at the time, which in the telling and retelling of the stories before being committed to writing, became a unique literary invention.
Could I say categorically that you are wrong and I am right? Absolutely not!
Loved your post, by the way. Well thought out and nicely put!
These people are pitching a lot of tents. 😏
Nooo now i have the cursed onceler song stuck in my head How badaaad cab i be. Oh great
You failed to make a point except to show ur contempt for the Christians
Falling Sky The contempt is for the barbaric, bloodthirsty biblical god
Im currently on Genesis 13 this helps me prepare for my own videos.
I can just see the writers room
Writer 1-Okay we have to finish the story of abram and then get to lot
Writer 2- okay I had an idea, what if we could establish lots existence in this story somehow
W1- that sounds way to difficult
W2- no it’s super easy barely and inconvenience, all we do is say lot is Abrams nephew or something snd make him tag along for the journey
Eating some fruit ( pineapple ) and now we have death.
I love this series.
😂😂😂 3:47 - 3:54 "GOD KNOWS! "
@Marshall Davis 😂 lol thanks
Atheists can't state these words ONLY whilst their right palm is placed on the Holy Bible (KJV) --> I refuse to have freemasonic gay sex with fellow atheists 😱
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Completely takes verses out of context I don’t read the Bible much so I can’t debunk these
What?
dodo jesus Know any that can?
@@variousbirdspecieshahaha i just have, the bible doesn't have magical properties preventing people fromsaying words.
Is an atheist a person who believes that there is no God or god's of the universe? Or are they just strictly against the Bible God?
Look up the 3rd law of thermodynamics. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. That's a science law guys... So with that being said... How did the first gasses get here to intertwine with eachother to cause the big bang? If matter cannot be created nor destroyed then the only logical answer is is that there is in fact a being far greater and more powerful than our minds could ever comprehend and this being can create whatever it desires. Therefore I call this being God. And why is a He divine? Well He created the universe so what makes Him not divine?
@@davidhyker6303 *Look up the 3rd law of thermodynamics.*
I did, it destroys notion of God being created out of nothing;) It destroys every claim of god, thanks:)
good video, can you maybe make a video explaining how genesis 13 should be written? since you said this reading of the text is wrong, so what is the right version? as my christian friends always say "criticism without alternative is futile" will be looking forward to your video about how it should be written instead :)
cheers
between God and Satan i think people chose to worship the evil one, God. Or Satan is really God etc... seriously. It's backwards as far as which is Good and which one is Bad and why..
13 chapters in...I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole
Oh their god, there are 50 of these. And that's only a part of the holey babble. 😭
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So now we have an entire population of people who are all directly related but some are described as herders even though they are possibly brothers, grandchildren or cousins.
“Say hello to the sodomites...”
Now that’s how you start a video!
Did Sarai have VD?
Wow, who would’ve thought that the definition of a Sodomite is a metaphor for a greedy, arrogant, lazy person who doesn’t give a shit about others beside themselves. Maybe according to Ezekiel, we were looking at it all wrong.
I thought the term “sodomite” is a biblical term homophobes use to justify their hatred towards the lgbt. From the way you’re describing it, Friendly Atheist, that can reflect back at the author of Genesis and its defenders.
God gave me France, Germany, Switzerland. There's a small problem though.
AMAZING. the power of. Literature. Surely the bible is not the word of GOD. OR GODS. its the word of. Creative crazy men. But there is something the we cant dinye. Us humans we are. A piont of attention within a infinite stat of consciousness. Haviing an experiance. Called labels. My job. My name. We are not labels jobs or names. We are consciousness. Living a thing called life. 👭👬👪👫😘💖
Wherea chapter 12 bubba?
Eshay bah
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I love this series! Thank you for taking the time to actually read this nonsense!
I do enjoy that you are ignorant to the fact that Evangelical Christians were once primarily Democrats until the issue of abortion became a thing.
If romans 1:20 is true, there is no need for preachers or priest or even teaching the bible. You can throw all these things out.
This story just gets more and more weird
You, everyone really, should read the Bible cover to cover. Especially Christian's! It is the greatest force out there, for creating atheists! Then, you check other religions, see how those who follow the closest act, you become anti theists. 👍🏾👏💝☮️🎃🐝
>supporting taxes
Gross. Being vegan is bad enough.