5 Reasons why Your Miracles aren't Really Miraculous
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- 5 Reasons why Your Miracles aren't Really Miraculous
Hemant Mehta (www.friendlyatheist.com, / hemant )
5 Reasons why Your Miracles aren't Really Miraculous
1) Our memories are very selective. Amazing moments can take on a life of their own in the future.
True story: I liked this girl in college. One day, I run into her at the bus stop and we start talking. We hit it off. We dated for a couple of years. She was partly the reason I quit medical school and decided to become a teacher. And if I didn't quit school, I probably never would've become a vocal atheist.
If I were religious, that, to me, would be a perfect example of God guiding His hand to make sure we met. In reality, it was just a coincidence. If we hadn't met, if we hadn't dated, then something else would've happened and I just wouldn't have those cherished memories. I would've had different ones. Maybe better, maybe worse.
Looking back, we can always find those turning points in our lives. It's easy to call them miracles. Or to say God guided us in one particular direction. But you could easily explain that as just a coincidence.
2) Other peoples' miracles can sound pretty delusional.
When something happens to us, it's miraculous. When it happens to someone else, it's crazy. When we feel led to make a decision or we think God has blessed us with good luck, it seems perfectly normal to thank God. But when someone else tells you God was speaking to them and told them to quit their job, you think they're weird. You go home and talk smack about them with your spouse!
When someone else says God healed them of a disease, you want to see their medical records. When your cancer goes into remission, God had a hand in it...
3) Christians experience a lot of miracles...
Faith healers on television? Benny Hinn, Peter Popoff...
Incredibly successful pastors? They get their own reality shows
Bestselling books? They get their own bookstore sections!
Everything Snopes debunks? It's something you heard in church.
None of that happens with Muslim imams and hindu priests and Jewish rabbis. They all believe God is divine. They all believe in Miracles. But they don't market miracles like Christians do. Successful Christians love to pretend God's grace had everything to do with their success and not their own skills or luck. It's a powerful story that keeps perpetuating every time something goes right.
4) Miracles have never, ever been proven. There are things we can't explain, but there are no miracles. If you can prove supernatural powers exist, James Randi will give you a million dollars. Even the Catholic Church's supposed miracles that turn a Pope into a Saint are just stories that may lack a natural explanation.
5) If Miracles were real, our problems would be solved.
If God spoke to us and actually intervened and helped us, diseases would be eradicated, and our loved ones would always live, and we'd never get hurt... but as it turns out, miracles are rare, selective, subjective, and unverifiable.
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This post and many of the things I've said in it were written by a pastor who was questioning the supposed miracles another pastor told him about. And while all these thoughts I mentioned ran through his head, he also considered the fact that maybe he just wasn't a good Christian.
How depressing is that?
I want to just take this guy and say, "You're not experience miracles because no one really experiences miracles!" They think they do, but they're just mistaken! Get over it!
But it's so hard to do that when you still, deep down in your heart, believe in magic.
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God spoke to me and told me to quit my job and sell drugs. I dont care what you guys say, I know God was speaking to me and this is part of his perfect plan.
Were you tripping acid when God told you this?
God is mysterious ;)
Stephen Miller Well yeah, you think God will talk to you while you aren't tripping on acid? Rookie mistake bro
Amen!!
Hail Cthulhu!
What if God created religion, and Atheists are his favorite because they were smart enough not to believe this stuff without evidence?
Sahil Dev Ok. Create a random program that fills up 1000 random characters, if you create a sensible poem for a 1000 years or even billions of years. or better yet dis-assemble your car, and put it on a mixer, if you could create a relatively functioning car by mixing those separated pieces together. Then I will believe that Supreme intelligence is not required to create the Universe from nothingness or make life a out of non living materials. I will believe that DNA is just created by mixing some non living chemicals. If you are really are smart try disproving the miracle of Fatima.Take note these are uneducated children who claim to saw the mother of God. Take note that these children were persecuted the government for believing what they believed, but that did not stop them. Portugal that time was led by Secularist non believers. What is the chance of these children predicting a great miracle to prove that they are not lying months before and on the exact time? (FYI a lot of those witnesses are non-believers) What are the chances that these uneducated children making prophesy of the spread of communism from Russia which by that time is not yet an epidemic? It takes a leap of faith to believe in God. If God will make great miracles everyday, then we will have no free will. If Atheist are reasonable, then make some reasonable answer. Remember 70,000 people combination non believers and believers witness that great miracle. Even the atheist print media reported this miracle. Imagine if no miracle ever happened on that day, then those Atheist will be ridiculing those children. But anyways, God made a miracle as promised by Mary. So that's the end of story. Easy to make stories now that it was just a mass delusion or what ever story any atheist will make up to cover their faces. But the simplest answer is some miraculous event happened in Portugal that turned the non believing witnesses into believers. It take an intellectually honest man to accept the truth.
Michael Z what truth are you talking about? What law states that you need "Supreme Intelligence" to create the universe?
Why don't you look up the evidence and the historical evidence for Christ.
+Michael Z What is this miracle again?
+Michael Z ~ Woowoo. All of what you said is woowoo. No facts, just religious raving. Sorry, but thanks for playing.
A teen at church told a story about how when they were losing control of a group of babies who were all crying, they prayed to God and suddenly all the babies stopped crying. Let me know when God puts some time into getting food to the thousands of children dying of starvation.
A Moral Atheist God would have sent two bears who rip the babies apart.
@@stefantherainbowphoenix Why do we complain, that he's a piece of shit, instead of an actually loving god. That's because we are more love full. And want out that piece of shit.
@@stefantherainbowphoenix that's exactly what the christian God did according to the Bible, I loved that part, you should read it as well.
@@1nv15BL3 I already know that part of the Bible.
My dad just cured his cancer after going through an intense surgery and round of chemo and radiation. He lost a lot of weight and struggled throughout the whole process.. he is doing great now. Needless to say, EVERY time I tell others about my father's success to beating cancer, they always say 'God is good!' 'Thank the Lord!' etc. etc. like really?? No, lets not give thanks to the genius doctors who fixed him lol it was ALL God. OKAY. If my dad would of passed away, would that of been God's will too?
All Christians believe they aren't worthy of God's love. It's nothing personal trust me. It's just them projecting. Try not to take it personally. At the very least it's making them feel better and isn't hurting anything. Least they aren't using him as a human sacrifice or something like some religions would like them to hahahaha. God Bless ;)
That's what pisses me off about Christians. If God is benevolent, why would he allow for a person to catch cancer in the first place?
Leonardo Chavez u have to understand that in christian religions death isnt a bad thing because ur going to heaven which is a happy thing despite dying
Yes.
Did god give him cancer too?
I've always liked the little sound when the number pops up.
sounded like MacOSX sound file,
Aaaaaaa same
//My grandpa thinks that every time he gets a good parking spot is divine intervention... O.o
Depending on where he needs one, it might very well be.
No no it's not divine intervention at all.
😂
Yes, god is helping people find parking spots, win the lottery, win football games, while god ignores little children being raped, dying of hunger, diseases, cancer, MS, and dying in floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Doesn't god have his priorities mixed up?
Scenario: You win the Lottery.
Atheistic logic: You beat the odds of 1 in 175 million. Extremely lucky, but the millions of others who played the same lottery lost. No miracles at play.
Theistic logic: It's a miracle! How else could you have beat such odds? The others playing same lottery weren't praying hard enough. Time to tithe and give some of that money to God. He needs to remodel the kitchen in Heaven.
Very well put.
i think of it like a bird shitting in a crowd; someone has to get hit.
***** That statement fit's your name so well.
***** I just like to cause khaos ;)
That means non religious people wouldn't win the lottery because of course they don't pray. I know someone that won millions from the lottery. They were an atheist. Your logic is completely ridiculous.
"So what made you doubt that god existed?" "Oh, I mehta guy"
huehuehue
oooh! i see what you did there! :D
Touche.
You're a genius
But he exists... Men exist but God?
My brother-in-law told me about the miracle that happened to him some 30 years ago which changed his life (Made him return to the religion of his youth). He hit a bowling ball in the road early one morning on his way to work . It really messed up his car, but he didn't crash. In desperation he thumbed a ride. The stranger who gave him a ride to work hadn't been able to sleep for some reason & had decided to go to Denny's for a Grand Slam breakfast. They both thought that the hand of God was behind the whole thing. My brother-in-law became re-born-again shortly after that. Talk about lowering the miracle bar! SIGH!
Ahahahah! That's awesome, let me guess, Satan put the bowling ball there too XD
I think he was bowled over by Jesus.
why the fuck was a bowling ball in the road? lmao
He never bothered to find out. He just assumed it was a come to Jesus moment. I can imagine some mundane possibilities. Of course, I'm one of them spiritually blind skeptics.
Or the grim reaper wanted his ass dead and now hes looking out for a final destination day and thinks god can stop it.
sometimes life just happens. it is just life and not miracles.
what would it be if it wasnt life
+shane spece Death?
The 2nd death
when jesus returns 😈
Edit:
I suffered a lot. And I do mean A LOT. But before I was completely destroyed, God saved me. He really did. God is very real. I have started to pray for you, Hemant. Good day.
"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." -TheBible🌺
You can't reason with a christian (or any religious person)
And whenever you try to use common sense, they say you have demons.
ShpookyBear369 ask her why god hid them, and when she says it was a test, ask her why god is so petty to test her over car keys
ShpookyBear369 This is my problem with my friends.They think I'm possessed and I question everything. Let them wait for salvation.
Hahaha !!
When a child survives cancer
“It’s a miracle of god”
When more children die of cancer
“God works in mysterious ways”
No that just means it was their time to go
god takes life sometimes to save them from hell
@@danielcercel1665 Can't he save them from hell some other way? Perhaps by destroying hell? Otherwise your God is not all powerful.
Why does God talk to Christians? Or any religious person? God should talk to agnostics/atheists. That is like tutoring a straight-A student while purposely ignoring the kid flunking out..
Holy shit son!!
If he were to talk to non-Christians they would turn into Christians and you could say again, why does God talk to Christians and not atheists? Funny reasoning.
@@benrex7775 the almighty send you signs very day but you push him back like the hundreds of miracle of the saints and for the others it's because they don't have entirely faith in god NB miracles are not that you got 10 over 10 on your exam it's about huge thinks how do you explain the miracles like a Lebanese "muslim" women that seen with 3 doctors the dead baby in her womb grow 20cm in 5 minutes how
@@lachainedeyuki7784 I assume you didn't read my comment clearly (or even my name, while we're at it).
And I agree that being good at a test isn't a miracle. It might be gods guidance in certain circumstances but I wouldn't count it a miracle by a longshot.
I would count the miracle you mentioned as a miracle as well. But firstly I haven't testet it (I do think its plausibel though) and secondly there are always ways to claim it didn't happen.
And if you live in a secular world like I do (Swiss engineer), _"the almighty send you signs very day but you push him back"_ is not that given. Of course there are signs all around, but in a secular world those are either ignored or have some casual explanation, which fit, if you don't look close enough.
@@benrex7775 exactly ! So you have to know that I am trying to put you in the right direction but if you don't want I am sorry my religion say you will burn in hell for eternity as you want
As a former priest, I’d just show that pastor the word *miraculum* in the Latin dictionary (since Christian terminology started off as ordinary Latin words). It simply means marvel, or something amazing. It has nothing to do with religion or anything supernatural.
The background music is fine, but would be better if the volume were lower.
So annoying.
I'm looking at tiny blinking lights connected to a battery that make out an image on a device that turns electricity in to sound and is smaller than my hand and it is not connected to anything and I'm listening to a guy talk about miracles from a world away... And that's just a normal tuesday. So what was the miracle aunt betty was talking about.. LoL
If turning water to blood, parting the Red Sea, a staff turning into a snake and a talking donkey were true, we would be flying to the moon with broomsticks and fish tanks on our heads.
Ngl that sounds fun as hell. Shame it'll never happen outside of VR
Lol
I ate today, thus, I was able to get hungry later and eat again. Eating the first time was a miracle.
Everybody knows about one miracle, and it's the biggest of all: "Existence".
You can't prove or disprove it, but you know it.
Existence always existed
If existence was somehow proven to be caused by a god, then all the religions would still go to war claiming that it was THEIR god that did it.
Calling existence a miracle is a bit of a stretch but if believing that works for you then who am I to argue against you believing that.
Im a Christian but I love this channel, i've always been interested in other people's beliefs and opinions. Not all of the religious people are close minded.
Can we dm somehow?
Why are you a Christian?
That background music is too distracting - you need to get rid of it.
Fr
Thank you
The content was great. But the background music was pretty distracting xD
It got louder in my mind after I read this.
How about the music
I get confused when people I trust say they seen a blind person’s sight healed or someone with paralysed legs able to walk.
I know that God is real because he told me through cereal. haha jk!
I know he is real in the mind of the bigots. He dies when their brain is dead too.
LOL Why would God guide you to become a voice for atheism? LOL I fuckin love this channel man its funny.
Electric Soul wdym
Electric Soul Because God is an atheist. 😉
People are prone to find "false positives" - they see patterns where there are none. And this delusion is called "spirituality". Finding false positives has deep roots in our evolutionary history: when you are a prehistoric human it's better to see a tiger where there is none rather than miss a tiger where there is one!
How come God never performs obvious miracles? Regrowing limbs? Fixing spinal injuries? Etc They are always subtle miracles that don’t require much explaining.
Maybe you could cover the differences between American religious people and, for example, Scandinavian religious people? There's a large difference (American religiousness seems much "stronger" and more widely spread).
I think it comes down to the religious history of those countries. Religion in the USA has been, since before it even existed, a lot of different christian denominations, all fiercely defending their faiths, meaning that freedom of religion was necessary in the US Constitution, just to keep the whole thing together. This means the American Christian has a defensiveness that comes from not having religious unity.
But if we take, say, Norway. The history of Christianity in Norway's more straightforward: The local pagans were gradually converted to Catholicism. Then the Reformation happens and the king flipped the state religion to Lutheranism and confiscated the church property, meaning Catholicism quickly lost power in the region and the Lutheran church became the new religion most people followed. And with that unity, there is less defensiveness, meaning that Norway secularised over the years to the religious climate today
Tumor got removed by doctor
Guy/girl: god saved me
Doctor: you serious?
they usually say "thank god" not "god saved me"
Thank God I turned atheist. duduntsss
lol
If you're an atheist. You can't say "Thank God" because you know God doesn't exist.
Angirson Lopez It's an expression like bless you, hardly has religious connotations anymore
Lol looks like a person or two didn't get the joke
Plz come back to christianity!!!
i have always hated the "What are chances" question. I always answer 100% because it has happened.
When I was in the Army a few years back, I had a conversation with a born again christian in my unit. As an atheist I just wanted to understand his reasoning, he said it was because of a miracle that he had heard from his pastor, which I didn't really buy as a genuine story, let alone a miracle. He claimed (In his pastor's miracle story) that some random man "heard" god calling/instructing him, to buy an econoline van (the kind that seats 15 or so people) and donate it to the local church. Which it just so happens was supposed to be doing some missionary work, but the church bus had broken that morning and they were not going to be able to go. He went on too say that it had to be a miracle that a man showed up with this van on the very same day that the church needed it. I still don't understand how this hearsay was good enough evidence for him too become born again...
My favorite story of a miracle was told by a coworker of mine. He was driving in his car and was accidentally shot as a bystander in a gang shooting that was actually going on a short distance down some other side street. He was able to drive himself to the hospital and had emergency surgery. He missed about a month of work and when he came back, he said that if the bullet had been an inch higher he would have died. He proclaimed that God has been watching over him and allowed him to live. Meanwhile, I'm listening to this analysis and thinking that if God were really looking out for him, he would have made the bullet miss him entirely. As it was, I would have surmised that God was mad at my coworker, mad enough to want him shot, but not so mad at him to want him killed.
Hahaha !!!
God allows us to experience bad to bring us closer to Himself.
Katie Anderson 😂
I call BS on any miracle :-/.
Even your own life? Wow...😐 That must take a lot of faith!!
@@lassi372 that is not a miracle lassi.
Besides your really interesting points, you also have a great voice which I'm always pleased to listen to! Good job ;)
God spoke to me and told me to become an atheist, after which I learned it was my conscience.
Reason 1: Miracles aren't real.
That's it. See you next time.
Luck, Miracles, what ever you wanna call it. There's just some things that shouldn't even be possible or crazy things that happen. Trust bro. You can't explain everything science.
Eliazar Sandoval Not yet anyways ;)
@@PikakittenX This claim can't be tested and can't be proven wrong or right. But I understand why you would make this statement.
I survived a pretty bad car accident 4-5 yes ago. My Tahoe was completely totaled. I came out without 1 scratch. In a panic I left the scene. The cop that questioned me said they were at the scene looking for bodies. Many tell me it was a 'miracle'... To this day I can't call it. Devine intervention or luck?
When I went to the impound to see my car, I was unable to even sit in the drivers seat without putting my face to the steering wheel.
it's miracle here!
it's a miracle here!!!!!!!!!!
I got up in the morning!!!
Miracle!
Last summer we had some of my in-laws over and I heard at length about the miracle that saved my wife's aunt's life. She had a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and according to her husband if the paramedics had arrived even one minute later she would have died, ergo, miracle.
Listening to this at length all I could think of was all the people, potentially hundreds of people, who contributed to the EMTs arriving in a timely fashion that day that were being robbed of credit by explaining this as a miracle - the EMTs themselves, the drivers who got out of their way, the 911 operator who took the call, the scheduler who had enough EMTs working that day, the mechanic who maintained the ambulance, the factory workers who built the ambulance, the people who built the infrastructure the ambulance traveled on, and the countless taxpayers who funded all this.
One lady at work (who keeps trying to convert me) said a screw broke in her back after having rods placed and God allowed the surgeons to find the screw after a friend prayed with her over the telephone... I don't understand Christians - apparently God allows her to have severe back pain requiring rod placement, he slowed a screw to break requiring additional surgery, and he had his hand in helping the surgeon to find that screw - no skill at all on the surgeons part... Drives me crazy to hear such stupidity...
I agree. Apparently we have more "faith" in a fictional God then we do in humanity.
How miracles happen - an excerpt from my blog
Prof Archie D'Souza
[This is an excerpt from something I wrote six years ago]
I was a very devout Catholic when in school and this is an account of a "miracle" I experienced.
It happened during Holy Week (the week before Easter). One integral and very important event during the week was the Mass on Maundy Thursday, the Good Friday service and the Easter vigil mass. These were held on the school grounds as the church was too small to accommodate the congregation. There were different points on the ground where communion would be distributed. My father, who was the head usher at these services, always made sure everything was in order before and after the services.
One such year, when I was taking a break from Easter vigil duty (a ritual where we'd spend the whole night in prayer in the church) I saw dad kneeling at a place on the ground. I walked up to him to tell him that the inside of the church was a better place to pray than the ground, especially because of the chilly air and due. The moment he saw me he heaved a sigh of relief. When I reached the spot he pointed to the ground. There were two round hosts - the body of Christ - lying on the ground. These could only be touched by a priest whose hands were anointed, not commoners like us. No problem with our tongue and the saliva as also the digestive juices in our stomach. But hands were banned. My father asked me to wait while he called a priest to pick up the two hosts and dispose of them as was ordained in Canon Law.
On the way home dad told me about how he saw two tiny round objects. Thinking they were coins he went to pick them up and drop them in the collection box. On reaching the spot he realized they were the body of Christ. What if somebody had stamped them the next day? He said. Well, that, I thought, would have been a far worse sacrilege than touching them with un-anointed hands. The incident was forgotten by both of us after that.
A month later there was a report in the Church Bulletin about how a miracle had taken place. A parishioner and his son (names were not mentioned) saw two bright lights flashing like car headlights. Thus the body of Christ was saved from being desecrated. So, gullible was I in those days that anything the clergy said we accepted. I actually started to believe that this is how it happened. I began to wonder years later if this is how every miracle originated.
Most miracles are nothing but exaggerated accounts of events. Those which aren't are plain and pure falsehoods.
It seems everywhere I've lived, not just in the South, not just in America, I run across someone who claims a coincidence or fortuitous event as a "miracle". From surviving an accident to avoiding a doomed flight, all are somehow miracles.
It really makes me question their intelligence when they make such a backwards leap in thought.
Pretty good list. Even when I was a christian I thought the idea of miracles was batshit insane and this list is exactly why.
You're one of my favorite people and I always look forward to your next video. You teach me so many good points to use in friendly debates.
Usually theists take it to heart because you're questing their fairytale
I had to leave it right there so you can get the picture of what happened. My cousin falls to the ground, and looks up at his shooter, ( proceeds to tell my cousin he had meant to shoot someone else and thought he was him), and tells him, " I'm dead! There's no need to shoot me anymore because I'm dead!" The guy looks at him kind of sorrowfully because he wasn't the guy he wanted to kill but still proceeds to shoot at him again. This bullet misses him totally. My cousin gets up and hides in the nearby bushes so the guy won't kill him.
Hemant, this is one of your better videos. Thanks.
First of all, I thank you for your videos. They showed me that I'd rather pray to unicorns than god =)
Yeah
"Proven miracles" is an oxymoron
Friendly Atheist, thank you for your program.....I appreciate your intelligence and especially love your reading of the bibal!
Sometime later he left the creek got in his car and started driving thinking to go to his father's house for he would know what he should do. When he got to his father's house his father gave him some rags to hold to his head telling him to apply pressure. My family and I were informed by his sister that he had been shot in the head, on the phone she was inconsolable. We told her that when she found out what hospital he had been taken to to let us know because we'd be there. After she hung up we immediately started praying. She called not too long later telling us the hospital name and we rushed out the door to meet her there. When we got there another relative was already there and told us that he was in surgery. At first, after he had come out of surgery, they didn't let us up there, just his two sisters that lives in our state and his dad, ( their mother, my aunt, passed away some time ago). Then they let us upstairs.
You're much nicer than me. The most I would do I do a heavy sigh or facepalm every time I hear one of these asinine miracles. Loud or obvious enough for the creationist would notice.
What about the miracle at fatima
This reminds me of those stupid infomercials by Peter Popoff, where he gets a perfectly fine person to act hurt & gives them a cane, blesses them, then they get up and dance n shit as he throws their cane on stage & ridicules "the devil".
When I was in college I was laying on bed and head noise bam! Bam! I jumped to see what going on. I heard a voice lay down! The next morning I got up looked outside my dorm room. The windows were shot both door at opposite ends of the hallway. When I got ready go back into room there was a bullet hole in the side of my doorframe. If had not stayed in I believe I would have been shot maybe even killed. Thank God for miracles!
Just a mention that the 'Tears of Ganesh' and other deities bleeding or crying milk are quite commom.
Ewww... That sounds pretty gross.
Ganesh should cry a material that isn't plethoric and easily obtainable by everyone.
Music too loud.
Real Miracles happen all the time. I prayed for a dog that got thrown from a car during an accident . I was one of the first responders. I laid my hands on the dog and prayed when he was out cold. His tongue was hanging out of his mouth, and it looked like his jaw was broken. The instant I prayed, his mouth came together and he started breathing. I prayed again because he wouldn’t get up. He got up instantly and perked up at attention. I was pretty amazed , because everything happened right away , just like the many that were healed by Jesus instantly, when he laid hands on them. It wasn’t a process like so many situations are - that make you question miracles. Just the other day my own dog’s leg was healed instantly when I prayed. I just wish that I was as good at praying for humans as dogs! Hoping that happens someday.
If you want to doubt miracles , you will continue to find ways to doubt miracles, but if you believe in miracles and look for them, you will continue to find them.”
For it is impossible to please God without faith. And one should not think his prayers should be answered without faith. But God is gracious and compassionate , and sometimes even answers our faithless prayers. He helps us in our unbelief.
This video came out on my birthday. It's a miracle.
Christians are so invested in their beliefs that i guess it would take a real miracle to make them understand there are no miracles... no, wait, but then miracles WOULD be real, and therefore... Oh, my head hurts, i think i'll just stop trying to make sense out of this stuff. Lol.
Only thing I'd have to disagree with is that Hindu's definitely do market miracles. There are a lot of wealthy Gurus in India who get followers (and money) from Western countries.
The Bottle Opener
Doesn't that reinforce that this is primarily a Western phenomena? The shysters require Westerners for their living.
Most Hindu's don't believe in miracles as they know this is a western thought. They believe that everything happens was going to happen in the first place. If it did not happen it wasn't going to as the universe itself would put obstacles in its way from occurring. A lot of people have no idea what Hinduism is because they either come from the outside looking in or attribute themselves to some guru and never do their own research, a thought that isn't alongside Hindu philosophy.
Atharva Jeevan Hinduism is just another religion in my eyes. Something else we don't need.
Rusty Shackleford Honestly, I don't know enough about how people in the near, middle and far East feel about their religions, so I can't say. All I know about this subject of Hindu 'miracles' is what I've seen through BBC documentaries which intentionally focus on Americans and English who have become followers of these gurus. In my gut, I feel like it's easy to say it's only a Western phenomena, but I think that's giving too much credence to Eastern religions which don't seem to have been damaged by science quite as much as Christianity. This is purely speculation, but I think perhaps the reason why nobody talks about miracles from the Muslim or Hindu corners of the world is because there isn't an intellectual debate between atheism and religion like there is in the West.
khaosjoker909 Well said. A lot of people argue in favor of the philosophical values of religions, but in my mind, we've already realized and surpassed a lot of those values as a society. We know the Golden Rule is useful, and that most of the Ten Commandments aren't. But we've also learned a lot more that religion had no part in. Some people argue in favor of stripping out the useless parts of religion, but I think we're well beyond that point and can just rid ourselves of the whole damned system. For those naysayers (aka, agnostics), we still have Sam Harris reporting to us about the usefulness of spirituality and meditation as secular constructs.
"If God works in mysterious ways, then how can you say you trust him?"
Praying doesn't count as communication bcuz if it does, its only a one-sided communications
where the talker does all the talking and the receiver doesn't even reply .
They don't use that argument anymore, they just blame themselves for not praying enough or having little faith
The way you explain it.... it's like... a miracle!
Please no more background music. Love your videos aside from that.
Over the past 45yrs of me being an atheist, I must have asked dozens, if not hundreds of religious people this question:
*_"Can you give me one verified case of a miracle. By that I mean something that could not possibly be explained by any possible or probable natural means."_*
So far, I have not had a single satisfactory answer.
Honestman400,...………..yes, I can in fact give you a case of a miracle. You state that you require the miracle to be verified. That must be what you lean on, and what you use to claim that nobody has given or shown a miracle. If you were an honest man, you would hear the story of a purported miracle, and judge it to be true or not, by use of your heart and senses. Including the word 'verifiable' as a crutch in the case that a miracle was provided, is evidence of your insincerity and doubt about your ability to know the truth by way of your own honest nature.
I have experienced a miracle, there's no other way to describe it, and no way to show that it was other then a miracle. A person with confidence that is also honest would make a real challenge, instead of using tricks to fall back on. If I present a scenario in which miraculous occurrences took place, and you acknowledge that you had no other explanation if things happened the way that I said they happened, would you automatically claim no miracle happened anyway or use your spirit and honest nature to discern if I've been honest about this occurring?
@@MrMarco855 your said miracle would have to defy natural law/physics. Not an I almost died story.
@@TaylordSpirit It does,.........do you want to hear it?
@@MrMarco855 Thanks for asking! ☺
It's strangely appreciated. 😂
Yes I'd like to 'hear' it. I love things that we can't science away, straight away.
Well I can
I had to leave it there so you can see each and every miracle that happened last night. After some time he goes to the nearby creek because he said someone would find his body there.
Hey Hermant! Informative vid. Like your style and manner. I'd be interested in knowing (or maybe you've already talked about this in another vid?) what you would consider actual "evidence" for an alleged miracle. Just curious. I find the whole concept of miracles interesting and I've been looking into it. And I'm talking the balls-to-the walls dramatic stuff, like the "Miracle of the Sun", witnessed by thousands of people, not necessarily individualistic miracles experienced by just one or two people. Like you, I'm skeptical of those. But I was just curious to know what you might think of those bigger public events.
I doubt if any evidence for a miracle exists. For me it would have to be something demonstrable and repeatable.
I am open to being proven wrong, but I am not holding my breath waiting. Doesn't take up a lot of my time.
I'll keep the pastor in my logic prayers.
Dear God, please help this pastor take that final step in realizing that you aren't real, and that every alleged miracle gets explained eventually. Please help this pastor realize you were made up by primitive humans who couldn't understand their environment and felt like coming up with the greatest global scam ever that would cause many problems in the world. I ask this through The Flying Spaghetti Monster, our lord and savior, in the name of the spaghetti, and of the sauce, and of the tasty cheese. Ramen.
The Atheist Butt Pirate *Best comment here* 😂😂😂😂
i converted a christian today ! XD
+xREZxShockz Since atheism is not a religion yet theists keep insisting it is, you should put "converted" in quote marks.
Dorothyellen w yeah i meant like i made someone an atheist
+xREZxShockz That person had way to little faith and never really was a Christian, I bet
i was christian but now im not so whats your point lol
+xREZxShockz lol was unnecessary, my point is if you change your faith, your faith probably never was true or strong enough, so don't get big headed about changing someone's perspective (from my point of view) for the worst
When I was young I ask the priest how he had the power of placebo and got him mad.
To me there is only one miracle, and that is that there are still people who believe in miracles
1:24 God wanted you to make a Book about Atheism ^^
Next time, please turn off the Nintendo prior to recording the video. Thank you.
I don't believe in miracles. Of course, it's a subjective thing as different people define miracles differently. For myself, my definition of a miracle would be: A jetliner flying at 500 MPH with 300 passengers aboard slams directly into the face of a granite cliff. If anyone survived that I would consider it a miracle. The laws of physics would dictate that no one could survive such a crash.
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*DiVInE InTerVenTiOn*
No, you're wrong. How do you explain Michael Jackson being born black and turning white?
I can explain it.
Michael had a skin condition called Vitiligo, Whig overtime takes the pigment out of your skin. You see, Michael was still African American when his skin color turned white, because his skin had no pigment in it. That's not a miracle, it's a medical condition.
Although my comment was a snarky satire,I commend you on your valiant go at the truth, you are correct.
Haha
Zuno Bear where that might be a medical condition, thats not the reason he went white. He actually had a procedure that artificially removed the pigmentation in his skin
how dfo you explain him being born a black male and dying a white female. LOL
Hemant, even though i really love your channel and the fact that you fight for atheism, what you said in 4:55 is wrong. *_VERY_* wrong. we have Thousands, maybe _Millions_ of Muslims who talk about "Allah" speaking to them when they are in need.
In fact, i know some of them who are so delusional that they think Allah resurrected a person before he goes to heaven.
Persian Mapper that's not true. The Quran says that God doesn't allow conversation with people except by 3 means
Revelation
Behind a barrier
Prophet sent
There is a word for coincidences because they HAPPEN ALL THE TIME!
Talking about miracles, I saw a comment recently that went something along these lines: "You don't see faith healers in hospitals healing everyone for the exact same reason you don't see psychics winning the lottery." Logic, people!
The Atheist Voice Actually, Miracles do happen - your Anti-Religion rhetoric doesn't change that. Life is short, I pray that you open your eyes and begin looking at the big picture of life before it's to late. God Bless.
evidence please.
in modern times the world has been witness to such Heaven-sent miracles as those at Fatima, Lourdes, and St. Anne de Beaupré in Quebec, Canada, where the cured have left a forest of crutches in testimony. (The Lourdes Medical Bureau is open for examination by any doctor.) In addition, there is the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius which still takes place in Naples each year on September 19, his feast day; the incorruption of the bodies of many Catholic saints (such as St. Bernadette, who died in 1879); and the miraculous Eucharistic Host of Lanciano, Italy, which has been scientifically proven to be human flesh and human blood, type AB, to mention only a few of the miracles still on-going in the 20th century, which point to the existence of a God. Paul whitcomb
nick mel all are fake. Evidence please.
nick mel a minimal amount of research will show that each one of these so called "miracles" either has a scientific explanation or is complete bullshit.
I just gave you evidence. You telling me to give you evidence for the evidence is a non sequitur. Anybody who does their research will see they're legit.
there is no GOD
I just found a great video. What a miracle ;)
When I was a dead-eye muslim, I was never able make anyone believe in Allah or Islam. Not even one person. But after I became an atheist, I have converted dozens of people to atheists. What a miracle!
What I heard was:
I don't believe in miracles because theirs no evidence and there is no evidence for miracles because I don't believe in them.
Yea nice job Hemant Mehta.
lol
If you have to believe in something for it to exist then it doesn't exist. If I always see evidence of ghosts just because I believe in ghost that doesn't make ghosts real
You have shitty ears or awful comprehension skills then
First commenter that's so crazy :)
Always wondered if one day i'd catch a vid just when it's out,well i can check that on my life-long To Do list ^^
you were not... and if you want to do that, go to a newtuber channel with a new video
Where would the challenge be if I did that?...I agree i didn't aim at a Pewdiepie or smosh video but Hemant has got 73k subscribers,that's already a lot,whereas going to a "newtuber channel" would just be no accomplishment.Plus,my comment was all about being humoristic and you took it a bit too seriously i believe
i see now
I have had strange things happen to me that I can't explain but I don't necessarily believe it was supernatural. I heard something growl at me twice but that doesn't mean it was demonic or supernatural.
Right me too, but I don't get why people don't accept illusions, tricks, coincidences etc.
As the 11th doctor said (I think) “The universe is big and crazy and sometimes there are coincidences and we call them miracles”
Please fix this quote cause I know I’m wring
Three perfect adjectives to describe 'miracles': selective, subjective, unverifiable. Thank you.
I want to see amputee regrowing limbs, after praying. I've always been saying that, since I was 8. That wouldn't prove any God's existence but it would definitely make me think twice about miracles before rejecting them.
Or people walking on water
Mr. Mehta, thank you for another video that I agree with the content. I don't know if you took my advice or whatever, but this video is a perfect example of keeping your nose/mouth in the middle of the viewing area and not unnecessarily cutting off the top of your head. Whatever ideas went into framing this video, you did a great job. Keep up the good work, and thank you again. Ray
God healed me of depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and a PERMANENT gluten allergy.
OK. What evidence is there for this?
I actually know of some "Miracles". I'll list them here: First there's Ronnie White, he's the fellow who discovered Stevie Wonder. Then there's Robert Rodgers who became.....well, I'll mention him a bit later. Then there's William Moore, known as "Pete" to his friends, then comes Marvin Tarplin, a songwriter in his own right, then comes group leader, William "Smokey" Robinson. He's the one who inspired Berry Gordy Jr. to get his Motown empire up and running by saying "Why work for the man? Why not BE the man?" Robinson's sister, Claudette was part of the group for a short while but then she married.... Robert Rodgers, making Rodgers, Smokey's brother-in-law. And there you have your "Miracles"... Oh, and something else, Motown had a label, possibly named for the group, called "Miracle" but with an unfortunate motto: "If it's a hit, it's a Miracle!"(Oh, dear).
Aunt Bernadette or uncle Ralph got apparently some back pain deliverance healing in church! I just took some Tylenol or Advil. That's why we have medical science.
I had something I consider a miracle happen to me and I'm not religious at all. To be fair I haven't had anything else happen that I would consider a miracle.
A big turning point in my life was wanting to learn about ancient mythologies. That lead me to doubt god and eventually I got here.
Spot on
As for number 1, it could be argued that if you did NOT meet her at the bus stop you would have stayed at Med School and may have ended up curing cancer
Its the devils work I tell ya !! lol
Some people never got out of medieval ages...
I read a fortune cookie that said I would positively influence someones life at a time they needed it. As much as I wanted to think it was some sign I know its not. But it doesn't mean I couldn't still positively influence someones life. :)
You can't prove miracles, not because of practical problems, but because they can't be proven BY DEFINITION. They are either very unlikely events, or they are inexplicable by the current science.
- If they're very unlikely events, they're still bound to happen at some point. And if you still think they're too unlikely to happen, you're probably not considering that it could have happened to anyone, at any point in their lives, and there is infinite amount of possible 'miracles' that could have happened. Here's an example: think of the odds of you winning the lottery, and then realise that however small the chance is of a certain person winning the lottery, that certain person is just one of all the people that entered the lottery. It doesn't matter who wins, it's not a special event.
- Inexplicability by current science doesn't mean anything. Once, we didn't understand fire. Not understanding something means nothing. It's never a solid move to just call it 'supernatural'.
So miracles are just bullshit, and you should stop thinking about them as if they're actually something, apart from the word itself. Not that this is the right video to post this on though...