I remember coming to most of Sam's conclusions around the age of 13. It's crazy to me 95% of the world's grown adults have never arrived at these basic arguments against religion.
@@Kuhanapomaranca I suspect that after freeing himself from those constraints he has learned a great deal more since, as he was no longer afraid of knowledge.
I am not a fan of religion PER SE, and I've never seen a single place on earth where ignorance is bliss. Even in your own ignorant heart, as you congratulate yourself, there might be an occasional twinge of anxiety, should you ever find yourself in situation where your life, or the life of someone you love, is threatened. As for 'religion', that word is offensive to more Christians than you can imagine. Should you ever deign to descend from your elevated perch and read the Bible in earnest, you will observe how ferociously it condemns all manner of false religion, including atheism, which absolutely IS a religion despite its denial of God's existence. if you cannot understand my last point, tou are stuck in categorical thinking and do not understand human psychology. Humans love to worship someone or something, even themselves or their own 'identities'. It has long amused me to observe the priggish self-righteousness of atheists, secular Pharisees that they are, and also their extreme zeal for proselytism, for making 'converts'. Furthermore they have their Pantheon, which includes Darwin but should not, because he was actually an agnostic. Now Darwin's wife was a Christian, and worried about her husband for good reason. I have read statements by Darwin, made late in life, testifying to his dissatisfaction and lack of fulfilment as a scientist. he felt that something was missing in his life. Now there is a rumor that he became a convert to Christ mere months before his death, but I have no way of knowing whether the story is accurate. IF it is accurate, I would be very happy about it, but Darwin far more so. If it is not true, it would be a tragedy, and your malicious gloating would only be temporary. I would not want you to endure the tragedy of eternal banishment from the presence and goodness of the Lord.
@@Shytot-1 Some backward or primitive folk produced good science and the Christian West had done ok while the Arab /Muslim was an important preserver of much valuable heritage.
One of my main problems with the religious crowd is because of their nonsense belief in the afterlife, they don't seem to give a damn about how, or even if, we protect the planet we live on today. The belief in myth, superstition and the supernatural won't save the planet, and in turn, humanity.
I agree. ( I am paraphrasing my point so it's not so long). Christians act horribly and then say I have been saved or think God is going to show.up.and fix the planet. I would rather work with a group of Athiests because life and the planet is more precious to them.
hey man, catholic here. I understand what u mean, people focus a lot on eternal life or afterlife but i agree with you. Even if christians want eternal life, we should protect what god gave us like the planet and human rights. Im glad non religious people focus on these matters bc i know most christians have their own values and political issues might dont interest them
When people are into CULTS, that's usually the situation. Logic... common sense... a larger view of or a better understanding about nature, about Earth, about suns & nuclear fusion processes, about planetary formations and life cycles, the life cycles of galactic structures, black holes and the formation of black holes, the life cycles of animal species on earth, the life cycles of a proton (half-life of 1.67 x 10^34 years) or the life cycle of a Hydrogen isotope like Hydrogen-7 (half life of 2.3 x 10^-23 seconds), etc., etc..... REALITY doesn't matter to people who are into CULTS.... It doesn't matter what particular cult they are into. And it doesn't matter whether it is just ONE person (man in a cave from all other people or one guy chanting dead rituals inside a tiny apartment or a giant mansion, among millions of neighbors in a large city)... or if it is 5 billion members walking, talking, and chanting in unison.... When people are into cults, THEY THINK THEIR CULT is the real deal, the only deal. "Others may have good or bad religious beliefs; but THEY ARE NOT INTO THE RIGHT ONE. Ours is... ours is the ONLY ONE based on a HOLY BOOK. There could be only ONE HOLY BOOK, by THE Creator of the Universe, who came to earth, to dictate THAT HOLY BOOK.... and ours is IT...." That is the problem, when people are into cults: they think THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES in on "it"... whatever that "it" is... that "holy" or "divine" BS that cults give people...
@@carolinaduque9639 protecting our environment has nothing to do with politics. Religion is a well-organized mafia designed to take money from people, especially the poor, with the promise of a place in paradise in afterlife, because they have nothing in this life. Your catholic church is a prime example of this. Wake up.
Hate, division, war, dependence... All attributes associated with religion. I propose we adopt a mindset where we accept everyone as they come and promote a positive lifestyle, which includes discipline, communication practice, physical motivation, and emotional support. No borders, no fear mongering, no dependence... just learning how to navigate the path of life and creating memories for loved ones while you are here, enjoying our beautiful earth with no hate in our hearts... This would be heaven And if we are wrong, we lived our lives as true brothers and sisters, unlike Christians and Muslims. If we were somehow wrong and god was real, we would have acted at a higher moral standard than these indoctrinated nuts, attempting to unite one another without stipulations so that a god could see that we tried.
2000 years of Christianity... Humanity has devolved with Christianity. Christianity is in the exact same place as it was 2000 years ago. The Dark Ages of perception. Want to know why I'm an Ex-Christian? You are not a real Christan, that's why!
Religion is a placeholder for truth? Religion is a base for mythological interpretation. Subjective bias at best. Religion has nothing to do with truth.
@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 As long as He is nothing more than a monument to our humility in light of our ignorance, he should do no harm, but inspire us to seek knowledge more diligently.
You'd think so, but many believers simply stubbornly refuse to acknowledge logic and reasoning. Look at the comment above that claims Sam made a fool out of himself for 10 minutes. Indoctrination and delusion are powerful drugs.
♦"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." ♦"Only fools revere the supernatural myths just bc a book claims itself to be the holy truth." ♦"The delusional religious fools are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." ♦"The religious believe by the millions what only lunatics could believe on their own." ♦"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ♦"It's difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
Lol! This is the same logic we could apply to the belief in evolution, that everything around us all came about by accident, don't you know that it is already been proven life came from preexisting life evolutionists ignore that fact
@@AtamMardesstill your evolution doesn't explain how matter gave rise to genetic information.And no one has observed it. You believe it by faith because that has been taught to you. Evolution is a theory created by men, not a fact.
Look people, the fact is that Jesus is an imaginary friend you can always talk to and feel comforted. But once you realize the trick to it you can't believe anymore. So people fight for their beliefs because like Highlander there can only be one
I call him the Canaanite Highlander Wargod for exactly this reason. There can be only one and this particular god seems to have originated in the actual highlands.
You are the one who is imaginign things in order to comfort yourelf. Responsible secular historians like my late father have regarded the new Testament accounts of Jesus' Crucifixion as reliable for a very long time. There is no variation in the quality of the texts to suggest that its human authors were untruthful about Jesus' Resurrection. It is only that some have made 'a priori' philosophical arguments to the effect that such an event could not have happened. That assumption does NOT constitute either historical or scientific evidence. Indeed the historical evidence FOR the Resurrection is airtight. The case is strengthened by the fact that Jesus' disciples were NOT expecting it, but caught by surprise. They thought that their cause was defeated when He was crucified, and had already begun to disperse when first-hand testimony began to accumulate, starting with one of the women disciples. (Yes, women did play important roles in the early Church). ....this despite the fact that Jesus had predicted His own suffering, death, and Resurrection; that all these things had also been predicted in various Hebrew Old Testament prophecies, which were not unknown to the disciples. 1st Coritnthians chapter 15 is a summary of evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus. It admits that, had there been no Resurrection, there would be NO CASE for Christianity. But the author himself, Paul the apostle, former persecutor of the Church, is an eyewitness to the Resurrected Jesus, and he mentions 500 people who had the same experience at one time. Dr. Michael Brown, Messianic Jewish scholar and preacher, has said bluntly: If Jesus did not rise from the dead, no one should believe in Him. If He did rose from the dead, everyone should believe in Him. You place FAR TOO MUCH emphasis on sentiment and imagination, FAR TOO LITTLE on facts. IMHO, much of which passes for 'atheism' is the extension of adolescent rebellion into adulthood, a refusal to embrace intellectual and moral responsibility. What amuses me particularly about aggressive atheists is (a) their burning self-righteousness; and (b) their proselytizing zeal. They have made a religion of their unbelief!! And a bloody one it has been. Consider the excesses of the Bolshevik revolution, Russian Civil War, and subsequent policy of 'official atheism' in the USSR. How you must pine for the 'good old days' when the Soviets used to put Christians in psychiatric hospitals. Have no fear: under Vladimir Putin, as I have heard, one needs a State permit to hold a prayer meeting in one's home. With Marxism-Leninism dead, I suppose that your next best bet is the Moscow-Tehran-Beijing-Pyongyang Axis. Have fun with that, eh?
@@MauricioMontoya-dd1wiwhile his father (god) served out violence and punishment and encouraged “his people” to slay their enemies and dash their enemy’s children’s heads on rocks. ( All through the old testament)
During several decades inside Evangelical Christianity, I never met a single Christian who was intellectually convinced that the claims of their faith were objectively true. For these people, to "believe" simply means to consciously choose to accept whatever propositions are asserted by the leadership of your religious community. Being intellectually convinced isn't even something that is considered.
I've known Christians that think it's objectively true but their reason why is because they just think it's true. Neither Christians or atheists can prove their beliefs. Agnosticism is the only intellectually honest viewpoint.
You mean accepting a dogma just because, all other, society and the troubles of going against the flow make the barrier to high to climb? (Maybe I misunderstood, but I'm really curious, not a native english speaker...)
@@Onionbaron Yes ... accepting the dogma as "true" because of reasons other than being intellectually convinced that it is true. These reasons include: 1.) The social pressure to comply with the group's expectations so as to remain in the group. Many evangelical Christians have grown up in the church, and so all (or nearly all) of their friends, and often many of their relatives are also evangelical Christians. To change their mind about the truth of their religion risks them losing many of their friends and social networks, and sometimes even being disowned by family. 2.) A "Pascal's Wager" type mentality, where you've got nothing to lose by "believing" in the Christian religion if it turns out to be wrong, but potentially a lot to lose (i.e. eternal conscious torture) if you don't "believe" it and it turns out to be right.
What’s more likely… holy sperm impregnated a virgin 2000 years ago… or a story was invented about holy sperm impregnating a virgin 2000 years ago? Once I applied this basic question to the magical stories in the Bible, it all unraveled.
Christians appear to believe that human morality simply didn't exist prior to the establishment of Christianity.However this belief is incorrect, humans were obviously moral and religious entities from the dawn of human development, they had to be, to ensure the success and continuity of their communities.
It's really ALL ABOUT FEAR. Most of us Americans have been taught the patriarchal, biblical philosophy since babies. Once we reached kindergarten our parents started taking us to Sunday school. That's where the fear, confusion, and the beginning of guilt planted It's negative seed. When we began to really mature into young men and hormones started to rise, this moral weight got so heavy. I used to agonize for days because I had a "wet dream" because I remembered who I was dreaming of. It's sad that I didn't know "nocturnal emissions" were a natural human function, particularly at that age. I'm with the late, great Madeline Murray OHare, let's COMPLETELY keep ALL religion and it's dogmas OUT of Public Schools. We'll get to the colleges later.
I used to go out of my way to correct religious people in TH-cam comments when they made their various claims until I found out about 90% of Americans are religious. Then I just gave up.
@@mattslater2603 it was 4 years old not 9, in india not africa and for a girl of 14 years old who lost her phone. washington post newspaper in 2016. also In Sub-Saharan Africa, "the practice of ritual killing and human sacrifice" continues to take place despite the illegality as described by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other human rights instruments.
Religion makes no sense, but I know a couple of guys who used it to quit drug addictions. They’ve been clean for years, and for some reason, christianity has been a big part of their success. Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad actors in the religion game. Republican Jesus is not my idea of a loving god, or an inspirational leader
That tends to be, especially in America, because AA is huge on religion. It batters it into you at almost every opportunity, makes you feel like you can't quit without it
@@skindred1888 yes, I was an aa member for a while. The meetings I went to were big on God, but not christianity. Maybe some groups are more Christ specific? One guy said that if I had a hard time finding God, I could use the AA group as God. I did that. But I was not a hard core addict like many of the members. The 2 guys I know who have fully embraced Christianity were big users, and also not smart. Organized region works for them.
Jesus, if he ever existed in the context of Biblical "history", espoused views that were based on class consciousness, he specifically said things against the rich and class and hierarchy. That's definitely not Republican. As far as quitting substances with God it's insidious. I've seen it. They shove it in there with the actual drugs that help (Suboxone, Naltrexone, valium, Shit like that.) It's all bullshit and it's bad for ya. Don't fall for it. Then again if someone is claiming it is helpful to them in the early stages you probably have to make an ethical decision there. If they were ever disabused of the notion of religion as true then they need to be slapped in the face. If not, you can come in later and try to untangle it, but that's way harder. The lies hit very hard.
You can't debate with someone that believes there's a magic man in the sky. They just send you a quote from the bible as though this is all the proof you need. The stupidity is off the scale.
When i listen to sam harris and anyone else from any other religion,Im more convinced that EVERYONE is wrong,the longer i live on this planet,the more i think that the other side is not what either side thinks
The difference between Christianity and being spiritual is that no one can tell me I'm not spiritual but to be a Christian I need other people who call themselves Christians to say that I am a Christian or else I cannot be identified as one. I could call myself one but I would be lying because I don't believe in a lot of the things I read in the Bible but I do read the Bible and I do pray to Jesus. Essentially I believe in a higher power that I call Jesus. In my mind if people can believe in magic apples and talking snakes I can believe in anything I want and it can be reality to me unless objectively proved false by someone else. Whether or not there is a God. Up until present days it would be necessary to have an idea of a God just to keep people in check just to keep people from rising up. What's the best way to keep someone from taking what you have but to make them afraid of someone that they can't see. Because of organized religion in this world will never reconcile with itself. Vanity is a sin by do women do women want to walk around with mustaches. If I don't have many friends on Earth or relatives will I suddenly have lots of friends in heaven. Is God going to personally be my friend. Everything that makes us what we are is part of the human condition we sleep is there sleep in heaven oh my God my mind would just be going all the time when I eventually get bored I'm an artist but when I get bored how creative can you be in heaven you'd be singing hymns all the time. Will I have to wear a robe in heaven will I have long hair I don't look good with long hair so many questions???
El creador existe pero nadie sabe como piensa, como es ni para que estamos, aparentemente no hay sentido de la vida solo hay que disfrutarla mientras llega el momento de que sepamos la verdad o el momento en que nos perdemos en el tiempo, ese misterio es interesante.
Explain how people believed in God and were very religious and lynched and killed millions of black people talk about that and how millions of people believe and follow Donald Trump talk about that !
Yet black people in America tend to be the most religious. And they are overwhelmingly democrat so your logic doesn't fly. Despite the bible giving instructions on how to own people as property black people just give that a pass.
Religion has always been a source for warlords to unite their troops on something much bigger than their petty selfs! "Killing In The Name Of (X*)" *X = Insert preferable deity, football team etc...
My dad was a devotee of Baba's (who'm I now believe was a pederast). He's also a believer in saints and miracles from various religions though was raised Roman Catholic. In grammar school I decided to walk away from all religious rhetoric, because no one seemed any more 'sane' or 'better' than any other. All BS to me - LOL!
People aren't always rational. And we know so little about the past, present, future or science. Someone like L Ron Hubbard (do a show on him) can come along and make claims that can't be disproven and make a fortune. Maharishi, how about doing a show on that guy?
Sam Harris: God calls you a fool. A Christian IS NOT viewed as a perspective; a Christian is the Body of Christ - a person who is holy, righteous, altogether lovely, and alive. I don't have "...to reconsider any long-held conviction about faith and spirituality." It is impossible for your carnal mind to comprehend this message; therefore, you cannot provide any "common arguments" for nor against the mind of God - the mind of God is not a religious principle; and it makes no difference whether you (or anyone else) understand it or not.
Do we even want them too? Why should we care if they watch this and something clicks for them? These are for us. The non- believers so that we can study Sam’s ability to articulate what we all think of. I share all of his beliefs but I sometimes cannot communicate in the same articulate and calm way Sam does. So I watch this to educate myself in a variety of ways and I couldn’t care less if theists watch this. So again, why would we want or care if they watch this video? Their minds are made up. They have dug their feet in the ground and will never ever move forward. So arguing logically with theists on these topics is like arguing with a wall. It is futile and exhausting. So who cares whether or not they watch this? I hope they don’t watch it. This is for us, not them.
@@KitPhuket-ix1enyep! I have read it from start to finish 2 times!! It is the primary reason I am a non believer or atheist because the stories in that book were so unbelievably odd and supernatural that there was zero chance I thought anything in it was real. I was about 10-12 when I read it twice. We habe adult people all over who swear it is the book of god but if I as a 10 yr old kid knew it was fairy tale and supernatural shenanigans, then how are these adults functioning appropriately in society??? If I thought what I read in that book was reality, I would think that I had become insane and should be in a psych ward. Ever wondered this? How so many middle age adults blindly believe in that book??? When you really think that through, it is very unsettling about the psyche of most of America. These half of Americans believe in something that is absolutely supernatural and good. That god is the opposite of good. This deity if I fact they are the one deity (spoiler-they 100% are not) allows on a daily basis unbelievable amounts of young children to die in complete🎉 agony while their parents watch and are inconsolable. This is a deity who is a derelict of his duties. He is a “do nothing god”, a narcissistic god, a petty god, an unworthy god, a childish god, a manipulative god and lastly a NONEXISTENT god. This god is not of this world or any others. Simple ass dumb men made it all up so that the sane kind of simple dumb ass men would follow this simple dumb ass rhetoric. It has worked. Dumb attracts other dumb stuff and more dump people, and so on and so on and so on it goes for much too long until half the population is this brain dead, half-witted, gibbon brained professional idiots wondering around all over. Have you looked around at people lately??? They have this look of absolute challenging type brain activity where a decision could make them crap themselves. That along with their 1000 yard brain dead stare makes them look like mouth breathing, slobbering, idiots. America has now created the perfect citizen. A disgusting fat body that eats everything, cannot do manual labor and will die by 50-55. Its perfect because they make the pharmaceutical companies rich and die out early. This person is necessary for these evil sectors to thrive. They need the fatties. I don’t. I hate them. I hate their smell. The loud breathing. The sound of too much fucking food in their disgusting throat hole. They gave become the beasts of mankind. And now! They are everywhere you look. Back to the bible. Read it if you haven’t. All the way through start to finish. After your done this first time, ponder these stories. Question their reasoning and also why are they in this book. The answers you’ll likely come up with won’t be the answers the church or other Christians want. They all have ulterior motives. The motives most likely are the pressuring you into believing and becoming an official “brother of god”. Don’t fall for this cult like pressure nonsense. Be true to yourself and only to yourself. The “lessons” that are supposedly in there are man made simpleminded shenanigans. Hunan beings are borne with morality. It has to be taught to us better as we grow but don’t let them tell you that without religion there is no morality and that we are borne in sin. This is obvious child abuse!!!!! To tell a child if you do not believe in this “whatever” they will spend eternity in hell- this is child abuse no matter how it is argued. I’ve heard it all. No theist can answer this one straight with logic any logic. I asked a priest this once, and just as I thought I was below his class and he looked down on me and smirked… in that moment vividly entrenched in my mind it confirmed everything I ever thought about priests. I almost asked him, “how was the sodomizing of those young boys huh??!!” That would’ve brought him down a peg. Speaking of. Did everyone forget about the priests sexually abusing young boys for a long ass time??!!! They did this forever and ran through thousands of little boys!!! They sure sidestepped that massive controversy in genius fashion. short circuit and lost neurological connectives are borne with zero sins. We are not borne evil???!!!!! This is a massive lie with clear intentions to of indoctrinating children in living fear. Shame on these Christians…We have evolved to know basic human morality. It is a disgrace to the human race that we need a book to know about Hunan morality. “Do onto others as you would have them so unto you”. The golden rule. It trumps down all of the bs morality crap that book attempts to claim is best. That book is laughable. There’s one story about a man that was eaten by a massive fish. Ge survived in the fish belly for weeks and then was freed. He ended up fine. This is what’s in there
@@mattorr2256What you don’t seem to understand is that God is not responsible for the way churches teach the Bible or the way they treat the congregation-God told us to compare the word from the Bible to the way it’s being taught from churches today-and they don’t speak the truth,people need to understand that we live in a broken and wicked world today where Gods word is twisted by others who change the gospel to fit their narrative.
The only way to maintain a hold on religious belief is to will yourself into dishonest, blind ignorance and a denial of blatant, obvious, undeniable reality.
Do you have a desire within you to be free? Can you see it; and if you cannot see it, then are you saying that it is not real. God says that Sam Harris is a fool; and God is not a "religious belief". And because you do not have a "hold on" God does not cause him not to be real.
@@mcgillstern What does "seeing" have to with the feeling and emotion of a desire? We have several senses, and consciousness of thoughts, feelings, perceptions, as well as of consciousness itself. Seeing is not the only one that informs our perception and awareness of reality. "God says"? What method are you using to determine that? How are you perceiving a God that says things? What evidence do you have to offer that would compel someone else to believe in a God that says something? There are 45,000 Christian denominations. Each presumably believes in their "one true God". For some reason the messages they are each receiving from that God are not consistent, to the point that horrific wars have been fought over their disagreements. Not to even mention the vast differences between them and other religions that believe in one God, or many gods. Neither belief nor lack of belief proves or disproves anything, or causes something to be real or not real. The best we can do is base our beliefs on the foundation of evidence and rationality.
He says that the purported goal of Christianity is to 'safeguard the eternal well-being of human souls.' WRONG. One cannot 'safeguard' what is lost. Christ came to REDEEM the lost. As He said, 'I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.' It's not a question of keeping the good people and throwing out the bad. 'There is no one who does good, not even one.' That is why Jesus said, 'unless one is born again, one cannot see the kingdom of God.' Being 'born again' has nothing to do with subcultural expectations; it is a metaphor for spiritual REGENERATION. As it says elsewhere, God 'desires all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.' 'He does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked.' Despite some Christians' skepticism, I do believe that Christ will safeguard the souls he has saved. But JESUS is the agent both of salvation and preservation. Sam speaks as though 'Christianity' were supposed to be the agent. His opening words echo a theology, or theologies, whicch are not actually taught in the Bible. He ought to shut up and begin studying the Bible in earnest, as literature, rather than sitting in summary judgment upon millions and millions of people, past and present, who did or do not share his lack of comprehension. Sam is a blind leader of the blind, snf ejst's worse, the blindness is willful. Time is ebbing away, Sam. You are wasting your life and others' time. (Psalm 49:20) 'Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, is like the beasts that perish.'
God of the gaps argument. People! It's ok to not know things! WHY do you have to fill every gap with "GOD"? I met a new neighbor who said that God had told them to move back here. I politely asked why she needed a supernatural explanation/justification for their actions? She started to get upset, but then calmed right down, I presume because she realized that the very idea of god is in fact supernatural. In the next few minutes I heard that they love Jesus and 'rump and that Hillary should be in prison. When the husband got home he made sure I saw the gun on his belt. They asked me to leave after I said some unflattering things about my sister who is a Christian MAGA. I fully expected to be shot in the back on my way off the porch. I had seen people like this on TH-cam, but never thought I'd encounter them. Even tho I'm in small-town Indiana, mostly people don't bring it up. It was quite an experience. Now the man has been elected our mayor!
Where in the Bible does it say God made the angels? By logical extension, if God created all things & all beings, then God MUST have created the angels -- which includes Lucifer! If God *didn't* create the angels, this begs the question: where then did the angels come from? If the angels were uncreated & eternal, as God is supposed to be, does that not put the angels on even footing w/ the Supreme Being? Now take the above argument & simply substitute "the angels" w/ "Hell"....
To Mr Harris: This is double talk. All "belief" is belief, not the product of evidence. Look up the word. If you go on and on with bad primary assumptions, you get bad conclusions that seem to you to be valid deductions. You are judging reality by what standard? Who are you to decide something is bad and, therefore, God is bad. ??? Do you define "religion?" I know I wouldn't talk about it without defining the topic. Watch NDE videos, something likely in your paradigm, and you will learn that they return, atheists and scientists included, with the understanding that earth is a "play" where spirits/conscious entities come to become wiser because in the matrix of the hologram, the current term, there is no evil, sadness, and so forth. In the end, life on earth is not an end, it is a means and ones success or death here has no long long term meaning. Sure, you don't like this abrupt view of your life, but don't makes up incorrect, valid appearing syllogisms and create mis definitions Actually, many Christians are philosophical followers and, as a result, we have a moral society where a contract is honored. I may be changing, but for many decades that was me, and ardent Christian by philosophy. You should talk to people before lecturing. For folks like you, there is no reason not to kill to get a seat on the bus, other than getting caught doing it. Do you act with love? Why? Why not throw a competitor out a Moscow window or kill a fetus, although if a third party kills a fetus that is called murder. Mocking people's striving adds nothing. BTW, to be a member of a Christian tribe, maybe "reborn" works, the key to believe is the Ascension. The Bible otherwise is a great manual for morality and, hence, economic stability and peace. Then again, its magical stories, as you say, are being demonstrated all the time. See Dershowitz on The Genesis of Justice, which is the first 5 books. According Neil Furgeson, the CCP had scholars research why the ""west is better than the rest" and the report said it was an adherence to Christianity, it presents a stable and cooperative society, so the CCP is testing that notion is a town in the northwest. Good idea, lets destroy the great modifier of a murderous tribe.
I have to admit, I'm no expert on religion, mainly because I find nothing interesting about it. But there's a monkey god out there? I'm glad I wasn't drinking tea when I heard that one.
There is zero logical mechanism to explain why the Hebrews would want to concoct a narrative such as the Gospels or even expect others to be capable of believing it. If the Gospels are false, then why would a bunch of Jews go around saying that they saw an imaginary person do imaginary miracles, claiming he was then condemed to death by the most powerful Jewish leaders of the time and interrogated by the most powerful Roman in Israel before being crucified under his command. You could not make such claims as having recently occurred due to the fact they could easily be confirmed as untrue. You could not make such claims years /decades / centuries later as people will obviously say ...if this really happened we would have definitely heard of it before now. There is absolutely no possible way you could convince people of such claims as documented in the Gospels unless true...
Your background makes a valid point - it was 2000 years ago , WHO DID HIS HAIR? Did they even HAVE Conditioner in 33 DCE (During Christian Era?) Oh, never mind - just another #^@& miracle. of course🙄...
“Come Ye blessed ones of my Father for I was thirsty and You gave me water to drink I was hungry and You gave me food to eat I was arrested and You came to see me , I was sick and You visited me I was naked and You dressed me up I was a pilgrim and you took me home ! I was wounded and you cured me! Earth and Heaven must pass but my words won’t pass ! ❤JESUS
@@Susan-p4j Jesus comforts children with the hands of loving nurses and professional medical doctora Did Jesus flee from his ultimate torture ? ! NO HE DID NOT ! do you want to live forever then? It is about what you do while you are living ! Jesus did not create pain , he assumed it instead ! do you want to live a hedonic life forever ? that is really sick ! that would be hell!
'In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.' Perhaps Sam should worry about his own destruction. he should also observe that, if this truly is a godless universe, the product of happenstance, there are no objective grounds for morality, not even one which he would co sider as valid. Nor do our experiences have any objectively discernibke meaning. An atheist who is not also a Nihilist might best be described as a Sentimentalist. As for 'religion', people ought to define more clearly what they mean by that word. Many Christians avoid it because of its unsavory connotations. The Bible does not endorse 'religion', except with the strictest of qualifications: (James 1:26-27) 'If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worhless. Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.' It may be possible in rare cases for unbelievers to perform deeds of charity an social justice. But keeping oneself 'unstained by the world', refusing to accept the false narratives of one's own cultural milieu--------------this can only be done in connection with, and submission to, Him Who is the way, and the truth, and the life. Atheism, on the other hand, is the sddertion of human Ego against the Truth. (Psalm 49:20) 'Man in his pomp, yet withut understanding, is like the beasts that perish.' So prattle on, Sam Harris. Enjoy the praise of your acolytes for a few brief moments before you are silenced. Who will remember you in ages to come? if you find the idea of Hell unpalatable, which everyone should, seek to be delivered from it. Jesus said that he had come to call sinners, not the righteous. Perhaps your biggest problem is that you regard yourself as righteous.
I wonder what or how non believers handle the math issue for the 10 to the 164th power number? Those are the odds for a single protein just appearing from nothing out of nothing. There are so many zeros attached to that number to make it virtually impossible to happen by chance. And we are talking a functioning protein with everything inside sequenced properly all in the correct order! So if math (hard science folks) tells us that this is virtually impossible, whats left. A creator? An intelligent designer? I have no problem with a belief in that area. And you may ask why. It seems to me that belief in the odds of that single functioning protein, simply appearing out of nowhere, is going to take a lot more faith than believing in an intelligent creator. As a matter of fact, based on the math we already know, along with the laws of probability, and also plausibility, it is vastly more plausible that we, as we exist right now, with our massive amount of complexity, were and are a creation! Any belief in magically spontaneous appearances, out of nothing, of particles of any kind, seems rather foolish. Especially when you are talking about these appearances coming into existence, with unbelievably negative mathematical odds, from a non intelligent, insentient or unsentient, blip in space. It seems pretty ridiculous to me!🤣🤦🏻♂️😏
Yawn, another person who try to spread misinformation on an unsupervised platform. Funny that people like M.W. here never share their "arguments" on official, peer-reviewed sites. So funny! ;)
who said proteins have to pop into existence fully formed? lolz. you don't need to start with a protein that's 150 amino acids long. you start with a ribozyme that's only 30 or so nucleotides long, and it'll catalyze proteins for you, and natural selection goes to work. and no matter how unlikely that is, it's still within the realm of probability. what's the probability of a god existing? you can't even begin to compute it, because there's zero evidence of a god or creator or intelligent designer or pixies or unicorns existing in real life. whereas the existence of proteins is a fact.
It is odd that all these irrational fellows would create universities: Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna, Salamanca, Madrid etc. Even more odd that "disputation" would be the method of influential "irrational" thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas.
Many believers make use of the special pleading fallacy to make an exception of rationality when it comes to religious topics. Without even knowing it, these people uphold their religious believes to a different, usually lower standard to conform to their already established conclusions. Fortunately, many of them are rational in at least some other areas of their life. You are partially right, you can't be rational AND religious, but only when it comes to religious themes.
@@DanielRodriguez-zj5il You claim that religion is not reasonable. Can you back up this claim with reason, or is ad-hominem and a-priori fallacies all you have got?
@@stevenfaludi4862 Absolutely. Based on the lack of sufficient evidence and sound arguments demonstrating the truth of any religion, adhering to any religion as true is by definition illogical and unreasonable. In other words, irrational. The moment to believe a proposition is after it has been sufficiently demonstrated, and not an instant sooner. I'll give you $100 if you spot a fallacy anywhere.
@@DanielRodriguez-zj5il Breezy dismissal is not an argument, nor is circular reasoning. Re-read your last message after substituting "climate crisis" or "Napoleonic wars" for "religion", and see if it sounds anything like an argument.
@@stevenfaludi4862 he demolished every one of them, of course all religions are based on nonsense and gibberish so they actually demolish themselves just by asking basic questions.
We create an omlette from eggs.. who or what created the rooster and chicken to create the cycle of life. Something... created us.. we got it half right. Spiritually and scientifically.. we may never know who our creators are...
Religion is a Farsi word " راه جان - rahe-jan " it means "The Way Of Life '', it is the solution for capitalism. Before this definition the original definition was " راه نان و جا - rahe-naan-o-jaa " meaning "The way [to get] bread and home (roof over the head)". Language comes naturally for humans, religions are [documented] human inventions / solutions for problems caused by private ownership of Work, Land and Material, another word Capitalism. The first religion was Mitra/Zartosht with its book Avesta, Aristotle " اوستا تابع - Avesta-tabeh" was the teacher of Avesta and Plato " پول تو - poole-to " means "[absolutely] your money", he was arguing for total ownership of wealth/money/metals and the Master Slave relationship amongst people.
Even if athe.ask were righe couldbt they help mankind by teaching people and telling people not to be Drunks Drug addicts Smokers Thats what the church does on top of having food banks All my years of travels i never seen a atheiss help center food bank drug rehab center not one But they travel miles and miles and i guess pay to see sams of all kinds to attempt to stop the harmful act of people that want to serve GOD Good thing to have on your grave marker
You are misinformed. Many atheists donate time and money to worthy causes, the difference being, they don't try to indoctrinate the vulnerable people while doing it. So are religious people doing it to help them or to recruit them?
Reminds me of the urban legend of the little mechanical toy that, when wound up, could speak a collection of educated gibberish for 10 minutes, making one wonder what kind of people pay any serious attention what even the smartest atheist may have to say.
So it's best to listen to the gibberish originally written and rewritten over and over again by our superstitious, uneducated ancestors then?.....makes me wonder if it's worth listening to any frightened believer of myths and magic.
You believe in a subjective interpretation, of a subjective interpretation that has been passed through thousands of generations of different people with completely different interpretations of what the "correct" beliefs are. You have absolutely zero justification for your modern interpretation and you Arrogantly insult people that know more about your religion than you do. Religion is built upon Ignorance and Arrogance. You have no idea what you are talking about, yet are sure you are "correct" What is the Method of Determining Correct Biblical Interpretation?
Yeah that makes sense. Burn in hell for not believing in him but in order to believe in him you have to ask for him to reveal himself. Circular. So is 2 not enough times and is 4 too many? I have asked him all my life since it would be much easier to live in a largely xian country if I believed but he has yet to do it. How long do I wait?
Atheist philosopher Luc Ferry asserts that human rights stem from the Judeo-Christian idea that each human is made in the image of God, and therefore has dignity and rights.
Sooooo. That’s why they labeled them 3/5th and enslaved them as subhumans cuz once again, they can bend and skate out their own religious principles when necessary. Got it.. thanks
@@yungizzo1 No................, it had nothing to do with religion. "The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total population. This count would determine: the number of seats in the House of Representatives; the number of electoral votes each state would be allocated; and how much money the states would pay in taxes. Slave holding states wanted their entire population to be counted to determine the number of Representatives those states could elect and send to Congress. Free states wanted to exclude the counting of slave populations in slave states, since those slaves had no voting rights. A compromise was struck to resolve this impasse" Wiki
That's actually a fairly recent shift in the Judeo-Christian mind set. Up until the 1800's the majority of Christianity argued that Only Fair-Skinned people could be Christians. Look up the argument of the "Mark of Cain"; for multiple centuries many Theologians argued that the "Mark of Cain" was dark skin. Saint Augustine said that it was "godly" for Christians to own non-white people because god "owned" humans.
@@gabig-hw4nf as many as history or folks stories tells, I think..... Human create GOD.... everyday, even now. Beacause of Human just don't understand Nature or Reality.
@@gabig-hw4nf Please look at the horrible things happen around the world these days, Famine and health suffering of people in underdeveloped countries, Civil wars, Religion wars, Geopolitics wars, people are killing and dying in vain. Many criminals and tragedy in modern world communities. You can not explain these as GOD creation. Everyday its prove....GOD is not real. Human create GOD just to console themselves.
If all things were reasonable and explainable, Jesus Christ wouldn't need to get down to Earth to guide us. If something is explainable, it's science, not faith. Our faith in God comes from unconditional trust, no matter if explainable or not!
I'm ex-atheist. My problem with New Atheist always was moral judgment of God. There's huge problem which Sam Harris exemplifies. Lets assume that God have his own nature. God cannot do anything against his own nature so whatever he's doing is determined by it. Shortly speaking omnipotence is bounded by God's nature. I think some Christians and atheists will agree. If that so harsh attack on God are in reality attacks on something with which God cannot do anything about. In my humble view it's the same behavior like condemning predator for hunting or pray for being weak. God being all powerful doesn't make difference to cruelty of this "moral" judgment. It only hides the fact of violent nature of those judgments. It's exactly the same situation like with leftists who allow themselves for no empathy for rich people just because they are rich. Being weak doesn't makes you good. Doesn't matter if you are women or a child. I'm in agreement waves what Jesus told gospels: Moralizers are usually people of violent nature hiding in aheep clothes 😂
@@cliftongaither6642 My view on the moral judgment of God doesn't depend on his existence. Moral judgment proposed by Sam Harris exist and that's all I need to disagree. The same way I can be opposite to films which promote violence towards women, minorities, men, children etc. This is fictional but something isn't right 🤔😄 I'm not believer but I don't want to be in any way connected to people like Sam Harris who spread hate just to promote their way of "purity"of reason 😄
@@cliftongaither6642 I love to be undecided and freely engage in topic. The same with political view. It's called open mind 😉 Long forgotten ability of not being sectarian.
@@powerunder9000 what an absolutely absurd stance to take. First, assertion of a position doesn't require some kind of an alternative. You have to demonstrate that your position has anything to support it, in the last 3000 years absolutely no support for any mythological based positions have been presented. Second, my position is that Reality is Self-Evident and Self-Revelatory. You have to demonstrate that the shared Reality we are exposed to is NOT the ONLY Reality we have any evidence for. There is no evidence for a "god" nor is there any evidence for a "soul" that has ever been presented. I don't accept claims without evidence, and religion is nothing more than a series of claims without evidence. Third, I could argue that TZeench the Demon God created this entire Solar system as a pocket in the Warp, and that He needs "pure" human souls that have not already been corrupted the Warp. TZeench created all human religions as a way to trick people into Believing in ANY god concept and that ALL Believers in ANY god concept are unhinging their souls. If anyone Believes in ANY god, then TZeench will take your soul upon death and torture you to fuel His Demon Engines in the Eternal War of the Warp. All human religions are based on Mythology that doesn't have any support beyond Traditional Beliefs. The only reason Theistic based arguments are taken seriously is due to the Indoctrinated followers that Believe without any Justification.
I find it odd that someone believes in magic into adulthood, in an age where we have vast amounts of knowledge and know how the world works. The more primitive people of the past get a little more slack, a lot of things we know to be absolute facts were simply out of reach for them. That's not the case for us.
Only a fool has said there is a god. You would be called a heretic by Christians from as little as 200 years ago. It's absolutely absurd to maintain beliefs in a god when we can see that there is almost zero similarities between modern believers and ancient believers. If "god" actually existed, then the religion shouldn't have changed to the staggering degree that it has.
No 'Christian' God. The Christian God is created in the likes of men like Trump, Hitler, Stalin, serial killers, molesters... Those that created the bible really messed up.
Remember that hell is a temporary prison between death and the lake of fire (the second death). No one remains alive in the spirit after the second death. Could you imagine a person loosing his soul because he thought Christianity teaches an eternal torture for unbelievers. What a tragedy. Imagine loosing one's eternal life in paradise because his own conceit?
A biblical claim that supports the truth of Christianity is just that, a claim. Where is the actual evidence that what is claimed in the Bible is actually true?
SMH..Harris is a CONTRADICTION God is Love. Which is why Harris doesn’t believe in a spirit. But currently says it’s essential people Meditate (pray) and become more Spiritual
Nope, "love" and "god" are completely different concepts. What you have done is called a Conflation Error. Love only exists within group-oriented species like primates, canines, whales, felines, etc. This "god" concept is not "love" by any stretch of either definition.
@@13shadowwolf Incorrect. Without emotion, you couldn’t even write that Comment. You Literally can’t do ANYTHING without it. It’s the engine and Motivation ..to Everything you do. So the Very thing Making you so passionate right now Is the Very thing you say Doesn’t exist
@@damianedwards8827 it's a biological response, it's not "supernatural" You don't know what you are talking about. Read books on Neurology instead of Ancient Mythology. The people that wrote the Bible didn't have anything useful to say about how Neurology works. Daniel Dennett's books on Consciousness are an excellent place to start.
How do you know why bad things are allowed to happen? We don't know why other people think the way they do. How do you know the mind of God? Come on. Everything will work out in the end. Just read your Bible and learn things.
(..) This is an artistic proof of a created universe. When you paint a shadow it's the opposite color of the object that made the shadow. Nobody knew what the opposite color of white was so the artists avoided painting white on white. The opposite color of white is baby blue and baby pink. The first artist to figure it out was Norman Rockwell. I was the second artist to figure it out. I saw it in the corner of a white room. The lighting was perfect to see it.
Jesus / God is a complete fairytale. Written moons ago to help keep people In order. Didn't work as people soon came to realise no man living on a cloud is going to punish me . If indeed he is real and is coming back , what is he waiting for ?
The important question to ask is "what is God?" If you know the answer everything else will be easy to answer. If we try to define God as a superbeing that somehow resembles human beings (e.g., like a father, lord or king), with human emotions, with the same human image and likeness, then that would be an insult to God's infinite greatness, it's a deep disrespect to the point of mockery. This is probably the reason why people couldn't agree among themselves if God exists or doesn't exist, they're talking about the wrong god/s. It is a well known fact that energy cannot be created or destroyed, It has no beginning and ending, it is present everywhere from a quark to the entire universe and can transform into matter. God is the Sum of Energies/ Experiences/ Everything (SOE) which can be described as the One Energy. Nothing could be greater than that. God is omnipotent - ALL powerful, omniscient - ALL knowing and omnipresent - present everywhere at ALL times. This can only happen if God is all ALL/ EVERYTHING. God cannot possibly be ALL if God can create something separate from God. The universe cannot possibly expand because energy cannot be created. It's our ability to see farther that expands. I believe this theory of expansion will be proven inacurate. Is it not possible that the reason galaxies move further is because of an unknown force? It's either our universe has no boundaries or it is contained inside a bigger universe together with an infinite number of universes and so on and so forth. If we can grasp the concept of infinity, we would have a better understanding of what God is. In the beginning (probably the beginning of our observable universe) was the Word and the Word is God. In other words God is anything that can be described in words. The word God means good while Devil = EVIL (or Sin = Satan). Everything that happens whether it is perceived as good or evil is of God's own doing because God is EVERYTHING which means something good will ALWAYS come out from it since God = Good. Without the words negative, wrong and bad the words positive, right and good won't exist. If we don't know sadness, we won't know what happines is. Solutions always come after problems. Every wrongdoing of man or unwanted circumstance (e.g., wars, crimes, diseases, accidents, natural disasters etc), are flaws that need to be corrected for a better world. Every problem solved is a step closer to perfection as every weakness is converted to strength. Without the negative electrical charged electron there won't be life. Without death we won't be able to see the value of life. It's a constant reminder that we should do something great with our lives. Death is not entirely a bad thing, it's just a new life transformed; energy will never cease to exist. The things we've done in our lifetime will impact not just our new life but the lives of others. God is definitely good. Failure motivates us to become a better person especially if we believe that God = good. The transformation from a simple cell to complex beings such as humans, through trial and error which took a very long time is definitely a good thing. Evolution came about because of chance (which proves that the law of total probability will ultimately favor a positive outcome), and things got better when matter had the option to choose. If energy is movement it's just natural that it can transform into another form of movement such as the living cell with the initial options positive or negative. With infinite possibilities and time anything is possible with God's infinite greatness. The transformation from energy to man is one of them which I believe signifies the importance of Christ's teachings. I don't think God is perfect because obviously we are not perfect and there are problems that need to be solved. I believe the purpose of God's existence is to become better and greater, from nothing to something until God reaches perfection as that is the logical direction. Nothing was ever created only transformed from the basic unit of existence which is Energy. For me Energy also means "InnerG" or Inner God. As part of the One Energy, we are part of God ourselves or God is inside us. Even non living things and animals are part of God but as humans we are capable of realizing the God in us. Praying to God is just like talking to our inner selves which is connected to everything else. We should always thank God for allowing and choosing us to be part of God's existence and tell God what we can do for God instead of saying what God can do for us, and carry out our purpose of existences which is to get better and greater. Putting up a business that would employ and help a lot of people is great. Operating hospitals and schools as a hobby to help people who can't afford to pay for these is greater. Transforming vast vacant lands into a model community that promotes love and peace, is even greater. The greatest thing one person can do is not potentially that person's greatest accomplishment, there is always a much more better thing to accomplish. Saying "thank you God for providing me with all I need to become better and greater", "I always think and do what's right" or any mantra that'll make you a better person, repeatedly, as often as you can in your mind, or verbally if you can, until it becomes automatic and forces you to forget and eliminate negative thoughts and actions, will be a tremendous help in your quest to become the best you can be. Consuming only natural food and water, fasting and adequate physical movement play an important role in maintaining optimal health which would aid you to perform your best. Doing your best in everything you do, (ie from folding a shirt to programming micro robots to repair a single DNA strand), as much as you can will train you to be the best you can ever be. Doing what's right, no matter how hard or easy will train you to be better. Don't be fooled by the success or happiness you accomplish by doing wrong. Philippians 2:13 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. 13 That energy is God's energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure. We should be reminded that whatever we do is God's doing. If we all believe that, we would be able to do great things and not blame God for our shortcomings. As part of an infinitely great God we are infinitely great ourselves. With infinite possibilities, I won't be surprised if there are superbeings that can live thousands of years if not forever and can travel as fast as energy can travel because that's where we're going. Human nature consists of problems that are progressively being solved using variables to make an equation perfect. I believe heaven is a state where God's existence is perfect although it's not permanent and an end goal by itself. There is only one God, everything included. Whoever is reading this I want you to know that I love you so much, please constantly seek and be reminded of the God or the good in you as much as you can. Religion tends to disunite us because of the different beliefs and gods. Let's all unite and believe in one God, the God/ good within us. Spread the GOOD/ GOD news by being the best you can be and be the evidence that God exists and is truly great.
That's the most "malarky" I've read in a long long time. I would think you would have better things to do. You only have so many minutes, hours, days of life. QUITE WASTING IT.
@@bennava9222 you are repeating mythology from ancient times that has no useful meaning. If you "honestly" repeat things that aren't true, you might not be lying intentionally, you might just be repeating nonsense that was a lie from someone else.
I remember coming to most of Sam's conclusions around the age of 13. It's crazy to me 95% of the world's grown adults have never arrived at these basic arguments against religion.
It is an IQ test. Congratulations! You passed 😊
I always had problems at school because of that as religion classes were mandatory.
Childhood indoctrination is real. As far as I'm concerned, it's child abuse.
and after all this time you still haven't moved from these conclusions you made when you were 13
@@Kuhanapomaranca I suspect that after freeing himself from those constraints he has learned a great deal more since, as he was no longer afraid of knowledge.
Religion is about money and power. Always has been. "If you want to get rich, start a religion' - L Ron Hubbard.
Where ignorance is bliss religions thrive.
Some people are too lazy to actually seek the truth out. 'Hey, lets believe this story and we're good.'
I am not a fan of religion PER SE, and I've never seen a single place on earth where ignorance is bliss.
Even in your own ignorant heart, as you congratulate yourself, there might be an occasional twinge of anxiety, should you ever find yourself in situation where your life, or the life of someone you love, is threatened.
As for 'religion', that word is offensive to more Christians than you can imagine.
Should you ever deign to descend from your elevated perch and read the Bible in earnest, you will observe how ferociously it condemns all manner of false religion,
including atheism, which absolutely IS a religion despite its denial of God's existence.
if you cannot understand my last point, tou are stuck in categorical thinking and do not understand human psychology. Humans love to worship someone or something, even themselves or their own 'identities'.
It has long amused me to observe the priggish self-righteousness of atheists, secular Pharisees that they are, and also their extreme zeal for proselytism, for making 'converts'.
Furthermore they have their Pantheon, which includes Darwin but should not, because he was actually an agnostic.
Now Darwin's wife was a Christian, and worried about her husband for good reason. I have read statements by Darwin, made late in life, testifying to his dissatisfaction and lack of fulfilment as a scientist. he felt that something was missing in his life.
Now there is a rumor that he became a convert to Christ mere months before his death, but I have no way of knowing whether the story is accurate.
IF it is accurate, I would be very happy about it, but Darwin far more so.
If it is not true, it would be a tragedy, and your malicious gloating would only be temporary.
I would not want you to endure the tragedy of eternal banishment from the presence and goodness of the Lord.
No ...not at all the case .
@@tomgreene1843 Sadly, yes it is. Why do you think most backward and under developed countries are very religious?
@@Shytot-1 Some backward or primitive folk produced good science and the Christian West had done ok while the Arab /Muslim was an important preserver of much valuable heritage.
One of my main problems with the religious crowd is because of their nonsense belief in the afterlife, they don't seem to give a damn about how, or even if, we protect the planet we live on today. The belief in myth, superstition and the supernatural won't save the planet, and in turn, humanity.
I agree. ( I am paraphrasing my point so it's not so long). Christians act horribly and then say I have been saved or think God is going to show.up.and fix the planet.
I would rather work with a group of Athiests because life and the planet is more precious to them.
hey man, catholic here. I understand what u mean, people focus a lot on eternal life or afterlife but i agree with you. Even if christians want eternal life, we should protect what god gave us like the planet and human rights. Im glad non religious people focus on these matters bc i know most christians have their own values and political issues might dont interest them
When people are into CULTS, that's usually the situation.
Logic... common sense... a larger view of or a better understanding about nature, about Earth, about suns & nuclear fusion processes, about planetary formations and life cycles, the life cycles of galactic structures, black holes and the formation of black holes, the life cycles of animal species on earth, the life cycles of a proton (half-life of 1.67 x 10^34 years) or the life cycle of a Hydrogen isotope like Hydrogen-7 (half life of 2.3 x 10^-23 seconds), etc., etc..... REALITY doesn't matter to people who are into CULTS....
It doesn't matter what particular cult they are into.
And it doesn't matter whether it is just ONE person (man in a cave from all other people or one guy chanting dead rituals inside a tiny apartment or a giant mansion, among millions of neighbors in a large city)... or if it is 5 billion members walking, talking, and chanting in unison....
When people are into cults, THEY THINK THEIR CULT is the real deal, the only deal. "Others may have good or bad religious beliefs; but THEY ARE NOT INTO THE RIGHT ONE. Ours is... ours is the ONLY ONE based on a HOLY BOOK. There could be only ONE HOLY BOOK, by THE Creator of the Universe, who came to earth, to dictate THAT HOLY BOOK.... and ours is IT...."
That is the problem, when people are into cults: they think THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES in on "it"... whatever that "it" is... that "holy" or "divine" BS that cults give people...
You're living in a delusion. Snap out of it.
@@carolinaduque9639 protecting our environment has nothing to do with politics. Religion is a well-organized mafia designed to take money from people, especially the poor, with the promise of a place in paradise in afterlife, because they have nothing in this life. Your catholic church is a prime example of this. Wake up.
Religious dogma is terrible for societal well-being. Secular humanism is humanity's only chance at a happy, healthy, and prosperous future!
Hate, division, war, dependence... All attributes associated with religion. I propose we adopt a mindset where we accept everyone as they come and promote a positive lifestyle, which includes discipline, communication practice, physical motivation, and emotional support.
No borders, no fear mongering, no dependence... just learning how to navigate the path of life and creating memories for loved ones while you are here, enjoying our beautiful earth with no hate in our hearts...
This would be heaven
And if we are wrong, we lived our lives as true brothers and sisters, unlike Christians and Muslims.
If we were somehow wrong and god was real, we would have acted at a higher moral standard than these indoctrinated nuts, attempting to unite one another without stipulations so that a god could see that we tried.
Religion is merely a placeholder for knowledge.
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2000 years of Christianity... Humanity has devolved with Christianity. Christianity is in the exact same place as it was 2000 years ago. The Dark Ages of perception. Want to know why I'm an Ex-Christian? You are not a real Christan, that's why!
An ancient one.
Religion is a placeholder for truth? Religion is a base for mythological interpretation. Subjective bias at best. Religion has nothing to do with truth.
@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 As long as He is nothing more than a monument to our humility in light of our ignorance, he should do no harm, but inspire us to seek knowledge more diligently.
If I weren't an atheist, Sam Harris would keep me up at night wondering why I wasn't.
You'd think so, but many believers simply stubbornly refuse to acknowledge logic and reasoning. Look at the comment above that claims Sam made a fool out of himself for 10 minutes. Indoctrination and delusion are powerful drugs.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read.
@@VinnySmiles01 And your reply is the DUMBEST THING I've ever read.
If I wasn’t from New York, Will Smith would keep me up at night wondering why I wasn’t
@@VinnySmiles01 Have you not read the Bible? 😂
This why I'm an atheist
♦"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
♦"Only fools revere the supernatural myths just bc a book claims itself to be the holy truth."
♦"The delusional religious fools are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt."
♦"The religious believe by the millions what only lunatics could believe on their own."
♦"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
♦"It's difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
Lol! This is the same logic we could apply to the belief in evolution, that everything around us all came about by accident, don't you know that it is already been proven life came from preexisting life evolutionists ignore that fact
you are right that is why i am a christian
@@kennethgiles-nu9dk
The Bible is the goat herder's guide to the galaxy.
@@AtamMardes The book of the Canaanite Highlander Wargod - replete with scapegoat justice, incest, genocide, magical thinking and ritual cannibalism.
@@AtamMardesstill your evolution doesn't explain how matter gave rise to genetic information.And no one has observed it. You believe it by faith because that has been taught to you.
Evolution is a theory created by men, not a fact.
Look people, the fact is that Jesus is an imaginary friend you can always talk to and feel comforted. But once you realize the trick to it you can't believe anymore. So people fight for their beliefs because like Highlander there can only be one
I call him the Canaanite Highlander Wargod for exactly this reason. There can be only one and this particular god seems to have originated in the actual highlands.
One can imagine far more comforting friends than Jesus and the God of the Bible.
Why don't Christians imagine more comforting friends?
Jesus chose not to fight but to forgive!
You are the one who is imaginign things in order to comfort yourelf.
Responsible secular historians like my late father have regarded the new Testament accounts of Jesus' Crucifixion as reliable for a very long time.
There is no variation in the quality of the texts to suggest that its human authors were untruthful about Jesus' Resurrection. It is only that some have made 'a priori' philosophical arguments to the effect that such an event could not have happened.
That assumption does NOT constitute either historical or scientific evidence.
Indeed the historical evidence FOR the Resurrection is airtight. The case is strengthened by the fact that Jesus' disciples were NOT expecting it, but caught by surprise. They thought that their cause was defeated when He was crucified,
and had already begun to disperse when first-hand testimony began to accumulate,
starting with one of the women disciples. (Yes, women did play important roles in the early Church).
....this despite the fact that Jesus had predicted His own suffering, death, and Resurrection; that all these things had also been predicted in various Hebrew Old Testament prophecies, which were not unknown to the disciples.
1st Coritnthians chapter 15 is a summary of evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus. It admits that, had there been no Resurrection, there would be NO CASE for Christianity.
But the author himself, Paul the apostle, former persecutor of the Church, is an eyewitness to the Resurrected Jesus, and he mentions 500 people who had the same experience at one time.
Dr. Michael Brown, Messianic Jewish scholar and preacher, has said bluntly:
If Jesus did not rise from the dead, no one should believe in Him. If He did rose from the dead, everyone should believe in Him.
You place FAR TOO MUCH emphasis on sentiment and imagination, FAR TOO LITTLE on facts.
IMHO, much of which passes for 'atheism' is the extension of adolescent rebellion into adulthood, a refusal to embrace intellectual and moral responsibility.
What amuses me particularly about aggressive atheists is (a) their burning self-righteousness; and (b) their proselytizing zeal.
They have made a religion of their unbelief!!
And a bloody one it has been.
Consider the excesses of the Bolshevik revolution, Russian Civil War, and subsequent policy of 'official atheism' in the USSR.
How you must pine for the 'good old days' when the Soviets used to put Christians in psychiatric hospitals.
Have no fear: under Vladimir Putin, as I have heard, one needs a State permit to hold a prayer meeting in one's home.
With Marxism-Leninism dead, I suppose that your next best bet is the Moscow-Tehran-Beijing-Pyongyang Axis.
Have fun with that, eh?
@@MauricioMontoya-dd1wiwhile his father (god) served out violence and punishment and encouraged “his people” to slay their enemies and dash their enemy’s children’s heads on rocks. ( All through the old testament)
During several decades inside Evangelical Christianity, I never met a single Christian who was intellectually convinced that the claims of their faith were objectively true. For these people, to "believe" simply means to consciously choose to accept whatever propositions are asserted by the leadership of your religious community. Being intellectually convinced isn't even something that is considered.
I've known Christians that think it's objectively true but their reason why is because they just think it's true. Neither Christians or atheists can prove their beliefs. Agnosticism is the only intellectually honest viewpoint.
You mean accepting a dogma just because, all other, society and the troubles of going against the flow make the barrier to high to climb?
(Maybe I misunderstood, but I'm really curious, not a native english speaker...)
@@Onionbaron Yes ... accepting the dogma as "true" because of reasons other than being intellectually convinced that it is true. These reasons include:
1.) The social pressure to comply with the group's expectations so as to remain in the group. Many evangelical Christians have grown up in the church, and so all (or nearly all) of their friends, and often many of their relatives are also evangelical Christians. To change their mind about the truth of their religion risks them losing many of their friends and social networks, and sometimes even being disowned by family.
2.) A "Pascal's Wager" type mentality, where you've got nothing to lose by "believing" in the Christian religion if it turns out to be wrong, but potentially a lot to lose (i.e. eternal conscious torture) if you don't "believe" it and it turns out to be right.
To believe is to have faith in mankind ! because you do have faith in God !Faith is not accepting a doctrine , it is acting accordingly!
@@MauricioMontoya-dd1wi When you act according to doctrine you are a without thought. You are controlled by the humans who makes the doctrines.
What’s more likely… holy sperm impregnated a virgin 2000 years ago… or a story was invented about holy sperm impregnating a virgin 2000 years ago? Once I applied this basic question to the magical stories in the Bible, it all unraveled.
Christians appear to believe that human morality simply didn't exist prior to the establishment of Christianity.However this belief is incorrect, humans were obviously moral and religious entities from the dawn of human development, they had to be, to ensure the success and continuity of their communities.
Love him !!!
He's ignorant af 😂
@@robinrobyn1714well, is your god impotent or is it just evil?
@@cherylc-pr8pg Neither. OUR God, yours and mine, is potent and just.
@@robinrobyn1714 that thing you refer to does not exist.
@@cherylc-pr8pg That thing that you are pathologically fixated on, exists.
Sam Harris is knowable 🤍
The truth hurts to religious people
It's really ALL ABOUT FEAR. Most of us Americans have been taught the patriarchal, biblical philosophy since babies. Once we reached kindergarten our parents started taking us to Sunday school. That's where the fear, confusion, and the beginning of guilt planted It's negative seed. When we began to really mature into young men and hormones started to rise, this moral weight got so heavy. I used to agonize for days because I had a "wet dream" because I remembered who I was dreaming of. It's sad that I didn't know "nocturnal emissions" were a natural human function, particularly at that age. I'm with the late, great Madeline Murray OHare, let's COMPLETELY keep ALL religion and it's dogmas OUT of Public Schools. We'll get to the colleges later.
That last one!
All these god lovers still can,t bring forth a moral world. Yet have mostly been running things.
That's the problem with being human...
what? All those God lovers have is God, and if you do not have for no reasomn, then you have to be ashmed for yourself, that should be clear, ok?
So? What is wrong with the world as it is and as it has been?
Who told you that the world is not moral?
@@stevenfaludi4862 you atheists are wrong on this world and God will take care about you as well.
What’s with the dentist office music?
I used to go out of my way to correct religious people in TH-cam comments when they made their various claims until I found out about 90% of Americans are religious. Then I just gave up.
I remember recently reading an article about a 9 year old girl that was sacrificed in Africa in a ritual to find a lost cellphone.
@@Harbinger_of_Doom Source?
@@mattslater2603 it was 4 years old not 9, in india not africa and for a girl of 14 years old who lost her phone. washington post newspaper in 2016. also In Sub-Saharan Africa, "the practice of ritual killing and human sacrifice" continues to take place despite the illegality as described by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other human rights instruments.
Sam Harris isn't anti religion, he's anti theism. He has given talks on Dzogchen and was a student of Buddhist master Tulku Urgyen...
Religion? As if it's the only one.
Yes, I know most religious people are unaware of this fact and its scary.
Religion makes no sense, but I know a couple of guys who used it to quit drug addictions. They’ve been clean for years, and for some reason, christianity has been a big part of their success. Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad actors in the religion game. Republican Jesus is not my idea of a loving god, or an inspirational leader
That tends to be, especially in America, because AA is huge on religion.
It batters it into you at almost every opportunity, makes you feel like you can't quit without it
@@skindred1888 yes, I was an aa member for a while. The meetings I went to were big on God, but not christianity. Maybe some groups are more Christ specific? One guy said that if I had a hard time finding God, I could use the AA group as God. I did that. But I was not a hard core addict like many of the members. The 2 guys I know who have fully embraced Christianity were big users, and also not smart. Organized region works for them.
Jesus, if he ever existed in the context of Biblical "history", espoused views that were based on class consciousness, he specifically said things against the rich and class and hierarchy. That's definitely not Republican.
As far as quitting substances with God it's insidious. I've seen it. They shove it in there with the actual drugs that help (Suboxone, Naltrexone, valium, Shit like that.)
It's all bullshit and it's bad for ya. Don't fall for it. Then again if someone is claiming it is helpful to them in the early stages you probably have to make an ethical decision there. If they were ever disabused of the notion of religion as true then they need to be slapped in the face. If not, you can come in later and try to untangle it, but that's way harder. The lies hit very hard.
I also know some people who exchanged addiction to drugs for addiction to Jesus. Addiction is addiction and it's all just as dangerous,
@@69UM24OSU12 “just as dangerous “ ? Only the really crazy religious people. Taliban, republican Jesus, those types
Sam Harris is an absolute logical thinking person
Thank you for that, because you make sense of ALL the nonsens in religion..
(I went to to catholic school, it was a strange world, I see that now)
You can't debate with someone that believes there's a magic man in the sky. They just send you a quote from the bible as though this is all the proof you need. The stupidity is off the scale.
Heaven & hell are states of
mind. They are both here and now, within our hearts.
When i listen to sam harris and anyone else from any other religion,Im more convinced that EVERYONE is wrong,the longer i live on this planet,the more i think that the other side is not what either side thinks
Wrong about what?
Fantastic put down of the indisputable BS of religion
The difference between Christianity and being spiritual is that no one can tell me I'm not spiritual but to be a Christian I need other people who call themselves Christians to say that I am a Christian or else I cannot be identified as one. I could call myself one but I would be lying because I don't believe in a lot of the things I read in the Bible but I do read the Bible and I do pray to Jesus. Essentially I believe in a higher power that I call Jesus. In my mind if people can believe in magic apples and talking snakes I can believe in anything I want and it can be reality to me unless objectively proved false by someone else. Whether or not there is a God. Up until present days it would be necessary to have an idea of a God just to keep people in check just to keep people from rising up. What's the best way to keep someone from taking what you have but to make them afraid of someone that they can't see. Because of organized religion in this world will never reconcile with itself. Vanity is a sin by do women do women want to walk around with mustaches. If I don't have many friends on Earth or relatives will I suddenly have lots of friends in heaven. Is God going to personally be my friend. Everything that makes us what we are is part of the human condition we sleep is there sleep in heaven oh my God my mind would just be going all the time when I eventually get bored I'm an artist but when I get bored how creative can you be in heaven you'd be singing hymns all the time. Will I have to wear a robe in heaven will I have long hair I don't look good with long hair so many questions???
The voice of reason will reign.
No the truth will
You can have facts but if you don't have truth you will
too many gullible people in this world and religion is too powerful
I am going to start a cult, I mean religion
That's my get rich quick scheme
Very cogent and intelligent
@@Johnnyprclol. Fundamentalist got mad
Geez! 🙄 I’ve been praying to Kim Kardashian all this time! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😂
At least she actually exists
She’s fake too. 😅😅
With 😂
Shame, Guilt, Fear. That is all they have. Please don't give them any of it.
Yes, I see a problem with that.
El creador existe pero nadie sabe como piensa, como es ni para que estamos, aparentemente no hay sentido de la vida solo hay que disfrutarla mientras llega el momento de que sepamos la verdad o el momento en que nos perdemos en el tiempo, ese misterio es interesante.
Explain how people believed in God and were very religious and lynched and killed millions of black people talk about that and how millions of people believe and follow Donald Trump talk about that !
Yet black people in America tend to be the most religious. And they are overwhelmingly democrat so your logic doesn't fly. Despite the bible giving instructions on how to own people as property black people just give that a pass.
Religion has always been a source for warlords to unite their troops on something much bigger than their petty selfs!
"Killing In The Name Of (X*)"
*X = Insert preferable deity, football team etc...
And to get their money.
My dad was a devotee of Baba's (who'm I now believe was a pederast). He's also a believer in saints and miracles from various religions though was raised Roman Catholic. In grammar school I decided to walk away from all religious rhetoric, because no one seemed any more 'sane' or 'better' than any other. All BS to me - LOL!
You cannot "DESTROY" religion it will still persist rightly or wrongly. I am fed up with reading such exagerations in you tube videos.
But what hopelessness
People aren't always rational. And we know so little about the past, present, future or science. Someone like L Ron Hubbard (do a show on him) can come along and make claims that can't be disproven and make a fortune. Maharishi, how about doing a show on that guy?
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Sam Harris: God calls you a fool. A Christian IS NOT viewed as a perspective; a Christian is the Body of Christ - a person who is holy, righteous, altogether lovely, and alive. I don't have "...to reconsider any long-held conviction about faith and spirituality." It is impossible for your carnal mind to comprehend this message; therefore, you cannot provide any "common arguments" for nor against the mind of God - the mind of God is not a religious principle; and it makes no difference whether you (or anyone else) understand it or not.
Faith is a rational conversation stopper. Well done, you've proved the maxim!
I hate these titles, you will never get theists to watch with these titles.
That's no surprise, you can't even get them to read the bible, the very book they based their lives on.
Do we even want them too? Why should we care if they watch this and something clicks for them? These are for us. The non- believers so that we can study Sam’s ability to articulate what we all think of. I share all of his beliefs but I sometimes cannot communicate in the same articulate and calm way Sam does. So I watch this to educate myself in a variety of ways and I couldn’t care less if theists watch this. So again, why would we want or care if they watch this video? Their minds are made up. They have dug their feet in the ground and will never ever move forward. So arguing logically with theists on these topics is like arguing with a wall. It is futile and exhausting. So who cares whether or not they watch this? I hope they don’t watch it. This is for us, not them.
@@KitPhuket-ix1enyep! I have read it from start to finish 2 times!! It is the primary reason I am a non believer or atheist because the stories in that book were so unbelievably odd and supernatural that there was zero chance I thought anything in it was real. I was about 10-12 when I read it twice. We habe adult people all over who swear it is the book of god but if I as a 10 yr old kid knew it was fairy tale and supernatural shenanigans, then how are these adults functioning appropriately in society??? If I thought what I read in that book was reality, I would think that I had become insane and should be in a psych ward. Ever wondered this? How so many middle age adults blindly believe in that book??? When you really think that through, it is very unsettling about the psyche of most of America. These half of Americans believe in something that is absolutely supernatural and good. That god is the opposite of good. This deity if I fact they are the one deity (spoiler-they 100% are not) allows on a daily basis unbelievable amounts of young children to die in complete🎉 agony while their parents watch and are inconsolable. This is a deity who is a derelict of his duties. He is a “do nothing god”, a narcissistic god, a petty god, an unworthy god, a childish god, a manipulative god and lastly a NONEXISTENT god. This god is not of this world or any others. Simple ass dumb men made it all up so that the sane kind of simple dumb ass men would follow this simple dumb ass rhetoric. It has worked. Dumb attracts other dumb stuff and more dump people, and so on and so on and so on it goes for much too long until half the population is this brain dead, half-witted, gibbon brained professional idiots wondering around all over. Have you looked around at people lately??? They have this look of absolute challenging type brain activity where a decision could make them crap themselves. That along with their 1000 yard brain dead stare makes them look like mouth breathing, slobbering, idiots. America has now created the perfect citizen. A disgusting fat body that eats everything, cannot do manual labor and will die by 50-55. Its perfect because they make the pharmaceutical companies rich and die out early. This person is necessary for these evil sectors to thrive. They need the fatties. I don’t. I hate them. I hate their smell. The loud breathing. The sound of too much fucking food in their disgusting throat hole. They gave become the beasts of mankind. And now! They are everywhere you look. Back to the bible. Read it if you haven’t. All the way through start to finish. After your done this first time, ponder these stories. Question their reasoning and also why are they in this book. The answers you’ll likely come up with won’t be the answers the church or other Christians want. They all have ulterior motives. The motives most likely are the pressuring you into believing and becoming an official “brother of god”. Don’t fall for this cult like pressure nonsense. Be true to yourself and only to yourself. The “lessons” that are supposedly in there are man made simpleminded shenanigans. Hunan beings are borne with morality. It has to be taught to us better as we grow but don’t let them tell you that without religion there is no morality and that we are borne in sin. This is obvious child abuse!!!!! To tell a child if you do not believe in this “whatever” they will spend eternity in hell- this is child abuse no matter how it is argued. I’ve heard it all. No theist can answer this one straight with logic any logic. I asked a priest this once, and just as I thought I was below his class and he looked down on me and smirked… in that moment vividly entrenched in my mind it confirmed everything I ever thought about priests. I almost asked him, “how was the sodomizing of those young boys huh??!!” That would’ve brought him down a peg. Speaking of. Did everyone forget about the priests sexually abusing young boys for a long ass time??!!! They did this forever and ran through thousands of little boys!!! They sure sidestepped that massive controversy in genius fashion. short circuit and lost neurological connectives are borne with zero sins. We are not borne evil???!!!!! This is a massive lie with clear intentions to of indoctrinating children in living fear. Shame on these Christians…We have evolved to know basic human morality. It is a disgrace to the human race that we need a book to know about Hunan morality. “Do onto others as you would have them so unto you”. The golden rule. It trumps down all of the bs morality crap that book attempts to claim is best. That book is laughable. There’s one story about a man that was eaten by a massive fish. Ge survived in the fish belly for weeks and then was freed. He ended up fine. This is what’s in there
@@mattorr2256What you don’t seem to understand is that God is not responsible for the way churches teach the Bible or the way they treat the congregation-God told us to compare the word from the Bible to the way it’s being taught from churches today-and they don’t speak the truth,people need to understand that we live in a broken and wicked world today where Gods word is twisted by others who change the gospel to fit their narrative.
@@mattorr2256 want them too? You mean to, not too!
Any chance that I could only burn in hell for only 13.8 billion years since that’s the best current estimate of the age of my universe?
A bit disappointing for us masochists... 🤔
@@Onionbaron Ok, you will not be punished
The only way to maintain a hold on religious belief is to will yourself into dishonest, blind ignorance and a denial of blatant, obvious, undeniable reality.
Rubbish. The finest thinkers in every age were religious, while the most evil men in human history were atheists
Do you have a desire within you to be free? Can you see it; and if you cannot see it, then are you saying that it is not real. God says that Sam Harris is a fool; and God is not a "religious belief". And because you do not have a "hold on" God does not cause him not to be real.
@@mcgillstern What does "seeing" have to with the feeling and emotion of a desire? We have several senses, and consciousness of thoughts, feelings, perceptions, as well as of consciousness itself. Seeing is not the only one that informs our perception and awareness of reality. "God says"? What method are you using to determine that? How are you perceiving a God that says things? What evidence do you have to offer that would compel someone else to believe in a God that says something? There are 45,000 Christian denominations. Each presumably believes in their "one true God". For some reason the messages they are each receiving from that God are not consistent, to the point that horrific wars have been fought over their disagreements. Not to even mention the vast differences between them and other religions that believe in one God, or many gods. Neither belief nor lack of belief proves or disproves anything, or causes something to be real or not real. The best we can do is base our beliefs on the foundation of evidence and rationality.
@@coachafella Seek God for yourself and, perhaps, you will understand.
@@mcgillstern You can't know my history. A very long winding road of seeking. Keep looking at reality as it is and you may understand.
He says that the purported goal of Christianity is to 'safeguard the eternal well-being of human souls.' WRONG.
One cannot 'safeguard' what is lost.
Christ came to REDEEM the lost.
As He said, 'I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'
It's not a question of keeping the good people and throwing out the bad. 'There is no one who does good, not even one.' That is why Jesus said, 'unless one is born again, one cannot see the kingdom of God.' Being 'born again' has nothing to do with subcultural expectations; it is a metaphor for spiritual REGENERATION. As it says elsewhere, God 'desires all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth.' 'He does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked.'
Despite some Christians' skepticism, I do believe that Christ will safeguard the souls he has saved.
But JESUS is the agent both of salvation and preservation.
Sam speaks as though 'Christianity' were supposed to be the agent.
His opening words echo a theology, or theologies, whicch are not actually taught in the Bible.
He ought to shut up and begin studying the Bible in earnest, as literature, rather than sitting in summary judgment upon millions and millions of people, past and present, who did or do not share his lack of comprehension. Sam is a blind leader of the blind, snf ejst's worse, the blindness is willful.
Time is ebbing away, Sam. You are wasting your life and others' time.
(Psalm 49:20) 'Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, is like the beasts that perish.'
Cool story
God of the gaps argument. People! It's ok to not know things! WHY do you have to fill every gap with "GOD"? I met a new neighbor who said that God had told them to move back here. I politely asked why she needed a supernatural explanation/justification for their actions? She started to get upset, but then calmed right down, I presume because she realized that the very idea of god is in fact supernatural. In the next few minutes I heard that they love Jesus and 'rump and that Hillary should be in prison. When the husband got home he made sure I saw the gun on his belt. They asked me to leave after I said some unflattering things about my sister who is a Christian MAGA. I fully expected to be shot in the back on my way off the porch. I had seen people like this on TH-cam, but never thought I'd encounter them. Even tho I'm in small-town Indiana, mostly people don't bring it up. It was quite an experience. Now the man has been elected our mayor!
where in the bible does it say god made hell
And Cain got a wife.
Adam and eve where related ? And the only people alive . That explains alot actually
Where in the Bible does it say God made the angels?
By logical extension, if God created all things & all beings, then God MUST have created the angels -- which includes Lucifer!
If God *didn't* create the angels, this begs the question: where then did the angels come from? If the angels were uncreated & eternal, as God is supposed to be, does that not put the angels on even footing w/ the Supreme Being?
Now take the above argument & simply substitute "the angels" w/ "Hell"....
did god say to adam he would go to hell why didnt god tell him it might have stopped him rebelling with his wife
@@zenkim6709
God created a wife for Cain or maybe those we're Aliens, perceived as angels.
To Mr Harris: This is double talk. All "belief" is belief, not the product of evidence. Look up the word. If you go on and on with bad primary assumptions, you get bad conclusions that seem to you to be valid deductions. You are judging reality by what standard? Who are you to decide something is bad and, therefore, God is bad. ??? Do you define "religion?" I know I wouldn't talk about it without defining the topic.
Watch NDE videos, something likely in your paradigm, and you will learn that they return, atheists and scientists included, with the understanding that earth is a "play" where spirits/conscious entities come to become wiser because in the matrix of the hologram, the current term, there is no evil, sadness, and so forth. In the end, life on earth is not an end, it is a means and ones success or death here has no long long term meaning.
Sure, you don't like this abrupt view of your life, but don't makes up incorrect, valid appearing syllogisms and create mis definitions
Actually, many Christians are philosophical followers and, as a result, we have a moral society where a contract is honored. I may be changing, but for many decades that was me, and ardent Christian by philosophy. You should talk to people before lecturing. For folks like you, there is no reason not to kill to get a seat on the bus, other than getting caught doing it. Do you act with love? Why? Why not throw a competitor out a Moscow window or kill a fetus, although if a third party kills a fetus that is called murder.
Mocking people's striving adds nothing. BTW, to be a member of a Christian tribe, maybe "reborn" works, the key to believe is the Ascension. The Bible otherwise is a great manual for morality and, hence, economic stability and peace. Then again, its magical stories, as you say, are being demonstrated all the time.
See Dershowitz on The Genesis of Justice, which is the first 5 books. According Neil Furgeson, the CCP had scholars research why the ""west is better than the rest" and the report said it was an adherence to Christianity, it presents a stable and cooperative society, so the CCP is testing that notion is a town in the northwest. Good idea, lets destroy the great modifier of a murderous tribe.
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Great.
I have to admit, I'm no expert on religion, mainly because I find nothing interesting about it. But there's a monkey god out there? I'm glad I wasn't drinking tea when I heard that one.
CORRECT
There is zero logical mechanism to explain why the Hebrews would want to concoct a narrative such as the Gospels or even expect others to be capable of believing it.
If the Gospels are false, then why would a bunch of Jews go around saying that they saw an imaginary person do imaginary miracles, claiming he was then condemed to death by the most powerful Jewish leaders of the time and interrogated by the most powerful Roman in Israel before being crucified under his command.
You could not make such claims as having recently occurred due to the fact they could easily be confirmed as untrue.
You could not make such claims years /decades / centuries later as people will obviously say ...if this really happened we would have definitely heard of it before now.
There is absolutely no possible way you could convince people of such claims as documented in the Gospels unless true...
Your background makes a valid point - it was 2000 years ago , WHO DID HIS HAIR? Did they even HAVE Conditioner in 33 DCE (During Christian Era?)
Oh, never mind - just another #^@& miracle. of course🙄...
“Come Ye blessed ones of my Father for I was thirsty and You gave me water to drink I was hungry and You gave me food to eat I was arrested and You came to see me , I was sick and You visited me I was naked and You dressed me up I was a pilgrim and you took me home ! I was wounded and you cured me! Earth and Heaven must pass but my words won’t pass ! ❤JESUS
@@MauricioMontoya-dd1wi Thanks for the laugh!! Go to a children's cancer ward- where's your Jesus there?
@@Susan-p4j Jesus comforts children with the hands of loving nurses and professional medical doctora Did Jesus flee from his ultimate torture ? ! NO HE DID NOT ! do you want to live forever then? It is about what you do while you are living ! Jesus did not create pain , he assumed it instead ! do you want to live a hedonic life forever ? that is really sick ! that would be hell!
We don’t need shitty background elevator music
'In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.'
Perhaps Sam should worry about his own destruction.
he should also observe that, if this truly is a godless universe, the product of happenstance, there are no objective grounds for morality, not even one which he would co sider as valid.
Nor do our experiences have any objectively discernibke meaning.
An atheist who is not also a Nihilist might best be described as a Sentimentalist.
As for 'religion', people ought to define more clearly what they mean by that word. Many Christians avoid it because of its unsavory connotations.
The Bible does not endorse 'religion', except with the strictest of qualifications:
(James 1:26-27)
'If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worhless. Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.'
It may be possible in rare cases for unbelievers to perform deeds of charity an social justice.
But keeping oneself 'unstained by the world', refusing to accept the false narratives of one's own cultural milieu--------------this can only be done in connection with, and submission to, Him Who is the way, and the truth, and the life.
Atheism, on the other hand, is the sddertion of human Ego against the Truth.
(Psalm 49:20) 'Man in his pomp, yet withut understanding, is like the beasts that perish.'
So prattle on, Sam Harris. Enjoy the praise of your acolytes for a few brief moments
before you are silenced. Who will remember you in ages to come?
if you find the idea of Hell unpalatable, which everyone should, seek to be delivered from it.
Jesus said that he had come to call sinners, not the righteous.
Perhaps your biggest problem is that you regard yourself as righteous.
What you ultimately said was, no one can do right unless they do what my religion says
There is NO god.
I wonder what or how non believers handle the math issue for the 10 to the 164th power number? Those are the odds for a single protein just appearing from nothing out of nothing. There are so many zeros attached to that number to make it virtually impossible to happen by chance. And we are talking a functioning protein with everything inside sequenced properly all in the correct order! So if math (hard science folks) tells us that this is virtually impossible, whats left. A creator? An intelligent designer? I have no problem with a belief in that area. And you may ask why. It seems to me that belief in the odds of that single functioning protein, simply appearing out of nowhere, is going to take a lot more faith than believing in an intelligent creator. As a matter of fact, based on the math we already know, along with the laws of probability, and also plausibility, it is vastly more plausible that we, as we exist right now, with our massive amount of complexity, were and are a creation! Any belief in magically spontaneous appearances, out of nothing, of particles of any kind, seems rather foolish. Especially when you are talking about these appearances coming into existence, with unbelievably negative mathematical odds, from a non intelligent, insentient or unsentient, blip in space. It seems pretty ridiculous to me!🤣🤦🏻♂️😏
Huh? The real odds for a single protein appearing are 7 to 3 in favor of. Only someone who wants to lick gods toilet paper thinks otherwise.
Yawn, another person who try to spread misinformation on an unsupervised platform. Funny that people like M.W. here never share their "arguments" on official, peer-reviewed sites. So funny! ;)
who said proteins have to pop into existence fully formed? lolz. you don't need to start with a protein that's 150 amino acids long. you start with a ribozyme that's only 30 or so nucleotides long, and it'll catalyze proteins for you, and natural selection goes to work. and no matter how unlikely that is, it's still within the realm of probability. what's the probability of a god existing? you can't even begin to compute it, because there's zero evidence of a god or creator or intelligent designer or pixies or unicorns existing in real life. whereas the existence of proteins is a fact.
Well said!
@@jamesboone3686 😊👌👍
To be fair if God has an eternal plan even he can't stop it. But its some plan. Isn't it?
Wasn't Jesus a human sacrifice?
Well if he came back from the dead, the sacrifice was cancelled and we're back to square one.
Life is suffering.. early death can be argued as a mercy..
Speak for yourself. I don’t suffer one bit and love being alive.
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 oh hi person whom that wasn’t for.. thank you for telling us you’re the person whom that wasn’t for..
@@vincentrivera4350 Then whom were you addressing?
6 comments. 2 showing. Hmm
You can either be rational or religious, you cant be both.
It is odd that all these irrational fellows would create universities: Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna, Salamanca, Madrid etc. Even more odd that "disputation" would be the method of influential "irrational" thinkers such as St. Thomas Aquinas.
Many believers make use of the special pleading fallacy to make an exception of rationality when it comes to religious topics. Without even knowing it, these people uphold their religious believes to a different, usually lower standard to conform to their already established conclusions. Fortunately, many of them are rational in at least some other areas of their life. You are partially right, you can't be rational AND religious, but only when it comes to religious themes.
@@DanielRodriguez-zj5il You claim that religion is not reasonable. Can you back up this claim with reason, or is ad-hominem and a-priori fallacies all you have got?
@@stevenfaludi4862 Absolutely. Based on the lack of sufficient evidence and sound arguments demonstrating the truth of any religion, adhering to any religion as true is by definition illogical and unreasonable. In other words, irrational. The moment to believe a proposition is after it has been sufficiently demonstrated, and not an instant sooner. I'll give you $100 if you spot a fallacy anywhere.
@@DanielRodriguez-zj5il Breezy dismissal is not an argument, nor is circular reasoning.
Re-read your last message after substituting "climate crisis" or "Napoleonic wars" for "religion", and see if it sounds anything like an argument.
what religion did he destroy?
All of them if you actually paid attention to WHAT he said.
All of them.
The straw man religion of his own construction.
@@stevenfaludi4862 he demolished every one of them, of course all religions are based on nonsense and gibberish so they actually demolish themselves just by asking basic questions.
We create an omlette from eggs.. who or what created the rooster and chicken to create the cycle of life.
Something... created us.. we got it half right. Spiritually and scientifically.. we may never know who our creators are...
Religion is a Farsi word " راه جان - rahe-jan " it means "The Way Of Life '', it is the solution for capitalism. Before this definition the original definition was " راه نان و جا - rahe-naan-o-jaa " meaning "The way [to get] bread and home (roof over the head)".
Language comes naturally for humans, religions are [documented] human inventions / solutions for problems caused by private ownership of Work, Land and Material, another word Capitalism. The first religion was Mitra/Zartosht with its book Avesta, Aristotle " اوستا تابع - Avesta-tabeh" was the teacher of Avesta and Plato " پول تو - poole-to " means "[absolutely] your money", he was arguing for total ownership of wealth/money/metals and the Master Slave relationship amongst people.
"Solution for capitalism" is cute. Perhaps your government needs to take more of your labor and possessions.
Man, I hate that thumbnail pic of Sam.
Even if athe.ask were righe couldbt they help mankind by teaching people and telling people not to be
Drunks
Drug addicts
Smokers
Thats what the church does on top of having food banks
All my years of travels i never seen a atheiss help center food bank drug rehab center not one
But they travel miles and miles and i guess pay to see sams of all kinds to attempt to stop the harmful act of people that want to serve GOD
Good thing to have on your grave marker
You are misinformed. Many atheists donate time and money to worthy causes, the difference being, they don't try to indoctrinate the vulnerable people while doing it. So are religious people doing it to help them or to recruit them?
Reminds me of the urban legend of the little mechanical toy that, when wound up, could speak a collection of educated gibberish for 10 minutes, making one wonder what kind of people pay any serious attention what even the smartest atheist may have to say.
So it's best to listen to the gibberish originally written and rewritten over and over again by our superstitious, uneducated ancestors then?.....makes me wonder if it's worth listening to any frightened believer of myths and magic.
You believe in a subjective interpretation, of a subjective interpretation that has been passed through thousands of generations of different people with completely different interpretations of what the "correct" beliefs are.
You have absolutely zero justification for your modern interpretation and you Arrogantly insult people that know more about your religion than you do.
Religion is built upon Ignorance and Arrogance. You have no idea what you are talking about, yet are sure you are "correct"
What is the Method of Determining Correct Biblical Interpretation?
You realize that you can talk to GOD whenever you want. Just ask him to reveal himself to you you this day; and you will see him several times today.
You won't see him with your eyes though. If you did it wouldn't be him.
Yes...there are horrible tragedies everywhere...your"gods" work, I presume....
Yeah that makes sense. Burn in hell for not believing in him but in order to believe in him you have to ask for him to reveal himself. Circular. So is 2 not enough times and is 4 too many? I have asked him all my life since it would be much easier to live in a largely xian country if I believed but he has yet to do it. How long do I wait?
A lost sheep.
My God is not a figment of an emotion triggered imagination.
My god is not an author of confusion.
Your "god" is definitely a figment of an emotionally triggered imagination.
Atheist philosopher Luc Ferry asserts that human rights stem from the Judeo-Christian idea that each human is made in the image of God, and therefore has dignity and rights.
Sooooo. That’s why they labeled them 3/5th and enslaved them as subhumans cuz once again, they can bend and skate out their own religious principles when necessary. Got it.. thanks
@@yungizzo1 No................, it had nothing to do with religion.
"The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total population. This count would determine: the number of seats in the House of Representatives; the number of electoral votes each state would be allocated; and how much money the states would pay in taxes. Slave holding states wanted their entire population to be counted to determine the number of Representatives those states could elect and send to Congress. Free states wanted to exclude the counting of slave populations in slave states, since those slaves had no voting rights. A compromise was struck to resolve this impasse" Wiki
That's actually a fairly recent shift in the Judeo-Christian mind set. Up until the 1800's the majority of Christianity argued that Only Fair-Skinned people could be Christians.
Look up the argument of the "Mark of Cain"; for multiple centuries many Theologians argued that the "Mark of Cain" was dark skin. Saint Augustine said that it was "godly" for Christians to own non-white people because god "owned" humans.
Human create GOD,
An Atheist and a Scientist.
@@gabig-hw4nf as many as history or folks stories tells,
I think..... Human create GOD.... everyday, even now.
Beacause of Human just don't understand Nature or Reality.
@@boonraypipatchol7295 there is no proof that God doesn't exist and a lot of proof that God does exist
@@gabig-hw4nf
Please look at the horrible things happen around the world these days,
Famine and health suffering of people in underdeveloped countries,
Civil wars, Religion wars, Geopolitics wars, people are killing and dying in vain. Many criminals and tragedy in modern world communities.
You can not explain these as GOD creation.
Everyday its prove....GOD is not real.
Human create GOD just to console themselves.
If all things were reasonable and explainable, Jesus Christ wouldn't need to get down to Earth to guide us. If something is explainable, it's science, not faith. Our faith in God comes from unconditional trust, no matter if explainable or not!
I'm ex-atheist.
My problem with New Atheist always was moral judgment of God.
There's huge problem which Sam Harris exemplifies.
Lets assume that God have his own nature. God cannot do anything against his own nature so whatever he's doing is determined by it.
Shortly speaking omnipotence is bounded by God's nature.
I think some Christians and atheists will agree.
If that so harsh attack on God are in reality attacks on something with which God cannot do anything about.
In my humble view it's the same behavior like condemning predator for hunting or pray for being weak.
God being all powerful doesn't make difference to cruelty of this "moral" judgment.
It only hides the fact of violent nature of those judgments.
It's exactly the same situation like with leftists who allow themselves for no empathy for rich people just because they are rich.
Being weak doesn't makes you good.
Doesn't matter if you are women or a child.
I'm in agreement waves what Jesus told gospels:
Moralizers are usually people of violent nature hiding in aheep clothes 😂
can you present demonstrable evidence, instead of writing nonsensical hypotheticals?
@@cliftongaither6642
My view on the moral judgment of God doesn't depend on his existence.
Moral judgment proposed by Sam Harris exist and that's all I need to disagree.
The same way I can be opposite to films which promote violence towards women, minorities, men, children etc. This is fictional but something isn't right 🤔😄
I'm not believer but I don't want to be in any way connected to people like Sam Harris who spread hate just to promote their way of "purity"of reason 😄
@@dominiknewfolder2196 not a believer? your first words were, im an ex atheist.
but, i understand what you mean.
@@cliftongaither6642 I love to be undecided and freely engage in topic.
The same with political view.
It's called open mind 😉
Long forgotten ability of not being sectarian.
@@dominiknewfolder2196 cool
I find it odd that many atheists deny the existence of a God.
@@powerunder9000 I find it odd that you find that odd.
It's really strange that you believe in a god, you have absolutely no reason to do so. There isn't anything in this life that leads to a god.
I get not associating with a specific religion, but how can you deny something without providing an alternative?
@@powerunder9000 what an absolutely absurd stance to take. First, assertion of a position doesn't require some kind of an alternative. You have to demonstrate that your position has anything to support it, in the last 3000 years absolutely no support for any mythological based positions have been presented.
Second, my position is that Reality is Self-Evident and Self-Revelatory. You have to demonstrate that the shared Reality we are exposed to is NOT the ONLY Reality we have any evidence for. There is no evidence for a "god" nor is there any evidence for a "soul" that has ever been presented. I don't accept claims without evidence, and religion is nothing more than a series of claims without evidence.
Third, I could argue that TZeench the Demon God created this entire Solar system as a pocket in the Warp, and that He needs "pure" human souls that have not already been corrupted the Warp. TZeench created all human religions as a way to trick people into Believing in ANY god concept and that ALL Believers in ANY god concept are unhinging their souls. If anyone Believes in ANY god, then TZeench will take your soul upon death and torture you to fuel His Demon Engines in the Eternal War of the Warp.
All human religions are based on Mythology that doesn't have any support beyond Traditional Beliefs. The only reason Theistic based arguments are taken seriously is due to the Indoctrinated followers that Believe without any Justification.
I find it odd that someone believes in magic into adulthood, in an age where we have vast amounts of knowledge and know how the world works. The more primitive people of the past get a little more slack, a lot of things we know to be absolute facts were simply out of reach for them. That's not the case for us.
Only a fool has said there is no God.
Only a fool has said there is a god.
You would be called a heretic by Christians from as little as 200 years ago. It's absolutely absurd to maintain beliefs in a god when we can see that there is almost zero similarities between modern believers and ancient believers.
If "god" actually existed, then the religion shouldn't have changed to the staggering degree that it has.
No 'Christian' God. The Christian God is created in the likes of men like Trump, Hitler, Stalin, serial killers, molesters... Those that created the bible really messed up.
Which is why I say I don't believe the claim that there is a god because no evidence has ever been presented that is believable.
Very well, then prove to all of us here that there is a god.
@DiscipleofHim
No Christian God that is.
Remember that hell is a temporary prison between death and the lake of fire (the second death). No one remains alive in the spirit after the second death. Could you imagine a person loosing his soul because he thought Christianity teaches an eternal torture for unbelievers. What a tragedy. Imagine loosing one's eternal life in paradise because his own conceit?
Crazy how christianity is what's constantly being attacked
'Happily there's no evidence...' - could try looking at scripture and saints' lives who've visited it. Read Teresa of Avila's account...
looks at the bible "bats are birds", "rabbits chew cud"
The scriptures are evidence of someone having written the scriptures.
Which scripture? The one you believe in or the ones you dont?
I don't think "evidence" here means what you think it means
A biblical claim that supports the truth of Christianity is just that, a claim. Where is the actual evidence that what is claimed in the Bible is actually true?
SMH..Harris is a CONTRADICTION God is Love. Which is why Harris doesn’t believe in a spirit.
But currently says it’s essential people Meditate (pray) and become more Spiritual
Nope, "love" and "god" are completely different concepts. What you have done is called a Conflation Error.
Love only exists within group-oriented species like primates, canines, whales, felines, etc. This "god" concept is not "love" by any stretch of either definition.
@@13shadowwolf Incorrect. Without emotion, you couldn’t even write that Comment.
You Literally can’t do ANYTHING without it.
It’s the engine and Motivation
..to Everything you do.
So the Very thing Making you so passionate right now
Is the Very thing you say Doesn’t exist
@@damianedwards8827 it's a biological response, it's not "supernatural"
You don't know what you are talking about. Read books on Neurology instead of Ancient Mythology. The people that wrote the Bible didn't have anything useful to say about how Neurology works.
Daniel Dennett's books on Consciousness are an excellent place to start.
@@damianedwards8827 You're clearly out of your depth, here.
Your loving god drowned the world. How many innocent babies, pregnant women, animals, etc. died because your god had a tantrum. Love my a$$.
How do you know why bad things are allowed to happen? We don't know why other people think the way they do. How do you know the mind of God? Come on. Everything will work out in the end. Just read your Bible and learn things.
(..) This is an artistic proof of a created universe. When you paint a shadow it's the opposite color of the object that made the shadow. Nobody knew what the opposite color of white was so the artists avoided painting white on white. The opposite color of white is baby blue and baby pink. The first artist to figure it out was Norman Rockwell. I was the second artist to figure it out. I saw it in the corner of a white room. The lighting was perfect to see it.
guys get a better hobby, this is just sad
What's sad?
Foooey!
Double "Foooey!"
You should listen to John Lennox
He’s a Oxford mathematician that would demolish this dude in about 2 minutes
Jesus Christ is King
John lennox is a lying fool. Please do not reply. I have heard enough.
Jesus / God is a complete fairytale. Written moons ago to help keep people In order. Didn't work as people soon came to realise no man living on a cloud is going to punish me . If indeed he is real and is coming back , what is he waiting for ?
Christians LOVE pointing out that John Lennox went to Oxford 😂
John Lennoxford.
Amen!
Why is he talking about just Christianity. He was born Jewish?
Because the vast majority of the United States, where he resides, is xian. And it has infected our lives with laws based on that belief.
The important question to ask is "what is God?" If you know the answer everything else will be easy to answer.
If we try to define God as a superbeing that somehow resembles human beings (e.g., like a father, lord or king), with human emotions, with the same human image and likeness, then that would be an insult to God's infinite greatness, it's a deep disrespect to the point of mockery. This is probably the reason why people couldn't agree among themselves if God exists or doesn't exist, they're talking about the wrong god/s.
It is a well known fact that energy cannot be created or destroyed, It has no beginning and ending, it is present everywhere from a quark to the entire universe and can transform into matter. God is the Sum of Energies/ Experiences/ Everything (SOE) which can be described as the One Energy. Nothing could be greater than that. God is omnipotent - ALL powerful, omniscient - ALL knowing and omnipresent - present everywhere at ALL times. This can only happen if God is all ALL/ EVERYTHING. God cannot possibly be ALL if God can create something separate from God.
The universe cannot possibly expand because energy cannot be created. It's our ability to see farther that expands. I believe this theory of expansion will be proven inacurate. Is it not possible that the reason galaxies move further is because of an unknown force? It's either our universe has no boundaries or it is contained inside a bigger universe together with an infinite number of universes and so on and so forth. If we can grasp the concept of infinity, we would have a better understanding of what God is.
In the beginning (probably the beginning of our observable universe) was the Word and the Word is God. In other words God is anything that can be described in words. The word God means good while Devil = EVIL (or Sin = Satan). Everything that happens whether it is perceived as good or evil is of God's own doing because God is EVERYTHING which means something good will ALWAYS come out from it since God = Good.
Without the words negative, wrong and bad the words positive, right and good won't exist. If we don't know sadness, we won't know what happines is. Solutions always come after problems. Every wrongdoing of man or unwanted circumstance (e.g., wars, crimes, diseases, accidents, natural disasters etc), are flaws that need to be corrected for a better world. Every problem solved is a step closer to perfection as every weakness is converted to strength.
Without the negative electrical charged electron there won't be life. Without death we won't be able to see the value of life. It's a constant reminder that we should do something great with our lives. Death is not entirely a bad thing, it's just a new life transformed; energy will never cease to exist. The things we've done in our lifetime will impact not just our new life but the lives of others. God is definitely good. Failure motivates us to become a better person especially if we believe that God = good.
The transformation from a simple cell to complex beings such as humans, through trial and error which took a very long time is definitely a good thing. Evolution came about because of chance (which proves that the law of total probability will ultimately favor a positive outcome), and things got better when matter had the option to choose. If energy is movement it's just natural that it can transform into another form of movement such as the living cell with the initial options positive or negative. With infinite possibilities and time anything is possible with God's infinite greatness. The transformation from energy to man is one of them which I believe signifies the importance of Christ's teachings. I don't think God is perfect because obviously we are not perfect and there are problems that need to be solved. I believe the purpose of God's existence is to become better and greater, from nothing to something until God reaches perfection as that is the logical direction. Nothing was ever created only transformed from the basic unit of existence which is Energy.
For me Energy also means "InnerG" or Inner God. As part of the One Energy, we are part of God ourselves or God is inside us. Even non living things and animals are part of God but as humans we are capable of realizing the God in us. Praying to God is just like talking to our inner selves which is connected to everything else. We should always thank God for allowing and choosing us to be part of God's existence and tell God what we can do for God instead of saying what God can do for us, and carry out our purpose of existences which is to get better and greater. Putting up a business that would employ and help a lot of people is great. Operating hospitals and schools as a hobby to help people who can't afford to pay for these is greater. Transforming vast vacant lands into a model community that promotes love and peace, is even greater. The greatest thing one person can do is not potentially that person's greatest accomplishment, there is always a much more better thing to accomplish.
Saying "thank you God for providing me with all I need to become better and greater", "I always think and do what's right" or any mantra that'll make you a better person, repeatedly, as often as you can in your mind, or verbally if you can, until it becomes automatic and forces you to forget and eliminate negative thoughts and actions, will be a tremendous help in your quest to become the best you can be. Consuming only natural food and water, fasting and adequate physical movement play an important role in maintaining optimal health which would aid you to perform your best. Doing your best in everything you do, (ie from folding a shirt to programming micro robots to repair a single DNA strand), as much as you can will train you to be the best you can ever be. Doing what's right, no matter how hard or easy will train you to be better. Don't be fooled by the success or happiness you accomplish by doing wrong.
Philippians 2:13
13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. 13 That energy is God's energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.
We should be reminded that whatever we do is God's doing. If we all believe that, we would be able to do great things and not blame God for our shortcomings. As part of an infinitely great God we are infinitely great ourselves. With infinite possibilities, I won't be surprised if there are superbeings that can live thousands of years if not forever and can travel as fast as energy can travel because that's where we're going. Human nature consists of problems that are progressively being solved using variables to make an equation perfect. I believe heaven is a state where God's existence is perfect although it's not permanent and an end goal by itself. There is only one God, everything included.
Whoever is reading this I want you to know that I love you so much, please constantly seek and be reminded of the God or the good in you as much as you can. Religion tends to disunite us because of the different beliefs and gods. Let's all unite and believe in one God, the God/ good within us.
Spread the GOOD/ GOD news by being the best you can be and be the evidence that God exists and is truly great.
There is NO god!
@@maztersav I respect your opinion
@@JojoBautista48this is complete garbage. No offense
That's the most "malarky" I've read in a long long time. I would think you would have better things to do. You only have so many minutes, hours, days of life. QUITE WASTING IT.
@@Mr.HotRod thanks for reacting and for sharing the most thoughts, so far I'm so desperate to learn from.
If you have to swear to make your point, you're out.
Why?
You do not go to hell for simply belonging to a non-Christian religion.
Jesus didn't even believe in hell. He was a jew
2 Peter 3:3
So what? Why does that particular Mythological statement have value?
@@13shadowwolf it’s the truth brother! Or I’m lying and making things up
@@bennava9222 you are repeating mythology from ancient times that has no useful meaning.
If you "honestly" repeat things that aren't true, you might not be lying intentionally, you might just be repeating nonsense that was a lie from someone else.
Self-consciousness destroys atheism.
Nope....he's only destroyed himself!
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