Skeptical Atheist Secular Humanism in Canada.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2016
- When I was invited to speak at the Shift to Reason conference in Regina Saskatchewan, other secular Humanist skeptical atheist groups asked me to hop over to a couple cities in Alberta while I was in town. Thanks to the Society of Edmonton Atheists, Center For Inquiry in Calgary, and the Mount Royal University Secular Humanists, the Brainstorm Podcast, and also British Columbia Humanists for collaborating on this tour.
When the entire city of Fort McMurray had to be evacuated, we were not that far south of there, in Edmonton. Each of the groups I met with, in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, all took up collections for relief funds. That's because they're not just skeptical atheists; they're secular humanists too.
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Ad: "Did you know that 60% -- 90% of children lose their faith?" No, but thanks for brightening my mood.
At least you get inspiring and uplifting ads. I usually just get ads from people who speak worse English than me peddling their brand of woo about some god and how he wants to move in with me.
I don't need no mooching gods, dammit!
Another bad speaking foreigner for you. I am Dutch and when I was young (somewhere in the last century and internet was not even a concept) I thought that I and some family members where the only atheists. Now about 25 percent of the Dutch are atheist. Last time religion played a role in our country was in the 70's when abortion was legalized.
Yep, we are winning. Get your education in order and your country will as well.
Peter, you are far from a bad speaking foreigner! You speak it better than quite a lot of my countrymen here in the USA!
snate56
Thanks for the compliment. It is all a matter of education. A pity your government cut spending on it again but spent billions on the, already, strongest military force in the world. The fact that there are still millions of your people defending this president says enough. Your country scares me.
The large range implies They pulled it out of their ass.
My late father called the Trinity, "Daddio, Laddio, and the Big Spook".
Sounds like the title of the "Bible for Gangstas".
Ahhhaha..the..big spook..ahahah
Ha!!! Brilliant!!! Cheers.
Big daddy, junior and the spook.
That's awesome :) Lol!
Aron is such a fantastic orator. Great video!
Yeah he takes it up the arse like a champ too.
Don't fret,no one is going to break your record.
He's no Christopher Hitchens.... But he'll do.
And he's just as heavy a hitter ;)
BlackEpyon LOL, you are right, his bullshit hits the fan pretty hard.
Jan Hald
I'm sorry, whose bullshit? Yours?
HAHAHAHAH! The ad that I got when first clicking on this video today was for a book "How To Answer A Jesus Critic: Exposing The 10 Most Common Arguments Against Christianity"
Wow. I know the ad itself is only basically going off keywords and tags in order to target where it's shown, but still that is hilarious!!
I was listening to the audiobook for Bill Nye's "undeniable," and kept getting Scientology and "Gaia" adds.
You reported as inappropriate I assume.
"I used to be a jedi..." - then you took blaser shot to the knee? ;)
One has played to much skyrim.
I'm an atheist Jedi myself.
Love the Skyrim quote
Aaron has changed my life for the better.
It wasn't easy to think the world without a God but after doing my own investigation I come out the other End happier and now convinced that I was only reading books of fantasy and fables and now look to the future with a entirely clear outlook. Thanks to Aaron Ra for clearing my mind of clutter.
Aussie Chrisso 🤠😇
I was so going to be at your Edmonton show, but then I spent 3 days in the hospital because my fiance's appendix needed removing.
Aron, brilliant as always, and that's a FACT! Thank You!
Once I tried to have an intelligent discussion with a religious person about scientific reality. No matter what good evidence or analogy I used there was no way for that person and his groupies would even consider anything else but there false beliefs. I thought about that situation and tried to look for ways to unlock there stubborn dismissals, and came to the reasonable conclusion that their minds were not open but locked shut by the "key of faith".
I have recently experienced the same thing with a lifelong friend. It is too early to tell because he is not responding to me now, but our friendship may have been severely damaged. I guess time will tell.
Great talk. We really liked having Aron come to Regina. For our little secular community having some great speakers from the atheist community was a big deal and had a huge impact on the motivation for all of us to keep active in our pursuit of actual church, state separation. It was great meeting you and Lilandra. Thanks for coming.
Cant beleive I missed this in Regina thanks for coming to Canada.
When I clicked on this video I got a ad from Scott Sullivan claiming that 60-90% of kids leave Christianity as they go through school.
Man that would be awesome if that was true. He claims to have reason based answers that you can use to equip your child against critics of christ. I'm really curious what they are and if they're any different from the usual claptrap I see believers try to use.
Welcome to Canada Aaron we've been waiting for you
I'm posting this to my Facebook wall ... Let the fun begin ...
Hahaha man I would love to stir shit up with this on my page to but my wife would kill me😅
Your speeches keep getting better Mr. Ra
Great stuff as always. Nice to see you in Canada.
Nice Job Mr. Ra. I always enjoy your pointed retorts and rapid-fire way you deliver the most brilliant truth-burns! You're an asset to the atheist, nonbeliever, secular, humanist, evidence based, reasonable community.
Thanks for coming and speaking!
Awesome talk, wish I could have attended.
Thanks for the video.
OH NO!!! You came to Edmonton and I didn't realize! Please come again soon!
Seems like not too many people watched your video right to the end. I don't think I saw one comment about the fire.
Pretty powerful stuff.
I also greatly enjoyed the speech(s).
Awesome Aaron. Coming to Canada . :) If only was close to me. Like London. But I know u can only cover so much ,cant be everywhere. Perhaps someday.
Aronra was in my city and I missed it!? Noooooo! Hopefully you'll come back for another tour, because this was great.
I'm a Canadian from near Regina... but I now live in Texas. Nice to see events on the old home front!
From a guy from where you are
@@deanmoncaster Still in the heat... worshipping the great FSM!
@@parkjammer I prefer beans!!
@@deanmoncaster
Beans and bacon are OK.
Except for my office-mate who would not appreciate what beans do for my environmental contributions... which can't be stopped by a covid-mask!
@@parkjammer they are good for your heart and are the musical fruit!
I can't believe I missed this! Had I known I would have made the trip from Lacombe. Hopefully you're in Alberta again soon!
The list of things AronRa admitted to once believing (around the 35:00 mark) cracked me up. Where I never thought that I was a Jedi, his list sounded eerily familiar....if you know what I mean.
love this man ...the best !!
Another beautiful presentation Aron.
I really wish you'd come back to Australia and do another tour like the Unholy Trinity you did a while ago. At the time I had no idea it was happening, mainly due to my understanding of what an Atheist was, which I now identify as, in part thanks to people like you who have helped me define what I believe and why I believe it.
As a small side note, given the way the US is headed right now, might be safer :)
Damn. I wish I had known you were in Regina. I live close by and would have liked to meet you and hear you speak
It was nice to meet you finally and give you a tour around West Edmonton Mall.
+Gordon Wolters Did you say you were once a database engineer? Or do I have you confused with someone else?
Not quite a database engineer, but I work a lot with appurtenance inventory database systems and I'm working on helping to develop our new GIS asset management database system, I'm just not the guy that actually does the programming, but I know a few that do.
+Gordon Wolters I might want your help with my project. I think we discussed this? Email me.
amazing as usual
Damn, I wish I l knew you were coming to Edmonton. I would have loved to have attended.
Haha the intro is superb! Haha
I am really hoping to see you in Washington DC on the Mall this summer. Peace.
+David Dupoise I'll see you in a couple weeks. :-)
+AronRa If we want to find you, I assume you'll be somewhere near Ray Comfort?
Jacob Zentichko
Ha Ha ! Now why would Aron waste a perfectly good afternoon. I feel like I lose brain cells just enduring Ray Comfort's presence on video.
I do want to thank you and people like you AronRa. You helped set me free from religion.
When in conversations, I ask a question followed by "I know you don't have the actual answer, but an opinion and I'm okay with that. But I'd like to hear it"
"If God does in fact exist, and man created evil, why would God have created hell in order to punish mankind?" Seems to me that God would have to create evil and free will in order to creare hell in order to punish sinners
I enjoy listening to Aron's lectures, he and others have really helped to clarify my thoughts after my exit from religion. This was a very good speech and a good review of a lot of his explanations of Genesis. I could have done without the crazy cackling lady in the background, but nothing's perfect I guess.
This guy is really fun!
I will say it again, Aron Ra for president!
+Donald Schneider I second that!
So true, but wouldn't it be wonderful for the United States to be run by people of reason not faith
We want Aron Ra for Prime Minister in Canada!
I wish, but he's openly Atheist, and that alone will guarantee failure. It'll be awhile before we have an openly Atheist president. Republicans spread rumors about Obama being Muslim as if that would disqualify him, and Christians are even moreso against Atheists.
Awesome!
One of your very best lectures!YE HA
one day, skeptical atheist secular humanists will be called, simply, humans
+jhanks2012 What about those who are not skeptical by that time?
Still humans, right?
+Bram Kaandorp idk I was just trying to make the point that hopefully we will have grown past the point where such willful ignorance exists. we are already seeing religions lose their following at incredible rates due to the growing access to knowledge. but I suppose as long as individuals have free will there is always room for some to remain ignorant.
+Bram Kaandorp the fact that one must use descriptors like atheist, skeptical, secular , is what is troubling. all those things should be understood to be the default view.
azmanabdula That's exactly my point. Why should we have to call ourselves atheists when it is now understood that religion is all fairy tales. It should be the other way around, the minority who identify themselves as religious should describe themselves as such.
The fact the vast majority of people still think Atheists need to prove there's no god while Theists don't need to prove there is one shows that won't happen for a long time
I am an Atheist, of course. I don't do the action described by the verb - "to believe in," because it is logically flawed. .
Believing in anything stops you from perceiving that thing accurately. For example, people who believe in The Economy do refuse to consider the flaws in the definition of GDP.
0:42 "..and libertarians"
+kapa1611 and feminists ;)
(uh oh controversy)
azmanabdula Depends what kind of libertarian one is, I guess. If one is of the anarcho-capitalist kind, then their ideology is completely unfeasible for humanity
azmanabdula That's the thing. It is entirely ambiguous from just saying "libertarian".
I'm merely saying that the word tells people very different things.
azmanabdula Not sure. Probably a lot of the people identifying as libertarian :p
+ThePharphis
Stefan Molyneux's channel on TH-cam was the first place I really started to hear about libertarian ideas and he identifies as anarchist. I can kind of understand the moral philosophy he uses to reach this conclusion but he seems to leave out a glaringly obvious fact in his logic: eliminating taxes and minimizing the amount of laws and regulations and any method of enforcing them isn't magically going to cause everyone's inner philanthropist to blossom. He seems to really think that enough people will donate to charities and to volunteer at soup kitchens etc. that everything would be fine if we eliminated welfare and food stamps and Medicare etc., he seems to think there wouldn't be rampant abuse and human rights violations and virtual slavery on the part of corporations if we did away with laws and regulations. It is completely irrational to think a vibrant, successful nation can be maintained with virtually no laws or regulations and a method of enforcing them.
Aaron - you are so very right :)
I wish you come one day to Montreal
If a religious person starts talking about death, I say this - "You are death obsessed but I deliberately choose to be Life Obsessed. Life is good, right?" Or something similar.
Well done.
Amazing Presentation full of Truth - Driving away the Darkness of Superstition and Credulity! Love it Aron! Keep Doing what you do!
Yes. Thank you mr. ra
Fantastic🤘👌🤘
i'm glad u do this in Regina. That place is pretty conservative compared to rest of Canada, so they need to hear this message the most.
Good job.
he was also in alberta, and we're way more conservative. kinda sad i missed him honestly.
@@Yal_Rathol With the recent election in Alberta we have even become more conservative.
Aron is awesome 👍🏼
good video...
Hey! I'm in this video!
I feelz special!
+DeathsHood You are special,
just like every one else... :P
byrysh
It's funny how that works, eh? 'You're all unique, which means you're all the same!' lol.
And OF COURSE you have free will, the BOSS says you HAVE to have it.
Ever wonder who gawd worships? The religiously deluded insist there is no gawd greater than gawd, so I am going out on a limb and say that gawd is godless. No Religious inclinations. You know, an ATHEIST!
@@byrysh you meant, you are unique just like everyone else.
"what about 30? going 20? 10? sold to the deity" XDDDDDD I laughed my jaw off
you should really do a video about that ad for how to answer a jesus critic the keeps appearing on your videos!
When my life ends in a few days.. I'm glad I won't have to worry about burning in Hell.
+Pretty Prudent Is your Life Ending in a few Days?! If so, I hope you had Grand Time in Life, and found Happiness Freedom and Love!
+Pretty Prudent You're dying in a few days?
+Pretty Prudent
Give these people a call, friend. 1-800-273-8255. Just because you won't go to hell doesn't make it a good choice.
My sympathies go out to you and everyone in your life.
+homeycdawg Can't be suicide as that leads to he'll apparently
I always love the music during the credits but it’s hard to find the track. Shazam says it’s Chris Kriebel but it doesn’t seem to be the same track. Can anybody tell me where to find it?
I live 3 hours from Edmonton, so of course Aron had to show up there on a day I had to work. :(
+Y2KNW The good news is you get to see what you missed here.
The Kirk Cameron philosophy - circumvent the intellect. He's been doing a good job of it.
+David Smith Kirk can't circumvent something that he doesn't have.
That's just it . Kirk has avoided intellect since GrowingPains.
David Smith
He was hired because he was cute and could speak his lines, he wasn't hired because he was intelligent. He's just another blond bimbo.
+Old Man from Scene Twenty Four Yes, obviously. He was a teen idol who was intelligent enough to read lines. That's it. Then he went off the wagon of sanity. The rest speaks for itself.
14:34 "There's a cartoon about this scene with Abraham talking to God where Abraham is talking to a twinkling star and the twinkling star is supposed to be God."
What kind of cartoon is this? I would really like to see it!
I already knew the Bible was full of nonsense and contradictions (because I actually read it once) but I always learn something new from AronRa. Since I was 13 years old I have been unable to understand how anyone can read the Bible and not immediately see that it is pure mythology. I guess it takes either a complete lack of effort (pure lazy blindness) or an incredible amount of effort (apologetics and interpretation) to believe in a bunch of impossible fairy-tales.
+1955RodHot I think it is hard for some people to let go of the idea they will live forever and accept that death is the end.. with no afterlife.
That is a pretty scary thing for a lot of folks who have been raised since birth to believe they will never really die. That fear can drive a lot of desperate beliefs.
That's because, you, at 13, had probably already read mythology, fairy tales, science fiction, etc.
Then you pick up the bible and can see the similarities. Someone born into a strict religious family is shielded from that and fed the bible before they are allowed to see what's outside.
great hair aron
When giving lectures, you should include time for q&a.
I'm Canadian so pls forgive me but, what's wrong about libertarians. I don't really understand the ideology
+Grant Martin In the US, the libertarians, in as much as they agree on stuff, have some notion that if we got rid of all government presence and influence except for the military/courts, and axed most laws, that this would suddenly lead to a great peace and prosperity, rather than horsemeat and rat turds in your beef, child labor, deadly working conditions, increased poverty, harsher poverty, and bigoted store owners/officials being able to tell black/women/gay/whoever to get the hell out with the full force of the law.
There's variations and exceptions, but libertarians have some notion that if society doesn't have some governmental-enforced Minimal Level Of Human Decency, things would be a lot better.
+TelenTerror Well then. An all around bad idea then.
LittleBillysWorld Johnngycash
@@Gdwmartin Libertarians are against subsidized housing, social security, SSI, universal healthcare, and other things to help the poor. They believe poor and disabled people should rely on charities, but they also believe charities have the right to discriminate and help those they want, and most major charities are religious and will discriminate. They also believe education should be privatized, and those who were born into poor families shouldn't have education except Google which is heavily unreliable. I know I'll be accused of strawmanning, but they're against government programs and regulations, even when they're for a good reason. Everything I listed would be a consequence if we took the government out.
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I’ve always questioned the whole “curse” of snakes. I think slithering in the grass makes them among the most dangerous animals, especially with tall grass.
Aron, will your travels get you somewhere to South Carolina for a speech?
The only thing I do not like about his videos is the loud music at the end. Yeah, I know it is a personal preference, so others may feel different about it, but for me, that music "grinds my gears".
I like his blue tie
So sad I couldn't come. )-:
Aron Ra for 2020!
I always thought the story of the dirt man and the rib woman was a parable to explain why we humans are different from the other animals.
Why did you condemn and mock the concept of subluxation?
Isn't a subluxation a partial dislocation of a joint?
EDIT: Oh, it seems there's something called "vertebral subluxation," which is an unproven concept in chiropractic. I assume you were referring to that?
Hold on... You were in Calgary? Fuck! I missed it!
JesusFriedChrist I read that in the description. It's just that I found out he was there from this video.
There are a lot of people who think skepticism means denying verified facts.
Believing mom groups over peer reviewed studies is not skepticism!
Wait when and where did this take place? I wouldve loved to attend!
+Nathan Ginzburg This took place April 30th at the DoubleTree Hilton in Regina under the name 'Shift to Reason Conference'. It was pretty awesome.
They're looking to do another one next year in Saskatoon.
Edit: The first part, anyways.
Aron speaks about knowledge and facts. The religious have neither to back up anything in their holy books.
People with lesser minds require certainty. A greater mind can retain knowledge that has degrees of certainty/uncertainty attached to each piece of knowledge. . .
. I don't know whether Aliens or Sasquatches exist. Very often, the best answer is "I don't know."
sad no one laughed when he said "and they don't respect your authoritah" at 7:39 I get it's important speech, but no one? I'm mostly joking ofc, as I love this man and I'm glad that the speech helped quite a bit from what I've been reading.
"Humanist" is used very derogatively in every church I attended growing up and in my young adulthood. At least one - in a lesson denouncing socialism as "a humanist belief system" - outright said that humanism is bad and thus socialism is bad because it makes people focus on the problems of this life and not on reaching the next.
um the commercial for this video was a book that defended Christianity so irony
Aron Ra is the epitome of what a National Treasure is.
If the god of the bible had been portrayed as a king instead of a God , he would be remembered as the most evil, mass murdering, tyrannical dictator of all time! Christians give the bible god a free pass because, they say, he is god the creator. I don't see the difference whether man or god. If his actions were evil or immoral, as the bible states, then he'd be just as guilty of being evil as any human committing the same deeds.
18:55 "Is God praying to himself whem he's by himself?"
Yes. (Matthew 14:23)
22:02 "There is a later passage that says: 'How can you trust the bible because lying prophets wrote it and they've made it into a lie?'"
Where in the bible does it say this? I would REALLY like to know!
how do you negotiate with a perfect being? every choice they make is perfect, there IS NO BETTER OPTION. so how do you negotiate with a perfect being?
Shame about the sound switching mikes and thus changing volume.
7:42 Eric cartman reference
which onee?
Aron, I have noticed a lot of religious advertising tied to your videos.
Why is that I wonder?
+Alvin Braun my conjecture is that youtube has an automated system that looks at the titles and tags of the videos you watch and shows adds based on that. i often notice the scientology adds when i look at critiques of the cult.
See you at the reason rally. This time I might actually say hi to you instead opting to not bother you.
Deadpool's hometown.
7:40 Cartman reference?
I wonder if anyone in the Bible has ever said “go home, o lord on high, thou art drunk”
Wait, was that at 7:38 a southpark joke ?
The coolest man on the planet!!!
I think this guy is RIGHT on his methodology. Aron sounds like D. Hume. On his conclusions I differ though.
"The way that it's supposed to be read: You can either eat of the fruit of the tree of eternal life and live in child-like innocence forever or you can eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and you will become aware. Your eyes will be open. You'll grow up."
I thought it was an etiological myth attempting to explain why crops grow, why pregnancy hurts, and why snakes have no legs? How can this story be a metaphorical parable and a literal etiological myth, at the same time?
Wow, my story, everything. Just like me. I looked everywhere lmao. No truth. Oh well.
Skeptic for life. :)
GREAT FUCKING VID! #AronRa for President of the Reason and logic Institute of Critical Thinking. god speed Aron.
Well... in Revelations (the last book in the canon both chronologically and historically by an unknown author possibly named John) it does call the Serpent in the garden the Devil, and that's also the only passage anywhere in the bible that calls the character Lucifer the devil.
+Xander Patten No, it refers to Satan as "that old serpent". It doesn't specify if it's the serpent from the garden. Even if it does, on has to wonder that if the serpent makes an appearance in the first book of the Bible, then why don't we find out its true identy until the last book of the Bible, which was written centuries later by a completely different author for a completely different religion?
61btod To answer the question, it's because the author probably just made it up.
True, it doesn't say the old serpent was in a garden, but it does give a case for it, since nowhere else in the bible is there another serpent character. And as in verse 3, it says the snake will deceive the nations no more, which could be taken to mean the serpent deceived Adam and Eve.
And Jesus was commonly regarded as a second Adam by early Christians, which shows they were interested in revising the garden narrative.
I'd give it a bit over a 50% probability
@@YOSUP315 The serpent in revelations does not even resemble the serpent in the garden of eden. It is described as having seven heads with ten crowns (I guess a few of the heads had two crowns?).
@@blackice9088 In fact, I think it was CS Lewis (but I could be wrong) who said Lucifer is merely a title, meaning "shining one", never a name. I believe the same term is used to refer to Christ himself a few times. So the OT is sort of mockingly calling the that fallen king "shining one", like saying "nice job Sherlock" when someone does something really stupid. John might've been doing the same thing.
@@YOSUP315 Point well made, Xander, and you could quite probably be correct. Respect to you.