Ricky Gervais' Best Arguments Against Religion
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- In this video, Ricky Gervais' sceptical viewpoints on Religion is summarized and presented in a manner that unifies his overall point; that organized religion is destructive and immoral.
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If you show this to a religious audience, they're gonna threaten him with eternal torture after death without addressing the things he's saying, which furthermore proves his point to why religion is bad for society
😂😂😂 100% facts! ❤
Of course, they'll say they aren't *threatening* him, any more than the person telling you your house is on fire is threatening. They claim to be warning you about an actual problem.
Yes but if your house is not of fire it is a false threat.@@jursamaj
Most would. I can speak for myself saying I don’t. I find his viewpoints very interesting
@@AnythingidontreallycareYou're implying that you are religious. How can you listen to him and not think, "that's right, I've been born into the right religion and people have told me so since I could talk" ?
I can tell you how I used to live with cognitive dissonance, I would say "that's very interesting, but I still believe there's a personal God. It's just that mistakes were made in writing down the holy books."
The problem with that, I eventually learned, is the holy books are whack. And they all say, "this is the unerring word of God, you must believe it - the creator of reality would've not allowed mistakes."
Ultimately everyone is inventing a god that is very much like the god described by the books. On zero evidence. Either the god exists and his word is inerrant, or he doesn't exist and humans have made it up. The middle ground is everyone invents their own god.
Science has questions that may never be answered, religion has answers that may never be questioned
Who cares about science or religion? Your own questions and looking for your own answers is what matters.
@@alena-qu9vjand what methodology would you use to get "your own answers"?
@@Magnusfication The Lord works in mysterious ways, it is more than funny to try to use any "metology" on Him😀
oops - methodology
@@alena-qu9vj so u dont have an answer to my question?
If everybody had the same mindset as Ricky on this subject, the world would be a much nicer place.
smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol can cause Cancer,
do secular people care enough to BAN these two?
The adults are still drinking and smoking and then getting obese, no surprise their children get afflicted by what the parents did
meanwhile atheists, are just too busy blaming things on the God they don't even believe in
meanwhile God says, drinking and smoking are Haram
@@LastBastianreligion is responsible for most war crimes and all genocides throughout human history. It’s not a story. It’s a fact.
@@LastBastian Huh? He is not making up stories, that's the job of Religion.
@@oppothumbs1 My comment was in response to a another comment that seems to be gone now.
@@LastBastian OK thanks.
Ricky Gervais’ precision is breathtaking. He’s a scientist in comedic clothing, and that is so so rare.
Spot on!
what is breathtaking
is how so many fallacies could be comited in relatively short time
starting with
" we are all born atheist "
@@nauticalmiles8752 … said Mr. Intolerant.
@@Duhble07 what
tolerance or
intolerance
has to do with
fallacies comited by ricky ??
you are claiming that you are rational
prove that you are
@@Duhble07 if someone is lying and
another bloke will point it that was a lie
are you going to
say that this bloke is intolerant ??
this is insane example of
woke mentality lad
get some help
I remember when I was about 7, my Sunday school teacher telling me I’d burn in a lake of fire for eternity if I was a sinner. Scared me to death. I look back on it as child abuse. I’ve never taken any of my three children to church. Never even entered my mind.
The whole concept of hell (and heaven) didn't even exist at the start of the abrahamic religion anyway, this is an idea they later stole from the zoroastrianism religion when the jews were enslaved in Babylon.
That's literally contrary to Christianity. If your teacher said that, that means he wasn't following Christ at all
@@hdrtghkes Who ist following Christ then? All the fans of capital punishment? Rich people? People that hate other people just because they are from another country or have another skincolor? When i look at so called Christians i very rarley see anybody following the words of their religions founder. They pick the parts of the sermon they like and bathe together in the feeling to be righteous. The best clue, that they alltogether must be wrong is the fact, that people funnily have put the religion upon them, that works best for the place where they were born. And "works best" means, you don't get killed for having the wrong god.
@@hdrtghkes But Christianity allowed he/she (doesn't state a gender) to frighten children - shame on your religion - practice what you preach delusionists.
The great physicist Laurence Krauss says the same thing.
I’ve come to really respect this man. At first I simply saw a comedian. But he’s a bright and insightful person, and very well spoken.
I've met him and he's a lovely person as well
Same here
The best comedians are brilliant
a perfect commie. Who was also a perfect commie? Atheist lenin. Atheist mao. Atheist stalin.
@@MilitantAntiAtheism Go to your theist capitalist friend Hitler and complain about it. Or any of the other leaders through history that has used religion as a mean to kill, rape and torture other humans to conquer and subdue them. Including the god you believe in and worship.
The fact that you even campare Richard to 3 disgusting, sick and mentally fucked up people makes you a complete moron. You should be ashamed of your own ignorance and stupidity.
I'm 75yoa,when I was 9 yoa, in church with my school for the Harvest Festival service, listening to the vicar's ridiculous sermon, I distinctly remember thinking, what a load of absolute bollocks, still do, thank you, you're welcome.
My enlightenment came at age 7 when I asked at Sunday School (in South Africa) why we had no black people in our church. The answer was somewhat non christian so I concluded that it was all bullshit. 70 years later I'm still a "heathen"
@@FQofNambourHey fellow heathen!
And I distintcly remember that in my childhood in my communist country I always felt there is something out this material world even if the whole communist doctrine of "scientific materialism" forbode such heretic thoughts.
Perhaps your vicar and my bolshevic commissary were something of the same sort?
Close to 70, was eight years old. Nun said God was sending me to Hell for forgetting homework. That's when I was done.
@@OldBenOne Understand, but I do not think it fair to judge God on the base of a wicked or misinformed woman. I would rather blame the Church, which is misusing God for their purposes.
I grew up Mormon. I'm nearly 39 and just recently left the religion. I'm upset that I bought into it for so long but happy to be done with it and any religion.
fuck yeah good on ya, I grew up Mormon too. What a load of poopy poop that one is.
Happy for you guys! I grew up Lestadian, which isalso a branch of Christinity. Sucks having diffictult time not being able to talk about it to family freely but I am happy about knowing the truth
I can sympathize completely with the difficulty of not being able to talk freely@@MarianneHMiettinen. I didn't know anything about Laestadianism until just now, but my goodness does it seem to me right now to have a lot in common with Mormonism, and probably even worse. Lots of culty red flags. Much love from a fellow cult-survivor
@@kenthknicket6500 Thanks :D It always feels good when someone understands. I also just looked up Mormonism, and yes some habits/rules seem to be common (eternal marriage for example). Additionally, in Laestadianism we weren't allowed TV, pop music, dancing or any"secular things". It's also weird that the founder of the religion Lars Levi Laestadius is almost never mentioned (even though it is in the name of the religion!), which creates the illusion that this religion has always existed, and therefore gives more weight to its teachings.
Same here…!!! Brought into insanity of Roman Catholicism…!!! Got educated and enlightened and dumped that utterly stupid cult….!!!!! Still mad at my parents and all the pedophile priests I unwittingly met in my early life….!!!!!
For a comedian who mostly makes dark humour jokes (which are hilarious), Ricky Gervais is actually incredibly smart and well spoken, never thought he had such a way with words.
He really is! I’m a Christian, but he is definitely a very intelligent atheist.
Statistics show, that while 100% of atheists are flaming homosexual, actually only 100 out of 100 atheists are also pdf files
Dark humor is not funny at all.
@@Africanaerial Dark humor isn't wrong. Being pdf file atheist and boning kids which any atheist does, is.
@@Africanaerial yes it is all jokes are funny it's only when you genuinely mean them that they aren't.
I had a catholic upbringing. I was forced by my parents to go to church every sunday morning. And then around the age of eleven it suddenly happened during a talk of the priest, I stood up and walked away from the church. At that point in time I wasn't influenced by anyone, as It was long before the internet. But as that young boy I just knew something was off with religions. It's all about power and fear, even though they all preach that you should love one another.
Facts
So you acted childish and left as a child and fundamentally misunderstand Church teachings as a manchild.
@@coh2conscript851 I left because I was already wise then. Wise enough to know that religion is based on lies. Fortunately, more and more people are realizing this. Religion has become redundant. You can be good to your fellow human beings without the rules of the church. That is how I live, I am freer and more open-minded precisely because I am not limited by a book that tells me what I should do or, above all, not do. The fact that there are churches is not proof that God or Jesus existed. It's like going to Disneyland and then believing that Mickey Mouse really exists!
@Carlo_Amico you're still a manchild then
@@Carlo_Amico Exactly
Love how Ricky puts his opinion across without being disrespectful 🖖🖖
Exactly. Thanks
I respect him as a comedian but as someone who's been through the major religions and faiths including atheism I have found more preening self-satisfied arrogance and stubborn ignorance than atheism and that includes myself when I went through that phase. Ricky Gervais is no different.
The simple fact is that the universe is much more complicated and wondrous than our tiny little minds can imagine! Even Einstein understood this.
Anybody who says there's a Heavenly Choir after death and they know that for sure or that there is nothing after death and they know that for sure is just fooling themselves .
Atheism is a faith just like the rest!
BTW The same can be said for most political extremism.
Religion deserves disrespect, they are all a death cult, hence the images of torture and blood in their iconography.
He seems very sure he is right. Based on very little thinking!
@@danielmcdonagh2889 Yes, he is a great comedian but not a great philosopher!
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicuruc
You atheists don't even know how to copy and paste something. Amazing...
Wow!
I think you mean 'Epicurus'.
Yeah, but all these concepts are really ours, from our world and universe. So unless we share traits with the divine... Then we can't have answers on anything beyond. All religions might be full of lies, imaginary things, or maybe true stories lost in translation and time. Sure, our world is more about evolution and science and all, more about closer to us concepts, things we can understand, and that's reasonable. The thing is, one does not necessarily disprove the other, evolution and science does not disprove the divine, both can be true and in existence. We just try to hold onto whatever is closer to us, it's easier for us, and totally reasonable, if you start thinking about anything beyond you may eventually lose that familiar steady ground and that's not comfortable for people.
He limited his power by giving us free will
The problem with these videos is that believers won't watch, and non-believers say "I agree", so nothing changes.
Exactly! I know this from two perspectives, as a former Catholic believer and now an atheist. It used to be IMPOSSIBLE for me to watch this type of video, for many reasons: they didn't show up for me, when they did show up I didn't turn them on, and if by some miracle I turned them on it was only to try to confirm my beliefs and try to convert(lol) others, and often to make fun of people with different views... I understand this perfectly and I am not satisfied with myself from 6-7 years ago... Now I try not to get locked in an information bubble, even though I am 100%(I guess) atheist I still listen to the arguments(ehh...) of Catholics and at least I try to respect them, although due to my personal experiences it is hard for me.
A video similar to this one started my sister down the path to questioning religion. Three years later she is agnostic n left the church. These videos matter
The horror of social media. Everybody is looking at the truth they like.
And we would not have go around killing each other over it.
The people doing the killing are not good Christians are they
Thou shalt not kill was god's command according to Moses. Jesus teachings likewise.
Sadly they will just find another excuse. Religion isn't a reason, it's an excuse. Tyrants and warmongers can pile all their greed, insecurities, bigotry, hatred and racism into their religion, point at it and say "I'm doing this for my God, you can't question that." With no god they will just find another excuse.
This is the truth @@Elzzaw
Will you please, read Deuteronomy 20, 21, Numbers 31, Exodus 32:29, and 1 Samuel 15:3?
As that 'command' was often, variable. Even, quite the opposite.@@hughfawcett4333
@hughfawcett4333 This god?
"You shall acknowledge no God but me. . . . You are destroyed, Israel. . . . The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." (Hosea 13:4, 9, 16
"See, the day of the Lord is coming - a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger. . . . I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty. . . . Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated." (Isaiah 13:9-16 NIV)
"Behold with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." (II Chronicles 21:14-15)
Humans created God..
no
@@bongo2031Yes. All gods were created by human.
Look I get your message and I get what you're saying, I just think you could have worded it better
@@bongo2031of course we did. All ancient gods are just humans with magic powers like driving the sun across the sky. Your Christian god took 6 whole days to create the world, sun, moon and stars then was so tired he needed a day off? What is more human than that?
A truly omnipitent god could just think the whole universe into bring with one thought.
@@jesterinsanity3153Is this a better way to word it?
“In the beginning, Man created God. And Man looked upon his creation and said, ‘This is good, for I can use this myth to put fear into others and force them to live the way I want them to live. And if they don’t obey the laws I invented, but which I tell them came from God, I will punish and oppress them.’
Any better?
This man is an inspiration. He helps me put all the bs to one side. No joke, people like him make me want to keep on living. He puts things in the right order, when most just cant or dont want to.... he goes from the beginning " you are born an atheist" and "most of the good believers- they cherry-pick" and "how is it that everyone is born into the right religion, isn't that lucky".
So casually said, but it digs deep and is so true. Keeps me sane and helps me feel like im not alone amongst the hordes of crazy people.
Its hard to stay strong when everyone around tries to make you weak, but people who carry the true word, must soldier on, for they are the only hope our species has, and im a patriot, a patriot to the human race. One love.
I've been an Atheist as long as I can remember, even before I knew the word for it and if anyone else was like me. To me religion is a blanket of safety for some and others a means to justify their crimes against people.
You’re spot on there!
And also a blanket of safety for people that really fear death a lot
Fr
US evangelicals use it to get very very very rich.
And hey can't just accept when we die there's nothing else, we are no greater than a dead rat,dead lizard,etc etc.
Born in the U.S. here... Spring of 1981, and I thank my parents every day of my life for NOT indoctrinating my brother, my sister, and I with any ridiculous belief in a book of fairy tales.
Wish they were still here.
R.I.P., Mom and Dad... I will never see you again... but I will remember you until I can no longer be seen...
Straight to the point,no mental gymnastics needed. I like it and I resonate with what he says.
yea that's the good thing about him being a free thinker, he keeps his mind open and believes whatever gets proven.
like he does not believe in God but he also doesn't not believe in God but in the thousands of years of religion there has never been actual verifiable proof of a god so as long as there is no proof he won't believe in God.
Me to❤️
The hardest part of deconstructing for me was accepting that my parents (unknowingly) indoctrinated me and I believed because I have awesome parents who are extremely kind, how could they be wrong and in their mind they aren't telling me a lie. Now as an adult I'm struggling with being honest with my parents about my atheism and I worry about how my extended family will treat myself and my son.
I feel for you. But why the concern for your son? Oh! That's right, the sins of the father... yadda yadda. There's just one good reason you can say, that you've chosen not to indoctrinate your child eh? Well done and good luck.
@@skepticusmaximus184 sins don't exist, I worry about my family treating my son poorly because my beliefs are different than my family's. Also, the Indoctrination of children is just wrong and I do often worry about my kid being indoctrinated into Christianity specifically because we are in the Bible belt of America.
@@shaniasmith284 Yeah, I agree; sins don't exist. I was making a reference to the doctrine of vicarious blame/punishment, the hideously immoral idea that progeny (children) can be blamed and punished for what their ancestors do/did. I'm glad you've broken that insidious chain of guilt and shame. You sound like a great parent. 😉👍
Do you and your son really need the approval of your family? @@shaniasmith284
@@shaniasmith284 Of course sins exist, and the humanity knew it long before the hypocratic Old Testament god's plagiarism. You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater just because some imperfect people does not understand or behave rightly. I think you would not cruelly kill somebody just because your family are treating your son poorly.
“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.”
-Voltaire
I started questioning Christianity around 13 or 14 and read the bible cover to cover (best way to get a Christian to become an atheist) but when I was 15 I was told after saying I don't believe in God "You can believe that, but your wrong" by a family member. It made me sad and said family member wouldn't talk to me for a decade but that is the power of indoctrination.
Please watch and share with others my four brief videos in which I present examples of scientific facts contained in the Bible, facts that the writers thousands of years ago could not have been aware of without divine knowledge given to them by Jesus Christ / The God of the Bible. And today's scientists agree with those facts!
@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 like that person who wrote Genesis described the stars in its creation like it's an afterthought ("He also made the stars") when in fact, these stars can be as millions times massive? It shows that these are written in the perspective of a human, and not God.
I admire the Ricky Gervais thinking and speak. He finds essential questions about life.
Ricky is proof that all great comedians have brilliant minds!
Guessing you haven't listened to Bert Kreischer yet. 😂
@@onlyonecannoli3952 Actually no, now I'll have to. 🤣
@@onlyonecannoli3952 Hey, just listened to some of his standup. HE'S PRETTY FUNNY! I bet he is smarter than he lets on. 🤣
That is actually not logical, you're committing the black swan fallacy. Although I agree Ricky is a comedian and brilliant but it's not proof about all the comedians.
While I understand what you mean, and I don't have his IQ test in front of me😂Listening to him talk, and especially when he is on Talk Shows and such, I think it is reasonable to conclude he is a pretty smart guy. Of course you are right, that alone is not reason to think that all such comedians are equally smart it is reasonable to assume many are. Just based on my experience of course. @@MarianneHMiettinen
Ricky Gervais is wonderful, he might be the best comedian of our time.
I also find it hilarious that the one thing that Christians really hate to hear, is questions.
Because such absurd idiocy breaks down quickly if you just ask a few questions.
I'm a Christian, I like questions.
@@sawdusty8214 Well, then you are one of the few, usually whenever I talk with Christians and ask questions they get quite cranky and also, I have met very few that give actual answers.
@@sawdusty8214Do you accept that we have irrefutable and undeniable evidence that we are the product of evolution, and can verify our lineage that doesn’t tally with any ancients’ concepts of nature and reality, certainly as they didn’t have the science and information that we have now?
@@Letts_prey I guess from your question that you find it hard to understand why anyone would not believe in evolution. I'm the opposite I can't understand why anyone would believe in evolution. I see too much design in the world for it to not have been intelligently made. Personally I believe what I believe because I have encountered God in my life in ways that I can't use to prove God to others but also nobody can take away from me. This doesn't mean I am ignorant of evidence. If I had to give one reason that I don't buy evolution it would be the lack of transitional fossils in the fossil record. If evolution is true then should there not be billions upon billions of them all around the world?
@@sawdusty8214 Well there is plenty of evidence that millions upon millions of children who have been raped by followers or literal representatives of god. Is that not evidence enough for you that we don't have a benevolent and loving god? or are you so selfish that the suffering of millions is okay as long as you are blessed?
Why do you hold humans and science to a higher standard than an all powerful divine being?
"Nobody can take that away from me" is exactly the problem. Even if we ever find transitional fossils, you'll just move the goal posts and find something else to reinforce your beliefs.
As Richard Dawkins said.."If science cant explain it..nothing else can"!!!!!!!
When I was studying for my communion, every class is think ‘this makes no sense’ and I would question it and my teacher would get mad or just say ‘it’s about faith’ but that never sat right with me. My 8 year old brain couldn’t fathom grown people believing this and I still don’t.
science will end all life its only a matter of time ppl who believe in god respect nature and the planet and that is good the other is pure pure evil.
I have been questioning the religion I was born into since I was 7. I was hated and punished for it. It all started when I was 7.
For all we know, the bible was a comic book at the time of its creation. I'm a proud athiest and always will be.
I think for a lot of people it's not that they believe in a God or afterlife, it's that accepting that may not be true will mean they won't see the loved ones they've lost ever again. Which is an utterly devastating thing to be faced with.
I don't come from a religious family, I went to a catholic school (I'm from Ireland, there's not a lot of options outside of that lol). Always thought I believed in God; it wasn't a big thing in my family to talk about it. As I got older and started to realise that I not only didn't believe in the Catholic religion, but I didn't believe in God at all, I felt a lot of dread. I'd lost my dad when I was 6, and the thought of never being able to see him again killed me. Because I'd missed so much of my relationship with him, the comfort of thinking I could see him again and we could continue our father/daughter relationship in "heaven" was too much to give up.
I've lost friends and other family members since, and it doesn't get easier. I know that I'm not going to see them again. In ways, I wish I had that comfort of truly believing I was going to see them again, but I just know that it most likely isn't true.
I think religion has done people a disservice in how they grieve the dead. As well as many other things obviously. But I truly believe that if people weren't fed this "I'll see them again" stuff, we would be kinder and more grateful while they were still alive.
100% correct, but I still have trouble convincing sheep, even when they agree!
Sheep say atheïsm ba-a-a-a-d. 🐑
fkn hell😂😂@@AdLockhorst-bf8pz
You only had to look at the sheep in the so called pandemic to see how gullible people are and.how elites exploit that
How much time are you spending around sheep John?
Why would you try?
Masterclass in logic, common sense, truth and honesty. Cheers🫵🍻
No! No it isn't!
@@danielmcdonagh2889 Okay so how is god any diffrent from hitler or any muslum that tired to destroy things they don't like
Ricky is only voicing what many of us thought for a long time, probably more eloquently as he has discussed/recited it many times.
but is wrong and he only offers nothing and eternal death , yes he's a Dimond lol.
Thank you Ricky, you give us a voice, one of reason that we know the world needs.
this man doesn’t go through mental gymnastics to prove his point, he just simply says it how it is, and I appreciate it. At times due to my religious upbringing I find myself feeling wrong about it and needing to feel like I need all the answers. But what he said is true. No one has the answer, and no one probably will. But what we do know so far is there is no factual evidence for God across all faiths, just claims. Claims from man, speaking for God.
Why does everyone who’s religious seem to speak for God? Why can’t God, if he exists, just prove his existence ? 👏🏻
Wow. I've NEVER heard it explained better than this. It's brilliant. I LOVE this! ❤
Living with questions is living life as full as possible. Living with fixed answers shrinks life
💯
I love this so much. As someone who is a skeptic of almost everything, I envy those people who can just believe what they want. I don't envy their ignorance, but their ability to choose ignorance.
Your quote has a similar effect to me as "Not all who wander are not lost." does.
I am an Atheist. I was a Christian. I don't get upset that people believe, but I get upset for various reasons that they impose some crazy stuff on society because of it. Still, I find most actually 'genuine' Christians to be the very best people.
So, don't hate on Christians per se... Remember, FEAR is deep rooted and makes people think totally irrationally. No greater motivator than fear as we all know. It makes people do the craziest things. Look at one side in politics currently, all about FEAR, not about what they will do to improve things... FEAR FEAR FEAR... and people fall for it.
Me too.
Ok but it does sound a bit like the Nazi's saying they were just following orders!
@@geoffmower8729 no it doesn't.
@@geoffmower8729 Terrible analogy
Good/best people will always be good in nature. They're not good people because their christians, or muslims or hindi.
Wow. Thank you. Been trying to explain this to my friends. I’m living in the Bible Belt of the US, and have a hard time communicating that this is exactly what I feel.
good luck - hopefully the logic of Ricky's thinking can break through their religious fog
Wow, good luck. Here on the sunshine coast Oz, I personally don't know a single person that goes to church ever. Very happy environment.
@@shaneyule3484 Yep, similar for me, I live in Somerset, England and I also don't know a single person who goes to church. I can't understand how anyone - who isn't mentally ill - can believe in this nonsense?
Now you are deceiving your friends.
This is one of the best compilations of fabulous points on this subject I've ever heard. ❤ RICKY GERVAIS!! Fascinating man!
those were some arguments i thought to myself when i was a boy, and i became a Free thinker aka Atheist . Gervais is a genius
Ricky is a genius in so many ways! I hope to meet a man with his mindset. 😊
Wow, that was a quick ten minutes!
Need more!
It's hard for religiously inclined people to engage with this kind of rationally driven and well articulated discourse.
Which is telling in itself.
No it's not. Pick your favorite part of his video and I'll run circles around it. Pick what you think is so logical.
Triggered much huh?🤡🤡🤡@@Mikezzz749
Please watch any christian debate. Listen to John Lennox or William Lane Craig. Gervais uses the argumentation of a 12 year old
@@danielmcdonagh2889 religious debate is stupid. It's circular logic and broken reasoning, and it's a waste of time
@@Moose92411 OK. Sure, some of it can be. I guess that's true of any topic, at any time. Could you give me an example?
If there was an "all-powerful loving god" not afraid to make itself known there would only be one religion.
@Bob_Almighty "but religion is still good."
Tell that to the kids of Gaza and the Palestinians! Tell that to the millions of people who has been massacred in the name of different gods. Please, share more of your Ideas Bobby!
How many times you have to be humiliated before you realize how d*ll you are?
@Bob_Almighty
_"Exactly but religion is still good. The problem child with religion"_
So your argument is that religion is still good except when it's not. Profound...🙄
@@markh1011 RG is simply saying what many think, and each of these “questions” are not new, having been pondered for millennia. Just be thankful you were lucky to be born in the one place where the one true faith is practiced. 😉
@@Duhble07 I know these posts are not personal attacks. I'm not railing against anything.
There are no Gods that's why they claim you have to seek him out yourself and he won't be known to you unless you already condition yourself to beleive in him, a very elaborate and pointless when this God could be an obvious presence which no one could deny in the first place.
Why is it that comedians talk more sense than priests, professors, scientists, philosophers etc?
George Carlin is also a good example.
Clear, concise and brilliant!
I have tons of respect for Ricky Gervais. 👍
I love the way religion has had to constantly change its narrative when science has disproved its story telling. It now questions the old testament when it used to preach it as fact.
Only became an atheist at 26. That sigh of relief I breathed when I realised that fear of hell doesn’t need to be real anymore. The terrible nightmares will never stop though. I still need drugs to sleep. Thanks church. Religious trauma is real. Indoctrination is real
I stopped believing around 8 when I’m like “there is proof against it, but no proof for it” so I sided with the evidence.
Very nice compilation. I miss the "I only love 1 god less than you" quote in here.
That won't work on me buddy, I believe in loads of gods!!
"We're all born atheist". Yes, yes.
A long time ago I declared myself as a born again atheist. As babies we have no religion but then we are indoctrinated in the teachings of our parents and our communities.
There are around 4,000 religions, so if yours is the only true one, then you’re just one religion away from being an atheist.
@@rastus666 Would you say if you believe in one of them that you do not believe in the other ones OR that the other ones are not real? Probably the second one I guess... Does it fit with your definition of atheism. Probably not. So your claim is wrong.
@@gide5489 I believe in what is proven real. All religion, regardless of what flavor, is a scam that preys on humans fear of death, with all kinds of false promises of the nice places you will go after you die, as long as you worship your religion’s deity, and put your 10% tithing in the collection plate. Religion is the longest running scam, ever.
@@gide5489the Op (and any person with common sense) is assuming that, if you know thst something is false you would not believe it. So your argument isn't valid
@@Ale-xi3mo if you know that something is wrong you KNOW you don't believe, the word is irrelevant. And you also confuse: "don't believe that..." with "believe that no..."
I am a non-santaclausist, non-muslim, non-christian, non-zoroastrian, non-buddhist, non-shintoist, non-shamanist, non-easterbunnyist, non-toothfairyist and so on. So I don't have to care about any evil "god" torturing me in Hell or similar.
Much appreciated. Thank you.
We are strictly taught never to question the religion. I was born a Muslim but when I develop analytical thinking, I started to question and I was threatened by my own family. It made me even more disgusted towards religion.
It apparently is necessary to wear fancy dress and funny hats while delivering the fantasy message, do not question the funny hat.
I LOVE the way you said that Ricky: "There's no evidence of ANY god" - brilliant!
Ricky is lying - there's TONS of evidence. The Shroud of Turin, the healings at Lourdes, the miracle of the sun at Fatima witnessed by 70,000 people, the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Egypt in the late 1960's which were seen by literally MILLIONS and filmed/photographed, various Eucharist miracles, saints whose bodies remained incorruptible long after death, various bleeding/crying statues that have been examined even with MRI machines and cannot be explained, I could go on and on. And that’s not even getting into the fine tuning of the universe!
@Bob.55We had 13,5 billion years to develop, genius.
@Bob.55 Why?
@Bob.55 Blablabla.
Delusional fool.
@Bob.55 this is one of the most edgy things i have ever heard.
You are basically saying "i am right, if you think I am wrong it's because you aren't intelligent enough to understand that i am right".
Step down from your trone, you are no king
I'm a few months off being sixty six and was taught religion at school. I came to the decision in my mid late teens that it was a crap.religion is run by Arthur dayley's, selling religion instead of iffy cars and the like.
Still baffles me how many religious people there are today considering everything we now know
Religious belief is part of evolution. It takes thousands and tens of thousands of years until it arrives in the DNA.
I personally have the same opinion as Ricky, I was born and raised a Muslim. The idea of a religion being right and it being the word of God is just totally unbelievable to me, but religion as a way of teaching morality (mostly) and a way in life that gives someone peace should also be respected. And also, we have to accept Prophet Mohamed, Jesus and Abraham were all people that we can all agree existed in history and had such a powerful message in that era that it has stayed with us and always will for the course of human existence. And obviously in time, there are things that seem ridiculous now, but there is so much good and truth in the messages. I guess humans are animals and we do what we need to survive, but as humans that is more a social thing rather than fear of life or death, especially in the developed world. So these religious messages really helped us and brought peace and clarity at a time when it was needed. Globalisation has fucked this, just as much as disagreements on elements of a religion within its own followers. Religion or beliefs should be personal to the person, no-one knows the answers so respect and listen to others and have constructive and critical conversations about your beliefs and be prepared to have those beliefs challenged. If there is something judging you, surely open mindedness and discovery with respect for everyone is a sign of a good open minded and open hearted person
Religion has poisoned my wife and my oldest son! I am trying to save my daughter and my youngest son! 😢
So what changes have happened in your wife, I'm really curious to know, how has your wife changed since she's been "poisoned" that makes it such a bad thing that you want to save your daughter from it?
love how Ricky explain this so simple and beautiful. I wonder if there is someone cannot understand this?!
just read some of these comments here.
Spot on, as always.
Being an atheist in a country where everyone believes in one deity or another is kinda lonely sometimes but i couldn't be happier.
religion isnt bad for the society. In this world, in all sectors, we need fools. Fools who can do the job without questioning, fools who can believe in anything you say, etc..
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He's so right about this. What saddens me is that so few get to experience life free of religion and all the restrictions it imposes on you. We should be reaching for the stars, but instead we waste our short and valuable time on fairy tales. Not all of us, of course, but far too many.
The only reason why we aren't in huts murdering each other is because of religion. Modern morality and science only exists because of Christianity.
i was taught religion at school and told i had to go to church or be punished
religion is its own worst enemy
because its forced and its BORING
He reminds me of an insight I had a number of years ago: "It isn't about being right. It's about getting it right."
He was always brilliant! Long may he live!
I honestly believe ricky gervais will be remembered as one of the great minds of our time, a truly remarkable human being, and has a gift for being logical and delivering his views in a respectful manner, all the while provoking people to question their belief systems. Very clever, man. ❤
Ricky's coin analogy can be better made with the puddle analogy - if you see a small hole in the ground and fill it with water it will be a puddle. If the puddle could think the same way a believer thinks it would be amazed the hole fits it so perfectly.
Thanks Ricky. It takes guts to come out against religion.
You must be joking. It takes no guts at all to come out against religion. You want to see guts? Let Ricky question and criticize the story of the Sacred Six Million. But that he will never do, because that is actual heresy to TPTB. Ricky is a coward.
That’s the truth! We aren’t allowed to ask questions. We aren’t allowed to discover what the original Bible message was. We aren’t allowed to be different. We aren’t allowed to challenge or validate the stories.
We do it all the time, only the media and politicians avoid it, because they use the same methods as any other religions does.
We aren't allowed to ask questions about or challenge vaccines or climate change mantras. In fact all sorts of things. I think claimed religious dogma has much less impact on our lives than immovable, unchallengeable establishment narratives
Ricky is so smart in his thinking about this. You ask the essential questions and frame things in the most straightforward logical way.
Me and my wife discussed this the other week.
In our school days, 70's to mid 80's, RE, religious education, is a forced to learn subject!
They tell us all about god and like ricky says, if we're good we go to heaven, if not we go to hell.
Imagine if there was a forced lesson about santa claus, or a lesson about fairies??
Doesnt make sense does it?
But god, who is just as real as fairies and santa, is/was a forced to learn lesson for all of ur school life!
I hope its changed these days.
Kids these days should have forced to learn lessons.
But about finances, cooking, basic diy and vehicle mechanics.
First aid.
Most of todays teens cant change a wheel, dont know how to rewire a plug, wouldnt know how to put someone in the recovery position!
Iam aware computers and tech rule the world.
But a computer wont work if the fuse in the plug goes, or a wire comes loose.
No point knowing how to reprogram a cars smart engine, if u cant change a tire, or change the oil or spark plugs.
Wow....about the school lessons in finance, car mechanics etc is EXACTLY what I had a discussion about with my wife the other day. Years ago there used to be a subject called Domestic Science which included household things, these are far more important lessons than the tripe they have nowadays. French for example, surely that's a subject you'd pick IF you want to go down that road.
@johnw2758 our lesson was called home economics!
It was all girls tho, they learnt sewing , cooking etc.
Can u imagine if such a thing existed today?
There would be uproar!
@@prezzeruk4054 I'm sure it would be a good thing today even. My son loves cooking, he would have revelled in it. Car maintenance and basic home maintenance is also a very good thing to be able to do.
A Polish archbishop was once asked: does God exist? He answered quite honestly: we believe that God exists. Can God exist without people? He cannot. All Gods disappear when their followers die. In other words, Gods do not exist, there is faith in Gods. Which God is the real one? You can choose. There have been or there are several million Gods. That means several million beliefs and not a single God.
Such an eloquent writer and speaker! I’m tempted to share this with my mom and other religious loved ones, but it’s a waste of time. They’re just like I was when I believed the myths-unable to get past themselves and their conditioning. I want to shout these truths from the rooftop! But, just like I was, they won’t listen and if they do, they won’t hear. Total waste of time. So like Stevie Nicks sang in Dreams, “….I keep my visions to myself.” Thank god for Ricky Gervais and thank god for making me an atheist !!😂😂❤❤
I have emailed Ricky's video here, with people very close to me. My subject line was only, "Your thoughts?" 🤔 No judgement. Just gonna wait for a response... 😉
I like the part he says "I was born into the right god! Lucky me!" the Christians would say or think that and the muslins, and the hindu, etc. That alone, should be enough to make one question his/her beliefs.
Not one of the theistic relegions has anything the others dont have that makes it more " true" than another.
@@snowflakemelter1172religion is a scam
Absolutely brilliant, and so simple! Thank you, Ricky!
Knock Knock.
Who is there?
God
What do you want?
Enter.
Why?
To protect you?
From whom?
From me, when I'm in.
I like this wording
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Jesus Christ
What do you want?
To protect you
Protect me from what?
To protect you from what I’m going to do to you if you don’t let me in
@@saab39jasgripen35 In fact Lord Jesus won't do anything if you ignore Him. He just won't let you in to His eternal realm. You know - you never even wanted there ...
To be fair, Jesus was pretty peace loving, it's the establishment built around the stories that's the threat.
I'm so happy to have my atheism confirmed. And I'm really glad that I'm not alone. Why is Atheist such a bad word? That needs to change! Thank You so much for this! ✨✨💖💓💖✨✨
Cause Christian’s are brainwsshed
Wonderful production value. You must have spent a great deal of time tuning audio and merging the clips so that they flow seamlessly.
Brilliant piece.
@Bob_AlmightyYeah, some people have trouble facing reality or personal responsibility. Superstition and handing over thinking to someone else, is often a crutch for the weak minded.
@Bob_AlmightyHow do you know any of the stories about jesus are true?
@@ewganhoffcoz the bible says so !!! 😂😂😂😂
He expresses in few words what I couldn't in many... to be quoted!
This is wonderful !
It truly is.
Any argument against a god is the best argument! 😎🤘🏻
The best? "I don't believe" is not a good approach to build an argument, try a better definition of atheism like "I believe that this doesn't exist"...
"I didn't choose to live but I love it" this statement just took me to the deepest and scariest thoughts I stopped contemplating many years ago.
He's the GOAT ✌️⚛️
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Greatest of Atheistic Teachers?
God of all time?
I began to question my religion when I noticed that my families beliefs were religion and every one else had myths?!
When I was told that the god sacrificed his only son for our sins (which are made up anyway) and the son didn't actually die, remember thinking 'hang on...'
How about we take the entire story and try and break it up into....natural events that occurred during ancient times. Heres the catch, they were written down because they represented many natural occurrences the ancients couldn't quite explain.
So, let's see.
Chrust and his followers.
The Sun and it's (12 solar zodiacs which it travels through. Last zodiac before the coming fish we see for the age we are IN NOW, was the bull or Taurus.
Wow!! What a coincidence? What golden animal statue was being worshipped when he returned from the mountaintop???
If we look at the solar movement during early spring?
The sun, looms for 3 days in the horizon, at its lowest point on our observable horizon.
Then, as if it were rissmg on the horizon, or, coming back to life, moving upwards one degree . Signaling the sign of coming warmth, time to plant spring crops and more daytime light.
Now this story would be much more difficult to understand if it was from one specific area of the planet. But....thats NOT the case.
This story permeates the entire planet in many different cultures and religions.
Now, how can THAT be?
Maybe...just maybe, this narrative occurs every year? LIKE CLOCKWORK.
I tell people I'm religion free, if they ask.
Brilliant. 100% with U.
When I was a kid my parents never pushed religion. We went to church. My father was raised Catholic and my mother Baptist. I was allowed to attend other churches with friends. I realized that all religions teach similar things. Like do unto others as you would have done on to you. Why we put that onto a deity instead of just teaching right and wrong amazes me. Sad to think how many holy wars wouldn't have started if we had.
Thank you❤
That man is brilliant..
Wonderful arguments. I never managed to express this successfully - and I tried. And then you come and speak my mind in such a clear and solid way. Thank you!
Unfortunately all of these have been rebutted ua-cam.com/video/pwIflaYBQGs/v-deo.htmlsi=kCJQgaAVK9bt4rFV
Right on every point...
As George Carlin put it:
"More people have died in the name of God than for any other reason..."
The first statement presented in the vid here was spot on. Or, put another well known way, "Science has questions that may never be answered but religion has answers that may never be questioned."
Most "proofs" for a god usually end with "What else could it be?" When the "what else" is presented with receipts, it is rejected out of hand.