What happens when countries lose religion? You might be surprised! In this video professor Phil Zuckerman explores the link between declining faith and societal well-being: ua-cam.com/video/7Dr9GKuMYsg/v-deo.html Also, don't forget to subscribe!😀
He hits the point right on the head: religion gets a free ride. You can believe whatever you want and get away with it in our society. And when people try to force religion on others they claim it's their right to do so and criticizing that is tantamount to trying to destroy their religion (like this whole War on Christianity nonsense). The moment an idea, belief, or opinion becomes sacred and taboo to discuss is the moment tyranny begins. Nothing is sacred. Nothing should be beyond reproach or criticism.
@@themaskedman221 Religious theocrats in the US that think the lack of religion is the reason why there's so much nonsense in the US, right now, or wanting to put prayer in schools or hang the Ten Commandments all over the place. Give them an inch and they'll take a thousand miles.
He seems to have hit many points over the heads of his fawning minions, who seem utterly incapable of producing anything resembling an original thought. All I see in this peanut gallery is regurgitation of Harris quotes and genuflecting before his mighty brilliance. You all act exactly like the mindless Christians you loathe.
@@themaskedman221 You don't think "if you don't believe what we say, you will burn in hell forever" involves a psychological compulsion? Christianity has always used fear and threats to FORCE people to submit. And when the indoctrination starts at a very young age, when people have no chance to evaluate what they are being told, you don't regard that as "forcing"?
You are absolutely right. People are making outrageous statements under the guise of religion that would not be tolerated elsewhere. Religious beliefs, like all other ideas, should be open to challenge rather than automatically respected.
@healthymealthy775 Look them up, stop being lazy. The Bible has about 100 contradictions, false information, and straight-up lies. That fairytale is terribly written 😂.
@sk8ermGs to be fair all politicians are bad, a billionaire politician isn't any better, arguably could be worse, politicians are already to distant to us, they aren't even considering citizens anymore, they get away with so much with almost no risk. They send men and women to die in wars for nothing, and aid random countries with money and weapons while our economy is in the dumpster, while also using god as a weapon, and people are so delusional they think they made a good decision on the person they vote for. Like we aren't just lambs ready to slaughtered. Life's hard but when did it become so shit people stopped thinking with any rationality. Arguing about nothing while these scumbags running to the bank while we're buried under the rubble they leave behind. Quite literally the best and worst time to be alive. More technology than we know what to do with and at the same time it feels like we're sitting here waiting for the black hole to suck us in. It's 3am and I'm ranting but it's infuriating.
As anyone who grew up in a Christian religious family in the early 1950s should know, there was a host of good, gentle, moral, humane, decent and caring individuals who made up those families and churches. Something happened! At 19 I stood on the steps of Drew Methodist church in Carmel, NY with a petition against the Vietnam War and NO ONE - not one person!!! would sign it! I lost my appreciable faith there and then! Now I mostly can't even recognize my old religion!!! I am now a CONFIRMED atheist and find ALL religion to be utterly destructive and immoral!
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While watching this, an add for The Daily Wire, promoted by Jordan Peterson, came on. Does anyone see the irony here? Jordan Peterson holds onto his erroneous ideas with iron clad desperation. Dogma continues to plague humanity.
Yeah. They are very different in a lot of ways. But they also appeal to a lot of the same people too, believe it or not. Namely white males who HATE Muslims.
I’ve never been able to listen to him for more than a few minutes, with the exception of how diet helped him. I eat the way he does and feel amazing. Other than that I feel nothing when he talks.
"Gott mit uns" "Faith" is required to "Believe in Lies" and that is why religions demand "Faithfulness" to maintain Power & Control over their Subjects and Force their Theocracy on everyone!
More than once I've pointed out that little caveat about German army belt buckles to the faithful, and the most common response has been that they lose their mind.
@@antbrown9066 A "Justifiable Belief" is justified through "weight of the Evidence" and are free to change as weight of the Evidence changes. One can still hold a Belief even if weight of the Evidence is against it because Faith requires no Evidence and therefore Faith is NOT a Justifiable Belief.
@@thunderbird3694 yes that is one way to describe it. But remember it isn’t all or nothing. Not binary. Not dichotomy. As I have said. Belief has a spectrum. Or 2. One spectrum is the level of intensity or commitment to a particular belief. The other spectrum is as you say, “weight of evidence”or as I said, credibility of evidence.
The world of religion is black or white. The reality is more complicated than religions try to explain. The religion is very often used to gather power to traditional part of society.
Sam Harris should have some Nobel prize for dismantling religious madness. No one, in competition with Christopher Hitchens, has done it better or more articulately than him.
@@antbrown9066 Well, I realize this interaction is totally meaningless. There is no need for you to write the same thing a third time, or write anything. Not interested.
According to anthropology, all religions are based on the worship of the stars and planets since day one of mankind. We tell kids to stop talking to imaginary friends, but what do people do in churches, and at dinner tables before the meal? Make believe is fine for children, but when adult it is a problem.
@@FactStorm Thank you, I wasn't sure if I made it understandable enough, I have spent 40 years studying ancient religions and Astrotheology, and if only people knew the truth churches, synagogues and mosques would be out of business.
I don't give a crap what anthropologists say. Genuine religion worships a genuine God. Whether or not you believe that is an entirely different matter. Your task is to prove there is NO God. The rest of us are satisfied with our beliefs, and we have NO need to pay heed to all of you self righteous imbeciles.
@@FactStorm Everyone believes something whether they are conscious of it or not. And that belief determines their state of being and how they function in the world. For most people the core belief is that I am a physical body that was born and will die despite there being zero scientific proof for this. The problem is that the body is an object and objects can be manipulated and abused because you are just an object. And when an object (I identified as body) gets into difficulties then there is nothing to fall back on and a suicide can occur. I agree that the mainstream religions have run their course but they need to be replaced with something or chaos will eventually ensue.
@@mickberry164 He speaks without ums and ahs, its a trick the content is threadbare. The "curious case of sam harris" covers his entire bibliography on here.
@@Hambone3773 If God creates Adam and talks to him regularly, Adam knows for a fact there is a God. He'd tell his kids that, they'd tell their kids. There wouldn't have even been the thought that there were other gods. There could be different factions of the same religion, but there wouldn't be the multiple sets of the pantheon of the gods to be worshipped in very different ways. The gods of the Native Americans versus the gods of the Greeks versus the gods of the Aborigines, versus Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Wiccanism. If God was real, there would only be one religion.
@hogenmogen8545 Why would you assume that over tens of thousands of years that a non-codified monotheism would never evolve into pantheisms or polytheisms? All religious belief came from some common ancestral source whether that belief is true or not. The first person who came to belief in some sort of creator shared that belief. The only question is what does that evolution look like. It's more probable that religion began as somewhat monotheistic or even as ancestor worship and that gods were then added to pantheons over time than to think it started with a fully formed polytheism and then whittled gods away.
Religion is true for the commoner, false for the wise, useful for the politician - Seneca the Younger 56CE Religion continues to be the greatest scourge to ever be set upon man - Peralta 2024CE
Religion belongs in its region of inception; ancient Sumer. In fact, many stories in the Bible are borrowed from this early period of civilization. Like King Sargon floating down the river and rescued to become King. Sound familiar?
Denis, I will forever appreciate your contributions on the nonprophets (especially on free will) but Sam is fully on board with what Israel is doing to innocent people. Yeah, he made some good points back in the day but his critique of religion boils down to Islamophobia and not much else. He considers all other religions to be benign and Islam to be 100% fundamentalist jihadis.
Enjoy wasting your life ranting and raving about something you have no control over. Most people don't leave religion because somebody talked some reason into them -especially if that 'somebody' is a fawning minion of Sam Harris. People leave religion mostly because of anxiety, anger and fear -that is, for emotional reasons. The earliest traces of atheism in the Christian West are not found among The Great Men of the Enlightenment; they were all emotional doubters. Even today, the rising tide of secularism in the US is mostly the result of scandals in the Catholic Church and the various Evangelical scandals and hypocrisies, not because of polemicists like Harris.
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They're everywhere here in the south. It's shocking that so many adults fall for that. I knew by about 7 something was just seriously off about religion.
While the founding fathers and those that died for religious freedom want you gone. Go fight for your own atheist country. Let's see if you fools can band together and die for science....
@@antbrown9066 most human knowledge is based on experience, trial and error. Sure, sometimes it takes decades or more to get to the "truth" ( I am assuming you define "truth" as " the final and ultimate answer"). Religion is only based on words from other people,, and more often than not.. an old book that makes claims noone can prove to be true, and many that can be proven to be false. Daily knowledge based on experience and trial and error, can change as more things are understood about them. We have learned a lot about medical issues over time. People who follow their faith, rather then this new understanding, often die.. ir have their children die.. because they refused the modern way, and " had faith in gods plan". So no,, religious faith is based in nothing more than unproven claims that you are not allowed to question. The other "beliefs" are based in a steadily increase of gathered information,
@@Goldenhawk583 most of your knowledge - it comes from sources external to your own direct observation or experience. This information is what you believe. Most of human knowledge comes from belief or trust in the body of knowledge accumulated over time and place.
@@antbrown9066 the difference is still that it can be tested by anyone. And it gives consistent results when tested. None of that works for religion or religious claims. I choose to belive my car mechanic, even if I dont have the knowledge myself, I do trust that he does.. if he sucks, and muy car totals , I have learned that he was a horrible mechanic, and nect time, I will find one that has good credentials. Not so with religion. Your religious mechanic gives you a lot of stuff to dom think and say, and yet it only works sometimes, and it only ever works in groups where people think like you. Prayers doesnt work 99.9999999999% of the time, but the one tile it seems to have worked makes you forget the thousands of times it didnt. Yet Jeezus claimed that all you had to do was ask, in his name,, and it was given.. no ifs, buts or any other rquirement., He clearlu lied about that. Do you think God has a plant for all humans
My friend Stu, born and raised in a traditional Jewish family, now a successful astrophysicist and a fierce atheist, can't really give an explanation for having his two sons circumcised other than adhering to family traditions and hygiene issues. A grown man with a profound knowledge on the ongoing development of the universe can't resist both fallacies. I fear there is no hope for the rest of us uneducated masses…
Stu had a hard decision. Conform to societal norms or potentially ostracize his kid from his peers. Boys' locker rooms can be brutal. My uncircumcised friend would not shower after practice because of the fear of being so different in such a sensitive area. The fear was not unfounded. Porn, tradition, and bullying all normalize this ritual, making it a harder decision than at first glance. Morally, you're right. It's a tradition that is unfounded. But practically speaking, the one you harm is not yourself. So, it's a trolly problem of sorts. Don't pull the lever, and you enable the future moral indiscretion, but your child blends in. Pull the lever, achieve a moral victory, but you have now played a star role in potentially ostracizing your kid among his peers. I was circumsized. I want to say I would not circumsize my son. But the amount of relief I felt at having a daughter tells me that I may not have been so steadfast in that conviction. Cut Stu some slack. It's hard to break the cycle. Especially since you aren't the one that directly deals with the consequences of your decision. People tend to want to play it safe, understandably so.
‘Hygiene issues’ is total bollocks. Come to Europe and see how many are circumcised. I bet most Americans would find FGM to be barbaric, but when it comes to boys you are brainwashed by convention. A million operations a year…ka-ching!
This may sound absurd, but I've studied esoteric knowledge and have found this to be true: The reason for circumcision is to remove the cheese flavor from the phallus.
@@ericengman2578so letting another man mutilate your son's member risking damage, so other boys will approve. Do you realise females get mutilated to?
The time for silent respect when it comes to religion has long past and it is now time to call religion out for what it is. The biggest problem with the world today is religions, all of them.
@@keitumetsemodipa3012 If you need to ask a question like that then your wearing blinders my friend and giving you an answer would be pointless. Take off your blinders and have a look around. Your question is a question only a religious person would ask because they are the ones wearing the blinders. They all think they are right and don't care what anybody else thinks thus creating the biggest problem with the world today, religion. There, gave you an answer anyways. Religions are designed to control people and that is a big problem, the biggest problem with the world today.
Sam Harris forgets that in the 20th century well over 100 million people were killed by atheists. Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia and more. His reading of the New Testament is superficial. Around 100 AD several secular writers referred to the existence of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Take a copy of the NT and cut out all references to the resurrection of Jesus. That NT will be in tatters. Without the resurrection Christianity could not exist. But it did and still does. Hence it is based on reality. Through the ages people called Christian's have done atrocious things. That was because they disobeyed Jesus, proving they were not real Christians.
@@johnrowland9570 You're liar. Nazis were believers, they even had "Got mitt uns" (God with us) on their belts. Stalin and Mao were communists, not atheists. Same with Pol Pot. You're uneducated ignorant m0r0n. Kills in the name of atheism: ZERO. Kills in the name of communism: over hundred of millions (cca 140 millions). Kills in the name of abrahamic god: over BILLION. "That was because they disobeyed Jesus" 😀No. Jesus is just a myth.
@@keitumetsemodipa3012 "...if mystical faith is the basis of knowledge, logic and persuasion are irrelevant. There is only the brute assertion: “Well, that’s what I feel like believing-and I believe that you better believe it too.” There is no recourse but force." -Peter Schwartz-
If God can give me an eternal life in heaven, and I am of his design and creature, then what's with the song and dance in this reality? If I'm bad, he's responsible. He should go to hell, not me.
@piconano, you're 100% right! God created Satan, it's God who is the culprit! And...I was not born to pass God's tests or exams! God should pay for all the errors he made! God divided humans!
@@antbrown9066 "Nothing is given to man automatically, neither knowledge, nor self-confidence, nor inner serenity, nor the right way to use his mind." -Ayn Rand-
Some Buddhists commit suicide in protest against Chinese domination. But the Buddhist monks of Tibet are misusing small boys that have been entrusted into their care by the children's parents. There are many reports about this happening. The Dalai Lama takes no action to prevent the misuse. In the Church priests and missionaries do the very same thing. It's not all gold what glitters.
I'll never forget the day I was at a family wedding with my husband and our 2 year old son, a friend of my husbands family asked if we were going to have our son christened. I said no, we are not religious, her reply was, "But how will he know right from wrong?! That son is now in the armed UK forces and my other three children are all in caring professions, none of them religious.
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 No offense, but that seems to be because they were born and raised in a 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 which was founded by *_Religious_* people. . . Ever think about living in a 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 that wasn't? 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 🦠
@@Mr.BigHoggie *Atheism is default and only rational position.* *⭐ FREE CHRlSTlANS FROM CURSE OF CHRITIANITY ⭐ BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH ⭐ BlBLE IS lMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICIONS ⭐*
« Mais comment distinguera-t-il le bien du mal ?! » Cette réponse montre que cette personne est stupide et ignorante. Vous avez pris la bonne décision.
@@slytheguy6761 yet one remains archaic and static while the other gathers and searches for new knowledge. Science is a process, while most prominent religions rely on our ignorant, but highly intelligent, ancestors.
@@andyroubik5760 Agreed! indeed some religions are static and archaic …take for instance the midevil practice of Shuria law 😩.. On the other hand there exists, conversely, religious truths that transcend the limitations of time …take for instance the golden rule, or the virtue of humility..or the moral code of not murdering,etc. In such cases one could argue that religion actually surpasses science as it does not require “gathering or searching for new knowledge.” If this is what you mean by intelligent ancestry I concur, seeing that it inextricably links us to the moral authority who laid the foundation in the first place . 🙏🏽 📖
@@andyroubik5760 Games of wordcels, science as it is in reality is an institutional system with all the misaligned motivations that come with any human system, what doesn't get funded and what gets discarded is the knowledge they don't want to find.
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But hey, religions are great if you ever need an excuse to start a war
There was a Roman Catholic family living neae us when I was A child (in the 1960s) The son, who was about 10 years old came to us as we had a phone and his family didn't. He asked for us to call an ambulance as his mum was sitting on a bucked and it was filling with blood (A Haemorrhage). She was admitted to hospital and told she needed a Hysterectomy. The Catholic priest (A VERY traditional man) told her that she would be excommunicated if she went ahead with the operation as it meant she could no longer have children and it was a 'Mortal Sin'. She said "Fine, if I don't have the operation I'll die, and that's tantamount to suicide, which is also a mortal sin". She had the operation, was excommunicated. She didn't care as the priest had destroyed her faith in an instant.
" If there's any sensible question to answer, I believe that it is done via philosophy. Whatever it is that makes religion "religion" -- mystical claims to knowledge, a belief in the supernatural, etc. -- are mistaken. Whatever is left over that is good about religious institutions, including a sense of community, artistic inspiration, charitable organization, etc., is no less available to the secular and the rational." -Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
The things that 10 year olds believe! In North America or Europe, that priest would have had a pretty good education. So he would not have been so ignorant about theology to say such a thing. I suspect you heard some anti Catholic propaganda.
Do you feel better now ? Of course Jesus existed , not as God but as a man who showed people how to love. What's wrong with that ? Atheism;the new religion .
Thank you Mr. Harris, it occurred to me while listening that the only people taking god’s name in vain, are those who claim that any other religion than Christianity, etc. will result in damnation. Saying god same is not taking god’s name in vain, but damning someone else to hell is said to be god’s right alone, so anyone claiming another group is damned is yet another flaw of religious belief.
Great job putting together multiple talks from Sam and presenting it in this way. Very engaging. this was very well produced. Thank you for taking the time to do it.
The entire Bible is man made stories to explain that which they did not understand in the earlier years of humanity. It has been a crutch for the world for thousands of years. It needs to go. Almost every w@r ever fought was for greed, real estate, and power in the name of a self proclaimed God, or religion. Of the thousands of Gods and Goddesses, which one do you bow down to? I bow down to no one, personally. I'm a giving loving and caring person that doesn't need a book to tell me right from wrong or where my "soul" is going when I leave this world. I will be dead. I didn't exist, I was born and as of now I am 59 years old, when I die, I will cease to exist. What's so hard about that? Science has traced every single thing on our planet to a SINGLE common single celled organism known as LUCA: LUCA is an acronym for "last universal common ancestor," which is the most recent organism that all cellular life on Earth descends from. LUCA is a node on the tree of life, and the point at which the fundamental prokaryotic domains of Archaea and Bacteria diverge. I am going with the science. No Gods, No Masters! Take care of fellow humans and animals, that's what WE, homosapiens, should be able to do. But no, we have to have greed, control and power disguised as religious beliefs. You do you, but don't push your beliefs on me because I will walk away. Your religious beliefs end where MY civil LIBERTIES begin! Period!
@@Sergiu.antifascist "I am primarily the creator of a new code of morality which has so far been believed impossible, namely a morality not based on faith, not on arbitrary whim, not on emotion, not on arbitrary edict, mystical or social, but on reason; a morality that can be proved by means of logic which can be demonstrated to be true and necessary. Now may I define what my morality is? Since man’s mind is his basic means of survival […] he has to hold reason as an absolute, by which I mean that he has to hold reason as his only guide to action, and that he must live by the independent judgment of his own mind; that his highest moral purpose is the achievement of his own happiness […] that each man must live as an end in himself, and follow his own rational self-interest." -Ayn Rand-
@@BeefT-Sq that is quite a whim. no, you don't get to write what moral is, because true moral exists already, it is not you who introduces it, you are already grown up in it. the fact that moral can have more than one definition, it does not change the fact that there is one true moral. true moral has nothing to do with any god, and also not with personal whim. moral is impossible to guess, to know, if you neglect other things. other things are easier to know, so moral is the harder to know. other thing you can know without any moral, therefore moral you can know only if you know other things. moral is what the other things are not, that is the story of it. moral can only be result of long and systematic education. first things to know, are aggression and easiness of life. bad times and good times. therefore moral is different. moral is about reciprocity, therefore is about good in times of bad, and bad in times of good. moral is not about choosing happiness for yourself, not at all times. moral is about choosing good for yourself, when good is denied for you, and bad for yourself, when it is good. moral is not an unconditional good. when somebody says it is not moral for you to go to school, to find your love, you tell that somebody go to hell. when somebody tells you how good is to drive a car, you go to hell.
Sam hits one out of the park. I love how he efficiently targets the problem. It isn't a matter of faith or which God, it is how it can impact critical thinking. We have technology in existence that we can't afford to use this thinking anymore. Imagine someone that puts an AI into a robot 50 years from now that enforces some religious doctrine absolutely. He is always great at highlighting how eastern religions differ from the Abrahamic.
Wasn't Paul secretly working for the Flavian Dynasty? Weren't all of the original Roman Catholic Saints' members of the Flavian Dynasty? Weren't all of the original symbols used by the earliest Christians identical to those of the Flavian Dynasty? And isn’t one of the earliest iconographic symbols for Christianity, located in a catacomb, under the city of Rome, which was owned by a Flavian Princess? Weren't all of the original Jesus cult texts produced under the oversight of the Flavian Dynasty? Didn't the Flavian Dynasty posses the only remaining copy of the Hebrew Tanakh other than the Greek Septuagint translation? Isn't there Flavian typology in the Gospels? Weren't the canonical texts all back dated like the historical fiction of Gone With The Wind? Wasn't Emperor Vespasian known as the Jewish Messiah? Wasn’t Pope Clement of Rome a Flavian? Wasn't Josephus a temple whore for the Flavian Dynasty? Weren't the Flavian’s, as well as Paul, descended from King Herod? There was no separation of Church and State in the Roman Empire. And Christianity is clearly a Greco-Roman hybrid form of Judaism created by the Flavian Dynasty. As an attempt to adapt, pacify, and integrate the rebellious and defiant Jews into the rest of the Greco-Roman Empire. Just like the Greeks created Hermes Trismegistus to integrate Egyptian mythology with Greek mythology.Then finally Neo-Flavian Constantine chose the Flavian family religion to be the official religion of the entire Roman Empire. In order to consolidate power in his fractured Empire. And then Eusebius edited and rewrote the history of the previous 3OO years. Destroying all contradictory evidence. It isn't history it is all simply Greco-Roman mythopoetic literature. Today it is known as Historical Fiction. “What profit hath not this fable of Christ brought us.” Pope Leo X 💙
I've been saying this since 2010. But I was born gay I can see it. I can feel it. The psychosis all around me. Came out of my family in the south as a homophobic nightmare of life. Religions crazy❤
"I direct you toward Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. In her system, she identifies the needs of men succinctly. She talks about individualism, productivity, a flourishing life, an exchange of physical and emotional values between men. Importantly, she provides reasoning to substantiate her claims." -Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
Before you all go praising Sam Harris' rationality, be aware that Sam Harris has in recent times believes that some races are biologically superior to others - especially mentally - and he believes the science supports this view it.
My neighbor has the right to wear a Speedo tiny swim suit outside in the middle of winter. It doesn't mean I should not think that he is stupid and more importantly doesn't mean that I should not oppose his efforts to make wearing only Speedos in the middle of winter a law that everyone has to follow.
I've not read any of the Muslim holy book, so I can't comment. There are many factors and reasons for religious fundamentalism. There are many very peaceful and positive Muslims. Not saying it's for me, but everyone has to be free to be indoctrinated as they please.. most countries have done atrocities under any old premise.
🪙 *_@alexmirza5210_* 🪙 " . . . 𝓤𝓵𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂, . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 . . . 𝓘𝓼 𝓞𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓐 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓞𝓯 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼!! . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼 𝓞𝓷 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓜𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓭!! . . . " Your comment was more honest than Sam Harris' whole video.. . . Especially at the end!!! . . . Yes, . . I *_Believe_* in the teachings of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣, . . . yet I must admit that 𝓗𝓘𝓢 *_Church(es)_* have missed the mark more than they have hit it!! . . . *_Theists_* and *_Atheists_* get so bogged down in their pointless competitions of who is wrong *_vs._* who is right, . . . that we both miss the point entirely!!! . . . I think that the starting point should be something like this. . . *_(#1)_* It is obvious that everything in the Universe is governed by *_Laws_* which are commonly called Physics, or the Universe would (theoretically) collapse upon itself. *_(#2)_* Humans also need *_Laws,_* (Moral & Ethical *_Laws_* ) otherwise Societies as we have come to know them will inevitably descend into Chaos, Disorder and Entropy. *_(#3)_* Why does the Universe and Human Societies need these very specific *_Laws_* to be (seemingly) perfectly and intricately harmonized in order to function Properly? *_(#4)_* Why do Humans so often willfully and deliberately break these Societal *_(Laws)_* knowing that if we break them, Chaos (Revolutions) must eventually ensue, i.e., *_(Wars)?_* " . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝔂𝓹𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 . . . 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓷 . . . 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓢𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓼 . . . 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓙𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓭𝔂 . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝓨𝓸𝓾!! . . . " 💯 *_Amen?_* 💯
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 What about *_Racist Fundamentalists_* like the 𝓟𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓸 𝓝𝓪𝔃𝓲 *_American White🗑Supremacist "Founding Fathers"_* who *_Committed Genocide_* on the First Nations Tribes/Indians and *_Force Enslaved, Mutilated, Raped, Murdered_* and *_Maimed_* my African American ancestors for Centuries? You see, . . . the problem is not . . . 𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓸𝓷 *_vs._* 𝓢𝓮𝓬𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓶, . . . or . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓶 *_vs._* 𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓶 . . . because the common denominator is sinful, fallen 𝓜𝓪𝓷!! 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 🦠
One major issue that is seldom if ever discussed is the genocidal doctrine of Young Earth Creationism, particularly regarding cultural genocide which has been used as a primary excuse driving colonization and wiping out entire societies across the Western and Southern Hemispheres.
@@antbrown9066 LOL Look up what is the definition of the scientific method and compare that to the definiton of faith, then come back and tell us how to find "Truth"! Chop-chop!
@@antbrown9066 "These secular intellectuals are responsible for chipping away at the irrationality of religion. They're responsible for religions "adapting to the times" -- accepting evolution, rehabilitating Galileo, accepting homosexuality -- so as not to lose more adherents. The only reason so many westerners are still Christian is that they have redefined what it means to be Christian. If you examine their beliefs and attitudes, they have adopted so much from the secular intellectuals... yet, there's no term for that part of their thinking, so they use the term "Christian" which really describes only a portion of their philosophy (and ever smaller portion)." -Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
The comparison between Islam and Buddhism is partly true, the core values of Buddhism is very far from violence so it would take a lot of persuading to make a Buddhist terrorist, but it is not entirely impossible. Buddhist of Myanmar and Sri Lanka are living examples of violence. If we look closely at the Muslims of Myanmar they did not resort to terrorism on the face of violent persecution by Buddhists, so terrorism based on Islam is thus not just religious but also has a cultural and regional catalyst. All the Abrahamic religions are inherently violent, the Old testament calls for genocide, loot, abuse of even children and life stock that makes all the Abrahamic religions root cause for terrorism, a continued state of violence in the middle east is also the reason for Terrorism. Lets not forget that Ashoka in order to spread Buddhism beyond his territories employed violence despite Buddhism preaching non violence. Also lack of inherent violence in Buddhism was the reason for its down fall in India as it was not able to stop the on slaughter of the Vedic religion. Religion need to be inherently violent for their survival and those religions that are not violent enough cease to exist, the religious extremist and moderates in all religion know this. That is why any and all religion are bad for human existence.
It is more funny even, that the religious zealots are never respecting anything else than the religion they are believers of, not even other religions, I must clarify I am religious, but in my religion, there is no obligation or need to convert or expand others to our religion, or negate the phylosophies of atheists, I am an european polytheist, and for us, free will is to be respected the most, not any religion, your actions on this world are the only important thing in this world, not your beliefs
Robert Heinlein put it best in Stranger In A Strange Land when Mike, learning English asked why "faith" was not included among the monosyllables that must not be used in polite company. My faith is mine alone. I never confuse it with judgement or conformity to inflict on others.
In Harris's best selling book, The End of Faith, he tells us he's some kind of Buddhist. He's not any kind of rational atheist. He's not what he says on UA-cam.
you think? i would not be religious, even if i knew with certainty that there is a god. you all miss the point of atheism. atheism is not about not believing that which is not proven. atheism is not believing, no matter if there is god. atheism is not about proofs, it is about not adhering. true atheism is not about not believing, it is about not accepting. even if god exists, i do not accept his patronage, not that way. if there is a god, he can only talk respectfully to me, or go away. this is the meaning of the word atheist
@@Sergiu.antifascist This is a great example of the no true scotsman fallacy. Atheism is very simply the lack of belief in a god. So, my personal take on the concept of god, like an interfering god, one that can do stuff, I don't buy it. As to the concept that some intelligence may have created the universe, I have no way to test it, so I kinda don't care. That makes me an agnostic atheist, with respect to the god question overall. With respect to the biblical god yahweh, I am an anti-theist, that's gotta be bullshit, and even if he was real, I would not follow him, as he is a baby murdering scumbag. So, hey look, you learned a new word today, and how it applies to you. Have a nice day.
@@Sergiu.antifascist " Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life." -Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
Life on this 'the only blue sphere ever detected in this universe' is the 'gift' that folks pray for as an eternal afterlife that does not exist. Human existence, short as it is, in a free nation at this time in a healthy well-maintained body IS HEAVEN. Make the most out of these lifetimes...when it's gone, it's gone forever. Here and Now.
He's wrong when he throws people into a bunch. I'm a Religious Moderate and I have no problem with jokes about my Religion or anyone else's religion. It's people, and their belief's that I respect. I don't have any respect for violence or violent people, regardless of Religious Belief. My spiritual beliefs are not a matter of fact, they are a matter of faith. Your little video here is disrespectful to HUMAN BEINGS, that just have different beliefs than you. Most of "Religious dogma" is crazy but please, your arrogance, and self-righteousness is silly. You are never going to change people, or the need of people to think beyond this reality, no matter what form that takes.
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 are the lowest form of 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼 on Planet Earth!! . . . These 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 have already *_rid_* themselves of Religion, . . . so why don't you live in one of them you, 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮?!?!?! . . . What is wrong with you? . . . 👇🏽 *_Go here!!_* . 👇🏽. . 👇🏽 *_Move here!! . . . ._* 👇🏽 . . 👇🏽 *_Leave and go here!!_* 👇🏽 . . . 👇🏽 *_Go now!! . . . Go, Go, Go, Go!!_* 👇🏽 🤣🤣 *_The People's Republic of China, The Republic of Cuba, Lao People's Republic, North Korea, The Socialist Republic of Vietnam_* 🤣🤣 🇨🇳 🇨🇺 🇱🇦 🇰🇵 🇻🇳 What are you waiting for? . . . Here is your Paradise!! . . . ☝🏽 *_Move here!!_* ☝🏽 . . . *_This is your Utopian Society!! . . ._* ☝🏽𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 are nothing more than 𝓛𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼!! . . . You are completely delusional to the fact that the 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 that you live in was definitely founded by 𝓓𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 *_/_* 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼!! . . . We should *_rid_* ourselves of you, . . . 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮!!! 𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 criticizing 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓶 while living in 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 are not only 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼, . . . . you are 𝓛𝓲𝓪𝓻𝓼, . . . 𝓒𝓸𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓼 and . . . 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓼 by your Nature as well!! 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 🦠
@@Mr.BigHoggietoo bad that you're so morally bankrupt that you need an external control on your behavior. Just admit to being a terrible person and you'll gain self respect.
🕋 *_@joemamma_* 🕋 🇵🇸 *_FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!!_* 🇵🇸 Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! " . . . 𝓘𝓯 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓩𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 *_4,000_* 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓐𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 . . . 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓔𝓾𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮? . . . " After the Jews established the first State of Israel in around . . . *_(1,000 BCE)_* . . . having first settled there *_1,000 years_* before that, . . . the Assyrians *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel! in *_(721 BCE)._* . . . Approximately *_134 years_* later, the Babylonians defeated the Assyrians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel, destroyed the First Jewish Temple, enslaved *_1/3_* of the Jews, slaughtered *_1/3_* of the Jews and scattered *_1/3_* of the Jews. . . Approximately *_70 years_* later, . . . the Persians defeated the Babylonians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel, . . . but they were much kinder than the Babylonians and even rebuilt the Jews' First Temple free of charge in *_(517 BCE)._* . . . Around *_187 years_* later, the Macedonians defeated the Persians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel in *_(330 BCE)_* and desecrated the Jews' second Temple *_163 years_* later in *_(167 BCE)_* . . . " . . . 𝓘𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓕𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . . 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓕𝓪𝓷 . . . 𝓑𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓓𝓔𝓐𝓓𝓗𝓔𝓐𝓓𝓔𝓓 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓑𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮!! . . . " Around *_260 years_* later, the Romans defeated the Macedonians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel in *_(63 BCE)_* and desecrated our 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 *_and_* 𝓢𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 *_the Most Blessed_* 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 around *_100 years_* later in *_(33 CE)._* . . . *_37 years_* later the Romans finally destroyed Jerusalem and the Jews' second Temple and scatter the Jews to Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East in *_(70 CE)._* . . . About *_50 years_* and then *_60 years_* later, the Roman did the same thing again in a series of *_Jewish/Roman Wars/Revolts,_* scattering more Jews to Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East!! . . . Around *_500 years_* later the Arab Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel, defeated the remaining Romans and Persian in the area and held the land of Israel/Judea for *_880 years,_* until the Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel for *_401 years!!_* . . . " . . . 𝓘𝓯 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓩𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 *_4,000_* 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓐𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 . . . 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓔𝓾𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮? . . . " Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! 🇮🇱 *_FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF ISLAM!!!_* 🇮🇱 🕌
The problem with the old Jewish concept of a messiah is that it was and is based on tribalistic belief in manifest destiny, not on ideals of universal brotherhood, justice, freedom, and equality. This is true of virtually all forms of religion that only extend the grace and blessings of God to members of the tribe, or race of believers. But, that is not what Christ taught when he walked on earth 2,000 years ago: "Come, oh beloved of my father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the earth." "I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance." "Do nothing to anyone you would not have done to you. Do not judge, for as you judge others so shall you be judged. And by the measure you use it shall be measured to you. Treat all others as you would be treated for that sums up the Law and the Prophets." In those concise clear words Christ outlines the steps each and every one of us can take in our daily lives to end for all time the centuries of self-inflicted suffering of humanity. He states that our judgment of others defines our own life condition. To the extent that we cause others to suffer we cause ourselves the very same suffering. And that has been the case now every day and night for eons. Had the early Roman Catholic Church truly followed Christ's teachings there would never have been centuries of war and persecution based on religion. No Spanish Inquisition. No violent suppression of protestant denominations. Had Constantine I truly initiated the bond between church and state in 325AD as Christ taught and exemplified there never would have been centuries of self-proclaimed "royalty" professing to be God's chosen rulers on earth. The self-enrichment, self-glorification and empowerment that monarchs indulged in for over 1,500 years was in direct contradiction to Christ's definition of true leadership: "He who would be great among you must be your servant. He who would be the first must be your slave just as the Son of Man has come not to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many." The good news? We, the people our life-sustaining, miraculously abundant planet Earth that is full of life as found on no other planet for 90 billion light years in every direction can truly establish liberty and justice for all humanity the moment we turn from the darkness of past blindness, injustice, selfish greed, and disregard for other human beings and establish what Christ called the kingdom of heaven. His words have the power to create truly lasting peace and prosperity for all people everywhere on Earth. "I am the truth, the life, and the way." "Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light."
✟ *_@chrisgreco4249_* ✟ " . . . 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓾𝓼 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 . . . 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓐𝓛𝓛 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓻𝔂 . . . 𝓽𝓸 𝓖𝓞𝓓 . . . " 𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓽!! . . . But I must disagree that the *_"Old_* 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱" concept of the 𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓐𝓗 was based strictly upon the Tribal *_Belief_* of Manifest Destiny of the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼!! . . . Because the concept of the 𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓐𝓗 predates so called 𝓙𝓾𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓼𝓶 and the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 by *_Thousands Of Years!!_* . . . In fact, many Religions have a 𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓐𝓗, . . . which can be traced all the way back to *_(Genesis 3:14-15)_* to the Gardena of Eden. . . . Far too many people (including the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼) think that the Bible is about 𝓙𝓾𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓼𝓶, when in fact it is more about the 𝓕𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓱 *_of_* 𝓑𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓐𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓶 . . . a *_Gentile_* and not a 𝓙𝓮𝔀!! . . . And what the 𝓣𝓞𝓡𝓐𝓗 teaches is much greater than man's understanding of . . . *_Universal Brotherhood, Justice, Freedom and Equality._* . . . 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓷? "But when the *_Pharisees_* had heard that 𝓗𝓔 had put the *_Sadducees_* to silence, they were gathered together. . . . Then one of them, which was a *_Lawyer,_* asked 𝓗𝓘𝓜 a question, tempting 𝓗𝓘𝓜, and saying, . . . . *_"Master, which is the Great Commandment in the Law?_* . . . 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 said Unto him, . . . "Thou shalt 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 the 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 thy 𝓖𝓞𝓓 with 𝓐𝓛𝓛 thy 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽, and with 𝓐𝓛𝓛 thy 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓵, and with 𝓐𝓛𝓛 thy 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓭. . . . This is the 𝓕𝓘𝓡𝓢𝓣 and 𝓖𝓡𝓔𝓐𝓣 𝓒𝓞𝓜𝓜𝓐𝓝𝓓𝓜𝓔𝓝𝓣. . . . . And The 𝓢𝓔𝓒𝓞𝓝𝓓 is like unto it. . . Thou shalt 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 thy 𝓝𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓫𝓸𝓻 as 𝓣𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯. . . . On these 𝓣𝓦𝓞 𝓒𝓞𝓜𝓜𝓐𝓝𝓓𝓜𝓔𝓝𝓣 hang 𝓐𝓛𝓛 the 𝓛𝓐𝓦 and the 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓼." - Matthew 22:34-40 That is why our 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 and 𝓢𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 only praised *_Gentiles_* for having 𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓕𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓱 *_(Matthew 15:21-28 & Luke 7:1-10)_* and not 𝓗𝓘𝓢 own *_Disciples/Apostles_* . . . or the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼!! . . . Today, the *_Church_* of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 is a fornicating 𝓦𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓮 just like the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 were before 𝓖𝓞𝓓 cast them out of the land of 𝓘𝓼𝓻𝓪𝓮𝓵 in 587 BCE, . . . but you can't tell so called 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓼 or 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓼 that, because they truly *_Believe_* that 𝓖𝓞𝓓 intended for them to replace the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼!! 😭 When we say the words "𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷" *_Church_* instead of the words *_Church_* of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣, . . . who gets the 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓻𝔂? . . . . A man made word ("𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷"), . . . or the 𝓜𝓪𝓷 (𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣) 𝓦𝓗𝓞 established 𝓗𝓘𝓢 Church with 𝓗𝓘𝓢 own Blood 𝓗𝓘𝓜𝓢𝓔𝓛𝓕? . . . . When we say the word "𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂" instead of the words *_Faith_* in 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣, . . . who gets the 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓻𝔂? . . . A man made Religion ("𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂"), . . . or the 𝓜𝓪𝓷 (𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣) 𝓦𝓗𝓞 established our *_Faith_* with 𝓗𝓘𝓢 own Blood 𝓗𝓘𝓜𝓢𝓔𝓛𝓕? . . . . " . . . 𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 . . . 𝓑𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓻 𝓷𝓸𝓽 . . . 𝓘 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓽!! . . . " 💯𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓷!!💯 🩸
@@Seticzech There is no war-it’s a genocide begun by an apartheid colonizing state of power, money, and blood-hungry fanatics who have convinced you to give them money and kiss their feet, even though they’d happily spit on your feet. The UN has declared them guilty of countless humanitarian violations, and they’ve explicitly said they don’t want peace-which their casualty toll bears witness to. Wake up. You’re deep asleep.
@@celestialknight2339 There is war. "it’s a genocide begun by an apartheid colonizing state of power" 🤣🤣🤣🤦 '"The UN has declared them guilty of countless humanitarian violations" Sure. You mean that UN with Oil-for-Food Program, Peacekeeping child sexual abuse, and other disgusting scandals? 😀 "Wake up. You’re deep asleep." No, I just don't believe in islamic and far leftist propaganda.
I discovered the “four horsemen”Dennett, Harris, Dawkins & Hitchens in 2015… I have never looked at religion the same. It’s a lonely but necessary space for us to evolve
⩜⃝ *_@Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🦾 *_Why don't we put our Money where our Mouth is Sam? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see which are the Best?_* 🦿 " . . . 𝓤𝓵𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓘𝓼 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓪 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓸𝓯 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼!! . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼 𝓸𝓷 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂!! . . . " 🤖 It is very easy to be unnecessarily distracted isn't it? . . . Those Atheists have been attacking the *_Church_* of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 for Centuries now and what will they replace us with? 🤣🤣 *_(The People's Republic of China, The Republic of Cuba, Lao People's Republic, North Korea, The Socialist Republic of Vietnam)_* 🤣🤣 🇨🇳 🇨🇺 🇱🇦 🇰🇵 🇻🇳 ⚙ " . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾!! . . . 𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓑𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓽 . . . 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮!! . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓮!! . . . " 🦾 *_Why don't we put our Money where our Mouth is Sam? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see which are the Best?_* 🦿 🦠
@@HoggRidduh *FREE CHRISTIANS FROM THE CURSE OF CHRISTIANITY!!!!! . . . BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH!!!!! . . . BIBLE IS IMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICTIONS!!!*
Dennett and Hitchens, they were poisoned by Catholic Church doctrine and tradition as are Dawkins and Harris. They were too educated in man’s “wisdom”. They would not or perhaps could not entertain the thought that God is love. Everything that we think or believe about God must necessarily be scrutinized through the lens of God is love. Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life and, You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. They are dead now. It is sad that they never came to a love of the truth. I pray for Dawkins and Harris.
A religionist came to my door the other day with his young son. He handed me a propaganda pamphlet and I noted the typical Southern Baptist rhetoric. "What are the wages of sin?". Blah blah blah. Then proceeded to ask me what church I went to. I told him the doctrines of his establishment have caused Great harm to the world (and continue to do so) and I no longer believed in the lies or spreading those lies. He said "okay", shrugged his shoulders and he and his son turned walked away. I stood there horrified and thought oh my God that was me 30 years ago even though I was never so bold as to go door-to-door and evangelize people. I always thought that was embarrassing. The religious establishment really does spread lies though. Millions of people running around espousing a belief system that oftentimes is nonsense and is a twisting or butchering of the original ancient texts. Islam and Christianity are almost identical. I have listened to my Muslim friends sit and talk to me about the fall of Lucifer and the end times in the coming of Jesus. If I didn't know they were Muslim I would have believed they were some variety of Southern Baptist evangelist. Two quotes I have held closed since I have learned the truth. "You will behave like the god you worship". So if he is a psychopath you will behave like a psychopath. The other quote is "there is no hate like Christian love". I have personally experienced that one as well.
I am an agnostic Korean, and while atheists may not make sacrifices or risk their lives driven by religious beliefs like missionaries, I acknowledge the profound impact Christian missionaries had in Korea. Over 10,000 U.S. and Western missionaries were killed while spreading the teachings of the Bible, helping to improve civil rights, education, and prosperity. In the early 20th century, during the Chosun Dynasty, nearly half of Korea's population lived in slavery, marking one of the longest periods of indentured servitude in history, spanning approximately 1,500 years. Missionaries played a crucial role in education, establishing 796 schools by 1910, including medical schools and universities. At the time, 90% of Koreans were illiterate, so missionaries had to educate the population in order for them to read and learn the Bible. Notably, Mary Fletcher Benton Scranton founded the first schools for Korean women. Through these efforts, Christianity introduced human rights and economic improvements, significantly contributing to Korea's rapid development.
The intention isn't genuine or well-directed if its laden with proselytization efforts and goals to try and convince others to convert, and believe in things without evidence. Bait & switch..a classic. Einstein's classic quote always comes to mind: "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed". Even Hamas offers social services, so what? Does that make their core doctrine true or moral? No. It just means there are elements and individuals within any group that do good despite religion. If an agenda is there, instead of doing good for the sake of good - then the whole premise of an ethical & genuine approach is void.
@@FactStorm I totally understand your concerns about proselytization and belief without evidence, and I also see where you're coming from with the Hamas example. Maybe some religions do fall into that category. However, I believe Christianity, especially how it impacted Korea, is different. And just to clarify, I’m not a Christian, but I do believe that Christianity has brought about many positive changes. As a Korean, I can only speak to the profound influence US and Western Christians had on Korea, for which I am incredibly grateful. For over 4,000 years, Korea was an atheist society where the king and nobles, a mere 2% of the population, ruled over the rest. In 1910, half the population were slaves, and the law at that time treated them as property. Masters had the legal right to kill, rape, or torture their slaves without consequence-this was the harsh reality. Western and US Christian missionaries, believing that every human is made in the image of God, advocated for the dignity and value of all individuals. These beliefs contributed significantly to social transformation in Korea, freeing millions from a system of oppression. Sure, their beliefs may not always be rooted in evidence in the scientific sense, but their faith drove humanitarian actions that helped shift Korea toward a more just society. More than 10,000 missionaries, many from the US, lost their lives in Korea while spreading these values, yet their influence helped promote individual rights and freedom. While evidence is critical in many aspects of life, it’s also true that some of the most profound changes in history come from belief and faith. Christianity, in this case, led to positive changes that gave people hope and freedom.
I got an “A” in Scientific Atheism, that was a requirement for a medical student in a Soviet Union university, so why am I listening to this eloquent man? Because logic and reason are so appealing and I am lazy to switch to another video. It’s true, that the population of the American continent is clinging to it”s Bibles, and the most religious are, also, clinging to their AR15 style weapons of war. Love thy neighbor, but keep your high capacity magazines loaded 😂😢
Love thy neighbor does not mean to lie down when your neighbor, who happens to believe in survival of the fittest, wants to kill you and your family because they think themselves to be the super race. "God asks, who will stand in the gap of the wall" with his sword to protect others and give his life if necessary. Hmmmmmm. That Jesus called the greatest form of love. V
Scientific Atheism? Therein lies a conflict. Science is not a belief system. Atheism is. No connection. False logic. I would give you an F for fail. Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
@@antbrown9066 Science--AS IT IS TAUGHT TODAY--is a BELIEF SYSTEM--QUOTE: “We have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. Lewontin, Richard (1997), “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review, January 9. SCIENCE SHOULD BE ABOUT ACCEPTING ALL FORMS OF "AGENCY" not just materialistic explanations, when, the PROBABILITY of "AGENCY" is overwhelming. PERIOD 1) The Universe supposedly came from NOTHING AND BY THE GOD OF THE ATHEIST CALLED NOTHING. An actual, factual MIRACLE, without a Miracle worker -- a Scientific Impossibility. 2) Life From Non life -- Miracle NUMBER 2. Just the FACTS ABOUT PROTEINS. Sir Fred Hoyle, any probability greater than 1 Chance in 10 to the 50th Power is a MIRACLE. Just ONE small protein, 150 amino acids long--the chance of it coming together by CHANCE is 1 Chance in 10 to the 77 power. A small cell has 41 Million protein molecules, with some 1000 amino acids long. Origin of life SCIENCE--our first ancestor would need minimum of 206 DIFFERENT TYPES of proteins, and from 10 to 500 thousand copies of those proteins depending on the structure they form in the cell. Now add in 400 Million lines of DNA, and two unfathomable biological systems called replication and translation, so the next cell could replicate. THIS CANNOT HAPPEN BY CHANCE. PERIOD, AND YOU ARE A FOOL IF YOU BELIEVE IT CAN.
@@antbrown9066 Atheism is not a belief system. It’s the lack of belief in deities. Why do you spam this channel so much? Just sit quietly and listen and maybe you will learn something.
@@HeirOfNothingInParticular that is where you are wrong. Atheism is most certainly a position. It is therefore a belief system. You cannot take a position without forming an opinion (belief) of a concept. Naturalist science excludes the possibility of intelligent designer. It starts with an established exclusion criteria. This is a belief. Atheists Believe that there is no such thing as an intelligent designer or if you like, deity. This is not spam. It is a response to an incorrect position which you are asserting. You are asserting your belief. I suggest studying what belief means. That word may be the problem. Some equate belief to the concept of blind faith. Belief is on a spectrum. So is quality of evidence - on it’s own spectrum. Atheists appear to put religiosity and God belief on the evidence spectrum at the bottom (zero evidence) and on the belief spectrum perhaps near or at the top - zealotry or fanaticism. And they may well be right. When I do science, I believe that those outside of my field, have in the main, adhered to the process of science as I do, and provided the scientific body of knowledge with useful information / knowledge, aiming for truth.
*@HoggRidduh* Repeat after me: in the beginning man created god in his own image. That's why god is not perfect but has human attributes like envy, jealoucy, violence, misogyny, regrets, or urges. God is PURE FICTION.
⩜⃝ *_@Useless-Worthless-Atheists!!_* ⩜⃝ *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼? You want to know what I find so interesting about Sam's and the Vatican's assessment of the manufactured *_HIV/AAIDS_* problem in Africa? . . . The United States has the very same problem here. . . I watched two Documentaries about the spread of *_HIV/AAIDS_* around the World and two of the hardest hit places was the American South *_(Mississippi)_* and Africa *_(Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe)._* The *_godless, Leftist Liberal, Crypto Communist_* media claims that *_HIV/AAIDS_* is mostly spread in America by Young/Gay African American males who refuse to use condoms. . . . They also say that Truck Drivers frequenting Prostitutes along their Transportation Routes is the primary cause for the transmission of those Diseases in South Africa. . . But did you notice that the easiest remedy to cure those terrible Diseases actually destroys Sam Harris' argument that *_"Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics_* are better than *_"Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics?_* The *_"Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics_* in the Bible Commands *_Believers_* to *_not_* engage in Fornication/Adultery *_&_* Homosexuality. . . No Secular *_"Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics_* do!! *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼? 🦠
Condom use is immoral. It destroys nature and possible procreation. You were born because your parents were willing to make great sacrifices of their time, expense, and attention, for many years, should a pregnancy result from sexual intercourse. Abstinence is character building and develops will power and discipline. Now, if people can't have children for any reason, or they're too old to have children, sexual pleasure is fine to indulge in. But for young healthy individuals to put pleasure ahead of possible parental responsibilities is immoral. Morals in matters like this are not clear to everyone. We should listen to the moral reasoning of authoritative figures in matters where there are wide societal disagreements. People come up with moral justifications for abortion, murder, fornication, slavery, or any evil path they want to pursue -- so we can get it wrong.
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@@fibonacimike4110 It's not. You mean "when" is sex for pleasure immoral? ... When it's rape. When it's molestation. When it's abusive. When contraceptives are used. When it's adultery. When it's fornication. When it's incest. When it's homosexuality. When it's pedophilia. When it's masturbation. When it massage therapy or prostitution. Even entertaining impure thoughts for emotional enjoyment is immoral in the eyes of God. "Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart" ... Sex for pleasure between man and wife isn't immoral -- even if no pregnancy can come of it. The rhythm method of birth control is perfectly moral.
I’m not an adherent of religion. I’m not an atheist. I’m not, not an atheist. My senses tell me I exist. My instinct is to avoid labels. I am happy when I’m kind.
Great compilation. Love, expressed through a commitment to human wellbeing, is the only available basis for a truly moral society. Religious dogma, developed in order to sustain empires and institutions since ancient times, exists to justify whatever evil in necessary to sustain power and privilege.
You can get away with saying anything you want as long as you put the title "Reverend" or "Father" or "Pastor" before your name. -Christopher Hitchens quote.
I don’t disagree with Harris that religion creates “separation and Balkanization” of populations. The problem IS that the PROBLEM of existence and survival ALSO create separation and Balkanization. Religion vs. atheism has nothing to do with it. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
My Dad, a cradle Catholic, (born 1920) told me as I was packing to leave home for university not to accept the teachings of the church on birth control. " What right, he asked, do celibate, childless men in dresses have to tell the rest of us how to run our married lives. Decide for us whether or not to have children ( the 1st 4 of us were unplanned proving the rythm method doesnt work. The 5th, drama queen, who likes to think she was an 'accident', was actually, Mum said the only planned child). What I recall most was Dad's anger at himself for believing their twaddle.
⩜⃝ *_@Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 Really? . . . Because Sam Harris fails to *_prove_* his false assertion about *_"Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics_* being infeior to *_"Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics_* Would you care to try? 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 🦠
Regards condom use as 'immoral': this predicates on the useless idea that people shouldn't have sex for any reason other than procreation. These are the same people that think 'abstinence only' is a viable plan to teach human sexuality to our young. The profound ignorance of these ideas is unbelievable.
Yes, Religion is the cause for all the trouble in the world. Your faith in random forces creating good is foolish. Order and design comes from a moral law giver. Jesus has already won the war that is why he came in weakness. The creator of heaven and earth came to earth as a baby and lived a sinless life for a ransom for our sin. He is worthy. Dot take my word for it look at the evidence yourself. Many false teachers. Shhep in wolfs clothing.
As a Catholic in Europe, we were not allowed to read the Bible. The chiefs in Rome compiled an index that indicated which books you were allowed to read if you had a certain education. I think that they discovered early in the era that there was too much diversity in the interpretation of the scriptures from which they compiled the Bible. Now that we have the internet, it is very clear that no two people can agree on the interpretation of a single verse, let alone the entire scripture. Couldn't that god, who gave people the texts, tell a correct story in one go? Or is the conclusion that it was simply made up by shepherds more than 2000 years ago a more logical thing?
You are confused about your history. Yes, the Catholic Church once did exercise a lot of control over thought and social conduct, just as Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah Witness do today. But you are confused about much else.
I think it was Hitchens who said (paraphrase) 'Christianity's greatest achievement wasn't convincing millions of people to believe in absurdities, it was convincing the rest of us that we were not to criticise it.
@RotiJohn-c3z I agree. When Hitchens was speaking he was talking about Christianity but I'm sure he would apply the same argument against all other religions.
I work with many smart, educated people of various, very different religions. During the week we get along, do our work with science and reason. But when the weekends or religious days come, it’s like their very brains alter. They believe in these wild things that are incompatible with one another, and even with how they normally function throughout the rest of the week. Maybe it’s just cultural or tradition, but they seem to really believe it, even though it has no basis in reality and is seemingly antithetical to the rest of the lives they live. I by no means intend to discourage people to drop their religious practices, at least when it has no harm to others, but I cannot wrap my head around the disconnect. The taboo may exist partially to help everyone get along, but it doesn’t satiate my wish for understanding.
Yup, most people are fine until their religious switch turns on. Individuals go from rational, reasonable and moral to delusional and questionably unethical in an instant. Disgusting..
Thought I'd give you a go. I'm concerned about the misspelling of destructive. It doesn't engender confidence. Wow. Back to point out technolohy as well, because I didn't notice it first time. Seriously?
✟ *_@stephensepan_* ✟ To the Roman Catholic Church's defense . . . *_(as a so called Protestant, I can't "Believe" I just said that!!)_* . . . they have always taught that *_any_* form of *_Contraception_* was against 𝓖𝓞𝓓'𝓢 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼 on Male & Female reproduction. . . A few months back I watched three Documentaries about 𝐇𝐈𝐕/𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐒 that completely changed my mind about the "victims" of those Diseases. The first was the 𝐏𝐁𝐒 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 Documentary called 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐒. . . . The second one was from 𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄/𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂 called 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐈𝐕 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡. . . I think the third one was from 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, but I forgot what the third one was called, but it was about how 𝐇𝐈𝐕/𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐒 was at epidemic levels throughout Africa!! . . . In all three the most common factor was their extremely careless behaviors, not the Roman Catholic Church's Doctrinal stand on *_Contraceptives!!_* . . . . . . We live in an 𝐀𝐠𝐞 where poor behaviors are not only ignored, but encouraged by people who will ultimately benefit from the outcomes of those poor behaviors!! . . . 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 are 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, . . . so why should 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 (who are heavily invested in 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬) demand their 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬/𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 refrain from the very poor behaviors that line their own pockets? . . . . 💯 *_Amen!!_* 💯 🩸
@@HoggRidduh *FREE CHRISTIANS FROM THE CURSE OF CHRISTIANITY!!!!! . . . BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH!!!!! . . . BIBLE IS IMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICTIONS!!!*
⩜⃝ *_@Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ Religion noun re·li·gion ri-ˈli-jən *_1)_* A personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices Ideology noun ide·ol·o·gy *_1)_* A manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture But the common denominator that people like 𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 are afraid to speak about is 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 are often much worse than 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬!! . . . Because those two forms of living are nothing more than 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 in 𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓹'𝓼 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 to deceive . . . . *_Wage Slave Peasants!!_* . . . *_(#1)_* *_Capitalism_* - Is nothing more than *_Wage Slave Peasants_* working for their *_Corporate Wage Slave Masters._* *_(#2)_* *_Communism_* - Is nothing more than *_Wage Slave Peasants_* working for their *_Government Wage Slave Masters._* 🦠
@@HoggRidduh *FREE CHRISTIANS FROM THE CURSE OF CHRISTIANITY!!!!! . . . BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH!!!!! . . . BIBLE IS IMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICTIONS!!!*
⩜⃝ *_progressthroughpain_* ⩜⃝ 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 How could you be satisfied with Sam Harris' unfounded and unproven claims, without providing proofs yourself? . . . Does you reprobate 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽 hate the very idea of 𝓖𝓞𝓓 that much? 🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿 🦠
Atheist here: Yet Sam is so critical of Islam but remains silent about the atro cities in the name of J- ism, based on Biblical claims. He never criticizes extremist Js and Zs directly, but made a career of criticizing Muslims and Islam.
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🇵🇸 *_FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!!_* 🇵🇸 Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! Hello, *_@dykojb!!_* . . . You seem to be oblivious to the *_fact_* that the Jews actually had a State/Nation/Kingdom there!! . . . *_Ever_* heard of the Assyrians invading Israel? Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! 🇮🇱 *_FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF ISLAM!!!_* 🇮🇱 🦠
@@Mr.BigHoggie ⭐ *FREE CHRlSTlANS FROM CURSE OF CHRITIANITY* ⭐ *BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH* ⭐ *BIBLE IS IMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICIONS* ⭐ People kiIIed in the name of atheism: *ZERO.* People kiIIed in the name of communism (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...): about 140 millions. People kiIIed in the name of abrahamic god: *300 to 400 millions* *Atheism is default and only rational position.*
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🇵🇸 *_FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!!_* 🇵🇸 Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! Was 721 BCE too far back for you? . . . Babylon 587 BCE? Persia 530 BCE? Greece 330 BCE? Rome 63 BCE? Arab Muslim 636 CE? Turkish Muslims 1516 CE? . . . Any questions? Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! 🇮🇱 *_FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF ISLAM!!!_* 🇮🇱 🦠
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝ 🇵🇸 *_FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!!_* 🇵🇸 Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! Today's Moral? . . . If you didn't want War Hungry 𝓩𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 to start European Wars, . . . then you people probably should not have invaded and scattered the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 around the World!! Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back! 🇮🇱 *_FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF ISLAM!!!_* 🇮🇱 🦠
What happens when countries lose religion? You might be surprised! In this video professor Phil Zuckerman explores the link between declining faith and societal well-being:
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It’s called Secularization. It already happened in many thriving countries. South Korea, Poland, Denmark, Japan…..etc etc.
It is a great video. I ordered Zuckerman's book, "Society Without God", after watching it. I'm looking forward to reading the book.
@@aDoseofReason Yes China is doing great!!
@@healthymealthy775I forgot about China hahaha
@@jenniferross7501 lol 😆. These people think in binaries.
Religion bad. Everything else good.
3:20 I saw a comment once that said that fundamentalism is the snake in the grass, and moderation is the grass that hides the snake.
Well said.
@@mickberry164 You are quite perceptive.
I like that phrase. Thanks.
Brilliant!
"by their fruits" might apply
He hits the point right on the head: religion gets a free ride. You can believe whatever you want and get away with it in our society. And when people try to force religion on others they claim it's their right to do so and criticizing that is tantamount to trying to destroy their religion (like this whole War on Christianity nonsense). The moment an idea, belief, or opinion becomes sacred and taboo to discuss is the moment tyranny begins. Nothing is sacred. Nothing should be beyond reproach or criticism.
Who's forcing religion on you?
@@themaskedman221 Religious theocrats in the US that think the lack of religion is the reason why there's so much nonsense in the US, right now, or wanting to put prayer in schools or hang the Ten Commandments all over the place. Give them an inch and they'll take a thousand miles.
He seems to have hit many points over the heads of his fawning minions, who seem utterly incapable of producing anything resembling an original thought. All I see in this peanut gallery is regurgitation of Harris quotes and genuflecting before his mighty brilliance. You all act exactly like the mindless Christians you loathe.
@@themaskedman221
You don't think "if you don't believe what we say, you will burn in hell forever" involves a psychological compulsion? Christianity has always used fear and threats to FORCE people to submit. And when the indoctrination starts at a very young age, when people have no chance to evaluate what they are being told, you don't regard that as "forcing"?
You are absolutely right. People are making outrageous statements under the guise of religion that would not be tolerated elsewhere. Religious beliefs, like all other ideas, should be open to challenge rather than automatically respected.
Sam helped me to discover for the first time the contradictions in Bible stories that I could not see as an indoctrinated Catholic.
Like what?
@healthymealthy775 Look them up, stop being lazy. The Bible has about 100 contradictions, false information, and straight-up lies. That fairytale is terribly written 😂.
Did you see William Lane Craig whipped his bottom with Sam Harris?
@@Jacob-ed1bl too silly talking to the new atheists. A complete downgrade from Nietzsche, Satre and Camu, at least the were intelligent. Sam's a clown
@@TBOTSS Nice satire 🤣.
I love Sam Harris. I haven't heard him in well over a decade, I miss his rational, thought provoking arguments. Truly brilliant.
Where have you been? Sam never went anywhere
I’m sure he hasn’t, I just haven’t watched or listened to him in a while. I read his “end of faith” years ago.
@@zapkvrPeople pretended everything he’s ever said is wrong and he’s stupid because he doesn’t like trump
@sk8ermGs to be fair all politicians are bad, a billionaire politician isn't any better, arguably could be worse, politicians are already to distant to us, they aren't even considering citizens anymore, they get away with so much with almost no risk. They send men and women to die in wars for nothing, and aid random countries with money and weapons while our economy is in the dumpster, while also using god as a weapon, and people are so delusional they think they made a good decision on the person they vote for. Like we aren't just lambs ready to slaughtered. Life's hard but when did it become so shit people stopped thinking with any rationality. Arguing about nothing while these scumbags running to the bank while we're buried under the rubble they leave behind. Quite literally the best and worst time to be alive. More technology than we know what to do with and at the same time it feels like we're sitting here waiting for the black hole to suck us in. It's 3am and I'm ranting but it's infuriating.
??? 10 yrs ago? I m 64 , so i understand 10 yrs isnt infinite but still your post doesnt make much sense. Harris is all over youtube
He makes a great point about the people of Tibet. I had never thought of it that way before.
Absolutely. That nails it and a great example.
As anyone who grew up in a Christian religious family in the early 1950s should know, there was a host of good, gentle, moral, humane, decent and caring individuals who made up those families and churches. Something happened! At 19 I stood on the steps of Drew Methodist church in Carmel, NY with a petition against the Vietnam War and NO ONE - not one person!!! would sign it! I lost my appreciable faith there and then! Now I mostly can't even recognize my old religion!!! I am now a CONFIRMED atheist and find ALL religion to be utterly destructive and immoral!
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While watching this, an add for The Daily Wire, promoted by Jordan Peterson, came on. Does anyone see the irony here? Jordan Peterson holds onto his erroneous ideas with iron clad desperation. Dogma continues to plague humanity.
Yeah. They are very different in a lot of ways. But they also appeal to a lot of the same people too, believe it or not. Namely white males who HATE Muslims.
I’ve never been able to listen to him for more than a few minutes, with the exception of how diet helped him. I eat the way he does and feel amazing. Other than that I feel nothing when he talks.
Religion allows a person to hear voices in their head and not be institutionalized
Egg 🥚 sactly
Dumb
If you're gay you should be in one.
@@lysanderofsparta3708 Very.
if you're gay you should. and especially if you're a T "girl" ✂
"Gott mit uns"
"Faith" is required to "Believe in Lies" and that is why religions demand "Faithfulness" to maintain Power & Control over their Subjects and Force their Theocracy on everyone!
More than once I've pointed out that little caveat about German army belt buckles to the faithful, and the most common response has been that they lose their mind.
Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so." - Twain 😉
@@antbrown9066 A "Justifiable Belief" is justified through "weight of the Evidence" and are free to change as weight of the Evidence changes. One can still hold a Belief even if weight of the Evidence is against it because Faith requires no Evidence and therefore Faith is NOT a Justifiable Belief.
@@thunderbird3694 yes that is one way to describe it. But remember it isn’t all or nothing. Not binary. Not dichotomy. As I have said. Belief has a spectrum. Or 2. One spectrum is the level of intensity or commitment to a particular belief. The other spectrum is as you say, “weight of evidence”or as I said, credibility of evidence.
It is a war of good vs. evil, but only because those who make the spurious claim to be good are actually evil.
The worst perpetrators of evil are those who do wickedness certain it's righteousness.
The world of religion is black or white. The reality is more complicated than religions try to explain. The religion is very often used to gather power to traditional part of society.
Thank you for making and publishing those videos. We need more rational and educated human beings!
We sure do!!
People are not atheists because they're rational. People think they are rational due to being atheists.
Sam Harris should have some Nobel prize for dismantling religious madness. No one, in competition with Christopher Hitchens, has done it better or more articulately than him.
Maybe George Carlin.
Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
@@antbrown9066
Do you know there are different ways to go about to find that? I certainly don't think reading "holy books" is one of them.
@@ChristerAnd well what ever you certainly think, Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust
@@antbrown9066
Well, I realize this interaction is totally meaningless. There is no need for you to write the same thing a third time, or write anything. Not interested.
According to anthropology, all religions are based on the worship of the stars and planets since day one of mankind. We tell kids to stop talking to imaginary friends, but what do people do in churches, and at dinner tables before the meal? Make believe is fine for children, but when adult it is a problem.
What?
@@michaelmelamed9103 What do you mean what? Did he stutter? It was crystal clear
“Growing up” was like I had two Santa’s that I was forced to believe in. Even when other kids got older and stopped believing… I was not allowed.
@@FactStorm Thank you, I wasn't sure if I made it understandable enough, I have spent 40 years studying ancient religions and Astrotheology, and if only people knew the truth churches, synagogues and mosques would be out of business.
I don't give a crap what anthropologists say. Genuine religion worships a genuine God. Whether or not you believe that is an entirely different matter.
Your task is to prove there is NO God. The rest of us are satisfied with our beliefs, and we have NO need to pay heed to all of you self righteous imbeciles.
All religions are the wrong religion.
You're absolutely right. Will humanity ever understand?
So what is the right religion (understanding)?
@@littlemichael7 Pastafarianism
@@littlemichael7 Non-religion lol
@@FactStorm Everyone believes something whether they are conscious of it or not. And that belief determines their state of being and how they function in the world. For most people the core belief is that I am a physical body that was born and will die despite there being zero scientific proof for this. The problem is that the body is an object and objects can be manipulated and abused because you are just an object. And when an object (I identified as body) gets into difficulties then there is nothing to fall back on and a suicide can occur. I agree that the mainstream religions have run their course but they need to be replaced with something or chaos will eventually ensue.
Sam Harris makes so much sense, I really enjoy hearing his explanations and insight.
"Orgy of Violence" is quite the phrase, is it not?
Also describes my first marriage quite well. What a ride.
@@bestself2438im curious but im scared of the answer
Sam Harris is an absolute rockstar! One of our time's preeminent thinkers.
And he expresses his ideas so clearly. That's the mark of a great teacher.
@@mickberry164Unlike JP
ROCKSTAR?! 😊😂
@@mickberry164 He speaks without ums and ahs, its a trick the content is threadbare. The "curious case of sam harris" covers his entire bibliography on here.
Except about Israel, he’s pretty stupid!
If religion were real, there would only be one of them.
That seems like a bizarre claim.
@@Hambone3773 how?
Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
@@Hambone3773 If God creates Adam and talks to him regularly, Adam knows for a fact there is a God. He'd tell his kids that, they'd tell their kids. There wouldn't have even been the thought that there were other gods. There could be different factions of the same religion, but there wouldn't be the multiple sets of the pantheon of the gods to be worshipped in very different ways. The gods of the Native Americans versus the gods of the Greeks versus the gods of the Aborigines, versus Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Wiccanism. If God was real, there would only be one religion.
@hogenmogen8545 Why would you assume that over tens of thousands of years that a non-codified monotheism would never evolve into pantheisms or polytheisms?
All religious belief came from some common ancestral source whether that belief is true or not. The first person who came to belief in some sort of creator shared that belief. The only question is what does that evolution look like. It's more probable that religion began as somewhat monotheistic or even as ancestor worship and that gods were then added to pantheons over time than to think it started with a fully formed polytheism and then whittled gods away.
Religion is true for the commoner, false for the wise, useful for the politician - Seneca the Younger 56CE
Religion continues to be the greatest scourge to ever be set upon man - Peralta 2024CE
Perhaps Peralta hasn't heard of the thermonuclear bomb and the proliferation of it and the extreme likelihood of its use at this time. - Anyone, 2024.
Oh, but I have. I spent twenty one years in the Army as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical specialist.
Religions is much better than that. It gives you infinite possibilities whereas you're a dead end....
Religion belongs in its region of inception; ancient Sumer. In fact, many stories in the Bible are borrowed from this early period of civilization. Like King Sargon floating down the river and rescued to become King. Sound familiar?
@@danhtran6401
As does paranoid schizophrenia 😉👍
The clarity of his presentation is second to none. I've always said I want the clarity of Sam Harris, and the voice of Richard Dawkins.
Morgan Freeman's voice dubbed would be nice lol
Denis, I will forever appreciate your contributions on the nonprophets (especially on free will) but Sam is fully on board with what Israel is doing to innocent people. Yeah, he made some good points back in the day but his critique of religion boils down to Islamophobia and not much else. He considers all other religions to be benign and Islam to be 100% fundamentalist jihadis.
"I've always said I want the clarity of Sam Harris, and the voice of Richard Dawkins." and the conviction of Christopher Hitchens! God rest his soul😁
@@tconnolly1tc There are no benign religions.
@@tconnolly1tcSimpleton.
Religious stupidity needs to be called out every day publicly.
It seriously does!!! Political Correctness needs to End and the "kiddie gloves" need to come off!!
Like israel.😊😊😊
Revoke religion's tax free status.
I often write comments about the absurdity of virgin births, resurrections, and raptures on UA-cam, often at my peril.
Enjoy wasting your life ranting and raving about something you have no control over. Most people don't leave religion because somebody talked some reason into them -especially if that 'somebody' is a fawning minion of Sam Harris. People leave religion mostly because of anxiety, anger and fear -that is, for emotional reasons. The earliest traces of atheism in the Christian West are not found among The Great Men of the Enlightenment; they were all emotional doubters. Even today, the rising tide of secularism in the US is mostly the result of scandals in the Catholic Church and the various Evangelical scandals and hypocrisies, not because of polemicists like Harris.
Bad news- they ain't just in trailer parks. One is speaker of the house a three, at least 3, are on the Supreme Court! And our military is scary!
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They're everywhere here in the south. It's shocking that so many adults fall for that. I knew by about 7 something was just seriously off about religion.
@@cur244me too!!! I was in Christian Sunday school, probably about 6 years old, and thought “this is just BS!”😅
It's very comforting to see that such a rational man has been born in the land of the gullible and the home of the cults.
Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
While the founding fathers and those that died for religious freedom want you gone. Go fight for your own atheist country. Let's see if you fools can band together and die for science....
@@antbrown9066 most human knowledge is based on experience, trial and error. Sure, sometimes it takes decades or more to get to the "truth" ( I am assuming you define "truth" as " the final and ultimate answer").
Religion is only based on words from other people,, and more often than not.. an old book that makes claims noone can prove to be true, and many that can be proven to be false.
Daily knowledge based on experience and trial and error, can change as more things are understood about them. We have learned a lot about medical issues over time. People who follow their faith, rather then this new understanding, often die.. ir have their children die.. because they refused the modern way, and " had faith in gods plan".
So no,, religious faith is based in nothing more than unproven claims that you are not allowed to question.
The other "beliefs" are based in a steadily increase of gathered information,
@@Goldenhawk583 most of your knowledge - it comes from sources external to your own direct observation or experience. This information is what you believe. Most of human knowledge comes from belief or trust in the body of knowledge accumulated over time and place.
@@antbrown9066 the difference is still that it can be tested by anyone. And it gives consistent results when tested. None of that works for religion or religious claims.
I choose to belive my car mechanic, even if I dont have the knowledge myself, I do trust that he does.. if he sucks, and muy car totals , I have learned that he was a horrible mechanic, and nect time, I will find one that has good credentials.
Not so with religion. Your religious mechanic gives you a lot of stuff to dom think and say, and yet it only works sometimes, and it only ever works in groups where people think like you.
Prayers doesnt work 99.9999999999% of the time, but the one tile it seems to have worked makes you forget the thousands of times it didnt.
Yet Jeezus claimed that all you had to do was ask, in his name,, and it was given.. no ifs, buts or any other rquirement., He clearlu lied about that.
Do you think God has a plant for all humans
My friend Stu, born and raised in a traditional Jewish family, now a successful astrophysicist and a fierce atheist, can't really give an explanation for having his two sons circumcised other than adhering to family traditions and hygiene issues. A grown man with a profound knowledge on the ongoing development of the universe can't resist both fallacies. I fear there is no hope for the rest of us uneducated masses…
Stu had a hard decision. Conform to societal norms or potentially ostracize his kid from his peers. Boys' locker rooms can be brutal. My uncircumcised friend would not shower after practice because of the fear of being so different in such a sensitive area. The fear was not unfounded. Porn, tradition, and bullying all normalize this ritual, making it a harder decision than at first glance. Morally, you're right. It's a tradition that is unfounded. But practically speaking, the one you harm is not yourself. So, it's a trolly problem of sorts. Don't pull the lever, and you enable the future moral indiscretion, but your child blends in. Pull the lever, achieve a moral victory, but you have now played a star role in potentially ostracizing your kid among his peers. I was circumsized. I want to say I would not circumsize my son. But the amount of relief I felt at having a daughter tells me that I may not have been so steadfast in that conviction. Cut Stu some slack. It's hard to break the cycle. Especially since you aren't the one that directly deals with the consequences of your decision. People tend to want to play it safe, understandably so.
A rather arrogant take.
‘Hygiene issues’ is total bollocks. Come to Europe and see how many are circumcised. I bet most Americans would find FGM to be barbaric, but when it comes to boys you are brainwashed by convention. A million operations a year…ka-ching!
This may sound absurd, but I've studied esoteric knowledge and have found this to be true: The reason for circumcision is to remove the cheese flavor from the phallus.
@@ericengman2578so letting another man mutilate your son's member risking damage, so other boys will approve.
Do you realise females get mutilated to?
Do not worship other gods.
So there's other gods, and you're worried about them.
😂you have a point there 😂respect ❤
The time for silent respect when it comes to religion has long past and it is now time to call religion out for what it is. The biggest problem with the world today is religions, all of them.
Why is the biggest problem with the world today religions?
@@keitumetsemodipa3012
If you need to ask a question like that then your wearing blinders my friend and giving you an answer would be pointless. Take off your blinders and have a look around. Your question is a question only a religious person would ask because they are the ones wearing the blinders. They all think they are right and don't care what anybody else thinks thus creating the biggest problem with the world today, religion.
There, gave you an answer anyways. Religions are designed to control people and that is a big problem, the biggest problem with the world today.
Sam Harris forgets that in the 20th century well over 100 million people were killed by atheists. Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia and more. His reading of the New Testament is superficial. Around 100 AD several secular writers referred to the existence of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Take a copy of the NT and cut out all references to the resurrection of Jesus. That NT will be in tatters. Without the resurrection Christianity could not exist. But it did and still does. Hence it is based on reality.
Through the ages people called Christian's have done atrocious things. That was because they disobeyed Jesus, proving they were not real Christians.
@@johnrowland9570 You're liar. Nazis were believers, they even had "Got mitt uns" (God with us) on their belts. Stalin and Mao were communists, not atheists. Same with Pol Pot.
You're uneducated ignorant m0r0n.
Kills in the name of atheism: ZERO.
Kills in the name of communism: over hundred of millions (cca 140 millions).
Kills in the name of abrahamic god: over BILLION.
"That was because they disobeyed Jesus" 😀No. Jesus is just a myth.
@@keitumetsemodipa3012 "...if mystical faith is the basis of knowledge, logic and persuasion are irrelevant. There is only the brute assertion: “Well, that’s what I feel like believing-and I believe that you better believe it too.” There is no recourse but force."
-Peter Schwartz-
I miss this Sam Harris. His brilliant mind, his well-spoken lectures, and calm, compelling criticisms are sorely lacking today.
If God can give me an eternal life in heaven, and I am of his design and creature, then what's with the song and dance in this reality?
If I'm bad, he's responsible. He should go to hell, not me.
@piconano, you're 100% right! God created Satan, it's God who is the culprit! And...I was not born to pass God's tests or exams! God should pay for all the errors he made! God divided humans!
You have no choice?
This god does not exist. Move on, do not associate with the superstitious mentality ill mythology Psychopaths.
@@antbrown9066 "Nothing is given to man automatically, neither knowledge, nor self-confidence, nor inner serenity, nor the right way to use his mind."
-Ayn Rand-
Some Buddhists commit suicide in protest against Chinese domination. But the Buddhist monks of Tibet are misusing small boys that have been entrusted into their care by the children's parents. There are many reports about this happening. The Dalai Lama takes no action to prevent the misuse. In the Church priests and missionaries do the very same thing. It's not all gold what glitters.
I'll never forget the day I was at a family wedding with my husband and our 2 year old son, a friend of my husbands family asked if we were going to have our son christened. I said no, we are not religious, her reply was, "But how will he know right from wrong?! That son is now in the armed UK forces and my other three children are all in caring professions, none of them religious.
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@@Mr.BigHoggie *Atheism is default and only rational position.*
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« Mais comment distinguera-t-il le bien du mal ?! » Cette réponse montre que cette personne est stupide et ignorante. Vous avez pris la bonne décision.
Brilliant compilation.
Religion divides, science unites!
Yet both require faith 🤷♂️
@@slytheguy6761 yet one remains archaic and static while the other gathers and searches for new knowledge. Science is a process, while most prominent religions rely on our ignorant, but highly intelligent, ancestors.
@@andyroubik5760 Agreed! indeed some religions are static and archaic …take for instance the midevil practice of Shuria law 😩..
On the other hand there exists, conversely, religious truths that transcend the limitations of time …take for instance the golden rule, or the virtue of humility..or the moral code of not murdering,etc.
In such cases one could argue that religion actually surpasses science as it does not require “gathering or searching for new knowledge.”
If this is what you mean by intelligent ancestry I concur, seeing that it inextricably links us to the moral authority who laid the foundation in the first place . 🙏🏽 📖
"what is a woman", cats got your tongue?
@@andyroubik5760 Games of wordcels, science as it is in reality is an institutional system with all the misaligned motivations that come with any human system, what doesn't get funded and what gets discarded is the knowledge they don't want to find.
But hey, religions are great if you ever need an excuse to start a war
And avoid taxes lol
Yeah, Sam is pro Israel.
There was a Roman Catholic family living neae us when I was A child (in the 1960s) The son, who was about 10 years old came to us as we had a phone and his family didn't. He asked for us to call an ambulance as his mum was sitting on a bucked and it was filling with blood (A Haemorrhage). She was admitted to hospital and told she needed a Hysterectomy. The Catholic priest (A VERY traditional man) told her that she would be excommunicated if she went ahead with the operation as it meant she could no longer have children and it was a 'Mortal Sin'. She said "Fine, if I don't have the operation I'll die, and that's tantamount to suicide, which is also a mortal sin". She had the operation, was excommunicated. She didn't care as the priest had destroyed her faith in an instant.
b.s excommunicated for a Hysterectomy? Caca haha
" If there's any sensible question to answer, I believe that it is done via philosophy. Whatever it is that makes religion "religion" -- mystical claims to knowledge, a belief in the supernatural, etc. -- are mistaken. Whatever is left over that is good about religious institutions, including a sense of community, artistic inspiration, charitable organization, etc., is no less available to the secular and the rational."
-Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
The things that 10 year olds believe! In North America or Europe, that priest would have had a pretty good education. So he would not have been so ignorant about theology to say such a thing. I suspect you heard some anti Catholic propaganda.
Jesus Christ is nothing more than a fictional character in a story.
Plagiarized fictional character at that. Not even original.
@@MasterSpadeI'd say he existed as a man, but all the miracles and amazing features were added after his death to make the others impressed.
@uchicha666 exactly
tbf, it's also what I say sometimes when I'm super annoyed.
Do you feel better now ?
Of course Jesus existed , not as God but as a man who showed people how to love.
What's wrong with that ?
Atheism;the new religion .
Thank you Mr. Harris, it occurred to me while listening that the only people taking god’s name in vain, are those who claim that any other religion than Christianity, etc. will result in damnation. Saying god same is not taking god’s name in vain, but damning someone else to hell is said to be god’s right alone, so anyone
claiming another group is damned is yet another flaw of religious belief.
Great job putting together multiple talks from Sam and presenting it in this way. Very engaging. this was very well produced. Thank you for taking the time to do it.
This is the type of stuff that needs to be broadcast far and wide across the internet; not the chem trail, flat earther nonsense.
The entire Bible is man made stories to explain that which they did not understand in the earlier years of humanity. It has been a crutch for the world for thousands of years. It needs to go. Almost every w@r ever fought was for greed, real estate, and power in the name of a self proclaimed God, or religion. Of the thousands of Gods and Goddesses, which one do you bow down to? I bow down to no one, personally. I'm a giving loving and caring person that doesn't need a book to tell me right from wrong or where my "soul" is going when I leave this world. I will be dead. I didn't exist, I was born and as of now I am 59 years old, when I die, I will cease to exist. What's so hard about that? Science has traced every single thing on our planet to a SINGLE common single celled organism known as LUCA:
LUCA is an acronym for "last universal common ancestor," which is the most recent organism that all cellular life on Earth descends from. LUCA is a node on the tree of life, and the point at which the fundamental prokaryotic domains of Archaea and Bacteria diverge.
I am going with the science. No Gods, No Masters! Take care of fellow humans and animals, that's what WE, homosapiens, should be able to do. But no, we have to have greed, control and power disguised as religious beliefs. You do you, but don't push your beliefs on me because I will walk away. Your religious beliefs end where MY civil LIBERTIES begin! Period!
" My mind is not for rent to any god or government"
@@chamicels Exactly! Excellent tune! I saw them in concert in the 80s, or early 90s. Great show! 🎶😁✌️🤘
Sam is a great teacher,Mystisism is TRUE
that is just a theory
@@Sergiu.antifascist "I am primarily the creator of a new code of morality which has so far been believed impossible, namely a morality not based on faith, not on arbitrary whim, not on emotion, not on arbitrary edict, mystical or social, but on reason; a morality that can be proved by means of logic which can be demonstrated to be true and necessary.
Now may I define what my morality is? Since man’s mind is his basic means of survival […] he has to hold reason as an absolute, by which I mean that he has to hold reason as his only guide to action, and that he must live by the independent judgment of his own mind; that his highest moral purpose is the achievement of his own happiness […] that each man must live as an end in himself, and follow his own rational self-interest."
-Ayn Rand-
@@BeefT-Sq that is quite a whim.
no, you don't get to write what moral is, because true moral exists already, it is not you who introduces it, you are already grown up in it.
the fact that moral can have more than one definition, it does not change the fact that there is one true moral.
true moral has nothing to do with any god, and also not with personal whim.
moral is impossible to guess, to know, if you neglect other things.
other things are easier to know, so moral is the harder to know. other thing you can know without any moral, therefore moral you can know only if you know other things.
moral is what the other things are not, that is the story of it. moral can only be result of long and systematic education. first things to know, are aggression and easiness of life. bad times and good times. therefore moral is different. moral is about reciprocity, therefore is about good in times of bad, and bad in times of good. moral is not about choosing happiness for yourself, not at all times. moral is about choosing good for yourself, when good is denied for you, and bad for yourself, when it is good. moral is not an unconditional good.
when somebody says it is not moral for you to go to school, to find your love, you tell that somebody go to hell. when somebody tells you how good is to drive a car, you go to hell.
@@Sergiu.antifascistMystisism is TRUE
@@robertjsmith ALWAYS!
Sam hits one out of the park. I love how he efficiently targets the problem. It isn't a matter of faith or which God, it is how it can impact critical thinking. We have technology in existence that we can't afford to use this thinking anymore. Imagine someone that puts an AI into a robot 50 years from now that enforces some religious doctrine absolutely. He is always great at highlighting how eastern religions differ from the Abrahamic.
Sam Harris is brilliant!
Wasn't Paul secretly working for the Flavian Dynasty? Weren't all of the original Roman Catholic Saints' members of the Flavian Dynasty? Weren't all of the original symbols used by the earliest Christians identical to those of the Flavian Dynasty? And isn’t one of the earliest iconographic symbols for Christianity, located in a catacomb, under the city of Rome, which was owned by a Flavian Princess?
Weren't all of the original Jesus cult texts produced under the oversight of the Flavian Dynasty? Didn't the Flavian Dynasty posses the only remaining copy of the Hebrew Tanakh other than the Greek Septuagint translation? Isn't there Flavian typology in the Gospels? Weren't the canonical texts all back dated like the historical fiction of Gone With The Wind? Wasn't Emperor Vespasian known as the Jewish Messiah? Wasn’t Pope Clement of Rome a Flavian? Wasn't Josephus a temple whore for the Flavian Dynasty? Weren't the Flavian’s, as well as Paul, descended from King Herod?
There was no separation of Church and State in the Roman Empire. And Christianity is clearly a Greco-Roman hybrid form of Judaism created by the Flavian Dynasty. As an attempt to adapt, pacify, and integrate the rebellious and defiant Jews into the rest of the Greco-Roman Empire. Just like the Greeks created Hermes Trismegistus to integrate Egyptian mythology with Greek mythology.Then finally Neo-Flavian Constantine chose the Flavian family religion to be the official religion of the entire Roman Empire. In order to consolidate power in his fractured Empire. And then Eusebius edited and rewrote the history of the previous 3OO years. Destroying all contradictory evidence. It isn't history it is all simply Greco-Roman mythopoetic literature. Today it is known as Historical Fiction.
“What profit hath not this fable of Christ brought us.”
Pope Leo X 💙
Sounds very interesting, I need to learn more about this.
No. Where do you get these ideas?
@@Hambone3773 Well, when nobody is around the Gods come and talk to me and they explain everything to me. But nobody believes me.💙
No. None of that is true.
The usual "trust me, bro" then.
I've been saying this since 2010. But I was born gay I can see it. I can feel it. The psychosis all around me. Came out of my family in the south as a homophobic nightmare of life. Religions crazy❤
"I direct you toward Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. In her system, she identifies the needs of men succinctly. She talks about individualism, productivity, a flourishing life, an exchange of physical and emotional values between men. Importantly, she provides reasoning to substantiate her claims."
-Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
A superb video here.
Before you all go praising Sam Harris' rationality, be aware that Sam Harris has in recent times believes that some races are biologically superior to others - especially mentally - and he believes the science supports this view it.
My neighbor has the right to wear a Speedo tiny swim suit outside in the middle of winter. It doesn't mean I should not think that he is stupid and more importantly doesn't mean that I should not oppose his efforts to make wearing only Speedos in the middle of winter a law that everyone has to follow.
Keep it going Sam!
Beautiful job 👌
I've not read any of the Muslim holy book, so I can't comment. There are many factors and reasons for religious fundamentalism. There are many very peaceful and positive Muslims. Not saying it's for me, but everyone has to be free to be indoctrinated as they please.. most countries have done atrocities under any old premise.
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" . . . 𝓤𝓵𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂, . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 . . . 𝓘𝓼 𝓞𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓐 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓞𝓯 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼!! . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼 𝓞𝓷 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓜𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓭!! . . . "
Your comment was more honest than Sam Harris' whole video.. . . Especially at the end!!! . . . Yes, . . I *_Believe_* in the teachings of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣, . . . yet I must admit that 𝓗𝓘𝓢 *_Church(es)_* have missed the mark more than they have hit it!! . . . *_Theists_* and *_Atheists_* get so bogged down in their pointless competitions of who is wrong *_vs._* who is right, . . . that we both miss the point entirely!!! . . . I think that the starting point should be something like this. . .
*_(#1)_* It is obvious that everything in the Universe is governed by *_Laws_* which are commonly called Physics, or the Universe would (theoretically) collapse upon itself.
*_(#2)_* Humans also need *_Laws,_* (Moral & Ethical *_Laws_* ) otherwise Societies as we have come to know them will inevitably descend into Chaos, Disorder and Entropy.
*_(#3)_* Why does the Universe and Human Societies need these very specific *_Laws_* to be (seemingly) perfectly and intricately harmonized in order to function Properly?
*_(#4)_* Why do Humans so often willfully and deliberately break these Societal *_(Laws)_* knowing that if we break them, Chaos (Revolutions) must eventually ensue, i.e., *_(Wars)?_*
" . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝔂𝓹𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 . . . 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓷 . . . 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓢𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓼 . . . 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓙𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓭𝔂 . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝓨𝓸𝓾!! . . . "
💯 *_Amen?_* 💯
@@HoggRidduh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Bible is terrible immoral book of errors.
There are fundamentalists or extremists in all religions, not just Islam.
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝
🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿
What about *_Racist Fundamentalists_* like the 𝓟𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓸 𝓝𝓪𝔃𝓲 *_American White🗑Supremacist "Founding Fathers"_* who *_Committed Genocide_* on the First Nations Tribes/Indians and *_Force Enslaved, Mutilated, Raped, Murdered_* and *_Maimed_* my African American ancestors for Centuries?
You see, . . . the problem is not . . . 𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓸𝓷 *_vs._* 𝓢𝓮𝓬𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓶, . . . or . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓶 *_vs._* 𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓶 . . . because the common denominator is sinful, fallen 𝓜𝓪𝓷!!
🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿
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One major issue that is seldom if ever discussed is the genocidal doctrine of Young Earth Creationism, particularly regarding cultural genocide which has been used as a primary excuse driving colonization and wiping out entire societies across the Western and Southern Hemispheres.
Religious people tell you, you must have Faith. It is used to control you and your ability to think rational. Just like all cults do.
Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
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Look up what is the definition of the scientific method and compare that to the definiton of faith, then come back and tell us how to find "Truth"!
Chop-chop!
@@antbrown9066 You're babbling nonsense. Faith doesn't get anybody closer to any truth.
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@@antbrown9066 "These secular intellectuals are responsible for chipping away at the irrationality of religion. They're responsible for religions "adapting to the times" -- accepting evolution, rehabilitating Galileo, accepting homosexuality -- so as not to lose more adherents. The only reason so many westerners are still Christian is that they have redefined what it means to be Christian. If you examine their beliefs and attitudes, they have adopted so much from the secular intellectuals... yet, there's no term for that part of their thinking, so they use the term "Christian" which really describes only a portion of their philosophy (and ever smaller portion)."
-Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
The comparison between Islam and Buddhism is partly true, the core values of Buddhism is very far from violence so it would take a lot of persuading to make a Buddhist terrorist, but it is not entirely impossible. Buddhist of Myanmar and Sri Lanka are living examples of violence. If we look closely at the Muslims of Myanmar they did not resort to terrorism on the face of violent persecution by Buddhists, so terrorism based on Islam is thus not just religious but also has a cultural and regional catalyst.
All the Abrahamic religions are inherently violent, the Old testament calls for genocide, loot, abuse of even children and life stock that makes all the Abrahamic religions root cause for terrorism, a continued state of violence in the middle east is also the reason for Terrorism.
Lets not forget that Ashoka in order to spread Buddhism beyond his territories employed violence despite Buddhism preaching non violence. Also lack of inherent violence in Buddhism was the reason for its down fall in India as it was not able to stop the on slaughter of the Vedic religion.
Religion need to be inherently violent for their survival and those religions that are not violent enough cease to exist, the religious extremist and moderates in all religion know this. That is why any and all religion are bad for human existence.
Excellent points! I was going to share the same examples of violent Buddhists. But your comment summed it up all really well!
It is more funny even, that the religious zealots are never respecting anything else than the religion they are believers of, not even other religions, I must clarify I am religious, but in my religion, there is no obligation or need to convert or expand others to our religion, or negate the phylosophies of atheists, I am an european polytheist, and for us, free will is to be respected the most, not any religion, your actions on this world are the only important thing in this world, not your beliefs
Robert Heinlein put it best in Stranger In A Strange Land when Mike, learning English asked why "faith" was not included among the monosyllables that must not be used in polite company.
My faith is mine alone. I never confuse it with judgement or conformity to inflict on others.
judgmentcallpodcast covers this. Powerful critique of religion delivered.
Pathetic bot. Mentally ill people.
In Harris's best selling book, The End of Faith, he tells us he's some kind of Buddhist. He's not any kind of rational atheist. He's not what he says on UA-cam.
oh puhleeze
If god was real there would be only one religion
you think? i would not be religious, even if i knew with certainty that there is a god. you all miss the point of atheism. atheism is not about not believing that which is not proven. atheism is not believing, no matter if there is god. atheism is not about proofs, it is about not adhering. true atheism is not about not believing, it is about not accepting.
even if god exists, i do not accept his patronage, not that way. if there is a god, he can only talk respectfully to me, or go away. this is the meaning of the word atheist
@@Sergiu.antifascist This is a great example of the no true scotsman fallacy. Atheism is very simply the lack of belief in a god. So, my personal take on the concept of god, like an interfering god, one that can do stuff, I don't buy it. As to the concept that some intelligence may have created the universe, I have no way to test it, so I kinda don't care. That makes me an agnostic atheist, with respect to the god question overall. With respect to the biblical god yahweh, I am an anti-theist, that's gotta be bullshit, and even if he was real, I would not follow him, as he is a baby murdering scumbag. So, hey look, you learned a new word today, and how it applies to you. Have a nice day.
@@Sergiu.antifascist " Do not say that you’re afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."
-Anonymous-from an Objectivist forum
Spirituality is freedom, religion is a shackle.
Life on this 'the only blue sphere ever detected in this universe' is the 'gift' that folks pray for as an eternal afterlife that does not exist. Human existence, short as it is, in a free nation at this time in a healthy well-maintained body IS HEAVEN. Make the most out of these lifetimes...when it's gone, it's gone forever. Here and Now.
He's wrong when he throws people into a bunch. I'm a Religious Moderate and I have no problem with jokes about my Religion or anyone else's religion. It's people, and their belief's that I respect. I don't have any respect for violence or violent people, regardless of Religious Belief. My spiritual beliefs are not a matter of fact, they are a matter of faith. Your little video here is disrespectful to HUMAN BEINGS, that just have different beliefs than you.
Most of "Religious dogma" is crazy but please, your arrogance, and self-righteousness is silly. You are never going to change people, or the need of people to think beyond this reality, no matter what form that takes.
To rid ourselves of the scourge of religion would be the greatest achievement of mankind.
⩜⃝ *_Useless-Worthless-Atheism!!_* ⩜⃝
🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿
𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 are the lowest form of 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼 on Planet Earth!! . . . These 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 have already *_rid_* themselves of Religion, . . . so why don't you live in one of them you, 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮?!?!?! . . . What is wrong with you? . . . 👇🏽 *_Go here!!_* . 👇🏽. . 👇🏽 *_Move here!! . . . ._* 👇🏽 . . 👇🏽 *_Leave and go here!!_* 👇🏽 . . . 👇🏽 *_Go now!! . . . Go, Go, Go, Go!!_* 👇🏽
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What are you waiting for? . . . Here is your Paradise!! . . . ☝🏽 *_Move here!!_* ☝🏽 . . . *_This is your Utopian Society!! . . ._* ☝🏽𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 are nothing more than 𝓛𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼!! . . . You are completely delusional to the fact that the 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝔂 that you live in was definitely founded by 𝓓𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 *_/_* 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼!! . . . We should *_rid_* ourselves of you, . . . 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮!!!
𝓐𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 criticizing 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓶 while living in 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 are not only 𝓗𝔂𝓹𝓸𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼, . . . . you are 𝓛𝓲𝓪𝓻𝓼, . . . 𝓒𝓸𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓼 and . . . 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓼 by your Nature as well!!
🦾 *_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?🦿
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@@Mr.BigHoggietoo bad that you're so morally bankrupt that you need an external control on your behavior. Just admit to being a terrible person and you'll gain self respect.
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🇵🇸 *_FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!! . . . FREE PALESTINIANS FROM THE CURSE OF ISLAM!!!!_* 🇵🇸
Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
" . . . 𝓘𝓯 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓩𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 *_4,000_* 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓐𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 . . . 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓔𝓾𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮? . . . "
After the Jews established the first State of Israel in around . . . *_(1,000 BCE)_* . . . having first settled there *_1,000 years_* before that, . . . the Assyrians *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel! in *_(721 BCE)._* . . . Approximately *_134 years_* later, the Babylonians defeated the Assyrians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel, destroyed the First Jewish Temple, enslaved *_1/3_* of the Jews, slaughtered *_1/3_* of the Jews and scattered *_1/3_* of the Jews. . .
Approximately *_70 years_* later, . . . the Persians defeated the Babylonians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel, . . . but they were much kinder than the Babylonians and even rebuilt the Jews' First Temple free of charge in *_(517 BCE)._* . . . Around *_187 years_* later, the Macedonians defeated the Persians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel in *_(330 BCE)_* and desecrated the Jews' second Temple *_163 years_* later in *_(167 BCE)_* . . .
" . . . 𝓘𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓕𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . . 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓕𝓪𝓷 . . . 𝓑𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓓𝓔𝓐𝓓𝓗𝓔𝓐𝓓𝓔𝓓 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓑𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮!! . . . "
Around *_260 years_* later, the Romans defeated the Macedonians and *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel in *_(63 BCE)_* and desecrated our 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 *_and_* 𝓢𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 *_the Most Blessed_* 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 around *_100 years_* later in *_(33 CE)._* . . . *_37 years_* later the Romans finally destroyed Jerusalem and the Jews' second Temple and scatter the Jews to Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East in *_(70 CE)._* . . . About *_50 years_* and then *_60 years_* later, the Roman did the same thing again in a series of *_Jewish/Roman Wars/Revolts,_* scattering more Jews to Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East!! . . . Around *_500 years_* later the Arab Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel, defeated the remaining Romans and Persian in the area and held the land of Israel/Judea for *_880 years,_* until the Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied and Colonized_* the land of Israel for *_401 years!!_* . . .
" . . . 𝓘𝓯 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓩𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 *_4,000_* 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓐𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 . . . 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓔𝓾𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓮? . . . "
Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
🇮🇱 *_FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF MUSLIM OPPRESSION!!! FREE ISRAEL FROM 1,400 YEARS OF ISLAM!!!_* 🇮🇱
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The problem with the old Jewish concept of a messiah is that it was and is based on tribalistic belief in manifest destiny, not on ideals of universal brotherhood, justice, freedom, and equality. This is true of virtually all forms of religion that only extend the grace and blessings of God to members of the tribe, or race of believers.
But, that is not what Christ taught when he walked on earth 2,000 years ago:
"Come, oh beloved of my father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the earth."
"I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance."
"Do nothing to anyone you would not have done to you. Do not judge, for as you judge others so shall you be judged. And by the measure you use it shall be measured to you. Treat all others as you would be treated for that sums up the Law and the Prophets."
In those concise clear words Christ outlines the steps each and every one of us can take in our daily lives to end for all time the centuries of self-inflicted suffering of humanity. He states that our judgment of others defines our own life condition. To the extent that we cause others to suffer we cause ourselves the very same suffering. And that has been the case now every day and night for eons.
Had the early Roman Catholic Church truly followed Christ's teachings there would never have been centuries of war and persecution based on religion. No Spanish Inquisition. No violent suppression of protestant denominations.
Had Constantine I truly initiated the bond between church and state in 325AD as Christ taught and exemplified there never would have been centuries of self-proclaimed "royalty" professing to be God's chosen rulers on earth. The self-enrichment, self-glorification and empowerment that monarchs indulged in for over 1,500 years was in direct contradiction to Christ's definition of true leadership:
"He who would be great among you must be your servant. He who would be the first must be your slave just as the Son of Man has come not to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many."
The good news? We, the people our life-sustaining, miraculously abundant planet Earth that is full of life as found on no other planet for 90 billion light years in every direction can truly establish liberty and justice for all humanity the moment we turn from the darkness of past blindness, injustice, selfish greed, and disregard for other human beings and establish what Christ called the kingdom of heaven. His words have the power to create truly lasting peace and prosperity for all people everywhere on Earth.
"I am the truth, the life, and the way."
"Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light."
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" . . . 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓾𝓼 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 . . . 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓐𝓛𝓛 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓻𝔂 . . . 𝓽𝓸 𝓖𝓞𝓓 . . . "
𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓽!! . . . But I must disagree that the *_"Old_* 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱" concept of the 𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓐𝓗 was based strictly upon the Tribal *_Belief_* of Manifest Destiny of the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼!! . . . Because the concept of the 𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓐𝓗 predates so called 𝓙𝓾𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓼𝓶 and the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 by *_Thousands Of Years!!_* . . . In fact, many Religions have a 𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓐𝓗, . . . which can be traced all the way back to *_(Genesis 3:14-15)_* to the Gardena of Eden. . . . Far too many people (including the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼) think that the Bible is about 𝓙𝓾𝓭𝓪𝓲𝓼𝓶, when in fact it is more about the 𝓕𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓱 *_of_* 𝓑𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓕𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓐𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓶 . . . a *_Gentile_* and not a 𝓙𝓮𝔀!! . . . And what the 𝓣𝓞𝓡𝓐𝓗 teaches is much greater than man's understanding of . . . *_Universal Brotherhood, Justice, Freedom and Equality._* . . . 𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓷?
"But when the *_Pharisees_* had heard that 𝓗𝓔 had put the *_Sadducees_* to silence, they were gathered together. . . . Then one of them, which was a *_Lawyer,_* asked 𝓗𝓘𝓜 a question, tempting 𝓗𝓘𝓜, and saying, . . . . *_"Master, which is the Great Commandment in the Law?_* . . . 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 said Unto him, . . .
"Thou shalt 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 the 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 thy 𝓖𝓞𝓓 with 𝓐𝓛𝓛 thy 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽, and with 𝓐𝓛𝓛 thy 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓵, and with 𝓐𝓛𝓛 thy 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓭. . . . This is the 𝓕𝓘𝓡𝓢𝓣 and 𝓖𝓡𝓔𝓐𝓣 𝓒𝓞𝓜𝓜𝓐𝓝𝓓𝓜𝓔𝓝𝓣. . . . . And The 𝓢𝓔𝓒𝓞𝓝𝓓 is like unto it. . . Thou shalt 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 thy 𝓝𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓫𝓸𝓻 as 𝓣𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯. . . . On these 𝓣𝓦𝓞 𝓒𝓞𝓜𝓜𝓐𝓝𝓓𝓜𝓔𝓝𝓣 hang 𝓐𝓛𝓛 the 𝓛𝓐𝓦 and the 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓹𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓼." - Matthew 22:34-40
That is why our 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 and 𝓢𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 only praised *_Gentiles_* for having 𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓕𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓱 *_(Matthew 15:21-28 & Luke 7:1-10)_* and not 𝓗𝓘𝓢 own *_Disciples/Apostles_* . . . or the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼!! . . . Today, the *_Church_* of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 is a fornicating 𝓦𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓮 just like the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 were before 𝓖𝓞𝓓 cast them out of the land of 𝓘𝓼𝓻𝓪𝓮𝓵 in 587 BCE, . . . but you can't tell so called 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓼 or 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓼 that, because they truly *_Believe_* that 𝓖𝓞𝓓 intended for them to replace the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼!! 😭
When we say the words "𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷" *_Church_* instead of the words *_Church_* of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣, . . . who gets the 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓻𝔂? . . . . A man made word ("𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷"), . . . or the 𝓜𝓪𝓷 (𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣) 𝓦𝓗𝓞 established 𝓗𝓘𝓢 Church with 𝓗𝓘𝓢 own Blood 𝓗𝓘𝓜𝓢𝓔𝓛𝓕? . . . . When we say the word "𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂" instead of the words *_Faith_* in 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣, . . . who gets the 𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓻𝔂? . . . A man made Religion ("𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂"), . . . or the 𝓜𝓪𝓷 (𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣) 𝓦𝓗𝓞 established our *_Faith_* with 𝓗𝓘𝓢 own Blood 𝓗𝓘𝓜𝓢𝓔𝓛𝓕? . . . .
" . . . 𝓞𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 . . . 𝓑𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓻 𝓷𝓸𝓽 . . . 𝓘 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓟𝓸𝓼𝓽!! . . . "
💯𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓷!!💯
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“Genocidal stupidity” in the name of religion? He must be talking about Israel.
No. It was not Israel who started that war you ldiot.
@@Seticzech There is no war-it’s a genocide begun by an apartheid colonizing state of power, money, and blood-hungry fanatics who have convinced you to give them money and kiss their feet, even though they’d happily spit on your feet. The UN has declared them guilty of countless humanitarian violations, and they’ve explicitly said they don’t want peace-which their casualty toll bears witness to. Wake up. You’re deep asleep.
@@Seticzech Yes they did. You know nothing.
No they didn't, Hamas started war. You're stupld ignorant. And most likely supporter of terrorist organisation.
@@celestialknight2339 There is war.
"it’s a genocide begun by an apartheid colonizing state of power" 🤣🤣🤣🤦
'"The UN has declared them guilty of countless humanitarian violations" Sure. You mean that UN with Oil-for-Food Program, Peacekeeping child sexual abuse, and other disgusting scandals? 😀
"Wake up. You’re deep asleep." No, I just don't believe in islamic and far leftist propaganda.
I discovered the “four horsemen”Dennett, Harris, Dawkins & Hitchens in 2015… I have never looked at religion the same. It’s a lonely but necessary space for us to evolve
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🦾 *_Why don't we put our Money where our Mouth is Sam? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see which are the Best?_* 🦿
" . . . 𝓤𝓵𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓘𝓼 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓪 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓸𝓯 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼!! . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼 𝓸𝓷 𝓔𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 . . . 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂!! . . . "
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It is very easy to be unnecessarily distracted isn't it? . . . Those Atheists have been attacking the *_Church_* of 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 for Centuries now and what will they replace us with?
🤣🤣 *_(The People's Republic of China, The Republic of Cuba, Lao People's Republic, North Korea, The Socialist Republic of Vietnam)_* 🤣🤣
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" . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾!! . . . 𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓑𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓷𝓽 . . . 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓿𝓮!! . . . 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓮!! . . . "
🦾 *_Why don't we put our Money where our Mouth is Sam? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see which are the Best?_* 🦿
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@@HoggRidduh *FREE CHRISTIANS FROM THE CURSE OF CHRISTIANITY!!!!! . . . BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH!!!!! . . . BIBLE IS IMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICTIONS!!!*
Dennett and Hitchens, they were poisoned by Catholic Church doctrine and tradition as are Dawkins and Harris. They were too educated in man’s “wisdom”. They would not or perhaps could not entertain the thought that God is love. Everything that we think or believe about God must necessarily be scrutinized through the lens of God is love. Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life and, You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. They are dead now. It is sad that they never came to a love of the truth. I pray for Dawkins and Harris.
A religionist came to my door the other day with his young son. He handed me a propaganda pamphlet and I noted the typical Southern Baptist rhetoric. "What are the wages of sin?". Blah blah blah. Then proceeded to ask me what church I went to. I told him the doctrines of his establishment have caused Great harm to the world (and continue to do so) and I no longer believed in the lies or spreading those lies. He said "okay", shrugged his shoulders and he and his son turned walked away. I stood there horrified and thought oh my God that was me 30 years ago even though I was never so bold as to go door-to-door and evangelize people. I always thought that was embarrassing. The religious establishment really does spread lies though. Millions of people running around espousing a belief system that oftentimes is nonsense and is a twisting or butchering of the original ancient texts. Islam and Christianity are almost identical. I have listened to my Muslim friends sit and talk to me about the fall of Lucifer and the end times in the coming of Jesus. If I didn't know they were Muslim I would have believed they were some variety of Southern Baptist evangelist. Two quotes I have held closed since I have learned the truth. "You will behave like the god you worship". So if he is a psychopath you will behave like a psychopath. The other quote is "there is no hate like Christian love". I have personally experienced that one as well.
I am an agnostic Korean, and while atheists may not make sacrifices or risk their lives driven by religious beliefs like missionaries, I acknowledge the profound impact Christian missionaries had in Korea. Over 10,000 U.S. and Western missionaries were killed while spreading the teachings of the Bible, helping to improve civil rights, education, and prosperity. In the early 20th century, during the Chosun Dynasty, nearly half of Korea's population lived in slavery, marking one of the longest periods of indentured servitude in history, spanning approximately 1,500 years.
Missionaries played a crucial role in education, establishing 796 schools by 1910, including medical schools and universities. At the time, 90% of Koreans were illiterate, so missionaries had to educate the population in order for them to read and learn the Bible. Notably, Mary Fletcher Benton Scranton founded the first schools for Korean women. Through these efforts, Christianity introduced human rights and economic improvements, significantly contributing to Korea's rapid development.
The intention isn't genuine or well-directed if its laden with proselytization efforts and goals to try and convince others to convert, and believe in things without evidence. Bait & switch..a classic.
Einstein's classic quote always comes to mind: "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed".
Even Hamas offers social services, so what? Does that make their core doctrine true or moral? No. It just means there are elements and individuals within any group that do good despite religion. If an agenda is there, instead of doing good for the sake of good - then the whole premise of an ethical & genuine approach is void.
@@FactStorm I totally understand your concerns about proselytization and belief without evidence, and I also see where you're coming from with the Hamas example. Maybe some religions do fall into that category. However, I believe Christianity, especially how it impacted Korea, is different. And just to clarify, I’m not a Christian, but I do believe that Christianity has brought about many positive changes.
As a Korean, I can only speak to the profound influence US and Western Christians had on Korea, for which I am incredibly grateful. For over 4,000 years, Korea was an atheist society where the king and nobles, a mere 2% of the population, ruled over the rest. In 1910, half the population were slaves, and the law at that time treated them as property. Masters had the legal right to kill, rape, or torture their slaves without consequence-this was the harsh reality. Western and US Christian missionaries, believing that every human is made in the image of God, advocated for the dignity and value of all individuals. These beliefs contributed significantly to social transformation in Korea, freeing millions from a system of oppression.
Sure, their beliefs may not always be rooted in evidence in the scientific sense, but their faith drove humanitarian actions that helped shift Korea toward a more just society. More than 10,000 missionaries, many from the US, lost their lives in Korea while spreading these values, yet their influence helped promote individual rights and freedom.
While evidence is critical in many aspects of life, it’s also true that some of the most profound changes in history come from belief and faith. Christianity, in this case, led to positive changes that gave people hope and freedom.
@@ans9611 this is an insightful comment. This comes from a non believer- agnostic.
Wow .........! " Religious moderates don't fly ( Drone- adapted remote control...) planes into buildings..."
( Thanks Sam , yor a genius ...! )
I got an “A” in Scientific Atheism, that was a requirement for a medical student in a Soviet Union university, so why am I listening to this eloquent man? Because logic and reason are so appealing and I am lazy to switch to another video. It’s true, that the population of the American continent is clinging to it”s Bibles, and the most religious are, also, clinging to their AR15 style weapons of war. Love thy neighbor, but keep your high capacity magazines loaded 😂😢
Love thy neighbor does not mean to lie down when your neighbor, who happens to believe in survival of the fittest, wants to kill you and your family because they think themselves to be the super race. "God asks, who will stand in the gap of the wall" with his sword to protect others and give his life if necessary. Hmmmmmm. That Jesus called the greatest form of love. V
Scientific Atheism? Therein lies a conflict. Science is not a belief system. Atheism is. No connection. False logic. I would give you an F for fail. Belief. You do realise that most of human knowledge is belief, faith, trust. The challenge is to find truth.
@@antbrown9066 Science--AS IT IS TAUGHT TODAY--is a BELIEF SYSTEM--QUOTE: “We have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. Lewontin, Richard (1997), “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review, January 9.
SCIENCE SHOULD BE ABOUT ACCEPTING ALL FORMS OF "AGENCY" not just materialistic explanations, when, the PROBABILITY of "AGENCY" is overwhelming. PERIOD
1) The Universe supposedly came from NOTHING AND BY THE GOD OF THE ATHEIST CALLED NOTHING. An actual, factual MIRACLE, without a Miracle worker -- a Scientific Impossibility.
2) Life From Non life -- Miracle NUMBER 2. Just the FACTS ABOUT PROTEINS. Sir Fred Hoyle, any probability greater than 1 Chance in 10 to the 50th Power is a MIRACLE. Just ONE small protein, 150 amino acids long--the chance of it coming together by CHANCE is 1 Chance in 10 to the 77 power. A small cell has 41 Million protein molecules, with some 1000 amino acids long. Origin of life SCIENCE--our first ancestor would need minimum of 206 DIFFERENT TYPES of proteins, and from 10 to 500 thousand copies of those proteins depending on the structure they form in the cell. Now add in 400 Million lines of DNA, and two unfathomable biological systems called replication and translation, so the next cell could replicate. THIS CANNOT HAPPEN BY CHANCE. PERIOD, AND YOU ARE A FOOL IF YOU BELIEVE IT CAN.
@@antbrown9066 Atheism is not a belief system. It’s the lack of belief in deities.
Why do you spam this channel so much? Just sit quietly and listen and maybe you will learn something.
@@HeirOfNothingInParticular that is where you are wrong. Atheism is most certainly a position. It is therefore a belief system. You cannot take a position without forming an opinion (belief) of a concept. Naturalist science excludes the possibility of intelligent designer. It starts with an established exclusion criteria. This is a belief. Atheists Believe that there is no such thing as an intelligent designer or if you like, deity. This is not spam. It is a response to an incorrect position which you are asserting. You are asserting your belief. I suggest studying what belief means. That word may be the problem. Some equate belief to the concept of blind faith. Belief is on a spectrum. So is quality of evidence - on it’s own spectrum. Atheists appear to put religiosity and God belief on the evidence spectrum at the bottom (zero evidence) and on the belief spectrum perhaps near or at the top - zealotry or fanaticism. And they may well be right. When I do science, I believe that those outside of my field, have in the main, adhered to the process of science as I do, and provided the scientific body of knowledge with useful information / knowledge, aiming for truth.
How could you be a believer after listening to Sam Harris ??
*@HoggRidduh* Repeat after me: in the beginning man created god in his own image. That's why god is not perfect but has human attributes like envy, jealoucy, violence, misogyny, regrets, or urges. God is PURE FICTION.
Thanks for trying Sam.
Sam is the Arby's of philosophy. A 1 star out of 5 philosopher. Nietzsche would not have approved 😂
This video? Oh, just maybe the best of billions on UA-cam.
12:57 To clarify, the "genocidal stupidity" referred to in this video is regarding the anti-condom stance of the Catholic Church in Africa.
⩜⃝ *_@Useless-Worthless-Atheists!!_* ⩜⃝
*_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?
You want to know what I find so interesting about Sam's and the Vatican's assessment of the manufactured *_HIV/AAIDS_* problem in Africa? . . . The United States has the very same problem here. . . I watched two Documentaries about the spread of *_HIV/AAIDS_* around the World and two of the hardest hit places was the American South *_(Mississippi)_* and Africa *_(Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho and Zimbabwe)._*
The *_godless, Leftist Liberal, Crypto Communist_* media claims that *_HIV/AAIDS_* is mostly spread in America by Young/Gay African American males who refuse to use condoms. . . . They also say that Truck Drivers frequenting Prostitutes along their Transportation Routes is the primary cause for the transmission of those Diseases in South Africa. . . But did you notice that the easiest remedy to cure those terrible Diseases actually destroys Sam Harris' argument that *_"Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics_* are better than *_"Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics?_*
The *_"Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics_* in the Bible Commands *_Believers_* to *_not_* engage in Fornication/Adultery *_&_* Homosexuality. . . No Secular *_"Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics_* do!!
*_Why don't you put your Money where your Mouth is Sam Harris? . . . Let's compare "Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics to "Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics and see who_* 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓼?
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@@Grantman-wy6zlI’d give him a glazed donut if he wants. Or a cupcake.
Condom use is immoral. It destroys nature and possible procreation. You were born because your parents were willing to make great sacrifices of their time, expense, and attention, for many years, should a pregnancy result from sexual intercourse. Abstinence is character building and develops will power and discipline. Now, if people can't have children for any reason, or they're too old to have children, sexual pleasure is fine to indulge in. But for young healthy individuals to put pleasure ahead of possible parental responsibilities is immoral. Morals in matters like this are not clear to everyone. We should listen to the moral reasoning of authoritative figures in matters where there are wide societal disagreements. People come up with moral justifications for abortion, murder, fornication, slavery, or any evil path they want to pursue -- so we can get it wrong.
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✞ *_Our Precious_* 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 *_and_* 𝓢𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 *_the Most Blessed_* 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 *_and the_* 𝓐𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓾𝓵 *_Taught the same_* 𝓓𝓸𝓬𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 *_and Preached the same_* 𝓣𝓞𝓡𝓐𝓗 *_&_* 𝓖𝓞𝓢𝓟𝓔𝓛. ✞
💯 *_!!Amen!!_* 💯
✞ *_Our Precious_* 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓓 *_and_* 𝓢𝓐𝓥𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓙𝓔𝓢𝓤𝓢 *_the Most Blessed_* 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣 *_and the_* 𝓐𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓾𝓵 *_Taught the same_* 𝓓𝓸𝓬𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 *_and Preached the same_* 𝓣𝓞𝓡𝓐𝓗 *_&_* 𝓖𝓞𝓢𝓟𝓔𝓛. ✞
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How is sex for pleasure immoral?
I agree people get it wrong sometimes, i know some that base it on a book that says you can own other people and beat them. Can you imagine? Lol
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@@fibonacimike4110 It's not. You mean "when" is sex for pleasure immoral? ... When it's rape. When it's molestation. When it's abusive. When contraceptives are used. When it's adultery. When it's fornication. When it's incest. When it's homosexuality. When it's pedophilia. When it's masturbation. When it massage therapy or prostitution. Even entertaining impure thoughts for emotional enjoyment is immoral in the eyes of God. "Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart" ... Sex for pleasure between man and wife isn't immoral -- even if no pregnancy can come of it. The rhythm method of birth control is perfectly moral.
I’m not an adherent of religion. I’m not an atheist. I’m not, not an atheist. My senses tell me I exist. My instinct is to avoid labels. I am happy when I’m kind.
Great compilation. Love, expressed through a commitment to human wellbeing, is the only available basis for a truly moral society. Religious dogma, developed in order to sustain empires and institutions since ancient times, exists to justify whatever evil in necessary to sustain power and privilege.
You can get away with saying anything you want as long as you put the title "Reverend" or "Father" or "Pastor" before your name. -Christopher Hitchens quote.
I don’t disagree with Harris that religion creates “separation and Balkanization” of populations. The problem IS that the PROBLEM of existence and survival ALSO create separation and Balkanization.
Religion vs. atheism has nothing to do with it.
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I have been a vocal atheist for over 50 years. He makes me sound very brave.
My Dad, a cradle Catholic, (born 1920) told me as I was packing to leave home for university not to accept the teachings of the church on birth control. " What right, he asked, do celibate, childless men in dresses have to tell the rest of us how to run our married lives. Decide for us whether or not to have children ( the 1st 4 of us were unplanned proving the rythm method doesnt work. The 5th, drama queen, who likes to think she was an 'accident', was actually, Mum said the only planned child).
What I recall most was Dad's anger at himself for believing their twaddle.
I am romanian and I love and support this. 🇷🇴✌️Me too, I am a strong critique of religion, good work. 👍
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Really? . . . Because Sam Harris fails to *_prove_* his false assertion about *_"Iron Age" Moral Laws of Ethics_* being infeior to *_"Modern Day" Moral Laws of Ethics_* Would you care to try?
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Provided humanity is not annihilated by religions, it will likely grow out of it within the next century.
Excellent! Brilliant video!
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Regards condom use as 'immoral': this predicates on the useless idea that people shouldn't have sex for any reason other than procreation. These are the same people that think 'abstinence only' is a viable plan to teach human sexuality to our young. The profound ignorance of these ideas is unbelievable.
Yes, Religion is the cause for all the trouble in the world. Your faith in random forces creating good is foolish. Order and design comes from a moral law giver. Jesus has already won the war that is why he came in weakness. The creator of heaven and earth came to earth as a baby and lived a sinless life for a ransom for our sin. He is worthy. Dot take my word for it look at the evidence yourself. Many false teachers. Shhep in wolfs clothing.
As a Catholic in Europe, we were not allowed to read the Bible. The chiefs in Rome compiled an index that indicated which books you were allowed to read if you had a certain education. I think that they discovered early in the era that there was too much diversity in the interpretation of the scriptures from which they compiled the Bible. Now that we have the internet, it is very clear that no two people can agree on the interpretation of a single verse, let alone the entire scripture. Couldn't that god, who gave people the texts, tell a correct story in one go? Or is the conclusion that it was simply made up by shepherds more than 2000 years ago a more logical thing?
You are confused about your history. Yes, the Catholic Church once did exercise a lot of control over thought and social conduct, just as Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah Witness do today. But you are confused about much else.
I think it was Hitchens who said (paraphrase) 'Christianity's greatest achievement wasn't convincing millions of people to believe in absurdities, it was convincing the rest of us that we were not to criticise it.
@RotiJohn-c3z I agree. When Hitchens was speaking he was talking about Christianity but I'm sure he would apply the same argument against all other religions.
"I'm against equal rights."
"That's messed up and stupid."
"STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!!!"
I work with many smart, educated people of various, very different religions. During the week we get along, do our work with science and reason. But when the weekends or religious days come, it’s like their very brains alter. They believe in these wild things that are incompatible with one another, and even with how they normally function throughout the rest of the week.
Maybe it’s just cultural or tradition, but they seem to really believe it, even though it has no basis in reality and is seemingly antithetical to the rest of the lives they live.
I by no means intend to discourage people to drop their religious practices, at least when it has no harm to others, but I cannot wrap my head around the disconnect.
The taboo may exist partially to help everyone get along, but it doesn’t satiate my wish for understanding.
Yup, most people are fine until their religious switch turns on. Individuals go from rational, reasonable and moral to delusional and questionably unethical in an instant. Disgusting..
Thought I'd give you a go. I'm concerned about the misspelling of destructive. It doesn't engender confidence.
Wow. Back to point out technolohy as well, because I didn't notice it first time. Seriously?
I see no difference between misunderstanding abortion, and misunderstanding condom use.
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To the Roman Catholic Church's defense . . . *_(as a so called Protestant, I can't "Believe" I just said that!!)_* . . . they have always taught that *_any_* form of *_Contraception_* was against 𝓖𝓞𝓓'𝓢 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓼 on Male & Female reproduction. . . A few months back I watched three Documentaries about 𝐇𝐈𝐕/𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐒 that completely changed my mind about the "victims" of those Diseases.
The first was the 𝐏𝐁𝐒 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 Documentary called 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐒. . . . The second one was from 𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄/𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂 called 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐈𝐕 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡. . . I think the third one was from 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, but I forgot what the third one was called, but it was about how 𝐇𝐈𝐕/𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐒 was at epidemic levels throughout Africa!! . . . In all three the most common factor was their extremely careless behaviors, not the Roman Catholic Church's Doctrinal stand on *_Contraceptives!!_* . . .
. . . We live in an 𝐀𝐠𝐞 where poor behaviors are not only ignored, but encouraged by people who will ultimately benefit from the outcomes of those poor behaviors!! . . . 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 are 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, . . . so why should 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 (who are heavily invested in 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬) demand their 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬/𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 refrain from the very poor behaviors that line their own pockets? . . . .
💯 *_Amen!!_* 💯
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What is the difference between religion and ideology?
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Religion
noun
re·li·gion ri-ˈli-jən
*_1)_* A personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
Ideology
noun
ide·ol·o·gy
*_1)_* A manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture
But the common denominator that people like 𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 are afraid to speak about is 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 are often much worse than 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬!! . . . Because those two forms of living are nothing more than 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼 in 𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓹'𝓼 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 to deceive . . . . *_Wage Slave Peasants!!_* . . .
*_(#1)_* *_Capitalism_* - Is nothing more than *_Wage Slave Peasants_* working for their *_Corporate Wage Slave Masters._*
*_(#2)_* *_Communism_* - Is nothing more than *_Wage Slave Peasants_* working for their *_Government Wage Slave Masters._*
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The way you create content is uniquely attractive to the attention span 🎉
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How could you be satisfied with Sam Harris' unfounded and unproven claims, without providing proofs yourself? . . . Does you reprobate 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽 hate the very idea of 𝓖𝓞𝓓 that much?
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Great Video ! This message has to be amplified…to say the least.
Atheist here:
Yet Sam is so critical of Islam but remains silent about the atro cities in the name of J- ism, based on Biblical claims.
He never criticizes extremist Js and Zs directly, but made a career of criticizing Muslims and Islam.
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Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
Hello, *_@dykojb!!_* . . . You seem to be oblivious to the *_fact_* that the Jews actually had a State/Nation/Kingdom there!! . . . *_Ever_* heard of the Assyrians invading Israel?
Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
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@@Mr.BigHoggie ⭐ *FREE CHRlSTlANS FROM CURSE OF CHRITIANITY* ⭐ *BIBLICAL JESUS IS JUST A MYTH* ⭐ *BIBLE IS IMMORAL BOOK FULL OF ERRORS AND CONTRADICIONS* ⭐
People kiIIed in the name of atheism: *ZERO.*
People kiIIed in the name of communism (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...): about 140 millions.
People kiIIed in the name of abrahamic god: *300 to 400 millions*
*Atheism is default and only rational position.*
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Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
Was 721 BCE too far back for you? . . . Babylon 587 BCE? Persia 530 BCE? Greece 330 BCE? Rome 63 BCE? Arab Muslim 636 CE? Turkish Muslims 1516 CE? . . . Any questions?
Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
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Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
Today's Moral? . . . If you didn't want War Hungry 𝓩𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 to start European Wars, . . . then you people probably should not have invaded and scattered the 𝓙𝓮𝔀𝓼 around the World!!
Arab & Turkish Muslims *_Illegally Invaded, Conquered, Occupied & Colonized the land of Judea From 636 CE To 1917 CE! . . . 1,281 Years! . . ._* . . . The Jews just took their Home back!
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The Sun rises on more than the Abrahamic faiths, but they make much more fuss over who's right or wrong about the smallest details..