My parents were atheists but never even bothered to mention the fact. Religion had no place in our family life because it was regarded as simply ridiculous.
Lucky you, only my father was a long life atheist my mom is catholic and she always tried to indoctrinate me but since a young age none of the religious BS had any grap on me, it all slided from me
@@AntitheistHumanGood for you. Unfortunately both of my parents have been protestant all their lives. I was unable to help being slightly indoctrinated by my fundamentalist church.
@@AntitheistHuman Same family deal, mom is Catholic and dad an atheist. One preached morality, the other demonstrated kindness. But unlike you, I feel hard for the indoctrination. Until I read the OT. I realized that god doesn’t give us morality, because like my mother, God claims to be the center of morality, but his actions belie him. Atheism doesn’t force me to justify the cruelty in the OT.
Years ago (so the figures would have changed by now, and certain financial goings on were too opaque, and so simply left out of the figures) the US government was *losing $73 billion a year* to "religious" tax exemptions. So people like Kenneth Copeland can con poor little old ladies out of their money and become a billionaire? (I don't think he is quite yet, but give it a few months...). This is NOT acceptable!
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a long enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people? This is unfortunately the most widely funded religion today. *Did you know that Naturalistic Evolution shares characteristics of a religion?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
To some extent you are right, especially when it comes to things like buildings! But think of the works many Christian organisations do, helping the homeless, drug addicts, alchoholics & rescueing children from sex slavery. The list goes on & on. And if you don't know much about these things you are very ignorant, as this world would've destroyed itself a long time ago if Christians didn't do anything about them!
My father told me from an early age that people who believed in God were either stupid or insane. Now that I'm an adult in my 50s, im starting to share his view. Just have no time for these people - and I'm increasingly willing to let them know.
I’m an atheist and I have a tendency to be a little more nuanced. After all, I have good friends and family members who believe in god, and I don’t think they are stupid or insane. They are simply misled. I used to believe in god. I know what it’s like to believe. It’s a long hard road out of the matrix.
@@patrickwoods2213 All of that is true. I appreciate the comment because, although I understand, I have never had to deal wtih that myself. It must be a very tough and frightening road. Unfortunately, it's also why a lot of people never dare to question their beliefs - the consequences in terms of family, friends and community of losing faith would be devastating. Those who do dare have my respects - I can only imagine the courgae and intellect it must take.
That’s such an ignorant statement to say. I have religious and atheists friends of mine that are scientists and/or get along. Just because your personal experience was different and not so good doesn’t make Jesus Christ and his teachings untrustworthy or dumb. It’s like saying that because a scientist believe that the earth is flat, then every scientist is dumb. Really ignorant and arrogant to say don’t you think?
@@bointasalexandros6645 Well, one thing it's not is ignorant. That's the wrong word - but I'll let it go because English probably isn't your first language. Yes, it's an extreme view. Yes, it's intolerant. Are there very clever people who believe in God? Sure. Are they completely sane? I have my doubts. The one thing I'll admit here is that many people are religious because they grew up surrounded by it from the age of zero. I concede that it's very difficult to reject religion if everyone you know and love has been ramming it down your throat forever. I never had to find my way out of the maze (as one commentator aptly referred to it in this thread). And I'm not sure I would have been mentally sharp or strong enough to do it. My huge respects to those who managed.
@@scrumpymanjack What about atheists that grew up as atheists and then tunred to God? Are they insane because they believe that a higher intellectual power exists? I can’t understand why you categorizing every single one theist that they are also crazy or something. And yes, I’m a Greek Orthodox Christian and English is not my first language but would I ever be prodisposed to a human being just for his beliefs without ever knowing him? That’s just racist and absurd if you ask me but you do you, moreover, we have the free will to do anything I guess.
Being a 77 year old ex-Christian, this is full feeling video. I knew very early in my life that something wasn’t right…I was told you have to have faith…I played the game for many years. After I left religion behind, I have never felt more free. I truly believe that religion is a cancer on human society.
Maybe you would find Christianity (religion etc )more acceptable if your local priest, vicar or Imam etc etc, wore a top hat and pulled rabbits from a hat ? Maybe (on a clear night) you should look at the night sky and try to speculate just how or why anything exists at all ! Believing in a Creator should not affect your "freedom" since it is a belief in "nothing" which which limits your awareness of all that is. (And of yourself for that matter since you are also part of all that is--- remember that ),
Sam and Christopher Hitchens were the two most influential atheists that woke me up when I was first looking for arguments against my childhood Catholic indoctrination.
Your two prophets of atheism are (were) reliant on substances such as alcohol and prescription for comfort and solace. And one succumbed to its toxicity years back. Is this a picture of peace and tranquillity from your choice of belief? Wait till the day of reckoning beckons, and you will know who your true Lord is, that is Allah the Most High.
@@TBOTSS HAHAHAHAHA that you think that is beyond laughable as not only did he not "destroy" them Craig has been utterly embarrassed every time he debates someone like them - well he would be if he was capable of that level of self awareness. Just wow.
@@libertarian2718 Atheists don't have prophets - that's what you have. Atheists "have" nothing as atheism ONLY means I don't accept the claim of your "god". That's ALL. There is no shared belief after that, no shared culture, no nothing. Just like you don't believe in unicorns - there just isn't a word for that - I don't accept your "god' just like you don't accept the "god" of @tbotss. So I tell you what - when you theists, who believe in totally different things yet are completely convinced you are right - when you guys agree on what "god" even is you let me know. Until then you both need to stop believing in baseless bronze age fairytales that get people to kill each other over it.
@@ross-carlson Sam after his debate with Craig "I blew it". Poor old Chris would not come out for his final response and as a prominent atheist commentator pointed out "Chris was spanked like a like a little child".
Its interesting that while some people can quote Voltaire to support an argument (one way or another), they somehow fail to explain their own proofs; (or disproofs). Perhaps they don't really have any ideas of their own ?
@@electricmanist : I'm not sure why you said what you did, other than being mean spirited, but I felt this quote from Voltaire said it all. Why reinvent the wheel?
@user-of9qq6op5u Maybe if I suggest that your puppy is just not clever enough to create the universe, you might (upon deep reflection) consider that puppies are really not suitable. However, bearing in mind just how complex the universe is (not to mention the billions and billions of atoms involved) , maybe alternatively you might accept a kitten for the top job of creator. Perhaps not quite as ridiculous as a puppy perhaps. but then if one can only bark, and the other can mew musically, then maybe that idea is worth considering.
@user-of9qq6op5u An even more sobering thought, your body alone consists of millions of atoms ! Now translate this fact into the (as far as we know) structure of the 'endless' universe itself. Wow --ten million times over !
@user-of9qq6op5u Perhaps you can appreciate that my use of the word billions and billions was merely a term to indicate the almost unfathomable number of 'bodies' there are in the universe. Indeed, to even think that the universe 'is not endless', really comes down to a state of mind, since we really do not know ! Recent developments in radio technology (let alone visual telescopes) have resulted in images (solar systems etc) from distances far beyond what was thought to be possible . So the actual size (if size is the correct term) of the universe is really only speculative. Humans in general have difficulty of visualizing (let alone conceptualizing) something which appears to be endless. Light years maybe, but we can somehow conceptualize the distance light can travel in an (Earthly !) year. So maybe your suggestion that the universe is NOT endless, is based on the inability of the human mind to visualize/conceptualize something that goes on forever and forever and forever etc etc !.--- and then some !!!
I can remember being a kid, and seeing all of the different religions in the world, ranging from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc etc. and not only that, but different denominations of those religions (protestant, catholic, orthodox, sunni, shia, etc.) and one of the first thoughts I had about this was "how does nobody see how obviously man-made all of this is?"
@@wesleygordon1645 Can you be so sure? Many true believers deny the science on man-made climate change. But if it turns out to be true, wouldn't God expect us to act?
@@wesleygordon1645weird how God made millions and millions of people he knew would use their intellect and free will to never believe in him, only to cast them into the fires of eternity. Cool guy, seems really about love and peace
Thats the same thinking as being LGBT, changing your Gender, thinking that women are not equal ( LOL) , pretending that BLM (while ravaging Africa).... It's all man made and doesn't need to be accepted by everyone.
@@wesleygordon1645in The age of subscribing to the dictates of Parables, Prose, Fantasies and Fables, prescribed by morality signalling hypocrites who presume to speak on behalf of a Celestial Patriarch, in whose "name" they (you) cast aspersions, judgements, condemnation and prejudices, while claiming that these are "God's verdict", is over. Consciousness has recognised an authentic awareness of progressive knowledge, free from the conceit and contrivances of an ultimatum based superstitious hysteria, promoted by people who claim the authority of fabricated pieces of primeval Myth and Fiction, and want me to believe that these are "Divine", that I won't have, and it is the original repudiation. The first rebellion against mental slavery comes from saying ; it is man-made, it is Not "Divine". What is written in the Bible, Quran and Torah, is clearly not the best that Humanity is capable of in the ethical domain.
waiting for the comments to say " But Sam my God is real and i do have evidence" the evidence ends up being something that already has been debunked or they say you just didnt have faith. Sadly no matter how much evidence is presented people will always be ignorant and just ignore because believing in God makes them feel good. Without God i do believe this world would be much more peaceful but we have wars and terrorists who do terrible things in the name of God
IMHO this world would be 10 time better without a God telling everyone different things and God giving land to people so now they are fighting over it.
You have false opinion. For example chin@ peaple at most are atheists, but it don't prevent g€n()csd€ of uyghurs, north korea also atheistic, USSR in period of Lenin and Stalin try kill faith in God, and as you know at that time those who provide that were do terrible things. So don't think so false, it is very stupid to blame religions as you do. You should blame evil,sin for which every people have predisposition. Without God our world will be worse than it is, and history of many atheistic ways show that
"If God loves us and wanted to guide us with a book of morality, it's very strange to have given us a book that supports slavery. That demands that we murder people for imaginary crimes like witchcraft... The true basis of hope in our world is open ended conversation, and religion has shattered our world into competing moral communities... What we have to convince ourselves of is that love and curiosity is enough for us. And intellectual honesty is the guardian of that."
I always remember realising at the age of 12 that all religions are Zip or Post code decided, I then got very angry with my parents and teachers but became an anti-theist overnight. The concept of an after life seemed so stupid as we all know there was no before life. The logic of a 12 year old still seems sensible as now I’m 66. I’ve studied evolution and the fossil records, marvelled at deep space, Hubble and now James Webb. We still have loads to learn but must not put deities in place of good sense.!
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE, when I was struck by lightning during September 1970. Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
its weird because before new age atheism, atheists didnt care if people believed anything else. now its like a badge of honor so atheists can call themselves smart for not subscribing to a religion. Like congratulations when you faced all the belief systems the world had to offer you decided to just not choose very intelligent move.
Not going to hell, trying to 'convince' you you're going to hell. Now, do you go through life, guilty of some sin you created in your mind because what they convinced of. Or do you know better to not believe in this belief, because of a knowing deep down in you, you know as truth, and this isn't it?
I was so fortunate. I’ll never forget. When I was a little boy I asked my dad “what do we believe in?” He said to me… “Son, for now, just believe in yourself. When you’re older you can uncover on your own what you want to believe.” To this day I don’t know what he believed in. He let me discover myself on my own.
I can't understand how someone can believe god exists if we go through so much pain. Giving birth is a total hell, the pain is so difficult that is impossible to be put in words. And I had ptsd from it and nightmares and is a horror history. But I can only relate to this because is my pain. Out there in nature how many animals do suffer terrible pain are being eaten alive or giving birth and being eaten alive at the same time. If I was offered Nietsczhe proposal of eternal return I would definetively choose not to live this life again. And I am one of the happy stories that has a normal life and can put food on the table. What about people who live in misery. Because is far away from us is impossible to realise how real this suffering is. My most traumatising experience is being raised in a religious family. Being raised with brothers that have privileges. And are considered superior beings. And my mother is so deeply brainwashed that she can't see how wrong this is. I have to drive her every week to the church. We are in a foreign country and she doesn't understand the language (english) so only place where she makes friends is at Church. I can't deny her going to Church but being surrounded by this people, even for a few hours, is horrible. I suddenly become an angry person (good reasons I have!) Shouting and swearing at everybody. Because they say women are inferior to men. Going to church every week is severly affecting my mental health. My mother believes in the afterlife, she is very sick with multiple diseases that probably will make her life shorter. I don't have thr heart to deprive her from this fantasy that keeps her hoping. She is had a terrible life and experienced severe domestic abuse (with being hospitalised many times). But going to church is destroying me. I don't know what to do. My mum says I am being angry in the church because I am possesed by demons. How hurtful is for you mother to say that to you? I am living a hell because of religion. I want religion to be erradicated during our lifetime. We need to get rid of this cancer in humanity.
Quit going. Tell your mother the truth. Let your mother figure out her own way to church if it's so important to her. Nietzsche also stated that if you enjoy one moment in life that you say yes to all the suffering as well. The strongest trees have suffered many storms. They grow stronger partly because they endured. They are stronger because they grew deep roots, they bent in the wind and survived. The lesson is not in the suffering itself, it is what is left over after suffering. Choose to be strong enough to tell your mother you don't believe and she should not either.
Anger is the way our body tells us what we don't want or are not. Multiple near death experiences all share similar stories of how we are in fact consciousness and not a material body. This is just a temporary stay to experience and learn. Religion has some truth but is mostly an ancient indoctrination to control and divide humanity.
Always weird to hear menn are superior. If they were, we wouldn't have to remind everyone. Hope your life becomes better and one day, you get away (by going to the embassyy if you have one).❤
Because we shouldn’t attack religion in itself, but the way people think and get indoctrinated. We need to make them think rationally and believe on evidence. Shed this indoctrination alone, and have something to fall back on after that. You can’t just take it away.
'Knock Knock' * 'Who is it?' ^ 'It's me, Jesus.' * 'What do you want?' ^ 'I want to save you.' * 'Save me from what?' ^ 'From what I'll do to you, if you don't let me in.' -Not mine, but SPOT ON!
"morality" morality is something that is very flexible depending on what kind of culture, civilization or time frame you live in. and with regards to atheists and "where did God came from?" question. God is a supernatural deity that doesn't need time, space and matter to exist. you can't create a creator and also put natural and human level limitations on what a God is. God is beyond human and scientific limitations. science can only measure matter. the physical world we live in. the universe.
@@tätt_ninjahr Actually it's not that hard to prove at all. God is a Super-Natural phenomenon. The laws of nature are obviously "Natural" phenomena. To attempt to limit a Super-Natural phenomenon by "Natural" standards is to commit a simple logical category error. In the biblical worldview, God created these mathematically precise laws of nature (Jeremiah 33:25), including time, space, and matter themselves (Genesis 1:1), and thus He necessarily exists beyond those "natural" limitations. The bigger issue, as an Atheist, is the laws of nature contradict themselves at certain points, making a 'Natural' explanation of our origins impossible. *The only way for "Nature" to create itself, is if "Nature" is Pre-Existent - like God.* The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't allow energy to "naturally" come from nothing. The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) says energy is always being converted into a "less usable form," and it doesn't allow energy to remain usable forever - but our universe is full of usable energy. So if our universe couldn't "naturally" have a beginning from nothing, and if it can't have just existed forever (otherwise all of its energy would be burned up), then *how can you "naturally" explain the beginning of our universe?* Have you ever wondered why Atheistic-Naturalists (evolutionists, etc.) have to invoke such wild and sci-fi sounding theories to "naturally" explain our origins? *Infinite* alternate universes, an *eternal self-existent* singularity, alternate unobservable metaphysical laws of nature, *pre-existent* Phenomena.... you have to suspiciously attribute characteristics of the Supernatural God to "nature" in order to "naturally" (atheistically) explain our origins. Can you see the problem? Atheistic-Naturalism is an internally inconsistent and self-refuting Supernaturally-Natural (!) worldview - it's unavoidable. *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* *'The evidence for God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
You contradict yourself. All truth comes from God (notice I didn't say religion), and this certainly includes such things as His moral law.What is more, the Bible is a very logical book!!
@@wesleygordon1645 Yawns..just another deeply indoctrinated religious nutcase who doesn't understand how basic logic works. Very predictable and boring lot..you people are all the same.
As an Ex-Christian. I struggled with the sin, salvation, atonement, hell, demons and devils... part of what religion was trying to convince me. I never fell for it. I couldn't. I knew better than to think, the God that created me was going to send me to hell for eternity if I didn't join his gang/club/cult. That's not God, that's sounds just like the Roman's. That's how I knew this religion's message had something terribly wrong with it. They spent WAY too much emphasis on trying to convince humanity they needed Jesus guy or ELSE. The bible has nice stories and all, but it's more a children's book, with some exceptions where it becomes a Stephen King novel.
The nice stories are few and far between, and while it may have a lot of the gore and violence of a Stephen King novel, it certainly doesn't have the prose. When you read the Bible with a mind not constrained by indoctrination, it's actually quite shocking how bad it actually is.
Of course human speculation (as included in most religions) can vary from the fantastic to the ridiculous. Nevertheless, the fact is that you (and all that there is) exists and depends upon the intelligent power of the atomic structure within the core of its being , to exist at all. Maybe it's time to move on from Roman barbarities and graduate to something more relevant such as the existence of all that is (including yourself and the millions of others). -Not forgetting the universe of course !!! Look at the structure of what we call matter-- it is not solid (remember NOT SOLID ) but a powerhouse of molecules or atoms etc. The same right throughout the universe. Now try to formulate some theory that all this creative power came (and continues to exist) from nowhere. One might well consider that everything exists via a Creative power, (God) ---although even that word power is totally inadequate since it does not encapsulate the essence of all that is ! You are part of it remember.
@@royms2000 Exactly! C. fundamentalists read the bible as if they're under a trance or possessed. They already made up their minds and can't see the discrepancies that are written within. Some are unable to see what's directly in front of them.
@@electricmanistBut it’s your claim that everything came from nothing. So first demonstrate that “nothing” has existed, because science doesn’t say that. Most scientists believe that “nothing” is impossible and there was always something. Once you talk about “nothing” and try to explain, it becomes something, something you’re talking about. So even in philosophy this concept is kinda vague.
I contend that if any god/goddess, whatever, wants me to worship them, all they have to do is get off their backsides, come down to earth and ask me nicely (please, thankyou and all that stuff), in public before credible unimpeachable witnesses. He/she wouldn't need all these human intermediaries if they'd only bother to do it themselves. But they won't because they don't exist.
But he has Jesus is God incarnate. He does not demand your worship. He draws you to himself that that you may experience life in all it's fullness. God's plan is to make Mankind (all of us) in His image. The Gospel is Good News for All people but it has been distorted by those who threaten with Hell (a word not found in the Bible but a poor translation). To be sure we will all be judged but that is a good and necessary thing if we are to become who we were created to be. Jesus said if I be lifted up I will draw all people to myself because he loves us all. Believe the Gospel.
@@stephengorman1025 Jesus may not demand your worship but he's going to withhold heaven for all eternity unless you get on your knees and do it. How can it be God's plan to make us in his image? Doesn't the Bible say he already did that? Was that a lie or did God screw it up? God presumably knows everything that's going to happen before it happens so our "judgement" is little more than God stomping on the creations he made over things he already knew were going to happen.
@@stephengorman1025 Gibberish, word salad and nonsense. All the silly jumbled nonsense that people like you spout, all the straight up lies and strawmen that you have presented is exactly what I was ranting about. A God shouldn't need useful idiots like you. If he could be bothered, he'd do it himself. But he won't. Why? Because he's only an imaginary God.
There's seem to be some sense of denial I think, a Christian will claim they are interested in the truth, but won't even bother to pick up a book on evolution and try and learn something, they often just throw the same old excuses...like "Its just a theory" and try and avoid the topic completely. But with a little research they could learn so much about earlier humans, and chromosome number 2, showing that at least adam and eve are just mythological.
So everyone else scrupulously honest ?--- you might care to tell that to all the people in prison for theft, or robbery for embezzlement, for forgery, for falsifying documents , telling lies etc etc !!
“Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.” Oscar Wilde Religion: It’s a cause of hatred and conflict and it’s dependent upon ignorance and superstition. “Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.” L.A. Seneca “Religion was invented when the first con-man met the first fool.” Mark Twain
"If God is able to prevent evil, but unwilling, he is not benevolent. If he is willing, but not able, he is not omnipotent. If he is neither willing nor able, then why call him a god?"
I won’t be worshipping no jacked up, lying human being like myself. I need a holy and righteous God who has the power to keep me and when I die resurrect me to Him for eternity. Man has no power that God had, just jacked up lies. I not doing idolatry.
I think that if the world had one distinct religion, one god, that religion could potentially make the world a better place. The religion would be about kindness and compassion with none of the ugliness of global floods or anti-gay rhetoric. Unfortunately, that religion is none of the religions of which I am familiar. And even if that hypothetical religion did exist, it would not be true. I'm not sure how much that last detail would matter.
The anti- Gay rhetoric is limited to Abrahamic religions. They banned and burned people for their sexual orientation. In other cultures, who you have sex with, how you have sex doesn't make any difference to who you are as a Human being.
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? That we are all 'just chemicals" or "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care? Because if so, that contradicts your desire for something "better," "kindness," "compassion" - it's all just meaningless chemicals, literally chance chemicals fizzing in your brain about meaningless things. Nothing can be truly "good," "bad," "right," "wrong," etc. you are the cousin of cockroaches, cancer cells, leprosy, and death - evolution does not care about your "kindness" "survival" "compassion," and there is nothing "ugly" about floods, etc. - it's all just chemicals. You're contradicting yourself my friend. Nothing you're saying here makes any sense, from your worldview's perspective - every time you refer to such meaningful and valuable things you are borrowing that not from your meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care, but from the image and likeness of God programmed into you, and I love that He put that into you because that is powerful evidence you can see in yourself that He exists. As for the "anti-gay rhetoric" - have you ever read any accounts of gay people who used to be gay but switched to being straight? Like Anne Heche? Or the growing detransition movement - have you ever listened to the heartbreaking things they have to say? According to the CDC in 2015, 19% of the LGBT+ community has HIV, compared to only 1% of the world community which has it - why such disparity? Surveys conducted among older LGBT+ people also shows that approximately 20% of the community has had over 1000 partners in their lifetime and didn't even know half of them, roughly half have had over 500 partners and didn't know half of them, and about 20% of the population has had over 100 partners in their lifetime and didn't know who half of them were... which explains the high rate of HIV transmission. I'm surprised you are supporting such a harmful and dangerous dehumanizing lifestyle - it's not "love is love," it's more accurately confusing promiscuity with "love." I personally think promiscuity, unfaithfulness to your current/future spouse, spreading life-threatening disease, cheapening the beautiful gift of sex, and perverting God's good design for marriage is what is "ugly" and I'm surprised that you are okay with these things.
There is a religion like this. It is called Buddhism. It is about kindness and compassion. Mindfulness and self awareness. Buddhism is about self exploration and you only believe what you prove to be true for you. The method of doing this is rigorous and has worked for nearly 3000 years. It is more precise than the scientific method. It leaves no doubt only confidence and continuation on the path. It is called the Stream. You need only dip your toe in.
In catholic school 5th grade I knew something was wrong with religion and acted out on it. Got in big trouble with parents and nuns but it was all worth it. Didn't waste another second of my life on this bullshit.
The certainty and smugness of the "faithful" is so puzzling to me. Indoctrinated, well and truly, to buy into such a transparently contrived notion with no evidence to support any of it. I admit, it's an awesome concept, and would certainly be the best solution to our absurd and random existence - I would wholeheartedly embrace all of it . . . with the tiniest shred of proof.
@@raysalmon6566 A slave to sin? 1. I would love it if someone could explain what that means? 2. Define sin and tell me what person living on this planet doesn't ever do those things? 3. Elaborate what specifically is supposed to not make a person a "slave" to these sins anymore. 4. If anyone believes they're perfect they're either delusional or insane.
@@michaelelliott1212 2a. Sin is transgression of God's law - for simplicity's sake, it is more or less summed up in God's mostly common sense Ten moral Commandments. 2b. *"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"* (Romans 3:23) 1. Great article at GotQuestions: "What does it mean to be a slave to sin?" 3. By removing sin's power altogether. Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law, and paid your fine for your transgressions so you could be released on bail. How can lawbreaking (sin) have any hold over you if your fine for said lawbreaking has already been paid? 4. Amen. *"“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”"*(Romans 3:10-12) *"The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"* (Romans 6:23) *"But God showed His love for us by sending His Son to die for us while we were still sinners"* (Romans 5:8)
I completely agree with this. I have felt for years that religion is maniacal absurdity so I renounced religion. Best day of my life. I contend that religion's sole purpose is to separate the stupid from their money. I get more "love" from my pets than I ever did from the church.
Do you say that because you believe instead in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just add enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable; Religions are not. Given its history of constantly being rewritten as it runs into more and more problematic evidence, what would it take to falsify the Theory of Evolution today?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? Early jawed placoderm fossils showing fully developed complex jaws - causing evolutionists to claim that they must have evolved, de-evolved, and then re-evolved those jaws to maintain their story of shark evolution? What if scientists admitted that Human-Ape DNA is down from 99% "similar" to only 84% "similar" and admitted their bias in "humanizing" the ape genome? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
I grew up super religious but then in my early twenties discovered Hitchens and he completely stripped belief from under me. Now I think it’s the most ridiculous thing
superstition - noun 1a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition 2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary Merriam-Webster
@@blueandgreenslacks Faith is the mechanism in which you believe in the superstition. Faith is not a virtue. Faith is gullibility. Faith is the surrender of your mind. Faith is the abandonment of logic and reason. Faith is the surrender of your free will. Faith is your weakness.
@colinellicott9737 I am stating facts that the guy depends on substances to be who Sam Harris is to you. NOT TO ME. To me, he is an alcoholic and a drug addict. I would not rest my life philosophy on a man like that. Plus, his racist views, anti-Islam (he is so ignorant), Genocidal Apartheid Zionist love, and incoherent thoughts (BS) on philosophy and unfettered support of suicidal American foreign policies.
@@colinellicott9737 I am was stating facts, Mr Harris is dependent on alcohol and drugs to be the Sam Harris to you. I will not trust my life philosophy on such a guy. You are free to cling on to such individual.
@@colinellicott9737 Sam Harris is a disgraceful Islamophobe and a strong supporter of Zionist genocidal apartheid Israel. I do not want to go further. A man who fails to be fair and shows humanity and justice in the face of what is happening in Palestine is not worth a second of listening time. And he relies on substances to pacify and justify his inner grief and contradictions, respectively .
Probably because your IQ is half that of Sam (like most people) and you haven’t spent a good portion of your life studying this stuff. Nothing to be ashamed of, I don’t think anyone could put is better.
His IQ says nothing really. In the end, he wasted years of his life studying something he thinks is made up bs, only to get denied by the ones he tried to convince that it is all bs. How ironic Maybe not wasting too much time on this topic makes everyone's life better.
My Dad was a Catholic. Came back from three years plus fighting in Far Eastern jungles in WW2 (Burma) a very devout atheist. Only a fool believes in a 'loving' omnipotent and/or Christ's mercy. You believe? Then you, Sir or Madame, are a fool. Yes? No?
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* then puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded... The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time... Some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record... have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information."* (D. Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 50, no 1 (1979), 25) We had to be created somehow - you can either believe that God made man and woman from the dirt, or you can believe that dirt fizzed itself into man and woman by chance - I just don't have enough faith to believe that dirt can do that. Let me ask you this... Charles Darwin met the gold standard of science (a methodology) by giving a testable hypothesis for his theory, saying "if an *organ* were discovered which could not possibly be explained by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down..." *How did male and female evolve?* Before you answer, consider that these are two separate, yet interdependent, precision tuned sets of organs that all have to be working just right or reproduction, life, and evolution fail. For example: The fallopian tubes are lined with millions of these little hairs that all wave the same direction, and their purpose is to guide the egg from the ovaries down into the uterus. If they stood still, laid flat, waved the wrong direction, or didn't exist - the egg would either die or it would implant in the fallopian tube thus killing the mother. Some of these are known medical conditions that prevent pregnancy - "Evolution" had to get these millions of hairs just right.... "by numerous, successive, slight modifications." *Simultaneously* the sperm has a whip like rotor, a motor encasing, a bushing like material, a nutrient transfer system, and several other components that all have to be working *just right* or the sperm can't find the egg. Reproduction and life fails. "Evolution" had to get the interdependent parts of the sperm "just right" ... "by numerous, successive, slight modifications." *Then* you have the placenta which does everything for the baby including keeping the mother's and baby's blood separate, the expanding and contracting uterus and cervix, the mechanism which only allows one sperm into the egg, and numerous other components that all had to be *designed* just right, or reproduction and life fails. "Evolution" had to *SIMULTANEOUSLY* get all of these just right "by numerous, successive, slight modifications." Which gender evolved first, and how did it reproduce while the other hadn't evolved yet? And going backwards in time, which of these critical organs do you gradually reduce first "by numerous, successive, slight modifications" without causing reproduction to fail? *"“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’"* (Matthew 19:4). Such *specified complexity* looks like the product of an Intelligent engineering mind, not the result of chance fizzing chemicals in a puddle. Puddles don't turn themselves into people no matter how much *time* you add to the mix.
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE, when I was struck by lightning during September 1970. Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
It's all so simple. The first moment any god comes out of the closet, atheism is buried. Which god will be the first, remains to be seen. And when it will happen...? I won't hold my breath though....
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? Or that the earth randomly clumped together on its own meeting 122 precise conditions required for life - an estimated 1 chance in 10^138 (a number with 138 zeroes) out of something like the Big Bang? (There are only 10^90 particles in our entire universe... food for thought...) Or, when all the necessary proteins required for life formed themselves by chance in a puddle, and then formed themselves into all the necessary cell components inside of a cell enclosure, *how did they overcome the known problem of hydrolysis which inhibits protein formation in water?* Or the Faint Young Sun paradox, which measurably suggests our earth would have been frozen solid 3.5 billion years ago when this was supposed to happen (if it was really billions of years old)? *"we've not made the RNA in a prebiotically relevant manner. It hydrolyzes too rapidly."* (Professor Saztech, Chicago, 2021) [Regarding Abiogenesis] *"Chemistry is actually hard to get to work. The molecules precipitate. The molecules hydrolyze. The molecules decompose. And so it's very much a constraint that you have to deal with.. it's one g-d problem after another."* (Steve Benner, former Harvard Professor, Director of Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, 2019) *"Liquid water is generally considered a key ingredient for life. When the Sun was much fainter, the Earth with its present atmospheric composition would have been frozen solid. If the oceans were frozen, life may not have formed" (Quote: NASA).* God has made His work abundantly clear. For someone to hold to a non-God position (Atheism) is to utterly stare science in the face and reject it a priori in favor of a constantly rewritten mythology that fish evolve into philosophers. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20). Puddles of chemicals don't fizz into people by chance no matter how much *Time* you add to the pot, that's just not how "science" works.
I will never, ever understand how an intelligent adult will choose to blindly and absolutely believe, literally, the word of the Bible as a universal and unassailable truth after learning how acutely unreliable it is as a source, of anything. I honestly feel like people must actively choose to deceive themselves to a degree, or live in a state of wilful ignorance.
@@mikescollard6499 I would like to try to understand why people (like yourself maybe?) believe literally the words of a book which has been rewritten, rebranded, translated and retranslated countless times over 1500 years. And even then based on accounts which were decades old in the first instance. I honestly do not meant to be combative. I am just genuinely interested as to what people find in this source to consider it reliable as a source for all truth about our reality and the universe. For me, I have read many parts of the Bible (and the Qu-'ran for that matter) - and neither (for me) should be considered any more *absolutely true* than a newspaper article that I read 20 years ago.
If you indoctrinate a child with any religious dogma before they are able to read or write and are not old enough to form an opinion on the subject is simply child abuse.
We are all Uncritically Indoctrinated into the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, chemicals can fizz into people if you just wait a really long *Time,* Nothing created everything accidentally with mathematical precision for no reason, and that we are all "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral chemical universe that does not care. Meanwhile we accuse people like Hitler as if what they did was somehow "evil" in this meaningless amoral chemical universe that doesn't care, pretend that things like "abuse" are *objectively "bad"* in this meaningless universe that doesn't care, and we forget that cancer cells, leprosy, and death are our evolutionary cousins - right alongside cockroaches, dirt clods, and pond scum - as we pretend we are somehow valuable. "If you indoctrinate a child with any religious dogma before they are able to read or write and are not old enough to form an opinion on the subject is simply child abuse." I was also force fed this "we're just chemicals" mythology that fish evolve into philosophers as a young child - we all are - very few ever get to hear the other side today. *"But God showed His love for us by sending His Son to die for us while we were still sinners"* (Romans 5:8)
Common sense put into the vernacular. Excellent presentation indeed! Religion is a carry-over from antiquity. Modern research shows that religion grew out of incredibly hard times. It provided the neurological crutch to strengthen people. It was misguided but was indeed adopted as the ultimate avenue of salvation and eternal rest and enjoyment from existing in such times of severe hardship. Additionally, it was an instrument of control by the church to spread it's influence over the governing leaders and hierarchy of the time. Blind faith resulted in the people capitulation to church and government.
I came here because I am currently beginning to accept God is real. Not out of some great epiphany or revelation, but just simple common sense. I wanted to listen to arguments from the "other side" because I am seeking answers and so am open to all possibilities. Mr Harris has done nothing to change my current leaning. Atheism is illogical and seems to take every bit as much faith as Religion to accept.
The question is: Why so many were/are opposing to the main advice from Jesus Christ: to strive always for goodness, wisdom, justice... for perfection? *_"Be perfect therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect"_* Matthew 5, 48 Most probably, because just as it is easier to destroy something useful than to make/build something useful, in the same way it is easier to be evil=stupid than to be good=wise.
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a long enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *Scientific Theories should be Falsifiable, Religions are Not: What would it take to Falsify Evolution?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? Early jawed placoderm fossils showing fully developed complex jaws - causing evolutionists to claim that they must have evolved, de-evolved, and then re-evolved those jaws to maintain their story of shark evolution? What if scientists admitted that Human-Ape DNA is down from 99% "similar" to only 84% "similar" and admitted their bias in "humanizing" the ape genome? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
@@michaelg377 evolution has no relation to atheism. atheism is lack of belief in gods, it does not imply any other belief. your argument is the logical fallacy of "false dichotomy"
@@billjohnson9472 No my friend, as an Atheist you are necessarily making other secondary affirmative claims whether you like it or not - namely that we were created without God. That unfortunately necessitates atheistic evolution, atheistic abiogenesis, information out of non-information (in DNA), that all the necessary cell components had to create themselves inside of a cell enclosure by chance, etc. You're trying to hold a neutral ground where you don't have to accept accountability for the scientifically ludicrous consequences of your belief system - but as an Atheist you are necessarily making Affirmative claims that things like Creation happened without God, so you very much need evolution. And your silence to my question: *"Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable: given its history of constantly rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problematic evidence, what would it take to falsify evolution?"* speaks volumes. Let me ask you this... *As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?"* Objective morality requires an objective and universally applicable source: God. Subjective morality only exists inside of your chemical reaction brain - it's subjective, so nothing can be truly "right" or 'wrong,' "good" or "bad" - such objective standards don't exist for "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care. *"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them"* (Romans 2:15)
The amount of denial that needs to go into the rejection of such perfect, eloquent, and logical arguments is astounding. The human animal is so imperfect, so weak, so susceptible to conditioning even under the most ludicrous framework. We are still centuries away from evolving to a point where we have fully overcome these weaknesses as a species.
Religion is founded on willful ignorance, blind obedience and never questioning one’s faith. Science is about improving our understanding via repeated testing and experiments. We change our minds when the evidence presents itself. Science and religion are not 2 halves of the same coin.
You've described man's religion perfectly. But Jesus is no more a religion than you or I. You cannot use science to prove that George Washington existed, because you cannot observe it, cannot measure it, and cannot repeat it. So you have to use the evidence that he existed. Same goes with the life of Jesus Christ, and there is plenty of it. More evidence of Jesus exists than that of say, Plato, Caeser, amd Tacitus. You can even view Pontius Piliates report to the emporer Tiberius about Jesus, in the Acta Pilati (in digital form from the vatican online library). Science is the discovery/revelation into the vastly superior mind of God that created the universe, planets, humans, etc. The mathematics behind it all is absolutely beautiful, the symmetry is astounding. To consider that it was all due to a random happen-stance event, that we're all just a collection of matter and energy requires a faith that even the most devout follower of Jesus Christ would be envious of! Once you put your faith (and it's not blind faith), in Jesus, the blinders come off your eyes, and you can truly see the world for what it is, and what is going on in it. When Jesus said that 'the truth shall make you free', He really meant every singe word! John 8:31 - _“...If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”_ - Jesus
@@martinscrapp7166 Except we can demonstrate that George Washington existed, and it’s neither a faith based claim nor an outrageous claim as with the jesus character. Just because you’re too befuddled with how nature operates, that doesn’t mean you are justified in inventing a fairytale to shoehorn into the mystery. Science replaces religious “explanations” all the time, but not once has religion ever explained nor replaced the scientific method.
@@2l84me8 Science is a methodology, what you're talking about is an Ideology - that's something else, not "science." And Atheistic-Naturalistic evolution is very much a religion. *Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable. Given its history of constantly being rewritten as it's contradicted, what would it take to falsify evolution today?* In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? ...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism? *All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12,* and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation. *"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
Not one single person in this world is born with an inherent knowledge of a god it's not until mostly your parents/guardian, whoever is charged with your upbringing take you to their place of worship that you then gain the knowledge of a god, if your god was as powerful as you claim him to be why doesn't he place that knowledge at conception??.
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? See, I think He did program you with that knowledge, and while you suppress it - we all observe it in you. Specifically - *for some reason you live in contrast to the atheistic "we're all just chemicals" belief system, but perfectly in line with everything the God you reject said about you instead as a valuable human being made in His image and likeness - why do you do that?* That is powerful evidence you can see in yourself that God created you, and that you're not just "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless chemical universe that doesn't care about you, and I love that He put that into you so you can see clear evidence in yourself that He exists. God said you are a meaningful and valuable human being made in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:27), with purpose and a capacity for "dominion" over creation (Genesis 1:26), morality and a sense of justice (Genesis 9:6), a sense of respect towards others (James 3:10), and a conscience which reflects the principles of His law (Romans 2:15), among other things. These are observable qualities that we all observe in you, and being made in God's image and likeness makes perfect sense of that. I know you don't believe in God though - so how do you explain these observable qualities in you from your own atheistic "we're just chemical reactions" worldview? "Do you believe meaningless chemicals fizzed together in a puddle, and somehow "human beings are valuable"? Or do you believe that chemicals evolved, and somehow "rape is wrong"? Animals do it all the time, and chemicals destroy each other all the time... and the atheistic worldview holds that we are evolved animals, and just chemicals... what's the difference?" *"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them."* (Romans 2:15)
@@michaelg377 No what I'm saying is that when you are born you know nothing about a god but it's forced and indoctrinated on people that they gain knowledge of a god, every theists loves to tell just how powerful this god is supposed to be, control over life and death can sent you to heaven or hell if he chooses, if this god is so powerful then why not plant awareness that he exists at conception but that doesn't happen and why?? because there are no gods.
@@VisshanVis No, what I'm saying is that you live in contrast to your own worldview as an Atheist, and instead live perfectly in line with everything the God of Scripture whom you reject said about you instead, which is powerful evidence that He programmed you in His image and likeness (see above for specifics) and that He very much does exist. You can see these qualities of His image and likeness in you (again, see above) in your own self-contradictory behavior my friend - even Atheists can see this evidence. What I just showed you is that you are a walking contradiction to your own belief system, but a walking testimony to the reality that God exists. Nothing you're doing right now makes sense in your own "we're all just chemicals" or "meaningless evolved protoplasm in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care" worldview. Re-read the above, I asked some important questions in there that I think might help you understand. In the meantime, I have a question: *As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?*
@@michaelg377 Atheism isn't a worldview, it isn't a religion it isn't a belief, it's a lack of belief in gods that's it. What I just showed you is that you are a walking contradiction to your own belief system, You showed me nothing, no evidence of anything except your own arrogance in trying to tell me what I think and what evidence has Atheists been shown, I am yet to be shown any evidence whatsoever that the Christian god or any other god exists ??. As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral? Well lucky I wasn't born in Nazi Germany because what Hitler did was abhorrent and it was wrong and it was a pity that he never stood trial for his crimes against humanity.
Absolutely bang on Sam. Became of you, others like you and science and scepticism, religion in general and Christianity in particular, is demonstrably DYING. Long may that continue. 👍
Off to the celestial graveyard for another one. Can't say I'll shed a tear for this dufus either. We're getting closer to the truth with each and every one.
Religion and government are two sides of the same coin. Mind control is the purpose. How can you rule intelligent, informed, Conscious ppl as debt slaves if they get the Game?
and government? Government doesn't really require a lot of belief without evidence. In fact, if the government is done right, it bases all its decisions on evidence. This is exactly why the founding fathers wanted the separation between church and state.
The way Sam articulates and eviscerates these imaginary shackles may be second only to Hitchens in the succinctness and effectiveness. Harris does so with a slightly softer and conciliatory tone, which has always made him a little easier to share with someone who Hitchens might immediately offend to the point of shutting down completely.
I am christian and I study computer science, the religion is for the people in the world, science is for the world that they live in. What is a soccer field without players?
Psalm 14:2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures 1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Romans 3:19-26 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Romans 10:9-11 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. John 3:15-18 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:3-7 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. Romans 5:1-2 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Galatians 1:3-5 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
@@uggupuggu Jesus was a human. Feel free to present strong evidence he's a god, if you think you can. (I have to suspect that deep down you know you can't.)
God is real. Look at the human eye. Also god is real because he caused the universe. God is real because he listens to us. (sigh) People will literally believe anything.
I'd like to listen to this, but the electronic noises superimposed on it make it impossible. Why do people who produce these videos feel obliged to add these intrusive noises?
I can remember being a kid, and seeing all of the different religions in the world, ranging from Hinduism, islaam, Christianity, Judaism etc. Etc. Not only that but different denominations of those religion ( protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, sunni, shia, etc.) and one of the first thought I had about this was " How does nobody see how obviously man made all of this is"
Brilliant video. Nail on the head for the insanity comparison. Religion was created by man based on how he felt about others. For example, You can never take a religious book to a court room and win a homicide case using texts and scriptures from it. Just be good and do good.
i became an atheist when i realized that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was in arms reach by adam and eve. why would god put that tree there in the first place, it's a type b movie imoo.
Following Rene Descartes meditation Category 1: Minds I exist and I am a mind. Therefore Minds exist. Category 2: Matter I have feelings. These feelings originate from sensors in what I call my body. The sensors are receptive to stimulation from events created from within my body and from events created from outside my body. The stuff that bring about these events I shall categorise as matter. Thus my body is also made of matter. Therefore Matter exists. Category 3: Space My body needs space and matter in general needs space. Matter can exist only in space. Therefore space must exist. Category 4: Time My body needs time to change and matter in general needs time for change. Matter can change only in time. Therefore time must exist. From the above observation I conclude that these 4 categories permeate each other and exist equally with none more abstract or less abstract than another. Now to the question of the origin of these categories Could it be that any one or more of these categories can be made from any one or more of the remaining categories? Could these categories transform from one to another? Matter needs space and time for its existence, therefore without space and time matter will not exist as such matter could not have been the origin of space and time. From physics it has been observed that space and time can give rise to matter spontaneously. As such matter maybe a result of a localised change to space and time. So then could space and time be the origin of everything else? Again from the theory of the Big Bang all space, time and matter originated from this singular event. Therefore space and time could not alone have brought about the other categories. Since the big bang was an event, could it be that all things are made from events? Where there is space, time and matter there is always an event. There can be no space , time or matter without events. In an instant all of space and the matter is nothing more or nothing less than a set of events. So then space, time and matter is one and the same as a set of simultaneous events from one instant to the next. From this observation the 4 categories can be reduced to 2 categories Category 1 : Minds Category 2 : Events Now then can minds exist without events. We know that simultaneous events give rise to feeling in minds. We know from special relativity simultaneous events cannot give rise to anything physical or material. Therefore feelings cannot be physical or material. Now as feelings are a part of minds we must conclude minds are not physical. Now can the mind exist without feelings OR does feelings create the mind, that is one and the same as the mind? If feeling create the mind then as feelings are created by events then space, time and matter which we have concluded is the same as events, must also have feeling and thus be one and the same as a mind. Thus we would need to conclude a rock has a mind or is part of a mind to the same extent that my brain is a mind or is part of a mind. This conclusion is not palatable as such let’s consider the OTHER alternative Now if a mind can exist without feeling then we also know that the mind can create events. (e.g throw a rock, move a finger) So then given that the mind can create events then the big bang (The Event) could have originated from The Mind in order to evoke feelings in other minds. These other minds may have also been created by The Mind such that the earthly life of each mind is the big bang that determines the eternal or heavenly life of that mind in The Mind. philpapers.org/rec/DESCAS www.jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/1020/0
Those who sort the comments and read enough from my posts (both answers and threads) can see that *I have proved* that this reality has been created by an eternal perfect Intelligence (called God / the Creator) whose nature will never be really comprehended by humans (because of our proved limitations) except through Jesus Christ, the human form of God. The atheists never had counter arguments but only lies, insults, ... generally ad hominem attacks.
I think a moderate believe in religion is alright. I'm not religious, but I respect everyone who is. Fact is we don't know, so I won't judge anyone. I think radical atheists and religious people are equally wrong. I don't know if it is just me, but I always thought Dostoevsky was a religious person but never thought of judging someone who isn't. Humanity is at it's best when it is humble, tolerant and respectful.
...and yet when you look up at the stars at night, you think that it was all by chance? wow. The evidence is right in front of your face, and you still can't see the forest for the trees! There are far too many delicate balances in the universe for it ALL to have been by chance. It was all by elegant design! Genesis 1:1 - _In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth._ Psalm 19:1 - _The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork._
@@martinscrapp7166 The universe spontaneously created itself by self organisation, no external invisible magical superman needed, it is natural, not supernatural. Just 'cos you don't understand chance processes you are compelled to assume magic.
@@rozzgrey801 *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* And actually, it's not "natural" - it can't be, because nature breaks down at that point. The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't allow energy to "naturally" come from nothing. The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) says energy is always being converted into a "less usable form," and it doesn't allow energy to remain usable forever - but our universe is full of usable energy. So if our universe couldn't "naturally" have a beginning from nothing, and if it can't have just existed forever (otherwise all of its energy would be burned up), then *how can you "naturally" explain the beginning of our universe?* Have you ever wondered why Atheistic-Naturalists (evolutionists, etc.) have to invoke such wild and sci-fi sounding theories to "naturally" explain our origins? *Infinite* alternate universes, an *eternal self-existent* singularity, alternate unobservable metaphysical laws of nature, *pre-existent* Phenomena.... you have to suspiciously attribute characteristics of the Supernatural God to "nature" in order to "naturally" (atheistically) explain our origins. Can you see the problem? Atheistic-Naturalism is an internally inconsistent and self-refuting Supernaturally-Natural (!) worldview - it's unavoidable. *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* *'The evidence for God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
He should know that *all evil has been done because of stupidity and the main/worst stupidity has always been to not listen by God/Jesus.* In particular, for mankind, if ALL people (over history and nowadays) would have followed the main commandment from Jesus Christ, *besides to love / respect our Heavenly Father, to love / respect (care for) the other humans as we love / respect (care for) ourselves,* all the crimes and the tremendous useless suffering would have never happen. As Jesus has said: *_"Be perfect therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect"_* Matthew 5, 48 Unfortunately, too many people have refused over history, and too many still refuse nowadays, to follow this.
My parents were atheists but never even bothered to mention the fact. Religion had no place in our family life because it was regarded as simply ridiculous.
Same, and I am so happy for it.
Lucky you, only my father was a long life atheist my mom is catholic and she always tried to indoctrinate me but since a young age none of the religious BS had any grap on me, it all slided from me
@@AntitheistHumanGood for you. Unfortunately both of my parents have been protestant all their lives. I was unable to help being slightly indoctrinated by my fundamentalist church.
@@AntitheistHuman Same family deal, mom is Catholic and dad an atheist. One preached morality, the other demonstrated kindness. But unlike you, I feel hard for the indoctrination. Until I read the OT. I realized that god doesn’t give us morality, because like my mother, God claims to be the center of morality, but his actions belie him. Atheism doesn’t force me to justify the cruelty in the OT.
Same and happy as fuck for it!!!
Sam is spot on. Religion should not receive any financial aid from our governmental just recognition for proper legal operation.
Years ago (so the figures would have changed by now, and certain financial goings on were too opaque, and so simply left out of the figures) the US government was *losing $73 billion a year* to "religious" tax exemptions.
So people like Kenneth Copeland can con poor little old ladies out of their money and become a billionaire? (I don't think he is quite yet, but give it a few months...).
This is NOT acceptable!
Religion was created BY THE GOVERNMENT
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a long enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people? This is unfortunately the most widely funded religion today.
*Did you know that Naturalistic Evolution shares characteristics of a religion?*
In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man?
...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism?
All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation.
*"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
To some extent you are right, especially when it comes to things like buildings! But think of the works many Christian organisations do, helping the homeless, drug addicts, alchoholics & rescueing children from sex slavery. The list goes on & on. And if you don't know much about these things you are very ignorant, as this world would've destroyed itself a long time ago if Christians didn't do anything about them!
There are religions in this country that get financial aide?
My father told me from an early age that people who believed in God were either stupid or insane. Now that I'm an adult in my 50s, im starting to share his view. Just have no time for these people - and I'm increasingly willing to let them know.
I’m an atheist and I have a tendency to be a little more nuanced. After all, I have good friends and family members who believe in god, and I don’t think they are stupid or insane. They are simply misled.
I used to believe in god. I know what it’s like to believe. It’s a long hard road out of the matrix.
@@patrickwoods2213 All of that is true. I appreciate the comment because, although I understand, I have never had to deal wtih that myself. It must be a very tough and frightening road. Unfortunately, it's also why a lot of people never dare to question their beliefs - the consequences in terms of family, friends and community of losing faith would be devastating. Those who do dare have my respects - I can only imagine the courgae and intellect it must take.
That’s such an ignorant statement to say. I have religious and atheists friends of mine that are scientists and/or get along. Just because your personal experience was different and not so good doesn’t make Jesus Christ and his teachings untrustworthy or dumb. It’s like saying that because a scientist believe that the earth is flat, then every scientist is dumb. Really ignorant and arrogant to say don’t you think?
@@bointasalexandros6645 Well, one thing it's not is ignorant. That's the wrong word - but I'll let it go because English probably isn't your first language. Yes, it's an extreme view. Yes, it's intolerant. Are there very clever people who believe in God? Sure. Are they completely sane? I have my doubts. The one thing I'll admit here is that many people are religious because they grew up surrounded by it from the age of zero. I concede that it's very difficult to reject religion if everyone you know and love has been ramming it down your throat forever. I never had to find my way out of the maze (as one commentator aptly referred to it in this thread). And I'm not sure I would have been mentally sharp or strong enough to do it. My huge respects to those who managed.
@@scrumpymanjack What about atheists that grew up as atheists and then tunred to God? Are they insane because they believe that a higher intellectual power exists? I can’t understand why you categorizing every single one theist that they are also crazy or something. And yes, I’m a Greek Orthodox Christian and English is not my first language but would I ever be prodisposed to a human being just for his beliefs without ever knowing him? That’s just racist and absurd if you ask me but you do you, moreover, we have the free will to do anything I guess.
Being a 77 year old ex-Christian, this is full feeling video. I knew very early in my life that something wasn’t right…I was told you have to have faith…I played the game for many years. After I left religion behind, I have never felt more free.
I truly believe that religion is a cancer on human society.
It infects your brain and changes your way of thinking.
Religion is truly a mental parasite inside the brain.
Welcome to freedom, atheist jew, hi
I'd take it one step further in adding: Schizophrenia!!
Maybe you would find Christianity (religion etc )more acceptable if your local priest, vicar or Imam etc etc, wore a top hat and pulled rabbits from a hat ?
Maybe (on a clear night) you should look at the night sky and try to speculate just how or why anything exists at all !
Believing in a Creator should not affect your "freedom" since it is a belief in "nothing" which which limits your awareness of all that is. (And of yourself for that matter since you are also part of all that is--- remember that ),
@@electricmanistWhat if someone has no emotional need for a creator?
Sam and Christopher Hitchens were the two most influential atheists that woke me up when I was first looking for arguments against my childhood Catholic indoctrination.
William Lane Craig destroyed both Sam and Christopher.
Your two prophets of atheism are (were) reliant on substances such as alcohol and prescription for comfort and solace. And one succumbed to its toxicity years back. Is this a picture of peace and tranquillity from your choice of belief? Wait till the day of reckoning beckons, and you will know who your true Lord is, that is Allah the Most High.
@@TBOTSS HAHAHAHAHA that you think that is beyond laughable as not only did he not "destroy" them Craig has been utterly embarrassed every time he debates someone like them - well he would be if he was capable of that level of self awareness. Just wow.
@@libertarian2718 Atheists don't have prophets - that's what you have. Atheists "have" nothing as atheism ONLY means I don't accept the claim of your "god". That's ALL. There is no shared belief after that, no shared culture, no nothing. Just like you don't believe in unicorns - there just isn't a word for that - I don't accept your "god' just like you don't accept the "god" of @tbotss.
So I tell you what - when you theists, who believe in totally different things yet are completely convinced you are right - when you guys agree on what "god" even is you let me know. Until then you both need to stop believing in baseless bronze age fairytales that get people to kill each other over it.
@@ross-carlson Sam after his debate with Craig "I blew it". Poor old Chris would not come out for his final response and as a prominent atheist commentator pointed out "Chris was spanked like a like a little child".
"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
Its interesting that while some people can quote Voltaire to support an argument (one way or another), they somehow fail to explain their own proofs; (or disproofs).
Perhaps they don't really have any ideas of their own ?
@@electricmanist : I'm not sure why you said what you did, other than being mean spirited, but I felt this quote from Voltaire said it all. Why reinvent the wheel?
@user-of9qq6op5u Maybe if I suggest that your puppy is just not clever enough to create the universe, you might (upon deep reflection) consider that puppies are really not suitable.
However, bearing in mind just how complex the universe is (not to mention the billions and billions of atoms involved) , maybe alternatively you might accept a kitten for the top job of creator.
Perhaps not quite as ridiculous as a puppy perhaps. but then if one can only bark, and the other can mew musically, then maybe that idea is worth considering.
@user-of9qq6op5u An even more sobering thought, your body alone consists of millions of atoms ! Now translate this fact into the (as far as we know) structure of the 'endless' universe itself. Wow --ten million times over !
@user-of9qq6op5u Perhaps you can appreciate that my use of the word billions and billions was merely a term to indicate the almost unfathomable number of 'bodies' there are in the universe.
Indeed, to even think that the universe 'is not endless', really comes down to a state of mind, since we really do not know !
Recent developments in radio technology (let alone visual telescopes) have resulted in images (solar systems etc) from distances far beyond what was thought to be possible .
So the actual size (if size is the correct term) of the universe is really only speculative. Humans in general have difficulty of visualizing (let alone conceptualizing) something which appears to be endless.
Light years maybe, but we can somehow conceptualize the distance light can travel in an (Earthly !) year.
So maybe your suggestion that the universe is NOT endless, is based on the inability of the human mind to visualize/conceptualize something that goes on forever and forever and forever etc etc !.--- and then some !!!
TAX the religion.
Yes!
You have certain politicians that LIE to us, when the church they support, as well as themselves, DO NOT PAY TAXES!
💩💩
it's good business
UA-cam where is my COMMENT!?
UA-cam where is my Comment!?
Its a commercial enterprise. Tax it appropriately.
I can remember being a kid, and seeing all of the different religions in the world, ranging from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc etc. and not only that, but different denominations of those religions (protestant, catholic, orthodox, sunni, shia, etc.) and one of the first thoughts I had about this was "how does nobody see how obviously man-made all of this is?"
You are a true self deceiver!! You must becvome honest with yourself before God, so that you will not be lost for all eternity!!
@@wesleygordon1645 Can you be so sure? Many true believers deny the science on man-made climate change. But if it turns out to be true, wouldn't God expect us to act?
@@wesleygordon1645weird how God made millions and millions of people he knew would use their intellect and free will to never believe in him, only to cast them into the fires of eternity. Cool guy, seems really about love and peace
Thats the same thinking as being LGBT, changing your Gender, thinking that women are not equal ( LOL) , pretending that BLM (while ravaging Africa)....
It's all man made and doesn't need to be accepted by everyone.
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The age of subscribing to the dictates of Parables, Prose, Fantasies and Fables, prescribed by morality signalling hypocrites who presume to speak on behalf of a Celestial Patriarch, in whose "name" they (you) cast aspersions, judgements, condemnation and prejudices, while claiming that these are "God's verdict", is over. Consciousness has recognised an authentic awareness of progressive knowledge, free from the conceit and contrivances of an ultimatum based superstitious hysteria, promoted by people who claim the authority of fabricated pieces of primeval Myth and Fiction, and want me to believe that these are "Divine", that I won't have, and it is the original repudiation. The first rebellion against mental slavery comes from saying ; it is man-made, it is Not "Divine".
What is written in the Bible, Quran and Torah, is clearly not the best that Humanity is capable of in the ethical domain.
Damn Sam Hariss is ruthless! He is such a good speaker.
not really SH lives in darkenss and is horribly lost
@@raysalmon6566 yea yea sure Sherlock
@@raysalmon6566
Do you still believe magic is real?
@@raysalmon6566 Typical religious cult member claiming anyone who isn't part of the flock as lost. Pathetic, predictable, braindead theist
@raysalmon6566 Another person who was brainwashed and indoctrinated as a child.
waiting for the comments to say " But Sam my God is real and i do have evidence" the evidence ends up being something that already has been debunked or they say you just didnt have faith. Sadly no matter how much evidence is presented people will always be ignorant and just ignore because believing in God makes them feel good. Without God i do believe this world would be much more peaceful but we have wars and terrorists who do terrible things in the name of God
A person can't be reasoned out of a position they themselves did not reason in.
Religious faith takes our thinking and logic away
IMHO this world would be 10 time better without a God telling everyone different things and God giving land to people so now they are fighting over it.
You have false opinion. For example chin@ peaple at most are atheists, but it don't prevent g€n()csd€ of uyghurs, north korea also atheistic, USSR in period of Lenin and Stalin try kill faith in God, and as you know at that time those who provide that were do terrible things. So don't think so false, it is very stupid to blame religions as you do. You should blame evil,sin for which every people have predisposition. Without God our world will be worse than it is, and history of many atheistic ways show that
@user-nz8uy1zm3z Do you even hear yourself?
"If God loves us and wanted to guide us with a book of morality, it's very strange to have given us a book that supports slavery. That demands that we murder people for imaginary crimes like witchcraft... The true basis of hope in our world is open ended conversation, and religion has shattered our world into competing moral communities... What we have to convince ourselves of is that love and curiosity is enough for us. And intellectual honesty is the guardian of that."
Thank you, Sam Harris!😊
I always remember realising at the age of 12 that all religions are Zip or Post code decided, I then got very angry with my parents and teachers but became an anti-theist overnight. The concept of an after life seemed so stupid as we all know there was no before life. The logic of a 12 year old still seems sensible as now I’m 66. I’ve studied evolution and the fossil records, marvelled at deep space, Hubble and now James Webb. We still have loads to learn but must not put deities in place of good sense.!
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'...
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE, when I was struck by lightning during September 1970.
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave.
The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist.
For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is.
Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment.
The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing.
The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists.
Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’.
On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication.
For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.
NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
I DO NOT believe in Jesus and am very proud of that.
its weird because before new age atheism, atheists didnt care if people believed anything else. now its like a badge of honor so atheists can call themselves smart for not subscribing to a religion. Like congratulations when you faced all the belief systems the world had to offer you decided to just not choose very intelligent move.
I'm right there with you, I do however believe in extraterrestrials!
If any 2 of the churches in this town are correct, we’re all going to hell!
Not going to hell, trying to 'convince' you you're going to hell. Now, do you go through life, guilty of some sin you created in your mind because what they convinced of. Or do you know better to not believe in this belief, because of a knowing deep down in you, you know as truth, and this isn't it?
I was so fortunate. I’ll never forget. When I was a little boy I asked my dad “what do we believe in?” He said to me… “Son, for now, just believe in yourself. When you’re older you can uncover on your own what you want to believe.”
To this day I don’t know what he believed in. He let me discover myself on my own.
So what faith did you end up adhering to?
Belief in yourself is faith in yourself.
Time for bigger faith. You are no longer a child, but of something larger. Far larger.
I can't understand how someone can believe god exists if we go through so much pain. Giving birth is a total hell, the pain is so difficult that is impossible to be put in words. And I had ptsd from it and nightmares and is a horror history. But I can only relate to this because is my pain. Out there in nature how many animals do suffer terrible pain are being eaten alive or giving birth and being eaten alive at the same time. If I was offered Nietsczhe proposal of eternal return I would definetively choose not to live this life again. And I am one of the happy stories that has a normal life and can put food on the table. What about people who live in misery. Because is far away from us is impossible to realise how real this suffering is.
My most traumatising experience is being raised in a religious family. Being raised with brothers that have privileges. And are considered superior beings. And my mother is so deeply brainwashed that she can't see how wrong this is.
I have to drive her every week to the church. We are in a foreign country and she doesn't understand the language (english) so only place where she makes friends is at Church. I can't deny her going to Church but being surrounded by this people, even for a few hours, is horrible. I suddenly become an angry person (good reasons I have!) Shouting and swearing at everybody. Because they say women are inferior to men.
Going to church every week is severly affecting my mental health. My mother believes in the afterlife, she is very sick with multiple diseases that probably will make her life shorter. I don't have thr heart to deprive her from this fantasy that keeps her hoping. She is had a terrible life and experienced severe domestic abuse (with being hospitalised many times).
But going to church is destroying me. I don't know what to do.
My mum says I am being angry in the church because I am possesed by demons. How hurtful is for you mother to say that to you?
I am living a hell because of religion. I want religion to be erradicated during our lifetime. We need to get rid of this cancer in humanity.
Quit going. Tell your mother the truth. Let your mother figure out her own way to church if it's so important to her. Nietzsche also stated that if you enjoy one moment in life that you say yes to all the suffering as well. The strongest trees have suffered many storms. They grow stronger partly because they endured. They are stronger because they grew deep roots, they bent in the wind and survived. The lesson is not in the suffering itself, it is what is left over after suffering. Choose to be strong enough to tell your mother you don't believe and she should not either.
Anger is the way our body tells us what we don't want or are not. Multiple near death experiences all share similar stories of how we are in fact consciousness and not a material body. This is just a temporary stay to experience and learn. Religion has some truth but is mostly an ancient indoctrination to control and divide humanity.
That's terrible. Can you not just drop your mother at the church then go and grab a coffee and some breakfast, then pick her up after the service?
Always weird to hear menn are superior. If they were, we wouldn't have to remind everyone.
Hope your life becomes better and one day, you get away (by going to the embassyy if you have one).❤
Religion has to stop.
think christianity is on the way out but sadly cant say the same for islam
Because we shouldn’t attack religion in itself, but the way people think and get indoctrinated. We need to make them think rationally and believe on evidence. Shed this indoctrination alone, and have something to fall back on after that. You can’t just take it away.
Atheism is also religion!!
@@wesleygordon1645 what do you think religion is?
@@wesleygordon1645 dont be so bloody daft
'Knock Knock'
* 'Who is it?'
^ 'It's me, Jesus.'
* 'What do you want?'
^ 'I want to save you.'
* 'Save me from what?'
^ 'From what I'll do to you, if you don't let me in.' -Not mine, but SPOT ON!
Childhood indoctrination is the PRIMARY reason why religion continues to perpetuate itself..not based off of truth, morality, logic, or rationality.
"morality"
morality is something that is very flexible depending on what kind of culture, civilization or time frame you live in.
and with regards to atheists and "where did God came from?" question.
God is a supernatural deity that doesn't need time, space and matter to exist.
you can't create a creator and also put natural and human level limitations on what a God is.
God is beyond human and scientific limitations.
science can only measure matter. the physical world we live in. the universe.
@@LevisH21 It's easy to say that the laws of physics have nothing to do with your god but proving this isn't
@@tätt_ninjahr Actually it's not that hard to prove at all. God is a Super-Natural phenomenon. The laws of nature are obviously "Natural" phenomena. To attempt to limit a Super-Natural phenomenon by "Natural" standards is to commit a simple logical category error.
In the biblical worldview, God created these mathematically precise laws of nature (Jeremiah 33:25), including time, space, and matter themselves (Genesis 1:1), and thus He necessarily exists beyond those "natural" limitations. The bigger issue, as an Atheist, is the laws of nature contradict themselves at certain points, making a 'Natural' explanation of our origins impossible. *The only way for "Nature" to create itself, is if "Nature" is Pre-Existent - like God.*
The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't allow energy to "naturally" come from nothing. The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) says energy is always being converted into a "less usable form," and it doesn't allow energy to remain usable forever - but our universe is full of usable energy. So if our universe couldn't "naturally" have a beginning from nothing, and if it can't have just existed forever (otherwise all of its energy would be burned up), then *how can you "naturally" explain the beginning of our universe?*
Have you ever wondered why Atheistic-Naturalists (evolutionists, etc.) have to invoke such wild and sci-fi sounding theories to "naturally" explain our origins? *Infinite* alternate universes, an *eternal self-existent* singularity, alternate unobservable metaphysical laws of nature, *pre-existent* Phenomena.... you have to suspiciously attribute characteristics of the Supernatural God to "nature" in order to "naturally" (atheistically) explain our origins. Can you see the problem? Atheistic-Naturalism is an internally inconsistent and self-refuting Supernaturally-Natural (!) worldview - it's unavoidable.
*The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.*
*'The evidence for God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
You contradict yourself. All truth comes from God (notice I didn't say religion), and this certainly includes such things as His moral law.What is more, the Bible is a very logical book!!
@@wesleygordon1645 Yawns..just another deeply indoctrinated religious nutcase who doesn't understand how basic logic works. Very predictable and boring lot..you people are all the same.
As an Ex-Christian. I struggled with the sin, salvation, atonement, hell, demons and devils... part of what religion was trying to convince me. I never fell for it. I couldn't. I knew better than to think, the God that created me was going to send me to hell for eternity if I didn't join his gang/club/cult. That's not God, that's sounds just like the Roman's.
That's how I knew this religion's message had something terribly wrong with it. They spent WAY too much emphasis on trying to convince humanity they needed Jesus guy or ELSE.
The bible has nice stories and all, but it's more a children's book, with some exceptions where it becomes a Stephen King novel.
The nice stories are few and far between, and while it may have a lot of the gore and violence of a Stephen King novel, it certainly doesn't have the prose. When you read the Bible with a mind not constrained by indoctrination, it's actually quite shocking how bad it actually is.
@@royms2000I don’t understand how a grown ass man can read that book and not come to the reasonable conclusion that it was written by men.
Of course human speculation (as included in most religions) can vary from the fantastic to the ridiculous.
Nevertheless, the fact is that you (and all that there is) exists and depends upon the intelligent power of the atomic structure within the core of its being , to exist at all.
Maybe it's time to move on from Roman barbarities and graduate to something more relevant such as the existence of all that is (including yourself and the millions of others). -Not forgetting the universe of course !!!
Look at the structure of what we call matter-- it is not solid (remember NOT SOLID ) but a powerhouse of molecules or atoms etc. The same right throughout the universe.
Now try to formulate some theory that all this creative power came (and continues to exist) from nowhere.
One might well consider that everything exists via a Creative power, (God) ---although even that word power is totally inadequate since it does not encapsulate the essence of all that is ! You are part of it remember.
@@royms2000
Exactly! C. fundamentalists read the bible as if they're under a trance or possessed. They already made up their minds and can't see the discrepancies that are written within. Some are unable to see what's directly in front of them.
@@electricmanistBut it’s your claim that everything came from nothing. So first demonstrate that “nothing” has existed, because science doesn’t say that. Most scientists believe that “nothing” is impossible and there was always something. Once you talk about “nothing” and try to explain, it becomes something, something you’re talking about. So even in philosophy this concept is kinda vague.
My dad was a preacher and i also went to a baptist school. So much BS. I was only able to keep my sanity by knowing it was all a lie.
...and you are still a rebelling against God. Prodigal Son.
I contend that if any god/goddess, whatever, wants me to worship them, all they have to do is get off their backsides, come down to earth and ask me nicely (please, thankyou and all that stuff), in public before credible unimpeachable witnesses. He/she wouldn't need all these human intermediaries if they'd only bother to do it themselves.
But they won't because they don't exist.
Here I AM. Worship me.
But he has Jesus is God incarnate. He does not demand your worship. He draws you to himself that that you may experience life in all it's fullness. God's plan is to make Mankind (all of us) in His image. The Gospel is Good News for All people but it has been distorted by those who threaten with Hell (a word not found in the Bible but a poor translation).
To be sure we will all be judged but that is a good and necessary thing if we are to become who we were created to be.
Jesus said if I be lifted up I will draw all people to myself because he loves us all.
Believe the Gospel.
@@stephengorman1025 Jesus may not demand your worship but he's going to withhold heaven for all eternity unless you get on your knees and do it. How can it be God's plan to make us in his image? Doesn't the Bible say he already did that? Was that a lie or did God screw it up? God presumably knows everything that's going to happen before it happens so our "judgement" is little more than God stomping on the creations he made over things he already knew were going to happen.
@@stephengorman1025 Gibberish, word salad and nonsense. All the silly jumbled nonsense that people like you spout, all the straight up lies and strawmen that you have presented is exactly what I was ranting about. A God shouldn't need useful idiots like you. If he could be bothered, he'd do it himself.
But he won't.
Why?
Because he's only an imaginary God.
@user-nz8uy1zm3zit’s not hubris, it’s satire. You should know the difference.
Intellectual honesty simply does not exist among theists.
There's seem to be some sense of denial I think, a Christian will claim they are interested in the truth, but won't even bother to pick up a book on evolution and try and learn something, they often just throw the same old excuses...like "Its just a theory" and try and avoid the topic completely.
But with a little research they could learn so much about earlier humans, and chromosome number 2, showing that at least adam and eve are just mythological.
So everyone else scrupulously honest ?--- you might care to tell that to all the people in prison for theft, or robbery for embezzlement, for forgery, for falsifying documents , telling lies etc etc !!
@@electricmanist Intellectual honesty is different from what you are describing as "scrupulously honest,...theft, robbery," etc.
If you are honest, tell me how the earth has come about?
@@libertarian2718 It formed when the solar system did, mostly from gas and dust.
“Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.” Oscar Wilde
Religion:
It’s a cause of hatred and conflict and it’s dependent upon ignorance and superstition.
“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.” L.A. Seneca
“Religion was invented when the first con-man met the first fool.” Mark Twain
"If God is able to prevent evil, but unwilling, he is not benevolent. If he is willing, but not able, he is not omnipotent. If he is neither willing nor able, then why call him a god?"
Sam is the best. His beliefs are so liberating & allows you to fly free!!
Unless you're Muslim
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"If in this life only, we have hope, we are of all men most miserable"! -The Apostle Paul.
I won’t be worshipping no jacked up, lying human being like myself. I need a holy and righteous God who has the power to keep me and when I die resurrect me to Him for eternity. Man has no power that God had, just jacked up lies. I not doing idolatry.
@@gingercake0907I have some unfortunate news for you then.
@@gingercake0907but your god doesnt exist lol
I think that if the world had one distinct religion, one god, that religion could potentially make the world a better place. The religion would be about kindness and compassion with none of the ugliness of global floods or anti-gay rhetoric. Unfortunately, that religion is none of the religions of which I am familiar. And even if that hypothetical religion did exist, it would not be true. I'm not sure how much that last detail would matter.
The anti- Gay rhetoric is limited to Abrahamic religions. They banned and burned people for their sexual orientation. In other cultures, who you have sex with, how you have sex doesn't make any difference to who you are as a Human being.
No religion would be more efficient than one. We need to live in reality not delusion.
@@24KLuxury It is possible that delusions might make for a better world.
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? That we are all 'just chemicals" or "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care?
Because if so, that contradicts your desire for something "better," "kindness," "compassion" - it's all just meaningless chemicals, literally chance chemicals fizzing in your brain about meaningless things. Nothing can be truly "good," "bad," "right," "wrong," etc. you are the cousin of cockroaches, cancer cells, leprosy, and death - evolution does not care about your "kindness" "survival" "compassion," and there is nothing "ugly" about floods, etc. - it's all just chemicals.
You're contradicting yourself my friend. Nothing you're saying here makes any sense, from your worldview's perspective - every time you refer to such meaningful and valuable things you are borrowing that not from your meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care, but from the image and likeness of God programmed into you, and I love that He put that into you because that is powerful evidence you can see in yourself that He exists.
As for the "anti-gay rhetoric" - have you ever read any accounts of gay people who used to be gay but switched to being straight? Like Anne Heche? Or the growing detransition movement - have you ever listened to the heartbreaking things they have to say? According to the CDC in 2015, 19% of the LGBT+ community has HIV, compared to only 1% of the world community which has it - why such disparity? Surveys conducted among older LGBT+ people also shows that approximately 20% of the community has had over 1000 partners in their lifetime and didn't even know half of them, roughly half have had over 500 partners and didn't know half of them, and about 20% of the population has had over 100 partners in their lifetime and didn't know who half of them were... which explains the high rate of HIV transmission.
I'm surprised you are supporting such a harmful and dangerous dehumanizing lifestyle - it's not "love is love," it's more accurately confusing promiscuity with "love." I personally think promiscuity, unfaithfulness to your current/future spouse, spreading life-threatening disease, cheapening the beautiful gift of sex, and perverting God's good design for marriage is what is "ugly" and I'm surprised that you are okay with these things.
There is a religion like this. It is called Buddhism. It is about kindness and compassion. Mindfulness and self awareness. Buddhism is about self exploration and you only believe what you prove to be true for you. The method of doing this is rigorous and has worked for nearly 3000 years. It is more precise than the scientific method. It leaves no doubt only confidence and continuation on the path. It is called the Stream. You need only dip your toe in.
In catholic school 5th grade I knew something was wrong with religion and acted out on it. Got in big trouble with parents and nuns but it was all worth it. Didn't waste another second of my life on this bullshit.
The certainty and smugness of the "faithful" is so puzzling to me. Indoctrinated, well and truly, to buy into such a transparently contrived notion with no evidence to support any of it. I admit, it's an awesome concept, and would certainly be the best solution to our absurd and random existence - I would wholeheartedly embrace all of it . . . with the tiniest shred of proof.
Personally I wouldn’t follow it even if it were real (Christianity) considering how evil the characters (god) are in the story.
The Christian God is an absolute psychopath
Ofc it explains everything, it made that way. It’s a panacea. Fallacious reasoning. Something that can explain anything, explains nothing.
@@spacetofu19 Yep. The God of Abraham is a sadistic psychopath.
@@UncleKennysPlace Yet billions worship him..its terrifying
Surrender is a big part of religion, and I always think of GalaxyQuest:
"Never give up! NEVER SURRENDER!"
I think that was borrowed from Churchill.
remaining a slave to sin is hardly a case 'never give up'
@@raysalmon6566 Ever wonder what it would be like to think for yourself?
@@raysalmon6566 A slave to sin?
1. I would love it if someone could explain what that means?
2. Define sin and tell me what person living on this planet doesn't ever do those things?
3. Elaborate what specifically is supposed to not make a person a "slave" to these sins anymore.
4. If anyone believes they're perfect they're either delusional or insane.
@@michaelelliott1212 2a. Sin is transgression of God's law - for simplicity's sake, it is more or less summed up in God's mostly common sense Ten moral Commandments.
2b. *"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"* (Romans 3:23)
1. Great article at GotQuestions: "What does it mean to be a slave to sin?"
3. By removing sin's power altogether. Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law, and paid your fine for your transgressions so you could be released on bail. How can lawbreaking (sin) have any hold over you if your fine for said lawbreaking has already been paid?
4. Amen.
*"“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”"*(Romans 3:10-12)
*"The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"* (Romans 6:23)
*"But God showed His love for us by sending His Son to die for us while we were still sinners"* (Romans 5:8)
I completely agree with this. I have felt for years that religion is maniacal absurdity so I renounced religion. Best day of my life. I contend that religion's sole purpose is to separate the stupid from their money. I get more "love" from my pets than I ever did from the church.
Do you say that because you believe instead in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just add enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? *Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable; Religions are not. Given its history of constantly being rewritten as it runs into more and more problematic evidence, what would it take to falsify the Theory of Evolution today?*
In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? Early jawed placoderm fossils showing fully developed complex jaws - causing evolutionists to claim that they must have evolved, de-evolved, and then re-evolved those jaws to maintain their story of shark evolution? What if scientists admitted that Human-Ape DNA is down from 99% "similar" to only 84% "similar" and admitted their bias in "humanizing" the ape genome?
...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism?
All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation.
*"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
Sam articulated these points very well!
He still does
I grew up super religious but then in my early twenties discovered Hitchens and he completely stripped belief from under me. Now I think it’s the most ridiculous thing
I was raised a catholic in the sixties. Learning in high school about other major religions was enough to shed my belief.
I could watch these compilations for hours this is great.
And you will confuse your own mind!
I just love listening to Sam Harris
superstition - noun
1a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation
b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition
2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary
Merriam-Webster
This definition sounds synonymous with FAITH. 😂
@@blueandgreenslacks Faith is the mechanism in which you believe in the superstition. Faith is not a virtue. Faith is gullibility. Faith is the surrender of your mind. Faith is the abandonment of logic and reason. Faith is the surrender of your free will. Faith is your weakness.
@@iitywybmad29 faith is a voluntary admission of ignorance. Thanks for mansplaining though.😹😹😹😹
Too bad true believers couldn't care less about word definitions or rationality.
@@jerrylanglois7892 Because they don't care about truth.
Don’t follow those who are not where you want to be.
Sam is the man! He phrases sentences so near perfect that there really is no sane rebuttal
A wondrous, clear, concise evisceration of credulity. Thx.
Clarity from a drug dependent thinker and alcohol laden moments of brilliance? Not me.
@@libertarian2718 Your ad hominem attack is the tell to your lack of cogent argument. Please do better.
@colinellicott9737 I am stating facts that the guy depends on substances to be who Sam Harris is to you. NOT TO ME.
To me, he is an alcoholic and a drug addict. I would not rest my life philosophy on a man like that. Plus, his racist views, anti-Islam (he is so ignorant), Genocidal Apartheid Zionist love, and incoherent thoughts (BS) on philosophy and unfettered support of suicidal American foreign policies.
@@colinellicott9737 I am was stating facts, Mr Harris is dependent on alcohol and drugs to be the Sam Harris to you. I will not trust my life philosophy on such a guy. You are free to cling on to such individual.
@@colinellicott9737 Sam Harris is a disgraceful Islamophobe and a strong supporter of Zionist genocidal apartheid Israel. I do not want to go further. A man who fails to be fair and shows humanity and justice in the face of what is happening in Palestine is not worth a second of listening time. And he relies on substances to pacify and justify his inner grief and contradictions, respectively .
Damn. Could not have said it any better myself.
Probably because your IQ is half that of Sam (like most people) and you haven’t spent a good portion of your life studying this stuff. Nothing to be ashamed of, I don’t think anyone could put is better.
His IQ says nothing really. In the end, he wasted years of his life studying something he thinks is made up bs, only to get denied by the ones he tried to convince that it is all bs. How ironic
Maybe not wasting too much time on this topic makes everyone's life better.
Religion never made sense to me
My Dad was a Catholic. Came back from three years plus fighting in Far Eastern jungles in WW2 (Burma) a very devout atheist.
Only a fool believes in a 'loving' omnipotent and/or Christ's mercy. You believe? Then you, Sir or Madame, are a fool. Yes? No?
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* then puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance?
*"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded... The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time... Some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record... have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information."* (D. Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 50, no 1 (1979), 25)
We had to be created somehow - you can either believe that God made man and woman from the dirt, or you can believe that dirt fizzed itself into man and woman by chance - I just don't have enough faith to believe that dirt can do that.
Let me ask you this... Charles Darwin met the gold standard of science (a methodology) by giving a testable hypothesis for his theory, saying "if an *organ* were discovered which could not possibly be explained by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down..." *How did male and female evolve?* Before you answer, consider that these are two separate, yet interdependent, precision tuned sets of organs that all have to be working just right or reproduction, life, and evolution fail.
For example:
The fallopian tubes are lined with millions of these little hairs that all wave the same direction, and their purpose is to guide the egg from the ovaries down into the uterus. If they stood still, laid flat, waved the wrong direction, or didn't exist - the egg would either die or it would implant in the fallopian tube thus killing the mother. Some of these are known medical conditions that prevent pregnancy - "Evolution" had to get these millions of hairs just right.... "by numerous, successive, slight modifications."
*Simultaneously* the sperm has a whip like rotor, a motor encasing, a bushing like material, a nutrient transfer system, and several other components that all have to be working *just right* or the sperm can't find the egg. Reproduction and life fails. "Evolution" had to get the interdependent parts of the sperm "just right" ... "by numerous, successive, slight modifications."
*Then* you have the placenta which does everything for the baby including keeping the mother's and baby's blood separate, the expanding and contracting uterus and cervix, the mechanism which only allows one sperm into the egg, and numerous other components that all had to be *designed* just right, or reproduction and life fails. "Evolution" had to *SIMULTANEOUSLY* get all of these just right "by numerous, successive, slight modifications."
Which gender evolved first, and how did it reproduce while the other hadn't evolved yet? And going backwards in time, which of these critical organs do you gradually reduce first "by numerous, successive, slight modifications" without causing reproduction to fail?
*"“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’"* (Matthew 19:4). Such *specified complexity* looks like the product of an Intelligent engineering mind, not the result of chance fizzing chemicals in a puddle. Puddles don't turn themselves into people no matter how much *time* you add to the mix.
Madam;
Please kick me. All best.
Interesting take
The first clip is very precise. In what it omits, it sums up the failure of every apologist misrepresentation of atheism.
We are not broken. We are just not reached our full potential.
A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'...
My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE, when I was struck by lightning during September 1970.
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave.
The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist.
For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is.
Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment.
The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing.
The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists.
Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’.
On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication.
For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.
NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us.
...bloody AWESOME Sam...👍
It's all so simple. The first moment any god comes out of the closet, atheism is buried.
Which god will be the first, remains to be seen.
And when it will happen...?
I won't hold my breath though....
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? Or that the earth randomly clumped together on its own meeting 122 precise conditions required for life - an estimated 1 chance in 10^138 (a number with 138 zeroes) out of something like the Big Bang? (There are only 10^90 particles in our entire universe... food for thought...) Or, when all the necessary proteins required for life formed themselves by chance in a puddle, and then formed themselves into all the necessary cell components inside of a cell enclosure, *how did they overcome the known problem of hydrolysis which inhibits protein formation in water?* Or the Faint Young Sun paradox, which measurably suggests our earth would have been frozen solid 3.5 billion years ago when this was supposed to happen (if it was really billions of years old)?
*"we've not made the RNA in a prebiotically relevant manner. It hydrolyzes too rapidly."* (Professor Saztech, Chicago, 2021)
[Regarding Abiogenesis] *"Chemistry is actually hard to get to work. The molecules precipitate. The molecules hydrolyze. The molecules decompose. And so it's very much a constraint that you have to deal with.. it's one g-d problem after another."* (Steve Benner, former Harvard Professor, Director of Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, 2019)
*"Liquid water is generally considered a key ingredient for life. When the Sun was much fainter, the Earth with its present atmospheric composition would have been frozen solid. If the oceans were frozen, life may not have formed" (Quote: NASA).*
God has made His work abundantly clear. For someone to hold to a non-God position (Atheism) is to utterly stare science in the face and reject it a priori in favor of a constantly rewritten mythology that fish evolve into philosophers.
*"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20). Puddles of chemicals don't fizz into people by chance no matter how much *Time* you add to the pot, that's just not how "science" works.
This is a fantastic speech. Unfortunately, no one's beliefs will change as a result of it.
Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein planed the seeds for me. In time, they grew and completely transformed my worldview.
The problem is the people that need to watch this aren’t. Just those of us already frustrated about it getting more frustrated.
I will never, ever understand how an intelligent adult will choose to blindly and absolutely believe, literally, the word of the Bible as a universal and unassailable truth after learning how acutely unreliable it is as a source, of anything.
I honestly feel like people must actively choose to deceive themselves to a degree, or live in a state of wilful ignorance.
Blindly believe? Or is it you who blindly disbelieves. You're looking down your nose, instead of up. Simple.
@@mikescollard6499 I would like to try to understand why people (like yourself maybe?) believe literally the words of a book which has been rewritten, rebranded, translated and retranslated countless times over 1500 years. And even then based on accounts which were decades old in the first instance.
I honestly do not meant to be combative. I am just genuinely interested as to what people find in this source to consider it reliable as a source for all truth about our reality and the universe.
For me, I have read many parts of the Bible (and the Qu-'ran for that matter) - and neither (for me) should be considered any more *absolutely true* than a newspaper article that I read 20 years ago.
@@scp170190 Call on Jesus Christ. You will be answered.
What explanation would you have for the state of the world? We have more of everything, compared to previous generations.
If you indoctrinate a child with any religious dogma before they are able to read or write and are not old enough to form an opinion on the subject is simply child abuse.
I vigorously agree, having been previously abused that way.
We are all Uncritically Indoctrinated into the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, chemicals can fizz into people if you just wait a really long *Time,* Nothing created everything accidentally with mathematical precision for no reason, and that we are all "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral chemical universe that does not care.
Meanwhile we accuse people like Hitler as if what they did was somehow "evil" in this meaningless amoral chemical universe that doesn't care, pretend that things like "abuse" are *objectively "bad"* in this meaningless universe that doesn't care, and we forget that cancer cells, leprosy, and death are our evolutionary cousins - right alongside cockroaches, dirt clods, and pond scum - as we pretend we are somehow valuable.
"If you indoctrinate a child with any religious dogma before they are able to read or write and are not old enough to form an opinion on the subject is simply child abuse."
I was also force fed this "we're just chemicals" mythology that fish evolve into philosophers as a young child - we all are - very few ever get to hear the other side today.
*"But God showed His love for us by sending His Son to die for us while we were still sinners"* (Romans 5:8)
Sam is right on the money as usual. The opiate of the masses….
Common sense put into the vernacular. Excellent presentation indeed! Religion is a carry-over from antiquity. Modern research shows that religion grew out of incredibly hard times. It provided the neurological crutch to strengthen people. It was misguided but was indeed adopted as the ultimate avenue of salvation and eternal rest and enjoyment from existing in such times of severe hardship. Additionally, it was an instrument of control by the church to spread it's influence over the governing leaders and hierarchy of the time. Blind faith resulted in the people capitulation to church and government.
We need a 5-hour showing all the religious arguments being torn down.
You’ve got to stop putting ‘DESTROYED’ in capital letters in your video titles. It’s actually really weird.
Make your own channel. You still clicked on the video.
@@jacobroddy7939 Two non arguments.
I came here because I am currently beginning to accept God is real. Not out of some great epiphany or revelation, but just simple common sense. I wanted to listen to arguments from the "other side" because I am seeking answers and so am open to all possibilities. Mr Harris has done nothing to change my current leaning. Atheism is illogical and seems to take every bit as much faith as Religion to accept.
You think that because you’re unintelligent.
The question is: Why so many were/are opposing to the main advice from Jesus Christ: to strive always for goodness, wisdom, justice... for perfection? *_"Be perfect therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect"_* Matthew 5, 48
Most probably, because just as it is easier to destroy something useful than to make/build something useful, in the same way it is easier to be evil=stupid than to be good=wise.
Reality can be a bitch...not everyone can deal with that fact, so there's drugs, alcohol and religions to cope.
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a long enough *Time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance?
*Scientific Theories should be Falsifiable, Religions are Not: What would it take to Falsify Evolution?*
In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man? Early jawed placoderm fossils showing fully developed complex jaws - causing evolutionists to claim that they must have evolved, de-evolved, and then re-evolved those jaws to maintain their story of shark evolution? What if scientists admitted that Human-Ape DNA is down from 99% "similar" to only 84% "similar" and admitted their bias in "humanizing" the ape genome?
...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism?
All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12, and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation.
*"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
@@michaelg377 evolution has no relation to atheism. atheism is lack of belief in gods, it does not imply any other belief. your argument is the logical fallacy of "false dichotomy"
@@billjohnson9472 No my friend, as an Atheist you are necessarily making other secondary affirmative claims whether you like it or not - namely that we were created without God. That unfortunately necessitates atheistic evolution, atheistic abiogenesis, information out of non-information (in DNA), that all the necessary cell components had to create themselves inside of a cell enclosure by chance, etc. You're trying to hold a neutral ground where you don't have to accept accountability for the scientifically ludicrous consequences of your belief system - but as an Atheist you are necessarily making Affirmative claims that things like Creation happened without God, so you very much need evolution.
And your silence to my question: *"Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable: given its history of constantly rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problematic evidence, what would it take to falsify evolution?"* speaks volumes.
Let me ask you this... *As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?"*
Objective morality requires an objective and universally applicable source: God. Subjective morality only exists inside of your chemical reaction brain - it's subjective, so nothing can be truly "right" or 'wrong,' "good" or "bad" - such objective standards don't exist for "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care.
*"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them"* (Romans 2:15)
Powerful words. Sam......nails it home. Peace be with you all.
The amount of denial that needs to go into the rejection of such perfect, eloquent, and logical arguments is astounding. The human animal is so imperfect, so weak, so susceptible to conditioning even under the most ludicrous framework. We are still centuries away from evolving to a point where we have fully overcome these weaknesses as a species.
Think of how little sleep you have lost.... religion has no moral compass......none
Religion is founded on willful ignorance, blind obedience and never questioning one’s faith.
Science is about improving our understanding via repeated testing and experiments. We change our minds when the evidence presents itself.
Science and religion are not 2 halves of the same coin.
You've described man's religion perfectly. But Jesus is no more a religion than you or I. You cannot use science to prove that George Washington existed, because you cannot observe it, cannot measure it, and cannot repeat it. So you have to use the evidence that he existed. Same goes with the life of Jesus Christ, and there is plenty of it. More evidence of Jesus exists than that of say, Plato, Caeser, amd Tacitus. You can even view Pontius Piliates report to the emporer Tiberius about Jesus, in the Acta Pilati (in digital form from the vatican online library).
Science is the discovery/revelation into the vastly superior mind of God that created the universe, planets, humans, etc. The mathematics behind it all is absolutely beautiful, the symmetry is astounding. To consider that it was all due to a random happen-stance event, that we're all just a collection of matter and energy requires a faith that even the most devout follower of Jesus Christ would be envious of!
Once you put your faith (and it's not blind faith), in Jesus, the blinders come off your eyes, and you can truly see the world for what it is, and what is going on in it. When Jesus said that 'the truth shall make you free', He really meant every singe word!
John 8:31 - _“...If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”_ - Jesus
@@martinscrapp7166 Except we can demonstrate that George Washington existed, and it’s neither a faith based claim nor an outrageous claim as with the jesus character.
Just because you’re too befuddled with how nature operates, that doesn’t mean you are justified in inventing a fairytale to shoehorn into the mystery.
Science replaces religious “explanations” all the time, but not once has religion ever explained nor replaced the scientific method.
@@2l84me8 Science is a methodology, what you're talking about is an Ideology - that's something else, not "science." And Atheistic-Naturalistic evolution is very much a religion.
*Scientific theories are supposed to be falsifiable. Given its history of constantly being rewritten as it's contradicted, what would it take to falsify evolution today?*
In 1982 a federal court ruled that Creation can't be taught in schools because "it is not falsifiable." Evolution has a long history of radically rewriting itself as it runs into more and more problems - what would it take to "falsify" Naturalistic Evolution? Over 500 Living Fossils? Debunked "Junk" DNA? Finding a 70M year extinct *evolutionary ancestor to tetrapods still alive, unevolved, with no evidence of it ever evolving?* Discovering that many "vestigial" (leftover) organs actually have a normal function, like the appendix? Finding "millions of years" old creatures with no signs of evolution? Fully developed vertebrate creatures in the Cambrian explosion? An Ankylosaurus fossil found where it's not supposed to be buried among sea creatures? Whale fossils deep inland in the United States? Trilobites found appearing suddenly and fully developed with complex eyes in the Cambrian - and in every fossil layer indicating they were buried rapidly? Maybe measurably young tissues in dinosaur fossils that look similar to 4000 year old mummies or the Tyrolean Ice Man?
...or should we just reinterpret all of these problematic evidences to keep the belief in Atheistic/Naturalistic evolution alive, and why? We are all *uncritically indoctrinated* into this Atheistic-Naturalist religion of evolution in our public education system today... Should evolution be held to the same religious standard as Creationism?
*All of the best evidences for evolution can also be explained by Genesis 1-12,* and if you understand "science" then you understand the implications of a competing explanation.
*"The evidence of God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
Science has questions that may never be answered, religion has answers that may never be questioned
He's right.
The ads for me on this video have Mark Wahlberg in them asking me to stay “prayed up” with Hallow. My algorithm is waaaayyy off 😂😂😂
you know what i find interesting? none of the theist in this comment actually reply to what is said in the video.
Not one single person in this world is born with an inherent knowledge of a god it's not until mostly your parents/guardian, whoever is charged with your upbringing take you to their place of worship that you then gain the knowledge of a god, if your god was as powerful as you claim him to be why doesn't he place that knowledge at conception??.
Do you say that because you believe in the modern mythology that fish evolve into philosophers, and if you just wait a really long *time* puddles of chemicals can fizz into people by chance? See, I think He did program you with that knowledge, and while you suppress it - we all observe it in you. Specifically - *for some reason you live in contrast to the atheistic "we're all just chemicals" belief system, but perfectly in line with everything the God you reject said about you instead as a valuable human being made in His image and likeness - why do you do that?* That is powerful evidence you can see in yourself that God created you, and that you're not just "meaningless evolved protoplasm" in a meaningless chemical universe that doesn't care about you, and I love that He put that into you so you can see clear evidence in yourself that He exists.
God said you are a meaningful and valuable human being made in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:27), with purpose and a capacity for "dominion" over creation (Genesis 1:26), morality and a sense of justice (Genesis 9:6), a sense of respect towards others (James 3:10), and a conscience which reflects the principles of His law (Romans 2:15), among other things. These are observable qualities that we all observe in you, and being made in God's image and likeness makes perfect sense of that. I know you don't believe in God though - so how do you explain these observable qualities in you from your own atheistic "we're just chemical reactions" worldview?
"Do you believe meaningless chemicals fizzed together in a puddle, and somehow "human beings are valuable"? Or do you believe that chemicals evolved, and somehow "rape is wrong"? Animals do it all the time, and chemicals destroy each other all the time... and the atheistic worldview holds that we are evolved animals, and just chemicals... what's the difference?"
*"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them."* (Romans 2:15)
@@michaelg377 No what I'm saying is that when you are born you know nothing about a god but it's forced and indoctrinated on people that they gain knowledge of a god, every theists loves to tell just how powerful this god is supposed to be, control over life and death can sent you to heaven or hell if he chooses, if this god is so powerful then why not plant awareness that he exists at conception but that doesn't happen and why?? because there are no gods.
@@VisshanVis No, what I'm saying is that you live in contrast to your own worldview as an Atheist, and instead live perfectly in line with everything the God of Scripture whom you reject said about you instead, which is powerful evidence that He programmed you in His image and likeness (see above for specifics) and that He very much does exist. You can see these qualities of His image and likeness in you (again, see above) in your own self-contradictory behavior my friend - even Atheists can see this evidence.
What I just showed you is that you are a walking contradiction to your own belief system, but a walking testimony to the reality that God exists. Nothing you're doing right now makes sense in your own "we're all just chemicals" or "meaningless evolved protoplasm in a meaningless amoral universe that doesn't care" worldview. Re-read the above, I asked some important questions in there that I think might help you understand.
In the meantime, I have a question: *As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?*
@@michaelg377 Atheism isn't a worldview, it isn't a religion it isn't a belief, it's a lack of belief in gods that's it.
What I just showed you is that you are a walking contradiction to your own belief system,
You showed me nothing, no evidence of anything except your own arrogance in trying to tell me what I think and what evidence has Atheists been shown, I am yet to be shown any evidence whatsoever that the Christian god or any other god exists ??.
As an Atheist, if you were born in Nazi Germany in WW2, would the acts committed there have been "moral?
Well lucky I wasn't born in Nazi Germany because what Hitler did was abhorrent and it was wrong and it was a pity that he never stood trial for his crimes against humanity.
Absolutely bang on Sam.
Became of you, others like you and science and scepticism, religion in general and Christianity in particular, is demonstrably DYING.
Long may that continue. 👍
Off to the celestial graveyard for another one. Can't say I'll shed a tear for this dufus either. We're getting closer to the truth with each and every one.
The bible is like the car Father Ted was given to give as a prize in a raffle... after he tried to fix a very small dent in it.
That last line was very impactful to me, thank you
“Religion started when the first scoundrel met the first fool”
- Voltaire
Religion and government are two sides of the same coin. Mind control is the purpose. How can you rule intelligent, informed, Conscious ppl as debt slaves if they get the Game?
and government? Government doesn't really require a lot of belief without evidence. In fact, if the government is done right, it bases all its decisions on evidence.
This is exactly why the founding fathers wanted the separation between church and state.
Is there a video like this without the generic piano music? It annoys me
The music is very annoying.
I love this man
The way Sam articulates and eviscerates these imaginary shackles may be second only to Hitchens in the succinctness and effectiveness. Harris does so with a slightly softer and conciliatory tone, which has always made him a little easier to share with someone who Hitchens might immediately offend to the point of shutting down completely.
Hitchens did not suffer fools gladly.
It’s sad that the people who need to see this the most, won’t
I’m transitioning into atheist, Is this good?
It's good to use your brains :)
I am christian and I study computer science, the religion is for the people in the world, science is for the world that they live in. What is a soccer field without players?
@@lrdofwlvs2734
Quick IQ test...
Solve: 4, 5, 14, 185, ...
On behalf of every other atheist who has ever made this transition - YES!! Its like waking up from a coma.
Welcome to the higher reality. The question you asked is your answer. Yes!
Proud to be a Christian!
Psalm 14:2
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Jeremiah 29:13
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you,
which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Romans 3:19-26
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law:
that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God;
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Romans 10:9-11
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
John 3:15-18
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:3-7
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?
can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
Romans 5:1-2
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Galatians 1:3-5
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Why believe? We don't know any gods exist. (Knowing takes evidence, which we don't have.)
@@majmage Jesus of Nazareth is the evidence!
@@uggupuggu Jesus was a human. Feel free to present strong evidence he's a god, if you think you can. (I have to suspect that deep down you know you can't.)
@@majmage Hundreds of eyewitness confirmed that they saw Him risen from the dead + he was prophesied in the old testament
God is real. Look at the human eye. Also god is real because he caused the universe. God is real because he listens to us. (sigh) People will literally believe anything.
God is real on the basis of nuh-uh
Yes, it is the truth, the whole truth, and everything but the truth
In the beginning, Man created gods.
@@denz4133 so true
@@denz4133 Who created the creator? That's easy - man did!
Wow! Clear, concise, and logical.
Sam Harris is preaching the ACTUAL good word, Amen to everything he has said, praise be to Sam , stay mad Christians
I'd like to listen to this, but the electronic noises superimposed on it make it impossible. Why do people who produce these videos feel obliged to add these intrusive noises?
Sam speaks the absolute reality here...... NOTHING more to say....
So, the hubris of Genesis 1:27 ". . . God created man in his own image. . ." is even worse because religion doesn't admit it doesn't know.
I hate the whole DESTROYED title. Same is spot on though.
Yet we still deeply believes in religion and can't think out of it
The Great religions were conceived in a period of time when everybody knew the Earth was flat.
I can remember being a kid, and seeing all of the different religions in the world, ranging from Hinduism, islaam, Christianity, Judaism etc. Etc. Not only that but different denominations of those religion ( protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, sunni, shia, etc.) and one of the first thought I had about this was " How does nobody see how obviously man made all of this is"
If you had a different title I could send this to my Evangelical Christian friends
Evangelical friends? How depressing.
6:55 nailed it.
Brilliant video. Nail on the head for the insanity comparison. Religion was created by man based on how he felt about others. For example, You can never take a religious book to a court room and win a homicide case using texts and scriptures from it. Just be good and do good.
i became an atheist when i realized that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was in arms reach by adam and eve. why would god put that tree there in the first place, it's a type b movie imoo.
Following Rene Descartes meditation
Category 1: Minds
I exist and I am a mind. Therefore Minds exist.
Category 2: Matter
I have feelings. These feelings originate from sensors in what I call my body. The sensors are receptive to stimulation from events created from within my body and from events created from outside my body. The stuff that bring about these events I shall categorise as matter. Thus my body is also made of matter. Therefore Matter exists.
Category 3: Space
My body needs space and matter in general needs space. Matter can exist only in space. Therefore space must exist.
Category 4: Time
My body needs time to change and matter in general needs time for change. Matter can change only in time. Therefore time must exist.
From the above observation I conclude that these 4 categories permeate each other and exist equally with none more abstract or less abstract than another.
Now to the question of the origin of these categories
Could it be that any one or more of these categories can be made from any one or more of the remaining categories? Could these categories transform from one to another?
Matter needs space and time for its existence, therefore without space and time matter will not exist as such matter could not have been the origin of space and time.
From physics it has been observed that space and time can give rise to matter spontaneously. As such matter maybe a result of a localised change to space and time.
So then could space and time be the origin of everything else?
Again from the theory of the Big Bang all space, time and matter originated from this singular event. Therefore space and time could not alone have brought about the other categories.
Since the big bang was an event, could it be that all things are made from events?
Where there is space, time and matter there is always an event.
There can be no space , time or matter without events.
In an instant all of space and the matter is nothing more or nothing less than a set of events. So then space, time and matter is one and the same as a set of simultaneous events from one instant to the next.
From this observation the 4 categories can be reduced to 2 categories
Category 1 : Minds
Category 2 : Events
Now then can minds exist without events. We know that simultaneous events give rise to feeling in minds. We know from special relativity simultaneous events cannot give rise to anything physical or material. Therefore feelings cannot be physical or material. Now as feelings are a part of minds we must conclude minds are not physical.
Now can the mind exist without feelings OR does feelings create the mind, that is one and the same as the mind?
If feeling create the mind then as feelings are created by events then space, time and matter which we have concluded is the same as events, must also have feeling and thus be one and the same as a mind.
Thus we would need to conclude a rock has a mind or is part of a mind to the same extent that my brain is a mind or is part of a mind.
This conclusion is not palatable as such let’s consider the OTHER alternative
Now if a mind can exist without feeling then we also know that the mind can create events. (e.g throw a rock, move a finger)
So then given that the mind can create events then the big bang (The Event) could have originated from The Mind in order to evoke feelings in other minds.
These other minds may have also been created by The Mind such that
the earthly life of each mind is the big bang that determines the eternal or heavenly life of that mind in The Mind.
philpapers.org/rec/DESCAS
www.jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/1020/0
Like many, you over think and under experience.
Denial Of Death is what fuels all of this.
The first subject to tackle is if there is a God, which nature proves that there is. Afterwards you can have a debate about the different religions
Those who sort the comments and read enough from my posts (both answers and threads) can see that *I have proved* that this reality has been created by an eternal perfect Intelligence (called God / the Creator) whose nature will never be really comprehended by humans (because of our proved limitations) except through Jesus Christ, the human form of God.
The atheists never had counter arguments but only lies, insults, ... generally ad hominem attacks.
I think a moderate believe in religion is alright. I'm not religious, but I respect everyone who is. Fact is we don't know, so I won't judge anyone. I think radical atheists and religious people are equally wrong.
I don't know if it is just me, but I always thought Dostoevsky was a religious person but never thought of judging someone who isn't. Humanity is at it's best when it is humble, tolerant and respectful.
I don't have respect for somebody ' fairytales. It is a insanity.
This planet hit the galactic jackpot over time, and to explain it with a non existent creator is a shame and waste of human potential -
...and yet when you look up at the stars at night, you think that it was all by chance? wow. The evidence is right in front of your face, and you still can't see the forest for the trees! There are far too many delicate balances in the universe for it ALL to have been by chance. It was all by elegant design!
Genesis 1:1 - _In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth._
Psalm 19:1 - _The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork._
@@martinscrapp7166 The universe spontaneously created itself by self organisation, no external invisible magical superman needed, it is natural, not supernatural. Just 'cos you don't understand chance processes you are compelled to assume magic.
@@rozzgrey801 *The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.* And actually, it's not "natural" - it can't be, because nature breaks down at that point.
The 1st law of thermodynamics doesn't allow energy to "naturally" come from nothing. The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) says energy is always being converted into a "less usable form," and it doesn't allow energy to remain usable forever - but our universe is full of usable energy. So if our universe couldn't "naturally" have a beginning from nothing, and if it can't have just existed forever (otherwise all of its energy would be burned up), then *how can you "naturally" explain the beginning of our universe?*
Have you ever wondered why Atheistic-Naturalists (evolutionists, etc.) have to invoke such wild and sci-fi sounding theories to "naturally" explain our origins? *Infinite* alternate universes, an *eternal self-existent* singularity, alternate unobservable metaphysical laws of nature, *pre-existent* Phenomena.... you have to suspiciously attribute characteristics of the Supernatural God to "nature" in order to "naturally" (atheistically) explain our origins. Can you see the problem? Atheistic-Naturalism is an internally inconsistent and self-refuting Supernaturally-Natural (!) worldview - it's unavoidable.
*The only way for nature to create itself is if nature is pre-existent - like God.*
*'The evidence for God... has been clearly seen since the beginning in all that has been created, so they will have no excuse"* (Romans 1:20)
Dogma (fanaficism and radicalism) or blind faith has no space in spirituality. Everything must be questioned.
My faith begins with me and ends with me. Treat others with help and kindness. And live life not control of others with the WORD OF GODS!!!
Shockingly Harris and I agree about one thing. Objective morality
Thank you for your service.
He should know that *all evil has been done because of stupidity and the main/worst stupidity has always been to not listen by God/Jesus.*
In particular, for mankind, if ALL people (over history and nowadays) would have followed the main commandment from Jesus Christ, *besides to love / respect our Heavenly Father, to love / respect (care for) the other humans as we love / respect (care for) ourselves,* all the crimes and the tremendous useless suffering would have never happen. As Jesus has said: *_"Be perfect therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect"_* Matthew 5, 48
Unfortunately, too many people have refused over history, and too many still refuse nowadays, to follow this.