The Most Brutal Takedown of God Ever Richard Dawkins
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- Опубліковано 25 гру 2024
- Professor Richard Dawkins invokes the beauty of the scientific method, the horrors of the Old Testament and inconsistencies between sects of Christianity, seasoned with fiery but meticulous language, to give what, in my opinion, is the harshest rebuttal of the Christian God in recent times. As he puts it, "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Taken from the broadcast "The God Delusion" on C-SPAN (10/23/2006).
The only thing more exhaustingly boring than superstition are those that insist I share their superstition.
A good man who talks well above our religious leaders. I regard religions as hocus-pocus but do understand how they arose.
It is by fear of loss, that man is motivated to change his/her mind,and is governed.
A law is there for the law Breakers. Not for the law abiding individual.
Structure gives order.
Ignorance gives excuse to crime.
I can't get enough of dear Mr Dawkins . He's been a guiding beacon of light for me for many years . To see evolution one has to look at the results over vast time scales . If you look at a worm and a human one thinks they are not related because they look so different. It's the mostly little mutations over millions of years that transform a worm into an ape . The universe also looks like it doesn't change from day to day but it does if you have the right instruments to measure the change.
Oh sounds like you worship Dawkins, I thought atheists didn't believe in a deity.
Comments are great
We all get a chance to see how diverse are our thoughts and opinions and how diversely we respond to difference whether with disdain or an openness and respect.
Makes you think the Tower of Babel wasn't just some crazy irrelevant useless myth and there is such a thing as Truth that we humans continue to search for
Agreed, Ewen, I am very content that we have taken the initiative to debate this matter.
"truth" with a big T is the most dangerous thing. its a thing that doesnt need evidence, only belief...
More interesting to me are the true believers' bone-headed endorsements of the supernatural (see below).
Nothing bone headed about it. Just look around you. An accident, no chance, something from nothing, no chance. And before someone says, where did God come from. He has to exist outside of time otherwise he would have been part of creation, instead of the creator. It's the atheist which needs to open their minds. It's they who are the boneheads.
@@kevinedwards2282
So you have zero evidence for your god?
It is obvious that you are just lying.
@@kevinedwards2282 Your mental gymnastics attempting to "explain" your delusion reminds me of the churches' models to "explain" earth still existing in the middle of our solar system after the invention of the telescope. You really have to google those attempts: Ridiculous, pathetic and it took them only 350 years to admit they were wrong and apologize to Galileo (in 1992). I suppose you have another 3 1/2 centuries to wake up and could still beat their timeline.
@@maylingng4107
So! You require evidence. There was an apostle by the name of Thomas, doubting Thomas. You carry on looking.....But you have already made up your mind, haven't you! You wouldn't even know where to start looking in the first place. The wrong attitude.
@@kevinedwards2282 Ok, who is to say that God isn't an accident? Was God intentionally created? Did God come from nothing?
Well, Paul, how empty must your life be if you need some deity and it's promise / illusion / reality (does not matter which) of a reward (while on earth or in an afterlife) to give it meaning. You can not prove the existence of your god and I can not disprove it. But I will not arrange my life and certainly not demand from others to arrange theirs on the strange and contradictory demands in a bronze age book, which origins are dubious at best just because it contains a promise to play the harp in the clouds if I follow it along with the threat of a devil gnawing on my genitalia while roasting in an eternal flame if I do not. That approach seems to be transactional. I prefer to do the right thing without expecting some kind of return and/or to avoid punishment; to me that is a much nobler approach and inherently devoid of hopelessness or despair.
How empty would Dawkins life be without said deity who he does not believe in yet has afforded him his career and fortune from giving lectures interviews selling books teaching classes about about a God that doesn’t exist I wish I could build a life and fortune off deny the existence of Santa clause but I can’t because Santa actually doesn’t exist. Where would Dawkins be without this God he doesn’t believe in does anyone actually care for his work outside of the fact he’s an atheist, how many Dawkins books or papers have you read that had nothing to do with God, seems the man is nothing without these made God he denies.
@@lemnisgate8809 He is not profiting off of "this God he does not believe in yet," because that would amount to profiting off of nothing. Professor Dawkins is profiting from educating the masses on the insanity of this fiction.
@ he is absolutely profiting from it if you think not you’re just as delusional as he is 🤣🤣🤣. Unlike Dawkins the gospel has actually spread to the masses while Dawkins little speeches speak only to a tiny subset of people his impact on the world is minuscule when he dies it will be like he never existed.
@@lemnisgate8809 Why do you feel the need to insult me and Dr. Dawkins. I am sharing MY approach to life and I did not even talk about him. Furthermore he is a scientist and arrives at results based on evolutionary anthropology which interests and reaches anyone who understands how science works. Are you disputing evolution claiming creationism is at work?
@ Insulting you is fun because you decided to reply inadequately perhaps that was a bit mean I’ve been going back and forward with imbeciles you seem to have gotten caught up in the crossfire, forgive me, Dawkins on the other hand I could care less about him than he does about me. I’m not speaking for or against creationism or evolution I find the entire argument laughable because creationism isn’t biblical despite what some Christian’s and atheists think, the Christian or atheist that reads genesis and think it’s literally about the creation of the universe clearly has no idea what the text is about, imagine two people arguing about a topic that’s not even in the book they are debating over it’s the height of stupidity.
So Power, and Power alone makes right?
Some of the world's leading scientists believe in God, but you people are far more intelligent than them.
@@kevinholling9645
Don't bother discussing with them. They do not wish to debate anything, their mind is already made up .
@kevinedwards2282 is not yours
Man that was brutal. Good thing he redefined God or else he might find himself in trouble with a big man😅
This was fun to hear while I roll spliffs to take to a Xmas party that I'm going to just for the food and fiesta. I have to agree that religion is a delusion.
And a pernicious delusion.
@DanielRochester800 it's an excuse to get together and party with friends and family, that's about it for me
When Richard Dawkins, or any other believer in his creed of neo-Darwinism, can explain to me how the ideas of Charles Darwin may even address, let alone satisfactorily account for, the life cycle of a butterfly I shall be impressed.
Thanks for the no hope and despair dawkins
Thanks for the honesty Mr Dawkins and the description of the vile, imaginary xtian “god”, luckily just as imaginary as all the other claimed deities. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Giving meaning to your life and hope by believing in supernatural nonsense is not the smartest choice in your life! It's called a delusion!
@paulburger2963 "god" the all time Hide And Seek champion.
@@paulburger2963 a god is not detectable in any way since a god is supposed to "exist" "out of space and out of time". Whatever that means because it is a complete abstract, absurd and contradictory concept. Something can not exist for zero seconds because then it does not exist. And neither can something "exist" " out of space" because something that exists takes space itself!
So, that's very suspicious isn't it because that is exactly the same characteristic of something that does not exist in reality!
Dawkins definition of “religion” isn’t biblical, it’s made made traditions, one can believe in God without these made made traditions. Religion as defined by the Bible “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James 1:27 KJV
The latter confuses quite a many because they do not properly define “the world” one is to keep himself unspotted from. Even with that I’m sure no one should have any qualms about visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, yet even this has a Bible context man has largely ignored.
Dawkins is childish his understanding of God is infantile the man lumps all cultures ideas of God into one making them all the so-called creator, I’m sorry but his entire presentation is well just stupid.
It's not a matter of tradition; it's a matter of cult. Religion is a cult, and like any cult, it manipulates its followers to blindly obey some prophet, or else face damnation.
@ I just biblically defined religion what about that definition say “cult” to you or did you not read it, try again.
@ excuse me but what makes you think the Bible is about you, the Bible is speaking to a certain people that agreed to be in a covenant relationship with him with certain rules laws and regulations to follow, you’ve made the same such agreement yet without consent by being born in whatever country you were born in, you’ve agreed to follows its rules regulations and laws under threat of penalty you’ve also agreed to go to war for said country and allow deliver your own children up to war, yet God is the monster don’t make me laugh, bunch of blind hypocrites who don’t know their rear ends from a hole in the ground think to part their lips against God, what a joke.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
No one is greater than God, and no one can Love you the way God does. Jesus beared God's wrath for the sins of mankind so that he may redeem his creation. And here comes the last point Arius was considered a heretic because he said that Jesus was created(which would make his sacrafice meaningless) whereas the bible says he existed for eternity with God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Lasty what is Dawkins talking about (4:19 - 4:44). He just made up all these faul dirty names and applied them to God. May he have mercy on your soul because that's not very intellectual or honest just spiteful and disrespectful. Isn't he a scientist, boasting about evididence and such, show me the evidence of what you say is true? God's Word will prove you're a liar.
Merry Christmas! Though I only say so as a politeness within the cultural context in which I was raised. I read the bible regularly though I am not a believer. The God of the Old Testament as Dawkins here describes seems pretty accurate. While reading through the first 5 books of OT, I was left feeling extremely turned off by the entire Christian enterprise.
Still, Merry Christmas, because the message everyone is meant to aspire to at this time of year is still a laudable one.
@@XinwylFumudaiski Marry Christmas to you also and to everyone else. We celebrate today the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Notice how just like Dawkins you didn't really say anything just a chain of words that are meant to mean something but not based on anything. Show me from the book, that you say you read, that God is who you and him proclaim to be. Give me an event or something that shows He is those things Dawkins say He is not your opinions.
Blah blah blah. Learn to think for yourself.
@@bazpearce9993 How does one think for themselfs beside being presented the evidence and choosing between it. So when you think God does not exists because somone said so you're thinking for yourself? That's nonsense.
God loves us so much that he sends those who disobey him to Hell.
The Athiest concept on a Creator, is flawed, this is the reason for their false stance.
Is Dawkins going to tell me that the lecturn he is standing at, created itself? Or the stage he is standing on, created itself!
He will get to know the answer in the next life.
Small minds demand small answers.
Who created your creator? Yours is the most flawed concept of all time.
@bazpearce9993
I disagree with your opinion.
Let me elaborate.
You exist.
I exist.
The whole Universe exists AND is being Sustained and has evolved over time. As, we too have evolved.
Now, you need to ponder this; Nothing can come into existence by itself.
Let's take as an example , the first Atom, or the first Photon. Where did it come from?
Out of what?
Something brought this whole Universe into existence. Whatever "IT" is, that is my Creator. But as Quantum Mechanics is showing, the Past, Present and Future can exist all at the same time. Whatever Created the Universe, is, by its Nature. outside of Time!
The Creator/ Creature Force That brought the Universe into existence, must be, by its very nature, untreated.
So my " God" has always Existed and when the Universe starts its Cycle of death and rebirth ( See Roger Penrose) , My Creator will still exist.
Ponder the Anthropic Principle! There are at least 70 fundamentals of Nsture, that are SO FINELY TUNED that had any one of them been different by a fraction of a fraction of a billionth of a percent, we would not have a Universe, nor life in it!
The example given is: ROLLING A DICE TIMES ,AND ON THE VERY FIRST THROW, EACH TIME, GETTING A " 6."
This sounds impossible, but this is exactly the odds when you look at the Universe. ( See the video on UA-cam, proving God with a Dice).
Now in order to negate the Anthropic principle, the likes of yourself and Dawkins come up with THE MULTIVERSE THEORY.
How preposterous is this!!!
NOW, not only do we not know how our Universe came into existence AND to negate a Creator, some Scientists tell us there are actually countless Universes and we happen to live in one that supports life!!! 😂😂😂😂.
The Quran:
" We have Created the Universe from NOTHING and verily, it is We who are expanding It."
" We will show them Our Signs, in the Universe, in the furthest horizons and within themselves, until it becomes manifest that this is the TRUTH. "
" We have not Created the Universe and everything in it, in idle sport, everything has a PURPOSE."
" We have Created the Sun and the Moon to measure time, each swimming in an orbit, the Sun too has its own orbit." ( The fact that our Sun has its own orbit, it Rotates about a Star called Vega, has only recently been discovered.).
" We have created all life from water."
" We have got all life out from the water."
" We have created two bodies of water, one sweet and palatable, the other salty, it is not permissible for them to mix as We have created a barrier between them." ( This barrier is the Halocline barrier).
Bro, PONDER YOUR EXISTENCE, DID YOU ASK TO COME INTO THIS WORLD OR WAS YOUR SOUL, BROUGHT HERE??
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@@user-k229 "So my " God" has always Existed and when the Universe starts its Cycle of death and rebirth ( See Roger Penrose) , My Creator will still exist." Have you ever considered that energy could have always existed, since it cannot be created or destroyed? My point is that we need not invent some great invisible man telling us what to do to explain the origins of existence.
I've listened to just about everything Dawkins and other prominent atheists have to say. I've also read Chesterton. The latter leaves the atheists in the dust.
I wouldn't trust anyone who claims that they had read "just about everything" of anything.
@DanielRochester800😂 That doesn't surprise me. You atheists are a dour and pessimistic lot... Happy Christmas!
Evangelical Christians, actually all Christians are exactly like democrats/liberals. You can not debate, you can not argue because you have really nothing to say. Just like lefties you make claims but when asked how and why, you go into hiding and pretend you don't exist.
What do you mean by "The latter leaves the atheists in the dust."? Give us an example and tell us WHY!
@gatehanger1385 At least we're realistic and don't owe allegiance to the invisible man in the sky. Merry Christmas to you too.
If you'd ever read page one of that book you love so much you'd find it's so full of holes that it isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Isn’t it odd that these professional atheists never seem to make a meaningful point? What do people get from this? Is it just an emperor’s new clothes thing?
There is no such thing as a "professional atheist". If there were, then there would be a "professional Christian"... can we agree on that?
I am an atheist, not by profession but because I have common sense.
Any question you may have, I am happy to answer it in a civilised manner.
I became an Atheist just by reading the Bible. I mean a TALKING SNAKE in the Garden of Eden???
There are many atheists who whine and bicker instead of argue, but I do not believe Dawkins to be one of them.
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
That'sd a pretty fucking meaningful point. Especially if you believe in an Abrahamic god.
Your problem is that you are brain washed in mysticism.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢