Christian Accidentally DISPROVES God
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2024
- Today, we're looking at a video by Christian fundamentalist and Young Earth Creationist Jesse Speaks, where he tries to convince us that God, Jesus and the Bible are real. In doing so, he disproves his own case, and shows us a great example of self-brainwashing. He's also pretty punk rock aside from that. Naturally, I have rants. #skeptic #atheist #agnostic #religion #evangelical #apologist #apologetics #reason #logic #philosophy #protestant #catholic
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The first thing he says , as an atheist do you think of God? NO MATE ! THAT'S THE POINT!
Even if that's true at the moment, he still has to guess which God I'm thinking of when he asks me.
@Darth_Niki4 yeah , there's only 3000 registered religions to choose from ! 😅
But you are here. Watching videos on a channel that tells you how superior you are than those religious people because they believe in God. If you wouldn't think about God you would not be here in the first place.
@@gandalainsley6467Im an atheist but yeah I agree with you here
@gandalainsley6467 you've got it completely backwards, I make sure to go on religious channels for one reason, to stop them spreading garbage all over the planet!
Usually when these people quote or imitate atheists, they have a demeaning tone like we're just stubborn, angry, and stupid; but I never detect more honesty in their voices than when they imagine how atheists desperately pray for God to reveal himself. That's them talking, that's them saying, "But why DOESN'T this god ever reveal itself to us?" Every time.
You've hit the nail in the head. Why would we appeal to things we don't believe in?
That’s pretty insightful. And to go further, they usually project onto you with their accusations:
“Why *didnt* god show himself
“Well, if you were just sincere enough…
If you really, truly wanted to know him…
If you approach him with a pure and repentant heart, etc. etc….
Then you would have the same experience we Christians (read: I) have.”
If they applied the same criteria towards themselves towards opposing views, then there might actually be some kind of mutual benefit. Even the most sincere Christians (I was one for a time), is blinded by their own “sanctification” mindset (as if their so-called God would have made a mistake to correct in the first place). It’s so frustrating on either side of the conversation; it’s all so silly but people tend to take their ritual book-club so seriously.
A very inspiring point I've learned from atheists is their logical thinking in how they determine their points of view. That it's indisputable. In my experience most Christians beliefs originate from a point of fear. Also, one of the most annoying aspects of Christianity to me is that they come across like an over persistent salesman, or an annoying flies that won't go away!
And I'm not an athiest😂.
It's my soul, I'll take responsibility for whether or not it will end up in Hell one day, thanks for airing your opinions bit seriously I don't want what you're offering!
And then, to my mind, if a person argues the validity of the bible, well then they clearly haven't read the Bible, how on Earth can any sane person run their life according to that book???😂
@@danrcash To be fair, I gave it a go, knowing that nothing would happen, just so that I could honestly say to some christian that I had tried.
Christian with a face tattoo..guy is obvious bs
Is this guy really giving step by step instructions towards self-delusion?
"How to delude yourself into a Christian mindset, in 1,001 easy steps."
This guy is a real piece of work.
its what faith is all about. they repeat sht to themsekves so many times that they actually start to believe it. wich is the definition of self deception.
how to delute your humanity 101 is christianity in a nutshell
Growing up rebels had tattoos and then somewhere along the way rebellion became not getting tattoos.
yeah... 😅
Like any Christian, he's having both sides of the conversation.
No one else is stupid enough to talk to them
This type of pareidolia is like the survivor of a car accident concluding that God saved them in spite of the three other occupants dying. They've got "God-colored glasses".
In other words: survivorship bias.
What about the ones who died, didnt believe, were brought back, and talk about talking with Jesus?
A friend of mine said he saw Jesus from the smoke of a bong hit he took. Sure he was kidding.
@@SealabCaptMurphy "died" has different meanings depending on the era, culture, and situation. Back in the day, people would be declared dead and then turn out not to be. In modern times, we view death as "brain death" rather than the stopping of a heartbeat or breathing.
@@SealabCaptMurphy easy. they lied.
The mental gymnastics for this maneuver deserves to take home the gold. Only the silver medal for assumptions.
It is a pity he knows so little about atheists, how they don't actually care about his God, and are not interested in his bullshit.
Being a young earth creationist means he is devoid of critical thinking.
Jesus loves you all
@@Grimwald2 ,
A completely pointless claim with nothimg to back it up.
@@grahvis yeah I’m pretty he said he loved everyone
@@Grimwald2 .
If the biblical Jesus ever actually existed.
@@grahvis he did, he historically did
Apologists: Make insulting accusations about atheists' "desire to sin" and "unwillingness" to "accept" the "obvious" truth and other accusations of motives, "comedy" mocking atheists and belittling talk.
Atheists: You're really rude and not going to appeal to people that way, you should listen to what people actually SAY they believe.
Apologists: SEE? You're OFFENDED! It's just PROOF that God offends you and THAT'S the REAL reason, it's NOT facts and logic, you have none of those!
well i asked god to show himself, asked questions in sunday school and got in trouble for it , then I grew up and read the bible and now I'm an atheist.
In what way did you expect God to show himself?
u just like the pharaoh of Egypt who asked for God to show himself (u guys have the same spirit)
His comment implies he asked god to show himself when he was a child. So you’re seriously saying that he was asking god to show himself with a haughty spirit or without expecting anything to happen? I asked god to reveal himself when I was a kid and earnestly wanted god to show himself in any way to me. When I asked why he didn’t reveal himself… I was told you’re not supposed to test god. Funny how that works, earnestly wanting god to show himself and I’m “testing him”
@@cloudz4114 In any way? How many ways were you thinking of?
@@NiyomugaboMurereInnocent I think it's appropriate for a child to ask why god isn't as self-evident as the Sun.
Or asking for proof that the earth is a sphere.
Facts about god shouldn't be so hard to answer. You shouting down people who ask questions is telling. Perhaps what you're really doing is trying to silence your own skepticism.
I prayed to God and He told me He does not exist.
false witness, ay? lucky for you he doesn't exist, cause that's definitely not the way to get favours from him... as if the conscious designer of cholera cares about anybody for that matter.
I prayed to God and got told off for misgendering Her.
@@pineapplepenumbra🥵 god what’s up
@@pineapplepenumbra reminds me of George Carlin, a woman would take a bit more pride in her work...
@@marcdc6809 All good things come from the Lord all bad things come from the deceiver The people who made Methamphetamine had the best of intentions and yet it was corrupted. I do not understand why the Lord allows bad things to happen but i assure you even if he told us the whole story i dont think we'd be able to comprehend it
I don't question God all the time. Neither do I question the Easter Bunny or Harry Potter. Nobody has time to question all fictional characters all the time.
I dont question him at all, cuz you cant question something nonexistent. Who I do question are all those religious zealots with their questionable takes and lifestyles they wanna enforce on us.
when they tell me in fact I'm mad at god, I admit, I raise my fist and shout to the night sky: why don't you exist, you silly eternal being, why don't you?
@@TerranigmaQuintet "with their questionable takes"
For a second there, I thought you had written:
"with their questionable tales"
Such as, "I used to be an Atheist", or "I talked to an Atheist professor who had to admit that I'm right, and then everybody clapped", etc.
i will question the easter bunny or harry potter when people star trying to push through legislation base on the teachings of the easter bunny or harry potter
Wait no Easter Bunny 😞😩😥
I feel for this guy. I struggle with drug addiction but I know so many people who "recover" end up just like him.
This. A thousand times this. What’s so often misunderstood is that one (especially one with an addictive personality) doesn’t give up something without replacing it with something else.
When someone is teaching bad biblical theology this is what you get!
When you go after god with all your heart there’s only two results from doing that. 1) you will go insane; you will need it to be true so bad that you will convince yourself that it’s true. 2) you will realize that god’s not there and walk away. You can do both but there is no third
I was a devout Christian for 25 years, a Bible scholar, an apologist, a Sunday school teacher, and had begun training for full-time pulpit ministry. I find it nauseating all the times these disingenuous nitwits act like we don't know about the religion, the doctrine, or the experiential factors that are involved. I, for one, probably know all this better than he does. And I still eventually came to the conclusion that it was all bollocks and left it behind.
That man is not full of assumptions, he is full of something else.
Go ahead, say it: BULLSHIT.
Shit? Just a guess...
@@WilliamDavis-lf5bq i mean i also do rn soooo
@@fischio-gc-hides5994? Not sure what you said
@@WilliamDavis-lf5bq i gotta take a shit 🤗
The highest virtue of MAN is RATIONALITY, not superstition
That's why you believe in God.
Thinking that everything was born from nothing and by accident is not rational at all.
@@aldomonti813
You don't know what the word "accident" means.
@@avishevin1976accident means its not intended. Wasnt planned, or just not thought off
@@avishevin1976 the idea of the universe being a cosmic accident is just surface-level thinking lol. it is pretty irrational
@@zortez6468
Why is it irrational when there isn’t any evidence for any other explanation?
Nothing screams im stupid any louder than a religious tatoo on the face
imagine if he comes to his senses and leaves the religion. then he either needs to get it lasered or walk around with that on his face while he doesnt even believe it. wich would be pretty funny i gotta admit😂
It's a strong indication that this person has, or does, suffer from extreme emotional instability.
I have no interest in asking God if they exist since I don't believe in it. Just as I don't spend any time going out into the woods searching for Leprechauns.
My immediate thought was the exact same.
Maybe if you disfigured yourself with a facial Leprechaun tat'...
You don't look for Leprechauns!?
What do you mean that you don't look for leprechauns? How else can you get a pot of gold?
@@eisbombenterror You buy a pot, then you buy gold, put in pot, voila, a pot of gold. No need to search for leprechauns.
Where are the Christians that don't use surface level philosophy??
This is just insulting, for everyone!
'Why does this man sound like he's recording inside a... sandwich?' Perfectly delivered line... kudos sir
Ham or Roast beef?
I love how he assume that atheist should strive for Christian values before seeing evidence for his god. Not how that works buddy.
Also, I'm much happier as an atheist than I was as a theist for almost entirely unrelated reasons. Does that prove god isn't really? I guess so, according to his logic.
Sorry, Yahweh can't appear today as he was arrested for exposing himself to children.
Jesus loves the little children. 😂
@@travisgarrison8777and condems them for not believing
Mary reported Him for assault. "An angel of the Lord came upon me."
@nmappraiser9926 yes Yahweh the ultimate dead beat dad
It may be petty... but guys sitting inside wearing backwards baseball caps I just cannot take seriously.
Backwards cap indoors, gauged ears, face and finger tattoos. It's basically the "dude I can probably afford to ignore" trifecta.
With reference to tattoos, as a Christian he needs to read his book, Leviticus 19:28 lol
If A God existed, wouldn't he already know what would convince me its real
And then Christians say "God only reveals himself to certain people" but at the same time they also say that their God wants to have a relationship with all people. And then I say to myself, "Then he should come here if he wants something. Since when did the bone come to the dog?"
"It turns out, the atheist was all the friends we made along the way." 🤣
Tattoos are banned in the Bible.
Well many Theist hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway... Cherry picking is normal for some believers.
Where does it say that?
I feel we are born atheist and theism creates anti theism.
indeed, the reason why there are no 'anti-teleportation' groups is because teleportation has as yet not been invented, if there was no religion and you'd claim you were against religion you'd have to explain what religion is... this is where the burden of proof comes in play.
@@marcdc6809 I still feel like there would be people who needed to state "I don't believe in a god" even in a universe where gods have been disproven.
@@comicbrandon sadly, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but it's definitely proof that something was made up... and a clock that stopped gives the correct time twice a day, good luck telling when...
We are all born atheist.
There are no religious babies.
Religion/theism requires indoctrination.
Indeed - I feel “wired” in my disbelief…. The idea of gods, angels, and demons was bizarre even as a child.
I love the culture that is becoming in the United States, getting rid of the Bible and those lousy Christians! The economic, political, social, cultural, and moral climate of this country is exactly where I want it to go! Thank you so very much for continuing to spread this! We are going in the right direction from where we start 70 years ago, thank you!
I question God all the time since i like to argue with Christians on UA-cam as a hobby.
It really boosts my self-esteem.
🤣
Nice. UA-cam is a great tool for christianity. There are videos from Christians all around the world with comments connecting believers from everywhere.
do you not feel embarrassed admitting that? 😬
@@zortez6468 kind of a, you know, joke kinda deal? 🤪😁
God showed himself to me without me even asking. Now he's on the sex offender registry. For eternity.
I had the Hells Angels take me for a walk in the woods once. I'm still here thanks to intuition. Thank you for sharing London.
The reason why God wants you to open up is because when you do, you will be easily persuaded by confirmation bias and will easily believe things without looking into the justification for those beliefs.
He wants you to be as vulnerable as possible, the easiest it is then to be fooled.
even in the bible there's lots of people who wandered in the desert for a couple of days without food and little water and hey they had visions... god usually gives important stuff on hilltops to mythological people during made up events like the Exodus... never during a gathering of thousands of people when it would make a real impact... the main writer of the new testament, the apostel Paul had serious mental issues, if he lived today he would claim to be Napoleon...
I asked God to show himself, and I witnessed the effects of gravity, and radiation, and thermodynamics, and experienced them through my brain chemistry.
God is all in your head. It's basically the god of the gaps, and the gaps are called synapses.
Basic math in sunday school made me a pariah, got booted to the adult services. Thats when i learned about the old testament, and how fucked up my community really was.
Oh wow my heart goes out to you & your wife for the tragedy you both experienced with the loss of your child that is just heartbreaking.
Weird, the changes to evangelicals just in my lifetime, whoa. When I was a kid in an evangelical church, they preached from the pulpit that; not wearing your seat belt, your hard hat at work, walking across the road without looking both ways, asking God to reveal himself to you, these all fall under the whole "do not temp God" commandment umbrella, so it's a sin to do it. So, then why would I ever go back to Christianity, which wouldn't even agree with its own denomination 50 years ago? And the first Christians didn't even believe Jesus was God, that came later. Much later. Which means, the first Christians were not real Christians, according to modern Christians. Lunacy, that's what Christianity is.
Durring my deconversion, i asked god multiple times to reaveal himself. So it used to piss me off when a christain would tell me i never was a Christian or never really tried to call on god.
“God will totally speak to you! First, emotionally prime yourself, then use confirmation bias. This combination of fallacies will let you believe!”
just take leave of your senses, then Jesus will show up 🙏
He's a Believer, not a Thinker. You don't need to think about much just to believe.
I don't care about this guy's tattoos, but I seem to recall that YHWH does not approve.
Was thinking the same thing. Was gonna comment that fact but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with that thought.
Isn't there also a rule about wearing a baseball cap backwards indoors, if not there should be.
@@davidbudge8359 I wear a hat backwards indoors lol
The baseball cap rule would reasonably have an age limit. When you're under ten years old some things are cute. When you're old enough to have a couple of children on the way to adolescence, it's time to leave the cuteness to them before they also grow out of it.
@@Simon.the.Likeable George Carlan would agree with you.
It's the argument from: " god helped me find my car keys while hundreds of children starved to death today."
😡
I help people find whatever they want
How does this Christian guy not realize people walk away from religion? I tried that religion thing. Didnt work so well for me. My life became so much better after I walked away
where do these people get their backwards caps from ??? I've been searching for a backwards cap shop for months now!!
I have a theory on why God always needs money. I think he keeps betting on the Jets to win it all.
This Christian guy makes me want to quote the SpongeBob meme: "Oh brother this guy stinks."
I used to have a porn addiction and it's not fun. Most of the negative effects came from my religious guilt.
Is it a coincidence that after leaving christianity my addiction died out?
I'm not sure what you mean by "addiction." When Christians talk about "addiction to pronography" they often mean having seen a prono once in their life and that is enough to call it an addiction. There are also many addictions that are not a problem. For example, addiction is not a problem if your life continues to function. If you continue to go to work, continue to have a private life, etc. then addiction isn't actually that bad.
If I were to vouch for an all-knowing, perfect god, I would not keep speaking stupid things in public to convince others.
...doing it kinda discredits the "perfect" part of this clown of a god.
Do I question God all the while? "No, that would be insane talking to no one"
The actual “Daily Dose of Wisdom” guy is such an arrogant dolt who attempts to seem like he’s your buddy.
The Christian wins this one, the atheist isn’t making intelligent points just snarky remarks.
Did he seriously compare addiction to drugs to being religious
Hilarious ep thank you Mx. Storm!
I tried to ask the g0d. Nothing. Maybe I should ask believers first, what the g0d even is.
Just to be sure, I'll ask Artemis, too. She'd be better than a genocidal, old dude anyway.
"God gives you the choice to believe or not". That's Christian arrogance, and he only got progressively worse.
Exactly, the choice of believing in a god is mine, and mine only.
@@KeesKouwenbergI dont think belief is even a choice to begin with. I could try to believe.
@@joemiller7082 Yes, you are right, You believe or not, it really is no choice.
I love how these guys always exaggerate how happy believing and obeying makes them.
It's bullshit, i have never seen a single person this ecstatic about being Christian.
They just think it's gonna convince people that it's true, because believers are just so HAPPY.
"Fake it until you make it" - most of them fake their happiness inside their group to show how "blessed" they are to experience "Jesus". They do this to the point that they really get those endorphines and become "happy" for real. When they are alone again, they might have breakdowns incl. substance abuse - I've seen this with a couple of people... So, the point with "addiction" is a very valid one.
as a buddhist I was miserable and empty after finding Jesus my life is now amazing and full of abundance. I once would have write the same comments as you but Jesus has changed my life now everyday is a blessing.
@@eisbombenterror makes sense
@@sotepniques my experience was the complete opposite. after waking up from this religious delusions I became happier then ever. I Don’t need to worry about things like demons, everythings from Devil, believe in Jesus or hell.. anymore, and that made me happier then ever. Then I found Buddhism and realized how to become a better person and gained mindfulness from meditation practices.. never had a clear mind before, my ego was filled with fear and false hopes and making it to shut up for a moment is just an enlightenment feeling. But if believing in Jesus makes you happy then I’m happy for you, just please don’t be like the others and don’t force your religion on people.
Love howbthese people think God is signaling them through coincidence instead of curing cancer or saving children from molesters.
You’re right. He’s literally just telling you how to trick yourself into belief.
“Gaslight yourself!”
Santa Claus, the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, the great pumpkin and finally god!
The moment I stoped believing in Santa clause the question of if God exists came up in my mind.
In what order did you stop believing in each of these fictional characters? For me god was the first one I said, what a bunch of bullshit!
@andrewwenner2781 Unfortunately it was the god thing was last. I was indoctrinated and groomed in the god stuff from early childhood. You are very fortunate to have never gone through it. It really messes up so much.
😂 this is so ridiculous. All of us who grew up religious and left. We absolutely DID look up at the popcorn ceiling and ask god to reveal himself! But according to Christians we mustn’t have been ‘sincere’.
The choice is not to believe in God or not. The choice is to believe the people telling me there's a God or not.
The question is what do you do woth Jesus. Any credible biblical scholar christian or nonchristian believe he existed. The actions of his disciples need to be acounted for in reference to his resurection. there are others if you would look, don't believe me look for your self. Try some of lee strobel's books, he was an atheist.
@@dwayneconaway1733 no, the question is that of Jesus' divinity.
Muslims say he was a human prophet, but not God.
Jews say he was human heretic, not a true prophet, and not God.
Since Jesus did not reveal himself directly to anyone except supposedly those who wrote about him decades later, then the question will never be answered.
It will remain as a matter of faith to Christians.
@@benjamintrevino325 I wholeheartedly dis agree but you are free to believe as you wish.
I think I know the organization you're talking about. Same scenario on my street. They bought a dozen houses and at they meet at both ends of the street. My one friend had to attend the one place for probation. They ended up dragging it out because he kept telling me they were forcing the Christian narrative down his throat while he is an atheist. His probation officer ended up getting him out of there after they threatened my friend by saying they were going to have the state withhold his driver's license.
The ONLY reason I have to question about a fictional character I don't care about so often is because of people going around near me, not only acting as if they're real, but forcing it onto me.
He wants to help others? He can't be a republican!
Thank you noble one🤠🥳🧐
Even as a child I never yelled into the void for the imagined to manifest itself I’m sure not going to start doing that as a grownup. If I was addicted to pornography whatever the hell means why would I substitute that with an addiction to an imaginary friend? These idiots just keep asserting and assuming the same 💩over and over again when it’s neither convincing nor compelling. Compost it the fruit is bad it was hanging to low.
"Why doesnt God show himself" you may ask... he already did
I don't believe that the drug-addicted lunatic in the gutter is actually God just because he shouts it around.
So you don’t know how to use an ellipsis or punctuation. Where is this god ? Which god is it ? I’m going to assume it’s the christian god, just because of the video you’re commenting on. Just one of the Abrahamic gods, popular in multiple religions. Nothing original about it.
It's like they automatically equate belief in a god to worshipping said god. If god exists then we'd have the "free will" to not worship it, but believing in it would be less based in "free will".
“Most people who are addicted to THAT just have guilt from Christian families” well they certainly don’t have guilt about exploiting women, which stats say 80% of that content does. It’s all so self serving
Another great video. You made me laugh with your "Jesus Christ! is exactly what I'm thinking right now." I also like your remark about terms and conditions. You're dead right. That guy is completely hopeless at this. I've seen vacuum cleaners with a better argument.
The coincidences god makes happen are a real problem with the argument of free will getting in the way.
This creationist reminds me of another apologist who accidentally disproved god. In that fellow's case it was a botched watchmaker argument, but it's always fun to see dishonest people shoot themselves in the foot by arguing so badly.
"Have you honestly ever asked God to show himself to you? Don't get mad at me it's just a question."
"Yes."
I mean it's literally the most obvious thing to do, given the teaching is always that if you just ask him or seek him he will show up. Sad how there's a really pervasive teaching in Christian circles of the straw atheist, that atheists (and all of them, as a unit) somehow don't want to A) Know if there's a hell and avoid it or B) have a big comforting loving all-powerful parent that can protect them from everything bad and will forgive whatever they think they did wrong.
When i went to rehab, they wouldn't let me leave because they felt i was faking the 1st 3 steps. Because i was. They wanted me to admit to a higher power, a god that would do what I couldn't. But i don't believe in fairy tales. I had to pull out nose hairs whenever i put my head down to generate tears in order to get out of there. I was so pissed. I came there to get sober and learn how to live without alcohol, not become a slave to a make-believe despot.
But.. being addicted to believing bullshit is way better on the liver and kidneys.
Theists are predators who are after (apparently) weak prey, which is why they all want to go to the clinics and schools etc.
@@mattwhite7287 No, it is not better to replace one bad behavior with another.
@@TheLevantin 😄 yea i was jokin
just swapping one addiction for another thats all they are doing.
"Before I found the lord, I was all messed up on drugs. But now that I found the lord, I'm all messed up on the Lord."
- Cheech Marin
As part of a Cheech and Chong skit.
gotta love the guy's condescending tone, and even talking about dishonesty 😂
WHY THE FUCK WOULD I DO THAT sent me
I was a fundamentalist Christian. Jesse "the truth is you're looking for truth right and if you've never done that then you're actually being dishonest to yourself" I did do that, and now I have reformed. I did check all the boxes and tried to answer the questions and found that theism can't answer them. It is irritating that there may be a lack of effort on someones part and not 'finding God". Where the opposite may be true.
Why is it the intelligence outside My own understanding can never reveal any actionable, Tangible information not presently known to humanity? Like the secret to quantum gravity? Or the solution to the p versus np problem?
Jesus Christ is exactly what I'm thinking right now ....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Like 15 seconds in…how the fuck am I going to question something that I don’t believe exists?
That dude really isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
"God, i don't really believe in you." The oxy made me laugh!
You're spot on with the addictions being substituted, just about every Jehovah's Witness I've been harangued by has had some 'fall and rise again' sob story where god saved them. All I hear is that they filled a mental gap
We've all seen this guy at Hardcore shows talking about how straightedge he is.
This is what killed the whole book for me:
"Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great.”
(Revelations😮😂 17)
I ask god to show himself whenever I watch Frozen 2. I’m still waiting btw
"I have your attention I wanna be careful with it.... I'm a Christian I wanna talk to you about god"
clicks off video
“I’m a swingy person…” same, London….same.
I’m in the process of destructing my faith and God still hasn’t revealed himself to me . I’ve got a lot of questions about the bs in my life
Keep questioning, I myself am essentially an apostate as I denounce my old beliefs. The most I believe in is that a higher power might exist but if I ever met it i wouldn't worship it
Trying to find that band but they arent showing up.
Nevermind, thought yi3u said happiest society
great stuff content creator. please keep em coming.
Dude mentions ask god to help you stop cussing. My response: Sir, I work in a kitchen. Cussing is how I breathe.
I've always found it interesting that it takes alot of prep to believe something but none to know something
I don't question God all the time, like I don't question the existence of unicorns all the time. It's just not a thing, since my (forced) first hour in Sunday school, more than 45 year ago.
When I listen to people like Speaks, I always feel that the main reason they make these appearances is directed at themselves. They try to convince themselves that what they want to be true is true by repetition. There's not one iota of substance in what this guy says.
The Christian belief that Atheists question or resent god is so funny because it assumed the atheist believes god is real.
In my humble opinion as an agnostic,
According to astrophysisits We only know about 4 % of what ls out there .
So it's polite to simply say, the data I've collected so far is that I see nature taking its cause, there doesn't seem to me that someone is in control out there, someone ask me, , who woke you up this morning ?,
I will say if someone woke me up, let him make me sleep right now for I never asked him to. The religious person will be so scared, but I don't care, for from deep within I don't believe at all, is not like am trying to offend anyone.
I would like to believe but my rational thinking can't let me, I can't compartmentalise , accept scientific facts yet embrace religion as many do. I can't, am not wired that way.
Few years ago I was working as a driver for a foreigner who was a stouch Christian, would drive him to a church sit in the pew, sometimes translate as he preached, and as he prayed yet I was simply working. Sometimes he would be in a bad mood haul insults at me for no apparent reason. He was 💯 human, his spirituality as with many people I've met, was pure act that could be conveniently be switched on and off.
I would wonder when a host pastor would seriously suggest that I should impart my gift of translating to his assistant who clearly wasn't good at it. In my silence and patience I would pass as a fine believer,
Religion benefits when a level headed person joins it and his good nature is thought to be as a result of his beliefs. Some brutal, selfish narcissistic guys makes religion seem bad because they bring their pride and baggage along...
Yes some people are good because they really believe and they don't want to offend their God by breaking his laws, I must acknowledge that.however it's unfortunate that humans like animals would be tamed by reward and punishment....
If you ask me if there is God I will answer I don't know, it's a more polite and accommodating response, when you tell a believer that there is no God you can't expect him not to be offended..
I would really like there to be God somewhere, and I would like him to be kind, one who is actions aren't miracles by day to day acts that should be so common that is away of life, no one begged to be created to suffer in this world anyway.....
I doubt anyone will read to the end of you did thank you..
I appreciate having immediate access to information and am thankful for my parents, who moved away from a cycle of religious adherence. With a multitude of religions available, each appears to lack logical foundation. Among them, the Abrahamic faiths are the ones I find most challenging to reconcile with logic.
Thanking god for all the positive coincidences in your life is like thanking a fire fighter for putting out a fire he deliberately started or thanking a police officer for not killing you after already shooting your dog. You can't thank god for helping you if he is the asshole who deliberately put you in that position. You can't thank god for healing you, when he deliberately gave a 10 year old uncurable cancer.
It doesn't matter how "open and honest" you are if you ask god to prove himself and you aren't convinced because the answer will usually be the same: you didn't try hard enough. Why should we have to try?