Did you hear of the monk who had spent much of his life helping the less fortunate, and was asked about going to heaven at the end of his life? He asked the inquisitor whether anyone ever suffers in heaven. He told the monk that everyone in heaven exists in a state of deep joy all of the time. The monk asked if there was suffering in hell. He was told that all those in hell underwent constant suffering. The monk then replied that he no longer wanted to go to heaven. When asked why, he said that he had always tried to help those that were suffering, so if hell is where people suffer, then that is where he needed to be to try and help them. He was obviously not needed in heaven. I might believe that christians did really care about helping others if they were to say the above. Strangely they all wanted to have their one way ticket to heaven.
Heh, I like that story. Whether true or not it's a valid question to a christian... Do you like to see people suffer? (probably no) Then if you go to heaven and you know that people were suffering eternally in hell, mostly for trivial sins, people you loved all your life, how could you possibly be happy in heaven? (this is why the religious leaders have been spinning this scenario as 'they chose to be in hell, they are where they chose to be')
@@avi8r66 - I think a lot of religious leaders and a smaller majority of plain old Abrahamic followers get a thrill from thinking of others being punished. That's one reason the US criminal justice system is so abusive and corrupt.
@@NotGoodAtNamingThings It's a sense of feeling superior to others as much as anything else. God likes us more than you and he is gonna whoop yer butt. It's a feeling of thinking that you are above them, and they are deserving of abuse, and you have the supreme authority behind you. It's a big part of why the abrahamic religions exist.
'I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate. George Carlin
That's why the movie Sunshine is so good. The sun is beautiful and there is something spiritual about it no doubt. Lots of civilizations have worshipped the sun. That's why my favourite Band is Empire Of The Sun, cool happy music.
Ray, THANK YOU! You have inspired me to get out and help people escape from religion. I have a moral duty to save people from wasting their lives with absurd beliefs.
I remember when Stephen Hawking passed away and the cheap sense of glee Christians demonstrated as they reveled in the fact that he was now in Hell. As with all these videos posing as a well meaning plea to the non believer, they are simply reinforcing a sense of superiority to other Christians. As always, preaching to the choir.- Rich
That’s the verse that made me instantly realize how fracked up their deity is. The fact that I and my descendants would be tortured for all eternity because of something I didn’t do and had zero control over.
@@darkscot1338 yes: when did Adam and Eve marry? and who would be the priest to do that ceremony ? god himself who just had kicked them from paradise since they were sinners ?
One question (among many others) that I would love Christians to answer is this: If God is so loving, why do you fear him and how are you able to love someone that you fear?
I was taught the Bible meant fear in the sense of respect - not being afraid of. Edit: just got to the part where he was talking about that - he was obviously taught different things than I was (I’m an atheist, now, btw). Now that I think about it, what I was taught was probably just a Sunday school teacher answering yet another of my irritating questions the best way she could think of at the time.
@@DocBree13 That's actually the common explanation. I was raised Christian and am an atheist now too, but I lost count of how many pastors and teachers said the word fear in reference to god really meant respect, not to be afraid of him. Still, it's just apologetics at the end of the day.
@@DocBree13 is it always thus with religion? Twisting words and changing meanings? Fear means fear, not respect. Respect means respect, not fear. Fear is fear. Respect is respect. By convoluting those words. Religion has lost my respect.
@@DocBree13 If you ever run into the fear vs respect debate again, you can use this bible verse against them. 1 Peter 2:17 "Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor." Contains both Fear and Respect in the same verse. So they really can't conflate Fear and Respect together.
God allowed my wife's first child to unlock three doors and get outside to the pool, and fall in...where she drowned...she was almost two years old...though I hadn't met my wife yet, it still sends shudders up my spine every day just knowing about it...we have both become atheists thankfully and are able to process emotions in a safe and healthy way, but I marvel at my wife's strength every day...we now have two boys...her 12 yr old and our 4 mo old and life is bearable
I've had many believers use the "I love you so I'm warning you about Hell" schtick. They often compare it to warning me that a train is coming down the tracks and about to hit me. Isn't it great that they're letting me know about it before it's too late? To which I respond: OK. But I can actually see train tracks. And see and hear an oncoming train to verify the warning is real and take appropriate action. I'll heed their warning about God and Hell if they can give me the same, concrete evidence as I would have for that train.
Your comment about fear of the dark going away when your belief did really hits home with me. It's something that I always mention when I talk about how my state of mind improved when my faith died.
I never understood the whole "fear of god" thing. I can't think of a single person I'd consider good whom I fear. If they're someone to be afraid of then, at some level, they're not a good person.
I assume Like with many old gawds, you hope and prey they leave fuck alone, you feared, if they see what you're doing and punish you for it - like Zeus did with Sisiphos or Poseidon with Ulysses. If you read the OT, gawd is not to be loved, but to be feared. And he had no love for anybody - he had his chosen people, but they were as screwed with him as anybody. The whole love spiel came later.
@@kellydalstok8900 That's my line when they claim it's not a religion but a relationship. "Yeah? An abusive one. You the beaten spouse with full on Stockholm!"
From a former Christian, Ray saying he'd give his favorite daughter "a coat of many colors" was a reference to the story of Joseph. My jaw dropped when he said that. Because he was his father's favorite, Joseph's brothers stole his coat, beat him, sold him into slavery, and delivered a destroyed bloody coat to their father to convince him Joseph died. Watch DreamWorks' Joseph: King of Dreams instead of reading it in the bible; it's almost as good as King of Egypt. Kind of a weird story to reference when talking about your own children though imo
Speaking of the coat of many colors, they always try to play it up that it's something fancy because of the how expensive dyes were. But if it's many colors it could also just be made of scraps and rags.
Another possible translation is that it was just longer than most robes or coats. Like priestly robes, which implied that Joseph had been given religious authority over his brothers.
"How loving are you if you don't warn people about that reality? (Of hell)" I'd argue still much more loving than if I knowingly created that reality and subjected untold billions of people to it myself.
There are very few people we won’t claim if they appear on anything international. You lived here for a month? They’re a Kiwi, did you know that? Comfort? I feel like he’s been away long enough that we don’t need to think of him as a Kiwi. We can let that one go, thanks.
My head is still spinning with the turns that Comfort does from love to fear to love to fear. I believe Comfort has one big fear: that people see his crap as the dung it is and stop following him.
Bovine dung in particular. If x'tns were not so selfish they would do good stuff because it is good; not to get a pass. I think ray would accept wives being bashed if their husbands used the same method as his imaginary god. If you don't love me - here is a knuckle sandwich - bitch! Yes, dear, I love you, please pass a cup for the tooth fairy and another to rinse away the blood again. That is three teeth this week.
Born and raised Floridian here. No, he hasn't. He's nothing like us. If you mean other foreign trash who happen to live in Florida and continue doing their shit and somehow get the monicker of "Florida man" then sure. And when I say foreign, I mean anywhere outside of Floridian borders not just outside of the US.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 if it will make you feel better, I will trade you an off-card Ken Ham complete with boomerang and dinosaur with saddle, he even has his Ark Park boat front, for your Ray Comfort.
"Perfect love casts out ALL fear."(1 John 4:17) It's about time evangelicals got it straight.Is it love,or is it fear(terror)? Anybody that obeys a person out of fear is being abused.
One of Ray's big go-tos is, "if you see someone's house burning, wouldn't you warn them?" All he is doing is knocking on people's doors and telling them there is a fire, without knowing if it is true or not first, because he read an old fairy tale claiming that all houses are on fire.
Yeah, no matter how many times you point out, if you're telling someone their house is on fire, there's evid4nce it's happening, Ray can't fathom why you won't believe him, despite the fact he's been given a tour and there's not even a whisp of smoke in the place.
Did I just hear Ray Comfort claim to be compassionate with non-believers... who he views as evil, dishonest, and dangerous? Compassion is *not* the word I would use, no matter how afraid of God and death he might be.
I’m so glad to finally hear someone use initialisms and acronyms correctly, most people use the word acronym for both and they’re not. It’s been one of my pet peeves since 5 grade when my teacher, Miss Barber, brought it to our attention. What amazes me now is the number of intelligent people who get it wrong. I’ll finish with love the show and I look forward to it every Saturday, keep the great content coming, thanks.
The only difference in their definitions is one is pronounced as a word, the other as individual letters. And many of the ones Tick referred to are used both ways, or seldom pronounced at all. The reason so many intelligent people don't bother with the distinction is that a) it's a pretty trivial distinction, and b) it doesn't necessarily apply anyway.
@@jursamaj Au contraire, it does matter and it does apply, it’s like you’re saying there’s an apple and an orange but I’m going to call them both apples because they’re both round. So calling acronyms and initialisms the same because they’re both a series of initials is crazy. I think the main reason people get it wrong is that they just don’t know the difference, I’ve discussed this difference with multitudes of people on RUclips who haven’t even heard the term Initialism. But if you want to use the terms interchangeably that’s all on you, have fun with that.
@@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. The problem here is that for most people, the distinction of 'pronounced as a word' vs. 'pronounced as individual letters' is a distinction they simple don't care about, and you want them to care. For them, they want to talk about apples, but you want them to be specific what variety of apple they mean. For their purposes, they simply don't care, nor do they need to. The "doesn't apply" part is easy to demonstrate: LOL. Is is a word or 3 letters. I've heard people pronounce it both ways. But more often, it isn't pronounced at all. It's only meant to be read, not said. For a word that isn't pronounced at all, 'pronounced as a word' vs. 'pronounced as individual letters' simply doesn't apply.
@@jursamaj The bottom line is, if it’s an initialism don’t call it an acronym, just like you wouldn’t call an orange an apple, I can’t make it any simpler.
@@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. The people you're talking about don't *care.* I can't make *that* any simpler. For them, all they care is it's 'fruit'. Since nobody provided them with such a word that covers both kinds of 'fruit', they picked one and went with it. Plus you're ignoring the fact that the distinction between the 2 simply doesn't apply to purely written text, not meant to be pronounced. In that instance, neither word truly applies. Again, with no relevant word, they re-used the nearest existing word. In both cases, this is how language evolves. Dictionaries are *descriptive,* no *prescriptive.*
I recently started watching atheist videos and I am already fed up with these christian nonsense, but it is always good to watch your videos as they make me laugh a few times.
I always thought the phrase love you to death meant that you would love a person all the way up till they died. Meaning you won't give up on them or stop loving them for any reason. But of course, Eric has to make it all about the Bible.
This video is disturbing. It's bringing back so many memories of being a Christian. When I was a Christian, I was continuously scared of messing up and getting sent to hell. I knew the right answers to those fears. I went to Christian high school and college, and memorized all the right answer to all those questions, but in the end the god I read about in the bible was the terrifying god these people are describing and I was constantly afraid to slip up and get sent to hell.
Did Ray literally use "If you don't have love enough to save a child from drowning" as an example of goodness WHILE believing his God drowned every child, toddler, infant, newborn and unborn child ON THE PLANET, and he considers him doing so not just a moral act but THE most moral act physically POSSIBLE at the time ? Does....he not think about what he says, at all ?
"What is sin?" Well Tick allow me: "Sins" are the social constructs of primitive, often insular religious society's taboos, irrational fears, phobias and hang ups so ancient and far removed as to be as ridiculous as they are irrelevant.
The funny thing is that whatever a particular gospel tells you is sin, you can be pretty sure that's what *that author* thinks is sin. It's all personal hangups.
If, as Ray claims, God will cause me to do what he wants without even telling me, then I should assume God wants me to not believe in him without evidence and not jam my beliefs down other people's throats like a nosy jerk. So then, I'm doing God wants me to do, so what's his problem?
The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km). Not sure where Ray got 50000 miles.
Ray sure lies a lot for someone that think lies are an abomination that will send you to hell. I am just talking about the times he was caught creatively editing his ambush videos.
@@TheDeath138 Exactly, besides, technically you could call it manipulation, so it's a different category of lying, one that the perfect god uses all the time so it's all good.
I have found how to speak with every theist. Just say to them: "Look, I hear what you're saying, and I respect your right in saying it. In other words, I really appreciate you giving me your 'opinion'!"
At ~ 7:50 Comfort mentions giving cancer treatment to those who need it. I have rarely known clergy to GIVE anything. Ambrose Bierce (Devil's Dictionary) says (not exact quotation) that a clergyman is a fellow who looks after our spiritual affairs as a means of bettering his temporal ones.
I love Eric Hovind and Ray Comfort to Death, in so far as they love anyone who doesn't believe their garbage to Death. The expression, taken in isolation, has been misused and abused for millennia. It is such a terrible use of language.
That's not a misuse of language. You just made the wrong assumption about which language they're using. You think Ray and Eric are speaking in English? That's _Theistspeak._ "God loves you" in Theistspeak means "God considers you so far beneath Himself that he doesn't even consider you at all and he'll only grudgingly exempt you from eternal torture if you beg and cower sufficiently hard enough for him to overlook the fact that you're a disgusting wretched worm" It's why people say "There's no Hate like Christian Love." _Christian Love_ isn't a type of love, it's a marker of which language the word is from so you can translate back into English: hate.
In New Zealand, people ask North Americans if they're Canadian, because Americans don't mind being taken for Canadian while the opposite is not so. They are sensitive to this because of constantly being taken for Australians.
I'm no body language expert, but did you notice how Ray gave a slight pause each time he mentioned pornography? Perhaps 'fixing the chicken coop' is a euphemism.
It amazes me how small Comfort wants the community of believers to be. It’s not enough for you to believe, nor for you to be a member of a church. It’s not enough for you to be a member of his own church. It’s a matter of you believing within his church community exactly as he believes. And even with that, you might still be condemned to hell. Hard pass.
But that is basically a confession that all his grandstanding as wandering "conversion" preacher is just about money for his various useless courses or pamphlets and not really to save even one soul.
Poor dear Ray. He''ll join us all in infinite nothingness. Meantime, he doesnt' fool anyone...well, except himself and those few who buy into his co job. May it give him comfort (pun intended) while he lives. That's all the comfort it'll ever give him.
@@ladyselenafelicitywhite1596 Yahweh was just one of *hundreds* of fictional gods from ancient Canaan that got conflated with the fictional Canaanite gods El and Baal. Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards. Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on. Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40. Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"* (By a former theist) Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.
True heroes require neither honor nor praise... Nor do they seek it... Their only wish is to grant a Glimmer of Light During troubled times to those that find Themselves lost in the Dark...
Imagine if these two gentlemen spent half as much time trying to... I dunno, find out if hell is actually friggin real, before they went about, trying to "save people" from it. They're like those people that watch a documentary, and uncritically believe it and then go out campaigning for whatever the documentary wanted them to. The documentary crew isn't interested in whether they left counter evidence on the cutting room floor, and Ray and Eric aren't interested in whether their book was written by uneducated men who weren't even aware that germs were a thing.
There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no souls sorry not sorry. And even if there was a heaven I would think of that place as being very boring. I do not want to spend all of eternity in a golden Borg Cube. With my lips press permanently up against the invisible sky wizard's colon.
I mean, being an American, there are a lot of Canadian RUclipsrs that I had no idea weren’t American until they mentioned it. Some are easier to tell than others.
Damn. If I didn't already think that God was the bad guy of the story, Ray certainly would have convinced me of that! He definitely doesn't get to use the "your just angry at God" line after that speech. If you believe what he just said and you're NOT angry at God there's something very wrong with you.
I always thought Ray Comfort was Australian ( as am I ) to learn that he is actually a Kiwi fills me with joy and a great sense of relief . Phew! It's their fault not ours . How do you explain that Kiwis ? What have you got to say for yourselves . ( hehehe )
@@TheSkepTick Or the anonymous, educated Greek speaking and writing authors (not illiterate Aramaic speakers like the disciples would've been) writing decades after his death in omniscient 3rd person style, were putting words into his mouth. 😉 Some good articles: *"Majority of Scholars agree: The Gospels were not written by Eyewitnesses - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* *"How Did The Gospel Writers Know? - The Doston Jones Blog"* *"Yes, the Four Gospels Were Originally Anonymous: Part 1 - The Doston Jones Blog"* *"Are Stories in the Bible Influenced by Popular Greco-Roman Literature? - The Doston Jones Blog"* *"Gospels Not Written By Matthew, Mark, Luke or John - The Church Of Truth"*
As many people have said before, if believers think the only thing stopping them being evil, say raping and killing, then it's them that have a problem. I don't find myself wanting to hurt people despite the lack of theistic guidance.
Always funny when they bring up the „If your eye causes you to sin rip it out“ line, because with all the scandals of sexual assault in the church i don‘t see a lot of blind priests… 🤔
The things written in the Bible are exactly that what was important for the people who wrote it ( betw. 300 and 1000 AC) or translated it and what they thought would sound good for a religion leader. Noone of the NT writers ever met that person called Jesus.
So as the person with cancer needs empirical evidence to believe that he has cancer, then I need empirical evidence that a god exists to believe that a god exists.
They offered some thoughts on what they would do if they were the devil, which sounded like a fun hypothetical, so here's mine. If I were the devil, what I would do is start a religion that proclaimed me to be the good guy, and spread it to as many people as possible. A religion that would support slavery, subjugate women and minorities, punish minor "sins" brutally, demand evil, oppose knowledge and education, teach that love between two men is evil and must be destroyed, was rife with contradictions to create schisms and internecine violence... Actually, I'd start several such religions, so that they could have holy wars and crusades against each other. You might be able to spot the followers of such religions by them being so fucked up that they can't decide whether they love or fear their god, can't distinguish between kindness and hatred, attack people for the heinous sin of loving, and do so all with the assurance that they're due a divine reward for all the harm they're causing.
Christians like this don't "love" people, they only say they do, because they are told loving random strangers they know nothing about makes them super virtuous. It's not actually a demonstration of their affinity for someone, it's just performative gesturing to prove to oneself how good and moral one is and stroking one's ego.
I would say that "I love you to death" implies "I will love you until I die" (or perhaps "until you die") not that my love for you is fatal. It's about the length of time as a measure of intensity and commitment. Or am I missing something here?
Whatever it means I don’t think it means that you’re willing to lay down your life for your fellow man as Ray seems to suggest. In fact the whole phrase is a bit creepy and I can see an extremely possessive person saying it to someone they supposedly love but implying that the object of their love would die if they ever split up.
It's humanity that is rotten and evil to the core. We rebelled against God, therefore death is the punishment of our error. It would be unloving for God not to condemn sin, just like how a judge sentences a criminal to prison.
Anyone who can read the christian genocide manual, aka the bible, and not recoil in horror and revulsion at the gratuitously cruel atrocities committed or commanded by the brutal, barbaric, bloodthirsty deity therein, has suspended all pity, empathy and compassion.
@@margaretbarrett6087 The "brutal, barbaric, bloodthirsty deity", is Satan. God on the other hand, wants to SAVE people, but it's their choice. People choose to end up in Hell by not repenting. Just like a judge who sentences a criminal to prison, God will do the same on the day of judgement. Your soul will either be promoted into Glory, or be condemned into torment.
So is the bible lying then when it describes your god commanding the copious savage slaughter of infants, suckling and little children; is the bible lying when it describes your god murdering almost all life by drowning, in a hissy fit because he made such an almighty mess of creation; and are you seriously comparing a finite prison sentence with an eternal torture chamber! And I have repented - since I read the bible for myself, instead of being ‘taught’ the palatable parts, I have repented of the decades I wasted worshipping the foul (though fortunately fictional) deity therein, and I am now saved from the shackles of crazy and abhorrent christian doctrine.
@@CiggieButt1995 There is no Satan, champ. It's Hebrew mythology. Keep scrolling down. *The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. Google *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Biblical Contradiction #2: Did God create the heavens and earth from the formless deep OR did Yahweh create them from the slaying of the primaeval sea monster Leviathan /Rahab?"* - Dr Steven DiMattei *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Are The Ten Commandments Based On The Forty-Two Principles Of Maat That Appeared 2,000 Years Earlier? - Ancient Pages"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"No, Humans Are Probably Not All Descended From A Single Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago"* *"Adam & Eve: Theologians Try to Reconcile Science and Fail - The New Republic"* *"Adam and Eve: the ultimate standoff between science and faith (and a contest!) - Why Evolution Is True"* *"Bogus accommodationism: The return of Adam and Eve as real people, as proposed by a wonky quasi-scientific theory - Why Evolution Is True"* *"How many scientists question evolution? - **sciencemeetsreligion.org**"* *"What is the evidence for evolution? - Common-questions - BioLogos"* (A Christian organisation) *"Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design' - Science"* *"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"* *"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies) *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
Gotta love the hypocrisy… for example: my mother and father did allll the things, and my father is still very, very religious. My mum died, and everyone has a lot to say about what donations my father should make, where and how he should bury her, all this stuff… but when he says “she didn’t have life insurance, I can’t do any of that,” no sympathy. No one saying they’re gonna share his GoFund, nothing. Once they found out he didn’t have a payout he could donate to the church, radio silence. Pretty interesting lol
Love how he quotes jesus when he talks about love, but isn't quoting Luke 14:26. But of course, that part should not be taken literally, lol. Cherry picking what parts to take literally, and what parts not to.
And he ignores the passages where Jesus urges his followers to give all they possess to the poor. It seems that to multimillionaire preachers, the words of Jesus are only to be taken literally if they do not cause personal inconvenience.
@@margaretbarrett6087 With the exception of his condoning the hate for homosexuals, which only becomes inconvinient for the preachers, if they are caught.
Everything they can "sin" I call lived experience... I has all made me more loving, caring, compassionate, understanding and empathic... I genuinely love people and would gladly take a bullet for a stranger... Jesus my have died for your sins... But I would die for you... without judgment...
All I make of this spiel so far is god will really really hurt you lots and lots if you don't really really love it lots and lots, because it really really loves you lots and lots..
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Did you hear of the monk who had spent much of his life helping the less fortunate, and was asked about going to heaven at the end of his life? He asked the inquisitor whether anyone ever suffers in heaven. He told the monk that everyone in heaven exists in a state of deep joy all of the time. The monk asked if there was suffering in hell. He was told that all those in hell underwent constant suffering. The monk then replied that he no longer wanted to go to heaven. When asked why, he said that he had always tried to help those that were suffering, so if hell is where people suffer, then that is where he needed to be to try and help them. He was obviously not needed in heaven.
I might believe that christians did really care about helping others if they were to say the above. Strangely they all wanted to have their one way ticket to heaven.
Heh, I like that story. Whether true or not it's a valid question to a christian... Do you like to see people suffer? (probably no) Then if you go to heaven and you know that people were suffering eternally in hell, mostly for trivial sins, people you loved all your life, how could you possibly be happy in heaven? (this is why the religious leaders have been spinning this scenario as 'they chose to be in hell, they are where they chose to be')
That’s such a good point!
@@avi8r66 - I think a lot of religious leaders and a smaller majority of plain old Abrahamic followers get a thrill from thinking of others being punished. That's one reason the US criminal justice system is so abusive and corrupt.
@@NotGoodAtNamingThings It's a sense of feeling superior to others as much as anything else. God likes us more than you and he is gonna whoop yer butt. It's a feeling of thinking that you are above them, and they are deserving of abuse, and you have the supreme authority behind you. It's a big part of why the abrahamic religions exist.
@@avi8r66 - Agreed
'I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to 'God' are all answered at about the same 50% rate.
George Carlin
That's why the movie Sunshine is so good. The sun is beautiful and there is something spiritual about it no doubt. Lots of civilizations have worshipped the sun. That's why my favourite Band is Empire Of The Sun, cool happy music.
My brain read this in his exact voice and cadence
Don't forget about praying to Joe Pesci. Carlin got a lot of things right. Shame all of it is utterly wasted on brainless sadists like Comfort.
He actually said he doesn't pray to the sun, he doesn't want to presume on their relationship.
Joe Peshi I think is who he said he prayed to.
God bless his soul, he was great man 😂😇😊 Georg Carlin was 💯 right. 😁
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. -- Mark Twain
Ray, THANK YOU! You have inspired me to get out and help people escape from religion. I have a moral duty to save people from wasting their lives with absurd beliefs.
I remember when Stephen Hawking passed away and the cheap sense of glee Christians demonstrated as they reveled in the fact that he was now in Hell. As with all these videos posing as a well meaning plea to the non believer, they are simply reinforcing a sense of superiority to other Christians. As always, preaching to the choir.- Rich
they did that to Hitchens as well.
“Look at them! Suffering for eternity! That’s my God!”
@@DeconvertedMan -Yup
There's no love like Christian hate...
Lot of killing in that "good book" of Christian morals and values!
Their book told me I and 10 generations of my descendents are doomed to hell from the get go because I was born out of wedlock. Very loving
Some translations say none of their linage would be saved... so that would be everyone?
That’s the verse that made me instantly realize how fracked up their deity is. The fact that I and my descendants would be tortured for all eternity because of something I didn’t do and had zero control over.
@@darkscot1338 Adam and Eve weren't married, so we are all f***d
@@darkscot1338 yes: when did Adam and Eve marry? and who would be the priest to do that ceremony ? god himself who just had kicked them from paradise since they were sinners ?
One question (among many others) that I would love Christians to answer is this: If God is so loving, why do you fear him and how are you able to love someone that you fear?
I was taught the Bible meant fear in the sense of respect - not being afraid of.
Edit: just got to the part where he was talking about that - he was obviously taught different things than I was (I’m an atheist, now, btw). Now that I think about it, what I was taught was probably just a Sunday school teacher answering yet another of my irritating questions the best way she could think of at the time.
@@DocBree13 That's actually the common explanation. I was raised Christian and am an atheist now too, but I lost count of how many pastors and teachers said the word fear in reference to god really meant respect, not to be afraid of him. Still, it's just apologetics at the end of the day.
@@DocBree13 : actual fear or respect, when you bring the concept of hell into the mix, I think genuine fear inevitably becomes a part of the equation.
@@DocBree13 is it always thus with religion?
Twisting words and changing meanings?
Fear means fear, not respect.
Respect means respect, not fear.
Fear is fear.
Respect is respect.
By convoluting those words.
Religion has lost my respect.
@@DocBree13 If you ever run into the fear vs respect debate again, you can use this bible verse against them.
1 Peter 2:17 "Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor."
Contains both Fear and Respect in the same verse. So they really can't conflate Fear and Respect together.
God allowed my wife's first child to unlock three doors and get outside to the pool, and fall in...where she drowned...she was almost two years old...though I hadn't met my wife yet, it still sends shudders up my spine every day just knowing about it...we have both become atheists thankfully and are able to process emotions in a safe and healthy way, but I marvel at my wife's strength every day...we now have two boys...her 12 yr old and our 4 mo old and life is bearable
Yep! I also lost a child.
Sorry!
I've had many believers use the "I love you so I'm warning you about Hell" schtick. They often compare it to warning me that a train is coming down the tracks and about to hit me. Isn't it great that they're letting me know about it before it's too late? To which I respond: OK. But I can actually see train tracks. And see and hear an oncoming train to verify the warning is real and take appropriate action. I'll heed their warning about God and Hell if they can give me the same, concrete evidence as I would have for that train.
Also, no one is trying to convince me that the train loves me.
@@Wehwehweh -- good point.
Last shit bit that gave me the I love you line wasn't honest enough to disclse what sect he belonged to.
@@Wehwehweh I see you never heard of the love train ...
@@bladerunner3314 that sounds like slang for a lot of weed consumption, so count me in lol
Your comment about fear of the dark going away when your belief did really hits home with me. It's something that I always mention when I talk about how my state of mind improved when my faith died.
It’s massively eye opening when you think about it
I am going through the same thing. It is so relieving to hear that I am not the only one.
Same ❤ SO many kinds of fear simply evaporated.
my fear of the dark also disappeared when my belief did!
I never understood the whole "fear of god" thing. I can't think of a single person I'd consider good whom I fear. If they're someone to be afraid of then, at some level, they're not a good person.
I assume
Like with many old gawds, you hope and prey they leave fuck alone, you feared, if they see what you're doing and punish you for it - like Zeus did with Sisiphos or Poseidon with Ulysses.
If you read the OT, gawd is not to be loved, but to be feared. And he had no love for anybody - he had his chosen people, but they were as screwed with him as anybody. The whole love spiel came later.
@@bladerunner3314 yeah, god tried to rebrand himself in the NY. Or at least his groupies did.
Like abused spouses
@@kellydalstok8900 That's my line when they claim it's not a religion but a relationship.
"Yeah? An abusive one. You the beaten spouse with full on Stockholm!"
"Without god what is sin, if not nearly an option." that's amazing and I'm using that later
Sin is just the length of the line opposite the angle, divided by the hypotenuse.
From a former Christian, Ray saying he'd give his favorite daughter "a coat of many colors" was a reference to the story of Joseph. My jaw dropped when he said that.
Because he was his father's favorite, Joseph's brothers stole his coat, beat him, sold him into slavery, and delivered a destroyed bloody coat to their father to convince him Joseph died.
Watch DreamWorks' Joseph: King of Dreams instead of reading it in the bible; it's almost as good as King of Egypt.
Kind of a weird story to reference when talking about your own children though imo
Pretty much everything Ray says is very weird. He just keeps yammering until people agree with him to shut him up.
@@avi8r66 Even his voice grates my ears. He's so very annoying. If I saw him in the street I'd turn around and walk away very fast. lol
@@cherylw1958 I'd pull out my phone and start videoing... Excuse me Ray, you like to ambush people with questions, mind answering some of mine?
It’s because they don’t know the book that supposedly means everything to them all that well.
Perhaps he was thinking about the Dolly Parton song…
Thanks for doing a video on Ray Comfort. Reminded me that I had to get some bananas from the supermarket.
Speaking of the coat of many colors, they always try to play it up that it's something fancy because of the how expensive dyes were. But if it's many colors it could also just be made of scraps and rags.
Another possible translation is that it was just longer than most robes or coats. Like priestly robes, which implied that Joseph had been given religious authority over his brothers.
@@Magekind I always assumed it showed he'd been designated the heir, as older son of the favorite wife.
@@robertmiller9735 Some kind of show of favoritism, to be sure.
@@Magekind Yeah.
it could have been woven with multicolored stripes, patches of color or some sort of design or pattern. 💁🏻♀️
Imagine spending eternity with Ray Comfort or Eric Hovind. Yikes! 😨😰😫🤢🤮
If there is a heaven and a hell and they are in one of them I will want to be in the other place!!
@@vestafreyja likewise 🙋🏼♀️
is my exmother in law is there... its not the good place...
Hard pass.
To quote zefrank: "Don't kink shame."
Thanks! Ray Comfort gives me the creeps.
"How loving are you if you don't warn people about that reality? (Of hell)"
I'd argue still much more loving than if I knowingly created that reality and subjected untold billions of people to it myself.
I’ve been subscribed since you were just a little circle 🥺
The circumference grows so fast
Glad that you’re still here!
It's all those pi's he eaten
Comfort is from New Zealand, but the Kiwi's are (rightly!) a bit embarrassed about him.
Those poor birds don't deserve the mental stress. Neither do Taz & the rest of his friends.😂
Same with Australians when it comes to Ken Ham.
There are very few people we won’t claim if they appear on anything international. You lived here for a month? They’re a Kiwi, did you know that?
Comfort? I feel like he’s been away long enough that we don’t need to think of him as a Kiwi. We can let that one go, thanks.
Thanks!
My head is still spinning with the turns that Comfort does from love to fear to love to fear. I believe Comfort has one big fear: that people see his crap as the dung it is and stop following him.
Bovine dung in particular. If x'tns were not so selfish they would do good stuff because it is good; not to get a pass.
I think ray would accept wives being bashed if their husbands used the same method as his imaginary god.
If you don't love me - here is a knuckle sandwich - bitch!
Yes, dear, I love you, please pass a cup for the tooth fairy and another to rinse away the blood again. That is three teeth this week.
He may be from New Zealand, but he’s fully embraced the life-style of the Florida Man.
Born and raised Floridian here. No, he hasn't. He's nothing like us. If you mean other foreign trash who happen to live in Florida and continue doing their shit and somehow get the monicker of "Florida man" then sure.
And when I say foreign, I mean anywhere outside of Floridian borders not just outside of the US.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 if it will make you feel better, I will trade you an off-card Ken Ham complete with boomerang and dinosaur with saddle, he even has his Ark Park boat front, for your Ray Comfort.
He's living the American dream.
Edit: Florida is a good place to evade settlements.
"Perfect love casts out ALL fear."(1 John 4:17) It's about time evangelicals got it straight.Is it love,or is it fear(terror)? Anybody that obeys a person out of fear is being abused.
Isn’t their behaviour exactly like that of an abused spouse?
@@kellydalstok8900 Yeah,ain't it so. But sad,also.😔
One of Ray's big go-tos is, "if you see someone's house burning, wouldn't you warn them?" All he is doing is knocking on people's doors and telling them there is a fire, without knowing if it is true or not first, because he read an old fairy tale claiming that all houses are on fire.
Yeah, no matter how many times you point out, if you're telling someone their house is on fire, there's evid4nce it's happening, Ray can't fathom why you won't believe him, despite the fact he's been given a tour and there's not even a whisp of smoke in the place.
Thanks for discovering dimwits I hadn't heard of before
Did I just hear Ray Comfort claim to be compassionate with non-believers... who he views as evil, dishonest, and dangerous?
Compassion is *not* the word I would use, no matter how afraid of God and death he might be.
I’m so glad to finally hear someone use initialisms and acronyms correctly, most people use the word acronym for both and they’re not. It’s been one of my pet peeves since 5 grade when my teacher, Miss Barber, brought it to our attention. What amazes me now is the number of intelligent people who get it wrong.
I’ll finish with love the show and I look forward to it every Saturday, keep the great content coming, thanks.
The only difference in their definitions is one is pronounced as a word, the other as individual letters. And many of the ones Tick referred to are used both ways, or seldom pronounced at all. The reason so many intelligent people don't bother with the distinction is that a) it's a pretty trivial distinction, and b) it doesn't necessarily apply anyway.
@@jursamaj Au contraire, it does matter and it does apply, it’s like you’re saying there’s an apple and an orange but I’m going to call them both apples because they’re both round. So calling acronyms and initialisms the same because they’re both a series of initials is crazy. I think the main reason people get it wrong is that they just don’t know the difference, I’ve discussed this difference with multitudes of people on RUclips who haven’t even heard the term Initialism. But if you want to use the terms interchangeably that’s all on you, have fun with that.
@@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. The problem here is that for most people, the distinction of 'pronounced as a word' vs. 'pronounced as individual letters' is a distinction they simple don't care about, and you want them to care. For them, they want to talk about apples, but you want them to be specific what variety of apple they mean. For their purposes, they simply don't care, nor do they need to.
The "doesn't apply" part is easy to demonstrate: LOL. Is is a word or 3 letters. I've heard people pronounce it both ways. But more often, it isn't pronounced at all. It's only meant to be read, not said. For a word that isn't pronounced at all, 'pronounced as a word' vs. 'pronounced as individual letters' simply doesn't apply.
@@jursamaj The bottom line is, if it’s an initialism don’t call it an acronym, just like you wouldn’t call an orange an apple, I can’t make it any simpler.
@@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. The people you're talking about don't *care.* I can't make *that* any simpler. For them, all they care is it's 'fruit'. Since nobody provided them with such a word that covers both kinds of 'fruit', they picked one and went with it.
Plus you're ignoring the fact that the distinction between the 2 simply doesn't apply to purely written text, not meant to be pronounced. In that instance, neither word truly applies. Again, with no relevant word, they re-used the nearest existing word.
In both cases, this is how language evolves. Dictionaries are *descriptive,* no *prescriptive.*
I recently started watching atheist videos and I am already fed up with these christian nonsense, but it is always good to watch your videos as they make me laugh a few times.
I always thought the phrase love you to death meant that you would love a person all the way up till they died. Meaning you won't give up on them or stop loving them for any reason. But of course, Eric has to make it all about the Bible.
I guess it’s open to interpretation. 😅
@@TheSkepTick yes, but my interpretation is the right one. 🤪
Been watching alot of your videos since I just found you, nice being able to watch the videos now as they come out... Love everything you do!
Appreciate that, Shadow!
...to death?
Leaf be upon you!!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!
That is honestly all I hear when I hear when Ray talks about what do you have to do for this loving god.
This video is disturbing. It's bringing back so many memories of being a Christian. When I was a Christian, I was continuously scared of messing up and getting sent to hell. I knew the right answers to those fears. I went to Christian high school and college, and memorized all the right answer to all those questions, but in the end the god I read about in the bible was the terrifying god these people are describing and I was constantly afraid to slip up and get sent to hell.
I've run into a burning house to make sure nobody was in it. I was tripping. That was crazy, I didn't know them people!!
Did Ray literally use "If you don't have love enough to save a child from drowning" as an example of goodness WHILE believing his God drowned every child, toddler, infant, newborn and unborn child ON THE PLANET, and he considers him doing so not just a moral act but THE most moral act physically POSSIBLE at the time ?
Does....he not think about what he says, at all ?
No he doesn't think, he is a theist after all, they don't think, they just follow their immoral book.
"What is sin?" Well Tick allow me: "Sins" are the social constructs of primitive, often insular religious society's taboos, irrational fears, phobias and hang ups so ancient and far removed as to be as ridiculous as they are irrelevant.
The funny thing is that whatever a particular gospel tells you is sin, you can be pretty sure that's what *that author* thinks is sin. It's all personal hangups.
Sin is just the length of the line opposite the angle, divided by the hypotenuse.
@@margaretbarrett6087 It's a ratio that can be calculated that way, eckshuallee, m'kay :p
If, as Ray claims, God will cause me to do what he wants without even telling me, then I should assume God wants me to not believe in him without evidence and not jam my beliefs down other people's throats like a nosy jerk. So then, I'm doing God wants me to do, so what's his problem?
The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km). Not sure where Ray got 50000 miles.
Love your channel!
Ray sure lies a lot for someone that think lies are an abomination that will send you to hell. I am just talking about the times he was caught creatively editing his ambush videos.
Apparently lying for god doesn't fall under the umbrella of actually lying. Lies are fine if they're in the interest of converting heathens.
@@TheDeath138 Exactly, besides, technically you could call it manipulation, so it's a different category of lying, one that the perfect god uses all the time so it's all good.
I have found how to speak with every theist. Just say to them: "Look, I hear what you're saying, and I respect your right in saying it. In other words, I really appreciate you giving me your 'opinion'!"
What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me, no more.
What is love?
A chemical reaction inside a person's brain! 😉
At ~ 7:50 Comfort mentions giving cancer treatment to those who need it. I have rarely known clergy to GIVE anything. Ambrose Bierce (Devil's Dictionary) says (not exact quotation) that a clergyman is a fellow who looks after our spiritual affairs as a means of bettering his temporal ones.
I love Eric Hovind and Ray Comfort to Death, in so far as they love anyone who doesn't believe their garbage to Death. The expression, taken in isolation, has been misused and abused for millennia. It is such a terrible use of language.
That's not a misuse of language. You just made the wrong assumption about which language they're using. You think Ray and Eric are speaking in English? That's _Theistspeak._ "God loves you" in Theistspeak means "God considers you so far beneath Himself that he doesn't even consider you at all and he'll only grudgingly exempt you from eternal torture if you beg and cower sufficiently hard enough for him to overlook the fact that you're a disgusting wretched worm"
It's why people say "There's no Hate like Christian Love." _Christian Love_ isn't a type of love, it's a marker of which language the word is from so you can translate back into English: hate.
@@EdwardHowton Absolute perfection. Cheers.
In New Zealand, people ask North Americans if they're Canadian, because Americans don't mind being taken for Canadian while the opposite is not so. They are sensitive to this because of constantly being taken for Australians.
I'm no body language expert, but did you notice how Ray gave a slight pause each time he mentioned pornography? Perhaps 'fixing the chicken coop' is a euphemism.
Ohhh. Like ‘choking a chicken’?
Perhaps
It amazes me how small Comfort wants the community of believers to be. It’s not enough for you to believe, nor for you to be a member of a church. It’s not enough for you to be a member of his own church. It’s a matter of you believing within his church community exactly as he believes. And even with that, you might still be condemned to hell. Hard pass.
After all, the Bible was rather clear on that subject, "Many are called, few are chosen", and all that.
But that is basically a confession that all his grandstanding as wandering "conversion" preacher is just about money for his various useless courses or pamphlets and not really to save even one soul.
TBF, I’m a New Zealander and thought Ray was an Aussie 😂
Hell has all the great tunes and most interesting people. I'm looking forward to it.
Poor dear Ray. He''ll join us all in infinite nothingness. Meantime, he doesnt' fool anyone...well, except himself and those few who buy into his co job. May it give him comfort (pun intended) while he lives. That's all the comfort it'll ever give him.
If Hell is real then Yahweh is a sadistic monster.
He's a sadistic monster regardless.
@@missk1697 indeed 🙇🏼♀️
@@ladyselenafelicitywhite1596 Yahweh was just one of *hundreds* of fictional gods from ancient Canaan that got conflated with the fictional Canaanite gods El and Baal.
Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards.
Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on.
Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40.
Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"*
(By a former theist)
Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.
True heroes require neither honor nor praise...
Nor do they seek it...
Their only wish is to grant
a Glimmer of Light
During troubled times
to those that find
Themselves lost in the Dark...
Great video, mate. Love your content style. Nice one!
So does the book of lisa the rainbow giraffe have a release date?
Imagine if these two gentlemen spent half as much time trying to... I dunno, find out if hell is actually friggin real, before they went about, trying to "save people" from it.
They're like those people that watch a documentary, and uncritically believe it and then go out campaigning for whatever the documentary wanted them to. The documentary crew isn't interested in whether they left counter evidence on the cutting room floor, and Ray and Eric aren't interested in whether their book was written by uneducated men who weren't even aware that germs were a thing.
Can it really be love if it’s motivated by fear? Sounds like a toxic abusive relationship to me.
Thank you Ray... you've helped become the atheist I am today...
There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no souls sorry not sorry. And even if there was a heaven I would think of that place as being very boring. I do not want to spend all of eternity in a golden Borg Cube. With my lips press permanently up against the invisible sky wizard's colon.
*There is no evidence for supernatural claims, and any eventual paradise sooner or later becomes nightmare.
Here, a way to sum it up in one sentence.
@@missk1697 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
I have two souls
;)
@@moonshoes11 are they in your shoes?
@@coreywalker7928
As a matter of fact…they are. :)
Gosh, I love TheSkepTick and his thick Scottish accent.
Pahahahaha.
I mean, being an American, there are a lot of Canadian RUclipsrs that I had no idea weren’t American until they mentioned it. Some are easier to tell than others.
Damn. If I didn't already think that God was the bad guy of the story, Ray certainly would have convinced me of that! He definitely doesn't get to use the "your just angry at God" line after that speech. If you believe what he just said and you're NOT angry at God there's something very wrong with you.
Sounds rather like a immoral monster at best to me, with a side of pointless sadistic acts randomly
I always thought Ray Comfort was Australian ( as am I ) to learn that he is actually a Kiwi fills me with joy and a great sense of relief . Phew! It's their fault not ours . How do you explain that Kiwis ? What have you got to say for yourselves . ( hehehe )
I imagine that they will say: ‘What about Ken Hamm then, eh?’
@@lidbass You beat me to it...
Jesus also said you can't follow him unless you hate your family and even yourself. True love that is.
Jesus sounds like he was making a lot of this stuff up as he went along
@@TheSkepTick Or the anonymous, educated Greek speaking and writing authors (not illiterate Aramaic speakers like the disciples would've been) writing decades after his death in omniscient 3rd person style, were putting words into his mouth. 😉
Some good articles:
*"Majority of Scholars agree: The Gospels were not written by Eyewitnesses - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"*
*"How Did The Gospel Writers Know? - The Doston Jones Blog"*
*"Yes, the Four Gospels Were Originally Anonymous: Part 1 - The Doston Jones Blog"*
*"Are Stories in the Bible Influenced by Popular Greco-Roman Literature? - The Doston Jones Blog"*
*"Gospels Not Written By Matthew, Mark, Luke or John - The Church Of Truth"*
Hilarious video keep up the amazing work 👏.
As many people have said before, if believers think the only thing stopping them being evil, say raping and killing, then it's them that have a problem. I don't find myself wanting to hurt people despite the lack of theistic guidance.
Always funny when they bring up the „If your eye causes you to sin rip it out“ line, because with all the scandals of sexual assault in the church i don‘t see a lot of blind priests… 🤔
I wasn't thinking of eyeballs I was thinking of other things lower down, is it just me? 😬😯
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
The things written in the Bible are exactly that what was important for the people who wrote it ( betw. 300 and 1000 AC) or translated it and what they thought would sound good for a religion leader. Noone of the NT writers ever met that person called Jesus.
So as the person with cancer needs empirical evidence to believe that he has cancer, then I need empirical evidence that a god exists to believe that a god exists.
2:39 To be fair, it’s about being willing to put your own life on the line for someone. Like running into a burning house to save someone for example.
It's ok. We gifted Ray to Australia years ago. As a symbol of our great friendship. He's essentially Australian now 😁
You don't get away with it that easily....
Sin? Not only yes, but hell yes!
They offered some thoughts on what they would do if they were the devil, which sounded like a fun hypothetical, so here's mine.
If I were the devil, what I would do is start a religion that proclaimed me to be the good guy, and spread it to as many people as possible.
A religion that would support slavery, subjugate women and minorities, punish minor "sins" brutally, demand evil, oppose knowledge and education, teach that love between two men is evil and must be destroyed, was rife with contradictions to create schisms and internecine violence...
Actually, I'd start several such religions, so that they could have holy wars and crusades against each other.
You might be able to spot the followers of such religions by them being so fucked up that they can't decide whether they love or fear their god, can't distinguish between kindness and hatred, attack people for the heinous sin of loving, and do so all with the assurance that they're due a divine reward for all the harm they're causing.
I have come face to face with "The Prince of Darkness ". Ozzfest, originally lineup! Belting! 🤟
Is there a song about One Sin?
Haha. If not, there should be.
One Sin, keep it in?
One Sout, don’t shout?
Oh nice! It's Paulogia's friend Eric!
14:20 "Sin becomes exceedingly sinful" Well, that makes sense!
Christians like this don't "love" people, they only say they do, because they are told loving random strangers they know nothing about makes them super virtuous. It's not actually a demonstration of their affinity for someone, it's just performative gesturing to prove to oneself how good and moral one is and stroking one's ego.
Having David's kid suffer for several days and die to punish David doesn't seem morally perfect
I would say that "I love you to death" implies "I will love you until I die" (or perhaps "until you die") not that my love for you is fatal. It's about the length of time as a measure of intensity and commitment. Or am I missing something here?
💯
Whatever it means I don’t think it means that you’re willing to lay down your life for your fellow man as Ray seems to suggest.
In fact the whole phrase is a bit creepy and I can see an extremely possessive person saying it to someone they supposedly love but implying that the object of their love would die if they ever split up.
If the one who offer you the solution is the one that created the threat in the first places
Is called blackmail
6:23 she's definitely older than her 30s. She's been married for at least 25 years, has a kid in their mid-20s, and is a grandmother.
And she looks over 40 anyway.
How do people read the bible and come to the conclusion that god is the good guy?
It's humanity that is rotten and evil to the core. We rebelled against God, therefore death is the punishment of our error. It would be unloving for God not to condemn sin, just like how a judge sentences a criminal to prison.
Anyone who can read the christian genocide manual, aka the bible, and not recoil in horror and revulsion at the gratuitously cruel atrocities committed or commanded by the brutal, barbaric, bloodthirsty deity therein, has suspended all pity, empathy and compassion.
@@margaretbarrett6087 The "brutal, barbaric, bloodthirsty deity", is Satan.
God on the other hand, wants to SAVE people, but it's their choice. People choose to end up in Hell by not repenting. Just like a judge who sentences a criminal to prison, God will do the same on the day of judgement. Your soul will either be promoted into Glory, or be condemned into torment.
So is the bible lying then when it describes your god commanding the copious savage slaughter of infants, suckling and little children; is the bible lying when it describes your god murdering almost all life by drowning, in a hissy fit because he made such an almighty mess of creation; and are you seriously comparing a finite prison sentence with an eternal torture chamber!
And I have repented - since I read the bible for myself, instead of being ‘taught’ the palatable parts, I have repented of the decades I wasted worshipping the foul (though fortunately fictional) deity therein, and I am now saved from the shackles of crazy and abhorrent christian doctrine.
@@CiggieButt1995 There is no Satan, champ. It's Hebrew mythology. Keep scrolling down.
*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.***
*Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.***
***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service.
Google *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"*
Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes.
From a Biblical scholar:
"Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."*
*"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"*
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In addition, look up the below articles.
*"Biblical Contradiction #2: Did God create the heavens and earth from the formless deep OR did Yahweh create them from the slaying of the primaeval sea monster Leviathan /Rahab?"* - Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"*
*"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"*
*"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"*
(Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief)
*"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"*
*"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From?
Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica
(Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years)
*"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"*
*"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"*
*"Are The Ten Commandments Based On The Forty-Two Principles Of Maat That Appeared 2,000 Years Earlier? - Ancient Pages"*
*"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"*
*"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"*
*"No, Humans Are Probably Not All Descended From A Single Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago"*
*"Adam & Eve: Theologians Try to Reconcile Science and Fail - The New Republic"*
*"Adam and Eve: the ultimate standoff between science and faith (and a contest!) - Why Evolution Is True"*
*"Bogus accommodationism: The return of Adam and Eve as real people, as proposed by a wonky quasi-scientific theory - Why Evolution Is True"*
*"How many scientists question evolution? - **sciencemeetsreligion.org**"*
*"What is the evidence for evolution? - Common-questions - BioLogos"*
(A Christian organisation)
*"Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design' - Science"*
*"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"*
*"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"*
*"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei
(This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies)
*"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
14:02 he says lying is a sin but he sure does do it and awful lot.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa whoa, Ray Bumfart is big in wisdom, really.
2:40 self-sacrifice. Like a guy jumping on top of a grenade to save his buddies in the foxhole with him.
Gotta love the hypocrisy… for example: my mother and father did allll the things, and my father is still very, very religious. My mum died, and everyone has a lot to say about what donations my father should make, where and how he should bury her, all this stuff… but when he says “she didn’t have life insurance, I can’t do any of that,” no sympathy. No one saying they’re gonna share his GoFund, nothing. Once they found out he didn’t have a payout he could donate to the church, radio silence. Pretty interesting lol
Hate is murder, so what about someone hating injustice?
Love how he quotes jesus when he talks about love, but isn't quoting Luke 14:26. But of course, that part should not be taken literally, lol. Cherry picking what parts to take literally, and what parts not to.
Blah blah out of context yadda yadda - that's the best answer you'll get.
And he ignores the passages where Jesus urges his followers to give all they possess to the poor. It seems that to multimillionaire preachers, the words of Jesus are only to be taken literally if they do not cause personal inconvenience.
@@margaretbarrett6087 With the exception of his condoning the hate for homosexuals, which only becomes inconvinient for the preachers, if they are caught.
Everything they can "sin" I call lived experience... I has all made me more loving, caring, compassionate, understanding and empathic... I genuinely love people and would gladly take a bullet for a stranger... Jesus my have died for your sins... But I would die for you... without judgment...
Actually, my parents used this phrase since they themselves were kids. "I will love you even after I am dead."
Wowwwwww such craziness from grown ass adults!
Ray was never “told” to listen to God in the same way child me was never “told” by the cartoons to ask my parents to buy the newest toy.
Ray, I have never once sinned in my entire life and neither have you or anyone.
But you at least got something real out of it.
11:37 Ray Comfort has a point, if you read the old testament God is an absolute monster.
"Skeptizism is the first step to[ward] the trueth"…
Funny, I always thought " I love you to death" simply meant that you would love someone until they died, or you did.
All I make of this spiel so far is god will really really hurt you lots and lots if you don't really really love it lots and lots, because it really really loves you lots and lots..
Apparently God is Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki.😫
Ray approached me in the street it would be oh just F&%K off.
Yahweh, the deity with disassociative identity disorder consisting of a sadistic vampire, a Jewish zombie, and a spooky ghost. 🧛🏻♂️🧟♂️👻
Let us not forget a deity with anger management issues.
I always thought Jesus was more of a Lich.It would explain the obsession with souls.🤔😉