Claiming to be wise, they became fools,and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. - Romans 1:22-32
There are many evidences that lead to the Bible being true and Gods creation. Like historical evidemces like eyewitneses (12 Apostles). The Ashely Beds Phosophate that has many different kind of animal bones including Dinosaurs with human bones.
I know a lot of atheists who refuse to look at evidence. When they unleashed the experimental agent known as the Covid vaccine, the fda website said that they didn’t know if the efficacy would last longer than two months… yet people were coerced (a Nuremberg violation) by threat of job loss, for something that turned out not to work, and yet it’s still being pushed and few atheists I’ve presented to, are interested in evidence… they claim to have faith in the medical system. And refuse to look at any evidence contrary to the lies they’ve been told. They get triggered if their faith in pharmaceutical products is diminished. My entire in law family got their shots and got Covid… oh but it decreases the severity… is there evidence for that statement? No. Do they ask for evidence? No. Yeah, just Christians are the idiots who don’t require proof. Im not buying that BS.
He believes God doesn't exist even though it's not possible to prove that God doesn't exist & never will be. Therefore, it's an unscientific, faith based belief, but he'll mock those who take the opposite position. There's a better chance of finding evidence of existence of God than there ever will be of finding evidence of absence. Dawkins is in a belief/faith based state of mind too , he just doesn't refer to it as a religion. I think the only approach thats in line with scientific inquiry & the spirit of science would be to be agnostic, otherwise its belief & faith regardless of what side you fall on.
@@EastwoodFPS I agree. I have personal evidence of gods existence. Therefore I believe. One thing is certain aiming my thoughts and actions towards the principals of the Bible have improved my life in many ways.
What caused the universe? And was the cause an uncaused cause? If you were to give that a name, what would you call it? *Something that caused intelligible life* Ill let you come to your own conclusion
@@joe5959??? you are ignorant. There is something called science and the scientific process. That uses rational and then experiment the validity of the hypothesis. Religions are nothing more than a very poorly thought hypothesis that you were indoctrinated to believe in since you were a child. If you were born in a different family with a different religion, you would believe in that religion instead, but guess what, reality does not care in what culture you were raised. Your comment shows and proves how mentally lazy you really are.
@@joe5959You people always say such stupid shit instead of actually engaging with what was said. You're ignorant, and instead of denying that you started asking fucking moronic questions. The universe may be eternal, or may have come about from some natural cause, or sure it may have even been created, but of those options only the natural answer has evidence to support it. You used the word "cause" because you think it makes your god claim stronger, but it doesn't. If I drown in a lake, the cause of my death was water entering my lungs and making it impossible for me to breathe, and yet the water isn't intelligent, now is it? Your argument was pathetic, no one would come to the conclusion that a god exists just by reading your argument, and the best part is that even if you people could prove an intelligent mind created the universe, you'd be one tiny little fraction of a step closer to proving it was a god, or your specific god, or universe hopping pixies. Your argument wouldn't even prove the conclusion you're drawing.
@@Logiconfire??? the crusades, hitler was a devoted christian, israel and hamas, all the terrorists attacks. what nonsense are you talking about? I guess that is your belief.
@@lb7625He was. Is just that christians distanced themselves because of the backlash, and are trying to change history. But he was christian, oh well as christian as any politician can be 😂.
There is the morality without god if you can't admit that then your The fool without knowledge Fools take no pleasure in learning or understanding Just there emotions views Proverbs 18:2
I could not agree more! Religion has no place in government institutions, especially our schools, poisoning the minds of the upcoming generations with nonesense
Is actually the opposite. Religion creates culture. And culture creates the environment that makes organised thought possible. Every city in the beginning was built around a church or holy place. University in Europe has its beginnings in monks. Those monks are the reason why we even have aristoteles. Because they transcriped his teachings in tomes. And he is the father of logic and systematic scientific thought in the west. Sorry but a dismissive white and black thinking is just the opposite of critical thinking. It's hypocritical.
@@biekgiek religion is a human universal that binds people together. It creates narrative structure which binds community's and create value structures. So yes it creates culture. One component of religion is the create of rituals. Rituals are habits of community that establish order in the community. By being believed to reflect a pattern that is outside of the community and reflect the very way reality is structured. Even in your worldview not people as such create religion. But is something that emerges in community through distrubuted cognition.
Exactly, this reminds me of what Voltaire reportedly once said, "Those who can convince you with absurdities, can convince you to commit atrocities." This applies to faith perfectly.
@@IbadassI I didnt? Thank you for incorrectly assuming. Lets, for arguments sake, say I havent though. Please furnish some context that would make this IN ANY WAY ACCEPTABLE to a modern educated man? You have the floor...
@@IbadassI Who created God? And if your answer is God is eternal, youre just inserting a middle man. If God can be eternal, why cant the conditions which created the universe be? Oh, who created those conditions? Well who created god? Oh God is eternal? Well the conditions which created the universe are eternal. Your argument is easily falsifiable.
@@jknowstheway1462 My, my, what a wonderful conundrum it seems you have woven. Unfortunately any other condition/particle/thing, if it can be defined, means it has limits. Limited "things" cannot be around forever in the past if we exist. Because infinitely regressing backwards would mean nothing now would happen, like you discussing this thread for example, because the primordial past would be infinitely long. Therefore there has to be an undefinable "something" that has no limits would be a necessary being.
Don’t blame the material. Literally taking such expressions as true rather than as metaphor is due to the developmental stage that many humans are currently operating from. Spirituality begins when belief including the atheistic belief is dropped and one goes beyond thought and self to the depths.
@@ivanvincent7534 There's no such thing as an Atheistic belief, as Atheism stems from disbelief and skepticism more often than whatever else motivated the individual personally. And excuses wouldn't be needed if these religious texts didn't get so much wrong consistently. Even if believers were to all follow one religion, it still wouldn't work to show how that one is the truth as supported by verified credible good evidence. So, what is spirituality? On the surface, if there's any depth atall, it's a blanket term that covers over the unknown with a concept that's equally invalid. No different than a person who seen a UFO claims it was aliens from someplace else. The U in UFO means unidentified, as it isn't known and therefore cannot lead to, it's aliens as the first or best explanation for the sightings. As that would mean it's actually identified and confirmed as alien which has not been the case. 🤷🏼 How can you be so confident and comfortable being so wrong?
And yet Christians we’re the first to create a hospital Christians all around the world help people I see more Christian’s helping than atheists sure we’ve done some bad things but hasn’t everyone Stalin was an atheist does that mean every atheist is a communistic murdering maniac no
@@alexsass6539 rwanda, the most catholic nation on earth. Church instrumental in genocide.stalin trained as a priest and used his skills to slaughter 20 million people. Religion poisons everything
Agreed.The blind evil perpetrated in the name of Islam has been a curse on the world. How many innocent people have been lost in the last 30 years alone?
@@joealyjim3029 as well as in the name of "Patria". M. Dawkins is the first I've heard mentioning patriotism together with religious faith. About time someone did.
Love how you select Islam but dont mentioned the hundred of millions colonised and murdered by European Christendom from Europe to Africa to the America’s. Millions upon millions Murdered and robbed but let me guess your historical knowledge goes as far back as 9:11 Muppet
I am a staunch Christian and I agree with him. Blind, unexamined faith can lead to terribly destructive things. If you have no reason to believe something yet do, you are going to be much more likely to lash out at the challenge instead of think through it logically. This can be seen whenever you try to argue with a dumb person.
Same here devout Catholic and I absolutely agree with this statement. My only problem with Dawkins here is that he wrongly defines faith as believing in something without evidence. That is not at all the definition of faith especially in the Christian sense. Faith came from the Greek word pistus which meant trust. Believing in something with good reason.
Let me put this straight. Do you believe a human can be born without sperm being involved? If the answer is yes, it's called faith, and it is ignorance.
@@samuelblack4792 There is only good reason to have faith if you wrongly define reasoning though. Reason requires logic, and logic requires evidence. If you don't want to use proper logic and reason, that's okay, but don't claim reason or logic The faulty logic path for faith based thinking is circular. God is real therefore x reason for belief is true. Then x reason for belief is true therefore it proves God is real. The fault lies in using an illogical poorly reasoned conclusion of "God is real = true" with no evidence/premises and using that to fill out the rest of the logical premises and conclusions truth values of your faith without ever proving it is true, then using those truth values as the premises for the argument "God is real is true" when the only reason the premises can be true is if you already determined God is real If you really think you have good reason to believe in a God you are showing an incredible lack of logic and reasoning skills. NO IDEA can be sacred if you are using reason. This means that if you cannot back up your idea with any valid evidence, it should be discarded as not supported. And affirmative claims bear the burden of proof
That's why it must be forbidden to teach religion to little kids at school. They'll believe whatever comes out of the mouth of an adult they respect. And most of them will still believe it as adults
@@orlandocarrillo7132 Quite the opposite; all religions should be taught, without preference or favor. The trick isn’t to tell young people what to think, or what not to think, but rather HOW to think. Teach young people how to exercise skepticism, how to critically discern truth from fiction, and then present them with ALL forms of religious material. Unreasonable beliefs will lose their hold.
quite the opposite, no religion should be taught. What could be taught is the history of religions and that is something different. There the kids will learn among other things how for example the catholic church was always a tool and worked together with the rulers as a mafia in a pursuit of power and money. They would learn why people in the former european colonies (south america, africa) believe in god. Mainly because their ancestors were threatened to death if they didn't convert. That's different than teaching religion.
@@orlandocarrillo7132 they shouldn’t teach evolution theory either because it’s based off speculation and can never be proven however they teach it like it’s a fact and also with out religion u don’t have objective morality. Atheistic beliefs will lead to more crimes because there is nothing wrong with murder rape and other things religion has said and tought objectively as evil
@@briley2177 by doing that you'll prep them readily to embrace Islam. ;) you do not want to teach your kids how to think, and how to discern truth from fiction, this is a recipe for them embracing Islam.
Or its either the greatest story ever told OR its the truth. The beautiful thing is you get to decide. Just because someone is an intellectual doesn't make them right.
@@tabithawhitaker9273 take a serious look at history, and you'll see that no matter how "beautiful" the story told by religious representatives, the truth about any religious organisation is ugly. And part of it is how the faith is used to force people into set moulds, and to define a "us"+"them" dichotomy that not only tolerates, but actively promotes hate and discrimination.
@@agnesmetanomski6730 You are mistaken God for the problems of "man" and I completely identify with that. Listen its up to you to decide but you don't get to decide for others. In my opinion God is alive and well but you obviously feel differently. Its up to you! And because its popular or trendy to hate God i expect nothing less. ✌❤🙏
@@tabithawhitaker9273 Oh,, I have no problem letting others decide whether they want to believe in some God or not. But by your own words, ie. a person does not get to decide for others what they believe in, children should not have ANY contact with any form of religion until they're 18 and can decide for themselves. And the ones usually trying to shove their opinions down the throat of others are not the ones who do not adhere to any faith, but rather the ones that do.
Richard Dawkins is the person who coined the term "meme" to describe concepts that reproduce by transmission from one mind to another. The concept of faith is one which is pathogenic but successfully reproduces despite the harm it causes to its host organism.
Dawkins is not changing anybody. It’s just a debate. Somebody who truly believes in their faith will not be moved by the musings of a mortal who believes he’s qualified to talk about a matter he has no real understanding of.
@@amishbhat3560 what is the name of the space it's exploding in to and how did it get there. And what non godly power created the universe that it was a ball that exploded. To me, there's two choices...either god created the universe or the universe created itself. Which would make it God, having required being sentient.
Every belief system, including atheism, has an unprovable epistemological axiom: something which when you boil down, can only be believed by faith. There were no witnesses at the origin of the universe, meaning you either need to believe by faith one of two things: matter has always existed, or matter spontaneously came into existence. Both theories violate laws of thermodynamics. If matter and energy has always existed, it would return to a state of chaos due to entropy. Since in this theory matter exists for an infinite amount of time, it has an infinite amount of time to unravel through entropy, meaning no order should exist. Additionally, nothing ever goes from chaos to order, always the other way around. The only exception being if an outside force, say, a God, arranged it into some form of order. If it came into existence spontaneously, it would need some outside force, say, a God, to initiate it, since matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Atheists take by faith the infinitesimally small chance that order can exist from chaos. Theists take by faith the words of God. Neither at their core are grounded by science. Both require some form of faith.
Many years ago, a pastor tried to convert me and said have faith. I told him to sell his house and bet it on a horse. He said that he doesn't know anything about the horse and then I smiled.
@@Programm4r Calling atheists 'religious' is a trite argument. Right up there with telling ex christian atheists they were 'never really saved'. Whatever
It would not be evil if they keep it to themselves. The evil comes from using your faith to justify violent acts against others. People are free to wallow in their ignorance as long as they stay in their own sty.
One person who guided me to leave my faith is this prophet Richard Dawkins in 2008. I am an ex-Muslim and leaving Islam is the best decision I ever made.
@@deidara_8598 Indeed, watch the part where Dawkins explains how a closed mind cannot be rationalised with or course corrected. When people believe without doubt that God is with them they can commit evils without contrition.
Actually from what I hear (not coming sure though) logos was one of the first words used for God. In other words, God is the logos that started the universe. Everyone seems to forget that sometimes religion and science can go hand in hand with each other.
Yeah but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a creator. I think John Lenex said something about God acting as a sort of "logos" that set the universe in motion.
Why is it.... that whenever I watch videos discussing or debating about religion, the non-believer is always the sincere and genuine one while the believer seems not. Could just be a coincidence but... That's how it appears to me. Like the Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig debate.
The thing is that even Hasan (the religious debator) even quoted Joseph Joubert in his book *win every argument* : “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” So in someways he definitely agrees with dawkin here on principle, the degree is determined how staunch he is in adhering to his own faith.
King: Do what I say, I own you and everything in the kingdom, and I can do whatever I want! Subject: Why? King: Special dispensation of divine right. Religious person: I don’t have to use logic or pay you what we agreed upon. Rational person: Why not? Religious person: Special dispensation of divine right. Don’t expect others to tiptoe around you and your imaginary friend. That’s your thing. He doesn’t exist outside of you and your buddies’ heads.
I think we need to change the word “faith” into “source: trust me bro”. I think people will catch on sooner why faith isn’t such a noble thing after all. I’d rather not know an answer to a question than to not being able to question an answer.
Exactly. Throughout history religion (especially Christianity) has been about blind faith. They only focused on what the Bible said and completely forgot about what Jesus said.
I think he is aware that everything associated with your religion is not evil. I imply that regard to the subject of faith in general too. He is making a logical arguement. Imagine having faith so great you force your kids into it. You could say it is evil. For example, if you get a kid to avoid all ungodly influences they will lack life experience. So much so they are more likely to make Earth, Hell. They will lack human bonds, life experience, they will have unhealthy sexual urges because they will lose their entire childhood to a god that you have faith in. I have watched it happen. Everything has consequences. Being willfully ignorant and ignoring the fact that faith is illogical can be evil and dangerous.
I totally agree with this man faith without evidence is blind faith and there is no such thing and if you do have blind faith then you are deluding yourself and those who follow you or living in a delusion State
The wrong thing you said was the word blind faith…blind faith is simply faith. Having faith is already being blind. Having faith is a delusion that was forcefully demanded and inspired by our ancient leaders in order to gain influence and power over its populations.
I wouldn’t say that faith is inherently evil, but I would say that it has a greater potential and proclivity for evil than any other type of thinking, because it can easily convince you for whatever reason that others deserve to die or be treated inhumanely. The worst is when you believe that someone speaks for your deity, and thus you take their word as absolute, and they can make you commit evil acts because nothing else matters in the face of your faith.
Based on the comments here, very few of you are capable of processing basic logic and have just completely proven Dawkins point by twisting it to fit you're own particular narratives. SMH How many comments here do not even fit with what he actually said. 😒
You don't have to accept my personal faith, but I also don't have to accept your denial of my personal faith. It is why these conversations really need never happen in the first place. What I do in private with my faith is my own biz and what you do in private with your atheism is yours.
@@Philrc The way my church defines it is: "Trust that God is who He says He is, has done all that He's promised to do, and will do all that He's promised to do." My church vehemently argues against "blind faith", which is how the term faith is often used in typical speech. "My team is losing 50-0!" "Oh, just have faith!" This usage has grossly misinterpreted the meaning of it. The first definition I gave has two parts. 1) You must know who God says He is, and determine for yourself, given your life experiences, if God's character truly sounds accurate and real in the universe we live in. 2) You must know God's promises and determine if they have truly been upheld. For example, God promised Abraham to make him a father of all the nations, going so far as to say that his descendants would outnumber thr stars in the sky and the sand on the Earth. Look at today where we now have nearly 8 billion people alive, and that doesn't even include all the other people that have lived through history. If you know His character, and you find Him to be true to His promises, then you can have faith that He will do what He says He'll do. Like when a good, faithful friend says "I'll be there", you can count on them to show up. It's not a coin toss as to whether they will or not.
@@oddatsea9398 your church's definition is blind faith. What they are saying to you is believe in a god without any evidence of his existence. That is the only position that a religious person can have. none of you have any proof or have ever had any proof that there is a God at all. If you trust that there is a God on the basis of faith alone with no evidence which is your church's definition that is exactly the same as Dawkins definition and indeed of anybody's definition because it is the standard definition of religious faith. It's no good you going on at me or other people about what God Said and what he promised to us and what Abraham is going to do because all of those things and your belief in them come after the fact that you have blind faith in god's existence. You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever for any of the things that you believe. A person's belief that their football team may finally win is quite possibly based on far more evidence than you have for the existence of God. There may be all kinds of statistics and facts about the players and their stamina, style of playing etc etc which might lead a person to think that the team will eventually score more points.
@@Philrc Except, no, it's literally not blind faith. Here's the checklist detailed in case you missed it. 1) Read about His promises 2) Determine if those promises have been fulfilled, based off of your own life experiences. 3) Read about His character and actions 4) Determine if those characteristics and actions are evident in your life experiences. Even science follows a similar ruleset. 1) Hypothesize 2) Test and determine if results accurately reflect what was expected. Who drops a ball and expects it to go up? No one, because based on previous life experiences, we expect a dropped ball to fall down. I can logically prove God exists with a thought experiment. If I were a drawing in a flipbook, how would my 3D version interact with my universe (the flipbook)? Then I extrapolate that up so my 2D version becomes 3D and my 3D version becomes 4D. From this thought experiment, the fundamental, inmutable characteristics of God can be described. He would be omnipresent since He can span the entirety of the "flipbook". He would be omnipotent since He would essentially be the artist, able to draw and conjure up anything at His will. He would be omniscient since He would know the entire story of the flipbook from front the back since He drew it. He would be eternal since He exists out of our dimension of time. As stated previously, He knows the front and the back of the flipbook, the Creation and the Extinction of that universe. It'd be foolish from the artist's perspective for the drawing to deny the artist's existence. The artist created it, yet has no way of directly interjecting expect to add himself to the flipbook, like what God did when He took on flesh in the form of Jesus Christ. Other than a direct interjection like that, which still did not convince many of the people of his day, the artist would only be able to act, and from those actions, we can determine the artist's character. If the artist smites all blonde people, then we can determine the artist loathes blondes.
@@oddatsea9398 I don't need to read it you are kidding yourself . Your faith is entirely a matter of belief without evidence. And no science does not proceed in the same way at all it's actually becoming rather tiresome hearing you God botherer types constantly say this. The only reason you have some checklist that you think makes any sense at all is because you have blind faith that there is a God that the checklist applies to you have no evidence to think that, you just have faith that he exists.
Sheep are in the many, if you would follow religion then you're already going against your God by using internet, technology and medicine. Please stop using these if you're religious and follow your faith for healing and not the devil.
@@hatoftricks7132 I don't what religion are you talking about, but I am confident its not mine. All the current science you are currently studying were invented by my religion follower in their golden age. Lol, even the numbers you are currently writing 1234567890 were invented by a Muslim Scientiest. Its okay to be ignorant, but its a huge mistake for an ignorant person to think he is all knowing :)
Yes, most people know religion is bollox. So many unfortunate people surrounded by nonsense and see no way out of it, especially when getting out of it is dangerous for your well-being. Religion poisons everything.
The problem is that religious people have a different definition/standard of what constitutes evidence..and their gullible/indoctrinated selves think that scriptural dogma & faith suffice as evidence. You cannot reason with the vast majority of people of faith.
The problem with this is that sometimes you don't have enough information and the next fact could change your tune. That means that you could be wrong even if you choose the most apparently consistent heap of facts. Sometimes life demands a decision based on sub-optimal information, and that means you have to take a risk even if you don't have evidence. Navigating life isn't just about facts, it's about payoffs and avoiding scenarios or searching for specific scenarios and all of these require that you see past the facts and make decisions. And results matter a lot. Often more than the process to arive there. Life may not wait for you to weigh the facts for and against.
But then, why does it matter if one chooses to believe in a religion, and lets say that, you are correct and we really do just die, and stay dead, then why would it matter what one believes, as long as your not hurting anyone, if we just end we just be dead, As you say we do?
Not all faiths. Only Abrahamic faiths based on blind beiief. Eastern faiths like Hinduism and Buddhism are based on self-exploration and discovery through meditation, and openly tell people "don't believe anything till you have experienced it yourself."
He is wrong, evil is the indifference of those that know better. Faith and religion are built into the very aspect of what we are. Remove God, and you will simply fill it with something else; atheism, crossfit, veganism, etc.
Most people already do that with new movements but they are still wrong and its still the closest thing to what humans call evil. Which in itself does not actually exist either. Humans like to jump from one fictional hole and just fall into another.
You have only demonstrated that people have viewpoints. Faith is not built into me, it was taught to me. Now I reject faith, as it is not a consistent way to the truth. Multiple religions are a demonstration of that.
@@PersistentDissenter faith is something you believe It doesn't inherently mean you believe in the right thing What do you have faith in should be the question
@@ghosttheprogram6973 noun: faith 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. 2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. We are discussing theological faith. But with that in mind, I do not have complete trust or confidence in anything. I am a skeptic.
Dawkins left open the discussion concerning the nature of the "evidence" needed to support a theistic claim, dawkins is no philosopher, he attributes the words evil and good outside of their ontological sphere and there's no way an atheist can have a basic anchorage for morality, let alone a practical procedure in which we can prove the existence or non-existence of a supernatural being
Morality is most likely a mix of genetics and learned behavior with or without an explicit believe in gods. Morality is a form of sophisticated altruism, and altruism has evolved many many times in the animal kingdom. The world in which you live, where morality must come from religion, exists only between your ears.
@@09patrick22barnes95 primal consciousness is exhaustive of reality, not right or wrong, we could have solved excessive population rates if your version of impulse based morality was highly applied, we can just go back to my comment and see that i was only discussing the simple fact an atheist cannot objectively judge a moral value in hindsight, your definition of "genetics and learned behavior" morality is truely beneath my notice as it has no bases and no intrinsic purpose for all that matters, let me ask you a question you will most likely give the worst take on -what was the driving force (conceptual or impirical) that shaped human behavior and morality into the thing it is now? In other words why is it good to punish jack when he steals from john?
There is no way theists can anchor morality in God in any coherent or compelling way. Least of your problems on that front is that you can't actually demonstrate your god exits.
@@CyeOutsideri feel sorry that you got the two concepts of legitimacy and anchorage mixed up in your head, simply put, metaphysical truths are different to conceptual truths, conceptual truths are the product of talking several distinct elements into a unified whole, a metaphysical truth stands on it's own autonomously, so for you to suggest that the inability to demonstrate God (which is not true btw) can affect the sense of moral anchorage towards deity is plain pathetic
I believe one of the greatest forms of evil is ignorance and I think this is a form of that . I don't think it's people of faiths intent to implement evil but I think evil is an inevitable outcome of a perceived lack of necessity to understand or tolerate difference.
I agree. There's something about the lack of awareness, for example about God's word, that ould be filled with intrusive thoughts. With that said, I think true faith takes no effort. The evidence he's looking for is for example free will and the individual's sovereignty.
Without transcedant revelation that people are beholden to (with it a higher law), all sorts of evil takes place. If you think religion leads to evil, just wait until you see what non-religion leads to. Spoiler alert: we already know, because it's happened in the past. Millions upon millions of people die (and worse).
There is an obvious hole in his argument, or maybe he’s just wording it incorrectly, because most people who have faith and are religious are not believing in something without evidence. They deem the miraculous experiences they’ve had and their relationship with a higher being to be evidence. So it’s not that they believe in something without evidence, they believe they have seen more than enough evidence to believe in/have faith in it.
What miraculous experiences? There are zero miraculous occurrences. Finding your car keys isn't one, no. What "relationship with 'god'"?. A relationship with no communication? 'god' never speaks, never appears, never answers. No-one can tell you what 'god' looks like, sounds like, what gender, can't ask a direct question, can't get any direct answers, no-one purports to have any actual communication with 'god'. It's always some random, mundane occurrence that people suddenly espouse is a 'sign from 'god''. You are exactly the same as the people who identify as quad-gender, non-binary antelopes.
@@philscott3759 Hey Phil! I’d love to discuss this with you! Miraculous doesn’t always mean walking on water or coming back from death, it can be a multitude of things but finding your car keys is quite a weak argument to oppose. I completely understand why you’d be skeptical, and I don’t blame you at all! Why would anyone believe in God? It’s seems impossible for someone like that to exist so I completely understand where you’re coming from and I’m not trying to argue with you at all. When I said miraculous, I did not mean finding your car keys, I would say that is a straw man argument. What about the real life stories of people that actually exist who have been healed from disease when doctors said they had weeks to live? I personally know people who have experienced a multitude of happenings that I would deem as miraculous, and I myself have as well. They’re not always so obvious like being saved from a car crash or something but they are much more profound than that, they are not always a single instance but rather, a constant connection. Have you thought about the fact that maybe people can’t describe what God sounds like or looks like because someone as great as God would not be communicating in such human and earthly ways? That maybe the reason that science can’t explain God and that science can’t prove God exists is because if He could be proved by science then what would be so great about Him? I know you might say that there are many great and astounding things that can be proved by science but personally I think that if God was subject to science He would not be ‘God’. God must be greater than science and exists outside the laws and dimensions that we humans perceive. I know this might sound crazy and I don’t blame you if you think that. I do however feel that if you truly open yourself to God, and I mean truly genuinely and 100% open yourself to the possibility that God exists then it is impossible to not be confronted by Him. I believe that if you are willing, and really genuinely open your heart and mind and soul to God, and I mean genuinely, not in a way that you’re doing it just to prove that there isn’t a God, but if you genuinely open your heart to God, it is impossible to not feel and hear Him in ways that you feel and understand so deep in your soul that are profound beyond belief. I believe that Jesus is God and you’re free to say you disagree but personally I feel that I’ve experienced too many things to say otherwise. I’ve had periods where I didn’t believe there was a God at all and tried to live that way, but God always found me and spoke to me on a level that I can’t really articulate. If He wasn’t real, then I would have no problem saying that, and I have believed that at times and struggled with the illogical and unscientific nature of God but God is greater than Logic and Science. If He was bound by science and logic He would not be ‘God’. I personally have experienced too many ‘miraculous’ things in my life to say that He does not exist and by ‘miraculous’ I don’t only mean someone being healed from a disease or saved from a car crash but I mean the profound connection that goes right to my very soul and essence and being. Jesus, God, speaks to everyone in a different way. I’m glad to continue this discussion with you Phil, please feel free to say whatever you want. I pray that God speaks to you soon, in a way that only you can understand. Have a great day Phil!
Ignorance is a breeding ground for evil action but I don't think ignorance Itself is evil, I don't think religion should be banned I just think there should be better education in schools that makes kids open minded and respectful but also skeptical
I don't think the concept of faith itself is bad. Atleast having faith on something like for example having faith in believing that someone will do the right or moral thing or hoping that your favourite sports team wins. Though what I'm thinking off could be classified more as hope than faith.
I'd only disagree with the 'It's private' part of the statement. Private faith? That's all you. Go for it. The problem is those who think their faith means other people have to behave a certain way. Not private.
Fools, if you buy this premise. We put faith in a hundred things every day without evidence, but these assumptions allow you to traverse your daily decision making and survive the world.
That's the thing - every day! We put faith in things that happen all the time, meaning it's very reasonable to believe they will continue to happen. Religions are not the same. They are founded on religious books which claim extraordinary events that allegedly happened once in the past and were written down. Are we supposed to believe those stories the same way we believe repetitive things of mundane life?
Faith is confidence in something unseen that actually is. Presumption is confidence in something without evidence. Presumption is not having faith when you have evidence as well.
The devil is an admirable figure he is like prometheus who was cursed for rebelling against the tyrannical god zeus who like yahweh was a rapist and murderer
Brainwashing. Religious people can’t quite grasp the fact that they’ve been brainwashed. Religious people are the perfect example of how brainwashing works. Brainwashing is not just about tricking the mind its about making you desire to believe what you’ve been taught is correct no matter what, no matter what logic says, no matter what the truth is, they’ve branded it under the disguise of having faith. Religions are proven to be ancient brainwashing tools used by past leaders to provide them influence and power over its population. “If you don’t do this in a certain way you will go to hell”, “If you don’t this do this in a certain way it’s a sin and god will find you punishment”. “If you do this in a certain way god will reward you”, “If you do this in a certain way god will save you”. its an almost perfect scheme. Today humans still create this brainwashing techniques but we don’t call it religion any longer and we don’t based it upon the fictional and the spiritual any longer. I know what you religion folks are thinking right now god will send people in your life to test your faith and you shall not cede to it you must keep believing, you must keep believing, you must keep believing always no matter what or god will find you punishment. Thats is one of the most impressive principles of brainwashing at its finest the people who created religion knew precisely what they were doing. Always prepare them for the inevitable confrontation with people who will speak truth to them that is one of the most important rules of brainwashing. It’s astonishing and terrifying at the same time. I know that the grand majority of religious people will chose to ignore and not take this statement to heart as it takes a ridiculous amount of mental strength, suffering and determination to undo brainwashing. Most individuals as an innate defense mechanism will never allow themselves to be subjugated to such process they will chose to ignore it like a kid would ignore a warning from their teacher. Because the truth of human kind is that as long as they feel happy and safe they will most of the time chose to ignore the truth. And thats why usually the ignorants are also the happiest but bottom line you are still living under a lie a safe delusion. But then you also understand why modern nations such as western countries, China, Russia and Japan and every country and society that doesn’t have its political and educational system attached to a fictional and old minded brainwashing scheme of centuries ago is so much more developed than countries whose education and politics is bound to religion such as most Muslim countries for example…Modern societies of today in the west, China, Russia, Japan and others of the sort its about innovation of ideas while others such as in the middle east it’s about preservation of ancient ideas. Muslim countries will always be far below the rest of the world in science, societal development and general quality of life as long as they don’t realize that religion was made to be appreciated and not followed blindly like a cult. You are only gonna push yourself down as long as you keep preserving ideas of centuries ago completely outdated for todays reality and needs. Innovation is the birth of new information and information is the source of power and there is barely to almost none of it in Muslim middle eastern countries pushed by their enforcement of religion in both politics and education.
dont blame religion, its just human is the most wicked and devilish creature, we can use anything as a reason and tool of destruction, then act innocent and blame other
@@ryanobrien2383 yes. Teaching morality, social responsibility, self-sufficiency, tolerance, love, and faith in a loving Creator definitely makes humans worse.
@@poposheesho Yet those same values were absolutely useless in preventing the religious people from doing bad things, and I don't want to hear a platitude how they weren't the true christians.
@@thejarjosh Well unlike religion, science has to use more of a leap to figure out what kinds of people it should hate, where as religion has its own law which demands that if someone breaks it, that's who I should hate.
No matter what is taught and believed, there will always be evil men doing evil things. But in order for good men to do evil things you need faith. This is a paraphrase of someone else's quote
People with faith are triggered. He is speaking the true.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools,and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. - Romans 1:22-32
There are many evidences that lead to the Bible being true and Gods creation. Like historical evidemces like eyewitneses (12 Apostles). The Ashely Beds Phosophate that has many different kind of animal bones including Dinosaurs with human bones.
Triggered? He asked a question, most with faith have the evidence in their daily lives, the evidence does exist:)
I know a lot of atheists who refuse to look at evidence. When they unleashed the experimental agent known as the Covid vaccine, the fda website said that they didn’t know if the efficacy would last longer than two months… yet people were coerced (a Nuremberg violation) by threat of job loss, for something that turned out not to work, and yet it’s still being pushed and few atheists I’ve presented to, are interested in evidence… they claim to have faith in the medical system. And refuse to look at any evidence contrary to the lies they’ve been told. They get triggered if their faith in pharmaceutical products is diminished. My entire in law family got their shots and got Covid… oh but it decreases the severity… is there evidence for that statement? No. Do they ask for evidence? No. Yeah, just Christians are the idiots who don’t require proof. Im not buying that BS.
No, he isn't.
He never said religion, he said “belief without evidence.” Meaning Ignorance.
I believe Socrates is quoted to say ignorance is the only evil.
He believes God doesn't exist even though it's not possible to prove that God doesn't exist & never will be. Therefore, it's an unscientific, faith based belief, but he'll mock those who take the opposite position. There's a better chance of finding evidence of existence of God than there ever will be of finding evidence of absence. Dawkins is in a belief/faith based state of mind too , he just doesn't refer to it as a religion. I think the only approach thats in line with scientific inquiry & the spirit of science would be to be agnostic, otherwise its belief & faith regardless of what side you fall on.
@@EastwoodFPS I agree. I have personal evidence of gods existence. Therefore I believe. One thing is certain aiming my thoughts and actions towards the principals of the Bible have improved my life in many ways.
@@coachcoty6806 what is you personal evidence ?
@@bahaahussein6450 I guess we'll never know.
@@bahaahussein6450 What is Islam's evidence that Allah exists?
There is no evidence only stories.
Same in the Bible.
You get the point
Believing in something without evidence is called "Ignorance". Plain and simple
What caused the universe? And was the cause an uncaused cause?
If you were to give that a name, what would you call it? *Something that caused intelligible life*
Ill let you come to your own conclusion
@@joe5959??? you are ignorant. There is something called science and the scientific process. That uses rational and then experiment the validity of the hypothesis.
Religions are nothing more than a very poorly thought hypothesis that you were indoctrinated to believe in since you were a child. If you were born in a different family with a different religion, you would believe in that religion instead, but guess what, reality does not care in what culture you were raised.
Your comment shows and proves how mentally lazy you really are.
@@joe5959You people always say such stupid shit instead of actually engaging with what was said. You're ignorant, and instead of denying that you started asking fucking moronic questions. The universe may be eternal, or may have come about from some natural cause, or sure it may have even been created, but of those options only the natural answer has evidence to support it. You used the word "cause" because you think it makes your god claim stronger, but it doesn't. If I drown in a lake, the cause of my death was water entering my lungs and making it impossible for me to breathe, and yet the water isn't intelligent, now is it? Your argument was pathetic, no one would come to the conclusion that a god exists just by reading your argument, and the best part is that even if you people could prove an intelligent mind created the universe, you'd be one tiny little fraction of a step closer to proving it was a god, or your specific god, or universe hopping pixies. Your argument wouldn't even prove the conclusion you're drawing.
I have no idea what caused the universe, just like all the other people in the world. So giving it names would be foolish.@@joe5959
Good thing that’s not how the Christian faith works
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-Voltaire
The majority of atrocities are committed by atheist totalitarians.
@@Logiconfire??? the crusades, hitler was a devoted christian, israel and hamas, all the terrorists attacks. what nonsense are you talking about? I guess that is your belief.
@janparchanski9242No one cares. Voltaire is constantly quoted by atheists. What's pathetic is that you think anyone gives a shit what you think.
@@ngpb17hitler was absolutely not a devoted christian
@@lb7625He was. Is just that christians distanced themselves because of the backlash, and are trying to change history. But he was christian, oh well as christian as any politician can be 😂.
The problem with Mr. Dawkins is that he does not realize most people are not nearly as smart as he is
There no evidence to back up most of his claims
Exactly he is very smart.
@@jjjjj2220 Name one
@@brandonn6099
That something is "evil".
@@abhmd4481 Elaborate
This is why we must keep religion out of government and public schools.
we should also keep you out of public schools too nonsayyyyy
Ya replace it with LGBTQ right fuck up our kids minds allow abortions also I say you would agree
There is the morality without god if you can't admit that then your
The fool without knowledge
Fools take no pleasure in learning or understanding
Just there emotions views
Proverbs 18:2
I could not agree more! Religion has no place in government institutions, especially our schools, poisoning the minds of the upcoming generations with nonesense
Start with secular humanism.
Organized religion is for people who, unlike mister Dawkins can't think for themselves.
So true.
Is actually the opposite. Religion creates culture. And culture creates the environment that makes organised thought possible. Every city in the beginning was built around a church or holy place. University in Europe has its beginnings in monks. Those monks are the reason why we even have aristoteles. Because they transcriped his teachings in tomes. And he is the father of logic and systematic scientific thought in the west. Sorry but a dismissive white and black thinking is just the opposite of critical thinking. It's hypocritical.
@@simbabwe2907 Religion does not create culture, people create culture. Religion is a component of culture, but it is still human created.
It’s the easy way out. No work, no thought, just a happy warm cloak of delusion.
@@biekgiek religion is a human universal that binds people together. It creates narrative structure which binds community's and create value structures. So yes it creates culture. One component of religion is the create of rituals. Rituals are habits of community that establish order in the community. By being believed to reflect a pattern that is outside of the community and reflect the very way reality is structured. Even in your worldview not people as such create religion. But is something that emerges in community through distrubuted cognition.
Religion is the worst thing to happen to humanity
Humanity is the worst thing to happen to humanity.
Exactly, this reminds me of what Voltaire reportedly once said, "Those who can convince you with absurdities, can convince you to commit atrocities." This applies to faith perfectly.
Total non sequitur. Totally incoherent. Much like Dick Dawkins.
@@nomadforchrist4337 You know, it might do you good to approach such difficult matters excluding contempt and prejudice.
@@nomadforchrist4337 sounds a lot like ‚I don’t believe in logic so I’m just gonna deny it‘ 😂
@@IrakleiosTheGreat that's neither contempt not prejudice. Simply truth. That was easy.
@@nomadforchrist4337 So name-calling and tantrums are part of the truth now? Fascinating!
How Medhi Hasan has had a career post this is stunning.
It's because you only saw one side, not the whole interview.
@@IbadassI I didnt? Thank you for incorrectly assuming. Lets, for arguments sake, say I havent though. Please furnish some context that would make this IN ANY WAY ACCEPTABLE to a modern educated man? You have the floor...
@@jknowstheway1462 Wait until you realise there can be only one ultimate uncreated cause, otherwise nothing would have ever happened.
@@IbadassI Who created God?
And if your answer is God is eternal, youre just inserting a middle man. If God can be eternal, why cant the conditions which created the universe be?
Oh, who created those conditions? Well who created god? Oh God is eternal? Well the conditions which created the universe are eternal.
Your argument is easily falsifiable.
@@jknowstheway1462 My, my, what a wonderful conundrum it seems you have woven. Unfortunately any other condition/particle/thing, if it can be defined, means it has limits.
Limited "things" cannot be around forever in the past if we exist. Because infinitely regressing backwards would mean nothing now would happen, like you discussing this thread for example, because the primordial past would be infinitely long. Therefore there has to be an undefinable "something" that has no limits would be a necessary being.
I'm surprised Dawkins stayed for the interview despite the host claiming that muhammed split the moon into two
Why would he leave instead of arguing such a stupid claim?
Its not like it'll ever be followed by, "And let's go investigate it to show it's factually accurate information"..😅
Not to any degree ever.
Don’t blame the material. Literally taking such expressions as true rather than as metaphor is due to the developmental stage that many humans are currently operating from. Spirituality begins when belief including the atheistic belief is dropped and one goes beyond thought and self to the depths.
@@ivanvincent7534
There's no such thing as an Atheistic belief, as Atheism stems from disbelief and skepticism more often than whatever else motivated the individual personally.
And excuses wouldn't be needed if these religious texts didn't get so much wrong consistently. Even if believers were to all follow one religion, it still wouldn't work to show how that one is the truth as supported by verified credible good evidence.
So, what is spirituality?
On the surface, if there's any depth atall, it's a blanket term that covers over the unknown with a concept that's equally invalid.
No different than a person who seen a UFO claims it was aliens from someplace else.
The U in UFO means unidentified, as it isn't known and therefore cannot lead to, it's aliens as the first or best explanation for the sightings. As that would mean it's actually identified and confirmed as alien which has not been the case. 🤷🏼
How can you be so confident and comfortable being so wrong?
Hezoyam@ when you are just hater you open your mouth like that who said and believe Mohamed did that what liare u r😂😂😂😂
Well said. Basically faith becomes anti criticism. Without criticism there can be no way to improve.
Spot on. Religion poisons everything
And yet Christians we’re the first to create a hospital Christians all around the world help people I see more Christian’s helping than atheists sure we’ve done some bad things but hasn’t everyone Stalin was an atheist does that mean every atheist is a communistic murdering maniac no
@@alexsass6539 rwanda, the most catholic nation on earth. Church instrumental in genocide.stalin trained as a priest and used his skills to slaughter 20 million people. Religion poisons everything
No it doesn't
Economy and Power does
@@c.arawak1017 sure, and when religion is involved, good mend and women easily do wicked things to further pwer and greed
Agreed.The blind evil perpetrated in the name of Islam has been a curse on the world. How many innocent people have been lost in the last 30 years alone?
Not to mention the evils perpetrated in the name of christianity, judaism, facism, socialism, social progressivism etc.
@@joealyjim3029 as well as in the name of "Patria". M. Dawkins is the first I've heard mentioning patriotism together with religious faith. About time someone did.
Love how you select Islam but dont mentioned the hundred of millions colonised and murdered by European Christendom from Europe to Africa to the America’s.
Millions upon millions
Murdered and robbed but let me guess your historical knowledge goes as far back as 9:11
Muppet
@@agnesmetanomski6730 You haven't studied much, have you?
@@lealvazquezosvaldo8431 Oh? How do you come to this conclusion?
The interviewer thinks a man on a winged horse rose to heaven! Don't waste time with idiots, they may pull you down.
Exactly
I bet you believe the earth is a spinning ball !!
@@kamjoe380ah a Flat Earther... are you a Creationist as well?
@@kamjoe380it is
Exactly, fuck ‘em.
Every Middle Eastern should watch this interview. Respect to Richard from Persia/Iran.
I am a staunch Christian and I agree with him. Blind, unexamined faith can lead to terribly destructive things. If you have no reason to believe something yet do, you are going to be much more likely to lash out at the challenge instead of think through it logically. This can be seen whenever you try to argue with a dumb person.
Same here devout Catholic and I absolutely agree with this statement. My only problem with Dawkins here is that he wrongly defines faith as believing in something without evidence. That is not at all the definition of faith especially in the Christian sense. Faith came from the Greek word pistus which meant trust. Believing in something with good reason.
@@petermuneme25 Yep, agreed. Many atheists seem to wrongly define faith.
Let me put this straight. Do you believe a human can be born without sperm being involved? If the answer is yes, it's called faith, and it is ignorance.
@@samuelblack4792 There is only good reason to have faith if you wrongly define reasoning though. Reason requires logic, and logic requires evidence. If you don't want to use proper logic and reason, that's okay, but don't claim reason or logic
The faulty logic path for faith based thinking is circular.
God is real therefore x reason for belief is true.
Then x reason for belief is true therefore it proves God is real.
The fault lies in using an illogical poorly reasoned conclusion of "God is real = true" with no evidence/premises and using that to fill out the rest of the logical premises and conclusions truth values of your faith without ever proving it is true, then using those truth values as the premises for the argument "God is real is true" when the only reason the premises can be true is if you already determined God is real
If you really think you have good reason to believe in a God you are showing an incredible lack of logic and reasoning skills. NO IDEA can be sacred if you are using reason. This means that if you cannot back up your idea with any valid evidence, it should be discarded as not supported. And affirmative claims bear the burden of proof
@@dxfifa Leftists and socialists operate without reason or logic to support their desired policies all the time.
The sad thing I see on this debate is that a even a great thinker and scholar as Mehdi Hasan can fall prey to early indoctrination
That's why it must be forbidden to teach religion to little kids at school. They'll believe whatever comes out of the mouth of an adult they respect. And most of them will still believe it as adults
@@orlandocarrillo7132
Quite the opposite; all religions should be taught, without preference or favor. The trick isn’t to tell young people what to think, or what not to think, but rather HOW to think. Teach young people how to exercise skepticism, how to critically discern truth from fiction, and then present them with ALL forms of religious material. Unreasonable beliefs will lose their hold.
quite the opposite, no religion should be taught. What could be taught is the history of religions and that is something different. There the kids will learn among other things how for example the catholic church was always a tool and worked together with the rulers as a mafia in a pursuit of power and money. They would learn why people in the former european colonies (south america, africa) believe in god. Mainly because their ancestors were threatened to death if they didn't convert. That's different than teaching religion.
@@orlandocarrillo7132 they shouldn’t teach evolution theory either because it’s based off speculation and can never be proven however they teach it like it’s a fact and also with out religion u don’t have objective morality. Atheistic beliefs will lead to more crimes because there is nothing wrong with murder rape and other things religion has said and tought objectively as evil
@@briley2177 by doing that you'll prep them readily to embrace Islam. ;) you do not want to teach your kids how to think, and how to discern truth from fiction, this is a recipe for them embracing Islam.
"Faith is comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate" 💚I have to steal that one!
Or its either the greatest story ever told OR its the truth. The beautiful thing is you get to decide. Just because someone is an intellectual doesn't make them right.
@@tabithawhitaker9273 take a serious look at history, and you'll see that no matter how "beautiful" the story told by religious representatives, the truth about any religious organisation is ugly. And part of it is how the faith is used to force people into set moulds, and to define a "us"+"them" dichotomy that not only tolerates, but actively promotes hate and discrimination.
@@agnesmetanomski6730 You are mistaken God for the problems of "man" and I completely identify with that. Listen its up to you to decide but you don't get to decide for others. In my opinion God is alive and well but you obviously feel differently. Its up to you! And because its popular or trendy to hate God i expect nothing less. ✌❤🙏
@@tabithawhitaker9273 Oh,, I have no problem letting others decide whether they want to believe in some God or not. But by your own words, ie. a person does not get to decide for others what they believe in, children should not have ANY contact with any form of religion until they're 18 and can decide for themselves.
And the ones usually trying to shove their opinions down the throat of others are not the ones who do not adhere to any faith, but rather the ones that do.
Richard Dawkins is the person who coined the term "meme" to describe concepts that reproduce by transmission from one mind to another. The concept of faith is one which is pathogenic but successfully reproduces despite the harm it causes to its host organism.
Dawkin 💪 love from India 🇮🇳 💝 . Keep going uncle you changing many people
Only the no brainers
@@thewellwishers1266 Theists are No-Brainers
@@thewellwishers1266your statement quite funny
@@thewellwishers1266 You mean the religious? Why, yes!
Dawkins is not changing anybody. It’s just a debate. Somebody who truly believes in their faith will not be moved by the musings of a mortal who believes he’s qualified to talk about a matter he has no real understanding of.
Great thinker and he's absolutely right.
Atheists believe the universe created itself. That takes faith.
There is overwhelming evidence for the big bang theory. You don't wanna read that, your choice
No, not really, we don't believe that.
@@amishbhat3560 what is the name of the space it's exploding in to and how did it get there.
And what non godly power created the universe that it was a ball that exploded.
To me, there's two choices...either god created the universe or the universe created itself. Which would make it God, having required being sentient.
No it doesn't theres actually maths that proves it 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Every belief system, including atheism, has an unprovable epistemological axiom: something which when you boil down, can only be believed by faith.
There were no witnesses at the origin of the universe, meaning you either need to believe by faith one of two things: matter has always existed, or matter spontaneously came into existence. Both theories violate laws of thermodynamics.
If matter and energy has always existed, it would return to a state of chaos due to entropy. Since in this theory matter exists for an infinite amount of time, it has an infinite amount of time to unravel through entropy, meaning no order should exist. Additionally, nothing ever goes from chaos to order, always the other way around. The only exception being if an outside force, say, a God, arranged it into some form of order.
If it came into existence spontaneously, it would need some outside force, say, a God, to initiate it, since matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Atheists take by faith the infinitesimally small chance that order can exist from chaos. Theists take by faith the words of God. Neither at their core are grounded by science. Both require some form of faith.
Many years ago, a pastor tried to convert me and said have faith. I told him to sell his house and bet it on a horse. He said that he doesn't know anything about the horse and then I smiled.
That’s brilliant
r/ThatHappened
Proud of yourself?
Nice hehe
Oh but shouldn’t we instinctively trust religious people even though they have all sinned and been forgiven? Evil.
He just described any given cult of political personality.
Especially when religious 'faith' fuels it.
The mix is toxic beyond belief
Nothing is more toxic than New Atheism.
@@Programm4r Toxic to the nonsense of religious dogma? Absolutely correct.
@@outermarker5801 religious atheist toxic to those of other religions. Ironic.
@@Programm4r Calling atheists 'religious' is a trite argument. Right up there with telling ex christian atheists they were 'never really saved'.
Whatever
@@Programm4r Dunce.
This man has successfully escaped the major matrix of humanity
AGREED!!!
Yeah but what if the matrix is our home ?
Except he hasn't.
@Awoken777If the matrix were a thing literally fucking everything is part of the matrix
...by joining an even bigger one?
I like this man more and more every time I see a video of him
Mahdi is brilliant right?
Ikr, Dawkins isn’t great for no reason.
people actually get triggered by dawkins
People get triggered when they call out that the "belief" that something can come from nothing. 🤷🏾♂️
@@ghulamsarwar687 exactly, the interviewer got caught red handed lol.
Religion is based on faith
Science is based on evidence
It would not be evil if they keep it to themselves. The evil comes from using your faith to justify violent acts against others.
People are free to wallow in their ignorance as long as they stay in their own sty.
He's speaking facts, the generations ahead shall wonder how religion was ever a thing.
I'm glad Dawkins always gets them.
every generation has predicted this from the beginning of recorded history. ironically, there is no evidence that this can or would happen.
Yeah, but remember what John Lenox said.
Extremely well put and So True Richard Dawkins..!
professor Dawkins is brilliant and hopefully he will help eradicate us of superstitious nonsense!
Like apes turning into men. What a load lol.
You’ll be saying that when hell😅
One person who guided me to leave my faith is this prophet Richard Dawkins in 2008. I am an ex-Muslim and leaving Islam is the best decision I ever made.
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It's _evil_ to believe something without evidence? That's absurd.
I believe my god has tasked me to eradicate you.
Did you watch the video?
@@TurinTuramber Yes, and that's exactly what he says in the video
@@deidara_8598 Indeed, watch the part where Dawkins explains how a closed mind cannot be rationalised with or course corrected. When people believe without doubt that God is with them they can commit evils without contrition.
What he explains is that faith itself leads to evil. It doesn't mean people who have faith are evil. As Christians say, hate the sin, love the sinner.
ignorance is bad but the true evil on earth are the ones running the show! and they are not ignorant.
EXACTLY!!
It's a complicated world and people want simple answers.
No, people want ultimate answers.
@@nathanrobbins7668 If an "ultimate" answer was very complicated they would reject it for a simple answer.
Actually from what I hear (not coming sure though) logos was one of the first words used for God. In other words, God is the logos that started the universe. Everyone seems to forget that sometimes religion and science can go hand in hand with each other.
Richard Dawkins is the man of rationale. We need more of him and more like him in our world.
I mean, except that his statement that belief without evidence is evil is itself a belief without evidence.
Yeah but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a creator. I think John Lenex said something about God acting as a sort of "logos" that set the universe in motion.
@@Deadite_Scholar I totally agree with Richard Dawkins. Belief without proof is evil.
I love this guy he speaks his mind,which is a rarity today 💪
Hitler spoke his mind too.. being opinionated doesn't make you correct.
@@valeriehinkle8995 This is Prof. Dawkins. He's right most of the time.
@@valeriehinkle8995 i don’t mind someone speaking his mind even if he is what you describe as “incorrect”
@@valeriehinkle8995 Infantile attempt.
@@PramodKumar-gy8lb except for when he's not.
Why is it.... that whenever I watch videos discussing or debating about religion, the non-believer is always the sincere and genuine one while the believer seems not. Could just be a coincidence but... That's how it appears to me. Like the Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig debate.
The delusion shows in the face of rationality
The thing is that even Hasan (the religious debator) even quoted Joseph Joubert in his book *win every argument* : “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” So in someways he definitely agrees with dawkin here on principle, the degree is determined how staunch he is in adhering to his own faith.
King: Do what I say, I own you and everything in the kingdom, and I can do whatever I want!
Subject: Why?
King: Special dispensation of divine right.
Religious person: I don’t have to use logic or pay you what we agreed upon.
Rational person: Why not?
Religious person: Special dispensation of divine right.
Don’t expect others to tiptoe around you and your imaginary friend. That’s your thing. He doesn’t exist outside of you and your buddies’ heads.
Idk, I don’t think this line of thinking is as smart as I used to think it was.
You think its point is to sound smart?
Facts. I was thinking the exact same thing. It’s smart to young edgy teenagers.
@@leonfrancis3418 sound smart, no.
Be smart, yes.
@@DeAngelo77 exactly.
It's not smart. It's just logic.
I think we need to change the word “faith” into “source: trust me bro”.
I think people will catch on sooner why faith isn’t such a noble thing after all.
I’d rather not know an answer to a question than to not being able to question an answer.
BRAVO!!!
Well said
Well said
He who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Exactly. Throughout history religion (especially Christianity) has been about blind faith. They only focused on what the Bible said and completely forgot about what Jesus said.
A lot of things in this world are evil, faith isn’t one of them.
I think he is aware that everything associated with your religion is not evil. I imply that regard to the subject of faith in general too.
He is making a logical arguement. Imagine having faith so great you force your kids into it. You could say it is evil. For example, if you get a kid to avoid all ungodly influences they will lack life experience. So much so they are more likely to make Earth, Hell. They will lack human bonds, life experience, they will have unhealthy sexual urges because they will lose their entire childhood to a god that you have faith in. I have watched it happen. Everything has consequences. Being willfully ignorant and ignoring the fact that faith is illogical can be evil and dangerous.
@CONFID3NC3 nothing is wrong about that though....
Ignorance is
Objectively there is not such thing as evil it’s all subjective
@IAMSHERON I disagree, there are some acts so evil they would universally be agreed upon as evil. Unless you had some form of mental condition
Evidence isn't just evident in the physical or 3d realm, evidence can be logic, evidence can be energy towards something
If people can not argue the truth, they will fight over it.
After I turned atheist, religious people became excruciatingly ridiculous for some reason. I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way.
How can something as beautiful as Richard Dawkins have evolved naturally ?
Survival of the fittest
@@PhantomAyz he ai’t exactly fit.
@@theservantsresource3565 Well he is surviving
@@PhantomAyzlol good one
@@PhantomAyzthan explain how butterfly’s and dragon fly’s such delicate creature survived
I totally agree with this man faith without evidence is blind faith and there is no such thing and if you do have blind faith then you are deluding yourself and those who follow you or living in a delusion State
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Come back to islam
@Fides Non Sequitur faith, without purpose, and truth, is nothing anyone could have faith in anything, does not make it true so come back to islam
The wrong thing you said was the word blind faith…blind faith is simply faith. Having faith is already being blind. Having faith is a delusion that was forcefully demanded and inspired by our ancient leaders in order to gain influence and power over its populations.
I'm an athiest, not one faith has any clear evidence.
I wouldn’t say that faith is inherently evil, but I would say that it has a greater potential and proclivity for evil than any other type of thinking, because it can easily convince you for whatever reason that others deserve to die or be treated inhumanely.
The worst is when you believe that someone speaks for your deity, and thus you take their word as absolute, and they can make you commit evil acts because nothing else matters in the face of your faith.
Based on the comments here, very few of you are capable of processing basic logic and have just completely proven Dawkins point by twisting it to fit you're own particular narratives. SMH How many comments here do not even fit with what he actually said. 😒
You should know by now that strawmanning is all they've got.
@@Tretas. lol. Ya I know. But I gotta keep trying! 😆😁 Throw enough, often enough.... maybe someday it'll set in. Cheers 🍻 I still miss Hitchens
@@Tretas. And the projecting!? Like half the time they're just explaining their own illogical views...
so true
@@krisjohansen9132 me too
Dawkins is completely correct
Seriously!
Only to non brainers
@@thewellwishers1266 Then see some statistics about atheism and IQ. ☠️💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀☠️☠️💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@thewellwishers1266what?
I totally agree with you.
Professor Dr. Dawkins is fully true
You don't have to accept my personal faith, but I also don't have to accept your denial of my personal faith. It is why these conversations really need never happen in the first place. What I do in private with my faith is my own biz and what you do in private with your atheism is yours.
Faith in 2023 is an embarrassment to humanity. Shame
Just consoom product and get excited for new product
A pretty interesting interpretation of the word "faith"
I would say that's a standard definition of faith. belief in something without evidence.
@@Philrc The way my church defines it is:
"Trust that God is who He says He is, has done all that He's promised to do, and will do all that He's promised to do."
My church vehemently argues against "blind faith", which is how the term faith is often used in typical speech.
"My team is losing 50-0!" "Oh, just have faith!"
This usage has grossly misinterpreted the meaning of it. The first definition I gave has two parts.
1) You must know who God says He is, and determine for yourself, given your life experiences, if God's character truly sounds accurate and real in the universe we live in.
2) You must know God's promises and determine if they have truly been upheld. For example, God promised Abraham to make him a father of all the nations, going so far as to say that his descendants would outnumber thr stars in the sky and the sand on the Earth. Look at today where we now have nearly 8 billion people alive, and that doesn't even include all the other people that have lived through history.
If you know His character, and you find Him to be true to His promises, then you can have faith that He will do what He says He'll do. Like when a good, faithful friend says "I'll be there", you can count on them to show up. It's not a coin toss as to whether they will or not.
@@oddatsea9398 your church's definition is blind faith. What they are saying to you is believe in a god without any evidence of his existence. That is the only position that a religious person can have. none of you have any proof or have ever had any proof that there is a God at all. If you trust that there is a God on the basis of faith alone with no evidence which is your church's definition that is exactly the same as Dawkins definition and indeed of anybody's definition because it is the standard definition of religious faith. It's no good you going on at me or other people about what God Said and what he promised to us and what Abraham is going to do because all of those things and your belief in them come after the fact that you have blind faith in god's existence. You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever for any of the things that you believe.
A person's belief that their football team may finally win is quite possibly based on far more evidence than you have for the existence of God. There may be all kinds of statistics and facts about the players and their stamina, style of playing etc etc which might lead a person to think that the team will eventually score more points.
@@Philrc Except, no, it's literally not blind faith. Here's the checklist detailed in case you missed it.
1) Read about His promises
2) Determine if those promises have been fulfilled, based off of your own life experiences.
3) Read about His character and actions
4) Determine if those characteristics and actions are evident in your life experiences.
Even science follows a similar ruleset.
1) Hypothesize
2) Test and determine if results accurately reflect what was expected.
Who drops a ball and expects it to go up? No one, because based on previous life experiences, we expect a dropped ball to fall down.
I can logically prove God exists with a thought experiment. If I were a drawing in a flipbook, how would my 3D version interact with my universe (the flipbook)? Then I extrapolate that up so my 2D version becomes 3D and my 3D version becomes 4D. From this thought experiment, the fundamental, inmutable characteristics of God can be described. He would be omnipresent since He can span the entirety of the "flipbook". He would be omnipotent since He would essentially be the artist, able to draw and conjure up anything at His will. He would be omniscient since He would know the entire story of the flipbook from front the back since He drew it. He would be eternal since He exists out of our dimension of time. As stated previously, He knows the front and the back of the flipbook, the Creation and the Extinction of that universe. It'd be foolish from the artist's perspective for the drawing to deny the artist's existence. The artist created it, yet has no way of directly interjecting expect to add himself to the flipbook, like what God did when He took on flesh in the form of Jesus Christ. Other than a direct interjection like that, which still did not convince many of the people of his day, the artist would only be able to act, and from those actions, we can determine the artist's character. If the artist smites all blonde people, then we can determine the artist loathes blondes.
@@oddatsea9398 I don't need to read it you are kidding yourself . Your faith is entirely a matter of belief without evidence.
And no science does not proceed in the same way at all it's actually becoming rather tiresome hearing you God botherer types constantly say this.
The only reason you have some checklist that you think makes any sense at all is because you have blind faith that there is a God that the checklist applies to you have no evidence to think that, you just have faith that he exists.
Religon is holding us back in the modern age
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Religion is like smoking, we know its bad, but so many are hooked to it and very difficult to eradicate.
I agree with Richard Dawson a 100%
Who’s that?
Faith is not belief without evidence - that's superstition. Faith is trusting in what you have found reasonable to believe in.
Wow, I was going to make some argument. But after reading the comments, I found out I don't need to. People already have great awareness 👏
Sheep are in the many, if you would follow religion then you're already going against your God by using internet, technology and medicine. Please stop using these if you're religious and follow your faith for healing and not the devil.
@@hatoftricks7132 I don't what religion are you talking about, but I am confident its not mine. All the current science you are currently studying were invented by my religion follower in their golden age. Lol, even the numbers you are currently writing 1234567890 were invented by a Muslim Scientiest.
Its okay to be ignorant, but its a huge mistake for an ignorant person to think he is all knowing :)
Here is a tiny food of thoughts and a simple search in youtube would have saved both of us a lot of hustle
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Only some people.
Yes, most people know religion is bollox. So many unfortunate people surrounded by nonsense and see no way out of it, especially when getting out of it is dangerous for your well-being. Religion poisons everything.
The problem is that religious people have a different definition/standard of what constitutes evidence..and their gullible/indoctrinated selves think that scriptural dogma & faith suffice as evidence. You cannot reason with the vast majority of people of faith.
Ignorance is not evil however dogmatism is evil
The problem with this is that sometimes you don't have enough information and the next fact could change your tune. That means that you could be wrong even if you choose the most apparently consistent heap of facts. Sometimes life demands a decision based on sub-optimal information, and that means you have to take a risk even if you don't have evidence.
Navigating life isn't just about facts, it's about payoffs and avoiding scenarios or searching for specific scenarios and all of these require that you see past the facts and make decisions. And results matter a lot. Often more than the process to arive there. Life may not wait for you to weigh the facts for and against.
Faith is not belief without evidence - that's superstition. Faith is trusting in what you have found reasonable to believe in.
@@paulkiernan3256 nice cop out: "reasonable to believe in". Very self-referential superstition. Did you burn some sage before that comment too?
Making major life decisions based on superstition IS idiotic
But then, why does it matter if one chooses to believe in a religion, and lets say that, you are correct and we really do just die, and stay dead, then why would it matter what one believes, as long as your not hurting anyone, if we just end we just be dead, As you say we do?
Not all faiths. Only Abrahamic faiths based on blind beiief. Eastern faiths like Hinduism and Buddhism are based on self-exploration and discovery through meditation, and openly tell people "don't believe anything till you have experienced it yourself."
Good point!
I'm not a believer but... have you seen some Cathedrals, Mosques or Synagogues out there? Religious architecture just looks so damn fine.
He is wrong, evil is the indifference of those that know better. Faith and religion are built into the very aspect of what we are. Remove God, and you will simply fill it with something else; atheism, crossfit, veganism, etc.
Most people already do that with new movements but they are still wrong and its still the closest thing to what humans call evil. Which in itself does not actually exist either. Humans like to jump from one fictional hole and just fall into another.
You have only demonstrated that people have viewpoints. Faith is not built into me, it was taught to me. Now I reject faith, as it is not a consistent way to the truth. Multiple religions are a demonstration of that.
@@PersistentDissenter faith is something you believe
It doesn't inherently mean you believe in the right thing
What do you have faith in should be the question
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noun: faith
1.
complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
2.
strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
We are discussing theological faith.
But with that in mind, I do not have complete trust or confidence in anything. I am a skeptic.
@@PersistentDissenter so you have complete faith that there's nothing to have complete faith in?
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Religion has and still is one of humanities biggest killers.
It isnt evil if you keep it to yourself. It is evil when you force it on others.
If anyone is upset by this….plug your ears and just repeat your mantra, “my book says it is so”
Dawkins left open the discussion concerning the nature of the "evidence" needed to support a theistic claim, dawkins is no philosopher, he attributes the words evil and good outside of their ontological sphere and there's no way an atheist can have a basic anchorage for morality, let alone a practical procedure in which we can prove the existence or non-existence of a supernatural being
Morality is most likely a mix of genetics and learned behavior with or without an explicit believe in gods.
Morality is a form of sophisticated altruism, and altruism has evolved many many times in the animal kingdom.
The world in which you live, where morality must come from religion, exists only between your ears.
@@09patrick22barnes95 primal consciousness is exhaustive of reality, not right or wrong, we could have solved excessive population rates if your version of impulse based morality was highly applied, we can just go back to my comment and see that i was only discussing the simple fact an atheist cannot objectively judge a moral value in hindsight, your definition of "genetics and learned behavior" morality is truely beneath my notice as it has no bases and no intrinsic purpose for all that matters, let me ask you a question you will most likely give the worst take on
-what was the driving force (conceptual or impirical) that shaped human behavior and morality into the thing it is now? In other words why is it good to punish jack when he steals from john?
There is no way theists can anchor morality in God in any coherent or compelling way. Least of your problems on that front is that you can't actually demonstrate your god exits.
@@CyeOutsideri feel sorry that you got the two concepts of legitimacy and anchorage mixed up in your head, simply put, metaphysical truths are different to conceptual truths, conceptual truths are the product of talking several distinct elements into a unified whole, a metaphysical truth stands on it's own autonomously, so for you to suggest that the inability to demonstrate God (which is not true btw) can affect the sense of moral anchorage towards deity is plain pathetic
He's right
this is why people of religion get mad at modern day things because they feel they are being forced lol but they do it to others just the same.
RELIGION & POLITICS are the 2 main items dividing the humans
Fact. Religion has no evidence
Reddit comment
@@joe5959 more like, brain existing in skull comment.
@@joe5959just because it’s an atheist comment doesn’t mean it’s a Reddit comment 😂 no more RUclips for you
I believe one of the greatest forms of evil is ignorance and I think this is a form of that . I don't think it's people of faiths intent to implement evil but I think evil is an inevitable outcome of a perceived lack of necessity to understand or tolerate difference.
I agree. There's something about the lack of awareness, for example about God's word, that ould be filled with intrusive thoughts.
With that said, I think true faith takes no effort.
The evidence he's looking for is for example free will and the individual's sovereignty.
Without transcedant revelation that people are beholden to (with it a higher law), all sorts of evil takes place. If you think religion leads to evil, just wait until you see what non-religion leads to. Spoiler alert: we already know, because it's happened in the past. Millions upon millions of people die (and worse).
When people say they believe in God what they really mean is that I believe what someone told them. Usually their parents.
Faith is a means of a way to control people to do evil things.
There is an obvious hole in his argument, or maybe he’s just wording it incorrectly, because most people who have faith and are religious are not believing in something without evidence. They deem the miraculous experiences they’ve had and their relationship with a higher being to be evidence. So it’s not that they believe in something without evidence, they believe they have seen more than enough evidence to believe in/have faith in it.
What miraculous experiences? There are zero miraculous occurrences. Finding your car keys isn't one, no. What "relationship with 'god'"?.
A relationship with no communication? 'god' never speaks, never appears, never answers. No-one can tell you what 'god' looks like, sounds like, what gender, can't ask a direct question, can't get any direct answers, no-one purports to have any actual communication with 'god'.
It's always some random, mundane occurrence that people suddenly espouse is a 'sign from 'god''.
You are exactly the same as the people who identify as quad-gender, non-binary antelopes.
@@philscott3759 Hey Phil!
I’d love to discuss this with you!
Miraculous doesn’t always mean walking on water or coming back from death, it can be a multitude of things but finding your car keys is quite a weak argument to oppose. I completely understand why you’d be skeptical, and I don’t blame you at all! Why would anyone believe in God? It’s seems impossible for someone like that to exist so I completely understand where you’re coming from and I’m not trying to argue with you at all. When I said miraculous, I did not mean finding your car keys, I would say that is a straw man argument.
What about the real life stories of people that actually exist who have been healed from disease when doctors said they had weeks to live? I personally know people who have experienced a multitude of happenings that I would deem as miraculous, and I myself have as well. They’re not always so obvious like being saved from a car crash or something but they are much more profound than that, they are not always a single instance but rather, a constant connection. Have you thought about the fact that maybe people can’t describe what God sounds like or looks like because someone as great as God would not be communicating in such human and earthly ways? That maybe the reason that science can’t explain God and that science can’t prove God exists is because if He could be proved by science then what would be so great about Him? I know you might say that there are many great and astounding things that can be proved by science but personally I think that if God was subject to science He would not be ‘God’. God must be greater than science and exists outside the laws and dimensions that we humans perceive. I know this might sound crazy and I don’t blame you if you think that. I do however feel that if you truly open yourself to God, and I mean truly genuinely and 100% open yourself to the possibility that God exists then it is impossible to not be confronted by Him. I believe that if you are willing, and really genuinely open your heart and mind and soul to God, and I mean genuinely, not in a way that you’re doing it just to prove that there isn’t a God, but if you genuinely open your heart to God, it is impossible to not feel and hear Him in ways that you feel and understand so deep in your soul that are profound beyond belief. I believe that Jesus is God and you’re free to say you disagree but personally I feel that I’ve experienced too many things to say otherwise. I’ve had periods where I didn’t believe there was a God at all and tried to live that way, but God always found me and spoke to me on a level that I can’t really articulate. If He wasn’t real, then I would have no problem saying that, and I have believed that at times and struggled with the illogical and unscientific nature of God but God is greater than Logic and Science. If He was bound by science and logic He would not be ‘God’. I personally have experienced too many ‘miraculous’ things in my life to say that He does not exist and by ‘miraculous’ I don’t only mean someone being healed from a disease or saved from a car crash but I mean the profound connection that goes right to my very soul and essence and being. Jesus, God, speaks to everyone in a different way.
I’m glad to continue this discussion with you Phil, please feel free to say whatever you want. I pray that God speaks to you soon, in a way that only you can understand.
Have a great day Phil!
Furthermore, faith doesn’t justify ‘anything’ (everything) because major religions have a manual that delineates the boundaries of their faith
@Ingram Strand fair enough but he was speaking in a particular context and so am I
That's not evidence
Idk about evil, but I suppose it’s less than optimal.
Ignorance is a breeding ground for evil action but I don't think ignorance Itself is evil, I don't think religion should be banned I just think there should be better education in schools that makes kids open minded and respectful but also skeptical
As a muslim he is right
I don't think the concept of faith itself is bad. Atleast having faith on something like for example having faith in believing that someone will do the right or moral thing or hoping that your favourite sports team wins. Though what I'm thinking off could be classified more as hope than faith.
There's no hate like Christian love.
Define love
Hate is your food.
Religions are like guns. Good sometimes and bad other times
Faith literally means to have belief in God with plenty of evidence you are very blinded.
@@NewLifeFromTheWayofTruth Defined by who? Have you checked with a dictionary?
@@NewLifeFromTheWayofTruthyou have no idea what faith is and there is no evidence of God
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then it wouldn’t be faith anymore, would it?
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Religion spoils everything
Correction : Abrahamic religion spoil everything
Correction : Christianity and Islam spoils everything
I'd only disagree with the 'It's private' part of the statement.
Private faith? That's all you. Go for it.
The problem is those who think their faith means other people have to behave a certain way. Not private.
Fools, if you buy this premise. We put faith in a hundred things every day without evidence, but these assumptions allow you to traverse your daily decision making and survive the world.
Your confusing trust with faith.
Secondly, even if that is the case, true two wrongs don’t make a right.
That's the thing - every day! We put faith in things that happen all the time, meaning it's very reasonable to believe they will continue to happen. Religions are not the same. They are founded on religious books which claim extraordinary events that allegedly happened once in the past and were written down. Are we supposed to believe those stories the same way we believe repetitive things of mundane life?
we are all born as atheist until someone starts telling us lies
That’s just wrong, people who haven’t considered the question are called innocents
Ohh and we’re all born anarchists until someone starts telling us lies
Faith is confidence in something unseen that actually is. Presumption is confidence in something without evidence. Presumption is not having faith when you have evidence as well.
Well said Richard sir
So how is it evil if there is no morality?
@@mickski548explain your question pls
@@mr.meowbartholomewherberttheth I sense Mick is an apologist, but i will withhold until further info from him
@@FactStorm what
Beautifully put.
Intelligence and education are apparently no barrier to ignorance.
He never specified the standard of evidence. Plenty of people justify terrible beliefs with low quality evidence.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not seen.
Poetry != Truth.
Ah yes, the Bible is true because it says so in the Bible!
No substance
This guy is the devil's wet dream.
The devil is an admirable figure he is like prometheus who was cursed for rebelling against the tyrannical god zeus who like yahweh was a rapist and murderer
"Devil" is religion too
Brainwashing. Religious people can’t quite grasp the fact that they’ve been brainwashed. Religious people are the perfect example of how brainwashing works. Brainwashing is not just about tricking the mind its about making you desire to believe what you’ve been taught is correct no matter what, no matter what logic says, no matter what the truth is, they’ve branded it under the disguise of having faith. Religions are proven to be ancient brainwashing tools used by past leaders to provide them influence and power over its population. “If you don’t do this in a certain way you will go to hell”, “If you don’t this do this in a certain way it’s a sin and god will find you punishment”. “If you do this in a certain way god will reward you”, “If you do this in a certain way god will save you”. its an almost perfect scheme. Today humans still create this brainwashing techniques but we don’t call it religion any longer and we don’t based it upon the fictional and the spiritual any longer. I know what you religion folks are thinking right now god will send people in your life to test your faith and you shall not cede to it you must keep believing, you must keep believing, you must keep believing always no matter what or god will find you punishment. Thats is one of the most impressive principles of brainwashing at its finest the people who created religion knew precisely what they were doing. Always prepare them for the inevitable confrontation with people who will speak truth to them that is one of the most important rules of brainwashing. It’s astonishing and terrifying at the same time. I know that the grand majority of religious people will chose to ignore and not take this statement to heart as it takes a ridiculous amount of mental strength, suffering and determination to undo brainwashing. Most individuals as an innate defense mechanism will never allow themselves to be subjugated to such process they will chose to ignore it like a kid would ignore a warning from their teacher. Because the truth of human kind is that as long as they feel happy and safe they will most of the time chose to ignore the truth. And thats why usually the ignorants are also the happiest but bottom line you are still living under a lie a safe delusion. But then you also understand why modern nations such as western countries, China, Russia and Japan and every country and society that doesn’t have its political and educational system attached to a fictional and old minded brainwashing scheme of centuries ago is so much more developed than countries whose education and politics is bound to religion such as most Muslim countries for example…Modern societies of today in the west, China, Russia, Japan and others of the sort its about innovation of ideas while others such as in the middle east it’s about preservation of ancient ideas. Muslim countries will always be far below the rest of the world in science, societal development and general quality of life as long as they don’t realize that religion was made to be appreciated and not followed blindly like a cult. You are only gonna push yourself down as long as you keep preserving ideas of centuries ago completely outdated for todays reality and needs. Innovation is the birth of new information and information is the source of power and there is barely to almost none of it in Muslim middle eastern countries pushed by their enforcement of religion in both politics and education.
Delusional clown here.
Believing in God is not evil.
Faith is not necessarily evil, it's an impediment to understanding
dont blame religion, its just human is the most wicked and devilish creature, we can use anything as a reason and tool of destruction, then act innocent and blame other
That’s the point, human nature is made worse by religion.
@@ryanobrien2383 yes. Teaching morality, social responsibility, self-sufficiency, tolerance, love, and faith in a loving Creator definitely makes humans worse.
@@ryanobrien2383 And science.
@@poposheesho Yet those same values were absolutely useless in preventing the religious people from doing bad things, and I don't want to hear a platitude how they weren't the true christians.
@@thejarjosh Well unlike religion, science has to use more of a leap to figure out what kinds of people it should hate, where as religion has its own law which demands that if someone breaks it, that's who I should hate.
No matter what is taught and believed, there will always be evil men doing evil things. But in order for good men to do evil things you need faith.
This is a paraphrase of someone else's quote