"I'm offended!" Translation: You just threatened my beliefs in such a way that I cannot counter and now I am uncomfortable with the thought that you might be right.
“Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” ― Christopher Hitchens "If someone tells me that I ave offended them, I say I'm still waiting to hear what your point is" ----- Christopher Hitchens
@@cnault3244 Thank you! For the record, I did see your good intentions in there. I did not, even in the merest sense, detect any malice in your post. It was just that the quotes you offered were better able to express what I was thinking than my own post could. It's a little like being happy with the new coat of paint I just put on my shutters and being shown a mural. I can use language at a serviceable level, Christopher was an artist with it. Thanks again for the post! :)
Dark: I've been an outspoken antitheist and Atheist all my life ... i've known about Dawkins and Hitchens for years .. thanks ... "The God Delusion" is a Classic" as is "God is not Great."
Johnloves: Atheists only require three things. 1. Which god{s} of the 14,000 invented by ignorant men over the centuries do you worship. 2. Define this deity your worship and 3. Provide one single verifiable, concrete proof, data and evidence of your given definition. It's really very simple. Beyond that, you are merely worshipping a delusion your were told to believe as a child. That's how religion works; it strikes the young with a deluded idea of a god{s} then threatens you with more bullshit if you don't adhere to its dogma. Religion is based on ignorant men thousands of years ago "making shit up" in order to understand nature and control to women and the masses. Get a grip John, embrace Atheism and get your head out of a delusion; free yourself from the chains on Bronze age superstition, myth and fictional nonsense. You will thank me. Enjoy you day. :)
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
I always wondered; if you are a surgeon who studied years and years of medicine and you work your ass of day in and day out and than they bring in someone who is messed up by an accident, and you sow back their leg, and you stitch up their kidney, put their eye back in their socket etc. And then they wake up and go “I survived, because I had an angel on my shoulder” or something like that and their family cries “God answered our prayers”, wouldn’t you be incredibly pissed off?
The reason you become a great surgeon is because you perform surgery a LOT. On a lot of people. On a daily basis. Sure, it's annoying when patients give credit to invisible winged people from the sky, but at the end of the day, you've helped those people, and at least as many others that might believe something different, and the only thing those people have in common is that you saved their lives and eased their suffering.
@@dortiapewpew7445 yeah he's saying, doing a good job on something that's really hard to do and instead of getting credit for it, the invisible omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent dictator in the sky gets praised for it.
This comes very late to you, but I think this comedian pretty much summed up your point exactly. His name is Daniel Sloss. I will leave a RUclips link for you to see for yourself. ruclips.net/video/PZ5aILCKz8Y/видео.html
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
I'll never forget how, after my doctors cured my cancer, SO MANY people attributed it to god. I always pointed out that maybe he shouldn't have given it to me in the first place. Instant end of the discussion.
My friend was in a nasty car crash and was in critical condition for weeks. His odds were less than 50/50 of surviving, but he pulled through. Some said it was with God's grace (and their prayers of course) that he survived. We asked them if God had forgotten about our mate in the passengers seat who died in the crash...
This is what results when you face this kind of indoctrinated incoming for year after year: you become near-encyclopedic in your understanding of Christian apologetics and capable of deflating their stock and sometimes not-so-stock arguments. That, my friends, is what Matt Dillahunty has become: the prototype anti-apologist. Keep on rockin', Matt!
Troubleshooter125. I don't know; I don't think religions are offended by Matt, at all. I think when it comes to the more logical sense, evolutionist believe in books making themselves. How logical is that? Christians believe that books have creators! I think Dillahunty,Dawson,and those like them are cheating their followers, as they are the little gods of secular truth, that opposes the notion of THE creator of all things. Plus, their message has no hope. And their reward is the following peers kudos; but in them and from their lips is no forethought of the eternal spirit, or after life. Their religion,( for they have many believers) has no life nor Hope. You'll get no pearls of wisdom,because it's Mostly of scoffing, and denying the God that knew them from birth. It's pretty much a dead religion!!! Think I'll place my trust in the ole 4000+ year old book of wisdom and Hope; the Bible. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding" Trust God;and drop the scoff clowns!
You can do as you please, Paul ... but your holy book has problems, more than a couple. I would say too many to count, except that someone has, one Steve Wells, so documented in The Skeptic's Annotated Bible. You might give it a look sometime.
Troubleshooter125. I may do that! I don't mind checking out what others may think on things spiritual or not. I just believe that our souls and spirits and body are immortal, and our dead(sleeping) bodies will be quickened at an appointed time, to be reunited. One to heaven; for those that put their faith in the work of Christ sacrifice, for redemption and salvation. The second resurrection that has no life, and is a separation from God. I know very much, that God is, and has been working in my life in different ways for years, and even now. So I feel especially blessed! I wouldn't push my beliefs on others, nor scoff at them for non belief; as I feel they can discover it for themselves, and arrive at their own conclusions. What I don't like is the proverbial bullies, that take joy in trying to dismantle, or explain away, writs way older and sager than themselves. To me, they are fulfilling the very words they scoff against.
Paul George--You do realise of course none of those claims that support your beliefs can withstand any critical scrutiny. But obviously this is of absolutely no concern to you.
I genuinely believe that the reason we don't see more of Matt is that 99% of theist debtors don't want to fuck with him. lol I mean, don't get me wrong, the 4 horsemen are all so amazing. They are what made me feel ok about not believing in god. Matt though, he makes theist look like idiots to everyone around them. He gives arguments that have no objectionable points that leave you speechless. lol PS: Hitchens was this way and is my favorite... I'm so glad we have Matt at least.
@Jef van Becker hahaha stop over-analyzing everything, the numbers are the date River Plate won the Copa Libertadores and in the pic is Patrick Jane, a good character that i like. Oh wait... is that really it? Is the man in the picture really Patrick Jane or some kind of illuminati conspiracy in black and white? Oooh misterious!!! PS: no i don't have a soul, fuck off.
Telling the truth and challenging nonsense doesn't constitute offence in my book. If they choose to take offence (and it is a choice) that's their problem.
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Uh... Probably not correct? If a bunch of dudes keep pestering a gay person because they're gay by shouting the F-word, how is that not offensive? Wouldn't they have good reason to be offended, simply because they're insinuating that they're less worth or something?
As I struggle with the level of indoctrination to which I was exposed, it helps me to hear from Matt who had soooooo much more...and yet he made it out 👍🏻
@@brianfergus839 The primary function of religion is as a tribal group identity. The us/them of tribalism/religions makes for brutality. The others AKA heathens, pagans, blasphemers, heretics et cetera deserve eternal torment for not joining them.
I admire this man so much. He has squared all the circles and circled all the squares with undeniably logic and reason. There's one question I would like to pose to him but am unable to contact him.
Thats a misunderstanding on your part. Its not a RUclips thing. Advertisers choose where they want their ads to appear in broad categories. For normal advertisers hawking a product it'd probably look like what you expect. A Ford or Geico ad might play over videos talking about Tesla's causing massive collisions, car repair videos, or road trips. But they can also go broadly because almost everyone needs a car and insurance. For something like PragerU, popping an ad on a video such as this one makes sense in trying to hook less well-informed people. The videos then obfuscate the truth or make claims for things they cannot possibly support hoping to get them to nod along. But forget the practical reasons for a moment. They also get to "own the libs" placing ads on videos like this one. That alone is worth a few ad dollars to buffoons like Prager when you're being funded by right-wing Christian billionaires.
Matt is a great thinker. Very direct, doesnt care if you are ofended by truth but just at the same time. Thank you for Atheist experience Matt really enjoying the podcast during long work hours.
no man on earth can believe in a god without lying to himself and it is important to understand if you never heard of a god notion you would live a wonderful life observing the real creator ...nature
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub that's from a story book man. How can you take that literally with no evidence?! How can a loving God show his wrath to non believers when "he" has shown in concrete evidence if "his" existence? Sounds like an evil nonsensical threat.
@@johndenton4008 It’s by faith. I feel it in my heart that it’s real. Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins he was buried and rose again. Hey guys!! God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God. Please accept him before it's Eternally too late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
As much as I like Matt, I would be hard pressed to elect him President. Not to be insulting, but I would believe that Matt would be comparable to a left-wing Trump. Neither should be giving the power of the Presidency simply because their temperament is all wrong for the position. When you are the head guy, you need to have a thick skin for people being negative towards you and while I believe Matt has come a long way, he is still hair trigger some days. That frustration he experiences will just stop any positive forward motion for the government and probably knock us back a few steps.
@@rodneyspragg2986 apart from your own existence. Consciousness. I suppose you believe in such things as pain and love too right?? That’s faith. I don’t cherry pick I take the bible as it is.
The only thing that offends me in this video is the music at the beginning. I love Matt. I also wish we could somehow bring back Christopher Hitchens. No more faith schools! :)
Some RUclipsrs take other people's content...and think we're they're for them. No. We're here for dillahunty. Don't force us to watch your crappy introduction
I've had so many arguments with the Religious but it is basically pointless. They're just not using the same standards of reason so any exchange is impossible. Its like arguing with a blindfolded person that speaks a different language. They will actually deliver their statement of belief as if it is fact and then deny having to provide any proof for what they say as they'll insist that God is correct by default. So they'll claim they *know* it. Then you will try to reason how and why their position is unsafe ...and they will demand that you prove that there is no God. An impossible waste of time.
the blindfolded persons are you atheists,.. you guys deny reality and truth. none of you morons can prove life can come about without a super natural creator.
And you see it here in your comment. You are making an argument from ignorance. You are arguing from a position of authority even though you have NOT shown the fact of what you claim. The burden of proof reasonably requires YOU to show that life came about through a super natural creator. Asking for disproof before you offer any proof yourself is a logical fallacy. YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT LIFE WAS CREATED BY A SUPER NATURAL CREATOR BUT YOU ARE DEMANDING DISPROOF? The conceit and arrogance of the Religious perfectly demonstrated. Thank-you.
digglyda blindfolded and mute of reason and any decision making ability " natural selection" created a perfect environment that stayed perfect for billions of years so it could create you
No. It didn't *create* me at all. I'm merely here by chance like everyone else. And this planet was totally unsuitable for human life for millions and millions of years after it formed. And it certainly doesn't stay *perfect* either. There are a lot of areas on the surface of this planet that are inhospitable. We know we are in a cycle of ice ages that make human existence very difficult. Then there are things like earthquakes, volcano's, tidal waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, bush fires, floods, droughts, disease. Then we know that the Earth gets hit by a meteorite every 75 million years or so that is catastrophic enough to wipe out pretty much all life on the planet. But you really want to pretend that it was created perfect for me or you ? Its pretty clear its not, we're lucky to be here at all as the odds are really stacked against us.
I find it funny when my mom says that the god that doesn’t exist will strike me down with lightning - I tell her, “Why wouldn’t you wish your god struck me, your most intelligent and accomplished child, down with feathers?” 😂😂😂
6:30 I've never understood the "junk DNA" attack from theists into science. If anything, it proves that evolution goes through multiple modifications, not all of them successful. If there was an intelligent design, there should be no flaws, waste or excessive genes required, everything should be there for a reason, or the other explanation would be that god is bad at engineering, didn't know of was not seeing when that happened, in other words, would not be perfect, or not all-knowing, or not omnipresent, or basically, not god at all.
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub being a prisoner forever to a murderous, jealous super being who can read your every thought and demands that you believe in every thing he does without question..... Sounds like a blast, have fun.
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub What a load of RUBBISH. The bible is nothing more than a storybook for adults and not even a very good one. NO ONE did anything for me let alone died on a cross. Two of the things that I HATE in this world is people who believe in fairy tales and people who try to force their stupid ideas onto other people. THERE IS NO GOD, GET A LIFE AND GET OVER IT.....
Define uneducated, define ignorant, define intellectual immaturity and finaly define offence, please ... I have the impression that we use different definitions ...
Faith is for mob mentality And hoping what you're doing is right In the belief whoever started the mob madness knows what they're talking about Spiritual is nontangible non real, hallucination, visions, seeing something different, feelings, audible hallucinations and such
Is that what you have faith in? Matt and what he says? Is it Matt who you believe in? Well I believe Jesus was who he said he was, and I believe there is enough evidence to support that. I have faith in Jesus, See the difference?
2consider. Or maybe he's explaining what faith really means you idiot. Otherwise the theist will get too excited and jump to conclusions and start arguing straight away on a false premise.
omg you really are basing your world view on misguided information. Believe me when I say I have no issue with what ever you believe, but when you either lie or are misinformed about the history or the evidence then it is you that is basing your world view on data that is wrong. The Bible is full of many different things, it is not written by God but by 40 different people over a period of 3000 years. The Bible is not the only scriptures and the only thing leading to God. But that being said Christians follow Christ. They follow the teaching of JESUS. We look at Jesus as the person who abolished the law of the OT. So when you guys keep quoting the OT is is redundant.
Laurie Duman Matthew 5:17 ] “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.......
There is more than one kind of knowing. There is the realm of facts and the realm of values. In the realm of values you love let’s say your boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever without rationale.
@@jonahellis like the difference between objective and subjective. It is objectively true the we exist and it is subjectively true that a god created everything.
@@jonahellis well, I know that I objectively exist, I am made of solid matter and interact with the world around me and no, my consciousness isn't on "faith", my mind has consistently proven to be reliable when collecting data from my senses. My cognitive abilities can be demonstrated, are repeatable and observable so therefore objectively exist. What makes you think that us existing is subjective?
@@TheTruthKiwi so how do you know you’re not a simulation? What’s your rationale for that? Also do you believe in a scientific impossibility (which by the way is irreplicable) that everything came from nothing? Do you believe that time plus matter plus chance created your brain?
hooterville2 Your comment makes no sense. People can most certainly have an irrational fear, hatred, or disgust towards ideas. Religions (like Islam) are ideas, and an irrational fear, hatred, or disgust is a phobia. Therefore, the term "Islamophobia" describes an irrational fear, hatred, or disgust towards the religion of Islam and/or people who believe in it. It's grammatically correct, and people who use it properly are generally not idiots.
Islamophobia is a ridiculous word. Let's look at the definition; Islamophobia is defined as "Intense dislike or fear of Islam, esp. as a political force; hostility or prejudice towards Muslims". So Islamophobia is: Dislike or fear of Islam AND Hostility or prejudice towards Muslims They lump these 2 separate things into one definition, because it's reasonable to dislike or fear Islam, but it's unreasonable to be hostile or prejudice towards Muslims. We already have a word for being prejudiced towards Muslims, a BIGOT. The word itself is ridiculous. Islamo-phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear of something, so the word means "An irrational fear of Islam." But fearing Islam is a rational fear, I fear Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. These are some of the few ideologies that can make good people do horrible things.
islam means "submission, obedience, peace, and purity". i don't really understand what "purity" actually means... and even the purest manure is still pure bullshit. peace, i agree with. but i don't think any religion does... submission and obedience? i guess i'm a proud islamophobe then.
Every time somebody argues that God is immutable but had to tailor his message to the times so that people would ACCEPT his message... I want to point out that he's God, and it should be a little more difficult to disobey someone who _can flood the planet on a whim._ "Stop owning people as property or I'm going to drown you all... again." "You're trying to remind me that I created the rainbow as a sign of my promise not to flood the world again? Ohoho... I didn't say I am going to FLOOD it (with water). I'm going to drown you all in BEES this time!" Maybe God has developed cataracts in his supposedly _perfect_ eyes, and that's why his aim has gotten so bad since then. I mean according to Pat Roberts he tends to hit entirely unrelated areas with disasters as punishment for our sins, so...
Personally, i don't need evidence to believe or not to in God. Evidence is required for debate, legal administration, science experiment, ....... How can someone do away or ignore a word, a name, a being, a person, whatever you call it, such as "GOD"?!!!! I heard that even if you formatted a hard disc, some computer nerds can always recover the data!!!!!
I don't find most of these statements offensive. Unless someone gets offended by the truth. The burden of proof is in the claim, not in the dismissal of the claim; there is morality outside religion; science is always finding flaws in its models and improvement is done through more and better science, not by god of the gaps; saying "I don't know" is better than pretending I know something I really don't; all of these are true statements, not insults.
The problem is already in the title. In so many areas we've stopped to acknowledge criticism. Yeah, criticism might be harsh sometimes, but when it is justified, there might actually good intentions behind it, an offer to remedy mistakes you are making and shortcomings you have. Even if you strip away the good intention, you can still give criticism an honest evaluation, and if you find it lacking after careful examination, then you can still reject it. But so many people see all criticism (or even simply differing opinions) as offending, as an insult, as a declaration of war. We need to learn - and teach - fact based discourse again, and seeing the value in being wrong instead of feeling infallible.
spirituality or any word smithing using spirit are referring to the first known religions and they where towards tree`s and rocks having spirits, now we have holy spirit and instead of looking like a god ( LMFAo) , HE IS AN EXACT REPLICA`S OF MAN , BECAUSE IS MAN MADE
@@mindthe8bits397 I research the evolution of religion mate , My people are have over 65,000 years of civilisation and culture and no paedophile's in the sky until 250 years ago. I don`t go much on Matt these days as he refuses to recognise my people, Often dismissing us because we aren`t white and American. He comes across these days as though if he don`t know about it, It does not exist. he is racist concerning indigenous peoples IMO.
The bible is basically ancient myth, some historical facts, all thrown together into a tome that's ultimately an account of people's ideas, preconceptions and projections ABOUT "god", it shows how those ideas have developed over time...and most importantly, it demonstrates how those beliefs have been used to exploit and manipulate people throughout the history of those cultures. "God" is the personification of nature, the "seed" or basic foundation of consciousness, and the dynamic element of the life, death and decay process...essentially the collective manifest (physical) and unmanifest ("spiritual") world of reality. It's a concept...an attempt to comprehend these things in a context beyond or separate from our own individual experience...but concepts about "god" are never anything but IDEAS. The concept or symbol, no matter how sophisticated, is NEVER the actual "thing itself".
Does anyone have references to the studies Matt is talking about at (3:21)? I would love to look more into this topic but can't seem to find anything reliable enough.
God: Don't wear mixed fabrics or toil on the sabbath or else eternal punishment. Also God: I better ease them gently into giving up slavery over many many centuries so I don't seem like some kind of a-hole deity.
@@drsatan7554 Dont be hypocrite we the West still does that in 2021 we profit from poor countries... Dont talk about Bible or history if you dont know it go and ask Educated historian atheist that question... Dont come with fake news... You and puirYorick have no clue thats the truth..
I don't believe in religion, but I do envy the theists because they have it so easy! when you ask them ANY question regarding all the catastrophes, injustices, suffering, genocides, diseases, .... , and why would god not stop all that since we are "his children" and "he loves us", the theists have one simple answer: " god works in mysterious ways" -- no evidence, research, experiments, or logical reasoning necessary ... Jim Jeffries has a brilliant hillarious joke about "working in mysterious ways".
wrong you lying sack of shite. atheism and atheists are full of shit. all you morons do is lies./ thanks for proving atheist hate truth and deny realitry/. you guys love to prove how dumb atheiists are,.
LifeIsTimeless "Eat ,Drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye may die." We don't live forever. And about God...,? We'll see later! ruclips.net/video/7HuUj-A9Da4/видео.html
Truth that offends people is still the truth. Falsehoods that people passionately believe are true are still falsehoods. We should not gratuitously offend religion simply for the sake of enjoyment, in spite of our aggravations and resentments, but should dryly, factually, unflinchingly state the truth of religion's many falsehoods.
Who the hell cares about “ offended “ ? That’s not an argument and doesn’t matter. As Stephen Fry said once “ you’re offended ? So fucking what? “ And, as Hitchens said, I’m also offended by the religious things I read every day, at least I don’t go out hurting or shouting or kidnapping people because of it.
Saw the title and looked at how long this video is.... Thought 13 mins only ?? Should be about 13 hours long as religion is offended by anything and everything unless you say I love god or I love Jesus ..... and yet they offend with impunity and demand respect whilst doing it.
Never heard this guy speak without liking what he said. I love his point about religious people always affiliating their perception of atheism and of evolution with whoever they're arguing against and arguing against their own predetermined perception rather than the argument at hand. It's because those who indoctrinate them teach them arguments against atheist concepts and evolutionary concepts that are outdated or just made up by religious leaders to discredit evolution and opposition of religion and when they encounter a real atheist with an actual point, they're always caught off guard and all they know how to do is argue against what the preacher said atheists and believers in evolution believe. It's why you still often hear "but why are there still monkeys?"
Everything good that happens to you remember to give God all the glory. Everything that is bad that happens to you...well...it wasn't his plan for you and pray more you sinner.
Got into a youtube comment argument a week ago. I said Matt is top 5 atheist influencers of the decade. People rated him as F tier. I just don't understand
"I'm offended!" Translation: You just threatened my beliefs in such a way that I cannot counter and now I am uncomfortable with the thought that you might be right.
“Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” ― Christopher Hitchens
"If someone tells me that I ave offended them, I say I'm still waiting to hear what your point is" ----- Christopher Hitchens
@@cnault3244 OK that was humbling. Hitchens was a master of English and that makes me feel like a Hollywood cave man. "Ug. Me talk good."
@@cnault3244 Thank you! For the record, I did see your good intentions in there. I did not, even in the merest sense, detect any malice in your post. It was just that the quotes you offered were better able to express what I was thinking than my own post could. It's a little like being happy with the new coat of paint I just put on my shutters and being shown a mural. I can use language at a serviceable level, Christopher was an artist with it. Thanks again for the post! :)
If you are offended, your faith is weak as wet toilet paper.
Hitchens was a master at making a donkey out of himself.
You can't really offend religion - It's pretty offensive already!
😂 👍
Oddly enough, the people I know that are most offended by everything are all Christians 😂
I like that one.
I'm still waiting for the apologists to apologize.
Like a bad smell that doesn't go away.
Exactly, the thought that we need the fear of hell to be good people..
Matt is brilliant at looking at religion in the face and telling it "your bullshit!" As an outspoken Atheist, I can't agree more. :)
Please tell me you know who Christopher Hitchens is then! You'd love him. I have a video on my channel on him if you'd like.
Thanks for the comment!
Dark: I've been an outspoken antitheist and Atheist all my life ... i've known about Dawkins and Hitchens for years .. thanks ... "The God Delusion" is a Classic" as is "God is not Great."
Well that is fantastic to hear!
Johnloves: Atheists only require three things. 1. Which god{s} of the 14,000 invented by ignorant men over the centuries do you worship. 2. Define this deity your worship and 3. Provide one single verifiable, concrete proof, data and evidence of your given definition. It's really very simple. Beyond that, you are merely worshipping a delusion your were told to believe as a child. That's how religion works; it strikes the young with a deluded idea of a god{s} then threatens you with more bullshit if you don't adhere to its dogma. Religion is based on ignorant men thousands of years ago "making shit up" in order to understand nature and control to women and the masses. Get a grip John, embrace Atheism and get your head out of a delusion; free yourself from the chains on Bronze age superstition, myth and fictional nonsense. You will thank me. Enjoy you day. :)
@@chiefslim9353 no he wouldn't, because what you just said is switching the burden of proof, which is a fallacy.
This guy knows what he’s talking about. Pleasure to watch.
😆😆😆
Hes has mannnnnny videos. Matt's is awesome
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub be quiet. You are repeating nonsense.
@@slowjamcdub STFU you brainwashed Muppet.
And I don't want to live forever.
It's not that I'm comfortable not knowing, it's that I'm more uncomfortable pretending I know. 2:50
That comment really resonated with me as well.
I started reading this right before he said it 😂😂
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub vicarious sacrifice is immoral, and any existence that lasts for eternity is hell
@@DiamondSan7 so you believe in objective morality?
“You’re offended? So fucking what?”
-Stephen Fry
Yup that's called a you problem
A round of applause for every time you offended religion!
👏
You would have to do a looooot of clapping.
I always wondered; if you are a surgeon who studied years and years of medicine and you work your ass of day in and day out and than they bring in someone who is messed up by an accident, and you sow back their leg, and you stitch up their kidney, put their eye back in their socket etc. And then they wake up and go “I survived, because I had an angel on my shoulder” or something like that and their family cries “God answered our prayers”, wouldn’t you be incredibly pissed off?
I would be you did all the work and in the end you get sidelined by a being who not only knew that would happened but may have been why it happened.
The reason you become a great surgeon is because you perform surgery a LOT. On a lot of people. On a daily basis. Sure, it's annoying when patients give credit to invisible winged people from the sky, but at the end of the day, you've helped those people, and at least as many others that might believe something different, and the only thing those people have in common is that you saved their lives and eased their suffering.
@@virtualpants Can someone translate what this guy says to English please?
@@dortiapewpew7445 yeah he's saying, doing a good job on something that's really hard to do and instead of getting credit for it, the invisible omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent dictator in the sky gets praised for it.
This comes very late to you, but I think this comedian pretty much summed up your point exactly. His name is Daniel Sloss. I will leave a RUclips link for you to see for yourself. ruclips.net/video/PZ5aILCKz8Y/видео.html
That invisible sky daddy created the entire universe , but is in need of your 20 dollars. LOL
And his earthly minions have such an abnormal interest in making close contact with young boys.
@@mrcurly1147 *scam artists
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Maybe god is that market invisible hand David Smith was talking about lol
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
I'll never forget how, after my doctors cured my cancer, SO MANY people attributed it to god. I always pointed out that maybe he shouldn't have given it to me in the first place. Instant end of the discussion.
Yeah, it's a real pisser when you spoil people's misguided beliefs with cold hard logic.
After that they usually say something like, "God allowed you to get cancer to test your faith and inspire us all."
My friend was in a nasty car crash and was in critical condition for weeks. His odds were less than 50/50 of surviving, but he pulled through.
Some said it was with God's grace (and their prayers of course) that he survived. We asked them if God had forgotten about our mate in the passengers seat who died in the crash...
This is what results when you face this kind of indoctrinated incoming for year after year: you become near-encyclopedic in your understanding of Christian apologetics and capable of deflating their stock and sometimes not-so-stock arguments. That, my friends, is what Matt Dillahunty has become: the prototype anti-apologist.
Keep on rockin', Matt!
Matt is certainly good at this. And he gets better all the time.
Troubleshooter125. I don't know; I don't think religions are offended by Matt, at all. I think when it comes to the more logical sense, evolutionist believe in books making themselves. How logical is that?
Christians believe that books have creators!
I think Dillahunty,Dawson,and those like them are cheating their followers, as they are the little gods of secular truth, that opposes the notion of THE creator of all things.
Plus, their message has no hope.
And their reward is the following peers kudos; but in them and from their lips is no forethought of the eternal spirit, or after life.
Their religion,( for they have many believers) has no life nor Hope.
You'll get no pearls of wisdom,because it's
Mostly of scoffing, and denying the God that knew them from birth.
It's pretty much a dead religion!!!
Think I'll place my trust in the ole 4000+ year old book of wisdom and Hope; the Bible.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding"
Trust God;and drop the scoff clowns!
You can do as you please, Paul ... but your holy book has problems, more than a couple. I would say too many to count, except that someone has, one Steve Wells, so documented in The Skeptic's Annotated Bible. You might give it a look sometime.
Troubleshooter125. I may do that!
I don't mind checking out what others may think on things spiritual or not.
I just believe that our souls and spirits and body are immortal, and our dead(sleeping) bodies will be quickened at an appointed time, to be reunited. One to heaven; for those that put their faith in the work of Christ sacrifice, for redemption and salvation. The second resurrection that has no life, and is a separation from God.
I know very much, that God is, and has been working in my life in different ways for years, and even now.
So I feel especially blessed!
I wouldn't push my beliefs on others, nor scoff at them for non belief; as I feel they can discover it for themselves, and arrive at their own conclusions.
What I don't like is the proverbial bullies, that take joy in trying to dismantle, or explain away, writs way older and sager than themselves.
To me, they are fulfilling the very words they scoff against.
Paul George--You do realise of course none of those claims that support your beliefs can withstand any critical scrutiny. But obviously this is of absolutely no concern to you.
You can't offend a religion. You can offend those that follow a religion and it's far, far too easy to do so.
That doesn't make it any less enjoyable though.
I genuinely believe that the reason we don't see more of Matt is that 99% of theist debtors don't want to fuck with him. lol I mean, don't get me wrong, the 4 horsemen are all so amazing. They are what made me feel ok about not believing in god. Matt though, he makes theist look like idiots to everyone around them. He gives arguments that have no objectionable points that leave you speechless. lol
PS: Hitchens was this way and is my favorite... I'm so glad we have Matt at least.
The wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Well said my friend. Well said indeed.
@Jef van Becker weak and lazy argument
@Jef van Becker hahaha stop over-analyzing everything, the numbers are the date River Plate won the Copa Libertadores and in the pic is Patrick Jane, a good character that i like. Oh wait... is that really it? Is the man in the picture really Patrick Jane or some kind of illuminati conspiracy in black and white? Oooh misterious!!!
PS: no i don't have a soul, fuck off.
My Christian dad who had been to seminary...didnt even know what Exodus 21:21 said.
Christians are taught to read the bits of the bible that justify their beliefs and generally ignore the rest.
DimensionofDespondos . I think most Christians don’t get any further than a kid’s bible.
DimensionofDespondos because Christians don’t read there bible
OP 1000 straight up
Someone told Christopher Hitchens he'd offended them. Christopher replied - I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
Telling the truth and challenging nonsense doesn't constitute offence in my book. If they choose to take offence (and it is a choice) that's their problem.
As the great Christopher Hitchens has stated, "No one has the right not to be offended".
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
People are only offended by truth. If it's not true, you have no reason to be offended.
That begs the question, why should people find the truth, offensive? Interesting thought. Thanks for the comment! :)
That's not how you use "begs the question"/"begging the question".
Uh... Probably not correct? If a bunch of dudes keep pestering a gay person because they're gay by shouting the F-word, how is that not offensive? Wouldn't they have good reason to be offended, simply because they're insinuating that they're less worth or something?
@@mikkelfraskui belittling, bullying, etc, is not offensive. It's an attack on someone's choices, or way of life.
@@capoo1337 Not offensive? We have two very different definitions of the word, I guess.
Matt Dillahunty is so fast and concrete.
As I struggle with the level of indoctrination to which I was exposed, it helps me to hear from Matt who had soooooo much more...and yet he made it out 👍🏻
I made it out at age 12 from reading the Bible. The world of the Bible was nothing like the world that I knew.
@@bobs182for me it was learning how many MILLIONS of people’s lives have been destroyed by christianity and other religions
@@brianfergus839 The primary function of religion is as a tribal group identity. The us/them of tribalism/religions makes for brutality. The others AKA heathens, pagans, blasphemers, heretics et cetera deserve eternal torment for not joining them.
Religion should be offended on a daily basis!…
I admire this man so much. He has squared all the circles and circled all the squares with undeniably logic and reason. There's one question I would like to pose to him but am unable to contact him.
Your video was proceeded by a 4 minute right-wing PragerU ad. I thought that RUclips had methods for better matching ads to content and users.
Thats a misunderstanding on your part. Its not a RUclips thing. Advertisers choose where they want their ads to appear in broad categories. For normal advertisers hawking a product it'd probably look like what you expect. A Ford or Geico ad might play over videos talking about Tesla's causing massive collisions, car repair videos, or road trips. But they can also go broadly because almost everyone needs a car and insurance.
For something like PragerU, popping an ad on a video such as this one makes sense in trying to hook less well-informed people. The videos then obfuscate the truth or make claims for things they cannot possibly support hoping to get them to nod along. But forget the practical reasons for a moment. They also get to "own the libs" placing ads on videos like this one. That alone is worth a few ad dollars to buffoons like Prager when you're being funded by right-wing Christian billionaires.
Matt is a great thinker. Very direct, doesnt care if you are ofended by truth but just at the same time. Thank you for Atheist experience Matt really enjoying the podcast during long work hours.
We love Matt
This guy is GREAT!!!
no man on earth can believe in a god without lying to himself and it is important to understand if you never heard of a god notion you would live a wonderful life observing the real creator ...nature
"Its not that Im uncomfortable not knowing, its just that Im more uncomfortable of pretending to know."
Love this
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub that's from a story book man. How can you take that literally with no evidence?! How can a loving God show his wrath to non believers when "he" has shown in concrete evidence if "his" existence? Sounds like an evil nonsensical threat.
@@johndenton4008 It’s by faith. I feel it in my heart that it’s real. Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins he was buried and rose again. Hey guys!! God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God. Please accept him before it's Eternally too late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdubsounds like a bunch of made up nonsense.
@@Easy1two3 yup
If someone made a film called "Those Times Religion Offended Me", it would be seventy years long.
I offend religion everyday religiously. Multiple times too.
You must be so proud
I goddamn guarantee it.
@@The667tony not sure how you offend a non corporial philosophy but OK....
@@chiefslim9353 call matt with your fancy,dishonest nonsense. It'll be a good episode.
@@The667tony 😂😂what on earth are you on about?
Matt D. for Prez!
Hahaha. I can imagine Matt talking to EU representatives: "You're an idiot! And you are out!" Then preaches in the oval office alone for 20 minutes.
Yes. That's why we need someone honest like Matt.
As much as I like Matt, I would be hard pressed to elect him President. Not to be insulting, but I would believe that Matt would be comparable to a left-wing Trump. Neither should be giving the power of the Presidency simply because their temperament is all wrong for the position. When you are the head guy, you need to have a thick skin for people being negative towards you and while I believe Matt has come a long way, he is still hair trigger some days. That frustration he experiences will just stop any positive forward motion for the government and probably knock us back a few steps.
I would vote if his political ideas are beneficial to the nation.
@Anon Ymous that’s unconstitutional. And I’m an atheist. No religious test for public office.
Faith is the process of non thinking.!!!
You have faith.
I actually have a brain and can think for myself and faith is just a word for no brains.
@@rodneyspragg2986 yes, but I suppose like the rest of us you believe in your own existence, which means you have faith in your own existence
As opposed to religious people who cherry pick their bible and talk in riddlrs and bullshit. I DO NOT HAVE FAITH IN ANYTHING
@@rodneyspragg2986 apart from your own existence. Consciousness. I suppose you believe in such things as pain and love too right?? That’s faith. I don’t cherry pick I take the bible as it is.
Matt and Tracie
Asking for evidence gets certain people really offered and angry
😂😂😂
Wonder why 🎉🎉
Matt is the “Kung Fu Grandmaster” of secular debates.
Nah hes really really good but nowhere near hitchens and harris
@@wowsewI think "nowhere near" is an exaggeration. He's pretty close. Not quite as witty as them but still just as coherent and reasonable.
The only thing that offends me in this video is the music at the beginning. I love Matt. I also wish we could somehow bring back Christopher Hitchens. No more faith schools! :)
Some RUclipsrs take other people's content...and think we're they're for them.
No.
We're here for dillahunty.
Don't force us to watch your crappy introduction
Can I claim Thermodynamics as my "Religion"?
Sure. I’ll take F=MA.
@@at6686 ?
@@SabbatarianSundayer.
Just a joke.
I've had so many arguments with the Religious but it is basically pointless.
They're just not using the same standards of reason so any exchange is impossible.
Its like arguing with a blindfolded person that speaks a different language.
They will actually deliver their statement of belief as if it is fact and then deny having to provide any proof for what they say as they'll insist that God is correct by default. So they'll claim they *know* it.
Then you will try to reason how and why their position is unsafe ...and they will demand that you prove that there is no God.
An impossible waste of time.
the blindfolded persons are you atheists,.. you guys deny reality and truth. none of you morons can prove life can come about without a super natural creator.
And you see it here in your comment. You are making an argument from ignorance.
You are arguing from a position of authority even though you have NOT shown the fact of what you claim.
The burden of proof reasonably requires YOU to show that life came about through a super natural creator.
Asking for disproof before you offer any proof yourself is a logical fallacy.
YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT LIFE WAS CREATED BY A SUPER NATURAL CREATOR BUT YOU ARE DEMANDING DISPROOF?
The conceit and arrogance of the Religious perfectly demonstrated. Thank-you.
digglyda blindfolded and mute of reason and any decision making ability " natural selection" created a perfect environment that stayed perfect for billions of years so it could create you
No. It didn't *create* me at all. I'm merely here by chance like everyone else. And this planet was totally unsuitable for human life for millions and millions of years after it formed. And it certainly doesn't stay *perfect* either. There are a lot of areas on the surface of this planet that are inhospitable. We know we are in a cycle of ice ages that make human existence very difficult. Then there are things like earthquakes, volcano's, tidal waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, bush fires, floods, droughts, disease. Then we know that the Earth gets hit by a meteorite every 75 million years or so that is catastrophic enough to wipe out pretty much all life on the planet.
But you really want to pretend that it was created perfect for me or you ?
Its pretty clear its not, we're lucky to be here at all as the odds are really stacked against us.
+Paul Gray Does insanity run in your entire Family?
Jesus is not coming back. He was nailed to a cross, not a boomerang.
LOL
That is solid gold
I find it funny when my mom says that the god that doesn’t exist will strike me down with lightning - I tell her, “Why wouldn’t you wish your god struck me, your most intelligent and accomplished child, down with feathers?” 😂😂😂
Do you think religious people know they're selling lies, or have they bought into their own deceit?
I'd go with the latter
The know they are dishonest maggots
That’s ma boy one of my best atheist ever
He's telling things as they are. That's not offending religions. Religions offend themselves.
6:30 I've never understood the "junk DNA" attack from theists into science. If anything, it proves that evolution goes through multiple modifications, not all of them successful.
If there was an intelligent design, there should be no flaws, waste or excessive genes required, everything should be there for a reason, or the other explanation would be that god is bad at engineering, didn't know of was not seeing when that happened, in other words, would not be perfect, or not all-knowing, or not omnipresent, or basically, not god at all.
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” A.E.
Surprised to learn Matt has no higher education degree but definitely thinks on a level that reflects that of graduate level education
Honestly bro is just smart as hell
You can't offend a religion. You would offend its believers.
Exactly , same about blasphemie: the only offented are the followers not the god.
Live long and prosper Matt D. 🖖
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub being a prisoner forever to a murderous, jealous super being who can read your every thought and demands that you believe in every thing he does without question..... Sounds like a blast, have fun.
Faith is the process of NON THINKING.!!
atheism is the process of non thinking and denying reality.
johnny 5 . Wow, what a compelling argument... Would you like to elaborate?
Science is and does prove things are true. Faith is belief in a fairy tale for adults.
God is real and He Loves You. Jesus is the Son of God he died on the cross for all of our sins, he was buried and he rose again. He is alive forever more. Believe on him and have everlasting life. When I die I will be with him forever. If you don't believe in him before you die, when you die you will burn in hell forever. Please believe on him before it's Eternally to late. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
@@slowjamcdub What a load of RUBBISH. The bible is nothing more than a storybook for adults and not even a very good one. NO ONE did anything for me let alone died on a cross. Two of the things that I HATE in this world is people who believe in fairy tales and people who try to force their stupid ideas onto other people. THERE IS NO GOD, GET A LIFE AND GET OVER IT.....
By design or by default, most of religions insult human's intelligence. Offense against that fact is a basic human reflex.
WON'T YOU LISTEN TO REASON?!?!? WILL YOU OPEN YOUR EYES?!?
The argument to stop any discussion: let them explain children having cancer and die. How does that fit in their believes?
Offending religion? I thought you only could offend living persons?
ATastic Godless
Umm I identify as religion, bigot.
Then you should check your head!
Define uneducated, define ignorant, define intellectual immaturity and finaly define offence, please ... I have the impression that we use different definitions ...
Worthless!
Religion was our first attempt to explain the unknown. Because it was our first attempt, it was also our worst attempt.
Faith is for mob mentality And hoping what you're doing is right In the belief whoever started the mob madness knows what they're talking about
Spiritual is nontangible non real, hallucination, visions, seeing something different, feelings, audible hallucinations and such
Faith is believe in something that cannot be proven!!!
So faith in your partner is wrong? Faith that your friends will not back stab you is wrong? We all have faith.
Is that what you have faith in? Matt and what he says? Is it Matt who you believe in? Well I believe Jesus was who he said he was, and I believe there is enough evidence to support that. I have faith in Jesus, See the difference?
2consider. Or maybe he's explaining what faith really means you idiot. Otherwise the theist will get too excited and jump to conclusions and start arguing straight away on a false premise.
omg you really are basing your world view on misguided information. Believe me when I say I have no issue with what ever you believe, but when you either lie or are misinformed about the history or the evidence then it is you that is basing your world view on data that is wrong.
The Bible is full of many different things, it is not written by God but by 40 different people over a period of 3000 years. The Bible is not the only scriptures and the only thing leading to God. But that being said Christians follow Christ. They follow the teaching of JESUS. We look at Jesus as the person who abolished the law of the OT. So when you guys keep quoting the OT is is redundant.
Laurie Duman Matthew 5:17 ] “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.......
I get so sick of “God is love,” “God is nature,” “God is energy,” and so on. The other one: “I, also, don’t believe in the god you don’t believe in.”
Because the Bible speak foritself but people dont understand... Just like educated atheist use the Bible as source for history...
Matt is awesome!
I love when fools say "even atheists believe in something" yeah. Science and logic. But faith is no part of my life
If theists are offended by the truth they’re doing their religion wrong
What is the truth?
I'm offended people call fake evil gods real and perfect.
Great compilation man. Thanks. Matt is extremely good at succinctly portraying reasonable and rational ideas. Wish I was that good.
There is more than one kind of knowing.
There is the realm of facts and the realm of values. In the realm of values you love let’s say your boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever without rationale.
@@jonahellis like the difference between objective and subjective. It is objectively true the we exist and it is subjectively true that a god created everything.
@@TheTruthKiwi explain to me how it’s objectively true that we exist. You also except the fact that you’re conscious on faith as well.
@@jonahellis well, I know that I objectively exist, I am made of solid matter and interact with the world around me and no, my consciousness isn't on "faith", my mind has consistently proven to be reliable when collecting data from my senses. My cognitive abilities can be demonstrated, are repeatable and observable so therefore objectively exist. What makes you think that us existing is subjective?
@@TheTruthKiwi so how do you know you’re not a simulation? What’s your rationale for that? Also do you believe in a scientific impossibility (which by the way is irreplicable) that everything came from nothing? Do you believe that time plus matter plus chance created your brain?
15 minutes only? Man this needs updating.
Silly title as ideas, what religion is, can't be offended.
hooterville2
Your comment makes no sense. People can most certainly have an irrational fear, hatred, or disgust towards ideas. Religions (like Islam) are ideas, and an irrational fear, hatred, or disgust is a phobia. Therefore, the term "Islamophobia" describes an irrational fear, hatred, or disgust towards the religion of Islam and/or people who believe in it. It's grammatically correct, and people who use it properly are generally not idiots.
Islamophobia is a ridiculous word. Let's look at the definition; Islamophobia is defined as "Intense dislike or fear of Islam, esp. as a political force; hostility or prejudice towards Muslims".
So Islamophobia is:
Dislike or fear of Islam
AND
Hostility or prejudice towards Muslims
They lump these 2 separate things into one definition, because it's reasonable to dislike or fear Islam, but it's unreasonable to be hostile or prejudice towards Muslims. We already have a word for being prejudiced towards Muslims, a BIGOT.
The word itself is ridiculous. Islamo-phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear of something, so the word means "An irrational fear of Islam." But fearing Islam is a rational fear, I fear Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. These are some of the few ideologies that can make good people do horrible things.
islam means "submission, obedience, peace, and purity".
i don't really understand what "purity" actually means... and even the purest manure is still pure bullshit.
peace, i agree with. but i don't think any religion does...
submission and obedience? i guess i'm a proud islamophobe then.
Why didn't I get any notifications from this thread until just a few minutes ago?
Every time somebody argues that God is immutable but had to tailor his message to the times so that people would ACCEPT his message... I want to point out that he's God, and it should be a little more difficult to disobey someone who _can flood the planet on a whim._
"Stop owning people as property or I'm going to drown you all... again."
"You're trying to remind me that I created the rainbow as a sign of my promise not to flood the world again? Ohoho... I didn't say I am going to FLOOD it (with water). I'm going to drown you all in BEES this time!"
Maybe God has developed cataracts in his supposedly _perfect_ eyes, and that's why his aim has gotten so bad since then. I mean according to Pat Roberts he tends to hit entirely unrelated areas with disasters as punishment for our sins, so...
I miss the Tracie Matt duo.
Personally, i don't need evidence to believe or not to in God. Evidence is required for debate, legal administration, science experiment, ....... How can someone do away or ignore a word, a name, a being, a person, whatever you call it, such as "GOD"?!!!! I heard that even if you formatted a hard disc, some computer nerds can always recover the data!!!!!
I don't find most of these statements offensive. Unless someone gets offended by the truth.
The burden of proof is in the claim, not in the dismissal of the claim; there is morality outside religion; science is always finding flaws in its models and improvement is done through more and better science, not by god of the gaps; saying "I don't know" is better than pretending I know something I really don't; all of these are true statements, not insults.
The problem is already in the title.
In so many areas we've stopped to acknowledge criticism. Yeah, criticism might be harsh sometimes, but when it is justified, there might actually good intentions behind it, an offer to remedy mistakes you are making and shortcomings you have. Even if you strip away the good intention, you can still give criticism an honest evaluation, and if you find it lacking after careful examination, then you can still reject it.
But so many people see all criticism (or even simply differing opinions) as offending, as an insult, as a declaration of war.
We need to learn - and teach - fact based discourse again, and seeing the value in being wrong instead of feeling infallible.
This should just be a live stream of Matt's life.
The issue of offensive language is not new.
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" . -- Thomas Paine, 1774
Offended religion? . . . Offence cannot be given . . Offence is a taken thing. . You choose to be offended.
spirituality or any word smithing using spirit are referring to the first known religions and they where towards tree`s and rocks having spirits, now we have holy spirit and instead of looking like a god ( LMFAo) , HE IS AN EXACT REPLICA`S OF MAN , BECAUSE IS MAN MADE
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@@mindthe8bits397 I research the evolution of religion mate , My people are have over 65,000 years of civilisation and culture and no paedophile's in the sky until 250 years ago.
I don`t go much on Matt these days as he refuses to recognise my people, Often dismissing us because we aren`t white and American.
He comes across these days as though if he don`t know about it, It does not exist.
he is racist concerning indigenous peoples IMO.
Religion offends me.
The bible is basically ancient myth, some historical facts, all thrown together into a tome that's ultimately an account of people's ideas, preconceptions and projections ABOUT "god", it shows how those ideas have developed over time...and most importantly, it demonstrates how those beliefs have been used to exploit and manipulate people throughout the history of those cultures. "God" is the personification of nature, the "seed" or basic foundation of consciousness, and the dynamic element of the life, death and decay process...essentially the collective manifest (physical) and unmanifest ("spiritual") world of reality. It's a concept...an attempt to comprehend these things in a context beyond or separate from our own individual experience...but concepts about "god" are never anything but IDEAS. The concept or symbol, no matter how sophisticated, is NEVER the actual "thing itself".
Does anyone have references to the studies Matt is talking about at (3:21)? I would love to look more into this topic but can't seem to find anything reliable enough.
Mark Twain: Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. Amen.
The whole reason religion was invented was due to the fact that people are afraid to say, “I don’t know…”
That and it's a nice money-making con for unscrupulous grifters.
Ok... didn't know you could offend fairy tales.
Blindly following ideas is a very dangerous thing, one of the biggest faults of religion.
Doesn’t Matt Dilahunty-at least in public speaking- always offend at least some religious people.
Do they give him a choice?
Religion is a concept.... and a concept cannot be offended!!!
Ask any Amelakite how they feel about things, and how the god of Israel treated them.
I’ll wait.
Oh, did you have to refer to your book of fables to learn who they were (because, let’s face it, you skimmed that bit….)?
God: Don't wear mixed fabrics or toil on the sabbath or else eternal punishment.
Also God: I better ease them gently into giving up slavery over many many centuries so I don't seem like some kind of a-hole deity.
Also god:
David...
Go genocide entire tribes, enslave the women and bash the babies skulls open on the ground
@@drsatan7554 Dont be hypocrite we the West still does that in 2021 we profit from poor countries... Dont talk about Bible or history if you dont know it go and ask Educated historian atheist that question... Dont come with fake news... You and puirYorick have no clue thats the truth..
I don't believe in religion, but I do envy the theists because they have it so easy! when you ask them ANY question regarding all the catastrophes, injustices, suffering, genocides, diseases, .... , and why would god not stop all that since we are "his children" and "he loves us", the theists have one simple answer: " god works in mysterious ways" -- no evidence, research, experiments, or logical reasoning necessary ... Jim Jeffries has a brilliant hillarious joke about "working in mysterious ways".
Faith is belief without evidence.
Not offended but put it in it's rightful place.
You cannot offend religion, the same way you cannot offend a tree.
People can choose to be offended and some groups absolutely love it ;)
The best thing I've heard against religion was on a Greek Internet forum:
"No need for circumcision. It's not a holy land here!"
they say god made us perfect and the changing the human body is a sin well then what about circumcision?/ and that too on babies
Religion, full o shit 2 d end & then some moe! In the mean time... Pizza and beer 4 everybody yeah!!! 🍕🍻🍕🍻🍕🍻🍕🍻
+LifeIsTimeless Something I can get behind! Thanks for the comment!
wrong you lying sack of shite. atheism and atheists are full of shit. all you morons do is lies./ thanks for proving atheist hate truth and deny realitry/. you guys love to prove how dumb atheiists are,.
johnloves jesus you poor troll you😎
LifeIsTimeless "Eat ,Drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye may die."
We don't live forever.
And about God...,? We'll see later!
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Faith is a hope that something aligns to your way of thinking but that is all it is. A thought and most times it will be proved WRONG
Truth that offends people is still the truth. Falsehoods that people passionately believe are true are still falsehoods.
We should not gratuitously offend religion simply for the sake of enjoyment, in spite of our aggravations and resentments, but should dryly, factually, unflinchingly state the truth of religion's many falsehoods.
after hitch,the best
Who the hell cares about “ offended “ ? That’s not an argument and doesn’t matter. As Stephen Fry said once “ you’re offended ? So fucking what? “
And, as Hitchens said, I’m also offended by the religious things I read every day, at least I don’t go out hurting or shouting or kidnapping people because of it.
Saw the title and looked at how long this video is.... Thought 13 mins only ?? Should be about 13 hours long as religion is offended by anything and everything unless you say I love god or I love Jesus ..... and yet they offend with impunity and demand respect whilst doing it.
Never heard this guy speak without liking what he said. I love his point about religious people always affiliating their perception of atheism and of evolution with whoever they're arguing against and arguing against their own predetermined perception rather than the argument at hand. It's because those who indoctrinate them teach them arguments against atheist concepts and evolutionary concepts that are outdated or just made up by religious leaders to discredit evolution and opposition of religion and when they encounter a real atheist with an actual point, they're always caught off guard and all they know how to do is argue against what the preacher said atheists and believers in evolution believe. It's why you still often hear "but why are there still monkeys?"
Surely the Jedi religion is correct. Lol. May the force be with you!
Jedi was the 7th most popular religion in the 2011 UK Census
To paraphrase the late, great Douglas Adams:
I believe in this thing 100% because I have a ‘profound feeling of something or other.’
Everything good that happens to you remember to give God all the glory. Everything that is bad that happens to you...well...it wasn't his plan for you and pray more you sinner.
I’m religious and I’m not offended by any of this. It’s all either predictable talking points and/or things I already agreed with anyway.
Got into a youtube comment argument a week ago. I said Matt is top 5 atheist influencers of the decade. People rated him as F tier. I just don't understand