I think this is a very nuanced, accurate view of the big picture. After leaving religion, I've lost so much and had to understand myself in a new way. The wildest thing was how deeply superstition is woven into my life.
I really needed this video, thank you! I was raised in Christianity but never really believed in it. Now in my mid thirties, I revised Christianity and religion in general and came to realize that there are so many aspects to religion like reading scripture first thing in the morning to set your mind for the day, meditation through prayer, and a code to live by (plus every thing else you said). Now I am an open minded atheist that needs a religion but doesn't believe in a god. I am just starting this journey and am excited to see where it goes :)
If my four decades of life as an autistic person have taught me anything about begin a human, I would say first, that we need health. Living with a chronic illness that was very difficult to get diagnosed and difficult to manage has taught me that without health, all the gold in the world is is mud. Second, the social struggles that arise from living with autism have instructed me that humans generally need social connection. I found that when I experienced genuine connection with other neurodivergent people, I felt much better. I have a neurotypical partner and child, but I always look forward to being in neurodivergent company where I can stop pretending to be "normal". I can't prove this, but it seems likely to me that we neurodivergent people are more likely to regard truth-seeking as a high priority; even perhaps a perverse source of pleasure, like gazing in awe upon a beautiful rose as I grasp the stem in my hand, fully aware of the thorns piercing my skin and the blood running down my arm and dripping from my elbow. I don't know how I could ever let go.
My rule of thumb: If a claim ( any claim ) can't be demonstrated to be true, real or existent, I find no reason to believe it is true, real or existent and the claim can easily be discarded as nonsense. .
Hello Britt I saw you on Z Dog’s channel. I really enjoy your work. I believe in Christianity, I was not raised Christian though. I was raised in chaos and trauma. I think I chose to believe in Christianity because it became my anchor, and I was able to form a healthy identity. I needed an outline, a moral compass, I need some direction and something to live by and for. I am skeptical about some aspects of my religion, but I lean more non denominational at this time. I try to give myself grace when I think I’m not measuring up. I think for me, the pros outweigh the cons of believing in a religion. My brain likes a more organized structure of belief because I grew up in a lot of chaos. I did have a time period in which I started feeling more aloof, and had very black and white thinking. That caused some isolation in which I had no social life. I realized that I had to take the pedal off the accelerator of my beliefs and regroup. Now I’m more lax about it, and I am more open and receptive and respectful of others beliefs. I have some amazing girlfriends now. One of them is atheist and she’s like my bestie and we are able to work and play together and respect each others beliefs and talk openly about them. I feel better about how I treat others too. I am able to hold space for humans. That is what we all are at the end of the day. Thanks for giving people amazing tools. I do benefit from those tools in my religious environment.
Hey Britt. I am going nuts right trying to contain my excitement in finding your channel. This Video is amazing. It covers so much of what I've been wrestling with the last few years. I am not a professional or formally educated in this field but it is one of my passions and something I spend all my free time researching and absorbing through other Athiest and philosophy channels. It's actually more of an obsession of mine in that I've been trying to dig myself out of the void by thinking if I just keep learning and understanding as much as I can about all these related fields I might find some truth or meaning to replace what I lost after deconstructing. I'm not sure how much you respond to or interact with subscribers yet but I can't contain my questions so here it goes - To this idea of replacing religion with something better. What are your thoughts on how that could be accomplished without a common unifying belief or moral system to anchor a community? You talked about social networking for adults and karate classes for kids but in my estimation these or just the superficial activities that a shared communial experience does around the belief system. So what I think is that the activity is just the glass and the belief is the water you pour into it. For instance what I've noticed in my past community experience as a "Catholic" is that the activities are just a focal point for parents or friend groups to gather and discuss their experiences and reactions to other groups of people with differening beliefs or morals values. Basically it's a way for people to b!+ch about other people doing stuff they dont like with other people that feel the same way. Then based on those conversations people find an equal liberium within those groups either by influencing or adjusting to counter opinions. Typically those beliefs are based on a religious or political foundation. For activies like book clubs, karate classes or other general non commital social interactions you wont find real social bonds and support systems like you alluded to in the Mormon church. How do you think "religion replacement" can structure itself without a single unifying belief system?
Britt, you said something that amounted to 'the secular community does not have something that compares to the religious community'. Of course, this is literally true but, do you think that being part of a university/college community and having a good therapist comes VERY close, to replacing what religion gave most of us. The REAL problem would be that university/college and therapy is expensive and churches are FREE. Also, university/college ends and leads to work communities that are very different, not very close knit. Like Germany, university/college should be free, like many rich countries medical therapy should be government funded; DO you think this is this the solution? I think about these issues all the time. Your work is inspiring. Just think if just half the churches in America were willing changed into satellite campuses of top universities and gave FREE education, job training, political/media literacy, and therapy -- my mouth waters at the benefits. *sigh*
@@kathleenwharton2139 "I really, really Want my imaginary friend to be real, I do not really believe my exclusive and special imaginary friend is real, but because I believe that I am special and unique and want to FEEL that I am unique and special, my imaginary friend who only cares for me personally, DOES exist just because I say so." (Just a little peek into Jordan Peterson's logical and rational mind.)
We created god as an ideal. There are psychological benefits to religion. But we can't just return to old religions, there are just too much bs, lies and manipulation in them accumulated over their lifespan. We a need new shared belief system.
Hey Britt. I’m very curious about any resources you could link to regarding your point about people are born superstitious. Peter Boghossian frequently talks about this idea referring to it as the substitution hypothesis. The idea being that belief is our default position and if you remove one another will eventually take its place. I’ve been trying to find more background on this idea and see what studies or experiments have been done. Are there any books or references you could point to pertaining to this idea?
People are born superstitious? Are they also born chess masters? Superstitions are learned. How can I fear having bad luck, when I have no idea what "believe", "have", "bad", or "luck" are?
4:32 I would just like to say, I absolutely think we can create morality and structure without religion, because we have been doing it despite religion for hundreds of thousands of years
Christianity borrowed much from Stoicism philosophy, which predated it. So, yeah morality can exists outside of religion. But the major benefit of religion is its unifying aspect - if everyone follows the same religion they share the same moral code.
I love your content. I was in ministry for years and then came across some theology books that made me question and then I got curious and read atheist literature. I was done. Left the church and felt freed for a number of years. Lately all my freedom led me to a place of pure anxiety and hopelessness. I started going to a church that’s extremely liberal and really focuses on humanism. I’m able to go there and not feel like I’m the only person who’s there for a decent message on how to not be a jerk sprinkled with some theology but not sold on the Christianity stuff. I’m better for it. Even as an agnostic. Nihilism sucks.
We created god as an ideal. There are psychological and social benefits to religion. But we can't just return to old religions, there is too much bs, lies and manipulation accumulated over their lifespan, and questionable surrounding institutions. We need a new shared new age belief system. The convenient benefit of old religions was that it was an integrated solution: many standardized life coping tools were included in them. It's gonna be difficult to acquire these coping tools separately, and everyone may have different ones. In that sense old religions were more socially unifying, because everyone were participating in the same thing.
Secular spirituality still seems highly individual though. I support the idea in general but I'm unclear on how it solves the social isolation problem in particular. Edit: I mean for adults. A lot of this seems centered on childrearing but I'm a woman who does not want kids.
It's interesting that the "prophesy" in the Mormon church was that in the "last days" there would be more women than men in the church, making polygamy necessary. In reality, religion is more beneficial for men and women are more likely to leave. It's helpful to learn this as I deconstruct.
I am a 47-year member and an 18-year oblate, in The Holy Roman Catholic Church. I am atheistic, however, after 47 years in The Church (and 17 years as prop director in the longest running passion play in North America), I see no reason to leave either the Church, or the play!!!
From previous experience with seeing religious groups provide help with donations (food,shelter) the help received comes with conditions that you will attend their services
@@gregsanich5183 example: someone gets helps filling their refrigerator with food or paying an overdue light bill. From my experiences, when the help is provided from a religious person, they will say more help can come if you come with me to friends & family day at my church. The help is a form of recruiting
really appreciated this video! empathetic, straightforward, and easy to understand.... still gonna scream at my printer when it goes kaput on me though ;D
I saw the "religion makes people better off" is a game of twisting the causal arrow. How many went athiest because they were ordered to "pray it over" and got nothing? To me, the people who actually got something out of prayer were like people who got something out of corporate motivational slogans or daily afirmations. I say it works... for the people it actually works for. The people who act as if there is a Godpill for everything need to get lost. I joke about how weebs and otakus should go shinto if religion is automatically good.
Great video. It needs to be said, just to make some of we atheists a tad more humble than we often are. Oh and three cheers for the women for finding their own ways.
Read your comment again, and point out the humbleness in that arrogant diatribe. Can you? Who made you the spokesperson of all atheists? You don't speak for me. You speak for yourself.
I am an atheist and believe collectively we still need religion. Certainly there are bad elements to all religions, but more theists than not tend to ignore the evil parts and dwell on the good parts. While many non-believers can do fine without religions, many non-believers also lack common sense and get brainwashed into things far worse than religion and thus still need the training wheels of religion on. Religions do offer many good benefits where even non-believers will participate for those benefits. Nihilism can be a problem if you don't think of others and religious extremism can be a problem if you are attracted to the evil parts of religions. The balance is in the middle somewhere. The other thing to consider is the human imagination, where we invent all sorts of fantasies such as the magical Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Halloween, etc to add spice to our lives.
I have a hard time finding community after religion, I feel like my options are only I need to identify with the Democratic Party and pledge my allegiance to all the causing of the leftist religion or back to Christianity. Where I land in the middle. I don’t believe in religion, I do ascribe to what the founders believed which was there was an initial supreme causer for creation as, but he clearly doesn’t actively work in the world. If I say I support Trump I’m labeled as one thing from the left, White supremacist, Racist. It’s an interesting time in history to be alive as the Country is struggling to find its identity in a post modern world. I hope we can all settle down and get back to living by the American ideals of life liberty and pursuit of happiness. Hopefully we can all see each other as Americans again and not as our political stances. Your video is correct when we get rid of the established religions, new ones pop up. We can clearly see that.
You don't really need to take on any of the causes on the left to be welcome, except one. Trump is bad. You can believe in trickle down economics, abortion is evil, and the Iraq war is good and still be celebrated on the left (like the Cheneys) by saying those words. While you can support aggressive action against climate change, progressive wealth redistribution, abortion rights, trans-related cultural ideals and still be considered a bad person if those words aren't your top political concern (there have been countless hit pieces about Jill Stein in the last month).
I wonder what you all think about progressive Christianity. I mean people in those churches don't require that anybody really believe in any specific doctrines, and some congregations are really great at fellowship and charity work.
21:13 women got married at 18. Are you being truthful or politically correct. What is the Morman age of consent? So, if we were to cherry pick some good things from religion, what rights would we give to young people, for example, age of consent for various things like fornicating, drinking, driving and voting. What would Joseph Smith say about this? By the way, I was born an atheist and still am. I really appreciate your videos. You are as good as Neil degrasse Tyson.
Superficially, what you say sound interesting but cannot stand the test of time and the history of religion proves it. I do not have 34 minutes to debunk your thought experiment but Paulogia will. Just one thought, of the thousands of superstitions which ones you don't like are going to concede. None, The future lies with Humanism over time.
The Power of Positive Thinking is strong, think you can or not and you are probably right etc. As good for you as church maybe, I doubt it would be good for me when I am saying to myself, "Ugh, this is non sense" when listening to the preaching or testimonials of how Jesus did this healing in them etc. I still find the self delusions of religion outweighs the benefits for me. I'd feel like a shame and not feel good about me. I must be a cultural Christian, but I am on the fringe of the Big Religion and beliefs.
The power of positive thinking is why I said megachurch men are just corporate motivational script readers plus God and Jesus. I couln't force my mind to think the world was made out of unicorns farting out rainbows.
Religion is not good for anything, in my opinion. It may satiate our desires for wishful thinking, and that is about it. Religion is thought stopping unless it is in a "good book" like the Bible or another person (for example, a prophet) doing our thinking for us.
In terms of physically touching/feeling, you can have your eyes shut and still feel things. In terms of emotional feeling, our thoughts produce our feelings, where thoughts of the magical Santa as a kid produced real feelings even though the magical Santa doesn't exist. Thoughts and also affect your body physically, which is why the placebo effect works and you have to test whether it is thought or medicine that is actually healing a person.
@@scottguitar8168 false on every point. You can look beyond your eyelids and fundamentally, healing is energetic. Such energy can be accessed in advance.
@@gothboschincarnate3931 I suppose it depends on what you mean by "look". I can see whatever I want in my mind, but that is not the same as physically looking. I don't disagree that energy is involved in healing, where thoughts can and do alter energy, not just to heal but also to make sick. That is why emotional well-being is so important to overall health, including physical health. I am not really sure what you find false on my previous reply. You don't have to visibly see something to physically feel it. I have to fasten nuts and bolts in areas that I cannot see, I have to feel my way around. Your thoughts do produce your emotions and it is easy to test. Think of a happy time and you feel happy. Think of a sad time and you feel sad. Again, I don't see what you consider to be false.
@@scottguitar8168 I'll make some clarification since your hung up on the material. Can you feel people standing in the corners? Those that are unseen like the corners. Why? Cos the 3.2 portals are in walls 🧱
Sorry but I need to correct you. If you put 100 babies in an island they may or may not create a religion. It’s more likely that they will create a government system. Not religion or a belief in a god. As we know even today we have tribes that do not have the god concept or a religion. So this claim that they will create religion is false.
Human is a creature of beliefs. So, we're not only material. You may not harbor religious views, but you certainly hold certain belifs, belifs about yourself, about other people, about the world, about the direction the world should move.
Human is a creature of beliefs. So, we're not only material. You may not harbor religious views, but you certainly hold certain belifs, belifs about yourself, about other people, about the world, about the direction the world should move.
Great content .! Plenty of videos are available by scholars to show there's no hell.For death anxiety I loved The Consolations of Mortality by Andrew Stark available on kindle.On thr web "Why You Really Really Don't Want To Live Forever : Brett Gallaher Huffington Post
this channel is so good i can’t believe it’s only a couple months old
Thank you Britt, I am finding so much to think about after listening to you. You are the best!
I think this is a very nuanced, accurate view of the big picture. After leaving religion, I've lost so much and had to understand myself in a new way. The wildest thing was how deeply superstition is woven into my life.
What and how you deliver is a much needed breath of fresh air! Thank you!
I really needed this video, thank you! I was raised in Christianity but never really believed in it. Now in my mid thirties, I revised Christianity and religion in general and came to realize that there are so many aspects to religion like reading scripture first thing in the morning to set your mind for the day, meditation through prayer, and a code to live by (plus every thing else you said). Now I am an open minded atheist that needs a religion but doesn't believe in a god. I am just starting this journey and am excited to see where it goes :)
If my four decades of life as an autistic person have taught me anything about begin a human, I would say first, that we need health. Living with a chronic illness that was very difficult to get diagnosed and difficult to manage has taught me that without health, all the gold in the world is is mud. Second, the social struggles that arise from living with autism have instructed me that humans generally need social connection. I found that when I experienced genuine connection with other neurodivergent people, I felt much better. I have a neurotypical partner and child, but I always look forward to being in neurodivergent company where I can stop pretending to be "normal".
I can't prove this, but it seems likely to me that we neurodivergent people are more likely to regard truth-seeking as a high priority; even perhaps a perverse source of pleasure, like gazing in awe upon a beautiful rose as I grasp the stem in my hand, fully aware of the thorns piercing my skin and the blood running down my arm and dripping from my elbow. I don't know how I could ever let go.
Some religion is good others are toxic ,some lead to peace others lead to stress and depression
My rule of thumb:
If a claim ( any claim ) can't be demonstrated to be true, real or existent, I find no reason to believe it is true, real or existent and the claim can easily be discarded as nonsense.
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To be more scientific you can go further and change it to "if a claim cannot be proven as false it cannot be tested".
Hello Britt I saw you on Z Dog’s channel. I really enjoy your work. I believe in Christianity, I was not raised Christian though. I was raised in chaos and trauma. I think I chose to believe in Christianity because it became my anchor, and I was able to form a healthy identity. I needed an outline, a moral compass, I need some direction and something to live by and for. I am skeptical about some aspects of my religion, but I lean more non denominational at this time. I try to give myself grace when I think I’m not measuring up. I think for me, the pros outweigh the cons of believing in a religion. My brain likes a more organized structure of belief because I grew up in a lot of chaos. I did have a time period in which I started feeling more aloof, and had very black and white thinking. That caused some isolation in which I had no social life. I realized that I had to take the pedal off the accelerator of my beliefs and regroup. Now I’m more lax about it, and I am more open and receptive and respectful of others beliefs. I have some amazing girlfriends now. One of them is atheist and she’s like my bestie and we are able to work and play together and respect each others beliefs and talk openly about them. I feel better about how I treat others too. I am able to hold space for humans. That is what we all are at the end of the day. Thanks for giving people amazing tools. I do benefit from those tools in my religious environment.
Very insightful, brilliant!
Great video, I appreciate the evidence based approach!
This is brilliant. Thank you, it was very helpful!
Hey Britt. I am going nuts right trying to contain my excitement in finding your channel. This Video is amazing. It covers so much of what I've been wrestling with the last few years. I am not a professional or formally educated in this field but it is one of my passions and something I spend all my free time researching and absorbing through other Athiest and philosophy channels. It's actually more of an obsession of mine in that I've been trying to dig myself out of the void by thinking if I just keep learning and understanding as much as I can about all these related fields I might find some truth or meaning to replace what I lost after deconstructing.
I'm not sure how much you respond to or interact with subscribers yet but I can't contain my questions so here it goes - To this idea of replacing religion with something better. What are your thoughts on how that could be accomplished without a common unifying belief or moral system to anchor a community? You talked about social networking for adults and karate classes for kids but in my estimation these or just the superficial activities that a shared communial experience does around the belief system. So what I think is that the activity is just the glass and the belief is the water you pour into it. For instance what I've noticed in my past community experience as a "Catholic" is that the activities are just a focal point for parents or friend groups to gather and discuss their experiences and reactions to other groups of people with differening beliefs or morals values. Basically it's a way for people to b!+ch about other people doing stuff they dont like with other people that feel the same way. Then based on those conversations people find an equal liberium within those groups either by influencing or adjusting to counter opinions. Typically those beliefs are based on a religious or political foundation. For activies like book clubs, karate classes or other general non commital social interactions you wont find real social bonds and support systems like you alluded to in the Mormon church. How do you think "religion replacement" can structure itself without a single unifying belief system?
Absolutely fantastic analysis of religion and its pros and cons. Really helpful. Thank you 😊 10/5/24.
Britt, you said something that amounted to 'the secular community does not have something that compares to the religious community'. Of course, this is literally true but, do you think that being part of a university/college community and having a good therapist comes VERY close, to replacing what religion gave most of us. The REAL problem would be that university/college and therapy is expensive and churches are FREE. Also, university/college ends and leads to work communities that are very different, not very close knit.
Like Germany, university/college should be free, like many rich countries medical therapy should be government funded; DO you think this is this the solution? I think about these issues all the time. Your work is inspiring. Just think if just half the churches in America were willing changed into satellite campuses of top universities and gave FREE education, job training, political/media literacy, and therapy -- my mouth waters at the benefits. *sigh*
Jordan Peterson is a word salad expert.
'Word Salad Expert'.. I'm dying😂😂😂😂
Jordan Peterson is a Bag of Wind 😊❤
@@kathleenwharton2139 "I really, really Want my imaginary friend to be real, I do not really believe my exclusive and special imaginary friend is real, but because I believe that I am special and unique and want to FEEL that I am unique and special, my imaginary friend who only cares for me personally, DOES exist just because I say so." (Just a little peek into Jordan Peterson's logical and rational mind.)
@@philipgrobler7253
Yes! I see it! I..myself..am healing from relgious tramua caused by that same god!
He is a lucrative con man
I want to go to your church, Britt!!!! 🙏
This is an excellent video, thank you.
We created god as an ideal. There are psychological benefits to religion. But we can't just return to old religions, there are just too much bs, lies and manipulation in them accumulated over their lifespan. We a need new shared belief system.
Hey Britt. I’m very curious about any resources you could link to regarding your point about people are born superstitious. Peter Boghossian frequently talks about this idea referring to it as the substitution hypothesis. The idea being that belief is our default position and if you remove one another will eventually take its place. I’ve been trying to find more background on this idea and see what studies or experiments have been done. Are there any books or references you could point to pertaining to this idea?
People are born superstitious? Are they also born chess masters?
Superstitions are learned. How can I fear having bad luck, when I have no idea what "believe", "have", "bad", or "luck" are?
4:32 I would just like to say, I absolutely think we can create morality and structure without religion, because we have been doing it despite religion for hundreds of thousands of years
Christianity borrowed much from Stoicism philosophy, which predated it. So, yeah morality can exists outside of religion. But the major benefit of religion is its unifying aspect - if everyone follows the same religion they share the same moral code.
Great commentary. So glad I subscribed.
I love your content. I was in ministry for years and then came across some theology books that made me question and then I got curious and read atheist literature. I was done. Left the church and felt freed for a number of years. Lately all my freedom led me to a place of pure anxiety and hopelessness. I started going to a church that’s extremely liberal and really focuses on humanism. I’m able to go there and not feel like I’m the only person who’s there for a decent message on how to not be a jerk sprinkled with some theology but not sold on the Christianity stuff. I’m better for it. Even as an agnostic. Nihilism sucks.
GOLDEN presentation!
We belong to the religion we are Programed to 😊❤
We created god as an ideal. There are psychological and social benefits to religion. But we can't just return to old religions, there is too much bs, lies and manipulation accumulated over their lifespan, and questionable surrounding institutions. We need a new shared new age belief system.
The convenient benefit of old religions was that it was an integrated solution: many standardized life coping tools were included in them. It's gonna be difficult to acquire these coping tools separately, and everyone may have different ones. In that sense old religions were more socially unifying, because everyone were participating in the same thing.
Secular spirituality still seems highly individual though. I support the idea in general but I'm unclear on how it solves the social isolation problem in particular.
Edit: I mean for adults. A lot of this seems centered on childrearing but I'm a woman who does not want kids.
Superb - thank you ❤
It's interesting that the "prophesy" in the Mormon church was that in the "last days" there would be more women than men in the church, making polygamy necessary. In reality, religion is more beneficial for men and women are more likely to leave. It's helpful to learn this as I deconstruct.
I am a 47-year member and an 18-year oblate, in The Holy Roman Catholic Church. I am atheistic, however, after 47 years in The Church (and 17 years as prop director in the longest running passion play in North America), I see no reason to leave either the Church, or the play!!!
You misspelled NAMBLA II. Why would anyone belong to an organization that protects pdfiles?
From previous experience with seeing religious groups provide help with donations (food,shelter)
the help received comes with conditions that you will attend their services
Does it?
@@gregsanich5183 example: someone gets helps filling their refrigerator with food or paying an overdue light bill. From my experiences, when the help is provided from a religious person, they will say more help can come if you come with me to friends & family day at my church. The help is a form of recruiting
really appreciated this video! empathetic, straightforward, and easy to understand.... still gonna scream at my printer when it goes kaput on me though ;D
Can you make a video on if NDEs coincide with existing religious beliefs? This is something I’ve been wondering for a while
Britt, do you have any Unitarian Universalist congregations near you? I seem to recall you live in Idaho.
I saw the "religion makes people better off" is a game of twisting the causal arrow.
How many went athiest because they were ordered to "pray it over" and got nothing? To me, the people who actually got something out of prayer were like people who got something out of corporate motivational slogans or daily afirmations.
I say it works... for the people it actually works for. The people who act as if there is a Godpill for everything need to get lost.
I joke about how weebs and otakus should go shinto if religion is automatically good.
Have you ever thought of talking to Jacob Hansen? Id love to hear that debate
Closer to Truth "Is Death Final?" Julian Baggini.
Great video. It needs to be said, just to make some of we atheists a tad more humble than we often are. Oh and three cheers for the women for finding their own ways.
Read your comment again, and point out the humbleness in that arrogant diatribe. Can you? Who made you the spokesperson of all atheists? You don't speak for me. You speak for yourself.
I am an atheist and believe collectively we still need religion. Certainly there are bad elements to all religions, but more theists than not tend to ignore the evil parts and dwell on the good parts. While many non-believers can do fine without religions, many non-believers also lack common sense and get brainwashed into things far worse than religion and thus still need the training wheels of religion on. Religions do offer many good benefits where even non-believers will participate for those benefits. Nihilism can be a problem if you don't think of others and religious extremism can be a problem if you are attracted to the evil parts of religions. The balance is in the middle somewhere. The other thing to consider is the human imagination, where we invent all sorts of fantasies such as the magical Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Halloween, etc to add spice to our lives.
That's your opinion, but I don't have to respect it.
@@MikeTMike Certainly it is my opinion based on my own observations and you are certainly free to disagree.
@scottguitar8168
That's true for my opinions too, and everyone's. Personal experience is extremely biased.
I have a hard time finding community after religion, I feel like my options are only I need to identify with the Democratic Party and pledge my allegiance to all the causing of the leftist religion or back to Christianity. Where I land in the middle. I don’t believe in religion, I do ascribe to what the founders believed which was there was an initial supreme causer for creation as, but he clearly doesn’t actively work in the world. If I say I support Trump I’m labeled as one thing from the left, White supremacist, Racist. It’s an interesting time in history to be alive as the Country is struggling to find its identity in a post modern world. I hope we can all settle down and get back to living by the American ideals of life liberty and pursuit of happiness. Hopefully we can all see each other as Americans again and not as our political stances.
Your video is correct when we get rid of the established religions, new ones pop up. We can clearly see that.
You don't really need to take on any of the causes on the left to be welcome, except one. Trump is bad. You can believe in trickle down economics, abortion is evil, and the Iraq war is good and still be celebrated on the left (like the Cheneys) by saying those words. While you can support aggressive action against climate change, progressive wealth redistribution, abortion rights, trans-related cultural ideals and still be considered a bad person if those words aren't your top political concern (there have been countless hit pieces about Jill Stein in the last month).
I wonder what you all think about progressive Christianity. I mean people in those churches don't require that anybody really believe in any specific doctrines, and some congregations are really great at fellowship and charity work.
21:13 women got married at 18. Are you being truthful or politically correct. What is the Morman age of consent? So, if we were to cherry pick some good things from religion, what rights would we give to young people, for example, age of consent for various things like fornicating, drinking, driving and voting. What would Joseph Smith say about this? By the way, I was born an atheist and still am. I really appreciate your videos. You are as good as Neil degrasse Tyson.
I bought your book.
You have a RUclips channel!!!!!!!
Superficially, what you say sound interesting but cannot stand the test of time and the history of religion proves it. I do not have 34 minutes to debunk your thought experiment but Paulogia will. Just one thought, of the thousands of superstitions which ones you don't like are going to concede. None, The future lies with Humanism over time.
Love brit
The Power of Positive Thinking is strong, think you can or not and you are probably right etc. As good for you as church maybe, I doubt it would be good for me when I am saying to myself, "Ugh, this is non sense" when listening to the preaching or testimonials of how Jesus did this healing in them etc. I still find the self delusions of religion outweighs the benefits for me. I'd feel like a shame and not feel good about me. I must be a cultural Christian, but I am on the fringe of the Big Religion and beliefs.
The power of positive thinking is why I said megachurch men are just corporate motivational script readers plus God and Jesus. I couln't force my mind to think the world was made out of unicorns farting out rainbows.
Good for you and bad for humanity 😂
Religion is not good for anything, in my opinion. It may satiate our desires for wishful thinking, and that is about it. Religion is thought stopping unless it is in a "good book" like the Bible or another person (for example, a prophet) doing our thinking for us.
If the "unseen" is not real, then why can you feel it?
Because all which we can feel, we cannot see.
Many things there are our imagination.
In terms of physically touching/feeling, you can have your eyes shut and still feel things. In terms of emotional feeling, our thoughts produce our feelings, where thoughts of the magical Santa as a kid produced real feelings even though the magical Santa doesn't exist. Thoughts and also affect your body physically, which is why the placebo effect works and you have to test whether it is thought or medicine that is actually healing a person.
@@scottguitar8168 false on every point. You can look beyond your eyelids and fundamentally, healing is energetic. Such energy can be accessed in advance.
@@gothboschincarnate3931 I suppose it depends on what you mean by "look". I can see whatever I want in my mind, but that is not the same as physically looking. I don't disagree that energy is involved in healing, where thoughts can and do alter energy, not just to heal but also to make sick. That is why emotional well-being is so important to overall health, including physical health. I am not really sure what you find false on my previous reply. You don't have to visibly see something to physically feel it. I have to fasten nuts and bolts in areas that I cannot see, I have to feel my way around. Your thoughts do produce your emotions and it is easy to test. Think of a happy time and you feel happy. Think of a sad time and you feel sad. Again, I don't see what you consider to be false.
@@scottguitar8168 I'll make some clarification since your hung up on the material. Can you feel people standing in the corners? Those that are unseen like the corners. Why? Cos the 3.2 portals are in walls 🧱
Sorry but I need to correct you. If you put 100 babies in an island they may or may not create a religion.
It’s more likely that they will create a government system. Not religion or a belief in a god. As we know even today we have tribes that do not have the god concept or a religion.
So this claim that they will create religion is false.
You can't be a (materialist) and be spiritual. It will never be possible.
Human is a creature of beliefs. So, we're not only material. You may not harbor religious views, but you certainly hold certain belifs, belifs about yourself, about other people, about the world, about the direction the world should move.
Human is a creature of beliefs. So, we're not only material. You may not harbor religious views, but you certainly hold certain belifs, belifs about yourself, about other people, about the world, about the direction the world should move.
Great content .! Plenty of videos are available by scholars to show there's no hell.For death anxiety I loved The Consolations of Mortality by Andrew Stark available on kindle.On thr web "Why You Really Really Don't Want To Live Forever : Brett Gallaher Huffington Post