How does anyone manage the psychological process of believing in supernatural phenomena? No one has ever been able to talk me through how to do it. They just expected me to somehow get on and do it. I can swim, ride a bike, do long division, bake a cake, write a poem, and i got guidance on all of these challenges, but how to 'believe' in supernatural religious beings? - no. I'm 71 years old and still in the dark on how its done. Reality is clearly already full to the very brim being itself, how am I supposed to invoke or conjure an angel or a devil and somehow insert it in here. Trying to do so would mean breaking the infinite miniscus of the continuous moment which we all dodge about in. I just cannot see how believers manage to do it. By the way, i was reared in Northern Ireland, where believing in supernatural religious phenomena was freighted with other dangerous layers of meaning.
The Hitch was masterful at getting his religious opponents to express their childish make-believe with maximum detail, so we get to observe the entire animal.
The A Moment let's relax and enjoy a genius at Play I am Capt Jester Moon of The good Ship The Wizard of Sily There is no gods seen in my foxhole for 42 yrs Failed suicide 14 yrs ago and PTSD for 42 yrs Thx again god I have to go now and enjoy a stroll in The Park 🎉 Stay Safe Stay Free Keep Listening ❤
I would and I wouldn't like to hear both sides. Firstly to observe how ridiculous Religion is in light of its claims of knowing finsl truth and secondly in light of Science never ceasing in its quest of truth.
When I lived in America it amazed me that they WANTED me to have a religion, and they could not understand that I believed in NOTHING but science and truth...
Yes, Christopher has it right. It is clear, and there are reams of evidence throughout multiple branches of biological science, how ‘Social Behavior’ in wide numbers of higher species is to a greater or lesser extent an evolutionary adaptation that helps the survival of the group, and thus the individuals. Acts of clear altruism, where demonstration of care for others, cooperation, pack behavior, generosity, self-sacrifice, and even forward-thinking, demonstrate values that seem innate to the majority within that species. From this reality it can be determined how our tendency towards moral behavior is an inherited evolutionary adaptation that we’ve discovered improves our chances for survival. On top of this is our rational analysis of how a structured and regulated society allows us to function better than a society built on chaotic anarchy would provide. This doesn’t mean there aren’t many among us who try to push the limits of moral and ethical behavior for their own benefit. Some of this anti-social behavior can be attributed to poor environmental influences, and various degrees of mental illness, such as psychotic behavior. People have free will to choose their behavior. It's clear how so many Christians do what The Church has done for centuries - deny the reality that science is our only method that actually searches for evidence that reveals 'truth'. Faith is by definition - a CHOICE to believe in that which there isn't sufficient evidence to claim is 'fact'. (Otherwise it would not be called 'faith' but instead 'fact', which it clearly cannot do...) I get tired of religious proponents claiming to have 'the truth' because their faith tells them so, and all the evidence from the natural world points to completely different answers...
I guess the real issue is that Man's never been able to accept his own mortality, and accordingly has always been willing to go to any length to soothe his anguish and horror at the thought of death and total and eternal annihilation. Our brain's developed itself in amazing ways, some of which have backfired on us. The Western world's just started the long trip to emancipation from God, when we can accept and live with the fact that we're likely to be only primates - highly sophisticated as we can be - and mere mortals. Science has enabled us to swallow less and less from religion. The day might come when we swallow nothing at all. I say "might" because I'm not sure human beings will still be around. That's the way I personally see it. Like everybody else, though, I hold no truth and I don't know if there might be anything out there, anything "supernatural." I also have to say that I know plenty of wonderful people who know how to keep what's good in religion and get rid of what's not, and are much better human beings than I am. We have to admit that many of Jesus of Nazareth's teachings are still the best human beings have in terms of ethics. There's one thing I didn't like about Hitchens and I don't like about Dawkins, and it was spelled out wonderfully by the great Stephen Fry who once amicably reproached his friend Dawkins for lacking "the Oxford Manner, the ability to play with ideas gracefully." I wish people like Hitchens and Dawkins didn't say things like "you'll realise how stupid your question is." Like the rest of us, they aren't entitled to disrespect.
@@James-ns3ziHe didn’t say Gods or goddesses don’t exist but that there is no evidence for them. His argument is that there is no reason to believe they do exist.
Comrade 🎉 I have many friends across the world;; some I would say are stupid or sllly. This is because I was in the RAF for 28 yrs. We are all suffering from PTSD to one degree or other. I've been Capt Jester Moon of The Wizard of Silly. (Shameless advert coming up...) My new podcast beginning 1st November 2024. Facebook page is funny or not however; we All start and, we All die in The End. Just don't put it about, you will see 😎 Stay Safe Stay Free worldwide x peace and love etc No gods seen in my foxhole for 42 yrs. As a Jewish Atheist I find the hole thing is made up. I think you are right🎉😂
I say thank God, then i say immediately after, and i don't believe in that guy, when i hear someone else thanking god i also say to them, you don't believe in that guy do you, 🖕, ive watched enough Hitchens videos to have a great argument.
Modern atheism is just bigotry with a thin veneer of intellectualism. It's fundamentally based on a failure to learn history, logic, and philosophy. You have to laugh at people with no epistemology trying to make moral claims. 😂 Intelligent people can take atheists seriously as soon as they are willing to define the criteria of an existential proof for a deity. Other than that, there's no reason to even treat them as intellectuals, especially since they themselves lack the common human decency to treat different views with respect. Atheists are people who think the things that they make up are superior to the things they claim that other people made up. 😂 Christian: God gives my life meaning. Atheist: That's stupid. God is just made up. Christian: Then what gives your life meaning? Atheist: I make up my own meaning. Christian: 🤦
If I were a _true believer_ in any religious doctrine, why then pray for the better. Praying is the ultimate expression of mistrust and disbelieve into what this so called _magnificent god_ has set up and decided for you.
Wretched is a good word to describe the interview. It was very bad! Like many of those who have been Hitchslapped, the interviewer seems unaware when he was receiving a round of it.
Do you know the moment when asked since when you cannot argue something like that and the answer comes with a quickness: Since Spinoza Maybe it's another debate
The sound volume is extremely low. Listened with earbuds jammed half way up my ear canal, at max volume, and still could not hear. Please fix the audio!
If Jesus existed, and what is claimed is true, then what he did was not a sacrifice at all. If a guy ‘sacrifice’ something knowing he will be rewarded much more, that is no sacrifice. Soldiers who died so that others can live, be them their friends or disagreeable strangers, is a million times greater sacrifice than the claimed final act of Jesus.
"So, just a hypothetical, (blathers on about the bible) don't you think that's true?" "No, (gives a reason) "But it is true" "I doubt that" "It's just a hypothetical"
