Church Goer reacts to George Carlin Religion is BS 

Dude, that means a lot! Thanks for sharing, truly!

@Kaje Nitram Not sure I follow. As people use terms differently: How do you differentiate between religion and faith? And what does the golden rule have to do with faith? Thanks in advance for clarifying.

Hey Spencer, I get your point about happiness. I would have two questions I'd be interested in your personal opinion about: 1. What definition do you use for religion? You are using quotation marks so it seems you differentiate between people saying that music is their "religion" an actual/real religion. Is that a fair assessment? 2. How important is truth to you? Things could make you happy without being true. Should people believe in tuings that make them happy even if they aren't true? Or more personally: Would you rather believe in an inconvenient truth or a convenient falsehood (looking for a neutral term there. Lie, fantasy, delusion and so on all contain a judgement. Hope 'falsehood' comes across as neutral enough.) Cheers!

@Kaje Nitram Sad to hear that's the impression you get. (And Ihave to say I feel misunderstood.) I will leave you alone nonetheless and wish you a good day.

@@BeOtterMyFriend 1. I think that's fair. I couldn't think of a good way to phrase it, but yeah, I was thinking of 'regular' religions - Christian, Muslim, Jew, Sikh, Hindu, whatever - vs. other things people can get really passionate about. Like politics. "My parents were ___, and I'm ___, and that's just the way it is!" Or music. "You think Offspring were better than Greenday!? I WILL MURDER YOUR FAMILY!!" That's when I start thinking, 'chill out, and let people like what they like.' 2. I'm a big fan of truth. But there are a lot of things that can't be proved or disproved, like God. But like I said, what does it matter to you? Hell, I like to talk to trees. Sit in a forest and have imaginary conversations with trees. "Hey, buddy, I've been here for 200 years; I've seen it all; you're going to be okay," whatever. I don't actually think trees are talking to me. It's a form of meditation (or prayer, if you like,) that makes me feel better and want the be a better person. Is it "true?" Depends on what you mean by that, but it helps me, and doesn't hurt anyone else, so I see it as a good thing.

There I agree with you actually! To many religious folks then only resort to defending their position on things like that Bible. For policies I promised myself to never do that because you're right, I can never legislate "righteousness" as that's in the eye of the beholder.

Exactly. As long as it gives you comfort and happiness, and you don’t use it to control or oppress others, it’s a good thing. And like the first commenter said, let your religious beliefs inform how you live your life, just keep them out of the laws of the land. Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion. There’s room for all of us if we can respect each other.

one thing people in america forget or dont think about is that freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion. They have the right to believe what they want but not to try and force their views on everyone else

@@thatguyofdark spot on mate, nail on head.

First of all you’re just a human you have no loss either way God’s laws or not

I read that when I was about ten, great quote. Twain had many!

"I wonder if God invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey" -- Twain.

HAHAH that's hilarious. He's incredible.

He was he was raised catholic and he was an alter boy until he could make his own decisions and he attended church every Sunday and more because of his parents until he was allowed to make his own choices then he realized all the problems within the church and that is what changed his mind not the fath real more of the fact of organization religion and how corrupt organized religion was more about the scandals and wrong doings then the blind faith or the missed interpretation of the scripture

@@rogernapier2068 I think the institution should be seperated from the faith. They are not identical, even though the institutions would like it to be.

I.e. 5 years old

The Catholic Church makes a lot of atheists.

Love it Bruce. Agreed

In fact, if you need the promise of heaven or the threat of hell in order to be a good person, you are not a good person.

@@beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467 I don't know what the appeal of either is. Even Heaven, let's look at it, eternal life. By definition, you could do everything until you tired of it. Guess what? No matter how long that would take, you now have longer with nothing to do, than it took to do everything.

What's an imaginary being? That's probably the dumbest atheist canard out there. So dumb.

Yeah as I digested it, he's calling out what should be called out and it's wise! He's the man. Really enjoying his comedy. Definitely watching more.

His family and him most likely didn’t know the Bible much he was Roman Catholic, and they never read the Bible for the most part especially in Church Hill “one or two verses and the priest will talk about it but the Roman Catholic Church is based on them telling the people what to believe from the Bible. They don’t encourage people to read it.

@@PaulDA2000 exactly. It’s interesting that I’m finding most comments on these videos they say they are athiest but resided catholic

I was a believer 25 had doubts by Didn’t believe anymore then I research religion and that’s all it took

Didnt he attend a catholic school too?

And what did he get for it? Absolutely fuckin nothing. Ended up worm food just like the rest of us. So, in actual fact, he absolutely had nothing on the religious person. Good for him (or not).

@@handzar6402 Easy, hombre

@Nathaniel Yates Dead. When you die, your body obviously decomposes, that's what I meant.

@Nathaniel Yates I don't know what you're asking me.

Im an atheist and I don't know why anyone would need to substitute anything for religion. Why have to be dependent on anything? Just live your life.

THere is only one God, so that's literally impossible, since you can't have many gods so they cannot be false because they literally do not exist.

Ah! Looking it up, adding it to the queue.

Yesssss

Yes please! You will love it!

That's the feeling I got watching this. How uncomfortable he was.

Exactly. Watching their logical brain peeping through the indoctrination. It results in a lot of unusual body language.

Honestly; anyone who would defend any religion and then accuse anyone else of shallow thinking; is above water.

@@profanepersonality Oh, because you're so much smarter than Francis Collins and John Polkinghorne, or any theistic philosopher of religion. Don't talk rubbish. Also, fix your grammar, you blithering fool.

Also I enjoy how you're walkin on a treadmill or somethin, and still put more attention towards the video than half those reacting to comedy out there!

Thanks So much!! Hey it's all props to Carlin, he's entrancing.

Beautiful. Could not have said it better IMO.

Unfortunately religion continues to do a lot of damage to society by sin-shaming them and making billions of humans they think will be barbecued alive forever. How is that advancing humankind? It's not. It's archaic. INDIRECTLY, religion is negatively impacting the world NOW.

Yes

I have haha and right. Well stated. And my thing is that if this belief in non-belief made Carlin and others happier and more charitable people, I'm down with that, but I may just be a worse person as I feel a desperation for God in my life in order to do good.

@@SebsDuran What do you mean by that? In what ways would you act less good if you didn't believe in a god?

Let's freaking go!

Great question. So for me I believe it to be in a way both, a state of mind and al maybe a place in the eternities that will feel as that fire and brimstone, not necessarily be a place with fire and brimstone lol but I do believe in a ressurection for everyone (I'm Christian) but the state of mind for all of us will differ. Besides the state of mind issue is even bigger and more worth discussing in my opinion regardless of the after life. I notice I find myself in this state of hell in my mind when I don't tell the truth seeking to be liked or really just do anything that goes against my conscience in this life, so waking up and trying again to be better and if I in fact do so, I step away from this state of mind and find myself feeling a lot lighter, joyful, loving, etc.

@@SebsDuran Thanks Sebs great insightful answer! I think you would like Jordan Peterson's take on this, he introduced me recently to this idea and it kind of blew my mind lol but it really does make more sense imo

What you "think" it may be is one view but there are billions of humans who believe non-believers will be barbecued in fire for eternity. It's psychological mental abuse meant to control and keep people in line and that kind of thinking is damaging to the human psyche.

@@space509 Looking this up! Great chat haha stay in touch.

@@JD-pf6nm you're right. And it does nothing but create stumbling blocks for anybody to believe. There is nothing to defend there when it comes to these people that do this. We can all distort what we learned into evil and into self virtue signaling and villifying others. I hope to never be that way. I will defend though that doctrinally, that is not right and not defended, so these were people using something "good" in a grotesque way have something come for them IMO.

Let's go!!! Walking's been a game-changer! Stay in touch, dude!

And respect to you for the kindness!

How about twisting the image of an imaginary being?

@@beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467 Imaginary being is some fairy tale you atheists came up with. If God is imaginary, then this whole universe is imaginary, too.

@@handzar6402 and this is very good example of non sequitur. Prove that or shut the fork up!

I'll make you work for that haha send me your recommendations!

@@SebsDuran George Carlin on Saving The Planet is a good one. Actually anything u get when searching his name on yt will do cuz its all pure gold.

Won't fight you there. My faith could just be belief bias, yep. But again, it makes me feel better and works for me, but is the reason why I would never try to force my belief on others. Because I've never heard a good reason to not believe in God, I guess I then continue down this path and we'll see if I ever see or find evidence to suggest no longer believing. Thanks for sharing! Again, I don't disagree with you. I hope you're well!

@@SebsDuran I was a believer for pretty much the first 50 years of my life. Becoming an atheist actually made me a better person. I treat people like this is the only life we have, because it's the only one we know exists. Don't count on saying "I'm sorry" or "I love you" in an afterlife we have no proof is real. Do it now while they can still hear you. Peace.

@@ZapperguyLOL No one cares. Go proselytize elsewhere.

Good question. And you know, I don't think you actually do... Meaning is perhaps the better term. If we find meaning and it makes us better ourselves and serve others, I think that is just fine. But to each their won. Thanks for the question. But it does seem like religious tendencies are part of being a human being. If we do not create religions, we make something our religion, for example a government can become a religion to someone. So maybe knowing that tendency can allow us to just keep centering ourselves back to our meaning and purpose instead.

Oh, so it's ok for you to be rude and dismissive but then say ''hey, if more Christian were like you...'' How about this? I wish non-believers were nothing like you. Calling other people's dearly-held beliefs nonsensical proves you're not communicating in good fath and you should be ashamed. And the gall of you to say that people somehow know, deep down, that their beliefs are nonsensical. Get lost.