Is Religion Dead? Sam Harris  

(⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) I still remain hopeful All Scripture is inspired of God+ and beneficial for teaching,+ for reproving, for setting things straight,+ for disciplining in righteousness,+ 17

The bible is useless other than reading it as a fictional writing for entertainment, There are much better modern books for all of that stuff that aren't full of scientific inaccuracies the the morals of primitive savages. The bible is 2000 years out of date and the morals that are decent in the bible are common sense. @@VestalNumbre

Wow! Thanks so much for that!

what an incredible loss for humanity.

These are devoutly religious men. The State is their Religion, the Government is their Church, Politicians are their Clergy, Law is their Bible, and they have lots and lots of Faith!

@@josephinetracy1485 What utter nonsense that is.

@@solasta You realize that I'm right, and that was your infantile response! ha ha ha

@@josephinetracy1485so tell me why you as a religious person, I assume, are using religion as something that’s derogatory? Do you even realize what you’re saying?

That's how a lot of people feel when they give up a sinful lifestyle as well.

@@theboombodyexplain your perspective.

@@bensonbrett30 Well, think of the young person that believes they have freedom whenever they can suddenly buy alcohol. A small percentage of them end up becoming alcoholics, and the drink turns them into monsters. They find out the thing they thought was freedom actually locked them in chains. When they finally shake that habit and stop drinking, they feel a much deeper sense of freedom than they felt when they were first allowed to buy alcohol.

@@theboombody The chains being sin? And what do you mean by "sin", so I'm clear?

@@bensonbrett30 Well, I don't know every sin. But I do know at least one sin. Telling a girl you'll love her forever, and then dumping her as soon as she sleeps with you. That's definitely a sin. Lot of young men embrace that lifestyle and have fun doing it for a while. But then they find a girl they really actually DO like and get married. Then they cheat on her out of habit and become an adulterer. At that point they realize they're in chains.

@siddharthsriram2685 maybe the smart aliens are joking about the possibility of dumb religious aliens lol.

no fire would happen

To your mind? That’s not how quantitative science works. Let’s see some numbers.

Amen! Reading the Bible, Koran, and several other religions texts also made me an atheist.

@@Andrea-zm1nl How do creationists believe that bullshit is beyond me!!!!!

The Bible wasn't intended to convert or convince you or anyone that God exists. You can and millions of people can interpret it anyway they want to as being literally true or just a collection of parables.

The only reason I can see to read the bible or quran is to see what kind of ridiculous b.s. people actually are dim-witted enough to believe

@@Resmith18SR you are absolutely correct. It was written to scare the shit out of bronze aged peasants so that the church could easily manipulate the masses. My point is that actually reading the Bible cover to cover along with several other religious texts is exactly why I'm an atheist.

I'm sorry to hear that

@@b-sideplank Seeing how there was nothing negative or sad in my comment, then I can only assume that your comment was a lame attempt at throwing shade at my praise of these 3 speakers. Is that seriously what you're going with though? Maybe you want to reconsider that, and perhaps come up with something that won't make you look so pathetic. lol Put some real thought into it, and at least try to make it a challenge for me.

​@@b-sideplankNo need to apologise

@@Jak-5 "And they have witnesses to it as well." Wait.......What??? How exactly does that work? How exactly does someone bear witness to someone else's out of body experience while "dead"? Now of course, what you're talking about are NDE's (near death experiences). The key word there being "NEAR". There's never been one case of anyone coming back to life after brain death. Once there is no brain activity, there's no coming back. As far as the cases of NDE's, where people make claims to witnessing things going on in the room, while being "dead", are sketchy at best. They have most certainly waded into those waters already. There have been extensive studies and trials done, called AWARE, which stands for Awareness during resuscitation, the last one having been done in 2016. It was supposed to be a two-year multicenter observational study of 900-1500 patients experiencing cardiac arrest. However it was extended another couple of years. In 2019 they released a condensed version of the study, which included 465 patients. The study consisted of both auditory and visual test. They placed images on a shelf that could be seen from above. But not be seen by the medical staff. Of those 465, only one was able to recall some of the auditory occurrences, but none of the visuals. And just because you may have experienced something that you have difficulty explaining, it doesn't make it something that exist in reality. People get things wrong all the time. Eyes can trick us, our brain can trick us. Personal experiences only count for so much. And that's not a whole lot. If you want the full results of that long study, you can find it here.... www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(23)00216-2/fulltext

​​​​@@Jak-5I believe the unexplained events are because there is a thin line, in my opinion, between life energy being in a live thing and released back into the pool.. how cohesive the print of a live thing .. person or anything else..exists after living I don't know. I have seen what others might call ghosts - too long to go into a few of the examples.. but one saved my life, and another told me something that a live person phoned to tell me 6 hours later. I don't consider any of the experiences I've had like that odd, just that it's frustrating not be able to fully explain them. Another little one I had when sleeping in an old house I was visiting. I was woken by a little girl in an old fashioned pinafore peeping round the door asking me if I had seen her brother. I actually sat up and answered her ' No, sorry I haven't seen anyone' before realising what I was doing! She just left and shut the door. When I enquired about the history of the house there had been a little girl and a boy in the family who had lived there the century before but the little boy had died.. I can still picture the little girls face and her fair hair in ringlets in her white layered pinafore. I have a friend who can know sometimes when something has happened, described a graveyard once she was going to for funeral in another country (before internet access) to the last detail - before she went. It was as she saw it when she got there.. How? I don't know. I don't delve deep into the how or why of unusual experiences but my starting question was 'where is life when it's not in a live thing?' Can it exist independently? Why do some people see ghosts or know things they can't know.... I haven't an answer for myself for that except something to do with energy we call Life being kind of recycled or pooled and certain people are not well enough insulated from the general pool and have 'breakthrough' connecting moments they shouldn't have.. I reckon the phrase ' the sixth sense' didn't come into being without reason.. Books written by men supposedly from a God figure? No I can't take that seriously. Not just the books but it wouldn't be logical for a God if it existed to have people fighting over which book and killing the other book believers... Spirituality.. that I personally see as different entirely from religions and believing in a god.. I did have one of those tunnel experiences when I was asleep, in my 20s and healthy.. maybe I stopped breathing or something. It was like being dragged backwards at warp speed in a tunnel out the bedroom window. The force and weight was enormous and it was like I was also the tunnel as well as being pulled through it.. I knew it was pulling me from my bed and had to stop it. I woke with a jolt sweating and my heart beating fast and thought 'what the **** was that??' ..I moved my pillow down the other end of the bed so the window wasn't behind my head thinking to avoid a repeat of being dragged out it again.. ! It was terrifying to be honest. What had happened? I don't know. I'm not someone who stops breathing in my sleep and tg it never happened again😂

Name one religion that was not based on violence...the very beginning of man made religion is covered in blood and violence..its not the messenger its the message's ...each 4 books say to kill or, that killing is justified. Where was the rights of females in any of the books ? ITS MAN MADE

I'm sure that's true, and some of it is due to more people having access to education, some perhaps being less dependent on religious institutions (slightly more widespread material wealth), and perhaps, women having more independence. I'm largely just agreeing, I realize.

i think you are confusing its influence in your life with the greater world. If you add up just Muslims, Christians, and Hindus in the world, that accounts for about 72.5% of humanity. Worse still, religion (or its surrogates) at the top echelons of power in many countries is entrenched and insidious. Don't kid yourself, religion- even in the narrow deist sense, is far from dead. We are about to enter an age where we worship AI as magic, because we will have no choice, and that is no different than worshiping a god controlling the tides because we don't know how lunar gravity works.

Too bad science does nothing for morality. The religion scientism was invented to add morality into science, but real science doesn't do that.

Yeah he didn't say that. I think personally JP has gone very much to the Christian side but due to his position as a psychologist cannot make that public. It still amazes me that people don't realise why he phrases things so weirdly. Taking a public stance on literally anything is the psychologist equivalent of insider trading. When he actively decides to retire from psychology we might get his actual opinions.😂

He literally did say that along with many other word salads

@@adifferentangle7064 he's been "retired from psychology" for a while now

I’m guilty (or privileged, depending on how you look at it) of watching all of Petersons lectures, biblical series, daily wire content, reading his books and trying to understand his position. As well as the position of his influences like Dostoyevsky, Nietchze, Jung, Tolstoy, etc. I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of information the last few years and from my perspective - it seems that JP has actually thought seriously about the merit of Christianity, attempting to peel it up from all sides using the tools provided by the existentialists as well as various sources in psychology and philosophy. Christianity is such a complex topic that to reduce it down to simple mythology containing a moral guide or alleviation from death anxiety is too simplistic of a description for a book that has outlasted stone kingdoms and helped form new societies. So I think JPs relationship to Christianity is as complex as the phenomenon itself. Maybe it’s one of empathy and understanding, while still recognizing the obvious problems with it, but I wouldn’t say he’s jumped aboard, just sees the historical consequences of so called “godless” nations.

@@jacoblehrer4198 No, he retired from his position at the university and stopped publicly practising. He hasn't stopped being a psychologist.

You should watch Peter Hitchens, his brother, on Alex O'Connor. He acted like such a baby lol. It was uploaded a few days ago. If you didn't know, his brother is religious.

Christopher Hitchens was a phenomenal orator, an even better investigative journalist, an even better than that writer of books, and, I think, a lovely human being. I met him a few times, and he was very kind and willing to engage in conversation. I miss him terribly.

@@510tuber I did. Not a fan of PH perspectives.

Some things are best forgotten.

​@@kingwillie206best forgotten like the bible, right?

@@6UAXINIM9 - Especially that!

These are devoutly religious men. The State is their Religion, the Government is their Church, Politicians are their Clergy, Law is their Bible, and they have lots and lots of Faith!

@@josephinetracy1485 no, that is not how this works... State, law, government all lack a supernatural aspect. And while I admit I do not understand politics well, all of it can be proven and demonstrated.

Cringe world!

6:00 so so wise

These are devoutly religious men. The State is their Religion, the Government is their Church, Politicians are their Clergy, Law is their Bible, and they have lots and lots of Faith!

​@@josephinetracy1485what a stupid comment... You're a simpleton.

I like a lot of Sam's and Richard's works, but Dillahunty just wants to make a "lets all circle jerk and bash opinions of people not here to debate". Dillahunty isn't really very enlightening in his arguments, unlike Harris on philosophy and neuroscience, and Dawkins on evolution and science.

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Sam Harris only sounds intelligent because of the way he talks and his use of vocabulary. But he's actually an complete moron.

Insanity is you're default position of nonintelligence created the Universe !

@@davidjanbaz7728 Gosh talk about proving their point, you're not even being respectful about disagreeing with them, you see how these guys in the debate are respectful to each other, even when they disagree on the topic, please try to be more like that!

As an ex- Christian fundamentalist, I whole heartedly agree.

@@markusnixon3156that’s hypocrisy, the original comment literally call religious people insane sure his friendly alright.

This is old lol, re-uploaded with better audio.

@@cmpc724 We can be religious minded and re interpret it as this video being reuploaded is technically reintroducing it into the public sphere lol

Oh because of the 'corpses of children in his basement' remark? Yeah he has TDS

from 2017

@@colelewis9940That sounds like something Jordan Peterson would say. LOL

This is very true, i'm English and a lifelong atheist, from what i have seen most English people don't give a crap about religion, it's become a bit of a joke. But i agree that some cathedrals and medieval should be preserved. Most of the ones i know who go to church only go for weddings, funerals and christenings, what i call fairweather Christians.

I'm also English and, whilst it is true that religion is in decline, we still have religion tightly intertwined with government and the public realm. Bishops sit in our second government chamber, the House of Lords. Huge numbers of schools are tied to churches and it is a legal requirement for schools to hold assemblies which are "broadly Christian" . A large number of schools are allowed to discriminate in favour of children with church going parents. The Church of England features strongly in public events and our Members of Parliament reserve seats in the House of Commons each day by attending "prayers" in the morning. The state hasn't yet caught up with public opinion.

@@annegraham9339 I couldn't agree more. Way too much power and influence still held by the church...out of all proportion to the numbers sharing those beliefs. Church schools make a mockery of our education system, as parents cynically work the system, which in no way reflects their own belief. Still. At least a history of religious education in schools has done its job in turning the nation secular.

Islam is growing like crazy in Europe thanks to immigration and high birth rates of Muslims. In a few decades Europe will succumb to Shariah law. You atheists don’t stand a chance again at Muslims, they will conquer you so easily 😂

Religion is on the rise over there…esp in England

Not gay facts? Bigot!

Sam Harris is a devoutly religious man. The State is his Religion, the Government is his Church, Politicians are his Clergy, Law is his Bible, and he has lots and lots of Faith!

the kid at 50:00 needs to read more. Free will is not even close to reality.

It won't die until our genetics change significantly enough to afford a far superior average brain.

Oh my science

These are devoutly religious men. The State is their Religion, the Government is their Church, Politicians are their Clergy, Law is their Bible, and they have lots and lots of Faith!

@@josephinetracy1485 Indeed.. the Godless love running around claiming there is no God but never try to understand why those who used to not believe in God , now believe in God. To believe in God goes beyond trying to understand God from a scientific perspective towards one on a spiritual level.

@@davidrexford586 If Atheists were honest at all, then they would admit that their do NOT love anyone in this world; not their parents, children, etc. According to their logical train of thought.... "Love" is merely a stupid brain function; a few neurons racing around the pleasure center of the brain. However, since they don't want to come off as complete s**theads, they maintain this "imaginary friend" (their own term) of theirs!

​@davidrexford586 My atheism came when I was at Mass, praying. It occurred to me that a being that's powerful enough to create everything would hardly be concerned with the opinions of the puny beings he created. THAT idea seems like something humans might make up. I was 14 then, in my 8th year of Catholic school. It kind of makes me wonder why so many who believe in a god feel that they have to have churches, and all the judging, and denouncing etc. As if you think god needs YOUR help, needs YOU to run the place for him. I kind of remember a Bible story in which the disciples asked Jesus something about what are virtues, and he answered, "Faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love".

@@AlicedeTocquevillethe reality is we all go through life by OURSELVES and die all by ourselves and take nothing with us. If I believe in God and you choose not to , how can your choice to not believe affect me in any way whatsoever??? You don’t die with me and I don’t die with you and you get to choose whatever you want and I can do likewise. I am not the keeper of your soul just like you are not the keeper of my soul. So many think they have more power over others than they actually do and I NEVER force anyone to believe what I believe versus what they believe. We all have free will just like we all can do whatever we choose to do. Does it make any sense what I am saying?

This is all true and yet reductionistic in regards to traders. The main reason why traders, regardless of experience level, lose in futures or any market is not just mentality. There are so many traders out there that cultivate the correct mentality and trade systematically, and yet still fail at their craft because they genuinely don't have a clue how price action works, and what a good trading strategy actually is. Yes maybe if you have the mentality of a monk, you can get away with using a very systematic VWAP or Ichimoku strategy profitably, eeking out a couple percentage a month. But the simple fact is you're going to feel lost at sea the whole time you're doing it, because the fact is you are lost at sea, because you don't know what order flow is, or how it works, or how liquidity is used to by liquidity creators, or how algorithms are coded, what fib box algorithms are, what swing points/trend starts are, how many closes above a certain swing constitutes as a gain/failure, and therefore what a trend reversal even looks like... there's a lot more going on under the hood than just mere mentality, because if it was just about mentality all the most calm people in the world would print money. Reality is there are kernels of knowledge which you are never going to know about because they're hidden behind life long NDAs in many cases. Why else do you think banks invest billions of dollars into black box algorithms, whose sequences are then subtly changed every couple months or so? It isn't for fun, it's because the whole stock market is a rat race where not so obvious principles are used to toy with people- even very smart, logical, sane, equanimous people. In other words, I just outright recommend to new traders to not even bother with trading unless you know someone who used to work for an investment firm or a bank, because that's what you're fighting against. Billion dollar bank algorithms and whales who can guess with a great deal of certainty the stop loss of everyone in the market using order flow, and therefore can move and manipulate price action in such a way which will run against the grain of human intuition, ad nauseum. Something like poker on the other hand, is just a matter of getting a read on another silly peasant and calculating the probabilities in your favour again and again. There the analogy of just having the right mentality and not getting fully wedded to emotional biases is much more salient

An exact description of imaginary, superstitious, religious beliefs... The undeniable proof an overwhelming evidence is contained in one very simple fact that any fool capable of breathing in and out could understand. No people = No imagined gods. Indisputable proof ALL gods are imaginary...

These are devoutly religious men. The State is their Religion, the Government is their Church, Politicians are their Clergy, Law is their Bible, and they have lots and lots of Faith!

I agree with you. I can't really get behind Dillahunty because he's a bit of a self-aggrandizing arrogant a-hole. He says at 1:17 "don't pretend to read people's minds.." etc, when sam is trying to point to the problem of straw-manning peoples arguments in isolation, when that is PRECISELY what Dillahunty does with many religious arguments. I am 100% in the camp of arguing against religions, and think that Sam and Richard do an eloquent job of it, but Dillahunty just doesn't. He also does this again when he says things like "I think Sam thinks he is X, but I know he is Y"(earlier in the recording), which, again, isn't engaging with an argument. Dillahunty doesn't want to argue against arguments, he wants to argue against people. Matt would do well to learn from Sam's friend and peer, Majid Nawaz: "No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.".

​@@bobf5360 yes he has people call in to argue

​@@josephinetracy1485 what? Where was any of this mentioned?

Definitely some moral decay in the world. Promiscuity alone has caused a lot of pain to a lot of people. The Bible makes a lot of warnings against promiscuity.

These are devoutly religious men. The State is their Religion, the Government is their Church, Politicians are their Clergy, Law is their Bible, and they have lots and lots of Faith!

God is not an “answer” to that question. I think you’re aimple not understanding the Christian or theist in your hatred and bigotry against them

@@ithurtsbecauseitstrue Who are you addressing?

the original post. But youtube on mobile browser does not reply properly when you hit “reply.” youtubes browser mobile site is utter garbage

@ithurtsbecauseitstrue1922 I know all about it. My whole youth was religious training. But, in church, praying one day, it occurred to me that it's absurd to imagine that a being, powerful enough to create all that is, would be concerned with the petty things of tiny humans. It is absurd. I haven't ever seen or heard anything to counter that realization. I am very lucky. I had the best parents of anyone I've ever known. They taught us, my 5 brothers and sisters, kindness, honesty and joy. No one could have had better parents. I won't go on about them now, but I will just say that my children, and my grandchildren are wonderful, honest people who are truly loved by everyone who knows them, including people in business. We don't need religion to know what's right and what's wrong. We just have to care, and be honest.

AKA Ignorance is growing.

You don't think that the west has done enough damage already?

@@opinion3742 The wonderful oppressed “Global South”, they can’t be the oppressor nor racist. Their leaders are emancipator of the oppressed . LMAO.

All the corporate shills and islamophobes are funny but freakout when they hear word "liberty" ..then they want censorship enforced by the government. He is just anti-muslim not an atheist. Pro-big pharma who got really exposed during covid shutdowns.

i'll go 2/3 with you. I can't really get behind Dillahunty because he's a bit of a self-aggrandizing arrogant a-hole. He says at 1:17 "don't pretend to read people's minds.." etc, when sam is trying to point to the problem of straw-manning peoples arguments in isolation, when that is PRECISELY what Dillahunty does with many religious arguments. I am 100% in the camp of arguing against religions, and think that Sam and Richard do an eloquent job of it, but Dillahunty just doesn't. He also does this again when he says things like "I think Sam thinks he is X, but I know he is Y"(earlier in the recording), which, again, isn't engaging with an argument. Dillahunty doesn't want to argue against arguments, he wants to argue against people. Matt would do well to learn from Sam's friend and peer, Majid Nawaz: "No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.".

An hour and forty minutes of cordial discussion on many many topics and nuances and this is what you pull from it? Showcasing a perfect example of what they touched on during the Q and A: some people are only looking for something they can take out of context to mean something else in the context they create. Saying one type of vision of God is not possible is not the same as saying it is impossible for there to be a god period. If you think any of these men state that they are 100% certain no type of god could exist, you need to do more research.

But still you are not explaining away the true scientific fact but a nicely constructed philosophical approach to the hard problem of consciousness by implying "illusion" of the self is some kind of a given fact but nobody is capable of defining the constructs, the building blocks, the particle of illusion, or the particle of the self, say, if illusion and self have an equal value, the mathematics should work out the coefficients ascribed to your own unique life experience aka illusion. Look, illusion and delusion go hand in hand

@@stefand5034 I really don't understand what the hell you're talking about. The human self in part is a construct of social interaction. That's a basic concept in Sociology 101.

i also agree with sam harris on this. it is true that the self is an illusion in the sense that is a social construct created and shaped by our experiences and interactions with others. we are all connected to one another, and we all share the same fundamental essence of consciousness and being. some may refer to this as "oneness" or "the singularity", and it can be a powerful and meaningful experience. in the end, we are all part of the same reality, and we ultimately come from the same source.

So not the word of a god then...thereby religion is nonsense.

@@jameswyatt1227 Einstein thought differently and I agree with him concerning Religion and Science. I think he may have been just a tad smarter than you James.

@Resmith18SR and yet...he is not...following a false idol and claiming to have access to another realm without submitting proof is a lie you tell yourselves to feel less pointless.

@@jameswyatt1227 You really don't know what the hell you're talking about. 🤣😂🤣

​@@jameswyatt1227there is more to the world then material. If the material provides all answers, why do we have a brain to even think.

Atheists can't be unbiased.

Wouldn't really say atheism an unbiased stance though....

@@trustideaAtheism isn’t a stance though, it is a lack of a stance, these guys on stage might have stances like Secular Humanism, Moral Landscapes, but atheism is not a stance, we don’t believe in baseless trash evidence for any god whether it be spaghetti monster, Buddhism (most common gods) and Christianity(incredibly un.substantiated world view with hundreds of differing stances). Evolution is a proven fact, beyond any reasonable doubt, whether a god created it or not. So that is also not a “view” it is fact.

​​@@trustideaatheism is biased towards only accepting claims that have evidence. Atheism is the only objective stance that can be taken in investigating god claims; believers accept bad evidence based on "faith". Theism has had many thousands of years to find anything to support their views, and they still have nothing. That alone should demonstrate just how dumb it is, to still be holding out that any human book actually refers to a god that has the ability to create this universe.

Religion haters always think their own opinions are unbiased, their own hate justified, their intolerance necessary, and their atrocities ignorable or excusable. Its almost like its not the self that is the illusion so much as it is the intellect that is the illusion.

They employed a classic straw man. They zoned in on that one pastor’s argument of “sticks and stones” *effectively* as a representation of the creationist side Straw man galore! And very ironic, due to their professed aversion to straw men

fail

The inevitable flip-back,

Religious people have no idea. Usually they have a very poor understanding of their own religion. They say they know things, which they know they don’t know, which makes them liars and shills.

Dang, that's a good comment. I'm with u on that because I want the real truth whether we figure it out before I die or not. To me, religion seems to be too simple of an answer. It has to be way more deep than that

Westworld, we're in a dream

I was raised a strict Methodist Christian, so I know all too well what it means to leave a faith you were raised in. Your entire family apparatus is centered around the religion. Grandma hears you are an atheist now and immediately questions your parents and you, acting like doubt is just sin in a mask. Most of your friends are church friends, you probably met your wife in church got married at that church, and are on at least a first name basis with the pastor. If you live in an insular community, the church is the cornerstone of the entire town, and they will sometimes help you when things get bad. It does not shock me that religious people are not prepared to give all this up, even conceptually. I don't have a single drop of sympathy or empathy for that plight, however. I went through it, so I know anyone can, as long as they steel themselves, and I do not have to believe in God's literal or metaphorical existence, or the utility of "his word" to think that the church can be a good thing for the community. It can also be a place where poor people go to be gaslit into putting their last $20 in the tithe's basket. This dichotomy should show more than anything that religion is too flawed to have "proceedeth from God" unless you think God today is too weak and stupid to be as active as he was in the Old testament.

@@sincereflowers3218 Thanks for the answer friend! I hope you found your way to other communities based on love, solidarity and cooperation since. I do not envy your situation, the US is deep in bowels of ideological dissolution at this point in time. Christianity is possibly on the voting ballot soon, and it scares the crap out of me...

😂😂😂 Not wrong there 😅

Yes, but our beliefs have direct impact on our actions. And if the beliefs are not based on rationality and our reality, but rather on some fantasy, and what certain individuals choose to believe for themselves, those actions (related to the belief) can only be pointless at best, and potentially be dangerous to the believer or others in his environment.

@@volker2714 There have been and will continue to be many so called rational people with rational beliefs who commit horrendous crimes and acts of violence. As long as your beliefs, rational or irrational don't cause any harm or injury to others, then that's fine.

@@Resmith18SR enter religion...for good people to do evil, religion is all you need.

@@MrBadintentionss And you seriously believe that non religious people don't ever commit horrendous evil acts?

@@Resmith18SR are you making excuses for those committed by people who let a book think for them? i said it takes religion for good people to do evil. that is the naivety of people who believe.

Pretty basic stuff. You can find much better thoughts in the r/socialism subreddit.

@@510tuberwait. Reddit AND socialism? That combines two of the dumbest things known to Man.

@@DrDeuteron explain your position on socialism.

And you forgot SAM HARRIS, Who is wonderful too !!!

The modern rational approach is still very new, you could even call it unnatural. Heck, literacy wasnt common until perhaps 150 years ago. This is why I think supernaturalism is going to be with us indefinitely. I just hope it will soften and reform as it has in recent centuries.

@@ManDuderGuy Who doesn't think they are a rational being?

@@opinion3742 I probably should have said "evidence-based/empirical". Nearly everyone thinks of themselves as "the good guy" or "justified", but that doesn't make it so. Similar situation here.

Science once said eugenics was fact. Nazis sciencetice said they had scientific facts to back up their calms to be true.

Really glad Richard Dawkins is debunking the gender theory wokeness BS. Hopefully, he isn't done. His voice is really needed in the world right now. The gender sex cult, is beyond BS and has become like pedemimic. No matter you believe stay away from Matt dillahunty and Aron ra. They are part of a religion basically. Religion doesn't necessarily have to do with believing in God.

Do you mean abort!on? Because that is a child's sacrifice too.

@@7uis7ara lmao no tf it's not 😂

@@SydBodekeryou've never read the satanist doctrines, right?

@@7uis7ara I do not mean abortion, but abortion is just as evil.

@@dark1021 Yes. I don't know if you've noticed this pattern.The sacrificial ritual always has meant for something bigger than the child, in the name of the "good" of the tribe, the family, the city, etc. The god-ification of the earth is also a justification for child sacrifice; we give it to earth what it belongs to her, for the earth's own "well being", because she needs or wants it. That's happening right now my friend, and it does not matter if you are theist or atheist, that pattern is still there, because that is their re-ligion, that's their re-linking to something greater than themselves, for the "Pachamama", you know. The way I understand it now, is that there is no way of escaping the re-ligion to something or the adoration to a god or multiple gods. Is a pattern, is a way of being. The ancient Greeks thought that angriness itself was a god that possessed you or a virtue like wisdom was a goddess that we were supposed to follow. In a sense, those things "live" outside our lives and are bigger than ourselves. I think that Truth itself is a God. Now, the question is: what is a God? What did the ancients mean when they talked about religion? We have to go to the roots of every question with curiosity and humbleness. That's the way of life too.

Curious as to what specifically makes you believe that they don't actually believe what they're saying?

This must be your first time hearing from these guys.

@@BennyTwennyGrand This is your first Rodeo isn't it Ben?

No, I've heard them before, but can only take small doses. @@BennyTwennyGrand

To far fetched. They do have good imaginations. @@Resmith18SR

I believe if you agree with everything someone says, you stopped thinking. Matt is a humanist. I understand why he has that particular stance. I like the fact Matt is consistent. 🙂

I don't understand transgender at all. But who cares. What a boring topic. You Wana wear a dress and change your name? Sounds good to me go for it. Matt's career has 99.99% nothing to do with trans issues. Weird hang up

@@davidspencer343 not a hang up. Just noting that it's the only thing I've ever heard Matt speak on where I completely disagree. I very much respect him and have enjoyed everything I've seen him speak in.

@@Chriscraft50 I too respect his consistent views and him as a person. I am very glad to not agree with everything anyone says. And appreciative of the people putting out content like this. 🙂

​@@davidspencer343 I agree with Matt on most things as well. Even with the idea that transgender should have their rights and be called whatever makes them happy. I have no issue with any of it. With one glaring exception. During his debate with Dinesh, Matt was attempting to make the point that transgender women should be able to use the womens restroom. As a single father to a 5 year old girl I couldn't disagree any more on a subject than I do with this.

Sam Harris still hasn’t mastered the art of speaking succinctly. Takes him 15 minutes to explain something that could be put into a couple of sentences.

​@@tournaline3448 You mean like Jordan Peterson?

@@epicofatrahasis3775 I don’t think Jordan Peterson made an appearance in this video.

Things don't become true by virtue of a religious nut having said them.

That's an impressively convoluted pile of nonsense that you wrote there! I'm not convinced that you know what fallacy means and if someone can't write a paragraph that others can easily understand then you probably shouldn't be writing at all until you learn. What a display of ignorance 😅

Come again?

@@donnyh3497 I am a psychologist and I would like you to participate in an experiment. I offer money for your collaboration. It is important that I am understood and replied to what I say, instead of saying whatever to have the last word. I want you to imagine you read this loving poem to a prisoner waiting on death row. I am a poet that writes prose to be understood better. All my work is poetry. I need to talk to you please, it is important and urgent because lives would be saved with my knowledge. What could you lose listening to new ideas or understandings of reality? I know how to save your life with knowledge and you only have to understand the atheist logical fallacy. The greatest information of all time is atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist. The atheist logical fallacy would test your IQ and honesty and the error in reasoning is easy to understand being honest and impossible lying to oneself. You may wonder what influence could possibly have the discovery that atheism and religion are lies and I promise you that the death penalty, that religious people are fond of, would end the moment humanity understand we are literally God, the metaphysical entity that the kalam cosmological argument talks about. If God is unarguably the most important and talked about idea that forms all our psychology, behavior and understanding of reality and after fortunes of public money squandered on education humanity don't know God is the intelligent creator of the universe and believe the idea of God is fantasy or dogma of faith that belongs to religion is because the cult deceived you manipulating the information with disastrous consequences. Would you memorize and understand the atheist logical fallacy to keep the knowledge safe? Would you help me? To rest in peace eternally I need future generations to know the atheist logical fallacy and they would understand. I hope for God's sake I am understood.

@@mtoshamtosha I am a psychologist and I would like you to participate in an experiment. I offer money for your collaboration. It is important that I am understood and replied to what I say, instead of saying whatever to have the last word. I want you to imagine you read this loving poem to a prisoner waiting on death row. I am a poet that writes prose to be understood better. All my work is poetry. I need to talk to you please, it is important and urgent because lives would be saved with my knowledge. What could you lose listening to new ideas or understandings of reality? I know how to save your life with knowledge and you only have to understand the atheist logical fallacy. The greatest information of all time is atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist. The atheist logical fallacy would test your IQ and honesty and the error in reasoning is easy to understand being honest and impossible lying to oneself. You may wonder what influence could possibly have the discovery that atheism and religion are lies and I promise you that the death penalty, that religious people are fond of, would end the moment humanity understand we are literally God, the metaphysical entity that the kalam cosmological argument talks about. If God is unarguably the most important and talked about idea that forms all our psychology, behavior and understanding of reality and after fortunes of public money squandered on education humanity don't know God is the intelligent creator of the universe and believe the idea of God is fantasy or dogma of faith that belongs to religion is because the cult deceived you manipulating the information with disastrous consequences. Would you memorize and understand the atheist logical fallacy to keep the knowledge safe? Would you help me? To rest in peace eternally I need future generations to know the atheist logical fallacy and they would understand. I hope for God's sake I am understood.

Ad hominem

God allegedly hates it when people think for themselves, wonder why?

My fairytale says that if you don't believe it then you are dumb!😂 Brilliant. How are you people not embarrassed by your own ignorance?

​@@mtoshamtoshaI'm a Pantheist like Einstein and I think for myself just like he did.

@@Resmith18SR He meant the abrahamic god

Can you point to some specific word salad that you heard from Sam in the video? Curious.

You must not listen to Jordan Peterson? At least Harris makes a point, even if you think it's a bit "wordy." 🙂

​@@Chriscraft50True. Peterson tosses a mean word salad but I always understand what Harris is saying. Maybe groot just has an elementary vocabulary 🤔

and i get tired of people like you who refuse to see the truth and just believe in some fairytale from the middle ages. you're right, sam harris can be tough on certain subjects, but at least he's not out there spreading lies and misinformation like theists are.

Because beleifs inform actions And people vote. Religion in politics is a problem, and others' beliefs directly influence my life.

​@@davidspencer343Religious beliefs and ideas are dangerous dogma like any ideas or beliefs that subscribe to the view that they possess the absolute, unchanging truth and that everyone else is either wrong, incorrect, or morally inferior.

Belief is the means of control whether it be religious or irreligious

Abracadabra, watch that white cloth

@@tuckerbugeater And everyone in the world has beliefs and certain beliefs so what's your point?

The belief that human morality is not merely just a matter of subjective opinion and instead is based on Natural Law and is objective. The criminal justice system is based on the fact that laws are not just a matter of difference of opinion and instead based objectively in Natural Law. Murder, rape, genocide, are not considered evil and punished just based on agreement and public opinion.