Richard Dawkins Confronts a Christian Extremist! 

I've never heard that before - such a perfect line!

And whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

@@justsome-guy7596 i've seen it credited to mark twain. "but in the morning madam i shall be sober again, but you madam will still be ugly" - churchill when accused of being sloshed.

Every indigenous community have their own story of creation. What makes religious people believe theirs is the only true one can be attributed to superstition, ignorance & arrogance.

Le premier devin fut le premier fripon qui rencontra un imbécile. It is from an essay. Title "On Divination" or something like that

I might suggest the biblical god is evil with all his hatred and killing

How did he even survive in prison? I haven't had so much as a speeding ticket in 20yrs & I'd have had a 'problem' with him immediately. Imagine you make it through medical school, you help, you heal, you serve your community, you're given the title "doctor", which to thinking people is a far more respectful title than 'reverend'. I do applaud Mr Dawkins for allowing the "cultist without a cult" Bray to expose the lunacy & cowardice of his efforts. If Bray was actually paid for this, however, I take that back. To see a grown man try to explain how he knows the nature & origin of the universe where true genius doesn't, and the laughably childish fantasy world he's trying desperately to believe - I'm actually relieved that the proceeding generations simply won't put up with this - not just Bray's sick fantasy, but they're far better informed, and less susceptible to gullibility. Bray will have his moment, no matter how much of himself he throws into his "it's true 'cause the bible says so" attitude. As a thinking adult, everyone eventually comes to that crossroads. Deep down, they know it's not true. No matter how much they want it to be, no matter how lost they might feel as they initially cope with the reality. I hope they're given leniency as they 'transition' to non-believers & see the positive side of it all. How *should* people respond to an utter silence that is deaf to our every dose of pain for what, 300k years? How is it that we call someone who wouldn't dare say his name, "god"? In our species' entire history, this entity has not once made a single sound. God is a 'he', he loves us, and the punishment for not loving him back is eternal fire. Watch the christian expression when they describe 'hell'. The revel in its torments. We are to deny our intellects, pretend he's there, believe those are his words in the bible/on stone tablets, punish 'sinners' accordingly. The 'virgin' thing is what first got me to look at smarter scenarios. Jesus had a father & mother. They had a baby. If you don't believe that he was conceived naturally, I do hope you find comfort in this - but I do not.

@@NunchucksHabit Yea man nice comment 👏

pure evil. nothing good in bray.

That’s such and idiot attitude……

Maybe they're hoping to convert Islamists and J**s to Christianity!?

I think Christian apologists in general move more people away from Christianity than all the atheists combined.

He probably does !

Converted to Anti-theism would be more accurate terminology. One religion to another. I'm anti-religion.

@@PrivateSi anti-theism is not a religion, in any sense of the word.

plus 11children and a human piece of property at home in form of a woman!

I don't know how he does it, but he does a beautiful job!

@@dougkampe6117 thought controls our emotions, our emotions control our behavior

Dawkins is invariably polite in his interactions with religious fanatics

@@stefanlindstrom-entreprenologyWe have gut reactions as well though don’t we? Sometimes our thoughts have to catch up to our feelings don’t they? It seems to me that sometimes we have to rationalise our immediate reactions to things, sometimes our feelings can surprise us and we have to work out why afterwards.

@@yeahcat7509 Dawkins keeps winging like a spoilt kid each time the other doesn't agree with him. Tantrums.:) He argues about religion all the time yet , till these dayshe didn't make an effort to look up what's it all about. I remember when once he was losing control again when proving a full religious audience that God doesn't exist because he doesn't get it, and went around with a thought, until he just proved there is God. But he couldn't understand it obviously, only the audience. Everyone started laughing, and he got even more frustrated.:)) "What is it?!! What are you laughing at?!!" He was making a fool of himself.:)) Rightly so. He should study everything before giving an expert advice on it. Arrogant pr*ck. There are intelligent atheist with whom arguments are a pleasure. Idiots like this just entertainment like reality shows.

Yeah except in USA where 70 percent are religious. :( terrible.

@@debbiesunlight7047 And like all good christians, 70% are lying.

I'd like to think 'insufficient evidence' would be the primary reason.

Boy Howdy!

93% of statistics are pulled straight out of someone's arse.

It is the Christian version of the Taliban. Sad enough he is far far from alone. It is these people who support Trump to implement a national christian dictatorship. People like this man are sitting in the House and Senate on the moment

But he can go to his priest or whatever say he's sorry say 10 hail Mary's and he's forgiven, oh the madness of religious fanatics. They are all in for a big gunk when theyre dead cause that's it, when your dead your dead. Lights out

@@linaanderson2622 that is the greatest of being a Catholic You whatever the you want to do and go to confession do your punishment and have a fresh start next week you do the same Than when your in your last hours you call for a priest. He gives you the holy oil. You say that you are truly sorry for all you did. The prest prays with you and you g to heaven Can't go wrong. Even a Jack the Ripper can die in peace and go to heaven if he is religious and believes that such thing exists

@@Bruintjebeer6 I was brought up catholic and went to a catholic school, we were lucky my Italian father didn't practice his faith. My childhood and teens I the catholic faith is why I, m an atheist to this day. It's all one big con to keep the people in line

@@linaanderson2622 I went to a Catholic school as well Complete with a monastery I was 3 when I went there until I was 16. I had a marvelous time with my girlfriends but like you and many many other the hypocrisy and double standards drove me away. We also had a seminary in our village and I remember that many boys coming there to learn to be a priest quit after their eyes were opened and after the assaults some had to undergo.

Are you serious?? Every single anomalous weather event is now tied to climate change, an opportunity to bring in an expert to lecture us on how we have all sinned against the planet and must atone and abase ourselves before the Science. Don't delude yourself that you're immune to superstition. We're all capable of making absurdly ironic statements like yours. I forgive you. Go with Green, my son, and carbon no more.

@@amarissimus29 kind of flew off the handler there, my dude. Just so I’m clear: you think we CAN draw a correlation between weather events and a supernatural being’s disposition towards things we’ve done?

Surely as soon happens all around the world constantly (their beliefs) this would mean we would have constant storms!

@@amarissimus29 Please explain how that statement is "absurdly ironic". It's precisely what Bray said. If you summarily dismiss the "Science" then you are not forgiven.

@@amarissimus29 fox news did a number on you, sad clown.

I totally agree, i am sick of man made religion, i mean religion is what put Yeshua on the cross in the first place... Randy Kay channel more than proof enough of an afterlife.. :).

@@leedelmont4Yeshuaman made middle eastern fantasy stories written by men to control their tribe.

Freedom from religion!

Guys I live in Iran and it was really hard for me to break years and years of religious teaching. The only thing that made it happen was listening and learning from these great atheists And finally after 27 years I'm free from religion

@@mansourbakook2226 and the weird part is adopting someone else’s culture because of this religion that has nothing to do with our ancestors.

Believe me, there are millions of them out there. Numerous are in all the branches of the Abrahamic base religious system. All religious organizations are filled with them, when you get down to their souls. The bibles and works were all written by mainly the same.

Well, he's not that eloquent...

You really find him eloquent? No trick question... He says so extremely little it's just world salad

He talks. Gramatically correctly. Clearly. Please don't confuse the apparent "eloquence" with intelligence.

#SCARYFACT #VOTEBLUE

They already have the majority of the Supreme Court so it's all over, they won.

or the" chosen" ones

i would add to that , he also takes a non confrontal attitude, more like a conversation than interrogation

'Dawkins' pal, Princeton prof. Peter Singer, advocates for euthanizing children up to one year of age and you're affronted by this religious guy? Singer is so insane as to be enraged by "animal abuse"...unless human. Dawkins titled his BBC Documentary, "The Root of All Evil"...guess what?! "In 75 years, genocidally atheistic Communism was responsible for 100 million deaths"--Harvard University Press, "The Black Book of Communism" "Of the 1,763 wars dating to 300 BCE, religion (other than Islam) was the impetus of 61." (The Encyclopedia of War, Vols. I-III) THAT'S 3.5%, though contains OVER HALF earth's population! The 20th century alone had wars consuming 136 million lives. WWs I&II were the product of leaders: Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, FDR, Kaiser Wilhelm, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Wilson, Mussolini. NOT ONE advanced their aggressions predicated upon RELIGIONS of any kind, sect, denomination... BUT...'Religion is the Root of All Evil'! The Council of Nicea originated institutional hospital/infirmary, education, indigent care. It is THE DIRECT LINEAL ANTECEDENT of those social causes today. WHY NEVER FACTS from the Dawkins of the world for their libels such as "Root of All Evil"?! ONLY the religious are so nakedly, provably libelously, gleefully bigotedly smeared. NEVER would the sanctimonious Dawkins DREAM of lying similarly about BLACKS, WOMEN, JEWS... It is done purely to declare his smarmy, self-aggrandizing purity... read: SUPERIORITY! IT NEVER CHANGES...THEY'RE ALWAYS THE SAME: Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Un, Ceaucescu..."I'm the one pure, inspired visionary"

@@WayneLynch69 Bingo!

How the f* can he feed 11 children in this economy. How and how much this guy earns?

@@laymelek His followers probably donate all the money he will ever need.

I bet 10 of them end up hating him. Raise a kid in a strict religious environment, and that kid will REBEL. Once they're left alone with a web browser, they're gonna wake up slowly. No matter what 'values' he tries to instill, it won't work. They will know & they will go. His followers are likely on FBI watch lists.

I guarantee his children are looked at the same way Mormons view their children. More cheap labor around the house. When they are old enough , more children . These people are disgusting.

They need taking into well regulated, assessed fostering, not in to care if in fact you mean care homes or childrens homes, believe me when I tell you that is not always the best option for young children. I understand people don't realise that.

And there's a bunch of them spreading false religion. 👍

@@Peaches328 “false religion” is rhetorical

Republican Project 2025 written by The Heritage Foundation gives us the Reps EXACT blueprint on how they plan on turning the USA (w/Out the U) into the theocratic fascist country they’ve long dreamed of!! If we don’t ALL get our asses out and vote men like this INSANE criminal will be running this country & we’ll be the “Christian” version of ISIS or the Taliban!!! As a Native American I’m well aware of what the US gov is capable of and if people think the sins of the USA’s past can’t or won’t be repeated they’re not paying attention!! #VOTEBLUE Nanaya hullo I kana~ ✌🏼 & 🫶🏼my friend! (In Choctaw) ❤from THE CHOCTAW NATION🪶

How so?

@@brysoga convicted in 85 for planning bombings. hows that?

@@brysoga "I don't like x person due to my own religion (regardless of his own) so getting the state to execute him isn't such a bad idea" - not dangerous at all, right?

You better care to explain

He is dangerous because he is in charge of raising 11 kids under severe conditions of child abuse. I feel sorry for his children. It might take years of therapy to heal the trauma of being raise by such an ignorant fanatic. I know hundreds of people who were mentally tortured by the curse of religion when they were childten.

He has 11 children because he has a list of 11 chores he needs done around the house. Soon ALL of his children will spite him . ITs just a form of slave labor. Using your own children.

He doesn't believe any of it. He just needs to be seen as taking hard line so he can keep some followers.

Poor Dawkins, thats not nice to say about him... 🤣

Same here!

You're picking up on Bray's nervousness!

Everyone is religious. Atheism is a belief system too. Specify when you say that.

@@Shaara1 Wrong and wrong. Not everyone is religious. Atheism is not a belief system, it's simply not accepting other's belief in gods.

@@bobwilkinson2008 Belief system can be built around anything. Not only God. Everyone believes in something. You too. Atheists usually put themselves into God's place. Or money, addictions etc. Anything that they worship more than a God and consumes their lives. They decide what's morally right or wrong, what's a sin and what isn't, who should live (IVF, contraception to select children) who can't( abortion, euthanasia). You don't know what religion means so you can't recognise it in real life. Satanists are religious too, they just believe in the evil, not in the good.

@@Shaara1how can atheism which proposes no values or ideologies to follow, which ironically is defined as having no belief be a belief system ?

@@Shaara1 Think, before you speak, please. It’s the same when someone asks : what’s your fitness routine like? I do yoga, I do HIIT, I do cardio, jogging, resistance training, and someone else says I don’t train at all. Well you don’t train- this is your fitness routine!

Probably they had an idea how dangerous this cult could become.😂

I take your point. But I would not think they are all dishonest - I think they are more self-deceiving.... self deception is underestimated!

No, that's pretty much their only point.

There is zero evidence of abiogenesis. That makes atheists the hypocrites here.

'God of the gaps.'

I wanted to like your comment but I never judge

Reminds me of..."thief thinks everyone steals".

Banality of evil

It sure goes away as soon as he opens his mouth.

so do most psychopaths.

A scared child murderer if you want to be honest. That doesn’t mean you are as culpable as an adult with full knowledge and control of their actions.

​@Lerian_V abortion is not and can never be murder. It's just not what murder is.

I see 3 victims here. You and the two babies. Life is a tragedy. Sorry

@@jenniferzbarouskaya6543 People who play with fire get burned for sure, If you can't do the time don't do the crime,

A scared and murderous child. It is just a fact, murder is the intentional killing of an inocent human live. It is a tricky subject since the human is not yet very developed but it really feels wrong

I dont think is about abortion but rather virtue signaling from a religious narcissist....The Doctor was an easy target.

@@spiritofMongan either way what an arrogant shithead.

Still is. Each and every miscarriage is an abortion by the "god." It could have just prevented a conception instead of planning it to occur and then planning for the fetus to die.

He is on the good side ❤

But, he is also dangerous!

Yes, Dawkins summed up his impression with a quote from my favorite atheist, Steven Weinberg.

"No true Scotsman"... Just like him, you believe in some magical being, making you part of the problem. Just like him, you base your convictions on the existence of something that does NOT exist, making you prone to irrational decisions. Grow up-Santa does not exist!