Sam Harris: Why Religion might Destroy our Civilization 

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That is a perfect answer 👏🏻👌

"more precious" but ultimately without meaning. The only way you can get out of this is to attack religion and say it's self-deception. To say it's just as ultimately meaningless. The point is to defend atheism you need to attack religion because atheism itself has no meaning to life and can never have any meaning. Your argument needs to focus on religion instead of vacuous atheism which by default is empty and can never be anything more.

Imagine spending eternity with a bunch of evangelical christians! Ugh! But then - they will be going down below, won't they, evil as they are?

Love it ❤

I can hear the religious people from my childhood responding to your statement by saying the devil is working through you to cause the saints to waver and fall into the depths of deception. Then to hell we go.❤

It had been, for thousands of years, because of every different religions, as well as different race, that wars had been fought.

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Watch and understand

@@Laneline5000 😈 loves this because he wants people to join him in hell!

Religious people run from logic. They'll never watch.

@@IamGenoBlack y’all believe this 🪱 turn to 👨‍🦰where’s the logic ?

@@arlandolittle7625 Oh yea fruit cake, I get it. Evolution is implausable. A old white man farting out life from a cloud makes total sense. Not to mention talking snakes and zombies. Sure thing buddy.

So you have the gift, and the receiver of the gift...but you don't have the gifter.

@@maseratiupgrades4363 you mean grifter?

​@@richardhedd3080 No, grifter applies to Sam.Back to Sam, the waver of the impotent magic wand of 'science'. What are you scared of by avoiding Quran? Quran is not anti-science as modern anecdotes have you believe. Are you scared of wasting your time? Quran urges you to prepare for when you run out of time. So what scientific instrument tells you WITH CERTAINTY that there is no chance that you will one day be 'back against the wall' desperate to have more time when it will be made clear to you that it is too late for you? With graves all around you; and an invitation made already with your name on it to drop right in , wouldn't you owe it to yourself to weight out the sum total of what you may (science cannot tell you either way) lose against what you may (again science is at a loss) gain from considering potential consequences on the other side of life? I don't think Sam is sincere. He is making a living at denying and sounding cool with his professional aura of humility and wide scope reflection. Yet, when he does reference Quran, references are tainted by sources outside of Quran; and he mistreats the Quranic verses distorting them for his agenda by either ignorantly or purposely excluding then from the deep network of clarifying Quranic context that they are inextricably tied to. When it comes to Quran, Sam Harris drops the adoption of a wide scope and suddenly turns investigatophobic. I believe that he is concealing Quran purposely because it is in the interest of his professional livelihood to use smoke and mirrors to give his audience what they want to hear at their greatly harrowing expense. Now, rationally, who has a greater right to security: one who takes possible future events seriously enough to thoroughly investigate (the Quran front to back and back again to discover its cohesiveness as opposed to other scriptures ) the basis of such claims of the future, neither provable nor disprovable by 'science' or whatever other magic wand is waved?; or being mindless, absurdly crying out (regarding an unfathomable future) 'where is the evidence.....where is the evidence?....' while vilifying religion without scientifically defining what 'religion' is, as opposed to. precisely defining it to make it study-worthy to actually learn what it's impact is? Sam Harris does not care about the answer: he is not pensive in the pursuit of knowledge but pensive as to which hustle will get a rise. All he has to do is sit in a chair, cross his legs and entertain sinners with false hope aphorisms that trick the mind from truly pondering in order to gain any real knowledge: and all his audience has to do is adopt his aphorisms to sound cool, while deep down below them, their foundation stays rocking, sending up acrid wisps of anxiety in perpetual need of more soothsaying from your great entertainer, Sam Harris. 'Let false hopes amuse them. Soon will knowledge undeceive them'-Quran 15:3

@@maseratiupgrades4363could the gifter be God 😮

He's an ignoramus.

FALSE The Problem Atheists have is, They Unnecessarily Overcomplicate it God is simply the Existence of Love. Everybody Believes Love exists Simple. But infinite in Power and Expression. To ignore the Reality of that Is not only Unfortunate It’s Shameful

@@damianedwards8827 Pathetic copy&paste troll.

On the contrary, there is really nothing that you can fault or show as false in anything Sam Harris has said here. There is also nothing here that is 'over-complicated' but rather a well articulated salvo of facts, corrections and explanations put in simple terms to try and educate religious people. Also, given the many atrocities done or sanctioned by that monster they worship in the Bible, you must be expressing your personnel ideological reality and definition of a different god.

The age of subscribing to the dictates of Parables, Prose, Fantasies and Fables, prescribed by morality signalling hypocrites who presume to speak on behalf of a Celestial Patriarch, in whose "name" they cast aspersions, judgement and prejudice, while claiming that these are "God's verdict", is over. Consciousness has recognised an authentic understanding of knowledge, free from the conceit and contrivances of an ultimatum based superstitious hysteria promoted by people who claim the authority of fabricated pieces of primeval myth and fiction, and want me to believe that these are "Divine", that I won't have, and it is the original repudiation. The first rebellion against mental slavery comes from saying ; this is man-made, it is not "Divine". What is written in the Bible, Quran, Torah, is clearly not the best that Humanity is capable of in the ethical domain.

​​ Conceited and contrived. Knowledge rules the World, Ignorance carries the burden. The age of subscribing to the dictates of Parables, Prose, Fantasies and Fables, prescribed by morality signalling hypocrites who presume to speak on behalf of a Celestial Patriarch, in whose "name" they cast aspersions, judgement and prejudice while claiming that these are "God's verdict", is over. Conciousness has recognised an authentic understanding of knowledge, free from the conceit and contrivances of an ultimatum based superstitious hysteria promoted by people who claim the authority of fabricated pieces of primeval myth and fiction, and want me to believe that these are "Divine", that I won't have, and it is the original repudiation. The first rebellion against mental slavery comes from saying ; this is man-made, it is not "Divine"...

Nobody made a penny off religion until it had banked its first profitable dime!

Very true.

The thing is, if you remove God, it makes no sense to be a good person (other than laws, which aren't really a good argument for being a good man), because good and bad mean nothing in an atheistic society

@@TheTrooper1878 bollocks

@@fionagregory9147 why

@@TheTrooper1878 Thing is hundreds of million were killed in the name of gods. If you need god to be good and decent, then you're not good and decent.

That’s the sad part about the belief system in religious people. Proof and logic have no place in it

He proves himself wrong and can't help it. Again, read the entire Quran and find out why.

@@maseratiupgrades4363 no thanks

@@maseratiupgrades4363 Science will fly you to the moon, religion will fly you into buildings. The people who did that read the Quran. Now don’t get mad and blow up at me…

​@@fionagregory9147 Back to Sam, the waver of the impotent magic wand of 'science'. What are you scared of by avoiding Quran? Quran is not anti-science as modern anecdotes have you believe. Are you scared of wasting your time? Quran urges you to prepare for when you run out of time. So what scientific instrument tells you WITH CERTAINTY that there is no chance that you will one day be 'back against the wall' desperate to have more time when it will be made clear to you that it is too late for you? With graves all around you; and an invitation made already with your name on it to drop right in , wouldn't you owe it to yourself to weight out the sum total of what you may (science cannot tell you either way) lose against what you may (again science is at a loss) gain from considering potential consequences on the other side of life? I don't think Sam is sincere. He is making a living at denying and sounding cool with his professional aura of humility and wide scope reflection. Yet, when he does reference Quran, references are tainted by sources outside of Quran; and he mistreats the Quranic verses distorting them for his agenda by either ignorantly or purposely excluding then from the deep network of clarifying Quranic context that they are inextricably tied to. When it comes to Quran, Sam Harris drops the adoption of a wide scope and suddenly turns investigatophobic. I believe that he is concealing Quran purposely because it is in the interest of his professional livelihood to use smoke and mirrors to give his audience what they want to hear at their greatly harrowing expense. Now, rationally, who has a greater right to security: one who takes possible future events seriously enough to thoroughly investigate (the Quran front to back and back again to discover its cohesiveness as opposed to other scriptures ) the basis of such claims of the future, neither provable nor disprovable by 'science' or whatever other magic wand is waved?; or being mindless, absurdly crying out (regarding an unfathomable future) 'where is the evidence.....where is the evidence?....' while vilifying religion without scientifically defining what 'religion' is, as opposed to. precisely defining it to make it study-worthy to actually learn what it's impact is? Sam Harris does not care about the answer: he is not pensive in the pursuit of knowledge but pensive as to which hustle will get a rise. All he has to do is sit in a chair, cross his legs and entertain sinners with false hope aphorisms that trick the mind from truly pondering in order to gain any real knowledge: and all his audience has to do is adopt his aphorisms to sound cool, while deep down below then, their foundation stay rocking, sending up acrid wisps of anxiety in perpetual need of more soothsaying from your great entertainer, Sam Harris. 'Let false hopes amuse them. Soon will knowledge undeceive them'-Quran 15:3

Reads like a copy and paste from somewhere. Show me the stats, not anecdotes. You should have them since you follow Sam' Harris's god of 'science'.

I can see how that would be true.

Exactly! Take London for example! Safe, because of it's low percentage of religious population!

@@maseratiupgrades4363 Google for stats, it's easy. The most atheistic countries are the safest and the happies one. You are anecdote here.

​@@Seticzechyes that's true but their economy, wealth, living conditions effect that too right? How do you say religion is the exact and the only reason for conflict?

Well how else are they going to keep funding their greed filled wars if not by continuing to convince morons they are fighting and killing for a righteous perfect loving God?

not anymore. its all about greed. taking land all the money invested on bombs and military.

Allah says in Quran they created from nothing or they created of them self

Support secular humans. :]

"Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of understanding." Plato

@@trollemctrollersen This is the kind of dehumanizing rhetoric that makes me a loud and proud atheist instead of a quiet one. If we don't speak up, the religious have no limits to what they will do to us.

@@valroniclehre193 We are all entitled to our opinions.

@@trollemctrollersen No. Not when your opinion implicate me. Then they become my business. You say I have a mental disease? Prove it. But you can't. This is just another religious oppression routine. Thankfully I'm not oppressed but that hinges entirely on keeping people like you from accomplishing the theocracy you are always pushing for, and yea I know you don't think you are but that's the terminus of your efforts.

THe true single God of Quran is the true Only Reality (Quran).

@@maseratiupgrades4363 bollocks

@@maseratiupgrades4363 You sound exactly like every member of every cult. There is no true god.

​@@maseratiupgrades4363Bla bla bla eedjit

@@SextusHempiryk All mockery will be evaporated by the eternal fire (Quran)

Yet BILLIONS of people still believe in it..unsettling huh

@@FactStorm It's an indication we aren't going to make it as a species...not with the marriage of tech we have and Iron Age reasoning.

I mean, it is called the big band THEORY. It is called the Darwin THEORY. Nothing is proven, we can't completely deny God, nor completely accept him. The thing is, science alone can not teach you what is good and what is bad, because in an atheistic society those words mean nothing.

@@FactStorm they have been brainwashed.

@@FactStorm Billions? I don't think so. 😀

Amen you’re speaking facts

Only someone who has been alive for 93 billion years would know if there is stuff spread out over the distance that light travels in that amount of time. How else can anyone know such things ? Thinking is very far from knowing. Confucius said : When you know a thing, to know that you know it. And when you're not sure of a thing, to know that you don't really know it : That's Knowledge.

Well said stormcloud8416!

@georgewarner5496: Interesting claims, and which by your own logic would also rule out any claims of an eternal god, for how can any mortal know that such a thing exists? Also the approx. age our observable universe is 13.7 billion years old, not 93 billion years. 93 billion LIGHT YEARS is the estimated size of our observable universe, expressed as such to more easily describe the distance light can travel in a year at ~ 300,000 km / SECOND. Well established scientific facts and empirical evidence is how astrophysicists and other related fields of science KNOW these things. They don't just 'think' as you yourself think they do. Ironically, it is you that have demonstrated that you think you know.

LOL

Yes, religion is dying. Finally because the suffer and pain religions did are immeasurable.

@@Seticzech I'm not necessarily against religion, if it can improve ones life (even as a delusion) is that a bad thing? Of course the problem is knowing if it improves ones life or not. You can get the community aspect from religion that you probably wouldn't get otherwise (unless you joined a club of some sort). And of course you need that gullibility in place in the first place or it wouldn't work.

@@colinjava8447 "is that a bad thing?" Definitelly. Every dogma is bad and dangerous thing. People are doing great even without religion. Actually people are doing better without religion. "And of course you need that gullibility in place in the first place or it wouldn't work." Just gullibility is not enough, you need active brainwashing and indoctrination during childhood AND preventing access to proper education to keep religion alive. If we look at data of US population, over 50 % of young people is not interested in the church despite highly religious society especially in southern states (bible belt) because of public schools and scientific classes. Sadly homeschooling and religious schools (both elementary and high) are still thing so there are still about 30 % od creationists in the US. In Europe, the situation is completely different. Every state here (even such religious state like Turkey) has mandatory by state approved curriculum with proper education, teaching creationism here is impossible.

I read a psych textbook once with a section on positive psychology. From what I remember, religion, particularly being active in a religious community, is associated with people living longer and rating themselves as having higher wellbeing. Now, this is from memory, so I could have misrepresented the finer points. But ever since, I wonder if this benefit is mostly because religious people (I'll use Christians as an example because they are familiar to me) believe they have a personal relationship with someone who loves them unconditionally, or is the effect from purpose and service and community? If it is the latter, perhaps the religious/congregational humanism movement should be more heavily invested in so non-believers can have these same benefits.

True.. I have to go to church now just because my parents are going it's actually so boring. Never thought I'd say this but worse than school.

Politics, money and hate have become their own dogmas for many, disguised as religion.

مثلك تماماً 😢

Just don’t believe him!

I not only believe him, I 100% agree with him.

@@wolfster2287 put your soul in his hands is crazy . To believe there is no God is crazy. Everything in life has a designer. God in Jesus name is our designer. Think God made the human body imagine if you didn’t have feet and legs to walk but without knees you couldn’t go upstairs! With elbows , fingers and thumbs you couldn’t hold a cup. Without teeth you can’t chew food. Now evolution didn’t know about steps , cups or sitting in chairs. Or teeth to eat steak!

@@wolfster2287 all those things i mention in our bodies we take for granted also our ears , eyes , nose. Take our digestive system a urination system you take it for granted. But that’s in ALL lifeforms. Brains to think how can nothing design that for millions of different living things. Male and female reproduction systems that took thought that didn’t just happen by chance for all life!

​@@arlandolittle7625 hilarious parody of a believer--bravo! "How would we get up steps if we didn't have knees"! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

هل أنت يهودي؟ المسلمين لا يؤمنون بتدخل الله بفناء الحياة الله في الإسلام يتحكم بكل شيء لكنه لايتجسد أنما يتواصل مع البشر عن طريق وحي والوحي هو الملاك فعلا كلامك صحيح القرآن فيه شعر وأساطير وفيه شيء متسامح مثل العهد الجديد و العهد القديم الله تبع الاسلام خليط بين يهوه و يسوع

@@Imnot-fj1yx إذا لم يعد الله/يسوع (نفس الشخصية) إلى إسرائيل في القرن الأول ، فلا خلاص للمسلمين أو المسيحيين. لا تحصل عليه. انها عفا عليها الزمن. أخذ مؤلف القرآن ببساطة إلى العهد الجديد وقصة العهد القديم واستبدل الله بإله العهد القديم (رجل يهودي) وإله العهد الجديد (رجل يهودي آخر). المفهوم الحقيقي لله هو بلا شكل ، لانهائي ، أبدي ، موجود في كل مكان ، غير شخصي. إنه لا يتجسد كبشر ولكنه جوهري داخل كل إنسان وكل ما هو موجود. الله لا يملك صفات المفهوم الحقيقي لله. مؤلف القرآن ليس هو نفس الفرد مثل مؤلفي الأحاديث. كل ما تعرفه عن نبي الإسلام يأتي من الحديث. كانت الأحاديث افتراءات صاغها رجال عاديون. استندت الأحاديث إلى الأسطورة والإشاعات ، التي تم تجميعها بعد 200-300 عام من وفاة مؤلف القرآن. وهذا يشمل أعمالا مثل صحيح البخاري لمحمد البخاري (ت 870 م / 256 هـ) وسنان بن ماجه لابن ماجه (ت 887 م / 273 هـ) ، على سبيل المثال. هذه النصوص مليئة بالافتراءات. من الجدير بالذكر أنه حتى البخاري نفسه رفض 99 ٪ (592725) من الحديث الذي صادفه ، مما يؤكد مدى الفساد الذي تسرب إلى التقاليد الإسلامية. يمكن تفسير كل شيء في القرآن بطرق مختلفة لأنه ليس بأي ترتيب زمني. أنت تعتمد على التفسير من قبل علماء الكذب. لا الله ولا النبي تفسير هذه الكلمات بالنسبة لك. لذلك ، فهي ليست كلمة الله. ضع في اعتبارك دائما أن النص القرآني الأصلي ، المعروف باسم النص العثماني بعد الخليفة عثمان بن عفان ، لم يتضمن علامات تشكيل أو نقاط. تمت إضافة علامات التشكيل هذه ، إلى جانب النقاط ، إلى النص العربي بعد قرون ، بعد وفاة النبي. يمكن أن يؤثر وضع علامات التشكيل أو النقاط أو عدم وجودها على معنى الكلمات العربية. لذلك ، لا يمكنك استخدام الآية في القرآن لمجادلة أي شيء.

@@TwisterTornado What does your addiction have to do with the rest of humanity?

@@TwisterTornado You have to sort comments from the newest and then find this thread, you'll se it.

He said don't bother him. Have a good day

It's all available from this page. Just explore.

What does Darwin have to do with religion? He discovered something (evolution) which disproves only one very specific claim religions sometimes make (how humans originated), but that has nothing to do with whether a god exists. Instead, the lack of evidence means none of us knows a god exists, and atheists are mostly just being honest about that.

Scandinavia, present. Also, this is a bad take, given that reIigions stoIe cuItures and turned them into themselves and then cIaimed it brought goodness.

@@Amanita._.Verosa._. todays Scandinavian society was built on the back of religion. Majority of the population there only recently went away with religion and their depression rates have increased since. I’m not even religious in any way but I can recognize what religion has helped man achieve.

@IDontBuyIt50 I don't get it, can you give an example?

Because it's directly responsible for MOST of the world's division.

@@ethandollarhide7943 what about economy? Living conditions? Wealth? How can you say religion is the only thing?

@@carrotbrainYT Countries with better living conditions tend to be more Secular. Look at countries like Sweden and New Zealand compared to countries like Uganda or Yemen.

@@ethandollarhide7943 yeah that's my point, religion is not the only cause for conflict

Right.. so explaining away God will make thy God disappear to the delight of those who lament the thought of a divine creator who is responsible for every breath we take and every heart beat that occurs 24/7.. we are fearfully and wonderfully made and don’t just appear out of nowhere and born into a world where you can see a divine pattern everywhere you LOOK if you are being honest with yourself. You must realize we all are part of a very complex world in which we play a very small part overall. Even without the moon, we would wobble out of our orbit around the Sun uncontrollably at random intervals and it would be quite alarming to say the least.. It’s more out of a prideful nature to conclude we are all here randomly in a non explanatory way but yet billions believe so and to what end?

@@davidrexford586 el argumento de la complejidad y el diseño inteligente ya ha sido refutado por la ciencia. Y cuando MIRAMOS ALREDEDOR sólo vemos un mundo natural y no sobrenatural. No existe dios, acéptalo.

@@davidrexford586 This is the divine pattern Eve broke out of ignorance... her first week on the job, right? With 'glass darkly' and all? Also - when did extra gods, come into it? First her and Adam... technically 'recreating' it. And then 2 Corinthians 4:4... with it's 'god/prince of this world'. How curious. Also, 'prideful nature' began... in heaven I think I recall? In an angel realm... supposedly, with nothing to be, dissatisfied, nor confused, about.

لا أعتقد أنه يكره العرب، بل أعتقد أنه يكره التطرف. آسف على الخطأ المحتمل لقد قمت بترجمة هذا.

@@Seticzech لا يكره العرب ههههه ترجمتك صحيحه 👍🏻

This is almost 10yrs + ago video of Sam, now look what happen to Israel and Palestine, Iran

SInce soul is fictional, whole quote from p3do communist is meaningless.

How do you know this?

Ignorant cave man superstitions

I'm respectful I'm an Ex-Christian, not an Atheist. I know there is something greater than myself. Christianity is NOT the truth it claims.

I'm a proud Aussie Atheist. Thank God. 🇦🇺 😁😁

​@@JustReedagnostic?

@@Amanita._.Verosa._. Non-Christian, spiritual Diest. I believe in a Divine source of everything, with the belief in life after death, reincarnation and paranormal. No belief in Sin, Salvation, Demons and Devils... Sums me up well.

It's impossible. Either you're theist or atheist, there is not 3rd option.

​@@SeticzechNo, it is perfectly possible to recognize that all concepts are just ideas. Before the world told you who you were, you weren't in any category. You would have to be ignorant to think that concepts are what we are, because what we are invented the concepts.

Me too.

@@Seticzech yeah mine is the third and you can't just put category mandatory the hell yall think they are im not in your system ....

@@diesel4338 "yeah mine is the third" Again, it is impossible. Either you're theist or you are not theist, there is no third option. And not theist = atheist. "you can't just put category mandatory" it doesn't matter how you try to dodge, you simle can't. 🙂 "im not in your system" What system? 😀Being theist/atheist is not any system, it's just human's property. If I say you're blond/not-blond I!m putting you in some system? 😀

Sam Harris really said these things. The videos and sub titles may be ai generated

He knows more than you! Source...he told me so

Why does Sam (or any non-Buddhist) need to be a Buddhist to know Buddhism? Teaching mindfulness and/or meditation is not exclusive to Buddhists either.

@@earthlycreature8772 like today's phony yoga teachers, teaching a religion is totally different than simply knowing about or studying a religion. Mindfulness comes directly from Buddhism.

​@@dharmayogaashram979 no! It's a concept which might have originated from there but it's not exclusive to them. And people can learn about other religions without being its followers. Buddhism also has lots of superstition but he doesn't believe that. Meditation is more like a brain exercise that's why he talks about it.

@@LoveYourself-my9nz if one is speaking of meditation as simply a brain exercise, the n leave Buddhism and the term mindfulness out of it

Settle down and listen to

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You're failing to comprehend the Null Hypothesis. Or do you believe in leprechauns? What evidence do you have to prove they don't exist? You can't simply assert something like a god exists and then claim not finding evidence of that god's existence is a requirement.

@@enlacostaizquierda What alternative is there when there is no evidence FOR AND no evidence AGAINST a God? Well, if you are only going to look at one aspect in regards to no evidence, well then since there is no evidence supporting the conclusion that there is no God then then it’s logical to accept the alternative that there must be a God, So what is your point regarding the Null Hypothesis?

1. You're wrong about belief. It's defined as, _"an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists."_ So whether you have evidence or not, if you acccept an idea is true, it's a belief. 2. Truth is the set of facts about reality, so the only way for our beliefs to match it is by detections of reality (we call that "evidence"). 3. We don't have evidence of a god. So we don't know one exists. Well when we don't know something, the only rational position is non-belief. On the topic of gods, _that's atheism._ Non-belief or disbelief in any god. 4. So do you see how sentience really has nothing to do with it? For us to know something takes evidence (whether that thing is sentient or not), and so if we don't have evidence of gods or your treasure, then we don't know they exist. If truth is the goal to our beliefs, then we must not believe things are true unless we have good reason (unless we have evidence). 5. The existence of God (specifically capital-G, the name of the Christian god) is ridiculous, because the attributes Christians say that god has (all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good, caused everything, and interested in our belief/worship) _contradict reality._ We live in a reality where we don't have reasonable evidence of God, yet if a god existed with those attributes, we'd clearly have evidence. So due to that problem (called Divine Hiddenness) and another problem (the Problem of Evil), we know God in particular doesn't exist. This doesn't rule out other gods. But my earlier point remains true for all those other gods: knowing requires evidence, which we lack, so we don't know any gods exist at all. So we shouldn't believe.

@@enlacostaizquierda Also, which leprechaun has a gospel plan of eternal happiness that involves living a certain lifestyle and searching for truths regarding that gospel according to perhaps Lucky or whoever leprechaun you are referring to by acting on faith in Lucky or whomever, while holding on to your Lucky Charms, so that you have a relatable comparison to determine if faith in one is just like faith in the other?

@@majmage Where did you get that definition of atheism from? Also, if your conclusion to reject a God is not based on FACT that such a God doesn’t exist, then what are you basing that conclusion on then?

@JennyLovesWillRiker He might have watched the video, but it scared him, so he rewrote the video in his head to make it seem as if he understood it. Theists are capable of infinite amounts of self delusion.

Slamming? Having an opinion? Let's start with the big 3, then move on to the other fairy stories.

They all claim the same make believe things to be true

You mean we have huge cults that worship Zeus today?

Alright. I would maintain that Christianity and Islam might have the greatest effects on future geopolitical developments, owing to their massive global popularity and their rather alarmingly rabid fanbases. Still, I think the other religions deserved a mention or two.

Who’s causing most of the world’s problems right now?

Humor or paranoid schizophrenia?

I think the latter! :(

You're lying as most Christians do Especially jevoha witness

TY, and my apologies for the rude replies.

What Civilization?

Myths like noah's ark, adam and eve, resurrections, prophecies and miracles have little to nothing to do with civilization. If anything, they are obstacles to progress. Let's get a grip, shall we?

@@infinitebeing1119 Which ( not `what` ) Civilization ? The Western Civilization, briefly interrupted by its fall ( in the Roman Empire ) but lingering on for another millennium in the East.

@@FactStorm Would you dismiss the Greeks ? The Arabs ? What nonsense you talk. Are not fine buildings that still stand here in Europe a testament to a belief in something greater than ourselves - and being a part of human civilization ? I knew it wouldn`t belong before I wound a few people up, lol.

It's pointless to hate fictional entitites.

Do believe in Lord Brahman? Zeus? Osiris? The rainbow serpent? Lots more gods, do you believe in them?

There are approximately 45,000 different Christian denominations that all disagree with each other in some way about their religion, many of which do not consider the others to even be Christians. Nothing in Christianity is agreed upon, and by the end of the century Islam will surpass Christianity.

Empty claims, as expected

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It's 2024, it would be time to realize that believing in sky daddies is ridiculous!

I don’t believe in Leprechauns. By your logic I should self identify as an A-Leprechaunist? You’re trying so hard to make Sam Harris sound ridiculous, you make yourself sound ridiculous.

@@williamwilson6499 There is such a word as atheist, it's in the English dictionary. If you don't like it crawl around not using it. I will use it, it's part of the English language. Do you think that vegans should say they're anti meatists? I'm an atheist and proud of it.

Sigh.......so if i am not a follower of Harry Potter, there should be a word for me? A word for me if i am not a Swiftie? Look, there goes the Aswift. Yeah, i am an Aswift and an Apotter. Fuck out of here with your bs

@@toni4729 the reason there's even a word for it is because belief is the default. Being atheist is a deviation from the norm. Harris's point was that only in religious belief is there a name for those who don't participate.

Something about trolls for you: Traits of a Troll: Research Reveals Motives of Internet Trolling Individuals with dark triad personality traits, including narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, combined with feeling schadenfreude, taking pleasure from the misfortune of others, are more likely to indulge in internet trolling. Results showed that gender, psychopathy, and sadism were all significant independent predictors of malevolent trolling. That is, if you are male, have high psychopathy, or high sadism, you are more likely to troll. The most powerful predictor of trolling was sadism. The more someone enjoys hurting others, the more likely it is they will troll. ARE YOU ALSO SADISTIC, OR JUST NARISSISTIC PSYCHOPATH?

@@Seticzech In other words, Love is also what YOU Relate to and cherish But you’re Scared to Publicly Admit it Interesting

@@damianedwards8827 You're just babbling same nonsense over and over like broken record player. Pathetic.

God is not real.

@@vladtheemailer3223 Everybody Believes Love exists. Including You. Emotion is the Very Reason you just Commented

I would never read the Quran or the bible. Both have been exposed as man made indoctrinating poison.

where on earth did he say that, you're a prime example of the points hes making and before you talk yes i did read the entire 60 ahzab of the quran

you have no idea that you just endorsed everything Sam said do you? #EvolvePastMysticism

Not following Sam Harris. Jus listening for the moment, while another human being speaks sense.

​@@zar_17c What is azhab? speak English. Did you read the entire Quran verse by verse and back again to see how Sam mistreats Quranic verses he references by taking then out of context for his narrow purpose of entertaining sinners? If you come back saying you read the entire Quran verse by verse and still support your claim then you are a liar. Come on and give me a derogatory conclusion Sam makes about any Quranic verse (cite the verse and state the conclusion) and I will throw the Quran in your lying face to expose both you and Sam as plain old sinners against God and you will be left with an exposed dirty mind with which you were incapable of benefiting from any part of the Quran anyway. "Truth Hurled against falsehood knocks out it's brain. Quran 15:3

😀No.

Nope, you see only a reflection of the chaos and confusion in your own mind.

Amen!!! So true!!!

Amen!!! Soooo true!!!

"The more that the world moves to godless atheism, the more violent and intolerant it is becoming." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Total nonsense. " -Revelation -" Ancient book of fairy tales, irrelevant. "and let us reason together" You don't want reason, you want cult. Not interested, people are doing BETTER without any fictional supernatural sky wizard. "- Isaiah 1:18 -" Ancient book of fairy tales, irrelevant.

You are referring, of course, to the "good old days" with little or no violence. Apart from World War I. And World War II. Or Korea... or Vietnam... The good old non-violent days of Al Capone... of Bonnie & Clyde. The KKK and segregation... We don't even have witch-trials any more, today.

@@BruceFox-Lefriche🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

lol