The Children of Dawkins: Konstantin Kisin on Agnosticism & Human Dignity 

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This channel is criminally underrated

Calm balanced conversation.Thank you Gentlemen.

I think this site, with this interviewer, is one of the best. I feel I understand Konstantin better now than from other interviews. Thanks!

What an excellent interview and what an intelligent guy Konstantin is!

Konstantin is highly articulate. The questions being asked of him here may seem too obvious for others to ask. But the interviewer is not presupposing the answers. Excellent conversation. Thanks.

I enjoyed this but it was far too short!

Kissin absolutely nailed it when he said the archtects of thec"managed decline of the UK" are all those upper/ middle class people with well paid jobs who will never have to deal with the consequences of their ideas. They are the real problem. They talk about "helping ordinary people" but doing exactly the opposite. Time we all woke up to this double speak

I've heard KK mention the death (murder) of his great uncle, this is someone he never knew but gets choked up. I do too when I think of my son who's 5 and would probably have suffered the same fate if we'd had the misfortune to be born 100 years ago in Ukraine. I realise that this post might be read as sarcasm, it's most defineitly not just a realisation that there people in the west that are actively trying to bring about the horrors of Stalisnist Russian and Maoist China.

His book,An immigrants love letter to the west, should be read/taught in every UK school. Ive read it,and its an eye opener!

I love it when i find konstantin in another interview somewhere, even when im 3 months behind lol

new subscriber, great video!!!!

The burning bush is a more accurate metaphor for God than the bearded old man in the sky! I think if we saw God it would drive us mad, not because of ugliness or frightfulness but because of incomprehensibility! There is something out there bigger than me and I can sense it but cannot see, hear, or touch it.

If you are a great fan of creative destruction then you would be appreciative of religion because the road to understanding humility is pretty much precisely that, although appreciation of its creative potential and value comes at a cost, there is great reward to the heart and mind.

We should not forget that when the religious was in power (as it still is in certain parts of the world) it was not all good and respectful to others.... Burning people alive for reading a bible printed in English is not the definition of tolerance and love.

“ treat others as you want to be treated” the sensible version , any version , doesn’t come from religion, it comes from humans being aware of themselves and others . .. if person needs religion to guide them to that , tell them that , teach them that , then something wrong with those individuals…

Can I express a wackily Catholic opinion? Konstantin suggests that this country punches above its weight in terms of the influence for good that it has had around the world. There is a wonderful piece of Marian theology that explains how this can be possible and it dates back at least to 1350 and possibly much earlier. It is the idea that England is the dowry of Our Lady. I've often tried to think what this actually means and my guess is that through our fruits she spreads good ideas around the world. And if that is true, then Konstantin is right. Our beneficial influence will not stop here.

Konstantin admits that he is much more interested in "ways of living" than theology of it. Konstantn would be at ease if people adopt some of the Christian ways of living, which he rightly says might reduce some of the problems in society. But it is difficult for most to adopt this way of living if you do not believe in the foundation of Christianity. The rules, values and ways of living is adopted based on the belief that there is a higher order and that one will be judged for ones every action. Take that away and the rules and values rapidly decays. I dont think there is a middle ground unfortunately.

Another wonderful interview from THE NEW HUMANUM. Thank you. "I'm more interested in the living of it; than in the theology of it!" [14:00]. Konstantin, reduced to its most basic form, Christianity is "the imitation of the young male Jew, Jesus of Nazareth". To Roman Catholics, it may be the 'imitatio Christi'. Were everyone to be doing this, it would be great news for the planet: provided you did not encounter someone wanting to crucify you for it! This, surely, makes Christianity (not CHURCHianity!) better than Communism and Islam as means to the commonwealth and 'commonhealth' of humanity?

I don't mind being lumped in as a "child" of Richard Dawkins, a great thinker and personable human being. I understand the dillemma of human existence and the "god' shaped hole, although I never suffered from it. On a deeper level, what if.....the major religions had been more in line with human flourishing.....but they were largely spread by aggressive societies in aggressive ways - and that is the way of the real world in our real history. So we find ourselves with major religions that don't really fit modern society and modern morals well, but really nothing of substance to replace them - the dominant modern religion seems equally as aggressive, intolerant and even less forgiving. It's a conundrum, can we ever move forward or are we so entrenched around a particular shape of "god-shaped hole" that we can't grow from there.

When mankind accepts they are alone in an infinite and eternal Cosmos, that the purpose for an intelligent life is to contribute to a recognised legacy. The machinery of which is already in our genome. Then we will turn towards the reality that _maximising the full potential of each new life_ so they have the courage, resilience, curiosity and sociability to set their life on that road. Which is the 'design' of our cobbled-together genome. A great tribal member now consumes a few thousand books instead of rabbits. The binding central ambition for the species is to outlive this solar system, this galaxy, and even this Universe. Otherwise there is no logical reason for making new life. History does not deserve repetition. The sole 'Satan' is Entropy, the destroyer of plans. Anthropomorphised *Are Intelligence and Imagination the Cosmos trying to make sense of itself?*

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11:52 It is difficult justify the Judeo-Christian morals without the God who sets the standard for love, law and transgression. (And by "difficult" I mean "impossible.)