Why Religion Does more Harm than Good in the World #2 

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Religion is dangerous because it means you’ve given up

Christopher Hitchens was a genius. His work still inspires me to this day. ❤

Spot on. These concerns and comments could not express my view of religions more accurately. Governments need to be totally independent of religions and any governmental financial aid terminated.

Mr. Weinberg was being too gentle with the use of science being corrosive to religion. In 2024, it is not corrosive enough.

I’m totally freed from religion. It’s an amazing feeling.

I seriously find no difference between two adults arguing over their gods to two children arguing over who is the best marvel character…it’s all extremely silly and infantile

The God of Abraham is a sadistic psychopath.

It is very easy to make a claim if you don't have to back it up with evidence

I'm 47yrs old. $73,000 biweekly and I'm retired, this video have inspired me greatly in many ways that I remember my past of how I struggled with many things in life to be where I am today!!!!❤️

Great thinkers sharing even greater thoughts 😊

When you have to use your morals to define what's religious and what's not then what is the point of religion? Good line

Great video! I enjoy listening to intelligent people.

I told my grandmother at 5-6 year's of age that I didn't want to attend church with her anymore, because the priest wasn't telling the truth and it all didn't make sense.😪

Anti-theist here and grateful for content like this. Religion is poison.

These two guys are probably my two favorite heathen brothers. If you are ever in town please drop by for a beer or coffee .

If the brain is a gasoline motor then intelligence is power and skepticism is the throttle.

If it wasn't for religion holding us back as a species, we probably would have figured out the whole death thing. We would have at least made tremendously more progress.

Hi from atheist ex Muslims from iraq.

It should be banned; such utter ignorant; no question asked. I mean…privately anyone can believe any shit; that is fine. But publicly such obsolete nonsense cannot be thought in schools, or financed by governments, in this quantum/AI time. Enough is enough.

what about in the U S A these ministers of religion making millions of dollars tax free in Australia they would be in trouble over this

A person saying they believe in a god character allows them to stop thinking and allows them to commit behaviours that otherwise are abhorrent, selfish, harmful, etc etc.

Take a deep breath, you can live without belief

I read the bible as a 10 year old kid. When I learned about Noah's flood, I realized that god was a mass murderer.

Nothing worse then the self righteous with there holier then thou attitude based on self deception. If you want to sacrifice your humanity to follow your evil insane creator who gets off on blood and burnt flesh that your problem and not mine.

"Do we have to listen to this??" Man, he literally stated out loud what I think about ALL THE TIME when I attend public gatherings. I'm in the deep south and it's RIDICULOUS!...

I believe that if religions didn't last this long we would be in space already.

When you read RU-vid's commercial guidelines. You find that RU-vid does not protect anyone who does not have religious beliefs. This allows religious people the right to harass and bully anyone not like them.

lovely video... despite the monotonously familiar but necessary ad.

Ditch the music!

A Catholic student asked my Jewish wife when she was a student who didn’t believe in heaven or hell said ( then what makes you be good?

Raised as a radical catholic,went to church every sunday.As a kid l became negatively impressed by the tormented statues and figures of the temple and became scared with the dark concepts of " hell" l didn't like the priests, later on l started checking the bible and hated the killing of millions of innocent animals in the deluge and the sacrifices.And as l kept on reading the bible l found a lot of crimes, immorality, all kinds of contradictions and a tremendous lack of logic and reasonable topics that did it for me. Plus the fact that church received money. Than l went to check oriental creeds. Indo american doctrines, african. Couldn't find anything to fullfill myself. One wonderful day l got Car

Go Dr. Weinberg! Love your rationality.

The same was told by Bhudha as per Kalam Sutta 2600 years ago. ❤

Christians always looked down on St. Thomas because he doubted the resurrected Christ. Skepticism , or using reason is more important then bumbling along and believing everything because your supposed to. Who knows, Questioning everything may even strengthening your faith--------- or not.

The world that surrounds me is real but the gods that people believe in seem to be missing. Where are they?

We have to study what is deductive arguments and inductive arguments ... Every thing about it .... Will give us strong foundation to reason any conclusion.... We have teach others , it's one of the ways world can be Godfree ... Biggest freedom .

What's pathetic about Christianity is the notion that you can pawn off ALL of the criminal sht' you did onto somebody else who is your special little scapegoat to take all of the blame for your bad choices😂 Some of us are responsible and we do not need to point our finger at somebody else in an attempt to avoid the consequences of our bad choices. How does a person learn anything from their mistakes if they never have to take responsibility for them. Christianity= irresponsible

Always ask questions

I think that the uproar regarding adolescents/teens being too young to know what gender they are should be applied to the same adolescents/teens regarding requiring a belief in a god.

Great video. 3 of my favorite people.

Religion can use the fear of the supernatural to inflict control where nond is needed, to benefit the priestly class. Rekigion that removes loyalty and allegiance to a priestly class, king, ruler, ( like Christianity-your standard is Love, compassion, and not to things 'of this world, which means acquiring, showing off, climbinv the corporate ladder') and encourges self-sacrifice, is so very different. All the world 's human evil is based on tbe narcissistic abuse of power, and convincinv others to join the side if the powerful. It does not matter if religious, or human manipulation. Any manipulation or coercion basedon threat is tyranny. Christians do not worship Chfist and God out of the fear of hell. They worship Him because they want to be like Ultimate Love Itself. They pledge their loyaly to the Master Coach who will help them excel far beyondwhat they could ever accomplish on their own. The Allah of Mohammad is warlike and coercive. The I AM of the Hebrews is not. Nor is Christ.

proud ex Muslim from Afghanistan ✌

Severus Snape sighting @1:57!!

Hi Athiest Community Members 💝

Anyone got the background music? It's beautiful

Yep

📍6:32 EXACTLY

I am a Roman Catholic.Atheistism is the opposite to Christianity. I ask myself what do Atheists believe in?I have studied Psychology and Philosophy. There are many Concepts,ie. Logic,Truth,Realism,Understanding, Knowledge,Wisdom,Experience. The Laws of Science are governed by Rules,Theories,Etc. This is fact.

Purposeful ommission is nefarious

Comment for the algorithm.

Why the fu** do I pay for youtube premium only to get ads anyway halfway trough a vid? Fu**

What Mr. Dawkins forgets to tell about skepticism and being skeptical at all time about what you are being told, is the fact that as such a skeptical being, one must always be skeptical about your own reasoning and, to be sure that when u try to skeptically at somethign u been told, that u do it not just for the sake of it, but that you also make the effort to acknowledge and be able to see that was has been told to u IS true after all. This is what a lot of people in the modern skepticism sphere keeps forgetting, they just blindly question everything for the sake of it, or even let their own bias and ideas blind them from the truth.

Why does it say that there are 87.5K subscribers yet I can't find the button to subscribe? Did you disable the subscribe button or something?

LS How many is a minority in procents???????? from billions off people????? Tell me .

God's are female's too!

The last 30 years is the result of the death of religion. If you are happy with where things are today, then you agree with the message in the video. If you think things have gotten worse off, then you probably need to rethink the message in the video.

Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. Is that all there really is? This Universe is anything but a random incident. When you come to realise this you will understand there is a God and there is more than just this life.

I don't believe their Gods either. God is real, but not what they imagined. It is beyond the realm of science and is neither good nor bad.

Nice talk, loose the music.

Don't need that nonsense anymore.

A mature mind can be religious and always open to questioning.

While this video fairly represents my opinion, I feel sad that people feel the to make videos, hold seminars etc. just to debunk the other guy's opinion Just be happy in whatever your "faith" is.

No research cited. Just “trust me bruh” kinda of stuff in lieu of well stablished research and sociological studies (which shows quite the opposite of that these babblers are saying here). Oooof

To be honest its not true at all. The religious values especially have upheld society and traditionalism, especially in the western world where Christianity is prevalent

All of Abraham's children need to GRASP their HOLY BOOKS from the Spiritual pov or these conflicts will NEVER EVER EVER STOP and Abraham's descendants (ALL OF THEM ) will continue to be a curse in the earth instead of a LIGHT for the world: I wish I could exclude Christianity from this curse but they are not exempt from it because of how they may believe in Jesus but most Christians today still do not yet "KNOW" in whom they believe. Jews don't have the Holy Spirit (only David ever had the Holy Spirit which is what the CHOSEN are given to understand the Bible from a spiritual POV): It says no one can say Jesus is Lord but by the HOLY SPIRIT: Why? Because Jesus is born when the ANOINTING (Christ) is born through the heart by the Holy Spirit: Jesus then never was a person born through sex but the SEED OF GOD (HASHEM) which is a SPIRITUAL SEED, is born through the heart (Mark 4 the parable of all parables, explains this along with John 16, showing that the woman (heart) gives birth to Christ, not the sexual part of female: Here is why a male can give birth to Christ through the good part of their heart as much as a female sexually, because the SOUL is neither male or female. This is also why "virgin" is a metaphor of the heart (desire) that is able to bring the anointing into the world, the 30 fold (Mark 4) which is the LETTER LAMED =teacher that brings us above the line ): Virgin has nothing to do with a sexual virgin and this is true for those poor Muslims that give their lives to get 70 virgins, but that's another story: The GOOD GROUND of the heart is the virgin ground of being that is able to bring forth the SEED of the woman (Israel) through Judah (praise of Yah) because Praise is PERFECTED in the mouth of babes (David was the YOUNGEST of Jesse's children) and a CHILD shall lead the soul back to God/Hashem. Having said all this for 31 years, only those who also EXPERIENCE the HOLY SPIRIT grasp it: Jews don't grasp Jesus or Torah as a tree of life because they don't have the HOLY SPIRIT, the ANOINTING (Christ) that reveals the truth that sets us FREE. Even the most intelligent Jews and Christians too, don't understand or "KNOW" Jesus until the baptism into the Holy Spirit which is baptism into Jesus name. The most intelligent people from all religions or atheism, get Jesus wrong because they can't wrap their mind around the meaning of "MAN" in the Bible, not grasping that males are animate but MAN is the IMAGE and LIKENESS of God and deals with the soul, not the sexual physical part of us. : Without the HOLY Spirit it is impossible to understand the Bible period: Moses for instance is a CODE NAME (drawn from the water) which is the subconscious, the sea that splits open in us when the SOUL escapes from the ego or identity with our first born status, our physical self and mind. Moses then is the CONSCIENCE that comes out of Israel when they are so overwhelmed by being slaves to the ego (EGYPT) that they can't take it anymore and MOSES appears to take them out of the EGO (EGYPT): The conscience however doesn't get it completely right in that it doesn't FULLY GRASP how to teach the SOUL HOW TO SPEAK to the rock (that gives the LIVING WATER or anointing) but instead it does what Jews have been doing since they lost Moses (their conscience) which is get angry at those (including one another) who can't bring the LIVING WATER out of the rock: HASHEM (GOD) told their conscience, SPEAK to the rock to get the living water: SPEAKING is prophesying which Moses said HE WISHED ALL ISRAEL WOULD DO: WHY? Because then they would GET THE ANOINTING from the rock (Christ ) that was with Israel in the wilderness: So HASHEM said to the conscience of Israel and is still saying it today, YOU DID NOT SANTIFY MY NAME IN THE FACE OF THIS PEOPLE. So Moses, you die and are buried on Mt NEBO (means PROPHET) so when you are resurrected by the ONE WHO DOES SPEAK THE WORD to raise the dead which is you (the conscience) and Elijah (the DESIRE FOR MESSIAH or the anointing, also law and prophets) YOU WILL DO what you should have done when I told you to do it: SPEAK to the rock, YOU will then prophesy to the DEAD BONES OF THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL and the VALLEY shall be exalted while the mountain (EGO) shall be laid low, as the crooked (serpent, will) is made straight::

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Jesus power ❤ starting now choose your side.dish Ohh if i don't believe in anything how can i b judged 😊

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Just started dating someone. She Christian. Should I tell her I'm an atheist? I'm 19,she's 17

I agree with the general premise, but relying on Dawkins to tell the truth of the world is a really bad idea.

How is the content of this consistent with Dawkins's claim to be a cultural Christian? Should we assume that Dawkins chooses the best worldview on offer for himself? Is cultural Christianity a result of "religion"? How, in this case, does the title of this video make sense?

HOLY S##T.. Because that is what it is!😁

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I like lawyers. Lawyers are the smartest people. I base this on the observable fact that they use the language better than anyone else. Plus, they are the ones that make up the rules and see to their implementation. Legal arguments by definition can not possess any ideology. They can only use facts in evidence, and they use these facts to try to persuade a jury what these facts imply. Facts are subject to interpretation so there is usually another lawyer trying to say that those same facts mean something different. Krauss, Dawkins, Tyson, et al are not smart enough to be lawyers. Evidence as it pertains to scientific theory can be easily dismissed and it will hurt you not one bit. But the kind of evidence that lawyers deal with is very important as the quality of a person's life can depend on a good lawyer. RU-vid comments section is to discussion and debate what the dumpster behind McDonalds is to cuisine. Not surprising that atheism is flourishing on this medium. One guy that could debate well was Plato. "Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of understanding." Plato Plato knew what he was saying.

What do the atheists need with Hitchens and Dawkins? Can't they think for themselves?

Just a pity that if the atheist worldview is true, there is no good or evil.

Religiousness is dangerously misunderstood. We are starting to suffer its consequences.

I have to wonder if people here understand they live in a society/culture based to a very large degree on The Bible?

The two most problematic religions are Christianity and Islam. And the best way to dismantle them is not through atheism but through 'universal spirituality.' Just wait until I publish my book; then, I'll show you how. Except for a few verses, there is hardly any truth in the Quran, Hadith, or the Bible. The concepts of hell, heaven, the last days, judgment, resurrection, and salvation, as described in the Bible or Quran, do not exist in reality. Nevertheless, a genuine concept of God or the Absolute exists. We must conceive of it in terms of Nature or the Quantum field (as in Spinoza's conception of God), yet there's more depth to it. The idea of holy individuals, enlightened beings, remains valid, and indeed, some do possess supernatural abilities like levitation or the capacity to perform other miracles. The principle of cause and effect is paramount; every action bears consequences. Morality stands as a cornerstone of life. Our conscience guides us in distinguishing right from wrong. It's essential to delve into the concept of suffering and ways to transcend it by merging with the Absolute, and to actively alleviate the suffering of humanity.

The brightest, most talented people and memorable artists are and have been believers. Science has hurt humanity more than any superstition.

God shows me the future every day & it all comes true. Like one day God told me there is a tent in my big green rubbish bin outside in the yard & I had no idea what God was talking about 'because I don't know anyone who owns a tent or goes camping '& I don't live near a camping park. But I went outside & opened the bin & there was a brand new very expensive tent sitting inside. Somebody had bought a tent & without using it they had chosen my bin out of thousands of bins to put it into. My own mind could never imagine such a thing happening but God told me there was a tent in my bin & there was. God has shown me the future thousands & thousands of times & God is always true. And God takes me to see heaven & hell & teaches me endlessly. This person (GOD) is infinitely Good & wise & I know that from meeting God in person. There are millions & millions of people who have met God & sooner or later you all will meet God. It's just a fact of life.

God is good and the devil is evil

God loves you unconditionally. Turn to God for happiness. Simply ask and you shall receive

Actually Christians are doing a lot of good in the world. Easily proven.

I want to talk about Carl Sagan. To many people Carl Sagan was a voice of reason. He was a kind and intelligent man who took on the position of educating the masses. His lectures and presentations were edifying and helpful in promoting enlightenment among the masses. I say bullshit! I say that Carl Sagan was a propagandist who spread hate and division amongst the masses. Under the guise of scientific enlightenment, he justified condescension and derision towards Christians and other believers. And he does it in a sneaky and passive/aggressive way, which makes him even more despicable! Science is owned by the people who fund it. If science didn't help to make profits for industrialists or if it didn't feed the war machine, then it wouldn't exist except for maybe in cloister. Sagan worked for NASA. I think for PR as much as anything. His presence made NASA look like it had a peaceful, beneficial to humanity mission. NASA was publicly funded R&D for defense contractors. Data obtained through the projects at NASA helped the defense establishment to build ICBM's. Sagan was certainly a part of the Military Industrial Complex. In his own little way, he contributed to the war machine. (Sagan wasn't very bright and I am sure he was just a useful idiot.) Sagan and his modern counterparts are copies of each other. They all say the same thing. None of them will ever talk about the dark side of the technocracy. They will never mention that science has enabled copious amounts of pollution. They will never talk about how science feeds the war machine. Leaving out a large part of the story makes him deceptive. Public Broadcasting isn't funded by hippies. It is funded by serious businesspeople who work at large, worldwide, corporations. Big oil, big agriculture. I have seen where BP and Archer Daniels have underwritten PBS presentations. Why would such wealthy, smart and powerful people be so interested in indoctrinating the masses? I don't know! As far as the science he was pushing: Big Bang cosmology is highly theoretical. In order to find out if the hypotheses about the big bang are true, we would have to get in a space cruiser and get a closer look. I doubt that will ever happen. Evolution is just plain stupid. There never has been a clear demonstration that evolution is true. If you want to believe that slime on a rock turned into Beethoven that is your business. It is also true to say that one can reject evolution and it will in no way hurt the quality of their life. Evolution is a hobby that is used for atheist propaganda. In science theory means no practical value as much as anything else. Carl Sagan got the job because of his nerdy good looks and warm demeanor. It is just show business. Carl is an equivalent to a televangelist preacher. (Carl was an agnostic.) Carl got the job because he looked good on television and his handlers knew that would help the indoctrination to sink in the minds of the public. With Carl Sagan one doesn't get the full story. One only hears what the people who sign his paycheck want them to hear.

God is good. He loves us literally to death. We should love him back. But we fall and fail. Atheists need to be careful lest they become a tool of the devil.

As Christian I find it very sad how one sided this is and how they put Judaism and being Muslim as the same as Christianity. They are sooooo different.

Thats a hell of a claim, and as a diest. I can stand firm when i say thats the most absent minded outlook on our reality. Religion simply put is a story or outlook of a group of people seeking good for all, we all have our own paths just as all the profits did in thier journey to share how they found something greater and how they defended against the lesser. That being said "religion" is the only thing holding us together and seperating us at the same time. Not everyone will be at the same understanding all at the same when videos with titles like this one keep misleading. But heres your sign... i acknowledge your actions and may this comment consume the negativity instead of my fellow human.

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