You Have Been Watching! Religion 

It actually proves evolution quite nicely too. It is a nice example of intelligent design, but unfortunately for rayy it's an example of intelligent design by humans and was achieved through the same gradual genetic changes over generations that he wants to deny.

Good point, only the banana plant is and herb and not a tree.

Natural bananas are starchy and the seeds are as big as the pomegranate's; meant for the smelly primates we evolved from

I sighed so hard at that, I broke my xiphoid process

Sort of like an ice cream man that doesn't believe in cream.

Anna LLoyd I have heard a Christian priest that didn't believe in Jesus, before.

Anna Quillfeldt Those actually exist. Usually in the form of priests who have lost their faith but aren't immediately able to quit their jobs. I think there's actually a charity for that.

Damian Freeman Watch "The Bishop's Gambit" on youtube. It's an episode of Yes Prime Minister. You'll love it.

@@leemartin5021basically a rabbi

And how the fuck do they explain the coconut?

nejtilsvampe God does not want us to eat coconuts, that's why he gave them such a hard shell. Eating coconuts is blasphemous. We are only allowed food which has groves and fits perfectly into our hands. So bananas basically. Maybe carrots and sausages too. As long as it's more or less penis-shaped it's ok, I guess.

stefanmuc2k what about clams and oysters and other things that you can fit up to 3 fingers into, usually?

nejtilsvampe Wasn't aware that coconuts needed explaining? LOL! Maybe Ray Discomfort can address the coconut too - since he did such a marvelous job on the banana. Can't wait to hear his vast wisdom on the watermelon.

David Mitchell is at his funniest when at his angriest and most incredulous

Good gut laugh out of this one.

Hahaha oh...wait.

LOL!!! To funny. Was he a priest? (joking)

I'm sure they could make a unfunny and self-centered version of this. It is their way

It isn't at all difficult, so many religious debates out there, which if you skip the religious person talking is fairly heavily ridiculing religion. Then again skipping it is boring, can't get a good laugh and a weak argument that way.

softan No, apparently they haven't. Thus Iraq, Afghanistan, clinic bombings, the killing of gays, etc.. etc.. etc...

Doctor who is doing its utmost to make people scared of angels.

Its terrifying so many are willing to kill for such beliefs..

And this comment was a pre-Trump election world haha.

Fast forward 7 years....

Kevin Russell Can't thumb you up so +1 :( No offense to the brits, I like you guys, but it's true.

I worked in the Health Service for almost 40 years and have met both nurses and doctors who don't believe in hospitals. It's called "cognitive dissonance". Put in simple terms it means a willingness to set aside one's principles to earn a living. I also knew a Jehovah's Witness who was in charge of a blood bank.

Probably a similar kind of airline pilot as my uncle Trevor. He didn`t believe in aircraft and was sadly flattened by a 747 landing at Heathrow while he was running along the runway waving his arms.

To be fair anyone who worked in state health care would have to stop believe in hospitals.... Lot of nurses work in and propagate more use of home care, just saying for balance in discussion :-)

The bad kind. The thing about not believing in hospitals, is that they're there whether or not you believe in them, and there is demonstrable evidence of their existence. You can see them, you can hear the normal hospital-type sounds when you enter them, you can touch them, you can smell them, you can even taste them if you're so inclined, but none of that can be done for their god (or any god for that matter). And they say *we're* the crazy ones.

GuitarMasterGraeme In fairness, a lot of religious people do practice science and (because they aren't stupid) accept its theories. Most of the religious people I've encountered who disbelieve in science have a tendency to be from the kind of cultural background that fears that science goes against religion. This belief is damaging to both scientists and religious people (though they are by no means incompatible, I am referring to those of both groups who do not overlap when I say this) - scientific people start to dismiss religious people and, by extension, all religion as being superstitious and ignorant (certainly false, unless you wish to condemn - for the sake of an example - the head of the Human Genome Project as a man ignorant of science and reason), while certain religious people deny the truths reached by logic and reason (which, from a religious perspective, were tools given to us by God) purely because they worry that it might cause doubts (which from their perspective at least ought to be obvious falsehood - truth cannot disprove truth). I for one am a Christian who completely accepts evolution (among other scientific theories) as true, because that is where the evidence takes me.

You're peeling it wrong lol

Coconuts

Quit sticking it there then.

Dawkins doesn't say all Christians are retarded, he just destroys the faith with facts. Mitchell is an atheist though he's wrong on this, there are several types of angels in the bible. The problem with this is that the depiction of an angel as a man is gibberish, they are literally described in the bible: Seraphim is a 6 winged monster with hands; Cherubum is a multiple faced abomination e.g. man, ox, lion and eagle with a semi-human form but with calve's feet, 4 hands and wings; Ophanim is a wheel with rims and spokes, eyes all the way around the edge etc. That little girl, if she saw an angel, she would have shit herself.

When you said “comforting as a Christian”, were you referring to yourself?

Now now. Both Mitchell and Dawkins make valid points

My mother was a devout Christian, but very unconventional. She didn't believe in Jesus. Oh dear....hold on, that's the American Tea Party.

My mother was my father, but very unconventional. He didn't believe in me. Oh dear...

Damian Freeman Exactly, you expected consistency.

Yes! I was about to say just this. I was waiting for one of the panelists to address that.

Maybe I'm basing it on all the Fox news fails I've seen on youtube but I just imagine this episode getting a really bad reputation. Actually yeah... This is probably due to Fox news that I imagine there would be ridiculous OTT reactions.

***** To be fair wasn't there national outrage when some women who's house got hit by a Tornado said she was an atheist?

TangyMeringue Yup and then there was outrage when comedian Doug Stanhope organized a fundraising campaign on her behalf and generated $120k, solely because he wanted to piss off the god botherers.

I don't think there's any misconception here: Americans are the most fervently religious of the West.

***** A British politician recently said that the floods they've experienced in England were caused by the legalisation of gay marriage.

I love my country. :)

"she was a nurse.., but a bit unconventional. She didn't believe in hospitals". No, she just thought it better for her sickly (but decidedly robust looking daughter re: the photo of the kid in her swimming togs), would be better off getting so dangerously ill that she hallucinated. She's damned lucky the kid didn't get febrile convulsions. Oh wait. She probably did on account of her hallucinating a creepy white guy touching her pre-pubescent breast area in the middle of the night.

That was Douglas Adams actually

Stephanie Cholensky US remakes of UK programs have never gone well tho. Except maybe the office.

***** The apprentice, big brother, shameless, Britans got talent, just of the top of head....

- Boss The Inbetweeners US was an absolute train wreck.

@@centrey5827 _All in the Family_ _Three's Company_ and _Sanford and Son_ were US remakes of _Til Death Us Do Part_ _Man About the House_ and _Steptoe and Son_ respectively.

Yup... that one does not get peeled and does not go in the mouth ...

Walter White You're just not trying hard enough.

Oh God...the coconut! :O Possibly the AntiChrist?

Bibleman is a prime example of exactly why I don` t live in the nation of my birth.

Jon Doe Don't blame you.

LOL We have politicians who are just as loopy. They're called the Tea Party and yes, bible belt 'Murcia thinks they're great.

+Idi nearly nobody believes in religion in the UK anymore. Part of why we have so many people trying to move here. Bangladesh executes atheists and look at how many of them are fleeing to Europe and India.

DemonofChaos264 Here are a few sources of varying accuracy which demonstrate that although atheism is on the rise in the UK, it is only believed by roughly a quarter of Britons... not the majority. d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/2l6avzlerp/Religion.pdf paceyhuckabys6thgradeproject.blogspot.com.au/p/religion.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-Census-Results-2011.jpg www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rpt-religion.html

It's rumored that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron are lovers. (I know because I'm spreading the rumor!)

***** Pssh. They don't own the concept of photon-based-sword-weapons. Even the Neverending Story (book, not film) has one of those.