Who takes this channel serious anymore?

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Wow, im still stunned from this speech and its nice to hear someone say this out loud.

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Richard Dawkins is one of the great outspoken minds of our times. While I do enjoy listening to him, sometimes a written quote is just as powerful. Dawkins is not afraid to say things that others shy away from.

So, here are some Great quotes by the Great Richard Dawkins:

1. “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

2. “…when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”

3. “There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

4. “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

5. “What has ‘theology’ ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has ‘theology’ ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that ‘theology’ is a subject at all?”

6. “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.”

7. “…it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.”

8. “The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.”

9. “There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

10. “We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.”

11. “Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won’t know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”

12. “The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale”

13. “It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.”

14. “With so many mindbytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns.”

15. “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

16. “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

17. “isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

18. “Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.”

19. “Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr’s death will send them straight to heaven.”

20. “If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.”

Which one is your favourite?

This list has 50 great points that prove there is no god. 

Stop sucking up to a non-existent uber parent and take a look at this convincing list.

1. Try praying
2. Statistically analyze prayer
3. Look at all historical gods
4. Think about science
5. Read the Bible
6. Ponder God’s plan
7. Understand religious delusion
8. Think about Near Death Experiences
9. Understand ambiguity
10. Watch the offering plate
11. Notice that there is no scientific evidence
12. See the magic
13. Take a look at slavery
14. Examine Jesus’ miracles
15. Examine Jesus’ resurrection
16. Contemplate the contradictions
17. Think about Leprechauns
18. Imagine heaven
19. Notice that you ignore Jesus
20. Notice your church
21. Understand Jesus’ core message
22. Count all the people God wants to murder
23. Listen to the Doxology
24. Ask why religion causes so many problems
25. Understand evolution and abiogenesis
26. Notice that the Bible’s author is not “all-knowing”
27. Think about life after death
28. Notice how many gods you reject
29. Think about communion
30. Examine God’s sexism
31. Understand that religion is superstition
32. Talk to a theologian
33. Contemplate the crucifixion
34. Examine your health insurance policy
35. Notice Jesus’ myopia
36. Realize that God is impossible
37. Think about DNA
38. Contemplate the divorce rate among Christians
39. Realize that Jesus was a jerk
40. Understand Christian motivations
41. Flip a coin
42. Listen when “God talks”
43. Realize that a “hidden God” is impossible
44. Think about a Christian housewife
45. Consider Noah’s Ark
46. Ponder Pascal’s Wager
47. Contemplate Creation
48. Compare prayer to a lucky horseshoe
49. Look at who speaks for God
50. Ask Jesus to appear

http://www.godisimaginary.com/

It seems I will continue my religious posts and make it a trifecta.

Here is Penn and Teller pointing out just how contradictory and stupid the bible really is.

I have to also say I loved their show Bullshit, a bit too libertarian for my tastes but most of the their stuff I loved.

I suppose I am in a particular mood but I happen to really enjoy pointing out how stupid the religious are.  It seems the U.S. in particular is having an influx of religious fools lately and it is nice to remember that intelligent people tend to know better and don’t need the god crutch.

Here is one persons take on atheism.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74c_1186155251&p=1

Too funny and sadly so true. After being fed up with Mormons bothering him this film maker decided to go around trying to convert Mormons to atheism.

The best part is when a Mormon bishop gets really angry and hits one of the characters with his rake.

Gotta love the religious folks, they really are that clueless.

Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.

Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons – Watch more free videos

http://www.break.com/index/door_to_door_atheists_bother_mormons.html

George Carlin is one of my absolute favourite comedians.  Who else has the brains and balls to pull off a speech about how corporations control our lives and still manage, somehow, to pull of some laughs.

Here he is talking about things that matter and ask yourself, who owns you?