Atheist
Atheists aren't that bad. This is NOT an argument for atheism... It's a defense of atheists. This video received the award for "Excellence in Humanist Communications" from the Harvard University Humanist Chaplaincy. James Randi said this video was "very cool!" Michael Shermer said it was "very impressive." Penn & Teller said, "If a god existed, this video would make him wish he were dead." Dan Barker (author of "Losing Faith in Faith") said it was "very creative and powerful" and that it "makes a GREAT point!" Greg Epstein (the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University) said "it's a wonderful video!" Stephen Ulh (author of "Imagine No Superstition") said that this video was "just wonderful for the cause of atheism." David Mills (author of "Atheist Universe") said "I am absolutely addicted to watching this fabulous video, which has almost instantly become a legend in the freethought community. Zak has created the most intellectually and emotionally powerful multimedia presentation I've ever seen endorsing the atheist position. This is a proud moment for all rational-minded people. Atheist books can have wide-reaching influence, but I strongly suspect that Zak's video will influence a much larger audience than any atheist book ever published. The first few times I watched this video, I literally had tears in my eyes by the end. The artistic talent and technical skills required to write and produce this video -- as well as its core message -- have made Zachary Kroger my newest freethought hero. I'm not surprised at the HUGE reaction Zak's video has generated." This video (among others) was also mentioned in the November 4th New York Times article "God and Man on YouTube." Nobelief.com said this was "the best video of 2006." NOTE- It has been brought to my attention that Marlon Brando, Mark Twain, and Susan B. Anthony are not atheists. I looked into it, and my original sources were wrong. Sorry. You can download the song used in this video at http://thegodmovie.com/cd.php (track 3) Lastly, I am pleased to see how much debate this video has sparked, and I encourage everyone that wants to, to join in. HOWEVER, spamming will not be tolerated. Nor will racist, sexist, or other mean comments. Such behavior is not conducive to good conversations, and users who do not act accordingly will be blocked. If you want to insult people, go somewhere else.
Atheist intolerance
CNN's Delia Gallagher talks with atheists who say society has no tolerance for nonbelievers. (Feburary, 25, 2007)
Atheist Statistics 2008
UPDATE: 2009 is coming up, and I need your help preparing for the next video. If you like researching... send me a message. Gallup has released some EXCELLENT data I can use for the next video. It shows even more definitely the relationship of belief in god and education as well as education and belief in creationism or evolution. ___ Subscribe! -Atheism is growing (3 times as many people losing their faith than gaining a faith) -Safest countries in the world have a positive correlation with atheism -Education and intelligence have a positive correlation with atheism -Atheists less likely to be criminals and less likely to divorce Sources: Statistics in regards to Europe came from religious organization called Tearfund. http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_225_report_en.pdf Statistics in regards to America came from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/743/united-states-religion Atheism growing came from.. http://www.adherents.com/ Societal Health statistics come from numerous sources, such as The journal of Religion and Society http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2005/2005-11.html but the specific quotation comes from "The Cambridge Companion to Atheism" by Zuckerman. More information can be found in this video http://youtube.com/watch?v=fEcrW3CUtek National Academy of Sciences statistics come from a study in the Journal Nature, by Larson & Whitham in 1998. http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/atheism1.htm Intelligence and Education statistics come from the Tearfund organization as linked previously as well as DOZENS of studies that can be summed up by Paul Bell in an article in Mensa magazine. Bell, Paul. "Would you believe it?" Mensa Magazine, Feb. 2002, pp. 12--13 Prison Statistics can be found here.. http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm Divorce Statistics can be found here.. http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm Thanks for watching! Don't forget to subscribe!
George Carlin on MAD TV - Touched by an Atheist
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 -- June 22, 2008) is dead. No euphemisms. Nothing to soften the blow. He's fucking dead. And awesome, don't forget awesome.
The best caller ever (The Atheist Experience)
The best caller ever. Credit: Atheist Experience http://www.atheist-experience.com/ 01/07/07 #482
ATHEIST WALKING
an atheist walking and discussing the bible, jesus and god with believers. the atheist challenges the christians to provide him with evidence of god. the atheist uses scientific data and science as the basis for his beliefs and "faith." this is a spontaneous continuous video clip (no edits, cuts or scripts). the atheist's experiences, research and education seems to have prepared him well for this exchange which happened in may 2004. http://atheistwalking.com http://www.atheistic.net http://onemansfunk.com http://www.pfunk1.com/zenith/
Door to Door Atheist!
One of the funniest thing's I have seen in the last little while. This guy rants, raves, and gives the door to door religion jerks a taste of their own medicine.
Atheist stand-up in church - Part 1 of 2
Magnus Betnér - Swedish stand-up comedian performs in Methodist church
Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms
http://www.ted.com The session was titled "The Design of Life," and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution's role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education (quoting Douglas Adams in the bargain). Scientists and intellectuals hold very different beliefs about God from the American public, he says, yet they are cowed by the overall political environment. Dawkins' scornful tone drew strongly mixed reactions from the audience; some stood and applauded his courage. Others wondered whether his strident approach could do more harm than good. Dawkins went on to publish The God Delusion and become perhaps the world's best-known atheist.
Muse - Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
---Comments have been disabled--- Matthew Bellamy lead vocals, guitars Christopher Wolstenholme bass guitar, backing vocals Dominic Howard drums, percussion
Alan Watts - Atheist Spirituality
Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of a personal God. Alan Watts did not believe in a personal God. "The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible." -Alan Watts "The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity." -Alan Watts "The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe." -Alan Watts "But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful." -Alan Watts
Keith Jensen - Atheist Comic
Please let's keep the pledges coming. I know we can do better. Only $1. http://www.infidelguy.com/pledge Our guest tonight is atheist comedian and filmmaker Keith Lowell Jensen. Keith is currently on the COEXIST comedy tour with heretics and infidels from a variety of religious traditions. Keith will also be discussing his recent film, "Why lie, I need a drink?" a documentary on the myth of the 'rich homeless guy'. I apologize about the ups and downs in pitch.. something was wrong ustream.tv at the time.
DOUGLAS ADAMS: AMERICAN ATHEIST INTERVIEW
Interview with American Atheist by Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams Radical Atheist, The voice is, of course, Simon Jones (Arthur Dent from "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"). Is a great interview, you can see the transcript in the pages of American Atheist
Atheist stand-up in church - Part 2 of 2
Magnus Betnér - Swedish stand-up comedian performs in Methodist church
"That's why I'm an atheist not an agnostic..."
Interesting debate re belief hosted by Melvyn Bragg with Gore Vidal, The Reverend Keith Ward and Susan Greenfield (LWT one late Sunday evening c1999). Susan Greenfield uses a nice put down phrase "I can't buy into that new physics". Gore Vidal is also in outrageously pompous form and batting for atheism with a twinkle in his eye. Upon seeing this again I realised three things from it had stuck in my mind. 1 The phrase "That's why I'm an atheist not an agnostic... I'm against this". I try not to ram my opinions down other peoples throats, you know live and let live and all that, but occasionally when provoked I've found myself using this expression. 2 Gore Vidal refers to a point, which I think he had argued earlier (before I started taping) that the reason that atheism historically had so few literately heavyweights, was due to religious oppression. He then makes an interesting point that with the atheist view of the universe being is so much more "poetic", its sad that the artistic it has never really engaged the consciousness of the masses. (Joni Mitchell's - Woodstock "We are stardust" is out there but I wish there were a lot more such works) 3 The "Why burst other peoples bubble argument". This is the point I have the biggest difficulty with as an atheist. The vast majority of "religious" people are happy and pretty much harmless so what's the point of causing them grief. In this case an audience member who is a grief counselor talks, you respect her, I would not want to argue with her and the atheist panelists give a nice example of how to show her the dignity she deserves. Formerly on thingsihaveseen
Building Atheist Communities? The Infidel Guy Show
"Brother" Richard and Kym Membe are the founders of AtheistNexus.org. It's one the latest and hottest atheist communities on the web. They are appearing tonight to discuss whether or not we even need atheist community sites as well as providing us an awesome treat in hearing their own personal paths to freethought. Recorded @ uStream.Tv
Atheist Newdow PWNs Fox News' Cavuto over Huckabee Cross Ad?
As nice as it was to see Fox News host Neil Cavuto even question the recent political ad from Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in which the image of a cross floats behind the head of the former Baptist Minister as he talks about Jesus, I quickly found it was all just an opportunity to invite on atheist Michael Newdow and strawman Newdow's arguments. In these clips from the December 18 Fox News broadcast, I show how Michael Newdow PWNs Neil Cavuto as Cavuto shows his bias by attacking Newdow and failing to address Newdow's argument. And, speaking of bias, this video is another of DOZENS of examples you can find on my Fox News Bias playlist at: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
How to Convert an Atheist Part 2
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rqUsC2KsiI A genuinely flawless and consistent holy book True inerrancy is, so to speak, the holy grail of theism. Almost every religion claims their scripture is perfect, but none have actually met this exacting standard; I have yet to read a holy text entirely without error or self-contradiction. A book that was free of such problems would be circumstantial evidence in favor of the religion that possessed it, but not compelling, since this is still explicable as the result of purely human forces. A religion without internal disputes or factions It seems reasonable to expect that, if there existed a god that was interested in revealing itself to humanity and desired that we follow its commands, that god would write down whatever instructions it had to give us in a way that was only amenable to one interpretation. Thus, if a religion was true, we might expect that no factions or sects would form within it and all members of that religion would speak with one voice regarding ethical and theological issues. Why the alternative scenario should ever hold for an inspired religion is not clear. Did God intend to communicate his message clearly but failed to do so? However, since this could still be the result of human influence, it would only be circumstantial, not conclusive, evidence in favor of a given religion's truth. A religion whose followers have never committed or taken part in atrocities If a given religion's sacred text consistently promotes peace, compassion and nonviolence, and if that religion's history reflects that fact, that religion would look much more attractive. Historically, almost every religion that has ever had the power to do so has persecuted those who believed differently, and I do not think it likely that a morally good deity would allow his chosen faith's good name to be smeared by evil and fallible humans. The final category deals with things that would not convince me; none of the following would persuade me to rethink my position. To date, all the evidence I have ever seen presented for any religion falls into this category. Speaking in tongues or other pseudo-miracles To convince me, a miracle would have to be genuine, verifiable, and represent a real and inexplicable divergence from the ordinary. Anything that can be explained by peer pressure, the power of suggestion or the placebo effect does not count. Favorable coincidences or kind or courageous acts performed by human beings also do not meet this standard. (This post clearly illuminates the difference: "Biblical miracles aren't about accidents and people saying 'Whew that was close.' Biblical miracles are people raising their hands and telling something impossible to happen, and it happens.") Seeing the Virgin Mary in a water stain or Mother Teresa in a piece of pastry is not impressive. And faith healing or people being "slain in the Spirit" and toppling over, owes more to showmanship and the placebo effect used on eager-to-please individuals that have been worked up into highly excitable suggestible states. Now, if faith healers could restore severed limbs that would be convincing. People's conversion stories I'm not interested in the testimonials of people who converted to a religion, not even if they used to be atheists. Everyone has moments of weakness in which emotion overrides logic. Instead of telling me how fast a religion is growing, how much of a difference it's made in people's lives, or how devoted its converts are, let those converts explain what logic and evidence persuaded them to join in the first place. If they can't do this, their stories will not affect me. Any subjective experience Saying "I know God exists because I can feel him in my heart" or something similar will not affect me. Most arguments of this sort rest on the assumption that a person cannot have a completely convincing subjective experience and be mistaken regarding its cause, but a look at the diversity of world religions easily disproves this. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists - members of all faiths claim to have had convincing subjective experiences of the truth of that faith. Obviously, they cannot all be right. Why should an atheist accept any one of these testimonies as more valid than any other? The Bible Code or other numerological feats Using the same algorithms employed by the Bible Code numerologists, skeptics have been able to find assassinations and other historical events "predicted" in Moby Dick, War and Peace and other works of fiction that don't claim divine inspiration, so don't expect it to impress me. Creationism of any sort http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/theistguide.html
Former Atheist Alister McGrath discusses Dawkins (part1)
Former Atheist Alister McGrath responds to Richard Dawkins, and his book 'The God Delusion'. Although McGrath repects the scientific work of Dawkins, he is also highly critical of Dawkins' view on Religion,citing him as "embarrassingly ignorant of Christian theology". Referring to 'The God Delusion' McGrath asks - ''Why is it necessary to write a 400 page book, explaining that God is a delusion, if this is not self-evidently true?' Is Religion really a virus? Alister McGrath is a Professor of Historical Theology, and has also majored in mathematics, chemistry (molecular biophysics) and physics. Official site : http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/
Penn Says: Agnostic vs Atheist
What is the difference between agnosticism and atheism? tags: penn says jillette teller vlog commentary magic vegas agnostic atheist religion catholic christian
Election Epilogue And Rant - The Atheist Experience
High Quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_i5-P1mpO4&fmt=18 Election Epilog And Rant. What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. Home page: http://www.atheist-experience.com/ Blog: http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/ The Non-Prophets Radio: http://www.nonprophetsradio.com/ Wiki: http://wiki.ironchariots.org/ Fan club: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20603369467&ref=ts Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-atheist-experience .
An Atheist Response
A response to firefly515's video "To All Atheists on YouTube" where I discuss common misconceptions of atheists and atheism. I don't go into as much detail as I like, because I wanted to keep the video under ten minutes.
