This guy's great "I intend to spend the rest of my afternoon sinning!" ROFL

It's funny, and it really does point out how odd it is that so many people believe negative stereotypes about atheists. I'd say I'm an agnostic right now, but I agree with most of what he said.

The problem is that fairly early on he says religion=evil, which may shut some people off of his message. He amends it at the end, but most evangelicals I know would close it in disgust at that point.

It honestly scares me that theists believe we only behave because of divine negative and positive incentives. Civilization cannot function without morality, nor could the precursor, hunter-gatherer groups. Sociopaths would be weeded out because they don't help the group as much as they should, leading to them being ostracized or killed.

Back when I was a Christian and told a Christian Club I was coerced into joining that I didn't believe in hell, the teacher sponsoring the group got angry and asked me if I wanted to live in a world where people didn't have to be afraid of Hell. I told him that I felt morality was innate, but he ignored me and went about describing the heathenish world of rape and murder that would emerge. If that's his plans if he ever decides there isn't an Almighty, I actually hope "The God Delusion" gets banned.

hi jaxon, I enjoyed your video :)

I currently use the word 'nontheist' to define my belief. I think that theology should be taught in schools as dry facts (where the fact is that some people believe thus and so), teaching all major theologies - christianity, islam, judaism, budism, and also introduce students to atheism.

Theist religion is a belief the same way as atheism is a belief. nobody knows that god does not exist because it cannot be proven. you, as well as I, believe in atheism. it would be wrong, in my opinion, to teach children that atheism is 'the truth' and theism is fantasy, because a- you can't prove it, and b- you don't want to teach children to unquestionably accept what unproven theories they are told, as reasonable as they may sound at the time. That's what theology is about.

Good lord -- he is kind of a deluded old man ... 'preaching to a choir' would be the right word here. Someone who seriously doesn't reflect on what he does, or encourage any sort of real thinking. For example, what's the point of making up a clever 'rap' about atheism? What's the point of beating a dead horse -- what's the point of throwing yourself out to the ignorant masses, when there are larger questions to tackle -- intimate questions, like -- is the best way to contribute to the world, reallly, to make polemics about 5th grade philosophical questions?

Wait, whats the point of this message. He is trying to cut down Christianity or trying to get people to convert to Atheism? And last time I checked public schools don't even teach anything about Christianity. Quite the oppesite. Oh well.

Oh dear, a video about religion. I'm going to go Nostradamus and say this is going to have the most comments ever

He does have some points right but others are off, mainly smaller details.

The whole "anything religion does is evil" is false. There are two reasons why religion is created

1 to scare people into being moral and reward them when they are. Which, i see, as not a bad thing, there are an infinite amount of stupid people in the world and if it wasn't for religion their lives would be "Short nasty and brutish" - hobbes

2 and also to keep people in a structured soceity.

An easy example is hinduism. The two big parts of hinduism is karma and dharma. Karma is what you do in this life will follow into the next, the first reason. Dharma is your duty. You were born into this caste because of what you did in your past life and this is what you deserve. This keeps the lower class to accept its position. (side fact hinudism is not polytheistic it is the many faces of the same god brahmin, think of it as father son and holy ghost except with millions of incarnations.)

The largest problem with religion though is that it makes people close their mind. If you have a open mind but not fully trusting, you can filter through the bullshit. Islam actually is more open minded than Christianity, and is a very peacefull religion, he called it violent. its just that the last laws muhammed made were things like "you most destroy the enemy at all costs" which contradict with what he said before. Most muslims ignore that part. it only seems like all of them choose it because the ones that do get all the attention.

Wow, a self-righteous atheist. Granted, a lot of religion deserves a big punch in the face. However, this guy is an atheistic version of everything wrong with religion; arroagant, condescending, judgmental, self-righteous, pompous etc. He's bascially become everything he hates about religion. Did he say that atheists don't gert punished for not submitting to a belief system? Whatever. Any atheist would be ridiculed, dogged and discriminated against by other atheists is he diverged from their presuppositions. Most theists doubt their theism. That said, I'm sure many atheists doubt their own atheism at times. Funny. Although I appreciate his honesty and whit, it's just a personal rant and rave that fails to address issues of upmost concern. "I have a British accent, therefore I'm brilliant and people will listen to me."