Videos about atheism

Dades

Schuhart wrote:

I didn’t watch it all – its 40 minutes ffs. I'd just take some comfort in the fact that someone’s worried enough about Godless hoards diverting the faithful from the true path to make the film. The collapse of Atheism

I'm 15 minutes in and not sure I can take any more...

The narrator is currently explaining how we must have been designed as it can be no coincidence that the earth is just the right distance from the sun, and that our gravity is just right for human life.

I also like the way when it talks about the "dogmas" of atheism the solumn music plays, and the video shows miscellaneous 20th century atrocities within a frame of flames.

ALSO - they use literary quotes to back up every argument - but they are ALL from the one book called God: The Evidence!!

Incidentally Hitler and his closest collegues were all atheists, and their atheism caused the death of 55m people in WWII.

Finally: atheism which people have tried for hundreds of years to portray as the way of reason and science is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. Huzzah!

Dammit I just watched the whole thing.

robindch

> Incidentally Hitler and his closest collegues were all atheists, and their
> atheism caused the death of 55m people in WWII.

There's an interesting disparity here -- any time that an atheist commits a crime, the atheist system is to blame. Whenever a believer-in-god commits a crime, it's the person at fault and not the religious system. Systems which can't go wrong? All very Orwellian, isn't it?

Scofflaw

Zillah wrote:

I hadn't been inside a church for years, not since I was a wee one. Then I had a funeral to attend, and I very nearly started laughing at my own grandmother's funeral when it struck me how absolutely absurd it all was. There was a big bloody jesus hanging above us, the priest was mummbling about eternal life this and other dimension that and I felt like turning to my mother, my father, my cousins, these people who seemed so normal and sane, grab them and shake them and ask "Do you seriously believe what he's saying?! You think you're going to another dimension when you die, that that guy died to to assuage mankind's sins? You actually think that you, personally, sister who I see everyday eating toast and watching TV, you think you're going to live forever with a magic being on another plane of existence when you die?" You, who scoff if you see Most Haunted on TV because ghosts are "bullshit", you who roll your eyes if I mention the possibility of alien life on other worlds, you, honestly believe that you have an immortal soul that will travel to the God who blew up Sodom, who tortured Job, who created the universe to further glorify himself...?

Quite an upsetting moment really. Well, kinda liberating too, it really rammed home just how much of an Atheist I had become.

You would have enjoyed my grandmother's funeral. After the obligatory wittering by a C of E minister, my father stood up and spoke, starting with "as you all know, my mother was an atheist". Same again at my great-aunt's funeral (plus she wrote the service, so we all exited to March of the Clowns).

I'm sorry to say that it was a great pleasure to me to watch the ministers wriggling on these occasions.

cordially,
Scofflaw

Scofflaw

The Atheist wrote:

I'm 15 minutes in and not sure I can take any more...

The narrator is currently explaining how we must have been designed as it can be no coincidence that the earth is just the right distance from the sun, and that our gravity is just right for human life.

I also like the way when it talks about the "dogmas" of atheism the solumn music plays, and the video shows miscellaneous 20th century atrocities within a frame of flames.

ALSO - they use literary quotes to back up every argument - but they are ALL from the one book called God: The Evidence!!

Incidentally Hitler and his closest collegues were all atheists, and their atheism caused the death of 55m people in WWII.

Finally: atheism which people have tried for hundreds of years to portray as the way of reason and science is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. Huzzah!

Dammit I just watched the whole thing.

Another one from the stable of "we're saying it, so it must be true". Such a shame that all the statistics contradict them.

cordially,
Scofflaw

Tim Robbins

Scofflaw wrote:

I'm sorry to say that it was a great pleasure to me to watch the ministers wriggling on these occasions.

cordially,
Scofflaw

why? Do you feel the need to think you are better than someone?
not sure what stats you are talking about BTW

Scofflaw

Tim Robbins wrote:

why? Do you feel the need to think you are better than someone?
not sure what stats you are talking about BTW

Not really. I am sufficiently convinced of my superiority not to require further demonstrations.

It's just amusing, given that a minister is imposed by the state on the funeral of an atheist, to watch said minister squirming but unable to say anything out of politeness. I am, by and large, fond of ministers of religion as a species, so it's not personal!

Stats in questions would be in relation to the growth of atheism/agnosticism/no formal religion in most of the First World outside the US (even in the US, although it's more of a polarisation movement).

cordially,
Scofflaw

Schuhart

How to prove the presence of GOD to an Atheist. God plays dice, apparently. Does it prove the presence of God to an Atheist? No, it just illustrates the value of selective quotation and partial history.

Schuhart

Just watched two hours of this - I found the time passed quickly. Basically a scientist called Ken Miller takes apart Intelligent Design and talks about some of the legal actions in America over efforts to include it on the school curriculum.

Not strictly athiest, as he mentions that he's Roman Catholic, but something that gave me some pleasure in seeing that ideal of free thought in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg

pH

South Park - Go God Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaoJArDxTlA (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXHR-ZBhFTo&NR (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKCNU5OuxnU&NR (Part 3)

m83

Richard Dawkins Q & A.

Not sure if this has been posted but it makes for terrific viewing if you have time.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qR_z85O0P2M

18AD

Richard Dawkins documentary:
Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/y4frpx
Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/y4ue6h

About the original video, it seemed more like an effort to redeem atheism or promote it.

Obo

This is the videos of Beyond Belief 2006, which was a conference put together by the Science Network and was held in November. It was for scientists to get together and discuss the issues that surround religion.

http://beyondbelief2006.org/Watch/

There is something like 15hrs worth of video.
I've only gone through the first day of the conference so far, but it's been very interesting.

Esmereldina

Interesting...

I'm not sure exactly what tone the person who made this was trying to strike either.

I would also agree with this

lostexpectation wrote:

its good... I don't if naming a load of scientist and famous people really does that much

It did seem to just reinforce the idea of an elite club of white men (and one woman) ...

It did make 5 minutes pass quite entertainingly though!

HealingBlight

I do a fair bit of browsing on youtube for stuff, though if you look at my faves the massive bulk is John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, however, 3 users of interest might be:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ExtantDodo
For a nice post mortem on the corpse that -was- some of Kent Hovinds seminars. Good highlight to show how bad a creationist gets. On the upside, I think he is in jail for a while now. Complaining about how tax is spent when he did not pay a cent himself.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=cdk007
More evolution vids.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=johnplex
For a fun/amusing collection of -crap- that is spewed out by religious fundamentalists over the pond, including a creationist who thinks the earth expanded like a balloon and dinosaur means 'exploding lizard'. He and a friend actually posed as christian journalists and got an 'interview' from that very guy. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN4AL-AOyfs
I love the balls on the woman..... I don't care how that sounds. :P

Side note I noticed, the atheist vid by zakiechan has 1 honour, it used to have a deal more, but they magically disappeared, it used to have none, but it got a new one since that time.

pH

John Safran vs the Mormons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRmC0DaE6rE
(keep watching it's not all just him sitting there talking)

Schuhart

Sam Harris video posted on the Christianity forum, for some reason. He’s a much better communicator than Dawkins, and has a more apt message.

He concludes that spiritual and ethical truths have to transcend culture. I’d take that to mean we have to have some kind of dialogue that addresses those issues. Atheism in the sense of ‘there’s no God’ is only the starting point. Understanding theism and addressing how that portion of human life is dealt with in the secular world seems to me to be a next step. Yes, that means that fundamentalist theists then have a target if the end product is a defined secular agenda that can be a focus of opposition.

Yes, it also raises the prospect of disagreement among secularists over, say, stem cell research. But, on the one hand, such things seem inevitable. On the other, so long as a core value is the expectation that human understanding is evolving and truth is therefore not absolute, we should surely be able to do this without some of us feeling an urge to crash planes into office blocks.

radiospan

There's a whole list of Richard Dawkins video and audio here:
http://www.reitstoen.com/dawkins.php

Dave!

Didn't realise David Attenborough was an atheist!

5 minute clip from an interview....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Y-5CR-_hw

Zombrex

DaveMcG wrote: »

Didn't realise David Attenborough was an atheist!

5 minute clip from an interview....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Y-5CR-_hw

He makes an interesting point, if the Earth and all life on it were produced by a loving God for humanity why did he create hundreds of thousands of species of animal and plants that kill humans?

"I can't believe God created parasites to torture small children"
Sir David Attenborough

condra

"I can't believe God created parasites to torture small children"
Sir David Attenborough

Cool quote. Thanks for all the vids guys.

Dave!

Mass. School of Law hosted a discussion between Kenneth Miller, another 'darwinist', and a creationist a few years ago; it's about an hour long:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1413984511121545242

Dr Miller is always very interesting and clear. Kudos.

The creationist typically tries to portray the debate as an internal scientific one rather than a conflict between religious fundamentalism and the scientific community. Thankfully Dr Miller is at pains to highlight this nonsense.

condra

I would love to see this thread stickied at some stage.


Anyway, another video:
The Atheism Tapes 2 - Steven Weinberg...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2260129385438753065&hl=en

condra

Atheist boy vs fundie lady [Wife Swap USA]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CIhn3wPFnE&watch_response

CerebralCortex

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5640093862168820605

I found this video very interesting. I find Dennett's views very interesting and he'd probably do better at making people think than say Dawkins for example because of his cuddly granddad looks and non offensive tact. Although sometimes Dawkins' aggressiveness ftw.

Galvasean

Dave! wrote: »

Didn't realise David Attenborough was an atheist!

Seriously? He was an atheist before it was cool.

Galvasean

Dave! wrote: »

5 minute clip from an interview....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Y-5CR-_hw

That link seems to be down. Fortunately its an easy to find clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDgH6_zNLE

condra

CerebralCortex wrote: »

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5640093862168820605
I found this video very interesting. I find Dennett's views very interesting

I just had a look at that. Yeah he has a lot of presence and charm. I like the fact that he has a genuine interest in, and a certain respect for, religion. He comes across as relatively moderate, with a very positive vision.

Tar.Aldarion

womoma wrote: »

I would love to see this thread stickied at some stage.

First I write the stickies, then I get modship, then I get the women.

Zillah

womoma wrote: »

Atheist boy vs fundie lady [Wife Swap USA]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CIhn3wPFnE&watch_response

Ahaha he made her cry. Glorious.

Tar.Aldarion

Lol, I knew he would be drumming or something in it.
'America is the greatest country in the world' Cue his laughter