What do you think of this video about atheists and atheism?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-8eEDePOTA&mode=related&search=Atheist%20Atheism%20God%20Christian%20ZakieChan

Answer 1

First off, I want to say the video was good, well resarched and it quoted the Bible accurately.

Now then.

It used the quote about people who deny God being fools as the bulk of its argument, saying that the Bible called all these great thinkers fools. Basically, it's saying that the Bible is wrong, these people were great examples of wise people, as opposed to being fools. The problem is, somebody being a fool has nothing to do with how smart they are. There's a very clear line between intelligence and wisdom; look at people like Edgar Alle Poe, he was brilliant, but he destroyed himself. All of those people may have been really brilliant people, true geniuses, but they were foolish because they denied the existence of a truth any higher than themselves, when we are so plainly not perfect. A physical world can't be created by physical means, it had to come from something else.

The second major part was about the rest of that quote, about how people who don't believe in God will do no good, reak abominations, that kind of thing. Then, for some reason, it quoted a list of celebrities as your contradictions to this argument. What makes Zak think that these were good people? If it's trying to prove the Bible wrong by its own standards, it has to show examples of people who contradict it BY ITS OWN STANDARDS. The were all great, smart, beautiful people in a lot of the world's eyes, but through the lense of the Bible it's a different story. Oh yeah, there was that other guy who gave 33 billion to charity; we don't know anything about the circumstances under which he gave the money, or his private reasons for doing so. When you're as heavily taxed as a man that rich could be, the tax deductibles could make up for them by themselves, and he gets an awesome name in the media. You have to think about it from all angles.

As for the divorce rate thing, I guess I can see where it was coming from, but it really wasn't all that relevant. Somebody being divorced or not divorced doesn't make them good people or good citizens in and of itself, it's just a little tag on their 'resume', so to speak, that implies that they're more stable or something.

This is a harsh review, but I think I was fair; understand, I thought the video was very good, it just needed better examples.

EDIT: Lol, I thought you made that yourself, I just saw my mistake and went around fixing the 'yous' to 'its'.

Answer 2

I'm not an Atheist (I'm Pagan), and I thought that video was really amazing!

It seems as though Atheist are the ones who have their heads on straight.

Answer 3

very interesting video. belief is a personal issue and just because you don't believe in a god, doesn't mean you can't be a productive person. besides, the only people who truly know whether god exists are those who've already died, and they're not coming back to tell us either way.

Answer 4

ask Jesus into your life and be born again by the power of the Gospel (an actual real life event in your real life) if you do this in a prayer sincerely God will answer you! you have to truely seek then God will answer!

Answer 5

Really interesting information. It would be an information hard to swallow to some Christians.

Answer 6

Christians fear the small minority of Atheists.

Answer 7

SOMETHING CHISTIANS WOULD STOP WATCHING AFTER A MIN OR SO.
THERE SMALL MINDED BRAINS CANT DEAL WITH FACTS!
THEY ARE TOO HUNG UP ON FAITH

Answer 8

im agnostic, and i know like 293480938 atheists and they are all amazing people.