What do you think about this video?

Question

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8RV46fsmx6E&mode=related&search=

Answer 1

I agree with some of Penn and Tellers stuff but they are such sexists pigs it kinda cancels out what they say.

Answer 2

I don't understand how people who say they don't believe in something can spend so much time talking about it??? I don't believe in purple cows. Do you see me running around screaming that they don't exist or that people who do are stupid, blind, etc? NO. Why bother if purple cows don't exist?
What's the point, guys?

As for those who say religion causes the most harm in the world, read your history. Communism in Mainland China alone starved 30 million or more people to death and to this very day supports the murder of little girls. Their government is officially atheistic.

Becker's Hungry Ghosts

Becker's work will come as a surprise to many in the West. Largely as a result of the line taken by the post-Mao government of China itself, the world has come to view the Cultural Revolution as the height of Mao's brutality and tyranny. But terrible as the Cultural Revolution was, it did not approach the horrific proportions of the Great Leap Forward. A wide variety of sources confirm a death toll of 30 million or more. The earliest estimates along these lines emerged only after China made its official data available to the West. As Becker explains, "[I]n the mid-1980's, American demographers were able to examine population statistics which had been releaed when China launched her open-door policy in 1979. Their conclusion was startling: at least 30 million people had starved to death, far more than anyone, including the most militant critics of the Chinese Communist Party, had ever imagined." (p.xi) Becker's investigations turn up a broad range of estimates, most of them in the range of 30 to as much as 60 million unnatural deaths during 1958-61.

The USSR and the Nazi government were atheistic also. How about we lay those millions of dead people they killed at the door of non-believers too?
That's what they do to Christians. Well, if our "delusions" have killed thousands then atheism has murdered MILLIONS!

While there are often nice atheists, there is nothing I see atheism as a movement doing for anyone historically speaking except murdering a bunch of innocent people. Add all the religious wars in history and you won't even come close to the number Mao let die.

You see, the religion atheists love to gripe about brought free hospitals, schools, anti cruelty to animals, abolition of slavery, women's right to vote, the charity system, the push for literacy. How soon we forget! What has atheism ever done for humanity as a whole movement? Nada.

I think it is hypocritical to carp on the Faith that has saved millions of lives when the faithless have murdered millions more.

So, Penn and Teller? Nice try. Go feed some poor people or start a movement in society to rescue the victims of White Slavery. Then we'll talk. Otherwise, go milk a purple cow.

Answer 3

I'm not really a fan of theirs but the truth is the truth. I believe we definately need more atheists in this world. If people would only assertively take action against hunger, war, disease, ect. we'd get alot more achieved than we have while people are hoping god will fix things.

Answer 4

I like it. I have seen it before but it was good the second time as well.

If people want to believe in a creator or a being that put us here and watches us fine, good for them, personally I don't, but it is time to put these ancient curses on our society away.

Far more evil than good has been done in the name of our present set of religions.

Answer 5

Excellent, but those who "love God" will still deny whatever they want to deny, lost in the bullshit just as Penn & Teller described. The facts are there, the facts are right there in your Bible, in black and white and in very clear terms, Christians, how can you deny them without the deliberately choosing to be ignorant?


Simon & Garfunkel:
"Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."

That's how.

Answer 6

Honestly it's free speech. How many times have Bible followers put down my Pagan rites and called me Satanic?

So, these guys are pigs-- but they have the right to be pigs. Ignore them.

Answer 7

Thank you for this.

Penn and Teller are correct.

The first three volumes of Conversations with God by Neale Walsch blow the lid off the nonsense!

Answer 8

The video is exactly what they had on the title. So in a word you couldn't get me to watch such ROT!

Answer 9

I don't disagree that the bible is mainly fiction, it is an amazingly embellished group of stories in my opinion.

Answer 10

Interesting...tons of food for thought.