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Are religious beliefs rooted in logic, or are they a relic of our species’ search for meaning in a chaotic world? In this thought-provoking video, we explore why all religious beliefs fall short of rational scrutiny. Using real-life examples, historical contexts, and scientific insights, we uncover the psychological and social reasons why religion continues to thrive despite its contradictions.
Discover how humanity’s pattern-seeking nature led to the creation of religions, why these beliefs persist in the modern age, and the impact they have on critical thinking. Whether it’s the flawed explanations for our existence or the coercive doctrines that demand unquestioning faith, this video delves into why religious belief is inherently irrational.
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The reality that religion thrives under the lack of education and uncertainty explains quite a lot about the basis for the policies of political movements that are linked to religion.
Sending “thoughts and prayers” makes the sender feel like they did something, when in fact, they are doing nothing.
The most irrational religion is this sciencism that utterly fails to provide a rational explanation for existence. Making up absurd explanations for what we observe while denouncing the eye-witness experiences. And do they really believe they'll contradict the laws of thermodynamics upon death when their life's energy just poofs into nothing? While science can prove many things through observation and repetition, none of their beliefs of origins are subjected to such scrutiny. Even their radiometric dating methods are invalid as they provide multiple results and just pick the one that most matches their ideological beliefs.
The title of the video is misleading.
Have you studied ALL the religions before you make this video? I heard quotes mostly from abrahamic religious confessions and denominations, and some about the one known as "Ancient Greek" but the world religious teachings are not limited to them.
1. Are all religious beliefs the same? Just how is religion defined here anyway?
2. Several major scientists were deeply religious people — Newton, Schrodinger, Whitehead, Eddington etc.
3. Researchers like Dean Radin have found that our intentions do in fact influence others physically even over great distances. The power of prayer may not be entirely BS.
4. Science can be said to be irrational. All reasoning, after all, is based on premises which have to be accepted without question — unless of course, you try to 'prove' the validity of those premises, except you can only do so by falling back on yet some other premises, and so on ad infinitum unless you stop and accept at some point — which would seem a wholly irrational move.
great work👍
TRIBALISM : I think many hold onto relgion for their Tribalism : need to belong / need to feel superior type stuff.
Religion has in no way ever told me why I'm here or how to live my life.
Religion taught me bigotry.
Because the conclusions were NEVER reached rationally in the first place, a rational argument will never convince them
Why do those in the atheist religion sneer at other religions when everything atheists believe is on faith too? Why do atheists claim that science backs them up and yet cannot ever name any specific scientific evidence for their views? None. Atheists claim they have tons of evidence but never ever ever name it. No atheist ever has any evidence to back up their deluded beliefs and yet they sneer at others beliefs??? Atheists can never cite any specific scientific proof for their views. It is always generalising, insulting believers and pushing unfounded assertions. Atheists have no evidence whatsoever for their deluded claims. Insulting other religions is not evidence, so why do so many atheists think that insults are the equivalent of scientific fact?? And atheists are proud of their own ignorance and yet demand answers from everyone else but have no evidence themselves for their own beliefs??
Leeches actually are still used in medicine. They save limbs and prevent blood clots every day. All hail the leech.
As Marx said, religion is the opiate of the masses. I spent 8 years in a Catholic seminary many years ago. Now a happy agnostic
Your point on hell is inaccurate. Hell is separation from God. It was created for the devil but man decides to go there on their own according. God doesn't send people there. You can't act like he doesn't exist here and then die, realize he exist then want to spend time with him. 😂😂
Which belief is rational ?
To all the religious people crying here:
Youre just showing everyone how weak your god is, because you imagine he needs you to defend him and his religion. Also, youre showing everyone how much you hate Jesus, because youre doing exactly what he COMMANDED not to do.
Gödel showed mathematics is a religion if religion is defined as a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements.
Too much woke politics. Being an atheist doesn't mean you have to be a leftist.
How about a fundamental, absolute and all Pervading Sourse, Being, from which everything emanates and into which everything dissolves back. The One of Plotinus. Brahman of Upanishads.
God wasn't much of a creator and designer when it comes to the creation of man. Made in his own image, he gave humans a nose that runs, feet that smell and a pleasure zone next door to a sewage outlet.
The 'beliefs' were manufactured by MEN. Men who (shocker!)wanted to control women. As we already know, men like this are well versed in 'circle talk', a manipulative behavior which is aimed at confusing you while also making you trust what is said. What humans dont get is that the word 'belief' or 'believe' suggests that there is a CHOICE, when in fact the TRUTH is not a choice, its a FACT. BELIEFS ARE NOT FACTS, so there is no reality to beliefs. Beliefs are a CHOICE. Too many people get sucked into what they dont understand . I dont understand THAT.
Theist: numbers can be both irrational and imaginary.
Electrins have spin but don's spin.
Light, and electrons are both particles and waves.
Time goes slower the faster you travel.
To accurately store your genome requires 100 Gigabytes. Dawkins claims genes are encoded as digital information. Your DNA "joined and stretched," as a fertilized ovum started at 2 meters. In your adult body, the distance from Esrth to the Sun and back 30 times. In a lifetime of 70 years, a light-year's length is synthesized.
Trees have more chromosomes, talk to each other and aid sick saplings more than healthy ones. Some flowers "hear" the audio frequenct of their polinators, making more nectar when the correct frequencies are played.
The DNA copying mechanism, flagellar motors, and surface prroteins are unique in bectrria vs eukaryotes.
Any God compared to Santa, or a FSM is not GOD. The ridiculous image required to say God is anything likw those shows a severe misunderstanding of a Being capable of grasping everything, from quark to quasar.
And, people who adopt an image of a God which is beyond conception, understand how all these are God's footprints.
If we are more rational today than our ancestors were, why do we never learn from history?
Personal thoughts after “accidentally” raising the Christ Oil:
I was an Atheist and this happened to me during meditation one day after doing a full body toxin flush and fasting on and off for a period of time, maybe a month or so. I didn’t even know what happened to me until I did some research and figured it out. This was instant awakening into the Divine and suddenly it just triggered the Ultimate Question to ask yourself – If we all lived in ignorance to literally every written word we call Gods word, every bible, every scripture, everything, and we were free of the fluoride, alcohol, sex, fear mongering and other such inhibiters that stop this natural biological process from happening, this awakening would Still Happen and be a natural event that would happen regardless of which books you read or what you believed in. So…..
What if you grew up on an island totally isolated from the world and believe in nothing but a pure life experience and know nothing of any other belief? If a Christian, a Mormon and a Muslim were born on this island how would they know if they were Christian, Mormon or Muslim? Who would tell them on this island of ours?
This incredible change can occur naturally in ANYBODY every month until you die when the moon enters your sign if all the conditions are met. Statistically speaking the odds of somebody NOT raising the kundalini at some point and telling everyone else about it and then possibly to create a religion out of it … is next to Impossible really. I would point out that being an Evil entity or not of Divine thought would be an inhibiter of the Christ Oil, almost like a natural selector between good and evil as this would blacken the oil and render it useless for awakening. This all happens without even knowing about it, naturally in its own time, without ever writing a word on a tablet or scroll.
It seems we are all not so different after all…Everybody is trying to get to the same place but taking different routes in the Maze we call Reality…I now believe we are the Oneness of the All, regardless of what name is used to describe it, for there are many names and many routes, at this point I would call it in all fairness – All of the above. We all are looking at the same road, just gotta read the signs cause they seem a little mixed up, almost like someones been messing with them. Division it seems is an illusion – the term United we Stand, Divided we Fall comes to mind…. is this the Ultimate Truth?
Well for now I’m just gonna ride on, and continue on this journey to see what other truths have yet to reveal themselves in the darkest hours of reality as we come to truly know it, one puzzle piece at a time.
Religious ideas aren't meant to be rational. 99.99% of our experience is outside of what we call 'rational'.
Israel n Palestine 🇵🇸
Free Palestine
I continue to be amazed at how many people, watching these videos, are intelligent and respectful of those who worship God. I do not see religious people extending the same courtesy to atheists. I have read the Bible and found it to be self-contradictory, vague, misleading, Pompas, and is patchy with no real flowing story line. It reads more like a do-it-yourself book warning you of the consequences of doing it yourself.
Brilliant!
The first university was built by a Muslim woman! The modern laws of banking and finance was set up during the earlier days of Islam. Economics and development is laid out by Muslim scholars. Now we have computers running on algorithms that was layed out by Muslims. The strange fact is, you know this and here you are shamefully disrespecting the chosen religion of Allah. So I hope you like whatever you find next 🙂
I find it interesting that DOGMA spelled backwards is AMGOD.
Atheism is a religion too. Atheists have an active belief system with views concerning origins (that the universe and life arose by natural processes); no life after death; the existence of God; how to behave while alive; and so much more. Honest atheists will admit their worldview is a faith. Atheism is a religion.