Comments on: Atheists Aren’t That Bad

By: sidfaiwu

sidfaiwu — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:25:22 +0000

Hello McBride,

Though Snurp ably addressed your question, I’d like to add a couple of possibilities and thoughts.

“How does something (physical or otherwise)come from NOTHING?”

Perhaps it simply can happen and we have no idea how. Ignorance of where existence comes from does not force one to assume a conscious cause. Perhaps something never comes from nothing. Perhaps the past is infinite. Perhaps time is circular and the end state of all things is equivalent to the first state of all things. All these possibilities require no consciousness at all. We really don’t know.

Even if one concludes that the First Cause is God, this leads one to Deism at best. This is certainly no reason to accept one of the major religions.

By: Snurp

Snurp — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:50:21 +0000

“‘How does something (physical or otherwise)come from NOTHING?’”

I’ll ask the same thing that gets asked every single time, without fail: what about God?

“Now if that “something” always existed and eventually caused our consciousness, would “it” not also have consciousness?”

Not necessarily.

By: McBride

McBride — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:21:03 +0000

The “simple” question I would like to ask everyone is: “How does something (physical or otherwise)come from NOTHING?” Obviously there is now “something” since we are having this discussion, but how is that possible? How did all that we now know and experience begin? I mean you can say, “Well, because way back when this happened, i.e., cosmic explosion, etc.” Well, how did that come about? Seriously, think about it, at some point, as you think about cause and effect, “something” must have ALWAYS existed for there now to be our conscious existence. Now if that “something” always existed and eventually caused our consciousness, would “it” not also have consciousness? So if “it” always existed and possesses consciousness, could it also be described as God?

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:56:14 +0000

Zachary: From another atheist — great video! I have been an atheist for 40 years, ever since I was a junior in high school and read 2 books by Ayn Rand: “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.” I look forward to seeing more of your work.

By: Anti

Anti — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:41:51 +0000

Asatru Pagan Priest… with Agnostic/Atheist leanings.

This video had a side effect of letting me know alot of people I like’s relgious veiws, including a few of the scientists that inspired me to take science as a career. Thanks for letting us see this, and thanks for been a voice of reason in an age of stupidity, at the dawn of the second dark age of humanity.

By: Atheist Woman

Atheist Woman — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:47:19 +0000

Gentle Giants, that’s what the brilliant people in this video are.

The simplicity of the video and the absolutely perfect background music please me enormously. One must remember, some people need to be spoonfed the truth. Plus, in matters of deep importance, which this IS, understatement can be much more powerful than exaggeration. “Just the facts, Ma’am,” is a pretty good rule of thumb.

Congratulations, Zachery!

And thanks for this Atheist Passion experience.

By: JD Hamilton

JD Hamilton — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:43:01 +0000

Also, those who believe that old saw about “there are no atheists in foxholes”, think again. I was in combat and have had direct experience of “incoming” artillery, and was and still atheist. My dogtags, (which I still have) read “Rel. Pref.: Atheist”

By: JD Hamilton

JD Hamilton — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:35:33 +0000

I am atheist, and I also feel that all religion is bad for the human race. If anyone has any doubts, I would refer them to the current situation in the middle east, where people are industriously killing each other over MICROSCOPIC differences in their common islamic “faith”. In the US, it has been a source of divisiveness in our political system, resulting in a war in Iraq, that had ZERO justification, aside from Bush’s desire to one-up his dad.

By: The Holy ettlz

The Holy ettlz — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:55:33 +0000

Hang on, did he miss out Richard Feynman?

By: omt

omt — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:08:15 +0000

atheist.
I get it, a lot of scientists are atheists. But you could do the same about christians or muslims or jews or buddists, and come up with quotes from those very atheists damning what they do with equal pith.

The underlying issue is that of course among the liberal middle classes atheism is popular, them also being the least likely group to go to jail, but this is atheisms failure. These scientific-rationalists, Dwarkins and the rest, have done nothing to persuade the vast majority of people that atheism has anything to offer except the truth. Noone cares for the truth if it doesn’t help them live better lives. So far atheists are offering nothing but nihilism.