Aggresive Atheism, Pat Condell's Latest

It works for me. I'm glad that someone's concerned about outlawing blasphemy and similar nonsense.
 
Pat is TOO intelligent, too wittya and too funny to be taken serious by any religous person.

I like that he gets kinda angry, it's just normal given the subject.
 
He realizes that certainty, as displayed by a forceful personality assured of itself, is an important part of argument from moral intimidation, used frequently by the religious and other scam artists.

The worst thing that can possibly happen for them is for an atheist who knows their stuff to stop mealy-mouthing and hemming and hawing. They rely on it.

No intimidation = exposing it to the light of truth without being silenced.
 
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Wow. he is getting a lot more comfortable in front of the camera than when he first started.
 
An awful lot of his emotional reaction to religion as a supposedly monolithic whole, not too heavy on substance though. As an argument it's pure appeal to emotion.
 
While I agree with much of the sentiments I find the delivery kinda heavy going to watch and listen to.
 
This is one of Pat's best efforts of late. He hits the nail on the head, Beerina's comments are spot-on. There is no need to respect faith, which is not the same as respecting people (of faith).

I was pointed to Pat's latest by my new favorite YouTube atheist -- ZOMGitsCriss
 
Hux said:
What is actually wrong with getting angry?
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Good point. There is a place for it, and this is one of those places.

Beerina said:
He realizes that certainty, as displayed by a forceful personality assured of itself, is an important part of argument from moral intimidation, used frequently by the religious and other scam artists.

The worst thing that can possibly happen for them is for an atheist who knows their stuff to stop mealy-mouthing and hemming and hawing. They rely on it.

No intimidation = exposing it to the light of truth without being silenced.
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Yes. Thank god for Pat!
 
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Wow. he is getting a lot more comfortable in front of the camera than when he first started.
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And more importantly, a lot more pithy and direct.

This is a good thing, because he's trying to serve up on a plate the obvious censorship qualities hiding behind and motivating the "can't we all just get along?" fraudulent surface description of anti-blasphemy and anti-religious-criticism laws.


Were I to write something similar, I'd say:

"Ban religious criticism? Well, the false god of religion, which is itself false, is a horrific creature and I'm greatly offended by it. That people fall in line with this horrible, unethical, immoral god's sayings offends me, much less pass laws based on it.

"Here's why this god is a horrible, unethical, immoral ass, and the people who believe in Him, pathetic, subservient lackeys: 1. blah 2. blah 3. blah 4...."


In this way, it highlights censorship of said criticism out for what it really is: Censorship of statements of opinion, not to mention fact (e.g. even an existing god who behaved that way doesn't invalidate those criticisms.) And, most importantly, that censorship has nothing to do with not offending people*.













* Which, ironically, is born of the US' freedom of religion and speech, wherein you can't silence anyone. This leaves "I'm offended, so much so I am sick and will sue!" as some kind of sophistry for a backdoor to censorship via civil lawsuit. This worked (sigh) and is now spreading to be proactive rather than reactive. And don't laugh. Telling dirty jokes can be overheard, induce offendedness**, and land the company in court for millions, and you, fired.

"Being offended" thus justifies censorship. Even in the US. Sickening.






** Might as well coin a new word rather than slur a perfectly good phrase like "cause offense"
 
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hgc said:
I was pointed to Pat's latest by my new favorite YouTube atheist -- ZOMGitsCriss
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She's gotta have an IQ of 150 or more or someone's feeding her tons of ideas. She's so damned young to be standing at the forefront of this, to say nothing of fairly well-edited, MTV-Generation style videos.
 
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