Just wanted to make my own response to this. I couldn't watch the whole video, because as all atheists know it's always the same arguements regurgitated from one believer to the next, and (i don't mean to be rude, but) i just don't have the stomach for that kind of mind pollution like i used to.
So i noted down a few of the first points this guy made and wanted to respond in my own words.
Oh, and at some point i ramble about if something can be disproven then there's no reason to believe it, but if it can't be disproven then we take that is the closest thing to truth that we know - What i INTENDED to say was that if something can be repeatedly tested and proven positive almost every time, then we can take that as the closest thing to truth that we can know. Sorry about the word bumble - my mind and my mouth tend not to work together as well as they should.
Remember - teaching children to irrationally hate other people who think differently is a form of mental abuse.
"Bad people go to hell."
"People who don't believe in god go to hell."
This leads every christian child initially to the same conclusion: "People who don't believe in god must be bad people."
And that is clearly untrue - as most of the hatred, and violence, oppression and mind-suppression, murder and removal of rights in the history of the world has been done in the name of religion - especially the triple branch god of the Jews, Christians and Muslims.
I understand some people do wake up from these mental chains - or that not all christians or religious people are hateful bigots hiding behind the mask of love - but it's a scary majority that needs to be addressed.
Religion and god are the most convenient excuses for most of the evils committed in this world. And that's a fact no one can deny.
It is always the better choice to ignore religion - because at the core all it serves to do is divide, when one would think that a god would want all the people he supposedly created to get along.
When you realize this, you'll start to realize that the bible was written by humans who just want mental power over people - who want to justify evil they've done by saying, "My god told me to. It is written! *hastily scratches down divine commandments*"
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