Gimme a break. The video is funny, why can't you laugh at it or at least chuckle. I am not advocating for anything or I would have written something. BTW last poster--- You can pick out religious people who are psychos too.
Don't be a dolt. Anyone could easily make the opposite list.
Here's a list of people a lot smarter than you on the atheist list:
Albert Einstein Mark Twain Andrew Carnegie Benjamin Franklin Ernest Hemingway George C. Scott Linus Torvalds (more important to you than you know) Edgar Allan Poe Carl Sagan Frank Zappa Dave Barry (since this is a Miami blog)
Maybe you ought to do a little research. I don't have time to look at all of your list and I'm tired of this discussion. But Benjamin Franklin was not an atheist. He just did not believe in formal religion.
Here's a bit from his autobiography" '"Here is my creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His children."
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
I didn't think the video was in favor of atheism. I thought it was anti organized religion. I am in that camp, believing in some sort of higher power. I also found the video amusing.
Yes, making an obviously skewed list makes you a dolt.
The list is still generally valid despite your nitpicking. Franklin said many atheist leaning things as well. But in any case, take him off, that's not the point.
Einstein did not believe in a personal God. It is however, interesting how he arrived at that conclusion. In developing the theory of relativity, Einstein realized that the equations led to the conclusion that the universe had a beginning. He didn't like the idea of a beginning, because he thought one would have to conclude that the universe was created by God. So, he added a cosmological constant to the equation to attempt to get rid of the beginning. He said this was one of the worst mistakes of his life. Of course, the results of Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding and had a beginning at some point in the past. So, Einstein became a deist - a believer in an impersonal creator God:
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."4
However, it would also seem that Einstein was not an atheist, since he also complained about being put into that camp:
"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views."5
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
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amen
Disgusting.
Gimme a break. The video is funny, why can't you laugh at it or at least chuckle. I am not advocating for anything or I would have written something. BTW last poster--- You can pick out religious people who are psychos too.
Don't be a dolt. Anyone could easily make the opposite list.
Here's a list of people a lot smarter than you on the atheist list:
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
Andrew Carnegie
Benjamin Franklin
Ernest Hemingway
George C. Scott
Linus Torvalds (more important to you than you know)
Edgar Allan Poe
Carl Sagan
Frank Zappa
Dave Barry (since this is a Miami blog)
Dolt?
Maybe you ought to do a little research. I don't have time to look at all of your list and I'm tired of this discussion. But Benjamin Franklin was not an atheist. He just did not believe in formal religion.
Here's a bit from his autobiography"
'"Here is my creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His children."
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
I didn't think the video was in favor of atheism. I thought it was anti organized religion. I am in that camp, believing in some sort of higher power. I also found the video amusing.
Now that's some funny satire!
To the second to last anonymous:
Yes, making an obviously skewed list makes you a dolt.
The list is still generally valid despite your nitpicking. Franklin said many atheist leaning things as well. But in any case, take him off, that's not the point.
Hilarious!
This video was poking fun of organized religions. It wasn't making fun of people who hold beliefs in G-d or have faith.
I thought it was great!
Einstein did not believe in a personal God. It is however, interesting how he arrived at that conclusion. In developing the theory of relativity, Einstein realized that the equations led to the conclusion that the universe had a beginning. He didn't like the idea of a beginning, because he thought one would have to conclude that the universe was created by God. So, he added a cosmological constant to the equation to attempt to get rid of the beginning. He said this was one of the worst mistakes of his life. Of course, the results of Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding and had a beginning at some point in the past. So, Einstein became a deist - a believer in an impersonal creator God:
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."4
However, it would also seem that Einstein was not an atheist, since he also complained about being put into that camp:
"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views."5
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
god posted that video on His facebook page
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