The Best Arguments Against Religious Thinking

This video contains some of the best arguments against religious thinking.
Featuring Daniel Dennett, Lawrence Krauss, Peter Singer, Peter Atkins, Steven Weinberg & Sam Harris.

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[coolguy]

It’s quite ironic that an all loving God would use fear of eternal damnation as his greatest motivator.

[hadara]

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[cps_Zen_Run]

I respect one’s right to embrace their beliefs. But I am under no obligation to respect their beliefs.

[Quancept]

"Science is the most humble activity. Assuming the world is made for us is not humble. Assuming we are an insignificant bit of a marvellous universe and we make the most of it as we can is humble" - golden lines.

[UwU-okjr]

One of many things that made me really doubt religion is how in history class in my Christian school, our curriculum talked to us about how the Age of Reason was leaving no room for faith by replacing faith with reason.
So basically it taught us to deny reason for the sake of faith it made no sense to me whatsoever.

[edcor]

I learned two things in my 63 yrs of existence.
1: I chose to walk wrong on my own path and not right on the path of others.
2: I listen to everybody but I follow nobody.
My instinct and intuition teach me what I need to know and what to think.
Free yourself from everything that stops you for being who you really are.

[LicardoDeBousee]

“Faith is believin what you know ain’t so.” -Mark Twain

[gwwayner]

Even as a very logical little kid I always felt like I was being suckered by religious claims.

[chuckhines]

What I find very fascinating is the creator created four hundred billion galaxies in our universe that is ten billion light years away with the one hundred billion stars. All without the aid of human beings. But he couldn't write sixty six books himself without the aid of man?

[ctwentysevenj]

Science is based on logic and evidence. Religion is based on man made stories and not evidence.

[TheBox]

I wish my family and in-laws could watch these with an open mind. :/

[rs-dms]

I have a very simple argument against religion. I assert that all religions, and for that matter all gods, are described only by humans. I know of no origin of any religion or claim of existence of any god that is not entirely human. So, my lack of belief in religions or in gods has nothing to do with any deity or supernatural phenomenon, but is based purely in my lack of belief in humans. Humans lie, most of the time. Especially when they want to control your actions or beliefs. I assert that all the religions I have heard of are nothing more than human lies, and I have seen no reason to doubt this assertion.
Stated differently, if someone were to ask me "Do you believe in god?" my answer would be that this is an invalid question. The correct question in my opinion is "Do you believe humans telling you about god?" and my answer to that question is "of course not". Athiests believe in the non-existence of gods, I am not an athiest, I don't really have an opinion on gods. I just don't believe humans.

[kasparsmikelsons]

"Religion obfuscates, science illuminates!"
Brilliant conclusion! Simply brilliant!

[SWExplore]

Long long ago, I did away with any and all religious thinking which I consider to be superstitious thinking. I jokingly refer to religion as voodoo, but I have learned to keep my opinions to myself since not everyone feels the way I do. Thanks for the video!

[Cookie-ripz]

If we didn't have science we would still live in the dark, no air-conditioning, no transportation except for beasts of burdon, we wouldn't have the internet and we wouldn't know evolution, homes or tools. Science is so glorious. Lawrence is correct in everything he said. Think about people.

[arthurwieczorek]

gold plated excuse not to think about thinking.

[DaveZee]

Religion is the "off" button for the brain.

[alcyone]

Thank you! I am somewhat optimistic for the continuous decline of religiosity in our times.

[AGothWithGlasses]

I never truly understood the want of knowing what's on the other side. I'm not scared of dying, I'm scared of HOW I'm going to die. The need of wanting to know what happens after death will cause uneeded existential dread, I have enough real world problems to worry about.

[capjus]

im still astonished that we still need to debate such things in the 3rd millennium, just because more than half of the population of the world believe in such nonsenses and contradict between and each others. im very disgusted tbh. when I left the religion i felt like i grew up and i realized suddenly everything. it actually wasn't leaving the religion, it was simply waking up and throwing the curtain cover away that was injected to me as a kid. first i thought it was easy for me because only my parents were just naive people, but then i saw the whole world is like that, in very serious ways