Do You Believe in a Secular America? - Richard Dawkins Foundation contest winner

#atheism #secularism #faith #religion #spirituality #unity #politics #america

CREW
producers & writers: Jared Scheib & Evan Bregman
cinematographer, compositor, and colorist: Nick Roney
1st AC & sound recordist & mixer: Alan Michnoff

CAST (in order of appearance)
Stefhen Bryan
Elizabeth Portanova
Paul Des Marais
Eliyahu Fink
Liz Femi Wilson
Anissa Collins
David Case
Jerry Dang
Jared Scheib
Evan Bregman
Aiman Ibrahim
Ilona Kulinska

[siriusfun]

The fact that this needs to be made and discussed in 2019 is embarrassing.

[israrkarim]

Lets dream for a secular Pakistan. Love from Pakistan.

[isaacg]

Humanity will never be able to reach its true potential as long as religion has any power.

[williamheidelberg]

I dream for a secular Saudi Arabia and a secular Iran as well

[EdwardHowton]

I don't believe in a secular America.
I believe in a secular planet Earth.

[isaacjacobs]

Imagine a world where you are not taught religion until you reach the age of 18. How many do you believe would convert then?

[deeliciousplum]

These voices of reason give me hope. Thank you for making and sharing this. A huge thank you to those who share their voices of reason as like the people in this vid. 🌻💞

[KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

I do believe that we should be a secular America, and a secular world for that matter. This is a wonderful video!

[frederikmortensen]

That's a really beautiful video, I believe in a secular world!

[williamheidelberg]

Yes Yes Yes I do believe in a secular WORLD

[VladSWG]

NY Times Aug. 14, 2018

Bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual abuse by more than 300 priests over a period of 70 years, persuading victims not to report the abuse and law enforcement not to investigate it, according to a searing report issued by a grand jury on Tuesday.

The report, which covered six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses and found more than 1, 000 identifiable victims, is the broadest examination yet by a government agency in the United States of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The report said there are likely thousands more victims whose records were lost or who were too afraid to come forward.

It catalogs horrific instances of abuse: a priest who raped a young girl in the hospital after she had her tonsils out; a victim tied up and whipped with leather straps by a priest; and another priest who was allowed to stay in ministry after impregnating a young girl and arranging for her to have an abortion.

The sexual abuse scandal has shaken the Catholic Church for more than 15 years, ever since explosive allegations emerged out of Boston in 2002. But even after paying billions of dollars in settlements and adding new prevention programs, the church has been dogged by a scandal that is now reaching its highest ranks. The Pennsylvania report comes soon after the resignation of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, who is accused of sexually abusing young priests and seminarians, as well as minors.

“Despite some institutional reform, individual leaders of the church have largely escaped public accountability, ” the grand jury wrote. “Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades.”

The report is unlikely to lead to new criminal charges or civil lawsuits under the current law because the statute of limitations has expired. Only two of the cases in the report so far have led to criminal charges. End of article.

While religious people roleplay about magic, superstition and invisible Jewish zombie overlords, their churches keep molesting children and accumulating material wealth.

If you are a xtian, you are responsible for supporting your parasitic priests and your evil church. Civil society isn't pleased to see you. You superstitions are not needed and your invisible friends are false and ridiculous. You are obtuse, arrogant, ignorant and should be ashamed to be a facilitator for those who hurt children.

Religion is disgusting and dangerous. STOP NOW.

[absentiambient]

I dream of an even more secular Finland.

[aragorniielessar]

As a European i think all countries in the world should be secular.

[theequaliser]

I believe one world, one people, one humanity it's simple learn to live together in peace without governments or religion making the rules freedom.

[AncientMarinerNY]

I've been an atheist for about 20 years now and I've come to accept that at the bottom of everyone's worldview are axioms that are not based on reason or science. Some call them self-evident truths, others call them intuitions. The closest thing to a foundation based on pure reason are axioms based on performative contradictions - which have their own problems. The danger of being secular is that we all hold non-scientific premises as if they were different from religious premises. Just take one of the popular premises of today: Equality. There are plenty of explanations to describe why it is an ideal but they are all just rationalizations of why people have it as a premise. It cannot be actually justified scientifically. In this manner, non-scientific premises creep into society as secular premises and we get self righteous intellectuals thinking they are being rational while banning or cancelling others who don't agree with their so-called secular views that in reality are just gods in disguise. Secularism is useless at best; and at worse it is a great camouflage for terrible premises that lead to destruction.

[GalileoSmith]

As an atheist American, I think valid, logical disagreements can be found when it comes to abortion rights. Pretty much all of the rest of the video I agree with wholeheartedly. I will add that I am a little bothered by the old codger talking about end of life stuff. He looks too much like a slightly older version of me and it makes me nervous. I think he should be talking about his right as an agnostic American to pursue young, attractive women.

[neutronpixie]

We can't make it to the future if people are still thinking in the past.

[wakeup]

I dream for a secular MoroCco 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[jamess]

I was born in the 60’s and my parents never put any religion on me, because believed religion should be a choice when old enough to make it. I’m agnostic, know right from wrong without religion.

[SW]

I reckon most of the world will by atheist/agnostic by 2100!