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Imagine A World Without God
Topic Categories: Cultural Observation • Godlessness • Religion • Streaming videos
Posted on: March 19, 2009 7:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
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Eaggghhhh....
I came looking for something nice and light to end the evening... this not it :-/
I didn't try listen to it all, but it seems to translate to "we Christians are unbelievably needy people, who can't imagine being without the object of our neediness." Well, yes, maybe you should get rid of your neediness...
I'd add that, to me, true charity is where you don't ask for a return, your "return" is seeing those who benefited, benefit.
(One the plus side, if you can call it that, this is one video I can actually follow the words.)
Posted by: DeafScientist | March 19, 2009 8:14 AM
What would the world be like without a god? Why, exactly the same as it is now, of course...
Posted by: Dunc | March 19, 2009 8:20 AM
Ummm... look up the dictionary definition of "satire".
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | March 19, 2009 9:09 AM
Edward Current is great!
Posted by: The Science Pundit | March 19, 2009 9:29 AM
I liked John Lennon's song better.
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | March 19, 2009 11:06 AM
Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "Without God all things are permitted." I've often heard said, and seen written, statements such as "With god, all things are possible."
So you can do anything without god, and you can do anything with god. Thus, life is not affected by the presence or absence of god.
Posted by: Joseph j7uy5 | March 19, 2009 10:41 PM
Yet another example of American copywriters trying to be oh so clever in their satire, but intellectually feeble and yet again offensive to those people whose reliance on a sense of a personal God enables them (logically or not) to be a little less selfish and a little more loving in this world.
Joseph, when Paul was spreading the Christian gospel one of his concerns was to emphasise how adherence to the Christian message frees one, gives one freedom. Whereas those who remain enslaved to behaviours that are self destructive are not free, (although they consider they have free will to do anything they please), paradoxically someone who has recognised the value of a less selfish life (to put the Christian message in a more neutral and less tendentious way)have a lot of freedom, and it is in that sense that Paul famously says, 1 Corinthians 6:12; 10:23, that "all things are permitted for me" (in other words I still retain a free will, but I also know the things that are good for me and those that are not.)
It is a shame that American society is beset by fuckwit evangelists and a lot of gormless Americans consume their tripe to the disadvantage of many; there is however a lot of wisdom in ancient religious and philosophical writings if people care to look beyond the headlines.
Posted by: mackerelsaladboy | March 21, 2009 10:03 AM
God damn, if god dissapeared you will be a blood thirsty cannibal? What a complete idiot. That guy has serios problems. Fucking moron. I'm an atheist and quite happy stupid. 3 minutes wadted on that crap.
Posted by: Comice | June 17, 2009 8:39 PM
How can you possibly imagine? Darkness without Light, Cold without Heat.
Posted by: Newcor | February 9, 2010 3:46 PM
I thought it would be more along the lines of why live? Came into this world kicking and screaming why leave that way???
Posted by: Peter | February 22, 2010 12:50 AM