Atheist Video Saturday

Hat tip to Stubborn Curmudgeon

About 6 minutes; very crisp and funny. Pat Codel is the speaker.

Hat tip to Tennessee Guerilla Women. Two 5 minute videos and one 10 minute video on the emerging atheists from CBC.

From the other side: the new atheists are scaring people:

I had a good belly laugh at much of this. Christians, tolerant? Uh, secular societies that have Christians in them are tolerant, sort of. But inquisitions, auto-de-fes, burning at the stake, expulsion, etc. Check out any history of torture; most of the techniques were aimed at the heretics.

As for college kids “losing their faith”: the vast majority of elite scientists are non-theistic and most “regular” scientists are as well.

But of course, most people aren’t scientists, and some top scientists are still theists.

Here is what is going on: it is true that in some small subcultures of society (e. g., science and mathematics departments, the culture is highly tolerant of atheism. If, in a conversation, someone says that they are an atheist, no one gasps or even raises an eyebrow; the “believer” is the one that is a bit off of the mainstream. But most people don’t live in such social circles; many people are downright offended if someone says that they are not a believer.

What these books do is make it more comfortable for this still small minority of people in the US to talk about what they believe and to discuss their beliefs with the same freedom that theists discuss their beliefs. In non-academic/social circles, (which is the majority culture in the US) atheists (with reason) feel hatred and derision directed toward them. Hopefully these books and this “micro-movement” will change that.

Of course this video wasn’t really about any of that; this video was basically whining that they aren’t getting acceptance from the smart people!
I guess that being a part of the 90% that “believe” isn’t good enough for them?

Humor

George Carlin, on religion. Hat tip to the Stubborn Curmudgeon.