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Wooden doors!

Every time an atheist chalenges something they can't accept the first thing they will do is miss characterize in some ludicrouse way and follow up with " is that what you believe?"

Maybe some Professor of Logic already stated what Norm says but his argument honestly resonates with me. An infinitely good being-if created good would just be expansion. So the act ot creation by definition would be something less then perfect good ==> imperfect which includes evil … BUT capacity for good too. That is subtly profound. Norm claimed he only read “six books” in his life but then goes on a trivia gameshow and hits top prize for a children’s charity (technically he knew top answer but didnt want to risk losing a huge donation for Paul Newmans legacy). The more I learn about him since his passing, including his devoted disregard to stupid Hollyweird authoritarianism, the more Im impressed. He was anything but the typical celebrity. PS I bet Richard Dawkins and his selfish genes (who in all his atheistic grandstanding has a fear of haunted houses) don’t have a dog house. :-) RIP Norm

The most interesting, well-spoken, deep, funny person to ever live. A giant walked among us,

There is no god. People made it up 6,000-ish years ago to make money off dumber people.

I like that Norm didn't do the usual "Men are like this, women are like this" or "Married men are like this, single men are like this" type of comedy. That's been beaten to death, but comedians keep doing it, over and f*cking over and over and over again. He talked about absurd, bizarre, weird shit, he made up a wife he didn't have and bullsh*tted about her, and on and on. It was really refreshing, and I liked that.

I miss Norm so much. 😞

6:25, you know how to ruin a sermon? raise your hand and ask the pastor what they are even talking about?

Who is the jerkwho keeps interrupting

Oh man I hope Ole Normy made it home. He was on the right track. Jesus of Nazareth is God Almighty amen ❤❤❤

The question is backwards. We don't choose to survive. Our ancestors had a genetic push to survive so we exist.

Welp, he tried…

Go Norm!! Im happy to see that you seeked God. I feel that God answered your prayers ❤️

To answer this question, life stems from chemical and physical reactions leading to cellular activity that developed into more complex life due to adaptations to environment. The real question is as a social animal, humans should try to protect their way of life and their heritage and genetics as a survival mechanism.

Norm was too smart for his own good. I challenge all commenters to read the Bible in a year, and see who God Is....

I wish I could have done Bible Study with Norm.

"I dropped out of high school!" Norm graduated high school at 14 and went to university at 16.

Norm knows the answer now. I bet he's really happy. Damn, we really miss him.

Your way off norm. God created a perfect world, with no sin, perfect creation etc…. Then man screwed it up NOT GOD. The Lord gives man free will to choose to accept him or reject him. Or we would be programmed robots. Every decision we make in life comes with consequences good or bad.mankind has a sin problem. Lord is the answer to sin problem.

He says he’s closer to Judaism than anything else right now. That means he’s doubting Christianity. He was a good man, and we should not discount his wisdom based on his evolving, religious beliefs.

This helped me better understand a concept of god. And it came from norm Macdonald… I am now able to visualize god in a way I’ve never been able to in my 33 years of life. If god is the infinite then like you when you sleep it must recharge itself in a way by sacrificing a part of itself to create universes. Perhaps the universes are neutral to begin with but they are what norm explains. A place where things that are bad are able to morph and transform back into good with enough time. And once you’ve done that correctly you’re able to return back to the oneness of god. Then you repeat the cycle when a part of god needs to be maintained. Like when you grow old and go through some kind of problem….sometimes you know the answer to help yourself but must remind yourself of the correct steps it took you before in accomplishing or overcoming whatever it is you’re going through. Like neural pathways that need to be maintained. That’s what god needs to do as well. Throw parts of itself into chaos and wait for it to correct itself back into being all good. I don’t think any other religion has ever come this close to describing what feels real to me. Thankyou, Norm. Enjoy the oneness for a while.

The more I learn about norm the more I miss him. He was extremely wise but played it off with extreme humility.

Sorry Norm. Stupid theory.

I hope i get to meet Norm one day in the Kingdom.

I love Norm, and I agree with his ultimate point, but animals who did not want to survive, did not have a desire to procreate, they did go extinct. The genes that didn’t want to procreate disappeared from the gene pool.

He is genius

I'm a very non-judgmental atheist who usually only ever talks about it if someone asks, but when they do ask me why I don't just lay down and die, I always say "because I enjoy beer and want to keep drinking it." Don't get me wrong: there are some decent arguments for being religious, but this straw man that I don't enjoy or find meaning in anything without believing in unprovable claims is not one of them.

The last 30 seconds actually hearing him be serious was the best, terrible time to cut the clip.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we all just approached the subject with the same genuineness displayed here. No deep philosophical or theological wanderings to hide our fears or prejudices; just honest introspection. It's not really all that hard.

It's a shame Norm never got a chance to speak with representatives from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His sincerity would've granted him so many wonderful answers to everything he's talking about here.

That's a wonderfully strange misapproximation of what Nabokov wrote in his awful biography of himself (autobiography is a term I reserve to people who write about themselves who are not fiction by definition of themselves, eidolons). What he actually wrote was that it terrified him to think anything existed before him, and he didn't have an older brother. Only a younger one. Who committed suicide. Read up.

God is a circle ⭕️, that’s center is everywhere and circumference is Nowhere

I think Bruce Almighty funnily enough had the best viewpoint. If God gave you everything you ever wanted, you still wouldnt be happy. We are the ones that decide our own fate and yes I do have some problems with lives being taken away too soon, but we have free will and are the ones to have chosen our own fate to kill each other.

The Old Testament god is a real a-hole, sometimes. He does torture his "children". Eternal suffering in a lake of fire for breaking one of my rules. Who would worship such a guy??

Good and evil. This existence, or our human understanding of it is, dualism. Light has to contrast with dark to even be noticed. If it was all light, all the time, then we wouldn't see it. Night and day, in and out, dry and wet, happy and sad, etc.

Unfortunately, this wise man still fails to understand what the Church of Satan actually believes in. They only use Satan as a symbol for their virtues.

I've never understood why people think "why does God allow bad things to happen?" is a hard question. He's God, he can do whatever he wants. He can define moralality. He can still be "good" while allowing bad things to happen (bad according to humans). It's such an easily answered question.

Norms question “do you really want to have a personal relationship with the devil?” Is an interesting one because just like “god” I’ve never met him. I’ve never had a personal conversation with “god”. I should blindly trust one and completely disregard the other ? why can’t me “god” and “the devil” all hang out and drink beers together ? why can’t we get “god” and “the devil” to just hug it out already ? it’s been ages since they been boys. I think that’s what we really should be trying to accomplish.

Can someone pls explain his answer to the problem of evil?

For those who want to say there was no Holocaust, as I saw in some comments, please do some actual historical research. Also, this is a great aspirational video: twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1632823423159107591?t=DSD7LFTcmRFINs2llVJeAw&s=19

“Look, I don’t want to say too many good things about the Devil.” Pure genius.

God created beings with free will, and he respects our free will. So we can do evil and reject him if we want to. We can even nail God to a cross. But the way home is always open to us.

Norm just needs to stick to comedy because he sucks at the god issue.

No one went through a chimney at birkenau. Lol😂

"there are no right wing comedians" they say