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  • "I like going to church, but it's the sermons I don't particularly like - they go rambling on in such a boring way."
    Children from the village of Dibden Purlieu in Hampshire share their opinions on religion with Harold Williamson.
    Does God exist? What does heaven look like?
    This clip is from Children Talking: On Religion, originally broadcast 25 May, 1969.
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  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 Před rokem +97

    An absolutely delightful film. The intellect of some of these children was pretty impressive. They'll all be in their 60s now and I'd love to know what happened to them.

    • @TinLeadHammer
      @TinLeadHammer Před rokem +14

      Yes, the two of them who did not believe in god had brains.

    • @pauldurdan1549
      @pauldurdan1549 Před 9 měsíci +12

      It shows how most of the people in todays society have been dumbed down through lack of discipline and education .

    • @Ellie-vv5tw
      @Ellie-vv5tw Před 5 měsíci

      @@pauldurdan1549exactly

    • @rosemerrynmcmillan1611
      @rosemerrynmcmillan1611 Před 4 měsíci +6

      Probably dealing with modern problems such as drug addicted or gay children or grandchildren who've never grown up, grandchildren or children they can't have access to, God knows how their lives have turned out the way society has been spiralling downwards in degeneracy.

    • @OlafProt
      @OlafProt Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@rosemerrynmcmillan1611 so if your children or grandchildren were gay would you scorn them? Throw them out?

  • @ldavid2528
    @ldavid2528 Před 4 měsíci +23

    Can someone please please recreate this, with the exact same questions, and same aged children? It would be so interesting to see the contrasts between now and then.

    • @lordwilksy
      @lordwilksy Před 4 měsíci

      czcams.com/video/fPYyWhtTDmQ/video.htmlsi=e2pRLL-OnifFWbkz

  • @Charlotte66666
    @Charlotte66666 Před rokem +73

    The two little ones talking about Noah and The Ark are so sweet.

    • @TinLeadHammer
      @TinLeadHammer Před rokem +5

      But why there are two of each animal? They flunked this question.

    • @jacqueline8559
      @jacqueline8559 Před 4 měsíci

      ​​@@TinLeadHammer Well, you've failed this simple question too. Use your brain Ffs. WHY do you think? 🤔 Two of each Animal, ( 1 male and 1 female, Oooh! ) So they could be released, after the flood, to procreate ( have babies, for your understanding 🥺) So no type of animal would be extinct. Have you 'got it' now.? ...😏🥺🙄

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před 4 měsíci

      @@TinLeadHammer Male & Female

  • @lightningbug276
    @lightningbug276 Před rokem +64

    They are so eloquent!

    • @rareblues78daddy
      @rareblues78daddy Před rokem +3

      Their parents stared death in the face, and defeated it out of sheer will.
      Then... they raised these kids.
      We need to do better.

  • @thecookreporting
    @thecookreporting Před rokem +143

    These kids seems more coherent than most modern adults.

    • @helenabarnett6441
      @helenabarnett6441 Před rokem +12

      So true. A world before the introduction of the word "like" 😂

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před rokem +1

      Sir, you are from that era too aren't you !
      Aah, the Welfare State Era ! ,,, The Nurses uniform, the Milkman, etc,,,,,,,,

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před rokem +1

      @@helenabarnett6441
      Madame, , wasn't the word " like" currently used back then ? I was minus 15 years old !

    • @HelloImNik
      @HelloImNik Před 11 měsíci

      @@helenabarnett6441 like

    • @lexie5973
      @lexie5973 Před 8 měsíci +5

      You're right. Kids today can't string a coherent sentence together.

  • @juliemullen365
    @juliemullen365 Před 7 měsíci +26

    Beautifully spoken ❤

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před 4 měsíci

      Princess DIANA for Ever: Modesty, Reservation !
      In the Other Hand : American pseudo-girls like those on CZcams CHANNEL ''REACT'', Well........ I prefer To keeeeep silent !

  • @theendofeverything6356
    @theendofeverything6356 Před rokem +96

    These children are so well-dressed, polite, thoughtful and articulate. England has changed beyond recognition!

    • @Charlotte66666
      @Charlotte66666 Před rokem +14

      Sadly yes.

    • @RedDevil_Joe
      @RedDevil_Joe Před rokem +17

      OR…these are just pretty posh kids. More middle class than working class anyway

    • @theendofeverything6356
      @theendofeverything6356 Před rokem +10

      @@RedDevil_Joe What's that got to do with anything?

    • @precumming
      @precumming Před rokem +2

      Blame Thatcher, kids used to be nice but after making it clear they weren't valued through the Thatcher era now we have violent theiving kids and it seems to be an issue that's going to persist

    • @theendofeverything6356
      @theendofeverything6356 Před rokem +3

      @@precumming Nice try!

  • @patriciaoreilly8907
    @patriciaoreilly8907 Před 3 měsíci +4

    The first boy 😂😂😂😂 how our standards have fallen to the dregs . Beautiful video 😊

  • @mikieanthony777
    @mikieanthony777 Před 4 měsíci +14

    What beautiful, intelligent children. (Including the 2 atheists)

    • @mikieanthony777
      @mikieanthony777 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@seaside_rambler , you fairies R too funny

  • @nathalieandparis
    @nathalieandparis Před 4 měsíci +13

    Wow! Just incredible how our society has declined so rapidly. These children are brilliant. So eloquent and intelligent. Just beautiful.

  • @lauraclarke3938
    @lauraclarke3938 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Wonderful children- kids these days don’t seem as eloquent at all…😢

  • @lordwilksy
    @lordwilksy Před 4 měsíci +7

    much better times..

  • @MARKETMAN6789
    @MARKETMAN6789 Před měsícem +2

    This brings back so many memories of those times ,when life was worth living ,just wish i had appreciated it more

  • @user-yt8js4gx6p
    @user-yt8js4gx6p Před 4 měsíci +4

    I was born in 1957 so I was about the same age as those kids in 69 I just took every thing as the truth that an adult told me wow how things changed when I could have a mind of my own

    • @hazy33
      @hazy33 Před měsícem

      It's so sad that kids back then had that constant indoctrination. Thankfully church attendance continues to plummet. You have the Catholic Church somehow still allowed to exist despite being a home for rampant paedophilia

  • @carlkamuti
    @carlkamuti Před 11 měsíci +35

    Respect to the boy and girl sat on the grass: I think its hard for us to appreciate the level of heresy that atheism was at the time, for people of that age as well. Good for them.

    • @Treemeadow
      @Treemeadow Před 9 měsíci

      Yes, exactly! I couldn't even question things in the 90s, their parents are obviously atheists themselves

    • @Behyelzebub
      @Behyelzebub Před 8 měsíci

      @carlkamuti, there wasn't much atheism about then, because we didn't have Google. Now we can do a bit of research and find that religion is bullshit.

    • @asbisi
      @asbisi Před 5 měsíci +5

      Such intelligent kids.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Před 5 měsíci +5

      😮 There's nothing wrong with atheism. The children who don't believe in Heaven are forward thinking and adorable in their confidence to speak out against the usual indoctrination of religious persons. I would say their parents are wise and supportive thinkers who encourage their offspring to also think for themselves. Great children to be so capable of independent thought so many years ago, before Brits started really to shed their previous dependence upon religious contro via 'brainwashing'!!❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😏🇬🇧🙂❤️🖖

    • @andrewjohnson8232
      @andrewjohnson8232 Před 4 měsíci

      Free thinkers, nothing to do with what they were being taught...😂
      Atheists = Dumb as mud.

  • @brijones
    @brijones Před 11 měsíci +8

    i was the same age back then i never thought about anything

  • @bernmahan1162
    @bernmahan1162 Před 11 měsíci +10

    Fantastic!

  • @johnnyb8825
    @johnnyb8825 Před 4 měsíci +4

    My father told me that when he and his brother were children they were "asked to leave" a church because they burst out laughing during the preacher's hellfire and brimstone rant of a sermon (this was in Wales). And that was in the 1930s!

  • @HelloImNik
    @HelloImNik Před 11 měsíci +11

    Wise kids!

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres Před rokem +21

    "Rambling on in such a boring way.."
    As a dad and teacher, I have done some honest soul searching from such honest appraisals, and tried to make adjustments where necessary.
    Not that I ever told the little rascals!

    • @hallelujah88
      @hallelujah88 Před rokem +6

      Gosh, how are they so well spoken?!

    • @jasonayres
      @jasonayres Před rokem +5

      @@hallelujah88 I think that it takes years.
      Not a "class issue",I believe.
      Patience and persistence.
      For example, my dad never finished high school, but was an avid reader.

    • @georgio101
      @georgio101 Před 5 měsíci

      @@hallelujah88 You're putting the horse before the cart. The notion of 'well spoken' is based on the established accent of middle class South East England. It is this cohort of people against whom you subconsciously calibrate your idea of what 'well spoken' sounds like, so they sound well spoken by definition.
      To adults of the day, there would've been much about their speech which sounds modern and sloppy.

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před 4 měsíci

      @@georgio101 Princess DIANA for Ever: Modesty, Reservation , Mother Love, spouse Love, Eloquence, !
      On the Other Hand : American pseudo-girls like those on CZcams CHANNEL ''REACT'', Well........ I prefer To keeeeep silent !

  • @marialamb6781
    @marialamb6781 Před 4 měsíci +7

    WOW!
    What strikes me the most are the intelligent words that these children use to express themselves. The intelligent way in which they express themselves.
    They are so young and yet they are talking like adults. Today's children can't talk.
    It's like you know it's like man what do you think....Well, um you know like ........ positively pathetic and the fault is with the parents. They no longer send their kids out of the house to go play and create games on their own and also have them to sit down and read books.

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Před 2 měsíci

      Children learn to speak by being spoken to. If parents are not listening to their children, actually holding meaningful conversations with them from a young age, they'll learn from their peers. Innit! Reading to children,yes having books for them to read is one thing, but they learn how to pronounce the words,can ask what they mean,they learn the cadence and rhythm of speech by listening. Television should be banned from all children's rooms, and it's evil spawn of smaller screens.

  • @calebrochester9516
    @calebrochester9516 Před 4 měsíci +5

    The ability to think and speak clearly is going the way of the dodo bird. You ask for it.

    • @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts
      @LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Před 2 měsíci

      So few people understand the connection between speech and thought. If you cannot express yourself through lack of vocabulary then you also cannot think internally. It's a tragedy right under our noses because these are the children being pumped with experimental drugs to control the resulting behaviour.

  • @KrisHughes
    @KrisHughes Před 4 měsíci +5

    Love the wee mansplainer at 5:00.

  • @firesign4297
    @firesign4297 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Children🥰Are Absolutely! Amazingly!!! Connected!🤗🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🤗☺️❤️

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před 4 měsíci

      Princess DIANA for Ever: Modesty, Reservation , Mother Love, spouse Love, Eloquence, !
      On the Other Hand : American pseudo-girls like those on CZcams CHANNEL ''REACT'', Well........ I prefer To keeeeep silent !

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Před rokem +31

    My goodness the first child is extraordinarily eloquent. All of them are. Fascinating. 2:45 you go girl!! A coherent and yet completely kind argument.
    5:07 religious indoctrination was never so cute.

  • @TheChroniclesOfTheEclipse
    @TheChroniclesOfTheEclipse Před 9 měsíci +5

    So smart wow 🤩 wow 🤩

  • @shadowweaver3693
    @shadowweaver3693 Před 4 měsíci

    I love the interviewers voice

  • @milkyjoe6917
    @milkyjoe6917 Před 4 měsíci +4

    The good old days, before kids brains were poisoned by mobile phones and the internet.

  • @hellie_el
    @hellie_el Před rokem +2

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @user-kr7pf5vz7x
    @user-kr7pf5vz7x Před 5 měsíci +7

    God Bless those young believers!

  • @russellford5597
    @russellford5597 Před 11 měsíci +4

    Smart kids @1:31.

  • @jkq665
    @jkq665 Před 11 měsíci +7

    3rd girl. mislead them and feel sad for them amazing ☺️☺️☺️

  • @kaygalloway4215
    @kaygalloway4215 Před 2 měsíci +2

    We were far more articulate in the 60’s. Probably because we were properly educated and life was simple.

  • @Callisto74
    @Callisto74 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Children today, generally speaking, don’t articulate.

  • @raycarter4030
    @raycarter4030 Před rokem +34

    Remember when our wonderful land was like this.

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper Před rokem +16

      Like what, exactly?
      Delusional about some dude in the sky because they didn't know any better? Or the fact that these OBVIOUSLY posh kids on TV make you think that the entire nation was somehow posh? Maybe the normalised domestic abuse that nobody talked about? How women were treated as half a man?
      Please explain, because those times were not, in fact, "wonderful", not if you were a woman or working class, anyway.

    • @moominmay
      @moominmay Před rokem +1

      @@TheUltimateBlooper👏👏 usually these kind of comments on such videos are a covert way of triggering racist comments on how foreigners have ruined our once perfect, equitable and crime free land…

    • @agemoth
      @agemoth Před rokem +5

      @@TheUltimateBlooper God is everywhere and very much alive. He's more alive than you are !

    • @nizaru100
      @nizaru100 Před rokem +3

      @@TheUltimateBlooper
      But what about "The Welfare State" Model back then !
      Housing & Health care were affordable for poor people too, or wasn't it the case !
      I was minus 15 years old back then !

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper Před 11 měsíci

      @@agemoth ye ye, she's more alive than I am, the Earth is not as round as we remember, the planes spew disease, 5G is satanist, etc, etc, etc... 😂
      What number do I call "god" on, by the way? I'd like to complain aboit her being an insult to human intelligence 👍

  • @ChubbyChecker182
    @ChubbyChecker182 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The boy and girl arguing abiut who is right about the bible story.... 😁😁

  • @frederiquecouture3924
    @frederiquecouture3924 Před 3 měsíci

    I believe. 2024.

  • @kevinturvey8213
    @kevinturvey8213 Před 4 měsíci +3

    what on earth did they put in the water in those days???

    • @pathopewell1814
      @pathopewell1814 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Not sure about the water but plenty of food, additive free. Not too many treats.

  • @cocobunitacobuni8738
    @cocobunitacobuni8738 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Ah...rational humans. I wish I was this intelligent at their age. Indoctrination is powerful I guess (I was a child of Apartheid).

  • @fidelcatsro6948
    @fidelcatsro6948 Před rokem +21

    03:30 Girl was amazing! She held steadfast to God!

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 Před rokem +14

      Really!?! The only argument she could come up with, to support there being a god, was everyone else is being mislead. She constantly repeated the same thing, that was repeatedly told to her. No thoughts of her own, just a parrot being frightened by the lazy adults, that are supposed to be responsible for bringing up this child. Instead the parents repeat the same things, that don't make sense to themselves, yet pound the idea into their kids anyways.
      The girl before her, was intelligent well spoken, and had actual real answers for the questions given. These answers supported her ideas. She even understood that science was already disproving, the mockary that is religion.
      I wonder who is really being mislead? The sensible sounding girl, with facts to back up her statements, or the girl who can only say, everyone else who thinks for themselves is wrong, because they don't blindly follow a religion. A religion that misinterpreted a book of fables and laws, from ancient irrelevant times.
      Don't take this as an invitation for you to start preaching to me. I know the words in the Bible better than most. The scripture most Christians fail to know is Romans 15 : 20, where it says, don't preach where the name of Jesus is already known, as to not build on other foundations. So without preaching to me, please explain how your minority god is real. Or are you going to be a proper Christian, and just turn the other cheek, like you're supposed to? Don't forget not to judge me. Because if you do, I'll never forgive you, and that means god will never forgive you either.

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 Před rokem +1

      Look around 5:30, to see what religion really does to the world. And I assume these two kids are of the same religion. They are definitely both Christian.

    • @london-vlog2981
      @london-vlog2981 Před rokem +2

      God existed billions of years! Max we each one of will exist only 120 years. So its not right to reject God.

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 Před rokem +5

      @@london-vlog2981 how old is the earth?

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper Před rokem

      @@london-vlog2981 errr...no... "god" existed for only as long as the human psyche conjured one, to control the stupid people (whether out of need for obedience or for profit).. "god" is no more real than Pinocchio or Mickey Mouse - they're all just stories. I think you missed the memo when you skipped all the science classes?

  • @hm9181
    @hm9181 Před 5 měsíci +10

    “Fiction stories that have become popular” . She is so smart 🤯🥹

    • @mikieanthony777
      @mikieanthony777 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Stay in school and you'll be a smart girl too. 🚸 📙

  • @syedalamgir5838
    @syedalamgir5838 Před 2 měsíci

    Heaven and Hell ........

  • @victorray2011
    @victorray2011 Před 11 měsíci +16

    Even primary school kids thought Genesis was nonsense, yet so many Americans take it literally.

    • @Treemeadow
      @Treemeadow Před 9 měsíci +2

      Even the majority of Jewish scholars don't believe it was literal, but figurative to allow for memorisation and secrecy/to protect from outside influence

  • @MyNameIsSimon88
    @MyNameIsSimon88 Před rokem +24

    Good example of kids being indoctrinated here, a couple of them have some sense especially the one who states "they are just popular stories in an important book" she sees through the falsehoods.

    • @agemoth
      @agemoth Před rokem

      So you can't imagine that kids are not indoctrinated by OTHER 'words in a book' in their schools to tell them we all started off as slime from the ocean or gibbering apes ?
      It's the 'education system' that has ruined the kids.

    • @HelloImNik
      @HelloImNik Před 11 měsíci +3

      from what I've seen, this was the opposite of indoctrination?

    • @MyNameIsSimon88
      @MyNameIsSimon88 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@HelloImNik kids being told a false story is true feels a bit like it is.

    • @squidjit83
      @squidjit83 Před 11 měsíci +7

      @@MyNameIsSimon88The Bible is not false.

    • @MyNameIsSimon88
      @MyNameIsSimon88 Před 11 měsíci +4

      @@squidjit83 it is, it’s a bunch of man made stories selected by a council to be included on the book.

  • @superduper184
    @superduper184 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Boringggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

  • @ChaimkeProductions
    @ChaimkeProductions Před rokem +16

    britain today - micah richards/ksi with their `innit bruv` alex scott with her runnin` and rowin` and claims that she doesnt pronounce her g`s because of her working class upbringing! the just stop oil, the woke mob, the lets teach our kids about drag, what has happened to this country

    • @hazy33
      @hazy33 Před měsícem

      Sounds more like what has happened to YOU. And what do you mean by "woke" anyway?

  • @paulinedixon3490
    @paulinedixon3490 Před měsícem

    The two unbelievers were spot on imo. Typical BBC. Speaking to well to do kids. Not council estate ordinary kids who had underprivileged lives

  • @baloodarling486
    @baloodarling486 Před rokem +4

    This is so obviously scripted.

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 Před rokem

      Rehearsed probably, scripted no. Your just not as intelligent as these kids.

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper Před rokem +11

      Doesn't stop all the boomers from salivating over "the good times" 🤣

    • @northernsnow6982
      @northernsnow6982 Před rokem +9

      @@TheUltimateBlooper doesn't stop you, from making an unrelated comment. Plus, you're wrong. Most old people would be appalled at the disrespect of god, by some of these kids. When in reality the kids are thinking logically.

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper Před rokem +8

      @@northernsnow6982 I don't think you took the time to read the comments, if you think the boomers are "appalled" here...

    • @thecookreporting
      @thecookreporting Před rokem

      @@TheUltimateBlooper Go drink some Prime

  • @carlpierce2486
    @carlpierce2486 Před 4 měsíci

    Love the atheists....the 'mislead' girl probably ended up going off the rails once she realised she had been too !

  • @lizlawrence4553
    @lizlawrence4553 Před 8 měsíci +18

    Children speaking proper English to a high standard. Just shows how sub standard state education is today. With teachers who can't teach properly and have the nerve to ask for a pay rise .

    • @selfraisingsugar898
      @selfraisingsugar898 Před 5 měsíci +3

      What makes you think teachers can’t teach properly? Have you any examples?

    • @tmarritt
      @tmarritt Před 4 měsíci +1

      Perhaps you might get better teachers if you pay them correctly.
      Pay peanuts and all that.

    • @heatherives8646
      @heatherives8646 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@selfraisingsugar898 some teachers can teach. When i was at school when you hear a teacher, say this lessons are so boring.

  • @rareblues78daddy
    @rareblues78daddy Před rokem

    ...truth, from the mouth of babes.
    Bastardization of Psalms 8:2.
    Bet they never thought it'd come back to bite 'em.