I was brought up catholic, as a family we went to church every Sunday. Then all of a sudden it stopped. When I became older I asked my dad why. He said at that time there was so much hurt and bad things going on in the world that if there was a god he was turning a blind eye to it and wasn’t worthy of any praise.
He is an unpaid babysitting and is worth exactly what he’s paid when sudden infant death syndrome hits. Leaving your kids alone with god is abusive parenting even without SIDS
Yeah it is sad though. He could have actually considered it more instead of just thinking well it doesn't make sense. But you know at least he respects it unlike most of Hollywood
@@crosswarrior38 If you were not brainwashed and indoctrinated as a small child that there is some almighty god in the sky watching you, and someone told you about the existence of god when you were in your late 20's or 30's, when your brain matured, there is no chance that you would start to believe in such nonsense as god, jesus and the bible. Unfortunately children don't have a choice and their brains are being polluted while still in big development and you have no chance to remove that brain limitation, unless your are a highly intelligent person and see things for yourself instead of being told to believe. That's the sad part. You will live your whole life in a fairly tale and a very dark fairy tale considering what crimes against humanity religious people did throughout human history in the name of something imaginary.
@@joemilo2710 your the one living in a dark fairy tale because you believe life is meaningless. Also I did grow up Christian but hat doesn't mean I was brainwashed. I've considered many times and it just makes sense to me. I think it's crazy to think there is no God. Just look at all of nature and existence. It's way to complicated to be an accident. I'm sorry if some people claiming o be religious did some bad things but they do not speak for the whole of religion. I said nothing wrong I don't know why your so upset I can believe what I want just chill.
It's not disrespectful. It's a very well thought through process for him to arrive at what he believes, what he takes as being a good person and what he doesn't. He's not once disrespectful. It's actually disrespectful to have that attitude towards someone who actually has a different opinion... especially when it's a considered one.
Religious grifters don’t like honesty. It’s a big agreement that if we all pretend to believe this group-validating lie, we’ll have forced loyalty amongst us.. Education is the true saviour and empathy can be taught
@@user-js3sb2dv9s lol, that went so far over your head... using what the bible says as an example is like me explaining who santa is and what he does, it's just the finer details of the original lie.
@@sarahhoff9987 how can Christian’s believe in dinosaurs if he didn’t create them in the 7 days of creating the universe ? It went straight to chickens and elephants 😂😂😂
Unlike most of us, Ricky has developed the ability to think clearly and critically about things. When you really look at the role of religions in the history of mankind you can't help but question the whole scam.
He's not American so doesn't think free speech means you should rudely force your opinions on others, and you should be considerate to the feelings of others.
@@wriptag3 “Woke” is following a similar pattern of prior terms used on the left. They’d initially proudly identify themselves as woke, and after it becoming so tarnished by their actions and positions, they’re now “Who’s woke, what do you mean by woke,…?”.
I respect and love him as a human being, and as an artist, I nor you should give a damn about what he believes in, that's between him and his creator... And loving non believers is never a sin in Islam, and lastly, you do not own Islam to be saying I disgrace it... Shows me you're a weak believer yourself... Be strong brother... And love humanity, don't hate, only the unloved hate.
@@redmoor1852 yh whatever there was no need to say "As a Muslim" it was irrelevant just say your piece and go on your day without bringing Islam into your love for Ricky Gervais.
Again... First, you Do not own my religion to even suggest not to say "as a Muslim" because I can and I do say it in every comment I make, second, it was indeed relevant to bring Islam up, because him as an atheist, respects religion and spoke respectfully of a prophet I believe in... So, up to this point, you still haven't made sense to what you trynna say...
@@TheMissiIe Exactly, but I think it is quite shallow to say I believe a book is true strictly because you think that is the only reason I believe that book to be true.wouldnt you say: thanks
No she didn't want Bob indoctrinating the other child but she was the one who did it. Maybe if she didn't say anything he would still believe in a creator. I find Atheism stupid so I don't believe in it.
@@cutlasssupreme6984 there is such a thing as atheism and it is the belief that there is no God. Therefore termed Atheism. I believe there is a God. Therefore I don't believe in Atheism. Belief there is a God or multiple theism. I believe in one God : Monotheism. What even is the basis of your statement? This is clear logic which you chose to argue against.
@@abudorayakobu you are incorrect. Atheism is the lack or disbelief of any Gods. Which is not the same as saying “there is no Gods”. If I were to say, there is no gods, then I would have the burden of proof. Simply just saying I don’t believe makes no positive claim.
Well when your gone it won’t matter, because a sensible person like you must believe it’s just lights out, might as well go do whatever there are no repercussions for you eternally. Having faith is not a lack of sense, an atheist who believes in nothing more than themselves has no right to imply that. This is a world full of religions and faiths, you don’t have to participate.
@@AJ20236 hey its another theist saying they would murder and rape if they didnt fear god. Crazy how often Christians admit to being horrible people. I for my part do what i want as much as i like including rape and murder, but instead of you i do t want to hurt people even without fearing punishment. Faith totally is a lack of sense, believing something inspire if the missing evidence us just self deception. Especially as you cant even agree what god you want to Invent
@@AJ20236 Believing in stuff without any actual evidence, solely based on what adults and priests told you as a child, is a complete absense of sense.
@@AJ20236 I was sceptical towards my learned worldview, and read high quality peer reviewed research to build a well based perspective, both on my own and at school and university. I don't know everything and I am always open to new evidence based ideas. I am happy to be wrong when the evidence is there. And of course, religion does not hold up to these criteria in any way; so I left it behind. I want to understand the world I live in so that I can enjoy it the most.
@@syltis1994you believe in things massive corporations and institutions have told you. you have no evidence that is YOURS to speak of. to act like you’re more learned because you lap you whatever nonsense is spewed from scientists is ridiculous. science has always been wrong. there are countless examples of science getting things completely wrong. undoubtedly the greatest mind who ever lived was Isaac newton. he couldn’t fathom the existence of someone who didn’t believe in a higher intelligence. he believed in God. science is our attempt to understand the nature of the world around us. a world that is enshrined in mathematical precision. a world so well balanced that it is electrically balanced, there is one electron and one proton balanced in harmony. to say this is the result of a random big bang is more insane that believing in an intelligant designer
I could have ended this question much quicker than Ricky "what was the moment that made you an atheist?" "I was born an Atheist... it was grown ups who filled my head full of magic"
Where was the part of the clip where he was thinking. He even said,"And that's all that happened" bc there wasn't thinking involved. Besides, atheism isn't back by facts. Atheism is purely emotion driven.
@@malkakynatas8389 What's childish about wanting facts, when people say God isn't real??? How is it common sense, to think there's no God. And why are you defending atheism, when your default picture is a cross??? Your full of contradictions
@@wavyhermit5230There are some who think that good and evil is a matter of opinion. All the ones I've talked to that believe this are athiests. Jeffrey Dahmer was an atheist who believed that before he became a Christian.
@@wavyhermit5230 Of course there is good and evil. Theists believe that it is objective because morality (what is good and what is evil) comes from GOD. Atheists believe morality is subjective and therefore is a matter of opinion. If morality is a matter of opinion then it does not exist and therefore good and evil do not exist. By their own beliefs that they have chosen, athiests do not believe in good and evil.
@@war13death well I used to be atheist so idk that way of thinking is lonesome. Also if u ever watch Jordan Peterson talk on the whole genesis and everything god is the basis for psychology. How could the first cell know how to grow if the knowledge wasn’t already their prior. God
@@marjorierijnbout7905 It's certainly not common sense. It's purely a rationalisation that can be easily countered with opposing rationalisation and logic.
Science and religion don't contradict! The discoverer of the Big Bang theory was literally a catholic priest (Fr. Georges Lemaître), they dismissed his theory for years simply because he was a priest until he was proven right later. Same was true for the monk, Mendel who discovered inheritance patterns. At the time when LeMaître published his work, atheist were very upset because they argued that the universe had always existed and was inifinite and was never "created." The Big Bang Theory actually very neatly proved Christians right that the universe at one point did not exist and then had suddenly been came to be out of nothing. However, we all know that nothing comes from nothing. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction and every event must have a cause (that's Newton third law, Newton was also a passionate Christian) so the universe was willed into existence by God who is infinite and existed outside of space and time.
@@friedawells6860what do the faith of a scientist have to do with correlation between religion and science. If a nonce found the big bang, would it make the big bang any less true. Then again if he was Catholic, that's probably one unanswered question
@friedawells6860 haha massive leap of faith there kid. Science is in complete contradiction with religion and big bang cosmology does not describe something coming from nothing. Your ignorance will never be an argument.
I’d have loved to have had an older brother like Ricky at that age, it took me until I was in my early 20s to undo all of the childhood indoctrination I’d received.
I think that sometimes you just realise that it's all horse shit. You can remember all the inconsistencies but you don't want to believe you've been lied to because most of the people perpetuating the lies believe them too. In reality is obviously just a story.
Glad you made it out of the cult buddy. Well done for being intellectually honest with yourself to admit that the bible is not a reliable source for the answers to how objective reality works. I know after being indoctrinated it is extremely difficult and emotionally taxing to wake up to what is objective fact and what is conjecture at best.
@@o0TaxMan0o yeah plagerised from every older religions stories previously and about as pathetic as it gets , the fact that governments make important decisions effected by the rubbish of religion is criminal
To all my fellow Christians, remember that it is not up to us to argue against someone about what they believe or don't believe in. Please stop the negative comments towards this man. God bless you!
It IS our mission to spread the gospel though and when someone as brilliant as Ricky is out there speaking atheism to the millions that worship him, it's our job to just as kindly and intelligently explain the miracle of our Lord! ❤
From an atheist (former believer) to @jovannikolic8032, you made me smile and my heart warm. People like you are the reason I respect your ideology even though it is opposite to that of mine. We can have different views and still respect each other and listen to what the other person has to say with kindness
@@adpitre5128 His bother was 19, not 11… And it’s actually very logical ffs, to start from there before eventually coming to the realisation? Works perfectly well and makes a lot of sense… If you need to shut people up then people are going to start questioning why they need shutting up.. Learn what logic is before questioning someone else’s.
But there are specific points in time where you have these epiphanies of “oh shit, this makes sense” or the other way around of “this makes no sense at all”. and they gradually build up over time and that typically forms the way atheists view gods.
Exactly. When you see how the world is, all the messed up things, and how bad people get away with bad things all of the time, plus the fact that powers/magic are not real things it all puts in into perspective. That is if you are a rational and logical person. You just have to be honest with yourself about things instead of just blindly believing in shit other people have told you.
Bob closed his mind. We should all be agnostic…that is open-minded. The atheist declares there definitely is no God. This is the epitome of being close minded. Prove to me there is no God..,you can not do it. Yet there is a preponderance of factual evidence supporting accounts of the Bible are true. While we can not see God, we can see much evidence that believing results in miraculous transformations in people’s lives. A person would have to be insanely mad to not at least consider the possibility that there is a God. Atheism is truly the most close-minded view a person could hold.
Nobody can stick to the ten commandments only Christ accomplished fulfilling the law. He fulfilled it for us because we couldn't. Just like the bible says the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Believe on the Saviour Jesus Christ and you shalt be saved. Believe who he was! God in the flesh and that he was crucified died and was buried according to the scriptures. 1st Corinthians 15 1-4. It's all about what Christ done that's why he gets all the Glory because he accomplished it.
I'm agnostic but I want to believe there is a higher power I just feel like a fool when I read the bible and other holy books and if we honest we know man wrote them and changed them multiple times to suit our lives plus some of the stories are ridiculous but I know I have this strong desire to be spiritual but how I don't know the only way I can see is just to be a good and honest respectful person to others and nature and pray 🙏 to God in my own heart and mind I think alot of people feel this way including Ricky Gervais.
Rhetorical food for thought Everyone serves a god; the First Commandment is not "There are no other gods", it's "You shall have no gods before Me" Humans make a god and idols out of everything: money, sex, self, demons, stars, a door knob, yoga, gender theory ... and you are free to choose any of it But the Lord is the only one who can offer peace, hope, assurance in your life Greed, pride, lust, they only grow the more they're fed, like fire, and just a skim through history shows they never satisfy So if the whole Bible seems like too much to handle, just read Romans and Luke, go from there Break it down and work through whatever is holding you back Sit down with someone you trust and go over it together There's more than a couple people who were in your shoes once, and more than a couple wrote about their experiences and journeys as well
Just because "man" physically wrote the words on the pages doesn't automatically ezclude the possibility that God worked THROUGH those individuals to provide the message
@@huntermccaskill3938 "But the Lord is the only one that can offer peace, hope, assurance in your life? How are you sure about that? Is this what your Bible claims so you automatically believe it w/o question? Do Hindus not have that? What about Buddhists? I as an atheist have that. Are you telling me that I don't?
The bible was man written but God inspired the bible is one of the best things you could own and don't feel like a fool trying to read it bc the more you read the closer to God you get he loves you so much Jesus christ died for your sins to be washed away just repent of your sins believe in your heart that Jesus did those things and you will be saved. You being here is God mercy on you he could've taken you out at any moment 🙏✝️
the only people who would find this disrespectful are the type of people who would say "Bob!", not people who can actually defend their faith. and to Gervais, just because someone won't defend their point to the ground, doesn't mean that they are wrong.
I remember asking my dad at about age 11 about god being real, he told me he asked his mom the same question at the same age and she said, "don't ask that question, it will make us look terrible at church". No rational person ACTUALLY believes this.
People.... in my younger years in the military...never having been a very religious person, around friend or foe.... any man, woman or child, I witnessed taking there last breaths on this earth... the same name was always on their lips... the same forgiveness always asked.... ALWAYS!!
Yeah, not hard to notice you need a Savior in the face of death. Tragic that people wait that long. Then again, I hit rock bottom before I called out to Jesus too. I’m glad I did. He’s a good father and maybe even a better friend.
@@Chief_Bill As they should be? But they don’t call out to Superman or Thor to come save them. Everyone knows on some level that Jesus exists. Or at the very least, that God does. They just choose to deny Him for most of their lives because they think they’ll get away with it. Especially if you convince yourself that you don’t know just to feign ignorance in the end and hope He’ll forgive you on a technicality. But even that technicality doesn’t exist. He debunks that in the Bible. You can’t feign ignorance. And all notion that doubt was ever in you goes out the window at that moment: when you need Him and suddenly call to Him to save you. Those people knew all along. And so do you. Live your life however you want, but you will be held accountable regardless in the end.
Jesus is the way, the truth and life. You cannot go to the father without the son. Fathergod I ask that you continue to touch Ricky’s heart about you and anyone whose reading this. I pray you encounter them the way you’ve encountered me. May they receive the love that will complete them in Jesus name.
@daniellogue8354 A lot of Christians can be huge hypocrites, can't they? Many do not practice what they preach but never realize their own hypocrisy, even when pointed out.
Even if you could call the bible evidence, it’s poor. If the bible is egregiously faulty then the main character’s existence is likely fantasy. If the existence of Yahweh is a fiction then the god man Jesus cannot stand. Faith based on the contents of the bible is worthless for the following reasons… There is real historical evidence of John the Baptist but not of the greater Jesus. There is historical evidence of Appolonious, a character similar to Jesus, but not of Jesus. There is an historical record of Jesus Ben Pandera, but, no Jesus the Galilean outside of the bible. Nothing. There’s Jesus ben Ananias, a rude peasant, who went around Jerusalem in 66CE prophesying its fall in 70CE; he’s recorded in documents outside the bible, but not the biblical Jesus. His alleged disciples never wrote anything they were uneducated peasants. His enemies never recorded his miracles nor his troublesome nature. The bible account says he was widely known and a divisive figure that the Romans never recorded, and neither did the Jews. There were a number of people with the name Jesus, exhibiting Jesus behaviours, in the area around the time, many have been recorded, with an account of their lives and achievements but, not the Jesus of the bible. Was he a fiction? Indeed, you don’t require any actual person to have actually existed for a “reality” to grow from nothing. King Arthur and Robin Hood, along with William Tell, and others, come to mind. And, there are plenty of others. Was the biblical Jesus based on a composite of these other Jesus’s with reference to the Old Testament plagiarise to elevate these people to one divine god man? George, at least existed, but his dragon? the story is a nonsense, but a nonsense that was believed true once upon a time. The rest of the Jesus/Yahweh tale is equally murky. There is no evidence that all the first born were killed either in Egypt nor by Herod. I think the Egyptians would have recorded such a calamity and the calamities of the plagues, but nothing. Could the Jews have made it all up? The first line of the bible is clearly incorrect. The Earth was formed 9.8 billion years after the heavens. How did the creator get that wrong? And, the rest of the creation is wrong. It’s as if an ancient ignorant tribe wrote it all by themselves, no god to help. There are no waters above the firmament, for a start. Heaven isn’t up there either, we’ve been there. Adam was made from dirt by magic and he, this god, forgot about Eve, an afterthought. so not an all knowing and wise god then? A snake talks, nonsense fiction, right up there with Harry Potter, though JK Rowling was clearly a better writer with fewer continuity errors. This god set up Eve by placing this magic apple within her reach. Then punished humanity thereafter. What a vicious god, if not a fictional one. Nonsense fiction, by an ignorant ancient people writing about their mythology, their nation’s origins, steeped in the mists of the past, just the same as the Greek, Persian and Babylonian cultures write about their make believe gods who were equally fervently worshipped. Inanna, the dying and rising goddess was such an example. But many more dying and rising gods in the lexicon of ancient myths. Virgin births were pretty common too. Adam and Eve’s children (as Eve was a clone of Adam) and grandchildren (as Cain, Able and Seth only had Eve to produce offspring or with their unknown sisters) could only have been produced by incest, then double incest, according to the biblical account. Clearly god didn’t know that the inbreeding of the biblical account would lead to genetic problems. None of it true, nothing a creator god would have penned. It was a fiction by a Jewish ancient people. The Exodus apparently didn’t happen according to all evidence, acknowledged by the Jewish archaeologists who have tried to find it. The Egyptians never wrote of their army being swallowed by the sea. Mosses may never existed. There is a massive amount of genocide in the bible by a god who failed to get the locals to behave. Genocide because the Israelites needed a land to make home. If a creator of the universe and humans could have just thought a new land, a new island, south of Cyprus, it would have appeared. Easy for a god, not so for an ancient tribe to pull off? Then, this god could have told these others how to behave and punished individuals, if that’s what was needed. But no, he went straight to mass murder. What? And, the greatest god in the universe was defeated by iron chariots: Judges1:19. That is so ridiculous, such a puny god. Or, is it because the story was a creation of a tribe that had no concept of future technologies or tactics to defeat these new Iron Age chariots. I’m sure that a human Napoleon type tactician could have done better than the all wise, all powerful fictitious god of the universe. Genesis 19 tells us of Lot being raped by this daughters. And yet this god is moral? He could have changed the course of their predicament, found him a younger wife or servant to sleep with, if a god. More incest. The Jewish religion was at its heart, a blood sacrifice barbaric religion. The books that were supposedly written by Mosses consist of a language style that didn’t exist at the time of his “life”. It’s a fictitious narrative, written by the Jews to give their new nation an historical legitimacy, and unify them, in the midst of other powerful cultures in the Middle East. Didn’t help much though, they were constantly being invaded and subjugated by more powerful “gods” of other warring nations. Even Yahweh acknowledged there were other gods. Remember the Ten Commandments tablets that were conveniently broken and then without fuss, lost. An all powerful creator of the universe who missed the opportunity to create the tablets out of an advanced technology, such as, I don’t know, Titanium? Is that because the Jews didn’t know about such a thing and so had no understanding of the future? The forging of such a technology would have cemented the truth of their god. Broken disappeared stone tablets: clearly, no god involved. Convenient. Noah and his flood occurred when the Egyptians where going about their cultural and religious practices that continued afterwards; and, their religion was not replaced by the flood family’s immediate ancestors, fanning out from the ark. The Pharaohs and their gods continued unabated. No Yahweh? More incest? The Chinese culture and writing developed along a continuum and they too were never taken the religion of Yahweh from the Middle East, by Noah’s relatives. And, the ancient Britons and Australians failed to notice they were meant to be dead. The New Testament, if it is read, critically, is inconsistent and evolves over time. Indeed, the gospels were not written for decades after the death of this Jesus, whose birth and death are still questionable and no date can be asserted with clarity. There was no census when Herod was alive, that story was made up after the event. Nazareth was not a town in the first century and was only “discovered “ when Constantine’s mother, Helena, went looking for it. The gospel writers mistook the word Nazarene for a town. And there are many problems with the census and the way it is told. Because it was written as fact over one hundred years after the supposed birth of this Jesus. More fiction? The whole point of a census is to count the number of people in an area. The census of the bible is an artificial device to get Mary to give birth in the town of David where the biblical messiah was to be born. And, boulders weren’t placed in front of tombs until later, about 50 years, one of the reasons that the gospels are thought to have been written many years after the myth of Jesus. And, the crucified where left to rot on the cross/pole on which they were hung as a warning to insurrectionists? No empty tomb, it a fiction to turn a myth into a “fact”. To turn man into god. Pilate was, in real history, recorded history, a truly nasty contemptuous man, he would never have allowed the process of crucifixion as a warning to have been undermined. And, the alleged trial is a tale of the blood cult of scapegoating. Even Barabbus was a literary device representing scapegoating, suggesting it never occurred. Barabbus means, son of the teacher, or son of the father. The gospel writers where representing the two characters as essentially the same, one became the goat sacrifice. And, the twist was that the Jews shouted to let the murderer go, allowing the blame for Jesus’s death to be placed on the Jews and not the imperial Romans. It was very much a political narrative because the Jews and Romans where essentially at war, the destruction of the Temple in 70AD/CE, and this new sect/cult needed to distinguish themselves from the Jewish troublemakers, and the ongoing violence of the time. Paul never knew Jesus and only depicted him as a spiritual vision. He knew nothing of the man and nothing of his life or his teachings. More evidence that the Chrestos (anointed) was mythical? And, he writes to an “ancient” congregation which suggests that his Chrestos was at least a first century BC/BCE figure. The first time the gospels where mentioned was in 180AD/CE by Irenaeus. Indeed, a very prominent Christian, Theophilus, said that he came to believe in Jesus from reading the Jewish Scriptures or, Torah. No mention of the gospels, no quoting of anything Jesus allegedly said. That was circa, 170-182AD/CE. The myth of the god man Jesus was created over many years. But, Mark was first written, not until at least 70AD/CE but, as above, could have been much later. No record of the star of Bethlehem, of the graves emptying, or the sky darkening. It’s fiction. Christians may need to believe in this lie. Still, it’s a lie.
Jesus is real he's alive today he still answers prayers he still can speak to us he can still heal today shame you got mislead and decieved because when we die there's only two places to go heaven and hell accepting jesus can save us refusing condemns us to hell
this is human error. There are places where they let you discuss that question and don't just try to shut you up. Science and Nature aren't counters to God.
Gott/God/Chod/khode is a indogermanic-indoaryan word and it literally means a call to the self being and its directly connected to the word Good/Goda/Guot/gut/khub/xub . We are beings in the being and we hope for good.
@@deltablaze77 Nah, you can have both. Once you have evidence, your faith increases. Actually, once you have enough evidence and come to know the truth, your faith will be so strong that you start taking for granted all the miracles that do happen just because they’re just part of your “new normal” and you couldn’t imagine life without them.
@@lemonlimeyipes1107 Well, you are wrong because evidence is the definitional antithesis of faith. To suggest the two coincide in regard to the same subject is an oxymoron. You have faith, you do not have evidence, if you had evidence of a god then everyone would agree with you and you would by definition cease having faith.
@@deltablaze77 You can know God but still lack faith in what He can - or will - do for you. And that can come and go, depending on how dire or extreme the situation is, or even how much you’ve sinned recently. After all, if you don’t do what He asks of you, how can you expect Him to do what you ask of Him? And having evidence doesn’t mean that people will believe you. Most of the evidence is in people’s personal testimonies. Atheists seem to believe there’s some kind of motive as to why a person would lie about their interactions with God, when really the only motive is to save their souls. But despite there being literally nothing to gain from lying about it, for a non-believer to believe anything that contradicts how they think they’d prefer the world to be, it would be nigh impossible to make that leap. For someone on the fence, it would just take a bit of faith. But I think for a lot of people to build a bridge to faith in God, they would need to be able to have faith in humanity first. If someone gives you evidence of God being present in their lives but you don’t trust them, it’s kind of a moot point. Not that I have in this thread, but I’ve been in that situation more often than I’d like.
@@lemonlimeyipes1107 Has nothing to do with distrusting you, not a single Atheist in the world who disbelieves someone's personal testimony because they think they are lying. We know you are mistaken, because most of us were at one point too. Also those testimonies just are incapable of meeting the bare minimum standard of something that would count as evidence in any circumstance, let alone the existence of a god.
Remember this folks: science maintains that everything sprung from an infinitely dense point in a single instant. Even science allows itself one free miracle.
(Relativism, strictly reductive materialism, militant atheism or philosophical naturalism): “The belief that there was “nothing”, and nothing didn’t really mean nothing as there was no such thing as meaning, and then nothing much happened to nothing except nothing and then nothing suddenly magically exploded for no reason whatsoever, creating everything, and then a bunch of everything suddenly magically rearranged itself -- for no reason whatsoever -- into self replicating bits which then turned into something that meant everything. But ultimately it didn’t really mean everything or anything as everything is ultimately meaningless.” (Atheism) And they mock other peoples beliefs!! Yeah not dogmatic at all and perfectly “sane” and makes perfect sense!! About as much sense as your “imaginary friend” argument!! That is your straw man fallacy!!
@@georgedoyle2487 Tell me you don't know anything about the science and the universe without telling me you know anything about the science and the universe. You know nothing about the theory of big bang(there was no explosion) or the theory of relativity yet you think you know, but suprise, you know nothing and compare it to completely different thing.
@@thor9517 “You know nothing about the theory of the Big Bang” Ho the irony!! I know it was formulated by a devout Christian called George Lemaitre. I bet you didn’t know that!! Ouch!! I know that the term “Big Bang” was coined by atheists who used the term to mock the theory because it threatened their philosophical position that the “physical” universe was eternal holding back the progress of science for several years!! Double Ouch. They clearly preferred the steady state theory for metaphysical reasons and because of their philosophical presuppositions that “matter” is eternal!! Furthermore, the irony and the absurdity is that I also know that Even Steven Hawking who was actually an atheist helpfully pointed out that…. “Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.” (Steven Hawking). So your claim I know “nothing” is just a logical fallacy!! The (Ad hominem Fallacy) and the (Appeal to Dismissal Fallacy). Prove that I know “nothing”!! I’ll wait!! Sorry but the universe clearly had a metaphysical beginning as science has demonstrated that space/time is not fundamental!! But what does that mean for the question of what is ultimate and personal/God? The man who now sits in Edwin Hubble’s chair at the Mount Wilson observatory has a few things to say about this. His name is Robert Jastrow, an astronomer!! In addition to serving as the director of Mount Wilson, Jastrow is the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Obviously his credentials as a scientist are impeccable. That’s why his book God and the Astronomers made such an impression on those investigating the implications of the Big Bang, namely those asking the question….. “Does the Big Bang” point to the fundamental nature of [Mind and consciousness/monotheism/Logos/freewill that is rationality itself/objective morality/the Actual/the One]?” Jastrow reveals in the opening line of chapter 1 that he has no religious axe to grind. He writes…. “When an astronomer writes about God, his colleagues assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers. In my case it should be understood from the start that I am an agnostic in religious matters!!” In light of Jastrow’s personal agnosticism, his theistic quotations are all the more provocative. After explaining some of the (Big Bang) Jastrow writes…. “Now we can see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.” (Robert Jastrow). Reference: Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 11. “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. (Robert Jastrow). I rest my case!!
“Tell me you don’t know anything about the science and the universe without telling me you know anything about the science and the universe” More riddles!! What a surprise!! I don’t have a clue what (point) you are trying to make at all. I just made the (point) that a philosophical “nothing” creating everything isn’t a scientific position it’s a philosophical position that is synonymous with the belief in magic lol!! Truth hurts!! Live with it!! Sorry but I’m biased against beliefs that are synonymous with the belief in magic. I tend to doubt that they are rational!! Do you have actual evidence or not that magic is real? I’ll wait!! Did I mention that by sheer coincidence I’ve actually got two new brands of pen right here on my desk which i use for writing down ultimately meaningless and ultimately purposeless comments a (Richard Dawkins pen) and a (Thor Pen) they’ve got no point!! I rest my case!!
Ricky Gervais is entitled to believe what he believes and is not shoving this in anyones faces or trying to promote his beliefs. He was asked a question and responded with his beliefs respectfully, what is wrong here. I am a christian and he can believe what he wants
Dont believe “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Don't even believe that i say. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Buddha quotes (Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
Yeah, I believe n science, like he thinks that God and science are incompatible. Isaac Newton was as devoted to God, scriptures, his faith as he was science. Einstein believed in God.
@@forodinssake9570 The bible is a record of God's, Creator and Spirit, dealings with humans in establishing a community of faith. It covers important events in the story of God's relationship with humanity. Science is a study of the physical world, not the spiritual world. We can't see or measure everything that exists. There is knowledge that is acquired through experiences with God that isn't obtained through scientific research. The bible presents events through a different lens with emphasis on our relationship with God. Science doesn't seek to explain God but to understand the physical domain.
@@psalmsreader7997 but we know for sure the bible was changed repeatedly, and it differs from period to period. If it was really written with the inspiration from god or whatever he really fucked up with keeping it believable and consistent with reality
@@forodinssake9570 if you look into this study of the ancient dead sea scrolls and many fragments that were preserved, you will be surprised by your findings. A number of scholars did set out to prove that the bible accounts were not true but evidence convinced them otherwise. A movie came out called "A Case for Christ" (I think that's the title) about a lawyer's quest to disprove the bible narrative of Christ's death and resurrection. He was sure that he could prove that Jesus was not real or true but ended up finding overwhelming evidence that the story of Jesus as presented in scripture is solid and that this could be proven in court.
@@psalmsreader7997 the thing is the bible is a collection of many books from many time periods, yeh some are old, others are really recent, you can't use one example to prove all of them are true. Also where's the evidence for the Exodus? For the Noah's flood? There's no bloody way humanity comes from just two individuals, I'm not even mentioning the making humans from dirt and ribs bit. Jesus is similar to King Arthur. Most likely he's based on a real figure, nothing surprising, a doomsday preacher named jeshua would be your average sight at the time. But most of what's attributed to him was written LONG after his death and isn't exactly reliable
I'm a Catholic and I don't find this disrespectful at all. I find it very Sad and I pray one day he finds his way home. Love this man.. he is a very kind guy 🙏❤️
That's what happened to me but it was my mom that asked. She was real upset for a long time but she grew up atheist and eventually snapped out of it and became an atheist again. Through no effort of mine. I'm the one who convinced her to stop waster her time voting.
The believers are bound to the beliefs. The principles and tenets of a belief that I do not adhere to have no truth for me. How can it? They are not my truths.
I felt the same way as Ricky Gervais and lost my relationship with God and became an Atheist solely because of how people portrayed God. Now, I love God the Father as I love Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The most important teacher in both the Old and the New Testament is Yahweh, God the Father. Unchanging, easy to anger, a destroyer. Upon watching His son dying on the cross, He changed. Jesus cried out to Him “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do”. While Jesus was living as a man, suffering as a man, He shouldered the grief of His Father who was in Heaven. It was in this moment that I believe Yahweh became the Father He always would. The unchanging God was so great that He changed. Jesus had humbled His Father. We do not master forgiveness when we forgive another, we master forgiveness when we are forgiven. It is easier to say I forgive you than it is to say I am forgiven. God the Father could have hid this history, and yet it is for all to see and throw His flaws in His face. We must follow in Jesus’ footprints and forgive our Father, and recognise the depth of what He has experienced, what He has done for us. It is the same in Hinduism, the Hindus love Shiva and Vishnu, but many look down on Brahma for His past. They see the face that Shiva had cut off, and judge our creator. But it was Brahma Yahweh Anu Allah Uranus that seeded our home, sent us knowledge. It was the Holy Spirit Thesis Chaos Tao that breathed the finite from the infinite, and gave the world its creator. Forgive Him, He had none to teach Him, and still we live. God the Father loves us unlike any other, His love is so strong that it is what gives the finite a future to expand into. Forgive Him.
I love Ricky. This makes me sad for him though. It's not like it's the same thing as believing in Santa. He was so young. Too young to already have made a decision like that.
Love thy neighbor. And respect their decision to think differently than you. Stop pitying people for having a viewpoint different than yours. And I thought you're not supposed to cast judgment unto others. "Too young to already have made a decision like that" sounds an awful lot like judgment for his differing opinion.
The thing i remember is that when i was a kid i started learning about the creation of religions. Because im into history and that stuff. Then i realised Christianity is just like all the others.
Faith is CHOOSING to believe, not being convinced. You can’t be convinced of something no one can prove to you. As a Christian, I appreciate the respect he professes for Jesus, because it is probably more than some “believers”have.
I believed I was an atheist until I learned the word agnostic. I am agnostic. I went to catholic school and I learned that are over 3000 religions, I respect the idea the idea of religion, but how arrogant do you have to be that yours is the right one?!
This is not disrespectful. Its HIS story about how he DOESN'T believe in something.
Well said, Hayden.
This is most respectful answer you will get from any atheist, and i love it
I know but everyone’s respectfully disagreeing with the whole agenda but the woke kick off
He does believe in something actually many, he believes in FACTS.
@@angelous0755 well it doesn't matter if one believe in fact. Fact is a fact even if one does not believe in it.
This is the definition of ‘respectfully disagreeing’
Yepp. Some people find any kind of disagreeing disrespectful.
What is a disrespectful disagreeing ? ....I have never read or heard of such language
@@aodhfinn Are you kidding? I bet you can put it together by yourself.. How old are you? :)
@@zolikingsthorpe7297 yeah , just joking but of course your aware that science is moving back toward theism , are you aware of that
Ricky is out of date , or it's an out of date piece . :)
I’ve always appreciated Ricky’s take on spirituality and religion. He seems very genuine.
I was brought up catholic, as a family we went to church every Sunday. Then all of a sudden it stopped. When I became older I asked my dad why. He said at that time there was so much hurt and bad things going on in the world that if there was a god he was turning a blind eye to it and wasn’t worthy of any praise.
If he had known The Holy Bible, he would know why and how.
Full end quote:
“To a working class mum, god is an unpaid babysitter”
He is an unpaid babysitting and is worth exactly what he’s paid when sudden infant death syndrome hits.
Leaving your kids alone with god is abusive parenting even without SIDS
Same as Santa
@@stevecarter8810 not even close
@@stevecarter8810 if you are bad santa gives you coal. God burns you with the coal.
@@stevecarter8810 And Satan
I’m a Christian man and I did not find this disrespectful at all. He has his opinions and beliefs, and is perfectly entitled to have them.
Yeah it is sad though. He could have actually considered it more instead of just thinking well it doesn't make sense. But you know at least he respects it unlike most of Hollywood
@@crosswarrior38 you can also reverse that logic
@@crosswarrior38 If you were not brainwashed and indoctrinated as a small child that there is some almighty god in the sky watching you, and someone told you about the existence of god when you were in your late 20's or 30's, when your brain matured, there is no chance that you would start to believe in such nonsense as god, jesus and the bible. Unfortunately children don't have a choice and their brains are being polluted while still in big development and you have no chance to remove that brain limitation, unless your are a highly intelligent person and see things for yourself instead of being told to believe. That's the sad part. You will live your whole life in a fairly tale and a very dark fairy tale considering what crimes against humanity religious people did throughout human history in the name of something imaginary.
@@joemilo2710 your the one living in a dark fairy tale because you believe life is meaningless. Also I did grow up Christian but hat doesn't mean I was brainwashed. I've considered many times and it just makes sense to me. I think it's crazy to think there is no God. Just look at all of nature and existence. It's way to complicated to be an accident. I'm sorry if some people claiming o be religious did some bad things but they do not speak for the whole of religion. I said nothing wrong I don't know why your so upset I can believe what I want just chill.
@@crosswarrior38 it dosent make sense and anything you say will make you sound more ignorant, there is no God, never was
"Bloody hell Bob, is this the Easter Bunny and Santa all over again?"
Tooth Fairy also 😂
Santa claus is actually based off of a siberian mushroom shaman.
It's not disrespectful. It's a very well thought through process for him to arrive at what he believes, what he takes as being a good person and what he doesn't. He's not once disrespectful. It's actually disrespectful to have that attitude towards someone who actually has a different opinion... especially when it's a considered one.
Why the need to clarify that his opinion isnt disrespectful? I mean even if 10k people found this disrespectful, anyone can see it isnt.
Labelling this disrespectful is the disrespectful part
Religious people's logic blows my mind everytime
Who labeled this as disrespectful? You guys are misreading that
No idea, I suppose just calling it a lie?
@@charlievegas8497 first frame of the video
@@zebedeesummers4413 Thanks! I was mostly listening to the video. I appreciate your response
Disrespectful to what ? A man truthfully and honestly answering a direct question ?
Religious grifters don’t like honesty. It’s a big agreement that if we all pretend to believe this group-validating lie, we’ll have forced loyalty amongst us..
Education is the true saviour and empathy can be taught
@@phantasticmrphasma9874well said
It's not even remotely disrespectful. He's being pretty nice about it.
Classic older brother telling younger brother that santa isn't real.
Not really. If you read the bible it doesnt say believe in God because your parents told you but test your faith for yourself
@@user-js3sb2dv9samen.
@@user-js3sb2dv9s Faith is the glorification of voluntary ignorance.
@@user-js3sb2dv9s lol, that went so far over your head...
using what the bible says as an example is like me explaining who santa is and what he does, it's just the finer details of the original lie.
@@seldom_bucketYou mean that all the Coca Cola advertisements where bogus? Damn.
I was 5, they denied dinosaurs to me. That was it
Dinosaurs are even mentioned in the bible in the book of Job.
can't be having that
Who’s they? Most Christians believe in dinosaurs.
Lol
@@sarahhoff9987 how can Christian’s believe in dinosaurs if he didn’t create them in the 7 days of creating the universe ? It went straight to chickens and elephants 😂😂😂
The punchline is missing.......
"To a working class mum, Jesus is like an unpaid babysitter."
"You know you look like the postman"
"BOB!"
Ricky thinking ...
Unlike most of us, Ricky has developed the ability to think clearly and critically about things. When you really look at the role of religions in the history of mankind you can't help but question the whole scam.
Well his brother rebelled against god so why would the mom let him do that? U wanna put ur parents into hell bc ur so shitty?
Why do you say it’s a scam? Can you prove that it’s not real?
Religion was and still is a very clever way of keeping frightened people in line, it's just about control
@@DanO181919you can not prove a negative. Is up to you prove the existence of a deite.
It's about control of people.
He’s just lovely this man. Puts his views out there so kindly, on this one occasion.
Haha on this one occasion that's got me
Watch after life if you haven't seen it.
He's not American so doesn't think free speech means you should rudely force your opinions on others, and you should be considerate to the feelings of others.
@@tlee2119 👍
@@tlee2119 yep
@@GeneralSpoodaafter life is brilliant, especially those scenes on the bench in the graveyard.
I admire Ricky for being honest and open about his opinions. I'm glad he doesn't cave to the woke mobs.
Woke mobs? I don’t think they exist my friend
Cave to the 'woke' mobs? What does that even mean? Isn't 'woke' some new political bs?
The woke religion’s the real threat these days
Can you define woke or does it just mean what you don't like?
@@wriptag3 “Woke” is following a similar pattern of prior terms used on the left. They’d initially proudly identify themselves as woke, and after it becoming so tarnished by their actions and positions, they’re now “Who’s woke, what do you mean by woke,…?”.
The evident truth has nothing to fear from researching of facts, investigation, and rational thought, "religious faith" on the other hand...😢
im a christian, and thats a brilliant and well laid out way of putting it without being shitty or disrespectful to anyone
As a Muslim, I respect him for how respectful he is, i already love him as a comedian now, it's even more.
just say that without the Muslim part do not lie and disgrace us your no Muslim atheist lover.
I respect and love him as a human being, and as an artist, I nor you should give a damn about what he believes in, that's between him and his creator... And loving non believers is never a sin in Islam, and lastly, you do not own Islam to be saying I disgrace it... Shows me you're a weak believer yourself... Be strong brother... And love humanity, don't hate, only the unloved hate.
@@redmoor1852 yh whatever there was no need to say "As a Muslim" it was irrelevant just say your piece and go on your day without bringing Islam into your love for Ricky Gervais.
Again... First, you Do not own my religion to even suggest not to say "as a Muslim" because I can and I do say it in every comment I make, second, it was indeed relevant to bring Islam up, because him as an atheist, respects religion and spoke respectfully of a prophet I believe in... So, up to this point, you still haven't made sense to what you trynna say...
@@momoney9229 angry man
Bob has been triggering people ever since😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
He is simply telling the truth...
I think it was quite shallow of Rickey to reject just because His mother wasnt prepared for theologicial debate by the brother. thanks
People don’t like the truth because it conflicts with their beliefs. That’s the ego
@@joman388I think it's quite shallow to believe a book because the book says the book is true
@@TheMissiIe Exactly, but I think it is quite shallow to say I believe a book is true strictly because you think that is the only reason I believe that book to be true.wouldnt you say: thanks
@@joman388flawed logic, u made yourself look stupid twice
Everytime Somebody trys to shut Somebody up, they try to hide the truth.
You don’t have kids, do you?
No she didn't want Bob indoctrinating the other child but she was the one who did it. Maybe if she didn't say anything he would still believe in a creator. I find Atheism stupid so I don't believe in it.
@@abudorayakobu no such thing as believing in atheism.
@@cutlasssupreme6984 there is such a thing as atheism and it is the belief that there is no God. Therefore termed Atheism. I believe there is a God. Therefore I don't believe in Atheism. Belief there is a God or multiple theism. I believe in one God : Monotheism. What even is the basis of your statement? This is clear logic which you chose to argue against.
@@abudorayakobu you are incorrect. Atheism is the lack or disbelief of any Gods. Which is not the same as saying “there is no Gods”. If I were to say, there is no gods, then I would have the burden of proof. Simply just saying I don’t believe makes no positive claim.
a very reasonable and respectful man
Indeed
Ricky’s such a smart man, he’d make an amazing Joe Rogan guest especially if he took Carl with him 😂
'Doesn't make sense does it?' Why did this child have more sense than most grown adults?
Well when your gone it won’t matter, because a sensible person like you must believe it’s just lights out, might as well go do whatever there are no repercussions for you eternally.
Having faith is not a lack of sense, an atheist who believes in nothing more than themselves has no right to imply that.
This is a world full of religions and faiths, you don’t have to participate.
@@AJ20236 hey its another theist saying they would murder and rape if they didnt fear god. Crazy how often Christians admit to being horrible people.
I for my part do what i want as much as i like including rape and murder, but instead of you i do t want to hurt people even without fearing punishment.
Faith totally is a lack of sense, believing something inspire if the missing evidence us just self deception. Especially as you cant even agree what god you want to Invent
@@AJ20236 Believing in stuff without any actual evidence, solely based on what adults and priests told you as a child, is a complete absense of sense.
@@AJ20236 I was sceptical towards my learned worldview, and read high quality peer reviewed research to build a well based perspective, both on my own and at school and university. I don't know everything and I am always open to new evidence based ideas. I am happy to be wrong when the evidence is there.
And of course, religion does not hold up to these criteria in any way; so I left it behind. I want to understand the world I live in so that I can enjoy it the most.
@@syltis1994you believe in things massive corporations and institutions have told you. you have no evidence that is YOURS to speak of. to act like you’re more learned because you lap you whatever nonsense is spewed from scientists is ridiculous. science has always been wrong. there are countless examples of science getting things completely wrong. undoubtedly the greatest mind who ever lived was Isaac newton. he couldn’t fathom the existence of someone who didn’t believe in a higher intelligence. he believed in God. science is our attempt to understand the nature of the world around us. a world that is enshrined in mathematical precision. a world so well balanced that it is electrically balanced, there is one electron and one proton balanced in harmony. to say this is the result of a random big bang is more insane that believing in an intelligant designer
I could have ended this question much quicker than Ricky
"what was the moment that made you an atheist?"
"I was born an Atheist... it was grown ups who filled my head full of magic"
A man, a child actually, thinking for himself. That's something to respect.
yes, think for yourself, no matter if it’s true or not 😂
@@vanguard4065 Since when do MAGA sheep think? Stay in your dreamworld, you don't have the tools to deal with reality.
Where was the part of the clip where he was thinking. He even said,"And that's all that happened" bc there wasn't thinking involved.
Besides, atheism isn't back by facts. Atheism is purely emotion driven.
@@parkerbarefoot4255your a child grow up and get some common sense
@@malkakynatas8389 What's childish about wanting facts, when people say God isn't real???
How is it common sense, to think there's no God.
And why are you defending atheism, when your default picture is a cross??? Your full of contradictions
The smallest moment of a parent can change the trajectory of your child’s life
and it can happen in a flash.
What’s disrespectful is to force someone to succumb to your beliefs, THAT’S disrespectful!
Well everyone believe in good an evil.
@@wavyhermit5230There are some who think that good and evil is a matter of opinion. All the ones I've talked to that believe this are athiests. Jeffrey Dahmer was an atheist who believed that before he became a Christian.
@@war13death their is good and bad😂😂
@@wavyhermit5230 Of course there is good and evil. Theists believe that it is objective because morality (what is good and what is evil) comes from GOD. Atheists believe morality is subjective and therefore is a matter of opinion. If morality is a matter of opinion then it does not exist and therefore good and evil do not exist. By their own beliefs that they have chosen, athiests do not believe in good and evil.
@@war13death well I used to be atheist so idk that way of thinking is lonesome. Also if u ever watch Jordan Peterson talk on the whole genesis and everything god is the basis for psychology. How could the first cell know how to grow if the knowledge wasn’t already their prior. God
he’s right just like when ur older sibling walks in saying” why do u believe in santa claus?” mum and dad same reaction
What's disrespectful? He's talking common-sense
it's not common sense, it's his opinion
@@andrewsteves4692 no.
Common sense.
Common nonsense is the Truth.
@@marjorierijnbout7905 It's certainly not common sense.
It's purely a rationalisation that can be easily countered with opposing rationalisation and logic.
@@zackmac5917 certainly common sense to me.
I always wished that God made us but deep down I know we made God
Science and religion don't contradict! The discoverer of the Big Bang theory was literally a catholic priest (Fr. Georges Lemaître), they dismissed his theory for years simply because he was a priest until he was proven right later. Same was true for the monk, Mendel who discovered inheritance patterns.
At the time when LeMaître published his work, atheist were very upset because they argued that the universe had always existed and was inifinite and was never "created." The Big Bang Theory actually very neatly proved Christians right that the universe at one point did not exist and then had suddenly been came to be out of nothing.
However, we all know that nothing comes from nothing. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction and every event must have a cause (that's Newton third law, Newton was also a passionate Christian) so the universe was willed into existence by God who is infinite and existed outside of space and time.
@@friedawells6860 So many fallacy's in your arguments here it's unreal.
@@friedawells6860what do the faith of a scientist have to do with correlation between religion and science.
If a nonce found the big bang, would it make the big bang any less true. Then again if he was Catholic, that's probably one unanswered question
Of course we did
@friedawells6860 haha massive leap of faith there kid. Science is in complete contradiction with religion and big bang cosmology does not describe something coming from nothing. Your ignorance will never be an argument.
9/10 of the comments are about this not being disrespectful. There are no comments about this being disrespectful. You can stop now.
I’d have loved to have had an older brother like Ricky at that age, it took me until I was in my early 20s to undo all of the childhood indoctrination I’d received.
I think that sometimes you just realise that it's all horse shit. You can remember all the inconsistencies but you don't want to believe you've been lied to because most of the people perpetuating the lies believe them too. In reality is obviously just a story.
Glad you made it out of the cult buddy.
Well done for being intellectually honest with yourself to admit that the bible is not a reliable source for the answers to how objective reality works.
I know after being indoctrinated it is extremely difficult and emotionally taxing to wake up to what is objective fact and what is conjecture at best.
Ricky was his younger brother
@@carlmyles yeah maybe I didn’t word that very well, meant to say I wish I had an older brother like what Ricky had
@@o0TaxMan0o yeah plagerised from every older religions stories previously and about as pathetic as it gets , the fact that governments make important decisions effected by the rubbish of religion is criminal
His honesty about that moment, for him is refreshing.
Not disrespectful. Very respectful in fact.
To all my fellow Christians, remember that it is not up to us to argue against someone about what they believe or don't believe in. Please stop the negative comments towards this man. God bless you!
It IS our mission to spread the gospel though and when someone as brilliant as Ricky is out there speaking atheism to the millions that worship him, it's our job to just as kindly and intelligently explain the miracle of our Lord! ❤
@@teresaf4454god gave me a good doggy style 😮
From an atheist (former believer) to @jovannikolic8032, you made me smile and my heart warm. People like you are the reason I respect your ideology even though it is opposite to that of mine. We can have different views and still respect each other and listen to what the other person has to say with kindness
He is a thinking logical man .
There is nothing logical about hearing his mum shush his 11 year old brother so now of course he’s a atheist .. com’n
@@adpitre5128 bro believe what you wanna believe. But dont be shocked if others dont
@@adpitre5128 His bother was 19, not 11… And it’s actually very logical ffs, to start from there before eventually coming to the realisation? Works perfectly well and makes a lot of sense… If you need to shut people up then people are going to start questioning why they need shutting up.. Learn what logic is before questioning someone else’s.
@adpitre5128 and you think a magic invisible man who know everything and can do everything is logical...🤦♂️ don't embarrass yourself further
It's not a specific moment, you just slowly realise over time
But there are specific points in time where you have these epiphanies of “oh shit, this makes sense” or the other way around of “this makes no sense at all”. and they gradually build up over time and that typically forms the way atheists view gods.
Exactly. When you see how the world is, all the messed up things, and how bad people get away with bad things all of the time, plus the fact that powers/magic are not real things it all puts in into perspective. That is if you are a rational and logical person. You just have to be honest with yourself about things instead of just blindly believing in shit other people have told you.
Multiple sclerosis victims don't need too long,
God is the creator
@@AntAnt-mr7lc Your imaginary friend didn't create anything
This is the most respectful way of disagreeing.
It’s great to have older siblings to open your mind. One insightful question from Ricky’s brother charted him down the path to atheism. Well done Bob.
Bob closed his mind. We should all be agnostic…that is open-minded. The atheist declares there definitely is no God. This is the epitome of being close minded. Prove to me there is no God..,you can not do it. Yet there is a preponderance of factual evidence supporting accounts of the Bible are true. While we can not see God, we can see much evidence that believing results in miraculous transformations in people’s lives. A person would have to be insanely mad to not at least consider the possibility that there is a God. Atheism is truly the most close-minded view a person could hold.
This is extremely respectful, the heck lmao
That's like the older brother telling his younger bro there's no Santa.
Me searching for that guy who accused him of being disrespectful:👁️👄👁️
the start of the video does, it says "This is very disrespectful" below the captions
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I like Ricky and respect his understanding.
I love this man. I believe a different way, but the same. I would actually love to speak with him.
I think if we stuck by the 10 commandments or as many as possible the better life would be!
I prefer the 10 amendments.
Nobody can stick to the ten commandments only Christ accomplished fulfilling the law. He fulfilled it for us because we couldn't. Just like the bible says the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Believe on the Saviour Jesus Christ and you shalt be saved. Believe who he was! God in the flesh and that he was crucified died and was buried according to the scriptures. 1st Corinthians 15 1-4. It's all about what Christ done that's why he gets all the Glory because he accomplished it.
Jesus said if you love me you will keep my commandments
The first 4 commandments are utterly useless.
@@scottking1479 the golden rule would suffice
Not disrespectful at all hes speaking big facts lol
"BEHEAD THOSE DON'T BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS! HE'S MAKING A LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE!"
I'm agnostic but I want to believe there is a higher power I just feel like a fool when I read the bible and other holy books and if we honest we know man wrote them and changed them multiple times to suit our lives plus some of the stories are ridiculous but I know I have this strong desire to be spiritual but how I don't know the only way I can see is just to be a good and honest respectful person to others and nature and pray 🙏 to God in my own heart and mind I think alot of people feel this way including Ricky Gervais.
Rhetorical food for thought
Everyone serves a god; the First Commandment is not "There are no other gods", it's "You shall have no gods before Me"
Humans make a god and idols out of everything: money, sex, self, demons, stars, a door knob, yoga, gender theory ... and you are free to choose any of it
But the Lord is the only one who can offer peace, hope, assurance in your life
Greed, pride, lust, they only grow the more they're fed, like fire, and just a skim through history shows they never satisfy
So if the whole Bible seems like too much to handle, just read Romans and Luke, go from there
Break it down and work through whatever is holding you back
Sit down with someone you trust and go over it together
There's more than a couple people who were in your shoes once, and more than a couple wrote about their experiences and journeys as well
Just because "man" physically wrote the words on the pages doesn't automatically ezclude the possibility that God worked THROUGH those individuals to provide the message
@@huntermccaskill3938 "But the Lord is the only one that can offer peace, hope, assurance in your life?
How are you sure about that? Is this what your Bible claims so you automatically believe it w/o question? Do Hindus not have that? What about Buddhists? I as an atheist have that. Are you telling me that I don't?
The bible was man written but God inspired the bible is one of the best things you could own and don't feel like a fool trying to read it bc the more you read the closer to God you get he loves you so much Jesus christ died for your sins to be washed away just repent of your sins believe in your heart that Jesus did those things and you will be saved. You being here is God mercy on you he could've taken you out at any moment 🙏✝️
@@sideboob6851 because only the lord can satisfy you.
That's a real "come to science" moment.
Christianity literally created science. The scientific evidence for God is overwhelming. You gotta feel sorry for Ricky not being able to see it.
the only people who would find this disrespectful are the type of people who would say "Bob!", not people who can actually defend their faith. and to Gervais, just because someone won't defend their point to the ground, doesn't mean that they are wrong.
I remember asking my dad at about age 11 about god being real, he told me he asked his mom the same question at the same age and she said, "don't ask that question, it will make us look terrible at church". No rational person ACTUALLY believes this.
People.... in my younger years in the military...never having been a very religious person, around friend or foe.... any man, woman or child, I witnessed taking there last breaths on this earth... the same name was always on their lips... the same forgiveness always asked.... ALWAYS!!
Yeah, not hard to notice you need a Savior in the face of death. Tragic that people wait that long. Then again, I hit rock bottom before I called out to Jesus too. I’m glad I did. He’s a good father and maybe even a better friend.
That's because they're scared
@@Chief_Bill As they should be?
But they don’t call out to Superman or Thor to come save them. Everyone knows on some level that Jesus exists. Or at the very least, that God does. They just choose to deny Him for most of their lives because they think they’ll get away with it. Especially if you convince yourself that you don’t know just to feign ignorance in the end and hope He’ll forgive you on a technicality. But even that technicality doesn’t exist. He debunks that in the Bible. You can’t feign ignorance. And all notion that doubt was ever in you goes out the window at that moment: when you need Him and suddenly call to Him to save you. Those people knew all along. And so do you. Live your life however you want, but you will be held accountable regardless in the end.
So true. So honest. Absolutely beautiful.
Science and nature are not opposed to the idea of god, they actually support it
How is this disrespectful? He's being kind and very respectful.
If you are that triggered that you find someone else's personal discovery offensive, then you have serious problems.
Jesus is the way, the truth and life. You cannot go to the father without the son. Fathergod I ask that you continue to touch Ricky’s heart about you and anyone whose reading this. I pray you encounter them the way you’ve encountered me. May they receive the love that will complete them in Jesus name.
Father, please allow me to continue to manipulate Ricky until he believes what I do with no evidence whatsoever.
Amen he could bring such powerful testimony 🙏
@daniellogue8354 A lot of Christians can be huge hypocrites, can't they? Many do not practice what they preach but never realize their own hypocrisy, even when pointed out.
@@elderbrew6249 My church has got room for more of those 🙂 🙏
Even if you could call the bible evidence, it’s poor. If the bible is egregiously faulty then the main character’s existence is likely fantasy. If the existence of Yahweh is a fiction then the god man Jesus cannot stand. Faith based on the contents of the bible is worthless for the following reasons…
There is real historical evidence of John the Baptist but not of the greater Jesus. There is historical evidence of Appolonious, a character similar to Jesus, but not of Jesus. There is an historical record of Jesus Ben Pandera, but, no Jesus the Galilean outside of the bible. Nothing. There’s Jesus ben Ananias, a rude peasant, who went around Jerusalem in 66CE prophesying its fall in 70CE; he’s recorded in documents outside the bible, but not the biblical Jesus. His alleged disciples never wrote anything they were uneducated peasants. His enemies never recorded his miracles nor his troublesome nature. The bible account says he was widely known and a divisive figure that the Romans never recorded, and neither did the Jews.
There were a number of people with the name Jesus, exhibiting Jesus behaviours, in the area around the time, many have been recorded, with an account of their lives and achievements but, not the Jesus of the bible. Was he a fiction? Indeed, you don’t require any actual person to have actually existed for a “reality” to grow from nothing. King Arthur and Robin Hood, along with William Tell, and others, come to mind. And, there are plenty of others. Was the biblical Jesus based on a composite of these other Jesus’s with reference to the Old Testament plagiarise to elevate these people to one divine god man?
George, at least existed, but his dragon? the story is a nonsense, but a nonsense that was believed true once upon a time.
The rest of the Jesus/Yahweh tale is equally murky.
There is no evidence that all the first born were killed either in Egypt nor by Herod. I think the Egyptians would have recorded such a calamity and the calamities of the plagues, but nothing. Could the Jews have made it all up?
The first line of the bible is clearly incorrect. The Earth was formed 9.8 billion years after the heavens. How did the creator get that wrong? And, the rest of the creation is wrong. It’s as if an ancient ignorant tribe wrote it all by themselves, no god to help.
There are no waters above the firmament, for a start. Heaven isn’t up there either, we’ve been there.
Adam was made from dirt by magic and he, this god, forgot about Eve, an afterthought. so not an all knowing and wise god then?
A snake talks, nonsense fiction, right up there with Harry Potter, though JK Rowling was clearly a better writer with fewer continuity errors.
This god set up Eve by placing this magic apple within her reach. Then punished humanity thereafter. What a vicious god, if not a fictional one.
Nonsense fiction, by an ignorant ancient people writing about their mythology, their nation’s origins, steeped in the mists of the past, just the same as the Greek, Persian and Babylonian cultures write about their make believe gods who were equally fervently worshipped. Inanna, the dying and rising goddess was such an example. But many more dying and rising gods in the lexicon of ancient myths. Virgin births were pretty common too.
Adam and Eve’s children (as Eve was a clone of Adam) and grandchildren (as Cain, Able and Seth only had Eve to produce offspring or with their unknown sisters) could only have been produced by incest, then double incest, according to the biblical account. Clearly god didn’t know that the inbreeding of the biblical account would lead to genetic problems. None of it true, nothing a creator god would have penned. It was a fiction by a Jewish ancient people.
The Exodus apparently didn’t happen according to all evidence, acknowledged by the Jewish archaeologists who have tried to find it. The Egyptians never wrote of their army being swallowed by the sea. Mosses may never existed.
There is a massive amount of genocide in the bible by a god who failed to get the locals to behave. Genocide because the Israelites needed a land to make home. If a creator of the universe and humans could have just thought a new land, a new island, south of Cyprus, it would have appeared. Easy for a god, not so for an ancient tribe to pull off? Then, this god could have told these others how to behave and punished individuals, if that’s what was needed. But no, he went straight to mass murder. What?
And, the greatest god in the universe was defeated by iron chariots: Judges1:19. That is so ridiculous, such a puny god. Or, is it because the story was a creation of a tribe that had no concept of future technologies or tactics to defeat these new Iron Age chariots. I’m sure that a human Napoleon type tactician could have done better than the all wise, all powerful fictitious god of the universe.
Genesis 19 tells us of Lot being raped by this daughters. And yet this god is moral? He could have changed the course of their predicament, found him a younger wife or servant to sleep with, if a god. More incest.
The Jewish religion was at its heart, a blood sacrifice barbaric religion.
The books that were supposedly written by Mosses consist of a language style that didn’t exist at the time of his “life”. It’s a fictitious narrative, written by the Jews to give their new nation an historical legitimacy, and unify them, in the midst of other powerful cultures in the Middle East. Didn’t help much though, they were constantly being invaded and subjugated by more powerful “gods” of other warring nations.
Even Yahweh acknowledged there were other gods. Remember the Ten Commandments tablets that were conveniently broken and then without fuss, lost. An all powerful creator of the universe who missed the opportunity to create the tablets out of an advanced technology, such as, I don’t know, Titanium? Is that because the Jews didn’t know about such a thing and so had no understanding of the future? The forging of such a technology would have cemented the truth of their god. Broken disappeared stone tablets: clearly, no god involved. Convenient.
Noah and his flood occurred when the Egyptians where going about their cultural and religious practices that continued afterwards; and, their religion was not replaced by the flood family’s immediate ancestors, fanning out from the ark. The Pharaohs and their gods continued unabated. No Yahweh? More incest?
The Chinese culture and writing developed along a continuum and they too were never taken the religion of Yahweh from the Middle East, by Noah’s relatives.
And, the ancient Britons and Australians failed to notice they were meant to be dead.
The New Testament, if it is read, critically, is inconsistent and evolves over time.
Indeed, the gospels were not written for decades after the death of this Jesus, whose birth and death are still questionable and no date can be asserted with clarity.
There was no census when Herod was alive, that story was made up after the event. Nazareth was not a town in the first century and was only “discovered “ when Constantine’s mother, Helena, went looking for it. The gospel writers mistook the word Nazarene for a town. And there are many problems with the census and the way it is told. Because it was written as fact over one hundred years after the supposed birth of this Jesus. More fiction?
The whole point of a census is to count the number of people in an area. The census of the bible is an artificial device to get Mary to give birth in the town of David where the biblical messiah was to be born.
And, boulders weren’t placed in front of tombs until later, about 50 years, one of the reasons that the gospels are thought to have been written many years after the myth of Jesus.
And, the crucified where left to rot on the cross/pole on which they were hung as a warning to insurrectionists? No empty tomb, it a fiction to turn a myth into a “fact”. To turn man into god.
Pilate was, in real history, recorded history, a truly nasty contemptuous man, he would never have allowed the process of crucifixion as a warning to have been undermined. And, the alleged trial is a tale of the blood cult of scapegoating. Even Barabbus was a literary device representing scapegoating, suggesting it never occurred. Barabbus means, son of the teacher, or son of the father. The gospel writers where representing the two characters as essentially the same, one became the goat sacrifice. And, the twist was that the Jews shouted to let the murderer go, allowing the blame for Jesus’s death to be placed on the Jews and not the imperial Romans. It was very much a political narrative because the Jews and Romans where essentially at war, the destruction of the Temple in 70AD/CE, and this new sect/cult needed to distinguish themselves from the Jewish troublemakers, and the ongoing violence of the time.
Paul never knew Jesus and only depicted him as a spiritual vision. He knew nothing of the man and nothing of his life or his teachings. More evidence that the Chrestos (anointed) was mythical? And, he writes to an “ancient” congregation which suggests that his Chrestos was at least a first century BC/BCE figure.
The first time the gospels where mentioned was in 180AD/CE by Irenaeus. Indeed, a very prominent Christian, Theophilus, said that he came to believe in Jesus from reading the Jewish Scriptures or, Torah. No mention of the gospels, no quoting of anything Jesus allegedly said. That was circa, 170-182AD/CE. The myth of the god man Jesus was created over many years. But, Mark was first written, not until at least 70AD/CE but, as above, could have been much later.
No record of the star of Bethlehem, of the graves emptying, or the sky darkening. It’s fiction.
Christians may need to believe in this lie. Still, it’s a lie.
God is like Santa Claus for adults
I don’t see him as disrespectful to any beliefs.
He’s still a believer he believes in science
The evolution theory .
He didn’t disrespect anyone
I had the exact same situation with my older brother regarding Santa. It was my first realisation about lies in life. nice one Ricky.
So your comparing Santa’s tradition giving candies on Halloween to believing in god 😢
@@adpitre5128 They are exactly the same, stories to invoke belief with no evidence to support that belief.
@@adpitre5128 Santa is Christmas
He’s a great comedian. And that’s it. Let’s not make him more than that.
A comedian cant have a personal opinion?
@@flipflierefluiter5665, He’s a funny guy with an opinion. And that’s it. His opinion isn’t funny sometimes but he is.
He’s being interviewed numb nuts
And he's correct this time
It's his opinion, and he couldn't be more respectful how he told his story
Jesus is real he's alive today he still answers prayers he still can speak to us he can still heal today shame you got mislead and decieved because when we die there's only two places to go heaven and hell accepting jesus can save us refusing condemns us to hell
Thank you for helping reduce the stigma of non-belief, Ricky. Love your content on religion both here and on Colbert
Another 'victim'. What shall we call this stigma? Non-belief ism?
@@breal101 it’s called just living in America
this is human error. There are places where they let you discuss that question and don't just try to shut you up. Science and Nature aren't counters to God.
Gott/God/Chod/khode is a indogermanic-indoaryan word and it literally means a call to the self being and its directly connected to the word Good/Goda/Guot/gut/khub/xub
. We are beings in the being and we hope for good.
Roasting innocent people alive simply because of their religious convictions, now that's disrespectful. 😅
Bob has a lot to answer at the end.
I like this man more and more every single time I see a new video clip of him👏👏👏
It is interesting how many small details give us our basic beliefs about how life works and how we never forget those instants.
The kind of raw truth America needs right now.
I love you Ricky. God loves you.
Lol.
Well, if you don’t have faith, you’re not going to believe
Yep...that is how it works...you either have evidence or you have faith, never both.
@@deltablaze77 Nah, you can have both. Once you have evidence, your faith increases. Actually, once you have enough evidence and come to know the truth, your faith will be so strong that you start taking for granted all the miracles that do happen just because they’re just part of your “new normal” and you couldn’t imagine life without them.
@@lemonlimeyipes1107 Well, you are wrong because evidence is the definitional antithesis of faith. To suggest the two coincide in regard to the same subject is an oxymoron. You have faith, you do not have evidence, if you had evidence of a god then everyone would agree with you and you would by definition cease having faith.
@@deltablaze77 You can know God but still lack faith in what He can - or will - do for you. And that can come and go, depending on how dire or extreme the situation is, or even how much you’ve sinned recently. After all, if you don’t do what He asks of you, how can you expect Him to do what you ask of Him? And having evidence doesn’t mean that people will believe you. Most of the evidence is in people’s personal testimonies. Atheists seem to believe there’s some kind of motive as to why a person would lie about their interactions with God, when really the only motive is to save their souls. But despite there being literally nothing to gain from lying about it, for a non-believer to believe anything that contradicts how they think they’d prefer the world to be, it would be nigh impossible to make that leap. For someone on the fence, it would just take a bit of faith. But I think for a lot of people to build a bridge to faith in God, they would need to be able to have faith in humanity first. If someone gives you evidence of God being present in their lives but you don’t trust them, it’s kind of a moot point. Not that I have in this thread, but I’ve been in that situation more often than I’d like.
@@lemonlimeyipes1107 Has nothing to do with distrusting you, not a single Atheist in the world who disbelieves someone's personal testimony because they think they are lying. We know you are mistaken, because most of us were at one point too. Also those testimonies just are incapable of meeting the bare minimum standard of something that would count as evidence in any circumstance, let alone the existence of a god.
Feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless.
Remember this folks: science maintains that everything sprung from an infinitely dense point in a single instant. Even science allows itself one free miracle.
Miracles do not exist. Science does.
You need to refresh yourself on big bang cosmology because that's not what it states.
I have a different opinion & I wish him well.
A grown man with an imaginary friend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
(Relativism, strictly reductive materialism, militant atheism or philosophical naturalism):
“The belief that there was “nothing”, and nothing didn’t really mean nothing as there was no such thing as meaning, and then nothing much happened to nothing except nothing and then nothing suddenly magically exploded for no reason whatsoever, creating everything, and then a bunch of everything suddenly magically rearranged itself -- for no reason whatsoever -- into self replicating bits which then turned into something that meant everything. But ultimately it didn’t really mean everything or anything as everything is ultimately meaningless.” (Atheism)
And they mock other peoples beliefs!!
Yeah not dogmatic at all and perfectly “sane” and makes perfect sense!! About as much sense as your “imaginary friend” argument!! That is your straw man fallacy!!
@@georgedoyle2487 Tell me you don't know anything about the science and the universe without telling me you know anything about the science and the universe. You know nothing about the theory of big bang(there was no explosion) or the theory of relativity yet you think you know, but suprise, you know nothing and compare it to completely different thing.
@@thor9517
“You know nothing about the theory of the Big Bang”
Ho the irony!! I know it was formulated by a devout Christian called George Lemaitre. I bet you didn’t know that!! Ouch!! I know that the term “Big Bang” was coined by atheists who used the term to mock the theory because it threatened their philosophical position that the “physical” universe was eternal holding back the progress of science for several years!! Double Ouch. They clearly preferred the steady state theory for metaphysical reasons and because of their philosophical presuppositions that “matter” is eternal!!
Furthermore, the irony and the absurdity is that I also know that Even Steven Hawking who was actually an atheist helpfully pointed out that….
“Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.” (Steven Hawking).
So your claim I know “nothing” is just a logical fallacy!! The (Ad hominem Fallacy) and the (Appeal to Dismissal Fallacy). Prove that I know “nothing”!! I’ll wait!!
Sorry but the universe clearly had a metaphysical beginning as science has demonstrated that space/time is not fundamental!! But what does that mean for the question of what is ultimate and personal/God? The man who now sits in Edwin Hubble’s chair at the Mount Wilson observatory has a few things to say about this. His name is Robert Jastrow, an astronomer!!
In addition to serving as the director of Mount Wilson, Jastrow is the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Obviously his credentials as a scientist are impeccable. That’s why his book God and the Astronomers made such an impression on those investigating the implications of the Big Bang, namely those asking the question…..
“Does the Big Bang” point to the fundamental nature of [Mind and consciousness/monotheism/Logos/freewill that is rationality itself/objective morality/the Actual/the One]?”
Jastrow reveals in the opening line of chapter 1 that he has no religious axe to grind. He writes….
“When an astronomer writes about God, his colleagues assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers. In my case it should be understood from the start that I am an agnostic in religious matters!!”
In light of Jastrow’s personal agnosticism, his theistic quotations are all the more provocative. After explaining some of the (Big Bang) Jastrow writes….
“Now we can see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.” (Robert Jastrow).
Reference: Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 11.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. (Robert Jastrow).
I rest my case!!
“Tell me you don’t know anything about the science and the universe without telling me you know anything about the science and the universe”
More riddles!! What a surprise!! I don’t have a clue what (point) you are trying to make at all. I just made the (point) that a philosophical “nothing” creating everything isn’t a scientific position it’s a philosophical position that is synonymous with the belief in magic lol!! Truth hurts!! Live with it!!
Sorry but I’m biased against beliefs that are synonymous with the belief in magic. I tend to doubt that they are rational!!
Do you have actual evidence or not that magic is real? I’ll wait!!
Did I mention that by sheer coincidence I’ve actually got two new brands of pen right here on my desk which i use for writing down ultimately meaningless and ultimately purposeless comments a (Richard Dawkins pen) and a (Thor Pen) they’ve got no point!!
I rest my case!!
Ricky Gervais is entitled to believe what he believes and is not shoving this in anyones faces or trying to promote his beliefs. He was asked a question and responded with his beliefs respectfully, what is wrong here. I am a christian and he can believe what he wants
Dont believe
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Don't even believe that i say. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Buddha quotes (Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
Yeah, I believe n science, like he thinks that God and science are incompatible. Isaac Newton was as devoted to God, scriptures, his faith as he was science. Einstein believed in God.
Yeah a lot of people from the past were religious, but if you look like archeology and biology you'll find a lot of it doesn't fit the bible
@@forodinssake9570 The bible is a record of God's, Creator and Spirit, dealings with humans in establishing a community of faith. It covers important events in the story of God's relationship with humanity. Science is a study of the physical world, not the spiritual world. We can't see or measure everything that exists. There is knowledge that is acquired through experiences with God that isn't obtained through scientific research. The bible presents events through a different lens with emphasis on our relationship with God. Science doesn't seek to explain God but to understand the physical domain.
@@psalmsreader7997 but we know for sure the bible was changed repeatedly, and it differs from period to period. If it was really written with the inspiration from god or whatever he really fucked up with keeping it believable and consistent with reality
@@forodinssake9570 if you look into this study of the ancient dead sea scrolls and many fragments that were preserved, you will be surprised by your findings. A number of scholars did set out to prove that the bible accounts were not true but evidence convinced them otherwise. A movie came out called "A Case for Christ" (I think that's the title) about a lawyer's quest to disprove the bible narrative of Christ's death and resurrection. He was sure that he could prove that Jesus was not real or true but ended up finding overwhelming evidence that the story of Jesus as presented in scripture is solid and that this could be proven in court.
@@psalmsreader7997 the thing is the bible is a collection of many books from many time periods, yeh some are old, others are really recent, you can't use one example to prove all of them are true. Also where's the evidence for the Exodus? For the Noah's flood? There's no bloody way humanity comes from just two individuals, I'm not even mentioning the making humans from dirt and ribs bit. Jesus is similar to King Arthur. Most likely he's based on a real figure, nothing surprising, a doomsday preacher named jeshua would be your average sight at the time. But most of what's attributed to him was written LONG after his death and isn't exactly reliable
I'm a Catholic and I don't find this disrespectful at all. I find it very Sad and I pray one day he finds his way home. Love this man.. he is a very kind guy 🙏❤️
Same. I’m Christian and I still hope he makes it.
Truth is sad
That's what happened to me but it was my mom that asked. She was real upset for a long time but she grew up atheist and eventually snapped out of it and became an atheist again. Through no effort of mine. I'm the one who convinced her to stop waster her time voting.
When you think God and Santa's are the same thing...love Ricky, he's a funny man in a truthful way.
Class act is ricky 👏🏼💚
Every knee shall bow.
And then the sucking begins
Muslims bow and prostrate, just like Jesus did. Peace be upon him.
@@maganrescues submit before daddy, ass up
The believers are bound to the beliefs.
The principles and tenets of a belief that I do not adhere to have no truth for me.
How can it?
They are not my truths.
@@bensolo7217 there's only one truth unless of course you believe there's multiple versions of it as most of society dictates.
I'm a Christian. And I love science and nature too.
I felt the same way as Ricky Gervais and lost my relationship with God and became an Atheist solely because of how people portrayed God. Now, I love God the Father as I love Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The most important teacher in both the Old and the New Testament is Yahweh, God the Father. Unchanging, easy to anger, a destroyer. Upon watching His son dying on the cross, He changed. Jesus cried out to Him “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do”. While Jesus was living as a man, suffering as a man, He shouldered the grief of His Father who was in Heaven. It was in this moment that I believe Yahweh became the Father He always would. The unchanging God was so great that He changed. Jesus had humbled His Father. We do not master forgiveness when we forgive another, we master forgiveness when we are forgiven. It is easier to say I forgive you than it is to say I am forgiven. God the Father could have hid this history, and yet it is for all to see and throw His flaws in His face. We must follow in Jesus’ footprints and forgive our Father, and recognise the depth of what He has experienced, what He has done for us. It is the same in Hinduism, the Hindus love Shiva and Vishnu, but many look down on Brahma for His past. They see the face that Shiva had cut off, and judge our creator. But it was Brahma Yahweh Anu Allah Uranus that seeded our home, sent us knowledge. It was the Holy Spirit Thesis Chaos Tao that breathed the finite from the infinite, and gave the world its creator. Forgive Him, He had none to teach Him, and still we live. God the Father loves us unlike any other, His love is so strong that it is what gives the finite a future to expand into. Forgive Him.
I love Ricky. This makes me sad for him though. It's not like it's the same thing as believing in Santa. He was so young. Too young to already have made a decision like that.
Is he too young still to make a decision different than yours?
@@daniellogue8354 No, I am curious if he ever seriously revisited that.
Love thy neighbor. And respect their decision to think differently than you. Stop pitying people for having a viewpoint different than yours.
And I thought you're not supposed to cast judgment unto others. "Too young to already have made a decision like that" sounds an awful lot like judgment for his differing opinion.
@@elderbrew6249 Not really.. more like empathy as a mother of 3 sons
It's exactly the same thing as believing in Santa.
The thing i remember is that when i was a kid i started learning about the creation of religions. Because im into history and that stuff. Then i realised Christianity is just like all the others.
Faith is CHOOSING to believe, not being convinced. You can’t be convinced of something no one can prove to you.
As a Christian, I appreciate the respect he professes for Jesus, because it is probably more than some “believers”have.
Well another person to pray for😊 Love it... Truth will set you free
God made him an atheist, have a little faith in his plan.
@@Haunting1981 God doesn't work against Himself.
@@annemarie8483 exactly, God didn't want him to be a believer.
@@Haunting1981 I think you mean Satan. He's the only one working to destroy God's plans for our lives.
That's exactly what he was explaining - how the truth set him free from believing in any of the 4,200+ Santa Clauses in the sky.
It's sad to me. He should revisit it sincerely.
Why is it sad? A proposition was suggested and he didn't find sufficient evidence to believe it. A rational skeptic.
Saying that this is disrespectful might be the single most ignorant and selfish thing ever said on CZcams.
I believed I was an atheist until I learned the word agnostic. I am agnostic. I went to catholic school and I learned that are over 3000 religions, I respect the idea the idea of religion, but how arrogant do you have to be that yours is the right one?!
I wouldn't change my view on God based on one conversation I had when I was a kid
Gervais, worry, He believes in you.
Fear really is your only tool isn't it?
@@pauljames1807 Jesus spoke more about hell than He did Heaven.
@@thomashahn2837 Exactly my point.
@pauljames1807 see, me trying to be like Jesus is a good thing. To you, it's a bad thing. Drop the mic.
@@thomashahn2837 Is it a good thing you're frightened into submission by a fictional character? 😂 Jesus is a tyrant and Christians are cucked cowards.
Jesus will save this man I've watched him for a while you can see it clearly pray for him it'll happen soon