Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com “Tragic Scenarios And Christian Morality” is a clip from The Atheist Experience #616, “The Argument from Game Design.”, with Russell Glasser and Jeff Dee : blip.tv Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com What is TheAtheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • www.Atheist-Experience.com • http • www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live (Sundays) • tinyurl.com Support the ACA (donations/membership): • www.Atheist-Community.org • www.Atheist-Community.org • Blog: AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki www.IronChariots.org • DVDs atheist-community.org • Blip.tv: atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons Atheist-Community.org • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org .
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@cjlilc35 You’re eather a troll or not a true Christian. Doesn’t God ask for people to obey the law of the land? (its in the bible if you’ve read it) So if free speach is granted by your constitution, you trying to kill free speach is you going against the will of God.
Also I doubt that any actual god would need you guys to fight for him over the internet.
Christians, if you try to take this channel down, then you will prove yourselves to be un-American. The Constitution says people can say whatever they want in public. The Constitution, according to you guys, is based on the teachings of God. You should respect your God’s decision or go to the same Hell you want us to go to. When you die you will go to heaven and we will rot in Hell. For now, we are on Earth, so shut the f**k up!
@cjlilc35 Your view is laughable. You are ignorant and immature if you believe that any ‘good Christian’ should attempt to prevent others from expressing their opinions, opinions expressed as an act of free will as your God granted to everybody. With the ignorance and lacking intelligence you clearly demonstrate, no wonder you believe in God. Grow up.
Is there not something sinister about a religion with a central sacrament of human sacrifice and cannibalism? What intelligible guidance is possible from such a superstition that worships invisible super-beings and serves up a moral landscape of archetypal dichotomies; Godly/ungodly, holy/unholy, moral/immoral, sacred/profane, good/bad etc.
@cjlilc35 hmm.. amusing.. how is this stuff stupid?
heu every good christian out there on you tube help me take this dumb ass channel down and put a stop to it flag all there videos like i did this stuff is stupid and i dislike these stupid ass idiots for making this channel so lets put a stop to it and report each one of there videos
I don’t think I’d want to be that caller’s friend.
I get his point, but he still seems a little TOO eager to bash his ‘friends’ head in with rocks.
A third option: Try to get your friend out of the car, extinguish as best as you can and scream for help, atleast you won’t feel guilty for the rest of your life.
@UnderlordZ
Perhaps the caller could have been a bit clearer, but you get the point of the situation and probably can come up with a better worded equivalent in your mind.
@S201676 But the rock presents an oppurtunity to rescue him. He never said my friend was on fire yet; only that the car was. If that’s the case, I should be able to smash the window and drag him out with relatively little harm.
Now if he WAS already burning, yes, I’d be merciful and kill him quickly to keep him from having to suffer, but the initial argument was only that the car was on fire, not my friend.
@UnderlordZ
The point of the scenario is that there is absolutely no way to save or rescue your friend, leading to the question of actively killing him quickly or letting him die slowly and painfully.
Wait…he said the friend is stuck in a burning car, but I have a rock. Why can’t I smash the window and pull my friend out?
@patrickledfor well lets change the scenario to a different situation. If my friend was injured or was about to suffer a long painful death I for the next few hours and there was nothing that could be done, I would end there life if they asked. if my friend asks me to in the car situation I might do it but not until I was convinced that there was no hope, so if the fire was out and they were still alive but badly burned and they don’t want to live, i might do that for my friend
@fireflygirl246 well, if you did absolutely know that there was know way out (hypothetical, i know we can not KNOW that there is no hope) what would you do? i personally think that i could not go through with it even though i would want my freind to not suffer but i would not call someone immoral for doing either choice.
@DestAeval What I ment was my morals would tell me that I would have to help my friend and not give up on them. Even if it appears there is no way to help them I would still have to try. So I would not believe it was not possiable to help them and my only option was to kill them, the car being on fire and the person being traped are the known facts of the senario, you don’t know you cant get them out until you try its an unknow, that is why I disregarded it.
@fireflygirl246
Milady, I believe that disregarding any of the premises of any given scenario defeats the purpose of giving the scenario in the first place.
For example, I could just disregard the premise that anyone was actually stuck in the burning car, and then there wouldn’t be a problem… well I guess a burning car is a problem, but it’s not much of a problem (in comparison).
I can not agree with this scenario that it would be ok to kill my friend in this scenario. I would instead disregaurd the first premis that there is no way to help the friend and instead do all that I could to save them. including smashing in the wind and helping get my friend out that way even if it means I would get burned too.
@Peeteer01
This claim, just like every other claim you’ve made so far, is highly compressed bullshit. You don’t write like an M.I.T. alumni, in fact, you write like with the eloquence and coherence of somebody who would flunk out of trade school!
@polopowers1
I’m an atheist and I haven’t sent anybody to be tortured forever lately.
I am more moral than your sun deity.
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This is my major qualm with any sort of dogma, religious or otherwise. Huge lack of inflexibility and a dulling of the rational mind. People need to be their own judges and stop deferring to their set cookie-cutter beliefs. A cookie-cutter belief can’t take into account the situation or the unique personality of the individual.
Now if it were a baby, instead of a friend, in the scenario mentioned by the caller; Christians shouldn’t object to that. It says in their Holy Book that bashing infants heads in with rocks is a potential source of happiness. Why wouldn’t they want to? 😀
God is Virtue not moralality.Like the atheist experience has said in the past morality needs at least two individuals to exist.God before all creation was Virtue morality took its origin from Virtue.Virtue answers to no one.God is holy, just ,wisdom, majesty, glory. before creations of enitys.Therefore situations discussed about God should never be subjective.This gives the atheist circumstantial righteousness.Of course their morality would be” better” because they have no virtue.
What? Ever tried listening to what people are saying? It’s not an easy solution, you need to take it as you go along. In a fast emergency situation you try to do the best you can to save as many as you can and know how to save. You don’t think when you’re being ethical, you act. Atheistic ethical behaviour is what’s in us all, religions claim that it’s not.
But if Buddha teaches all the same things that Jesus did 700 years later, and Mohammed 600 years later, what does that tell you?