Don't pretend to know things that you do not know. Words to live by.

I love the way Sam brilliantly makes so much sense with humor.

Watch the religious desperately interrupting to try to stop uncomfortable points.

Wish there were more intelligent men like this

Harris's analogy between religion and placebo at 7:00 is absolutely fantastic!

I stated listening to Dr. Harris about 7 years ago and was immediately intrigued. I was addicted instantly. He has a way of putting things into perspective, and he does it in a way that cannot even be debated. He and a few others convinced me that it is pointless to believe in ANY religion. He and the other 3 horsemen opened my eyes to the silliness of it all. The contradictions… the lies… the unmistakable evil of “the good book”. Aron Ra, Seth Andrews, Matt Dillahunty… I know I’m forgetting some others but… they’re all amazing people.

"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." -- Voltaire

It is reassuring to see so many positive responses, as below, to Sam Harris. Maybe people are at last waking up to the truth but we have a long way to go especially in apparently well-educated nations like the USA, where as he says biology teachers are afraid to teach the established principle of evolution based on genetics, in case the parents of the students, remove that teacher from the school. Think about it. Elderly white middle class male Australian

Thank you for coming forward Sam. I am tired of being told that I am going to hell if I don't conform.

"Religion gives people bad reasons to be good where his reasons are actually available." PERFECTLY SAID

Bravo... literally just BRAVO!

Great compilation. Thank you!

Sometimes I find myself making these very same arguments when having conversations with my fellow countrymen in benign social gatherings. It is still to this day very surprising to see how Italians look at me as if they had never thought nor entertained themselves with such ideas and arguments. I then try to throw some Ricky Gervais remarks to try to lighten up the situation but not even comedy and some hitch slaps can save me. Oh Thor this makes me feel really lonely sometimes

Thanks for uploading ❤

Excellent editing this far... going to watch the entire clip! Just had to comment.

Mr. Harris! Just discovered you from Canada! Fantastic! I guess somebody finally got that old '50's NORAD base up and running! I'd better go around on my snowmobile and tell all the locals that the war is over !!! And Yay for us ! Who the hell is this Trump 'A' hole? and what's a Skittle? As a fellow atheist, keep plugging' Brother. I dropped that stone off my back in my early teens. Great stuff !!

In this UK we have lots of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims etc.etc. Here's a question worth thinking about. Why is there no Hinduophobia or Sikhophobia in this country ????

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EVERY individual religious person cobbles together their own version of their religion, in exactly the same way that Sam describes religion doing it generally. EVERY person takes whatever parts of their religion they decide to, and rejects that which doesn't suit them personally...every single one of them. For many, and I suspect it's the vast majority, what they may know or remember of their religion will be piecemeal, out of context, and nothing more than their own interpretation of whatever they may have heard and think they understood. They'll accept whatever fits their lifestyle and prejudices, and not bother with the rest. They claim to believe in their religion SOLELY because it's the one they were born into, not because they've ever done any honest religious comparison, in the rare case any is done at all. They generally don't really know much about their own religion, and it wouldn't occur to them to question it. EVERY religious person is making it up for themselves as they go along, which means that this word "god" has absolutely no agreed meaning, so that it really has no meaning at all. Until ALL the world's religious people get together and agree on ONE god, ONE theology, and ONE mythology that is verifiably authentic, no single one of them should arrogate to themselves to expect ANYONE to accept their personal delusions.

Harris for president 2024!

Around 30:50 I love this argument about those who believe Elvis is not dead aren’t sitting on our board of directors. There isn’t good evidence for it. Even if Elvis appeared again and said, “gotcha!” the reasons that people believed he was alive before his unveiling of gotcha, were bad. Same with if a god actually exists. The reasons people have are bad until good evidence shows to be true. Otherwise it’s just luck.

I like Sam's invented religion. where if you don't follow the beliefs of his religion. you will be forced to live out eternity with a seven headed demon named Dexter. it still sounds more sane than any of our current religions.

Great to hear it for Scandinavia...Meyt many Ameriicans (in Denark) who over te years readily confirmed that view. LONG live the genius of the Vikings...

I am not interested in origins, opinions or propoganda. I deal with my situation as it confronts me every day. Everyone should be treated with kindness and compassion. Judge no one on face value.

(May 2, 2024) 10:04 10:20 10:40 Large audience with groups of opposing beliefs 13:33 Multiple interpretations of gospels 15:04 15:45 Iron Age philosophy w 21st century technology 22:23 I may offend some of u, that is not the point, i am genuinely worried 22:53

I struggled for years to purge the last poisonous religious ideology out of my mind. I eventually came to the simple conclusion that I am too good a person to be religious.

The only honest answer we can really say about why we are here and exist, is I don't know, and that's ok. But religious people can't except that.

The concept of God represents our hope for manager: as children we were omnipotent director of our play. The religion is adult application of this monotheistic view. Problem is then: How you can explain the impossibilities? The more thesis is needed to explain the more unconvincing the God and religion becomes.

Sam 'The Sausage of Faith' Harris

Just to break the ice -- because SOMEONE needs to do it -- Harris should run for president. No one can be elected president who does not profess belief in Yahweh, that's true enough. There was a time when a woman could not be so elected. No longer. An atheist should absolutely make the attempt.

My mother used to say, "You can wish in one hand and shit in the other hand and we'll see which one gets full first."

4:00

Basic understanding of science and economics would be great.

7:20

The best way to change religion is to switch economic goals

Interesting how despite the efforts of such intelligent and well lettered men like Sam Harris, we are again suffering under the irrational and intractable thumb of religious zealotry. Considering the rise of a demagogue and utter and profound disrespect for life parading around as "pro-life" it would be in humanities best interest to recognize that we have been given some great tools by Harris, Hitchens and Dawkins et al to combat ignorance-cum-ancient wisdom, we just need to use them.

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If I believed in religion , I would say the devils greatest deception was not to make people believe he doesn't exist but that he is the god half the world believe in.

Im sure there are many killers in prison that belive in a god .

Emersonbiggins I was talking about god,not atheist

I'm confused as to why Sam, at the very end, mention Buddhism a long side Christianity and Judaism. What I have loved about Buddhism is that it insists that you do not believe things solely on faith or by authority. If anyone has another perspective as to why he lumped Buddhism in with those religions I am all ears. That one statement lost Sam a lot of respect from me.

The argument at the end is absolute rubbish,,, bad things happen because god is mysterious,,,, so the 2004 tsunami was so goodness will come in the future? God is supposed to be almighty, so he can do anything, so he could've allowed those people to live and still had goodness come, he's god fo gods sake,,,,, 'cept he's not, because the whole concept is just stupid,,,, I'd like to hear of a few good things god has done, because I've never seen any of it

Sam Harris is a Jedi.

not dexter!! 😂😂

0:17 Take A Moment 🎉😂 0:30 Stay Silly Stay Safe and Stay Free 0:51 No gods required or seen in my foxhole for 45 years 1:21 thx Zeus 🙏 1:35

Evolutionist Michael Denton: "The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle."

just a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment "thou shalt worship whoever you want" and that the declaration of human rights gives ME more rights than god. and a history lesson cos the USA is a secular nation, not many people seem to know that, and the founding fathers were at best deists and certainly not christian. hitchens became a naturalised american purely because of the constitution. the UK is officially christian, the US is officially secular. is it annoying that the satanic temple has the SAME RIGHTS as the church / mosque?

All these arguments for or against religion and God, are pointless, because no one knows, or can prove or disprove the truth of the Gods existence, its all what you are prepared to believe! Full stop!

The character Yahweh's greatest trick in the bibles was to convince us that the devil was the evil one.

Jeez, did they mic his throat or something?

Because of ancestor worship people have an innate desire for religion.

I'm afraid of Dexter now.

6:28 looking at you Ayan H Ali

People think reality is a matter of opinion and the best put together words wins... Words mean nothing to reality and their articulation is just there to simply try to explain a certain fact, water is wet(in regular temperatures and pressure) there is no second opinion... Thus, arguments for science are irrelevant, it's the results of tests and calculations that determine a reality, not a debate and opinions, in short, Sam Harris needn't argue just lay down facts and walk away from chatter.

Jesus said don’t follow religion follow Him cause He’s the ONLY way to the Father.

I would like to invite Mr. Harris to Sweden to see for himself how "well" our "moral" and now totally soulles country is doing...

Current events?

Meth killed my dog

A younger clueless version of Richard Dawkins

blind leading the blind till both fall in the ditch.

Psalms 14:1 (To the chief Musician, H5329 A Psalm of David.) H1732 The fool H5036 hath said H559 in his heart, H3820 There is no God. H430 They are corrupt, H7843 they have done abominable H8581 works, H5949 there is none that doeth H6213 good. H2896 Psalms 53:1 (To the chief Musician H5329 upon Mahalath, H4257 Maschil, H4905 A Psalm of David.) H1732 The fool H5036 hath said H559 in his heart, H3820 There is no God. H430 Corrupt H7843 are they, and have done abominable H8581 iniquity: H5766 there is none that doeth H6213 good. H2896

As our understanding of who and what God is, is sketchy at best, pretty much any depiction of God that didn't come from Jesus, is going to be a straw-man God. Blaming God for children dying is a convenient trope. Promoters of the Bible as "the word of God" do themselves nor God any favors by it. Done of course, to spur folks to follow it, but the shelf-life of that idea has expired. But rather than question the theologians concepts of God, which in many cases is still tainted with god-of-the-gaps mentality of God being immediately at hand causing physical calamities, atheists like Sam are happy to hang that failing around the neck of the religionist. And then, to add insult to injury, play like that's the only definition of God possible, and given any illogical depiction of God, use that as evidence for the non-existence of God. (Rightly believing that God should at the very least, be logical.) Admittedly, I'm happy to have Sam put the Bible in its place, as there is now a superior text on who and what God is, and where he(she) is: The Urantia Book, which is a suitable replacement for the Bible.

I don't believe in DOGMA'S.

If a God exist, he won't let ONLY FANS exist. SMDH

sausage

Proverbs 1:7 "the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." John 6:44 Jesus says "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: And I will raise him up at the last day" You also cannot make an arguement that God kills children and at the same time be pro-choice. So why is it ok for women to kill unborn children but not ok for God to bring a child home? Death isn't a bad thing if the one that created everything calls you home. Lastly you cannot not argue that people are taught the wrong religion so they have the wrong God and then end up in hell and at the same time want to keep God out of schools. If you're arguement is the truth will set you free then let's put God back into schools to give everyone back an educated choice to either follow God or not. After all that is our free will. Sam Harris is a great example of a self defeating atheist. All things point to God and this God is Jesus which is provable historically, medically and all around scientifically.

UKposts is designed to make it like the average man has a way better life than you do

Every disciple died because they knew Jesus was the Son of Man. People don’t die if something is a lie. History is recorded and this guy doesn’t have spiritual ears to hear.

This is a comment I just made elsewhere asking questions to Richard Dawkins, but I think they also apply to Sam Harris, who I think of as an even deeper thinker without all the pretension of RD. -- Dawkins talks about breaking the cycle of parent to child religion, but also pretty much everything he says is to him and his fans supposed based on science and data and logic. My question would be what is the real concrete scientific basis to destroy religion. Most of you guys on this channel rally against Communism in every video posted, but wasn't the first social engineering tenets of what was pointed at as communism to outlaw religion? So is that a plus on the side of communism or a contradiction? Also, what about military families, or police families or the family businesses where parents indoctrinate children into those societies? Is there not some kind of parallel there that ends up pointing to the problem with human corruption (familial) in almost anything that humans do? Why not outsource children's upbringing to communes, or kibbutzes as they do in Israel, and if so is that not also some form or aspect of communism. And finally, what is communism? We point to Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, etc as communist such that any country we in the West call communist is merely a proxy insult for our stated enemies? And did not Marx and Engels say that communism would theoretically occur at some point in the future in such time as the socio-economic system would be so fair and inclusive that the state would just wither away? I'd love to hear some answers to these questions, because without a clear understanding of all the rammification of what Dawkins says it seems like he is just a hired gun to propagandize our system just as he says religion brainwashes children as they grow up and become or would become aware?

If you want to poke holes in fundamental Christianity here's a list: 1. If the Earth is only 8000 years old, how old does that make our sun than, and how do you explain Zoroastrianism which is older than Christianity (6000 years old), and Christianity been accused of stealing or copying their beliefs etc and claiming them to be their own 2. Why do fundamental Christians put so much faith in a book that's missing other books that were omitted (see Councils of Nicaea and more) like the Gnostic Gospels, the Apocrypha, the gospel of Peter and more. 3. What role did Pope Julius and Constantine play in establishing December 25th as the birth of Jesus? 4. This is the finishing punch as in " Mortal Combat -Finish him" lol. Ask John Lennox or any religious zealot/Christian on the street if they put up a Christmas tree, giving gifts and celebrating the birth of Jesus( Christ-mas) on December 25th, then say this. Well, as a rational clear thinking person, you must know then that 1. December 25th is in fact a pagan holiday (Winter Solstice)and not the birth of "Jesus" 2. The Christmas tree is a pagan symbol 3. Gift giving on December 25th is a pagan ritual? Finally tell them that their Christianity is not 2000 years old, Roman Catholicism is 2000 years old. Tell them, their offshoot of Christianity/belief/faith dates back to the 1800's not the "Day of Pentecost" as they falsely and erroneously claim, and is courtesy of John Wesley White and the Methodist movement. Ask them to also prove and provide evidence how they know categorically for sure their "God" is a he and they're not just being sexist. And look up the10,500 year basket they unearthed somewhere in the middle east and show them that.. I could go on lol.. Have a Merry Christmas

Romans 1:20-22 [20]For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: [21]Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. [22]Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Hebrews 11:3 [3]Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Listening to Sam actually brings me closer to understanding the things Jesus was trying to teach. I believe that Jesus was an absolute advocate for reason

The Dogs Bark But the Caravan moves on & its been moving on for thousands of years and will continue

FSH, He has TDS.

Harris for Satan 😂

This is so tough because I love listening to him on this subject. And then when he talks about Trump basically being Hitler or Covid lies being OK. That is so hypocritical. So it’s not OK to lie to our kids about deities so that they behave correctly and treat each other nicely. But for some reason it’s OK to lie about the dangers of an exaggerated flu. And now Sam is still doubling down and saying even though it wasn’t real, it could’ve been well that sounds like a religion Sam that sounds like faith.

Romans 2:14-16 [14]For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: [15]Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) [16]In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Oh well argue at the sky, isn't changing anything, wish I could be blissfully ignorant just live my life it doesn't say it can't be changed only if you do this or that will happen, share it, shouldn't of tried interpreting it, I thought about that for awhile don't make sense everyone will see him first thought was how big would he have to be idk, but do know what I'm about.

Forget religion, let's hear your argument against Jesus?

Oh the ot, smh Jesus Christ

Now these are GODS words so you can debate them all you want to no avail

If you never read it stop talking like you know what it says.

Hell is real. You'll see.

He's immoral unholy hates happiness hates all humans,yet you love him,wow

Just don't ask him about what he did on Epstein’s Island........

Jordan Peterson was right. This is just lazy intellectualism...

Lol stable genius leader of the free world

His is such a juvenile perception of faith and religion, masquerading as thoughtful analysis. As an actually learned fellow once observe, we’re not punished for our sins; we are punished by our sins. The existence of ontological evil is not easy to understand in a regime of free will. But Harris seems never to have considered that our turning away from a divine and loving God has consequences far beyond the immediate persons we may harm. Nor is it any answer at all to note that everyone sins regardless of religious belief or lack of belief. The God who died and rose from the dead does not condemn anyone for anything. That God offers only mercy and forgiveness and end endless second chances to accept God’s infinite love. Anyone can say “no” and accept a world without love. I could go on, but he’s so immature.

Poor sad man.

I can't listen that childish argumentation

Being a child of God is not religion its trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ as LORD who is God ,And is alive and well

this is such BS...

Poor guy hasn't seen a ghost, or he'd know the human soul was created to be eternal.

Jesus biggest fan The next pope sam harris LOL

Granted that there is no God, how did this universe and life on this earth come into existence automatically? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 If religion walks only on one foot, atheism creeps on its belly.

Well, you people that believe this guy, I hope in your case you change your beliefs. Life on this planet is short, eternity is forever. Your choice to choose where you want to spend it. I choose to spend it with God..... I'm not a big fan of heat.