47:51
Head to Head - Dawkins on religion
An interview with renowned atheist Richard Dawkins on whether religion is a force for good...
published: 23 Dec 2012
author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Head to Head - Dawkins on religion
Head to Head - Dawkins on religion
An interview with renowned atheist Richard Dawkins on whether religion is a force for good or evil.- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 368509
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
58:46
Is it time for all religions to accept evolution?
BBC One - 13 January 2013 Nicky Campbell presides over a special debate recorded at the Ha...
published: 13 Jan 2013
author: Tr3Vel0cita
Is it time for all religions to accept evolution?
Is it time for all religions to accept evolution?
BBC One - 13 January 2013 Nicky Campbell presides over a special debate recorded at the Harris Academy in Peckham, asking just one Big Question: Is it time f...- published: 13 Jan 2013
- views: 242635
- author: Tr3Vel0cita
4:04
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word
You can preorder my new book, inspired by the poem, below! Amazon: http://ow.ly/jNA68 Barn...
published: 11 Jan 2012
author: bball1989
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word
You can preorder my new book, inspired by the poem, below! Amazon: http://ow.ly/jNA68 Barnes & Noble: http://ow.ly/jNA8t A poem I wrote to highlight the diff...- published: 11 Jan 2012
- views: 25594582
- author: bball1989
11:24
8 Reasons Your Religion May Be Harmful
8 Reasons Your Religion May Be Harmful
Hemant Mehta (http://www.friendlyatheist.com)
Vide...
published: 10 Oct 2013
8 Reasons Your Religion May Be Harmful
8 Reasons Your Religion May Be Harmful
8 Reasons Your Religion May Be Harmful Hemant Mehta (http://www.friendlyatheist.com) Video inspired by Neil Carter's blog post "Your Religion May Be Harmful if..." http://godlessindixie.com/2013/09/25/your-religion-may-be-harmful-if/ Join the conversation. Leave your questions and comments below and we'll try to address them in future videos. Don't forget to subscribe for more! Also, follow us at ... https://twitter.com/atheistvoices https://www.facebook.com/TheAtheistVoices https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106662137332631352312/106662137332631352312/posts/p/pub http://theatheistvoice.tumblr.com/ http://www.theatheistvoice.com/- published: 10 Oct 2013
- views: 11182
52:51
Lost in Religion
Marc Burth wants to find the best religion to raise his children in, but living in a famil...
published: 20 Apr 2011
author: JourneymanVOD
Lost in Religion
Lost in Religion
Marc Burth wants to find the best religion to raise his children in, but living in a family that boasts a Muslim, a Catholic, a Jew, a Shaman and several Atheists that's not going to be easy. This highly amusing and revelatory HD documentary playfully addresses the questions so many of us struggle with. Is there a god? To whom does he reveal himself? And most importantly, why doesn't he reveal himself to me?- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 222
- author: JourneymanVOD
54:48
Collection of Bill Maher stand-up about religion
Collection of Bill Maher stand-up about religion....
published: 24 May 2013
author: AgatanFoundation
Collection of Bill Maher stand-up about religion
Collection of Bill Maher stand-up about religion
Collection of Bill Maher stand-up about religion.- published: 24 May 2013
- views: 105452
- author: AgatanFoundation
4:49
David Silverman: Religion Is A Superstition!
The Real Story, Fox news, 1-14-2014,
David Silverman, President, American Atheists, Inc.,
...
published: 14 Jan 2014
David Silverman: Religion Is A Superstition!
David Silverman: Religion Is A Superstition!
The Real Story, Fox news, 1-14-2014, David Silverman, President, American Atheists, Inc., http://atheists.org http://www.facebook.com/AmericanAtheists Copyright Disclaimer Under Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. I do not claim ownership of this material. I realize no profit, monetary or otherwise, from the exhibition of this video.- published: 14 Jan 2014
- views: 11048
4:46
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Video)
2006 WMG Losing My Religion (Video) Get Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1...
published: 02 Jul 2011
author: remhq
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Video)
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Video)
2006 WMG Losing My Religion (Video) Get Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982- 2011, the definitive R.E.M. greatest hits collection coming ...- published: 02 Jul 2011
- views: 26047003
- author: remhq
69:07
Is Religion Man-Made? How Did Religion Start? The Evolution of Belief (2006)
The evolutionary origin of religions theorizes about the emergence of religious behavior d...
published: 26 Aug 2013
Is Religion Man-Made? How Did Religion Start? The Evolution of Belief (2006)
Is Religion Man-Made? How Did Religion Start? The Evolution of Belief (2006)
The evolutionary origin of religions theorizes about the emergence of religious behavior during the course of human evolution. Humanity's closest living relatives are common chimpanzees and bonobos. These primates share a common ancestor with humans who lived between four and six million years ago. It is for this reason that chimpanzees and bonobos are viewed as the best available surrogate for this common ancestor. Barbara King argues that while non-human primates are not religious, they do exhibit some traits that would have been necessary for the evolution of religion. These traits include high intelligence, a capacity for symbolic communication, a sense of social norms, realization of "self" and a concept of continuity.[1][2][3] There is inconclusive evidence that Homo neanderthalensis may have buried their dead which is evidence of the use of ritual. The use of burial rituals is evidence of religious activity, but there is no other evidence that religion existed in human culture before humans reached behavioral modernity.[4] Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, argues that many species grieve death and loss.[5] There is general agreement among cognitive scientists that religion is an outgrowth of brain architecture that evolved early in human history. However, there is disagreement on the exact mechanisms that drove the evolution of the religious mind. The two main schools of thought hold that either religion evolved due to natural selection and has selective advantage, or that religion is an evolutionary byproduct of other mental adaptations.[18] Stephen Jay Gould, for example, believed that religion was an exaptation or a spandrel, in other words that religion evolved as byproduct of psychological mechanisms that evolved for other reasons.[19][20][21] Such mechanisms may include the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm (agent detection), the ability to come up with causal narratives for natural events (etiology), and the ability to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions (theory of mind). These three adaptations (among others) allow human beings to imagine purposeful agents behind many observations that could not readily be explained otherwise, e.g. thunder, lightning, movement of planets, complexity of life, etc.[22] The emergence of collective religious belief identified the agents as deities that standardized the explanation. Some scholars have suggested that religion is genetically "hardwired" into the human condition. One controversial hypothesis, the God gene hypothesis, states that some variants of a specific gene, the VMAT2 gene, predispose to spirituality.[23] Another view is based on the concept of the triune brain: the reptilian brain, the limbic system, and the neocortex, proposed by Paul D. MacLean. Collective religious belief draws upon the emotions of love, fear, and gregariousness and is deeply embedded in the limbic system through sociobiological conditioning and social sanction. Individual religious belief utilizes reason based in the neocortex and often varies from collective religion. The limbic system is much older in evolutionary terms than the neocortex and is, therefore, stronger than it much in the same way as the reptilian is stronger than both the limbic system and the neocortex. Reason is pre-empted by emotional drives. The religious feeling in a congregation is emotionally different from individual spirituality even though the congregation is composed of individuals. Belonging to a collective religion is culturally more important than individual spirituality though the two often go hand in hand. This is one of the reasons why religious debates are likely to be inconclusive. Yet another view is that the behaviour of people who participate in a religion makes them feel better and this improves their fitness, so that there is a genetic selection in favor of people who are willing to believe in religion. Specifically, rituals, beliefs, and the social contact typical of religious groups may serve to calm the mind (for example by reducing ambiguity and the uncertainty due to complexity) and allow it to function better when under stress.[24] This would allow religion to be used as a powerful survival mechanism, particularly in facilitating the evolution of hierarchies of warriors, which if true, may be why many modern religions tend to promote fertility and kinship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_religion- published: 26 Aug 2013
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9:52
Jim Jefferies On Religion Horrible Blasphemy Panda - World's Funniest Comedy Standup ?
WARNING: Highly likely to offend people who believe in fairy tales, zombies, pandas, talki...
published: 26 Jan 2010
author: venomfanex
Jim Jefferies On Religion Horrible Blasphemy Panda - World's Funniest Comedy Standup ?
Jim Jefferies On Religion Horrible Blasphemy Panda - World's Funniest Comedy Standup ?
WARNING: Highly likely to offend people who believe in fairy tales, zombies, pandas, talking snakes, pedophilia, slavery, rape, racism, genocide, the right t...- published: 26 Jan 2010
- views: 2947054
- author: venomfanex
13:21
Stand Up Comedy about Religion
Clips of some of my favorite comedians discussing the heavily isolating topic, religion. N...
published: 23 Mar 2011
author: Lawson Leong
Stand Up Comedy about Religion
Stand Up Comedy about Religion
Clips of some of my favorite comedians discussing the heavily isolating topic, religion. No copyright infringement intended, all rights go to their respectfu...- published: 23 Mar 2011
- views: 300890
- author: Lawson Leong
91:22
Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? | 92Y Talks
Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? Moderated by ...
published: 04 Feb 2013
author: 92ndStreetY
Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? | 92Y Talks
Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? | 92Y Talks
Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ramadan Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? Moderated by Laurie Goodsteing, October 5, 2010 at 92Y. Read more at Vanity Fair...- published: 04 Feb 2013
- views: 128786
- author: 92ndStreetY
4:14
Atheists Insulted On Fox News Religion Panel
"It's Thursday on Fox's The Real Story, so you know what that means: Time to bust out the ...
published: 01 Nov 2013
Atheists Insulted On Fox News Religion Panel
Atheists Insulted On Fox News Religion Panel
"It's Thursday on Fox's The Real Story, so you know what that means: Time to bust out the jokey "an atheist, a Jew, and a Christian walk into a bar Fox" lede graf. This time, Gretchen Carlson's religion panel went head-to-head-to-head over an organization's billboard declaring there to be no afterlife. The billboard in question, sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, reads: "Enjoy Life Now. There Is No Afterlife." American Atheists president David Silverman unequivocally praised the message as "the truth" and one that encourages people to pass a "good legacy" onto their children. "Take care of your fellow man because God is not going to do it," he added. In return, Catholic League president Bill Donohue took the opportunity to stab at Silverman's brainpower...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more here from Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-religion-panel-gets-heated-when-catholic-insults-atheist-as-unintelligent/ Let's Build It Together! Join us for the next exciting chapter of TYT and build our next home with us. http://igg.me/at/TYTNetwork Download audio and video of the full two hour show on-demand + the members-only post game show by becoming a member at http://www.tytnetwork.com/member-options/. Your membership supports the day to day operations and is vital for our continued success and growth. Join The Young Turks Network mailing list http://www.tytnetwork.com/member-options/register-subscriber/ or Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks Like Us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks Support TYT for FREE by doing your Amazon shopping through this link (bookmark it!) http://www.amazon.com/?tag=theyoungturks-20 Buy TYT Merch: http://theyoungturks.spreadshirt.com/- published: 01 Nov 2013
- views: 18061
10:31
What religion has contributed to the world this month - Episode 13 (November-December 2013)
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published: 17 Dec 2013
What religion has contributed to the world this month - Episode 13 (November-December 2013)
What religion has contributed to the world this month - Episode 13 (November-December 2013)
Join our Official Facebook Page to follow us and offer suggestions for the next video: http://www.facebook.com/ReligionHurtsHumanity Also, make sure you check out our Blog so you don't miss any news articles: http://religionhurtshumanity.com This series of videos will chronicle month by month the reported horrid acts committed by the followers and leaders of religions from around the world. This episode illustrates the hate, bigotry, and ignorance spread by religion from mid November 2013 to mid December 2013. You may be shocked at how much harm religion can cause in just one month. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.- published: 17 Dec 2013
- views: 6072
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Bad Religion - "Wrong Way Kids"
"Wrong Way Kids" by Bad Religion from the album 'The Dissent Of Man,' in stores now!
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published: 19 Apr 2011
author: Bad Religion
Bad Religion - "Wrong Way Kids"
"Wrong Way Kids" by Bad Religion from the album 'The Dissent Of Man,' in stores now!
Get it at http://www.badreligionstore.com
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26:44
The REAL Truth About Religion And Its Origins - MUST WATCH!! [High Quality]
The hidden truth about all religions that they do not want you to know is revealed in this...
published: 17 Dec 2010
author: zombiehellmonkey
The REAL Truth About Religion And Its Origins - MUST WATCH!! [High Quality]
The REAL Truth About Religion And Its Origins - MUST WATCH!! [High Quality]
The hidden truth about all religions that they do not want you to know is revealed in this award winning documentary video. Please watch, discover and become...- published: 17 Dec 2010
- views: 123015
- author: zombiehellmonkey
45:25
Atheists On Religion, Science, And Morality (The Point)
Can we prove there is no God? Does it make sense to equate religion with science? Do theis...
published: 18 Aug 2012
author: Townsquare
Atheists On Religion, Science, And Morality (The Point)
Atheists On Religion, Science, And Morality (The Point)
Can we prove there is no God? Does it make sense to equate religion with science? Do theists have a monopology on morality or is secular morality superior? W...- published: 18 Aug 2012
- views: 340608
- author: Townsquare
8:05
Religion Helps Society | Tariq Ramadan | Oxford Union
Tariq Ramadan argues that religion helps society.
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published: 18 Nov 2013
Religion Helps Society | Tariq Ramadan | Oxford Union
Religion Helps Society | Tariq Ramadan | Oxford Union
Tariq Ramadan argues that religion helps society. SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Tariq Ramadan opens by stating this debate isn't rational as there are too many speakers bringing their own cases of emotional blackmail to the chamber. People often have a binary view of religion essentialising and simplifying it saying religion is dangerous by definition, religion is never dangerous by definition religion is dangerous by action. He concludes by saying that the questions in life of "Why are we here?" and "What are our goals?" and if only these questions are remaining with religion then religion has a place in this world. Filmed on Thursday 7th November 2013 MOTION: This House Believe That Religion Harms Society. RESULT: Motion Carried. STAY CONNECTED: Facebook @ http://fb.me/theoxfordunion Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/OxfordUnion Oxford Union Website @ http://www.oxford-union.org/ ABOUT TARIQ RAMADAN: Tariq Ramadan is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, and advocates the study and re-interpretation of Islamic texts and emphasizing the heterogeneous nature of Western Muslims. Time magazine has twice recognized Ramadan: first in 2000, naming him one of the world's top 100 innovators of the 21st Century (one of the world's top 7th religious leaders), and again, in 2004, as one of the world's top 100 most influential intellectuals. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY: The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford. It has been established for 190 years, aiming to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe.- published: 18 Nov 2013
- views: 2226