ummm... no mention of love anywhere in there, i guess because love is not logical, captain.

I can't stand these videos that force me to take five minutes reading something I could read in one minute were it printed out in front of me. This is not even a video if you ask me. That's why I downvoted.

Shit, I upvoted by mistake!

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

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i must say, this video made me genuinely mad. i dont hate atheists. i dont. i like people for the people they are, not the things they believe. everyone believes something else, and thats why the world is as diverse as it is. but i believe what i believe. you can go ahead and pitch me your ideas, but im just about as likely to join your religion (or lack thereof) as i am of joining scientology. but, for gods sake, DO NOT INSULT MY BELIEFS. there is more to religion than just the disgusting crimes that you hear about on the news of some sicko catholic priest raping a child. there is so much more than that. that is why you can be an athiest, or even hate god. you can be gay, or straight, or anything. the principle rule of catholicism is not "praise god with every cell of your being while killing and ostracizing those that dont" not even close. catholicism is "love one another" and thats what i do. maybe you should too.

garbage, of course what do you expect from someone called "FatAtheist"

there ya go budzos....

No one has the right to demand that their beliefs go unchallenged or protected from insult. No one. We are in a truly sorry state if all we can do is tiptoe around one another's baseless silly fantasies. I thought the video was kindof blah so I don't want to upvote.

"DO NOT INSULT MY BELIEFS"

How in the hell did that insult your beliefs? There was nothing in there that even remotely was insulting to another religeon (well, maybe #11, but I have to totally agree with it). Is your faith so shaky that mere words can sunder your foundation?

I thought this was quite good, except...PLEASE take out the vitriol. It's unnecessary and won't help your cause. I would assume that you hate the judgmental aspect of the religions--it's called poor witnessing. Why would you do the exact same thing--lumping people together calling them yokels--is against what you're saying, right?

Speaking as a haphazard Christian, I don't see much in this that would offend a Christian, once you get past the idea that this guy doesn't believe in God. Yea, he's a little snarky, and he appears to have a problem with staying on task (kind of a random beef with circumcision, and an odd plug for the humane society), but he makes good points that jive pretty well with the beatitudes.

Of course, that prohibition on blind faith wouldn't work, but hey, we've been pros at selectively reading commandments for years anyway.

all im sayin is that theres more to religion than the bad stuff he put in this little ditty here. circumcision is more than "mutilation". and just cuz i have a religion does not mean i "think slavery, homophobia, racism, murder, mysogeny, rape, and genocide are ok" thats just dumb to think that the two are related.

im reminded, sadly, of the family guy joke about a court case against brian. "which would you say defines him more, sexual maniac, or picture where if you stare at it long enough, something appears?" "well, sexual maniac, but that other one doesnt really..."

Well, actually there's all sorts of direct examples of, and rules for, slavery, selling ones daughters, racism and genocide all over the Old Testament. And the Koran, well... 72 Virgins (actually a mistranslation of 72 white grapes) are given to suicide bombers in Heaven. And yes, circumcision for both males and especially girls, is mutilation and child abuse, plain and simple.

The point of this post is exactly the point of an argument I had with a friend recently, which boils down to the concept that you cannot have a set morality without religion, which is, frankly, a load of crap. So really, if you can have it without religion and God, then what is religion and God for? Because the morality is really the only useful thing in religion, but it does a piss poor job of actually demonstrating or teaching morality itself. 2 Of the original 10 commandments are wasted on a demand to not warship any other Gods or idols, 1 on not taking His name in vain and yet another on never working on Sunday (under pain of stoning to death). How does that have anything to do with morality? That's merely subjugation to the church. Meanwhile Moses leaves a bloody trail of genocidal destruction in his wake.

The point is, if you are looking for a set of moral teachings, there really isn't any religion that does the job properly. Luckily, we as a species for the most part know that we need each other in order to get by, so we're generally good to each other. But we don't need God.

Hmmm i actually didnt like this video to much.
Strange cus im an atheist who HATES all forms of religion...
I just dont see the point of making atheism just another "religion" with rules and such.
Im sure most atheists "rules" in life are pretty basic which kinda boil down to the "golden rule". Not to shabby IMO...
I like to live by one rule i made up...

"Do what ever it takes to be happy as long as you understand and will deal with what ever consequences there are."

Again, the point, Fiver2, is that a main argument that theists use for religion is that without it, we would fall into an immoral anarchistic society where we are all raping small animals and eating each others livers. This post makes the statement that morality doesn't come from religion. Morality is a PART of religion (or religion claims it to be), but religion is not part of morality.

I agree the video is kind of crap, because it's just text. I hate those. And the author does fall into the same pitfalls that he complains about. Calling people rednecks immediately after he advocates tolerance. Please. But I agree wholeheartedly with the inherent message, so I upvoted.

Pretty nerdish. When she refers to faiths mutilating childrens genitals i presume she means circumcision. I guess she hasn't heard:
"circumcision reduced the risk of contracting HIV by 70 percent"
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/06/MNGANDJFVK1.DTL&type=printableL

Funny atheists try so hard to break away form answering to a higher authority and inevitably end up with pretty much the same commandments moses took down from the mountain. Full off incongruence and self-contradictions. Agnostics and atheists still need beliefs, it's just odd that they usually end up the same as core doctrines of most religions.

Funny atheists try so hard to break away form answering to a higher authority and inevitably end up with pretty much the same commandments moses took down from the mountain

Have you ever read the 10 commandments?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments

The point of this video is not to unite atheists under a common banner or trying to actually give us a list of "must nots" but to show how the pathetic original commandments can easily be improved upon. And I dont follow "FatAtheists" words like a sheep, I think for myself, so should everyone, but I'd still say these commandments are an improvement, and thats a pretty pathetic performance from the Almighty, being outsmarted by a random Youtuber.