Happy to be up-vote 100. Cheers to Matt and everyone involved with the Atheist Experience for what they're trying to accomplish.

Why is Dane Cook calling the Atheist Experience?

>> ^quantumushroom:

believing atheism holds the sole patents on reason and intelligence.
Who believes that, atheists? All atheists? Are you certain of that?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'atheist experience dillahunty solipsist dangerous charles' to 'atheist, experience, dillahunty, solipsist, dangerous, charles' - edited by demon_ix

I disagree completely, have you ever sat down and watched an entire episode of the Atheist experience? They almost always try and approach questions and discussions dialectically, they're constantly having to explain common misconceptions and logical fallacies. The folks that tune in and actually watch and listen are going to find an enlightening conversation.

Sadly, many of the folks that call in are just looking for a shouting match.

The show offers much more than just a stroke of our ego, they've covered a vast number of subjects within different contexts.

I generally do lean in favor of practicing tolerance. One of the big problems I have is that all of those moderates who don't actually go out of their way to point fingers and tell me I'm going to hell, *DO* watch Fox News and say "Hey, I'm religious and so is Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, and I don't need to know anything more than that, so I'm going to go out and repeat what they say and vote like they want me to vote." That mentality in moderates is what disturbs me the most. The people who just go about their day, loving their god quietly, *do* VOTE with their religion, much like the gay marriage vote in New York. And that shit hurts more than any one finger-pointing fundamentalist telling me I'm going to hell. So while I understand where you're coming from Dan, I think calling it a sort of racism may be a bit off the mark. No matter how much someone may dislike a race, their race will never change. But ignorance is correctable.

And, yes, though the majority of religious people may be angered by some of the atheist videos on this site. Some of the atheist videos that are more towards my original point (educational), have had an impact. I actually found Videosift originally because of a clip from an Austin call-in show called The Atheist Experience (the "punch yer fat head in fer Jesus" clip, which appears to be missing). Although the video was funny at the end, it was 10 mins of the most enlightening conversation about positive atheism. That one video got me to dig more for similar educational videos, and changed me from Agnostic to Atheist simply by helping me get past the idea of "it couldn't hurt to believe, just for the sake of not going to hell" concept (Pascal's Wager), which I think is a big concern for a lot of Agnostics. And there have been multiple episodes of the show where callers have expressed how the show has helped them get past certain fallacies they'd always believed, including one preacher that used to speak ill of the show in his sermons, but in his repeated viewing eventually denounced his religion and his position in the church.

So my belief is that the educational videos, like The Atheist Experience clips, are more to help enlighten the religious and semi-religious, while the mocking videos are more for us folks who are already atheists and just like a good firing-up from like-minded individuals. And as oxdottir has pointed out, you can always not watch and/or downvote.

>> ^Asphyxium913:
you really shouldn't ever diss someone who is genuinely concerned about saving your soul.


I'd have less of a problem with it if they only targeted adults.

>> ^Asphyxium913:
How the FUCK can you be so CHILDISH as to claim to be above religion and then spend all your atheist hours DISSING A DIETY THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST?!?!?!?!?!?!
Why don't they find something more important to worry about like philosophy and the meaning of life?
Why must atheists be inextricably bound to religious topics?


Because we're tired of people like you backing up your "beliefs" with yelling (as you've illustrated here) and ultimately violence. When people are conditioned to believe something that the know deep inside is ultimately not true, they seem to defend it by causing suffering of some kind to those that force them to confront the truth. We just want to be able to be free from Religious based legislation, scrutiny, and violence. This charade (all religions) has gone on long enough.

Your video, The Atheist Experience: Why Are You Atheists Anti-Christian?, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Your video, The Atheist Experience - An Argument From Ignorance, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Of course. I really enjoy that show.

In reply to this comment by justathinker:
Thanks for putting all the excellent clips from Atheist Experience on the Sift!

Thanks for putting all the excellent clips from Atheist Experience on the Sift!

Haha...nope, just a fan of the show.

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
Are you really the presenter of the Atheist Experience, or just a fan?

Are you really the presenter of the Atheist Experience, or just a fan?

Oops! My bad. And I even know that the ten minute mark is the rule...

I think the reason I did that was I had been looking at a number of those Atheist Experience clips and they were (mostly) greater than 10 minutes - so I guess I just assumed this was as well.

Thanks for the heads up..

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
Hey, please change the label of this video.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Atheist-Experience-Just-Another-Great-Caller

The long label is for videos longer than 10 minutes.