Does Steve know that a barometer measures atmospheric pressure?

What an asshole indeed...jeezus christ what an asshole.

makes me wonder if he really believes this stuff or he's just trolling.

All he has to do is google "where does an atheist get his morals" and read. He knows this, so that makes him a coward.

We've got King of the fucking morons right here.

Talk about unintelligent. What a primeval ignoramus. Just astounding.

This guy is just terrible. He can go fuck right off.

Wow. I just kept thinking he couldn't say anything dumber and he kept proving me wrong.

There are no words...
Just a world class douchebag.

I don't think he can talk about anyones "moral barometer" since he has been hosting Family Feud for the last few years.

Perhaps we should all treat him that way...if you say 'I believe in fairy tales, magic dudes, and talking snakes' we should simply walk away, because you're an idiot, and likely a dangerous angry zealous one.
It's hard to single out Steve for his 'opinion' since MOST 'christians' and other religious people actually think this way. Most of them don't have the strength of their convictions enough to follow through on this smarmy assholyness (pun intended) or even state it out loud, but it is not a minority thought.
What a douche...I nominate Steve for the next 'Biggest Douche in the Universe' for having the bad taste to say this hateful ignorant crap out loud on TV.

What I always want to ask these people is, assuming they believe all morality comes from God, who's the first person they would kill if God said it was ok? Or if God gave them, let's say, 1 free rape? I mean since they believe nothing else can give one a moral grounding, presumably they would just go nuts if they weren't hearing voices telling them not to.

I talk to people all the time... "I'm an atheist" ... I just walk away

It can also be used to indicate anything that change or contains the possibility of impending changes. He is actually using it correctly in context.

Wow, everyone making comments here (except voodoo, cause i blocked his comment so i don't know what he's on about) are just as opinionated and obnoxious as they think Steve is.

Absolute intolerance of an opposing opinion is what is on display.

At least Harvey likes Obama! He thinks people who don't like Obama are racists!

But it is interesting to see the abuse heaped on this guy because he is politically incorrect, and the abuse heaped on anyone who might call themselves a believer in a God.

You say things like 'asshole' and 'sweet monkey jesus' and you don't give one shit who you offend.

You think he is the epitome of offensiveness, then you do your damnedest to be offensive in your criticism.

Meh, I don't care if he doesn't want to talk to atheists; as I said, one more benefit to being an atheist.

As for my "sweet monkey jesus" comment... suck it up, Jesus (if he ever existed) was a monkey like the rest of us.

But his opinion of women is just fucking awful, and no I don't have any tolerance for that.

I don't really believe in tolerance as a virtue anyway; at least, not in the way you mean it.

I don't "tolerate" homosexuals or other races. That would imply that they are something I have to reluctantly put up with because I don't have a choice, that they somehow bother me.

But racists, homophobes, misogynists do bother me and I won't put up with that shit.

So fuck Steve Harvey.

Dumb ass!

I thought this site was for quality videos, not opportunities to show people at their worst.

I stand corrected.

But I should have known better when a kangaroo fight scores higher than something cultural.

...and a compass only points to magnetic North, not true North. Pretty sure a religious compass works similarly.

Actually, your morals aren't supposed to change, especially since God is the only one making them up. Or so he says.

being bigoted toward bigotry is not a thing. bigotry is by definition irrational and should not be tolerated. harvey isn't offering legitimate or original opinions that should be considered. he's offering anachronistic, bigoted bullshit that thinking people have moved away from decades/centuries ago because they realised the err of their thinking. we've ALL heard the kinds of things harvey says in this video and most of us have learned and understood thoroughly why they're demonstrably wrong. they're cartoonish and he should be laughed at for his self severing and vapid ideas about the world.

Here's my reaction to the whole thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_ptVF1ekc

So "if you don't believe in god how can you have a moral barometer" by your definition translates to "If you don't believe in god how can you have a moral thing that indicates change or the possibility of change". Nope. Sorry, that isn't even close to being correct in context.

what a deeply unpleasant individual.

He is using it to refer to the the possibility of impending change in an atheistic individual. I am not saying that this means that atheists have shifting morals, but that is what he is trying to imply with the statement. Therefore, the usage was correct.

As I mentioned, what he is referring to is the possibility of change in one's morals. In his view, there is no possibility of change in the morals of a religious person because they follow the morals set forth by the religion theoretically. Whereas in the case of an atheist, according to him, there is always a possibility of impending change.

I have just found out that there are a ton of liberal people on videosift. His point of view is just as valid as you left-wing dorks. He makes perfect sense to me.

He's saying that a moral compass without a divine being behind that compass is risky. That's all he's saying.

I hate the word "homophobic." I'm not homophobic. I'm homoadverse. I'm not an Islamaphobe, I'm Islamicadverse. I'm not afraid of gays, I just don't like them.

I don't care if you're offended or not. That's your perogative.

so like Steve you're creating a schtick out of your prejudice. Here's some liberalism for you: "More trees less assholes."

Liberals vs. Conservatives. Just you libtards create more noise to signal ratio.

More trees means more baseball bats, furtniture, fuel for my outside wood-burning stove. Yup. I like that.

You're backwards. What he's saying is that reading the bible gives you a 'moral barometer', and if you don't read and believe it you don't have one. He's saying religious people have this device that measures the change in their morals, a change he also thinks is impossible because their morals are designed to be perfect by Gawd.
He's saying atheists don't have a device that tells them what's moral, but he doesn't realize what the device he referenced does (because he's a religious nutjob that loves to speak about things he knows nothing about, it's what they do).

For @Tolwyn, more trees means more baseball bats, furniture, fuel for outside wood burning stoves, but the less assholes part was about you. D'oh! I guess that was too difficult for you to understand?
Just plain ol brain dead stupidity, Steve.

and this is why moderation is important.

now that apparently the word has gone out that there is no moderation on this site. The trolls flourish. The rest of us suffer

I'm surprised this video didn't include any of Steve's blatant racist (anti-white) comments. Most of those were made years before he got semi-famous, when he had a talk radio show. I was really surprised to see him hosting Family Feud.

I never found him to be the least bit funny or interesting, but I don't begrudge him for having his own opinions. I just can't figure out why he became so popular.

The lines are so blurred between Left and Right these days that it's impossible to stand on one side or another. (there is good and bad mixed into both sides).
The new division is more like: Me first/grab what you can take Vs Living in peace and actually having morals.

I know which side I'm on, do you?

A "Man Card"? This explains so much, I had always wondered why I never got invited to the Ruling Patriarchy meetings. Maybe it just got lost in the mail.

yeah but less assholes means less you It's a supply and demand thing.

Steve probably thinks he's badass for his antiquated, thinly veiled bigotry. One thing anyone with a moral compass (I prefer compass to barometer) needs to understand is that these days being an asshole is a schtick. Let's see this for what it is. Assholes spouting received morality as a schtick should not be surprising or insulting. They get paid for it, the other assholes applaud them and they get to feel superior. Circle jerk. Time to move on people.

Why would anyone "Ask Steve" anything? What a dipshit.

But believers demonstrably don't use the word of their god (or its earthy incarnation) as a moral compass. They all use their own morality and that of the culture they live in to judge which bits of their holy texts to ignore because they are immoral. The revulsion most humans have for genocide and slavery certainly does not come from the desert god Yahweh, who advocates both of those things in the New Testament and the Old. I would say that the opposite of what Harvey says is true: that using the Bible as a moral compass without tempering it with human morality is risky, and people who do so should be avoided.

Jesus said "love thy neighbor", so... you better start loving your gay atheists neighbors, otherwise, god will know if you're not following the holy barometer.