That's a dodgy 'RIGHT'

That is a total, honest, unemotional, analytical , YES !

@@tomgreene1843 Why?

There is though a far greater and deadly religion than christianity that should concern every atheist.

He also railed against many 'sins'. I suspect he was aware of the lies of his brethren . 😁

You only have to listen to Frank's song "Dumb All Over" to get the message loud and clear. Succinct and sharp. All praise Frank!! lol

Frank Zappa is your moral compass?

@@danbain59 Why not? He never took drugs or alcohol; raised four children as good citizens; had a strong work ethic; had the ability to think critically; saw the stupidity inherent in religion and the capitalist system. Need I go on? Oh, maybe I should clarify in case you are not capable of thinking... i do include Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Marx, Hobbs, Socrates, Plato, Camus, Sartre, The Buddha and numerous others to a greater or lessor degree. How about you?

@@stevious7278 you forgot the humour. Bad you. I do like reading the Bible but of course you can't rebuke using humour....you have to throw stones instead. It really gets the message across to Catholic girls.

Why seak to 'believe' anything? I' know' aboout a lot of real things and I enjoy trying to calculate the probabiility about things being true, but in general my honest andwer is simply " I don' t know"

Such a displeasure. She's a flaming hypocrite. Hey Alice, it wasn't a Christian who beheaded 6 year old Emily Jones 5 weeks ago in a park in England. That was a Somali Muslim. You spew hatred for Christianity yet say nothing about Muslims.

Dr Roberts is a good scientist, but a very poor philosopher. Momento mori.

@Tim Webb My apologies. It was a knee-jerk reaction to a topic dear to me and which I wished to defend. Sound familiar?

@@ericdondero3217 When did she spew hatred against christianity? I think you should stop lying.

@Tim Webb You are a disgusting excuse for a human being. Seek mental health counselinmg.

I agree, but it took me years to realize that she and Victoria Coren were not the same person.

Instablaster.

Wow what courage to talk out against church based education in a country that is large atheistic

What is a “humanist”? naive … imagine a world where the Roman Empire had not moved toward Christianity…..Stalin, Genghis Khan, Hitler. Nothing more stupid than atheists expending energy destroying a belief system that promotes love, empathy and Forgiveness. Sconce cannot “prove” that God doesn’t exist.

@@alasdairniven6578 without trying to sound too pervy, you weren’t looking in the right place

Have faith that you will be successful in your holy quest, lol.

@@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers You didn't read what I wrote 4 days ago so your comment is both silly and redundant :-(

@@101mosioatunya It was meant to be silly, hence "lol". And, I'm sorry that I didn't trawl the net to find what you wrote a number of days ago, and I suspect I certainly will not bother now. Have a nice day.

@@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers You didn't have to trawl the net. The comment is just underneath this one!!! Have a nice day too :-)

I'm looking for her on KZfaq and can only find the "inventor of the flat bottom paper bag machine" (which is cool but not what I'm looking for)

RELATIVE MISCONSEPTIONS : There have been some recent reports that there are movements by New Zealand’s Mouri’s to have - what they call - there own version of science to be taught in schools. As can be imagined this idea has, understandably, raised the hackles of the scientific community that “science is science” and it should be irrespective of race or culture. Although this is interesting, it highlights a misconception about religion, and that the oft claimed by Atheists, that belief in religious concepts is somehow a threat to acceptance of science itself. As we know there have been many eminent scientists, who have also been believers in religion, it is a misconception to say that science has to be mutually exclusive to religious belief? Atheists, have for too long, and for often nefarious reasons, purposely erected barriers to protect the notion that anyone who believed in forces, beyond understanding/proof, were simpletons? Atheists know it’s not easy to sell yourself as a purveyor of enlightenment, if you allow your message to be contaminated by things too hard for you to understand yourself? There is a world of understanding outside the wonders of science, and the world is not full of fools and idiots. It’s not just true, but vital, to understand a world not just made up of what we call science, but also a world where what people believe, also guides our lives. Including indigenous beliefs’…

@@davidbanner6230 SO 2+ 2 = 5 ? BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAID SO ? WHEN COMMON SENCE IS IGNORED ,AND SCIENTIFIC CALCULOUS TOO, IT EQUALS , CHAOS !

Try as one might, there is no grounding the "RIGHT thing" without an ultimate authority who has defined it as such. And I wonder if you'd agree that it is immoral to speak as if you _know as fact_ that which, inherently, you _cannot_ know as a fact.

​​​​​@@duaneshort186 You do not need an "ultimate authority": 1. "Do not do unto others that which you would not have others do onto you", and stick to this even if you do not stick to anything else. 2. Do not engage in certain sexual practices, full stop; do not engage in unprotected sex ever; adhere to safe sex practices as medically and scientifically outlined always; do not be promiscuous or hang around and about promiscuous people because science has revealed to us the unfathomably diverse multiplicity of sexually transmitted viruses, bacteria, parasites, pathogens, etc., out there, their evolution, their routes of transmission, their propensity to precipitate devastating illnesses through their infinitely horrendous modes of infection and propagation prepicitating epidemics and pandemics with long term consequences extending well into the future, impacting not only ourselves but future generations health-wise, quality of life-wise, socially, economically, etc. 3. Do not mistakenly bring children into this world you did not intend to and have not rigorously planned for, and which you do not have the time, energy and next to inexhaustible sources of funds to bring up properly. To contravene this is really monstrous in the true sense of the word. And, do not bring children into an unstable relationship. 4. Do not be misogynistic because it's monstrously unfair, and if you can't see that, surely you realise that we all had a 50:50 chance of being a male or female at conception as science informs us of sex-determining X and Y chromosomes .... 5. Do not use addictive substances or intoxicating substances due to their ability to co-opt, hijack, and totally disrupt our natural neurochemistry including our dopamine-reward systems, other neurochemical systems, our endocrinology, our physiology, and thus make us drug-dependent, criminal, very ill, wreck our lives, and wreck the lives of all around us, etc. 6. Do not enslave others, pay them unfairly, or engage in attitudes, activities or practices that can be rightly construed as slavery like practices towards others, etc. 7. Deep respect for high quality education and high quality extracurricular activities, etc. These are "just seven truths" "self-discovered" that I have adopted without any requirement or aid from an "ultimate authority" and without compulsion or duress from anybody, which makes me stick with them through thick and thin without being forced to do so by anyone, apart from constantly reviewing the evidence around me of those who are on a contrary pathway, whether this evidence is manifesting itself in the real world or is hilighted in text-books, research papers, or in the media, etc. I concede that if you do not have a deep understanding of science, morals and ethics and you are not actively searching in these fields, it may be difficult to come across these truths oneself in which case adopting a religion may be an option better than having no values, no morals, and no ethics at all ... however, religions come with a lot of deeply unethical and immoral baggage attached if you are prepared to dig deep enough to find out! (Well, all this evidence is not really "self-discovered" as thousands and thousands of people have done all the prior foot work I have gone in search of, learnt, and adopted; and thousands of people in multiple disciplines in the sciences, history of religion, the social sciences, ethics, history, literature, journalism, etc. are still engaged in on-going research to discover even more). It is "self-discovered" only in the sense of me actively searching for and finding it, and then using these strands of knowledge in constructing a personal moral code I am sticking to without any effort, whatsoever, because I believe deeply in it as I put it together myself and as it is keeping me safe, happy and free of worry in the outlined domains at least; and I am not being forced to believe in it; or any other moral code by promises of heaven, hell or eternal damnation, none of which I believe in at all because none of these are substantiated in any way whatsoever by scientific evidence ... and religions which are deeply immoral have no capability of promising a thinking person any of these in any way shape or form ...

​​@@duaneshort186what, you mean like religious people do, as if they know 'facts' when all they have is faith? You do not need an arbiter to say whether you are behaving morally or with good intent, even very young human children have an innate understanding of what is moral and what isn't. And ultimately, we have the law to control people's behaviour when necessary Sadly, religious teachings often warp this innate morality, twist it into a rules based system of feeling guilty or being approved of, depending on one's level of compliance.

I don't know anyone who believes in being moral based on payback in an afterlife. It is most certainly not a Christian idea.

@@duaneshort186 IT'S CALLED LOGIC, ARRIVED AT BY USING ONES BRAINS. IT'S WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE, VIA A ONGOING QUESTIONING MIND.

Posobly the attitude of her parents helped Alice to be convinced that she was correct.

OMG. Go and buy some screen cleaner.

Well, except for the fact, she's a flaming hypocrite. She'll attack Jews and Christians with spewing hatred. But will never offer even the slightest of criticism for Islam.

So, you're okay with her attacking Christians?

I don't think I mentioned religion in any context. . I understand she is not a Christian, but I also have never seen her spew hatred, or 'attack' Christians, or any faith. I could not imagine her hating or attacking anyone. Of course, all too often today, if one disagrees, politically, religiously, philosophically, - it quickly turns to ad hominem attacks and equivocating the other side as hateful, evil, etc. I stand my my assessment of Dr. Alice Roberts, and not only think she is an amazing documentary producer , and much more, but a genuinely kind, good person, with morals, and a very good character with a good compass. I think I have many different parameters for what constitutes a good person, call me a simpleton. As long a religion is mentioned, do I really, really need to mention how many I have encountered that profess to be good Christians, Jews, Muslims - whatever, and seem to think that gives them a license to do , act, and say what they think with relative impunity? Please. Dr. Roberts, I so admire you , and your work, and like me, I feel assured you treat people very well, do a lot for others, and wish to cause no one harm.

Dude, here entire lecture was spewing hatred against Christianity. I'm a Jew. Just for the record. Why doesn't she attack Islam with such vehemence?

Sorry for you.

@@nonfecittaliter4361 dito

You knew that already. Before conditioning got to you. They just blurred it out with religion.

What a silly conclusion. So you met people who consciously disagreed with a fundamental axiom of their culture for over 1000 years but they still had other parts of their character and behaviors that were effected by that axiom? Obviously! That doesn’t mean their current worldview justifies those morals or that those morals will survive even a few generations once the causal axiom is discarded. It’s called riding the wave or cruising on fumes.

But completely misguided when it comes to spirituality.

@@StimParavane spirituality :- ) she is probably even more misguided when it comes to magic. And?

@@StimParavane And just what is that ?

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Ummm brave ?

You're a moron.

Louis Paquet spot on

@@robertseavor4304 : I don't think you've quite learned the way to coax a constructive discussion out.

@Alex McAuliff Which religion? Christian faith is based on reason as well as revelation. Unfortunately, most atheists are as philosophically illiterate as Dawkins and Hitchens. Also, science supports theism, not the absurd materialism in which atheists have so much blind faith. I heartily recommend "Undeniable", by a bio-chemist named Axe, who brilliantly chops up the half-baked "theory" of evolution, which is so devoid of genuine evidence it barely ranks as a hypothesis, let alone a theory. (Pun intended btw).

@@christopherseton-smith7404 You haven't quite learned that for some statements, "You're a moron" is a sufficient response.

@@snowrider4495 read what book? And why?

@@wulfenii64 woops my bad my dyslexia kicked in and for some reason it read germ! Lmfao I'm an idiot!

@@snowrider4495 No problem. I thought you were some sort of crazy religious person too. LOL

@@snowrider4495 and no hard feelings here : )

@@wulfenii64 me neither just a discussion and religions are one of my favorite hobbies!

I just want to hug you. 🤗😪 I grew up in abuse but different circumstances than you. I turned to religion as a way out. God did nothing for my internal struggle that resided in me after leaving. I eventually found the power in myself to overcome it. Religion only reinforced the idea that I was a bad person in need of repentance only to realize that all the struggles I faced were normal human reactions to abuse. Healing began at that point. Hugs to you.

@@jenniferflower9265 I agree the healing does begin when we acknowledge that it's only ourselves that have the power to change how we see ourself. For me it was extremely difficult I spent 7 years in counselling from the age of 17 just to get the tools I needed to understand that what I experienced in my childhood was not normal. I didn't understand what love really meant until I had my first child "my daughter"when she was born in front of me I finally understood that love was a dedication to do anything and everything I could beyond my normal means. My daughter changed the way I thought, believed and even the way I reacted, it was a lot of work and the work continues even at the age of 48. She doesn't know exactly how much she means to me and she probably never will.

@@lewisrangi9123 I get that. I don't think many come out of that kind of abuse and take the time to change or understand what has happened to them. I am so sad for those who don't find help and suport. I was 17, with child, as well. Left home, went straight into counseling. I'm 42 now and am still in counseling. It was hard work, the work still continues but well worth it. I had to deconstruct my normal as well. My kids were bug motivation for me. Good luck to you. Carry on the good life. 😊

@@jenniferflower9265 good luck. 😊

It's not common sense, it's just ideology and simplistic pseudo-reasoning you like.

HA,I'm also a Hughes,the last census in Australia, 70000 people including me, marked Jedi as their religion, the UK nearly 400000 (0.8%) did the same,making it No 4 on the list ahead of Judaism, Hinduism and Islame. I agree it was funny at the time, but even putting Jedi, counts towards the overall percentage of people who have an affiliation with religion. Yes make it clear NONE is the only option.cheers.

i just commented that when i was a kid i thought c of e meant atheist.

You are lost, you should join the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

You are certainly not alone. Religious instruction (as opposed to education) was pretty widespread back in the day, (not to mention 'assemblies' at school) and youngsters were not discouraged from putting 'C of E' down. In fact the number of folk doing this in the 1970s / 1980s TV show 'Crown Court' suggests this was a common phenomenon. Me, I'll plump for Cat Worshipper...

Haha. The Jedi, of course, speak of 'The Force', which has been long known of in spiritual circles as The Atman, the Inner Body, Awareness, the 'spark of God' etc. George Lucas believes in a Creator but not in Religion.

What a great idea!

Alice should record them!

I would be willing to put a little money toward this project if it could make it happen! Does anyone know if there is already a project or organization working on making humanist writing more accessible to the general public?

Humanists UK that might raise some funds for Humanists UK. I would order a download.

I take somewhat a different view in defining humanists. Humans have evolved not only biologically but are also evolving CONSCIOUSLY ( in religious jargon spiritually) . Most humans are trapped in the lowest state of human consciousness, the" fight or flight" or animal consciousness. To these people the less developed reptilian brain ,which is mainly concerned about survival. self-preservation , fixing and safeguarding territories and boundaries, is dominant over the much larger, more evolved and advanced, Limbic and Neo Cortex parts of human brain which longs to expand, explore, for oneness, universality and break all boundaries and barriers. Sadly these people who are trapped and languish in the lowest state of human consciousness (who I might add are in the majority at this point in time) are devoid of any CONSCIENCE ,COMPASSION OR EMPATHY, the most important attributes that set a fully fledged , decent human being from the rest of the animals. Because of the absence of these important attributes , these people find it impossible to decide or distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil, moral and immoral, truth and falsehood etc. without some sort of guidance . This is where religion comes in, with rules and commandments, promise of rewards and punishments, , rituals and host of other dogmas. People in a higher state of consciousness can clearly understand the humans in the lower state of consciousness but unfortunately the humans in lower state find it impossible to understand the people in the higher state, i.e. the HUMANISTS. . It is very much similar to an adult who can understand a child but not vice-versa. Most people who are CONSERVATIVES or belong to other Right-Wing groups fall into this lower state category

100%

So am I

Her speech always amazing!

Played her at a board game once. I won.

​@@ThePeterWilliam Nonetheless, I'd still prefer to listen to and see Alice ;-)

If they keep you in by force, its a cult or a prison. Please enjoy the support of others who now, like you, think for yourself.

We have a moral obligation to bring our children up with what we believe to be right ..not what we have been indoctrinated into...let kids come to you... their questions will test you and make you reaccess your received position.

Sorry@James Strawn I don't agree. My compassion and goodwill comes from a humanist perspective. Some of the most immoral and corrupt people I know are religious. They wash off their selfish behaviour by following their faith. There is good and bad in all and religion is not the only answer to be "good".

Nicely put. That resonates with my own personal experience. Not saying all religious people are bad... but many are misguided. Sometimes it works in a life-affirming way... sometimes it just goes horribly wrong.

@@TCGill I think you missed the sarcasm. ;-)

@@threepguybrushwood539 It would only count as obviously sarcastic, if it was highly unlikely that anyone would actually hold those beliefs. Sadly it is not highly unlikely, and therefore the so called sarcasm is not detectable.

@James Strawn - I'm afraid it is you who is 'utterly irrational' James, all of the things you mentioned are simply evolved traits that can aid survival within a collaborative society, and require no belief in any particular deity, just in humans. As for what is 'moral', like every other word we make the definitions, there's nobody else to do it. Even if there were an omniscient entity making pronouncements through scripture, they are still filtered through the flawed human brain which produces the problematically different understandings and outcomes that we see in the world. If there WAS an all-knowing God, it would have known that writing rules in a bunch of old books would be a genocidally inadequate way to present your truth. It would be 'utterly irrational', would it not?

Control of and for the weak.

And you're not ignorant of the fact that your lifestyle is contributing to the destruction of the Earth, are you?

Dara Gildea my lifestyle? What do you know of it? Nothing. Furthermore. Why cannot destroy the earth. We can only make it less habitual for US. It will be here long after humans.

@@digitalperson108 Ignorant nonsense. EVERYBODY's lifestyles is destroying the Earth, that's a FACT. 60% of all the wildlife on the planet has been annihilated by humans in the past 50 years, that's also a FACT, you ignoramus.

Dara Gildea And I thought all the name calling and shouting down was on the political feeds. I bet you are fun at parties. So....lemme guess...you live completely off grid in a wigwam, living off the earth...generating no excess carbon...no pollution...in perfect harmony with mother earth. Yet...here you are on boobtoob, which if you walked your own talk...you would have no access to. What are you doing to change it, besides railing at people here on boobtoob? Just sit down and stfu up you pontificating hypocrite.

It's worse than that: It's religion with conviction. No person is so dangerous as a person who has real conviction that they are a good person, doing the right thing. If their confidence in the nobility of their cause is strong enough, there is nothing that cannot be justified to advance it.

dread true I’m an atheist. You say I have conviction in nothing and yet you don’t know me. Please explain.

dread true You know nothing about me.

@dread true Interesting level of obtuse ignorance from a theist. Typically attempting idiotic "deep" comment. Shows you to be a genuine fool.

dread true Are you still puking out your bullshit? Any more pearls of wisdom you want to share with the world? Any danger of a proper discussion or will you remain in the ‘worst advert for Christianity’ ever section?

@@fuckfannyfiddlefart ??

@@fuckfannyfiddlefart If you have nothing sensible to say. Don't bother to post.

@@fuckfannyfiddlefart I had no idea what your comment was about. Hence the question marks.

@Clement Smith You must be a thiest...

@Tim Webb Never challenged anyone's right to their faith. Many people find it empowering and all the best to them. It's just not for me. I prefer my own logic. And I don't think the religions of others should be foisted on to anybody else, so faith schools really should not exist.

@Tim Webb The teaching of stories from any mythology should be encouraged in schools, especially those with cultural relevance- as long as they are put into perspective. Greeks (and other western civilisations) should learn, and be proud of, Homer's Odyssey. They should be taught the moral lessons, and be made aware of how the stories use fiction and conflict to pass on important information. The same with the Judeo-Christian stories- some awesome storytelling. it becomes problematic when it is presented as fact, and no contradictory ideas are allowed. It is also problematic when it is presented as a moral code as approved, (or even written by) God. You can see the problem when other texts are presented in this way; the book of Mormon, L Ron Hubbard's Sci fi adventures, the Quran, etc. Yet you seem oblivious to the fact that your own texts were written by men to guide and control the behaviour of other men (and women). that is NOT to say the concepts espoused are necessarily wrong, many of the ideas are still relevant today.

@Tim Webb Homer's Odessey is mythical as it includes accounts of beings generally accepted as mythical such as the sirens, the cyclops, and Cerces. Homer, or the writers collectively known as Homer cleverly used known historical places and ebvents, much like the writers of the JudeoChristian stories. "How could these things be written into the sacred text except by the direct authorization and foreknowledge of God?" Quite an easy one really, they were written after the fact as I said- edited, revised. I will admit I am wrong if you can refer me to a Jewish text with those things predicting Christ written in them- as you describe them. Not the Christian version (the old testament- a heavily edited and revised version), but an actual Jewish text, still used by the Jewish people. The dead sea scrolls were found to be very close to the texts used today- perhaps they predict Christ, i don't know. Please don't think I am attacking your faith- but faith is exactly that- faith- no truth, evidence or knowledge required. However, I think the Christians that do open their minds to knowledge that challenges the "direct authorization and foreknowledge of God" idea greatly benefit from that knowledge. they seem to become more tolerant of diversity, less evangelical with their own ideas.

@Tim Webb actually, I did not equate faith with credulity, you appear to have done that all by yourself. You start calling me stupid- this is known as an ad hominen attack- a tactic people stoop to when they do not have adequate words to argue with. Jewish source of the Torah...בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ: However, i found your 'barasheet' all over the internet alright- always from 'Christian' sources. A message hidden in plain sight?- talk about cringe!! Next you'll be claiming the world is flat. If you are going to claim something is factual- check your sources. You belittle your own God with such weak attempts at unnecessary justification. Honestly, that was just embarrassing.

@Tim Webb kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNuKhtujtbXIYp8.html

You are correct - that was wrong, they should have insisted they go to church.

@@matthewmitchell4666 But for what purpose?

This is the game we all play. We don’t want our children to ‘miss out’ or not be with their friends so adhere to society’s mumbo-jumbo. And then history keeps repeating itself so frightened people can hang on to power.

Your talking shite. I wouldn't go to your Church. Knobby.

The two really were chalk and cheese, I find it quite unsettling to hear such ultra-conservative tripe in a voice so similar to Christopher's

they were on opposite sides of the debate on whether the catholic church is a force for good

@Tim Webb Don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't drive, don't mountain climb, don't sky dive in fact, don't do anything with risk. Of course he had common sense but like all humans he ignored the risk and assumed it wouldn't happen to him.

@Tim Webb You cant say he didn't have common sense, I think like most of us he did many things in life, that at some time he wished he hadn't, Like smoking and drinking maybe to excess. Very difficult in the circles he moved particularly being a writer with his intellect and keen wit. I would imagine that he quit smoking when he got the diagnosis but it would have been to late anyway.

@Tim Webb *"...the blackness of darkness forever..."* Yep and that same ending awaits you too. Difference being, you didn't have the *common sense* to not waste what precious little life there is on a load of piffle making you just another *tragic individual* *"...his just reward..."* Another vile Christian deciding another's death is justified because he held differing beliefs. I would take the honesty, the courage and humanity of Hitchens over the beliefs of some snivelling Christian trying to worm his way into Heaven. See you in the *blackness of darkness* because it's where we all go, our atoms return to where they came from, the mighty Cosmos.

@Billy McCarthy I cannot abide Gorgeous George but he did tear strips off Shitchens.

@@jessebryant9233 The entire body of Charles Darwin's research, I would use, to debunk bullshit religion. And the work of far better minds than Peter Shitchens, not least his superior and late brother Christopher and the eponymous Richard Dawkins after whom the talk was named. You brainless nark. Jesse is a slang term for a girl in Ireland and Scotland apparently. Apt for you YFSC

@@crawford1083 hilarious. Darwin didn't believe himself😂. For a few fact checks try Charlie was wrong on FB. I'm missing the link.

@@crawford1083 also....what's Darwin's book called? 😷

Ah, yes, that well known atheist Hitler who introduced belt buckles with the phrase “Gott Mitt Uns” (God With Us), said in Mein Kampf that in fighting Jews he was doing the Lord’s work, and claimed to have stamped out atheism in Germany. “He quarrelled with the Pope!” - Peter Hitchens. Okay, Pete, that’s a clincher. Either you’re an atheist or a loyal follower of the Pope. There are no other options.

Alfio Rosario Di Mauro Interesting-but ignores completely the fact that there is a complete lack of morality in the animal kingdom!

@@maralvor on the contrary, I think the statement means that we make morality, or should make it, by using cold reasoning, hopefully selecting only the bits of instinct that we, with reason, understand to be the ones that give more happiness to the most consciousnesses.

I would suggest that cold, hard reason, without being somewhat moderated by emotion, can be a very dangerous beast. Reason without empathy too easily leads down the road of eugenics and genocide. Isn't it our ability to empathize that elevates us from the mud?

@@stevious7278 agree. But empathy is the one.

@@stevious7278 do not mix eugenetics and genocide. There is nothing wrong with eugenetics. It can be done right

Czechia also outright oppose the EU’s migration pact along with Hungary and Poland. They must be smart.

HUMANISM ! : ) I always think about the Virtues of Humankind, every August 6th ! AND every time I walk into a Museum to see a plastic replica, of a Dodo-bird !

Julia's was a beauty maaaate!

Yeah, who needs a religion that wants us to live in fear?

"I'm not religious, all the local schools are Christian and won't accept non-Christian children" "Then you should move house!" Great, we can progress from religiously segregated schools to religiously segregated communities!

Harvey Yates: 74 and in your dotage? Hmmm... maybe. You don’t write like you are, I must say, spelling, vocabulary, syntax all holding up well!!! I was born on the last day of the blitz and I don’t consider myself to be in my dotage. When I was your age I climbed the first half of the Everest Base Camp Trek, reaching Tyanboche at 3,900 metres. This year I climbed the rock of Gibraltar and back down again: here’s the video I made: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9qKY5x_vJPMeaM.html Why don’t you nip down and have a look for yourself?

Jayne Kennedy I’m not atheist, I’m a yogi, healthy, sharp and productive There is no sense in atheism it’s wrong on every level. That’s why you are so bad-tempered: it’s so uncomfortable being wrong all the time

The book of that Bronowksi series got left to me when my grandfather passed away. Great book.

CofE churches are full of people doing just as you did. It is outrageous that a vicar of all people has this power.

Why did you not just home school them? A pathetic English atheist married to a witch. Church of England Schools are not as good as Catholic Schools. You make a decision and act like a charlatan and then begrudge the Church of England for getting your lazy ass out of bed on Sunday morning. How pathetic an Englishman are you!

Church goers pay taxes too - thus they are entitled to receive the same tax support as parents of athiest children, that is why their schools also get government support. If there are no good non-church schools why don't you put your energy into creating one instead of taking advantage of a school created by a Christian community and then moaning about it. With all the time and energy that went to anti-Christian public lectures like this you probably could have done it by now. Would you rather they close it down? No -- you just want to be able to take advantage of something a community of Christian built, and not have to feel bad about being a liar.

CREDO in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae. Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem, vitam aeternam. Amen.

@@matthewmitchell4666 Again, I don't think you understand the situation in the UK. CofE schools are not superior because of the faith aspect, but because they are allowed to be selective. There are schools in my town where 95% of students have English as a 2nd language, I would not want to send my kid there, because his education would be in hold until his classmates learnt English. Churches in the UK would be entirely derelict if it wasn't for this bullshit game.

It's a specifically religious spot and there is plenty of room for non-religious output across the rest of Radio 4. Many people have asked the question you are asking and my first sentence is the answer the BBC give in response. It's a rubbish answer, isn't it? ! We need to show that Humanism can be moral without the need for a God.

@Tim Webb Satan doesn't exist. Take responsibility for your actions and thoughts

@Tim Webb Humanists have as much right as any other philosophical group to present moral homilies and thoughts, we think, so should be able to present Thought For The Day, and it would represent the vast majority of British people.

​@Tim Webb No deal. Gods don't exist, they didn't pass any words to anybody, just as Satan can't whisper in anybody's ear because he doesn't exist either. You are obviously worried that you know I'm right, along with all atheists, because something has caused you to blabber incoherently. It's a shame that you are such a bad example of a theist.

@@Neilhuny Tim seems to be showing a certain amount of insecurity in his beliefs, hence the triggered fight response.

You can now hold a cigarette paper between the ideology of the Taliban and the Republican Party.

Unintelligible noises of disbelief, well that's a good definition of some forms of humanism that were spread by French students during the 1960s.

​@@Johlibaptist Whether the arguments for humanism are solid or not, it doesn't mean religion is good enough to fill the gap. Whether morality is subjective or objective, the Abrahamic faiths are no help at all.

Alice is wonderful and should be free to speak as she wishes. But God is real and Jesus abides in heaven waiting for you. Whrn you pass you wil be offered a place with Jesus. If you continue to disbelieve you will be cast into darkness. I have had visions off this.

@@Jesuslovesus599 You are the disbeliever - in reality. WAKE UP!

a nader Yawn, the same old threat - believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence or I'll send you to get barbequed. Sorry old bean, such silly threats don't work on rational people, there's nothing to be scared of. Also a "god" that says worship me or ELSE is such a corrupt, vile and completely immoral.

Yeah nothing says courage like white privilege bashing religion to keep on the side of the majority.

a nader Lay off the vodka

Empathy is not something that you teach people.

Depends on the religion and religious organization

The problem with empathy in this context is that it’s a feeling, not an action. Feelings are not generally voluntary.

@@SurajSharma-pv3di Nonsense. My parents did it very easily, having me visualize what it would be like to be the ant that I had just burned with my magnifying glass or the spider that I tried to poison with my concoction of kitchen chemicals. Worked very well.

Empathy can only be recognized as good when you acknowledge that God exists.