Wow you alone have changed my view. I plan to attend an orthodox church this sunday for my first time. I hope it goes well.

I fell into it from the poverty of Protestantism. Thank God for the light of Christ in Holy Orthodoxy.

I'm a former atheist. Soon after my conversion, I asked an atheist if he could measure the spirit of friendship after his insistence that the only worthwhile information is that which can be measured quantitatively. I asked him to assume the spirit of friendship was accepted as the highest unifying value for a culture and then asked whether or not that spirit could be called the god of that culture if that were the case. He became very angry with me after I told him his answer was overly intellectual drivel and didn't really mean anything. I commented on the spirit of anger that seemed to be suddenly possessing him and asked if he could measure that for me. He ended the conversation furiously (I think the kids call it a "rage quit." Poor guy. I hope he's doing well. Honestly, I shouldn't have engaged in the first place, but he insulted me as I gave glory to God for healing my depression - something science only ever made worse, by the way - and I let my anger get the best of me.

I used to be a new atheist. What an empty and angry world it is

Be Ortodox not atheist !😅

😂😂😂very well put Father🙏🥰🌺

Amen

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Love moves faster than the speed of light. You can love anyone and everyone in the past present and future instantaneously from an infinite distance. Metaphysics were what lead me into spirituality which eventually lead me to Christianity and now Orthodoxy. Metaphysical/spiritual forces like love, evil, as well as virtue ethics lead me here…the way the universe works clearly suggests a greater power that exists and is objective in nature.

STRAIGHT. UP.

Well said

yes, yes...be the atheist of the past, who were afraid of challenging the dogma of the church & religion. 🙄

I spent 20 odd years happily being an atheist, it was a very healthy place for me , not an atheist now but I thoroughly recommend it for those seeking alternative spirituality to christianity or any religion

This is so powerful ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

True

One would argue if the love of the followers on one religion have the same love as the followers of another religion, then the love of someone with no religion is no different. You are right, there is no way to measure them, but you can't prove religion enhances them or makes any difference.

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Wisdom!

And to top it off, Richard Dawkins, a leader of that movement is now a Christian speaker!

Beautiful!

God bless! Being an atheist leads to hatred of oneself, then of other people, of one's own country and culture and then of the world. Orthodoxy puts the pieces back together little by little, day by day. Kintsugi for human beings.

I pray for the people who are lost, I pray that they open there heart to Jesus and feel his love and his warmth 🙏

When i was in elementary school, my school put so much enthusiasm into our stem program. It was most of the time my least favorite things to do in school. They were so focused on improving our stem program. And it was just so boring

I will say Fr, one of my best friends from church is in astrophysics and he’s one of the most faithful people ive met. Even science is a gift from God. So long as we accept the mysteries of God as being mysteries, science is the bread crumbs God gave us to try and understand His creation. As long as it doesnt try to supersede God and His teachings. So long as it doesnt attempt to replace God’s teachings science is a glorious thing. A true scientist accepts that they wont be able to understand everything and that some things you cant explain with science.

Meh. I agree that life's intangibles are not addressed by the hard sciences. However, love, friendship, loyalty, work ethic -- all of this is written about far more passionately and persuasively by generations of philosophers, psychologists, and artists than any religious text. And the best part is, none of those authors claim infallability or seek to impose morals upon you that the they transgress with impunity. Far from being a reason to be religious, the things this gentlemen is referring to are even more compelling reasons not to be.

I may not be able to definitively prove love or friendship exist, but I know they exist, because they are emotions that I experience within myself. Therefor I don't need to prove love or friendship to myself. I cannot experience God, since God is outside of myself. Therefor, I do need proof for the existence of God, just like I need proof for the existence of unicorns.

Friendship and love can be chemically measured by science, chemical balances in the brain such as releases of dopamine due to certain situations such as being with another person aka a friend, are all measured by science.

Hey PatristicNectar, your sound profile is pulling to the right (no pun intended hehe) I have reference-grade headphones. Just a heads up ;)

Thing about science, it's not an absolute. Science are the processes in which we use to explain the known world. Scientific facts have been rebuked in the past when new information being discovered.

God is a scientific choice. Its wby i believe.

They (anti-theists) don’t use the empirical scientific method. They use falsifiability and mechanistic methodology, ie theoretical. Perhaps too many of our clergy are disconnected from the contemporary philosophy of science and apologize for it as though they have done the difficult research and study of it. ??? When our bishops and priests teach the faithful to not consider evolution as not opposed to the fathers and Holy Writ, we have a contradiction of faith. The Holy Spirit did not teach both the consensus of patristics that Genesis is literal and also that modern clergy can accept anti-Christ intelligentsia’s nihilistic political narrative of origins being random and undirected by Pantocrator. The consensus of saints say that the materialists have conjured their anti-theist agenda. Even every modern saint.

Let’s review. This video was made using technology, hosted on KZfaq using technology, and downloaded by the user using technology all of which are a subset of STEM. So science and STEM careers obviously have value if you believe the words you share on here have any value.

All of the people involved in the technology, engineering, and math used to broadcast the message you just put here now think you see them as useless. Is that the message you want to send?

If you don't believe in an Almighty Creative Essence, you may as well be some solipsist who doesn't believe in any reality beyond their consciousness - or rather, no world beyond your soul

❤ and at the end, the atheists will be ravaged with emptiness they cannot fulfill. Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

Condemn not, lest ye be condemned. Judge not, lest ye be judged.

Nietzcshe died in 1900... Atheism isn't new...

I suggest not to believe in atheism at all, because it comes from a bad mentality which seems like freedom but locks a person up in a harder more secure prison. Believe in Jesus His burdens easy and His way is light.

Stem always bothered me and now i know why....thabks father. I was never atheist but i was lost for 20 years..still am..but acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth is my savior.

Sounds like someone who isn’t aware of the science vs religion tally.

I honestly don’t understand how anybody can be atheist. If I wasn’t a Christian, I would at least be agnostic. And it’s because of how many times I should have died and got lucky and for some reason the big dude upstairs wanted to keep me on this earth. Countless overdoses (I’m clean now) and a car crash that the tow truck driver and police said I should have been dead since I wasn’t wearing a seat belt kind of prove it to me. Besides the other weird stuff that has happened to me like asking complete strangers if a person I don’t even know is alright and them confiding in me. When I literally had no idea who the stranger or the person of the relation was. God works through us and helps us all the time whether you want God to do so or not. There is just too many unexplainable things that I’ve seen or experienced and I know that other people have to be going through the same thing right? I honestly want to know if other people experience that kind of thing. Because I would hate to be the only one.

Choosing to be an athiest doesnt really happen. I didnt choose to be unconvinced that god doesnt exist. Its like saying i dont suggest not believing in santa. Whether you want to or not, you know the idea of santa is physically impossible.

Weak argument for god if you ask me

Hello. I am an atheist. I define atheism as suspending any acknowledgment as to the reality of any particular god until sufficient credible evidence is presented. My position is that *_I currently have no good reason to acknowledge the reality of any god._* And here is why I currently hold to such a position. Below are 10 facts I must consider when evaluating the claim made by certain theists that a particular god exists in reality. To be clear, these are not premises for any argument which _concludes_ there to be no gods. These are simply facts I must take into account when evaluating the verity of such a claim. If any of the following facts were to be contravened at a later time by evidence, experience, or sound argument, I would THEN have good reason to acknowledge such a reality. 1. I personally have never observed a god. 2. I have never encountered any person who has claimed to have observed a god. 3. I know of no accounts of persons claiming to have observed a god that were willing or able to demonstrate or verify their observation for authenticity, accuracy, or validity. 4. I have never encountered any _valid_ logical argument, which also introduced demonstrably true premises that lead deductively to an inevitable conclusion that a god(s) exists in reality. 5. Of the many logical syllogisms I have examined arguing for the reality of a god(s), I have found all to contain a formal or informal logical fallacy or a premise that can not be demonstrated to be true. 6. I have never observed a phenomenon in which the existence of a god was a necessary antecedent for the known or probable explanation for the causation of that phenomenon. 7. Several proposed (and generally accepted) explanations for observable phenomena that were previously based on the agency of a god(s), have subsequently been replaced with rational, natural explanations, each substantiated with evidence that excluded the agency of a god(s). I have never encountered _vice versa._ 8. I have never experienced the presence of a god through intercession of angels, divine revelation, the miraculous act of divinity, or any occurrence of a supernatural event. 9. Every phenomenon that I have ever observed has *_emerged_* from necessary and sufficient antecedents over time without exception. In other words, I have never observed a phenomenon (entity, process, object, event, process, substance, system, or being) that was created _ex nihilo_ - that is instantaneously came into existence by the solitary volition of a deity. 10. All claims of a supernatural or divine nature that I have encountered have either been refuted to my satisfaction or do not present as _falsifiable._ ALL of these facts lead me to the only rational conclusion that concurs with the realities I have been presented - and that is the fact that there is *_no good reason_* for me to acknowledge the reality of any particular god. I have heard often that atheism is the denial of the Abrahamic god. But denial is the active rejection of a substantiated fact once credible evidence has been presented. Atheism is simply withholding such acknowledgment until sufficient credible evidence is introduced. *_It is natural, rational, and prudent to be skeptical of unsubstantiated claims, especially extraordinary ones._* I welcome any cordial response. Peace.

There is no hate greater than Christian love. I am seeing that in your words and I am an old school. You’re despicable...

“Scientism” 😂😂😂 ya’ll are a joooooke

This guy didn´t make a point at all. Love and Friendship do not require a god to exist or any religious beliefs. A world that prioritizes a good standard of evidence does not mean that emotions aren´t important anymore. If anything the advancement of Science shows how important they are. Science is vastly more important than religious beliefs. Claiming something else ignores the horrendous suffering of the past without medicine alone.

Yep, one more cultists pleading that no one shows his lies to fail. His cult can't show that its lies about the most important things in life are true. It's great to see these hypocrites attack science. Their god doesn't exist. Friendship and love do, since they are based on our very material brains.

People choose atheism because God committed genocide in the Old Testament. And hundreds of men and women were burned on the stakes for alleged blasphemy against God. And what's more? Great scientists and mathematicians were persecuted for their ideas. Let's put theological debacles aside and learn to live with conscience.

A pastor being ignorant and spreading misinformation? Color me shocked. Being an atheist isn’t a personal choice, you’re either convinced of a proposition or you’re not. And secondly, there is nothing science cannot already answer that religion does batter.

Can I be a messiah?

Atheists need to look up James 2:19

Amen