Ya, as a loving father I figured if he was actually listening to me and staying away from the gun that it would only make sense for me to then let a really powerful and persuasive person trespass in there and apply some peer pressure. It's only fair to expect an inexperienced child who has never once faced deception or lies before will know exactly how to spot them and deal with it appropriately. As the Dad I know that's exactly what I would do so if my son does something different it's totally 100% his fault.

Yup. I was 17 when I decided to read the Bible cover to cover. I thought if it was the word of God it would be full of wisdom and when finished I would be enlightened. When I was done I felt like I just finished watching a horror movie. You have to really turn of your natural sense of morality in order to give God a pass when reading most interactions he has with his "children". Even his own son, the story of Jesus, which is supposed to be such a loving story -- God required him to be flayed up like side if veal or forgiveness of sins wouldn't be possible (really!!! WTF is that?!). Seriously, the God of the Bible is nothing more than the God of BLOOD. No matter what scriptures there are on how loving he is in his actual recorded dealings with people blood is his currency to buy, sell, and trade for blessings, redemption, and forgiveness. His actions show there can be nothing good without blood being paid first. It baffled me that here we had being who had the power to solve any problem any way he wanted yet when he acted his preferred method of choice was almost always violence, all the way up to his own favorite son being crucified. He is the God of blood.

@@Emp6ft10in *"natural sense of morality"* Warning. That's a conception of morality ideated by religion. It implies a fixed and pre-existent moral ruleset. Do you, mayhaps, mean your "acquired and/or self-developed abstract construct of morality"? Yes, I am fun at parties.

What a horrible parent, playing God.

@@TS-qq7vr Yahweh is a horrible god, playing parent.

I remember asking my Bible teacher "Why were people refusing to get on the Ark and ignoring God when they had clear evidence in front of their faces?" The response I got was "Why do people deny God exists today?" That non-answer stuck with me for years.

The tree itself bible god didnt have to plant.

@@MrAuskiwi101 That sentence makes no sense.

@scotte4765 Yes it does. I'll stretch it out for you. The very tree, in the garden, bible god didn't have to plant. This is the original problem with the story. An omni god, knew what would happen. If the story was true, bible god created humans to torment billions of them for eternity, just to be worshipped. Bible god is the worst character in the history of fiction.

@@MrAuskiwi101 Your sentence structure was confusing, but I understand you now. Yes, I agree.

Rainbow Dash! This wasn't what I meant when I said to be more on the land instead of in the air!

***** Unless you live in Iran or uneducated parts of Africa (or the like) most people view calling anyone "fag" is an insult to your intelligence and humanity.

***** no, he considers you uneduated, get it right

***** you are right, I'll go kill myself now

Thumbs up for ponies :)

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NonStampCollector I'm sorry, I suppose I should listen to the word of god before watching a video of yours just so I can get a good laugh

NonStampCollector Oh my god (wait there is no god) you are still active! Your videos helped me break from the chains of Christianity. I cannot thank you enough. You have to be the most intelligent atheist on this website.

@@leirsdeirs6212 I don't know, that Pope Francis seems like a pretty smart cookie.

Social distance elbow bump!

@@sophienugre4161 I'm just doin' the namaste

on foenem

I get anxious hearing them but I have always been like this. Social distancing is the best thing that ever happened to me

i will put these comments in a time capsule

irllcd13 3 years later, he has just returned, his skill honed to a zenith of new illustrations.

BUDUBUMMMMM! That was a good fuckin game tho.

He should also thank and praise God for the amazing talent that he has given him.

@@miguelthealpaca8971 Loooooool

@J D wait, was this an Elder Scrolls reference?

it sounds more like one of granny's bedtime tales... Unfortunately, the kids grew up believing it to be the absolute truth and fucked shit up for millennia

You know too much. It's time to put you down 😂

It does- For eg, Who MADE the fruit magical, and gave them the "knowledge of good and evil"? If it was Yahweh, why would he choose to do that, AND choose to put this tree in Eden, when he clearly didn't want Adam and Eve to eat it? And why couldn't Yahweh undo this magic? I know Christians HAVE TO work out some way to rationalize that stuff, as somehow plausible for an "all-loving god", same as Muslims HAVE TO rationalize the most perfect, moral man ever marrying an 8yo girl, but that 'Eden' story is 100% irreconcilable with both a "perfectly moral" god AND an "all powerful" god- It might make sense for some power-limited, evil/trickster type god, like Loki, but not for the god most theists describe. The evidence is pretty clear that the ancient Israelites who wrote Genesis, were polytheists- They just believed Yahweh was THEIR god, and the BEST god- but not the "only" god; That's why stuff like the tree of knowledge has magical powers, against god's will. It's why he worried that the fruit would allow Adam and Eve to "become like US" (rather than "become like ME", as they would have written if Yahweh was the ONLY god). It's why the commandment says "Thou shalt not worship other gods before me" (ie, acknowledging a belief that those "other gods" exist... they just need to know their place, and get to the back of the line!!!) It's why the old testament has multiple stories of supernatural powers, which aren't granted BY Yahweh, but are working AGAINST Yahweh, or even without Yahweh's knowledge.

I mean YHVH did just like find water first

My headcankn is that Lucifer and Yahweh are BOTH Gods. Yahweh finds the three of knowledge and good and evil that Lucy created? He says ‘ey, Adam, eve, don’t eat from this.’ Lucifer goes ‘ah f-ck, he’s messing up my design’ and rights the wrong by making them eat from it like they were supposed to.

+Notmy Name Right, and he has done this while perfectly being aware of the smallest details of the millions years of history that was about to unfold. He tasted the tears of all innocent, starving children. He watched the projectiles being proppeled into the chests of students in every school shooting, heck he is everywhere, the bullets went right through his body. He watched cancerous cells divide in the bone of babies. Then he pushed the start button...

Yeah this definitely feels like a South Park epi

Perhaps he does, Jesus went through excruciating pain after all 😏 😂 My headacon headcanin headcanon* Is that Yahweh’s a masochist ✨

The gods that a culture worships and the stories that they pass around tells more about that culture than it does about the gods. PS: there are no gods. There is no such thing as a complex machine that exists forever and has always existed.

Firstly, I'm an agnostic with atheist leanings. Question ( just having a bit of thought provoking fun with you ) If God exists why could he not limit his power & choose not to know something i.e. controlling his power not letting his power control him. What makes you conclude that he knew? If I was a believer in this nonsensical & immoral story I'd be arguing that God CHOSE not to know & hence the test.

Evaristo Blazquez "Firstly, I'm an agnostic with atheist leanings." ==Gnosticism is about knowledge (knowing or not knowing). Theism and atheism are about belief or let's call it opinion. Every theist and atheist is agnostic. "God exists why could he not limit his power" ==Power means what exactly? Perhaps you mean abilities. "choose not to know something" ==I don't know. Perhaps that would come into conflict with the christian belief that this god is perfect and has a perfect plan. You make it sound like this god is just fooling around. Christians have this view that they are very important and that this god loves them and considers them very important and so important, that he send his #1 son to help them. For a long time, it was considered that the Earth is the center of the universe and people have been killed or punished for arguing with the catholic church. Ancient people had a very different view of the world compared to a scientist of today. Today, we want to know how something functions, what it is made of. Ancient people had a kind of magical view of things. Some of them believed the sun had a spirit, or the wind has a spirit, etc. My point is, you need to ask yourself, what is a god? What do you think it is made of and how does his body function instead of being like ancient people and just having a superficial and magical view of things.

OK - if God/Jesus existed: Let's look at the amazing thing that DIDN'T happen.... Once upon a time there was a god who could perform miracles, heal the sick, turn water into wine, feed a bunch of people with just one fish, raised the dead......or...... Once upon a time there was a god who turned people into pillars of salt, who destroyed cities whose citizens behaved immorally, who divided the red sea to save a bunch of escapees...... If all this stuff really happened....why oh why is the bible the ONLY book in history to account for all this amazing miraculous stuff? I mean, nobody was spreading the word of these events across the land? NOBODY? The egyptians? The persians? The phonecians? These civilizations existed at the times of both gods (sorry, you have this asshole god then he turns into a hippie and he's suddenly cool? whatever....) anyway, these three civilizations especially were well known for their meticulous documentation of all kinds of events in the fertile crescent region. Why do none of these civilizations record such miraculous events (be they good or bad)? Why? Why is there no mention of anything even close to resembling the Jewish or Christian god in the writings of other ancient societies? (that goes for the Greeks as well as the ones I mentioned earlier) Because it's all a story....a fable....tales created to keep the masses under control through threats and the promise of hanging in heaven with a god or jesus or the holy spirit or the virgin mother or 72 virgins or whoever! What's really sad is that people can't and won't have faith in themselves and their abilities without their puppet god pulling their strings and telling them what to do. Weird. I wonder why they don't just all sit around and do nothing while they wait for their god to make them do whatever it is that's in his "plan".....again...weird.

+IMBwildrd: "What's really sad is that people can't and won't have faith in themselves and their abilities without their puppet god pulling their strings and telling them what to do. Weird. I wonder why they don't just all sit around and do nothing while they wait for their god to make them do whatever it is that's in his "plan".....again...weird." ==They think that if they become atheists, they are going to turn into Stalin or Paul Pot or Mao or the Ataturk. They always mention those names and sometimes they mention Hitler. As for their god pulling their string and they are the puppet, I would say that their god is the puppet and the one pulling the string is the jewish rabbi of the ancient past. All these cults have some religious leader who is the "master leader": such as, David Koresh, Heaven's gate Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettle, that guy from the Jonestown village, the Australian Jewish, some other guy claiming to be Jesus in Mexico, another guy claiming to be Jesus in Russia, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Mohammed. Jesus or whoever started this savior idea is another "master leader" who started up a cult.

The audacity of all religions is they put it right out in front of you at an early age . " You are sheep , You are children. " " Come unto me as such " Yes because a mature mind is too jaded and cynical for this or anyother God to deal with . Questioning is not allowed . Gee i wonder why.

Before eating of the tree, when eve is talking to the devil she clearly states that god said not to eat of it. Sooooo

@@BlazeRol777 looks like someone needs to read the bible. Its funny How Christians dont even know their own book...

Brei L I am not a Christian in the slightest. I’m a gay guy who knows a fair bit about why Christianity is quite a ridiculous belief. As for this, I am well aware that Adam would have told Eve about the tree, I was going against what the original comment had to say because Eve clearly possesses knowledge of the tree when saying that to the devil. So, please don’t insult me saying that I don’t even know the bible and essentially calling me one of those Christians who don’t know anything, because I know a good amount and I’m not even Christian at all.

Yes, the religious folk will only see that flaw and consider the actual logic null and void.

Then we're just gonna ignore the fact that adam and eve have no knowledge of good and evil which means they shouldn't know whats right or wrong, which means that they don't know that disobeying or obeying is either right or wrong. Then we're gonna blame them after they know what's right or wrong. Plus god, who could put the tree in out of all the places within adam and eve's reach, but put it in their reach, not only that, but have the snake there. Good job demonstrating some logic from some of you guys, good job for not considering things, and good job for telling everyone who read them. Some of you guys totally and definitely did something right, right? Fuck no for some of you guys who didn't.

LOL !

Lucifer is doing a way better job at this than God, he's gonna win. Did you see the video where they gamble over human kind? God is just not good at this type of stuff, sorry.

I think you mean bronze age.

Some scholars believe that the Judean version was written as early as 950b.c. which would put it well within the iron age.

What I want to know is when did snakes stop talking 🐍?

Either way it doesn't really matter, Cuz God created Adam and Eve to fail. He wanted them to eat the tree of knowledge, Otherwise He shouldn't have created it.

That and it wasn't the devil that did it

I know it's been 3 years... but take 3 would be what played out in the bible

It's so incoherent they have two different creation myths...

You have to continually eat from the tree of life to stay alive for ever. When the big G threw them out they couldn’t eat from it anymore so they eventually died at like 900 years of age, I think.

you can read that one in the bible

Because god is a not a nice person

The story is interesting metaphorically, I definitely grant it that. Much like Aesop's fables with talking animals. Nakedness represents vulnerability and an awareness of the risk of suffering.

@@NonStampCollector remember we must take it literally. So all that Adam cared about was that she could see his Wang? Guess he was the first guy to buy a loud motorcycle.😄

James shouldn't have kids.

@@---yl4mf true

Well...he is a jealous god. Said so himself.