The link worked fine when I watched it late last night and BTW, thanks for posting it! I found it quite interesting, all 41 minutes of it.

BTW jgoins, it's all in perspective in ones thoughts about aethiesm. Works for me just fine.

Unfortunately few "believers" I have run across are free enough thinkers to even accept the simple thought that their ideas aren't the only ones out there with any validity about the concepts of religon.

Religeous zealots are in general the most closed minded sector of any society and have NO tolerance (as most all of their religeous teaching typically call for) of others ideas.

It's funny how most interactions I've had with believers play out once I tell them I'm an aethiest. They typically start out all sweetness and light as if I'm some poor uninformed creature who just needs the right guidance (which they can naturally provide if I'll just listen) and how they'd LOVE to invite me to their church and help me find their god and all the wonders belief in their god will grant me in my life.

Then when they realize I'm not some fucking unthinking sheep and actually hold my beliefs for reasons they can't overcome with their believers psychobabble they often get downright shitty and will tell me I'm stupid, unrealistic and condemned to everlasting hell for my lack of acceptance of THEIR beliefs. Yeah .... like that's a great way to win someone over

In my perspective people of faith are just another form of sheep awaiting the commands of whatever leader they aspire to believe in and are all too willing to just lay down their own powers of reasoning for the much simpler concept that if they do so and live each day in service to their god everything will be ok.

To me, the idea of total faith in something that can not in any way be proven is the most rediculous concept I can envision, most especially when it means I should give up my own powers of observation and logical processes and simply ACCEPT all this on simple faith instead .... sheesh !!!!!

I heard long ago that religous philosophies were laid out as great teachings of simple good sense for those too simple minded to get the message their teachings lay out for them otherwise. I mean really, is it so hard to look at the 10 commandments and not see they are simply logical right thinking ideas in the 1st place and that in following them will certainly make your life easier and more rewarding and all the rest of the world a better place at the same time ?

Religon has started more wars, caused more human suffering from persecution by people of differing faiths, led to the deaths of millions if not billions of people and all from beliefs that are accepted on total Faith! Sorry, but I'll have no part of that shit, nor any of that blood on MY hands thank you.

I'll take my chances that my truths are what matter most and they all lie in the realm of absolute fact, not in faith in some unproveable god or philosophy thank you.