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Putting faith in its place

QualiaSoup
Posted: September 16, 2009.

Video: YouTube

A remarkably clear video presentation of the logical fallacies underlying claims of faith.

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Been a fan of QualiaSoup for a while now.

If you haven’t already, make sure to check his other videos :
http://www.youtube.com/user/qualiasoup?blend=1&ob=4

posted on September 16, 2009
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2. John Wilkinson

Really remarkably incisive. So does the producer of this win the video project? The great thing is to see how faith can be refuted from hundreds of angles in an individual way, it’s such a bad idea, you don’t really need any training to come in and mercilessly lop off the pretense protecting it. People just need to be unfraid of the consequences of doing so. repudiation of terrible ideas through numbers!

posted on September 16, 2009
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Wow, QualiaSoup has quite a number of really good videos that i was never aware of until now - thanks for posting!

posted on September 16, 2009
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I’m going to post this and hope it’s widely watched.

posted on September 16, 2009
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5. documentado

why would you tell 4 year old child that Santa Claus doesn’t exist? why would you take away the magic? if you’re an adult don’t answer the question!! you don’t get it. who gives us the gift in our lives? some of us prefer to think is a higher being. why would you take away the magic? now, if you’re a dumb child and start arguing about Santa Claus’ existence you might realize that he doesn’t. so do you really wanna argue? simmer down!

posted on September 17, 2009
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6. Steve Wiggins

This is the most logically articulated rationale for agnosticism I have ever heard. It is also very sympathetic to those who have faith. This kind of clear thinking is to be applauded!

posted on September 18, 2009
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7. GenericName

These videos are excellently made, I’ll be passing along the link to as many people as I can.

Thanks for posting this.

posted on September 19, 2009
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Genius! This explains every aspect of argument against someone with faith better than anything I have ever seen or heard. It reminds me of an experience I had with one girl at my school whom I made cry simply because I told her every argument she was making to me of God’s existence was unreasonable and had no evidence….Don’t you think she would have heard that before?

posted on September 24, 2009
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Outstanding, hadn’t heard of him before, thanks.

posted on September 24, 2009
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Oh Bless you! Bless you! This is a blessing from the lord!..... Oh wait… it was made by a human.

No really, this is a great material.  Posting this on my facebook and everything else.

posted on October 23, 2009
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11. Cristopher

QualiaSoup is the shit, Been following his videos for a year now, check out his other stuff, I secially love his collab with TheraminTrees (check his stuff too) and open mindedness video

posted on January 25, 2010
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