Penn Jillette: There is No God

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2005-12-02 08:05am

I was under the impression that thread necromancy depended on the relative activity level of the forum?

Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something.

Awesome, just freakin' awesome. I now have to shake Penn's hand if I ever see him in person. I wonder what Teller's views are on the subject?

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2005-12-02 09:58am

Hey, my screen showed the little piece of paper to be green and wigglin' back and forth, so I figgered it was still alive...so...

The Original Nex · Post by **The Original Nex** » 2005-12-03 03:00pm

Loved that.

Of course NPR has to backpedal at the end by having next weeks "I Believe" segment from a guy who says "I have found a belief in God" to counter Jillette's essay and avoid being connected to any sort of atheist message (or as Mr. Jillette put it: beyond atheist

).

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2005-12-03 10:51pm

LordShaithis wrote:
Zooty.....zoot-zoot!
Some people frown upon thread necromancy, but I support it in the case of well-considered and content laden posts such as this. Good show.

Nov 22 to Dec 1?

Any who, I recomend 'Bullshit'. Its up there amongst Mythbusters.

Spacebeard · Post by **Spacebeard** » 2005-12-03 11:58pm

The Original Nex wrote:
Of course NPR has to backpedal at the end by having next weeks "I Believe" segment from a guy who says "I have found a belief in God" to counter Jillette's essay and avoid being connected to any sort of atheist message (or as Mr. Jillette put it: beyond atheist ).

Didn't they already have an "I believe in God" segment, from William F. Buckley? I remember cracking up when I heard him say that he believes in God because "it is intellectually easier".

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-12-04 11:16am

Molyneux wrote:Awesome, just freakin' awesome. I now have to shake Penn's hand if I ever see him in person. I wonder what Teller's views are on the subject?

Teller is also an atheist, and his views are pretty similar. He just doesn't talk about it as much, for obvious reasons.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2005-12-04 01:04pm

One guest speaker for one of my classes was the producer of a four part thing with Penn and Teller on the history of magic.

Little known fact I walked away with, while in China they booked them into a brothel. Apparently it was the nicest hotel they could find...