Comments by "Be N S O N" (@Colddirector) on "PragerU" channel.

  1. Sassafras and there you go, the threats come out. Your god sounds like a gangster from the 1920s. “Eh that’s a nice soul you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it”
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  2. Sassafras the mob boss warns me he’ll break my legs if I don’t pay up as well
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  3. Kevin S + constant US foreign intervention
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  4. Uncommon Sense same standard levied upon socialism. Less unfair actually, since capitalism has had centuries of largely unopposed rule.
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  5. Christianity isn’t the only religion, you know. I think a lot of Eastern religions lack the fundamental flaws that the Abrahamic religions do. There’s also Paganism, if that’s your thing.
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  6.  @sofiabravo1994  to you, maybe it is. but you aren't the ultimate arbiter of religion, are you?
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  7. ​ @MrMichaeledavis83  Testimonial evidence is plenty enough for say, a murder or a theft, but we're talking about how the universe began. The standard of evidence for that is much, much higher.
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  8.  @MrMichaeledavis83  I never said it was an entity, in fact I never made a conclusion. The fact is, we just don't know what happened before the Big Bang, for all we know the universe is eternal but it goes through an endless cycle of expansion and contraction. In fact Occams Razor would imply that is the simplest explanation.
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  9.  @MrMichaeledavis83  You say that as if the Big Bang theory and a cyclical universe are incompatible. I'll concede that point regarding entropy though.
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  10. TheTriggeredDuck How am I fascist?
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  11. Mindblaster Mindblaster 1. The Democratic Party, at least the mainstream faction, are neoliberal scum - economically right while slightly culturally left, actual leftists at best tolerate them. Neither of those two are “far-right”.
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  12. TheTriggeredDuck how about you try actually understanding what I’m saying before laughing at what you’re being trained to laugh at?
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  13. TheTriggeredDuck You can debate whether you believe they are accomplishing that goal, but that is the mission statement of Antifa and what it’s members believe they are doing. There’s no super secret plan to take over society, even if they wanted that they’re not organised enough to do it. They literally just show up where they think Nazis are.
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  14. The Ultimate Chad You mean like the right wing terrorism that’s been on the rise in the US recently? Or the abortion center bombings?
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  15. Lochness Monsta not a globalist. globalism is a neoliberal project. sorry try again.
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  16. TheTriggeredDuck yet you feel comfortable making blanket statements about a group you’ve never actually interacted with. Why is that?
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  17. TheTriggeredDuck not sure what you were going for with that, but I agree that men should have the right to relinquish parenthood during early pregnancy. A financial abortion if you will
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  18. Daniel b It really isn’t a blind defense, it’s well backed fact that the parties switched over time. I’m really not sure how you think the Democrats are treating minorities like incompetents or children, so I can’t answer that. Also if you think the Democratic Party is down with communism, you either don’t understand what communism is or aren’t actually paying attention. The establishment dems are desperately fighting to keep Bernie and Warren out of the lead and they’re barely even socialist.
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  19. Sol Yens you seem very dead set in your opinion, so do just one thing for me - search up “Richard Spencer Hail Trump” and tell me what you think
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  20. TheTriggeredDuck You mean of alt right people that support Trump? I’ve got more if you want. Spencer’s just the most prominent - especially early in the Trump era.
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  21. TheTriggeredDuck I wasn’t trying to “prove” anything with that post, I was debunking the other guys notion that no alt righter supports Trump. I’m trying to give you an alternate perspective. Should I just snort arrogantly at you and say “Oh, I’m above talking to you, CHILD. You’re just too IMMATURE to get it.”. Is that what you want?
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  22. Sol Yens the “it’s just a meme bro” defense wears kinda thin when the guy doing it is an avowed white nationalist.
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  23. Daniel b The benefits I believe you’re talking about are compensatory - attempting to adjust for systemic inequalities. It’s about presenting opportunities to people who never would’ve had opportunities presented to them. You can disagree that those structural inequalities exist, but nobody but alt-right idiots think that minorities are incompetent. I agree that this conversation is over unless you can see past your cartoon caricature of socialism and actually learn what it means.
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  24. TheTriggeredDuck No, but you seem to think you are, considering you bringing up your age
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  25. Daniel b Are you trying to say that Spencer isn’t a white nationalist?
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  26. Sol Yens Alt righters are very stupid people, but they were also attracted to Trumps anti-immigrant populism. Stuff like the wall, and completely shutting down Muslim immigration, enough to look past his connections to Jews. And I’ve already explained that the benefits you’re probably talking about are meant to offset structural disadvantages, meaning those held back by factors beyond their control.
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  27. Mykon PT I mentioned their beliefs to make a point the only thing that can be construed as fascist by Antifa is the political violence against fascists, and even then they generally, as anarchists, do not support a state suppressing fascist speech. Beyond that, their ideology and praxis are about as far from fascist as you possibly get, since fascists are auth-right and Antifa are overwhelmingly anarchist left
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  28. Tuhljin Tampergauge Please quote the rest of that post, I very clearly elucidated that almost nobody, even on the right, is a free speech absolutist.
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  29. Im pretty sure Nietsche’s work is all about finding meaning in a world without God. These aren’t new questions or new answers.
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  30.  @bidenisacommunistpuppet.3831  that’s great for you, don’t try to lecture me where my freedom comes from
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  31.  @bidenisacommunistpuppet.3831  don’t see how believing in god would protect any of my freedoms but okay
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  32.  @frankhansman2111  this video is addressed to atheists, so why are you surprised that they’re responding?
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  33.  @bidenisacommunistpuppet.3831  you’ve still failed to explain how believing in god would protect my freedoms. Need I remind you it was the evangelical backed Bush administration that passed the PATRIOT Act? Sure seems more like a threat to my freedoms than anything else.
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  34.  @frankhansman2111  I never actually said that, but okay. I just said that the evangelical backed GOP has been a bigger threat to my freedoms than my atheism has been. You seem completely dead set on this fantasy that 20th century tyrants somehow did what they did as an ideological crusade for atheism, so I won’t interfere with your fantasy.
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  35.  @frankhansman2111  True - they all targeted the churches, partially because the church held a lot of political and cultural power in their society (the Tsar was literally the head of the Orthodox church), and partially to place themselves at the head of a new civic religion. None of them did what they did to actually eliminate religion, but to simply -place themselves and their state at where the church once was. And I can't exactly "abandon" my beliefs when I think there's no evidence for the existence of any god, and moreso, spirituality is a nonsensical concept with zero explanatory power.
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  36.  @sv3931  Well spoilers - I'm not a fan of the other two either. And assuming one of those two is Judaism (it changes from person to person), Christianity inherits most or all of its rules depending on your sect or interpretation of the Bible.
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  37.  @sv3931  If the NT was just a philosophical book, like Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, I’d have no problem with it. The problem is all the spiritualist baggage, and its arguable endorsement of the OT’s laws.
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  38.  @sv3931  I can’t tell which post of mine you’re referring to, but religiosity clearly doesn’t prevent inhumane actions in all people. The difference in scale of mass murder by those 20th century tyrants is far better attributable to materialistic and sociological reasons: ie massive populations, history of authoritarian rule, pre or emerging industrial revolution.etc. Attributing those massacres to atheistic morality is little more than biased conjecture.
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  39.  @sv3931  Personally? Not that often, between once a week to once a month, but that isn’t the problem. The problem is the religious nuts who are trying to enshrine their values into law, or teach their religion as science in schools (re: creationism), or have government favour their religion in other ways (7 commandments in public buildings). Just take a look at any American dollar bill: “In God We Trust” - that was added in the 50s.
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  40.  @sv3931  History for Thinkers has a good video about this - the Nazis were clearly trying to turn the state into Germany’s new religion so they can channel the devotion and meaning Christianity once held for these people into itself. And the USSR did similar. In fact, I think Frank mentioned the French Revolution at one point - they did that in a far less subtle, more literal way. when they established the Cult of Reason to replace Catholicism after driving it out of France, then later, the Cult of the Supreme Being under Robespierre.
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  41.  @sv3931  My point regarding Meditations is that it’s at best, suggesting Stoicism to you (not even that arguably, since Marcus did not write these for public consumption), the NT on the other hand is trying to sell you its religion. It may have philosophy as well but that is not it’s primary function. I’ve alluded to this in numerous posts beforehand, but depending on your interpretation, Jesus pretty explicitly says all the OT laws are still in effect (Matthew 5:18). You can argue that it’s still only the spiritual training for the Jews, but judging from the amount of non-Jewish Christians that still quote the Old Testament, especially for political reasons, clearly that isn’t a unanimous consensus.
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