Dawkins expressed the same sentiment as: we are all basically atheists, some just go one god further.

Thanks, in my heart I always knew Ricky Gervais was real

Man, too bad Dawkins and a lot of his ilk turned out to be kinda shitty

downvoters gods are real,only theirs

I'm guessing the down voters are reacting to seeing a bigot in their feed.

Wouldn't be surprised if Hinduism has at least 3000 on its own.

Fuck Ricky Gervais

There are no perfect people. Wisdom should still be gleaned from wherever it shows itself. The desire people have to place other people on pedestals has never made a bit of sense to me.

In monotheism, that is correct, but you have to add polytheism into consideration

Buddhism is also a religion.

They have the best understanding. The Supreme being is so omnipotent it manifests in many forms depending on the situation

Context: https://www.them.us/story/netflix-continues-its-transphobic-comedy-spree-with-ricky-gervaiss-supernature

Ah, how-convenient the false-framing..

There have been how many labels for infinity, & it's the LABEL and not the labelled-iNFINITY which is the REALITY??

Shove false-framing.

OceanOfAllAwakeSouls/OriginOfSouls/Brahman/G-D/UnlimitablePrimordiallyPureAWARENESS/AllPermatingBlissfulClearLightAWARENESS/Dzogchen, etc, all are labels for it.

It is itself: it isn't the label.

Scientism's beloved false-framing, straw-man-arguments, gaslightings, pseudo-science "experiments" which are engineered to test something that isn't the true-needing-to-be-tested thing, etc, can all go eat rocks.

Differentiate between the infinity & the label-humans-put-"on"-the-infinity.

( I'm not defending any of the local-gods stuff, I'm ONLY defending the ONE-G-D paradigm, the omni-present omniscient blissful-clear-light G-D, however-approximately-known.

The Muslim term "Lord OF WORLDS" gets at the truth: boundless, infinite.

That they simultaneously insist that it is limited-to-animal-male contradicts their own claim of its beyond-form ( in the Torah ) & it's being truly-infinite, but .. they're human: they're allowed to make mistakes, same as you are. )

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Until human-category-sentience, evolution only expresses generation-to-generation.

However, IN human-category-sentience, evolution can be made to happen within an individual life.

IF evolution, THEN perfection is fundamentally-more-possible than people are understanding.

That is what "yoga", meaning "to harness" is all about.

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So is empiricism: it is axiom-based, it is an assumption-river, it holds that contradictory-alternatives are bogus, which they are, etc.

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Don't worry, so did Gervais

Now go do a sold out show about cancel culture.

If you watch it you may see its not like that article makes it out to be.

His joke about Caitlyn Jenner that people were upset about wasn't anti-trans, it was about how stupid stereotypes are.

Basically the joke is after Bruce became Caitlyn and had that car crash, Ricky says "pbbt women drivers!".
Showing that as a society we woukd attach a stereotype to her gender instantly. Regardless of driving experience.

Eh, it's just idiot journalists not actually getting his jokes. Watch the special, it's brilliant.

I had to stop listening to Dawkins, he is antitrans and anti Muslim now, and was praising Christianity if we had to choose a religion

I'm not familiar enough with Hinduism to comment too strongly, but it's my understanding that while Brahma is the god of creation, he didn't create Vishnu and Shiva, who are separate beings and forces entirely and not aspects of each other the way the Catholic trinity is.

There very often isn't a single creator god in polytheism. There might be someone who created humans, but that figure(s) isn't necessarily the creator of all reality. You can look at Norse and Greek mythology for examples.

Is this a real quote from him? That'd be too perfectly smug.

I haven't confirmed that it's the exact words, but it's at least very close to something he said in one of his comedy specials.

people could try actually watching things instead of being fake outraged by them, ricky explains comedy for people like this in the opening 3m of that special.

the invention of lying was interesting

That's why I'm an omnist.

The atheism thing was always a veneer for racism, tbh. The whole New Atheism movement was a way to sell The War on Terror to progressive liberals. Instead of talking about Gog and Magog or whatever, it was about how "Islam is the Mother-Load of bad ideas", and how the backward orientals need to be taught western values.

I'm playing all sides so I always come out on top

Eh, I tend to find points that are broad enough to avoid actually saying anything or require ignoring exceptions not terribly useful.

Lol on correct religions.

I'm still going to try and avoid a brick thrown at me even if I'm just assuming it's real. I don't find questioning it useful.

What in the fucking slop ass nonsense are you going on about? You're stretching the limits of stupid and breathing a lot of hot air.

scientism

😂

This is funnier to me reading it as Harry Du Bois' internal monologue instead of as Ricky Gervais.

Imagine a world with perfect people, for instance, "Oh Dawkins? He's perfect! A man of no faults I say! I mean, yes this is all we ever can say about him, but hey, it's perfection we are talking about! He's on the top 1000 perfect people list, and really doesn't stand out a bit! What a dream!"

Most of social media would be a relative desert if fake outrage could just cease to exist.

I mean, monotheism wasn't really a thing (as far as well can tell) prior to 4302 years after humans first began to form civilizations.

For more than 4000 years, we started forming governments, systems of currency, art and culture, all believing that there was no way just 1 being could be to blame for all observable phenomena.

I feel like It could only be the rise of empires and Kings handed down from the heavens that lead to us to being so susceptible to monotheistic beliefs.

So, like most people, he just has a soft spot for the religion he was exposed to most in childhood.

Sounds like the dream to me.

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Fascinating stuff. Or at least I assume it would be, if it made any sense.

Completely incorrect. Empiricism does not require faith. And empiricism has no immutable dogma or doctrine.
While empiricism can provide the guidance that religion offers, it is not a religion.

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

That guy's a major weiner/stinker.

Successful check, you believe your own words.