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atheist Richard Dawkins he recently came
out with some comments in regards to a
study that was just recently done not
too long ago that he found quite
surprising yet in many ways easily
concurred but before we get into this
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comes from faith wire.com and it reads
atheists richard dawkins getting rid of
God would make world less moral you
think hey you know what if you went to
Sunday school and you were a kid you
could have figured that out years ago
human beings are natural sinners and
guess what if you don't have a moral
compass or a God that you follow you're
going to end up in the dumper eventually
and I think a lot of these big cities
that kind of frown on doubt are kind of
showing that but I digress the article
reads Richard Dawkins perhaps the
world's most famous atheist has admitted
that eliminating God from the public
consciousness would pose huge problems
speaking to British paper The Times
Dawkins insisted that if religion were
to be abolished it would give people a
license to do really bad things Wow this
is the guy the leading guy who's always
poo pooed the idea of God even existing
or even have any having any purpose real
purpose
he was just a crutch okay a crutch that
wasn't necessary because human beings
could do things
for themselves but according to this now
the sudden word the study that just came
out well he hates to say it but you know
what I think we need God we need God or
at least the idea of God and the
principles that go along with God in
order to maintain as Satan a certain
moral and virtuous society expanding on
his point the oxford university fellow
said without the presence of a higher
being people may feel free to do bad
things because they feel God is no
longer watching them I think it goes a
little bit deeper than that but just for
on the surface he's right reverting to
his sharp rhetoric on religion Dawkins
warned that people would feel entitled
to do what they like because they no
longer need to obey a divine spy camera
in the sky reading their every thought a
description he often uses for an
omnipresent God it's the position of
someone who doesn't want to believe in
God where people who believe in God who
are Christians often take it in a little
bit of a different direction we don't
look at it like the divine spying camera
in the sky reading every thought every
no no no we actually welcome that we
want that because we want to be moral we
want to be virtuous we want to be
upstanding people we understand the
benefits of it not only as individuals
but as a society as a whole as a whole
this is actually looking down like you
better do what I say because if you
don't you're gonna pay it depends on
your perspective and where you're coming
from a Christian wouldn't look at it
exactly like this but someone who's not
a Christian definitely looks at it like
the way he said it
Dawkins revealed an experiment he came
across working on his latest book
outgrowing God which intended on finding
out whether people would be good if they
felt someone was watching them the
experiment carried out by Professor
Melissa Bateson at the University of
Newcastle entailed the setting up of a
coffee station at honesty box system for
payments people simply put in what they
felt was appropriate amount for their
drink of choice oK we've all seen this
kind of before it's kind of like you
know bye and trust sort of thing
so that was set up however at different
points Bateson changes the display
overlooking the coffee bar switching
between a flower image and an ominous
pair of eyes when the eyes are watching
you Li three times more was paid as much
for the drinks when the eyes were
displayed I kind of fixed that a little
bit because whoever wrote this article
kind of didn't do it right then we
actually write it all correctly
Dawkins explained it concluding that
whether irrational or not it does
unfortunately seem plausible that if
somebody sincerely believes God is
watching his every move or her he or she
might be more likely to be good well
yeah because God knows everything right
you don't have that in you you're gonna
start more lying more cheating more
stealing this that and our thing is
gonna be more prevalent because who you
got to answer to besides yourself now is
everyone gonna take this position no
well a great majority of society to it
probably responding to the professor's
remarks controversial creationist leader
Ken Ham who Dawkins has tussled with on
several occasions commented that Dawkins
has spent his life fighting against God
the god he doesn't believe even exists
but still recognizes that atheism the
world view religion of Richard Dawkins
doesn't provide the foundation for
morality exactly even if you don't
believe in Jesus Christ as the deity
even if you don't believe in God in
general a period at all it's a set of
moral standards that keeps a society
functional and existing with certain
principles you don't have that basically
society is at a whimp to change whatever
it is wants to be at anytime and say
it's justified
there's no barometer there's no
measuring stick there's no levels of
right and wrong without a biblical
foundation anything goes ham said who is
to say what is right or wrong there is
no ultimate foundation it becomes
arbitrary everyone does what what's
right in their own eyes in fact Dawkins
is admitting that atheism is totally
bankrupt morally absolutely you can't
maintain a moral Society
about a foundation and God the
principles of the Bible are what
actually maintain a moral Society cannot
be disputed throughout history and time
it's been proven I just found this
extremely fascinating now I want to show
you this Bible verse
it's from Titus chapter 2 verse 12 I'm
gonna read from the New International
Version it teaches us to say no to
ungodliness and worldly passions and to
live self-controlled
upright and godly lives in this present
age now this present age was basically
from the time that Jesus Christ died and
rose and went to heaven to be with the
father till now the end times this
present age needs God because it
actually enables you to tell you how to
fight off worldly passions and to live a
self controlled life now will you fail
sometimes as a Christian or a
non-christian absolutely but you need
that barometer to know exactly what is
right what is wrong and then try to lead
that life that way and then I sincerely
believe if you decide to live by what
the Bible says as far as morally
especially the New Testament and you try
to live your life that way to the best
year ability you're going to find
yourself being a much more happier moral
virtuous person if you want to be an
upright person follow the laws of God
even if you don't believe in him the
laws and nature's laws aren't changing
follow what he's instructed us to do
live a prosperous life you don't follow
it immorality and craziness and soup
that's the bottom line now I wanted to
bring up this here because people always
talk about the founding fathers and how
they weren't Christians now a lot of
them were not but the point of this
video is the fact that regardless of
whether they believed in Jesus Christ as
far as being a Savior they believed in
the divinity or the Trinity they still
believed most of them believed in the
principles of the Bible which is
actually the point here which I wanted
to use with the article with Dawkins the
ex-president bent over the book using a
razor and scissors to carefully cut out
small
where's of text soon the books words
would live in their own book hand bound
in red letter and ready to be read for
in private moments of contemplation each
cut had a purpose and each word was
carefully considered as he worked Thomas
Jefferson pasted his selections each in
variety of ancient and modern languages
that reflected the vast learning into
the book in neat columns this is the
book this is the Bible that Thomas
Jefferson made for himself with all the
principles and teachings of Jesus Christ
he didn't believe Jesus Christ was the
Savior he didn't believe in the Divine
Trinity he didn't believe he was a you
know divine from God but he believed in
the principles of Jesus Christ and what
they stood for and believed that a
society would be well better off for
following them back in the day he took a
Bible cut them out piece by piece glued
it into his own Bible because they
thought he was they were so worthwhile
that that's what he did with them
Jefferson's Bible focused on Jesus as a
man of morals a teacher whose truths
were expressed without the help of
miracles or supernatural powers so as
principles in fact nature's law what God
and Jesus Christ taught us are in effect
even to today and Thomas Jefferson
recognized that Jefferson managed to
maintain Jesus role as a great moral
teacher not as a shaman or a faith
healer Jesus or Jefferson didn't intend
for the Bible to be read but his Bible
to be read by others but see this is the
port part Jesus role as a great moral
teacher not a shaman or a faith healer
so he was a great moral teacher that he
felt that everybody should know and
understand he made his own Bible very
private Bible for himself to read
Jefferson's great granddaughter agreed
to sell the second volume of life and
morals of Jesus of Nazareth to is to the
Smithsonian Institution so that's how
Thomas Jefferson viewed the principles
of the Bible and why they're important
now I have some quotes here from wall
builders all in this last one I talked
about here this was actually on history
com
for Thomas Jefferson this one here comes
from wall builders and here's a few
quotes from of the founding fathers
without religion this world would be
some something not fit to be mentioned
in polite company I mean he'll the
Christian religion is above all the
religions that every prevailed or
existed in ancient or modern times the
religion of wisdom virtue equity and
humanity and that is John Adams our
second president John Quincy Adams said
this in the chain of human events the
birthday of this nation is indisputably
linked with the birthday of the Savior
the Declaration of Independence laid the
cornerstone of human government upon
first precepts of Christianity people
who don't believe in Christ as the
Savior still recognize the Bible and its
importance especially our founders who
started America one of the reasons why
people say capitalism doesn't exist
anymore is because you know we're not
practicing capitalism or it's called
crony capitalism because people didn't
maintain the morality of being honest
and it's not just businessmen it's a
society as a whole that causes crony
capitalism here we have john dickinson
signer of the Constitution governor of
Pennsylvania governments could not give
the rights essential to happiness we
claim them from a higher source from the
king of kings and the Lord of lords our
freedom is based on the principles of
the Bible no doubt and they also
recognize the fact you can't have the
kind of freedom that America stands to
have without living a life built on the
principles of the Bible it can't exist
in fact John Adams said so there are
tons of quotes here folks I'm just
giving you a few this is Patrick Henry
you know the guy give me liberty give me
death guy they're great pillars of all
government and of social life are virtue
morality and religion this is the armor
my friend and this alone that renders us
invincible if we discard those things
we will be destroyed eventually there's
no doubt in my mind and if you don't
have the Bible you're not gonna be
virtuous you're not gonna know about
morality Thomas Jefferson I am a
Christian in the only sense in which he
wished anyone to be sincerely attached
to his doctrines in preference to all
others I am a real Christian that is to
say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus
Christ
founders weren't Christians huh
technically maybe they didn't believe in
being saved but technically they
believed in the principles that Jesus
talked about and here we go I got a call
I got one or two more highlighted there
there's George Washington we all know
who he is right the guy who actually
could have actually been in a monarch
because his army wanted him to take over
and become King and he's the one
actually refused and said no I want to
be President I didn't come here
I didn't just defeat a George so I can
come over here and started another
monarchy and become the same kind of
George here that was over there I will
be President we will have a republic and
we'll practice democracy and within that
republic he said you do well to wish to
learn our arts and ways of life and
above all the religion of Jesus Christ
these will make you a greater and
happier people than you are what do you
think would happen if people did that
today in America huh Daniel Webster
whatever makes men good Christians makes
them good citizens Noah Webster all the
evils which men suffer from vice crime
ambition injustice oppression slavery
and war proceed from there despising or
neglecting the precepts contained in the
Bible are people who say well why did we
have slavery because a lot of people in
the south weren't abolitionists they
believed in slavery but people who are
real Christians who studied the Bible
were against slavery but we couldn't
fight against slavery because if we did
we would had a civil war we would have
been destroyed and that would have been
the end of it our citizens should early
understand that the genuine source of
correct republican principles is the
Bible particularly the New Testament or
the
Christian religion the Christian
religion is the most important and one
of the first things in which all
children under a free government ought
to be instructed now kicked out of the
school but should be instructed no truth
is more evident than than that the
Christian religion must be the basis of
any government intended to secure the
rights and privileges of a free people
the Bible is the chief moral cause of
all that is good and the best corrector
of all that is evil in human society the
best book for regulating the temporal
concerns of men meaning it's consistent
no matter how many change the Bible is
always the same the Christian religion
is the basis or rather the source of all
genuine freedom and government I am
persuaded that no civil government of a
republic form can exist and be durable
in which the principles appreciate have
not a controlling influence and I
believe that's the last one I
highlighted I think it was there are so
many quotes here from the founding
fathers that back this up and getting
back to the fact all of you were gonna
say well you have to follow an invisible
man invisible man in the sky I'm not
talking about an invisible man in the
sky I'm talking about the principles in
the Bible that's what makes the
difference and this guy right here
the greatest atheist known in our
generation or generations Richard
Dawkins agrees getting rid of God would
make world less moral huh go figure
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