1. Comment #240333 by RichardofYork on August 31, 2008 at 11:10 am

I do hope people get this ;o)

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2. Comment #240336 by Dadeolus on August 31, 2008 at 11:14 am

It maybe satire, but I've met people who use this type of reasoning for real!

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3. Comment #240341 by ColdFusionLazarus on August 31, 2008 at 11:23 am

Maybe "He doesn't exist", but we know that can't be true because of the Bible.

Has David Robertson seen this?

I'll stick to my untestable "faith" of atheism and science.

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4. Comment #240347 by cam9976 on August 31, 2008 at 11:30 am

LOL! Brilliant satire right here!

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5. Comment #240348 by Ex~ on August 31, 2008 at 11:30 am

He should have quoted the Psalms:

"The fool says in his heart there is no God"

So, obviously, you'd have to be a fool to think God doesn't exist.

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6. Comment #240353 by Dhamma on August 31, 2008 at 11:38 am

This was really funny and thought-provoking (maybe not for us, though). I usually don't think he's particularly good, but I liked this one a lot.

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7. Comment #240358 by Faithhead on August 31, 2008 at 11:41 am

Very good indeed.

Good Satire!!

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8. Comment #240361 by Shaka on August 31, 2008 at 11:43 am

I love Satire. =P

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9. Comment #240366 by kaiserkriss on August 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm

Excellent!! I'll have to share this with my Christian friends... jcw

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10. Comment #240371 by truth/beauty on August 31, 2008 at 12:13 pm

I watched it and gave it one star for being another fundy video, then came back to leave a comment and you're all saying "good satire."

What? Simply restating their beliefs (no matter how rediculous) by itself isn't satire. There needs to be some sarcasm or point where you realize that it's satire. That video for all the world looks exactly like a Christian video because it simply states their beliefs.

Yeah, I could have looked at EdwardCurrent's channel first and noticed that it's theme is parody, but I didn't. As it is, the video stands to reaffirm rather than ridicule.

... so sorry for the one star Eddy.

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11. Comment #240382 by oasis-al-reason on August 31, 2008 at 12:24 pm

I'm going to pretend to my believer friends that I have shed my atheism and become a firm believer after seeing this 'revelation' and ask them to view it to strengthen their belief.

On second thought I'd better not. It'll probably backfire and they'll scream out "Praise de lord!!!"

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12. Comment #240383 by J Mac on August 31, 2008 at 12:24 pm

"That video for all the world looks exactly like a Christian video because it simply states their beliefs."

Yes Poe's Law has raised the bar for religious satire hasn't it. I'm not sure that it is even possible to satirize religion by these standards.

Perhaps when I am very old and have nothing to loose I'll dope up on every hallucinogen and mind altering drug I can find, give myself a home lobotomy with a screw driver then sit down with a pen and paper. I MAY be able to scribble down something nonsensical enough to actually qualify as a satire of religion.

But then again I could end up with a crowd of followers a couple thousand years after my death.

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13. Comment #240389 by Diacanu on August 31, 2008 at 12:31 pm

truth/beauty-

There needs to be some sarcasm or point where you realize that it's satire.

Um, there were lots of them.
They were mostly snarky comments in text, so you had to be watching as well as listening.
The bit about god killing first born children was a dead giveaway.

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14. Comment #240410 by henning on August 31, 2008 at 12:58 pm

This was brilliant!

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15. Comment #240414 by Edamus on August 31, 2008 at 12:59 pm

I love Edward Current. He is a genius, and I love that people don't get his satire!

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16. Comment #240415 by NewEnglandBob on August 31, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Diacanu is correct about the existence of lots of satire. truth/beauty is off base. I give it 3.1415926...out of 5 stars


I loved the suggestion for DNA copyright 1965 God.

Edit: I added the 15 I thought I had typed.

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17. Comment #240416 by Quine on August 31, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Comment #240389 by Diacanu:

The bit about god killing first born children was a dead giveaway.

The images of deformed babies should get through, if nothing else.

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18. Comment #240442 by ste.d on August 31, 2008 at 1:39 pm

I could have looked at EdwardCurrent's channel first and noticed that it's theme is parody, but I didn't.

I'm always disappointed when it's not just the other side that can't detect satire. Anyway, I thought it was very funny (except the effective but unpleasant baby images).

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19. Comment #240482 by DamnDirtyApe on August 31, 2008 at 2:06 pm

'Why didn't he embed copies of the bible in rocks'... heheh...

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20. Comment #240488 by Peacebeuponme on August 31, 2008 at 2:15 pm

Coulda done without seeing the harlequin baby pic though.

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21. Comment #240508 by Artifactorfiction on August 31, 2008 at 2:35 pm

I thought this was reasonably funny.
And its subtle enough that the odd rationally challenged faith head might actually pay attention long enough, without the usual hands over ears and speaking loudly defense mechanism, to get drawn in before it dawns on them that they are the butt of the joke.
People remember being laughed at with pain and some might just reflect upon the contradiction of the prose and images. It might just work at getting a few to question their blind faith.

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22. Comment #240524 by Sage on August 31, 2008 at 2:52 pm

I think I've heard this guy before. I do confess, I was totally fooled. =(

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23. Comment #240571 by Harko on August 31, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Ed and Pat: The crack atheist tag team :-)

Quality!

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24. Comment #240578 by Lastandfirstmen on August 31, 2008 at 3:51 pm

I'm a big fan of Edward Current's videos. He really hits the nail on the satirical head. He does though attract many religious fans where the message has gone way over their warped heads.

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25. Comment #240638 by Shuggy on August 31, 2008 at 6:26 pm

16. Comment #240415 by NewEnglandBob

Diacanu is correct about the existence of lots of satire. truth/beauty is off base. I give it 3.14926...out of 5 stars

Why 3.14926... looks like a pretty irrational number to choose. (and 0.766... more than pi...?)

I clicked at "killing of the firstborn" and KNEW it was satire with God on a milk carton - that's just not believers' humour, strange though theirs may be.

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26. Comment #240679 by Alternative Carpark on August 31, 2008 at 9:27 pm

W, wait, where's the punchline?

So sad...

"I know, through faith...."

"Logical deduction..."

God does indeed seem non-existant - no one is disputing that (except those who believe he? talks to them). Surely, surely, then, the logical course of action would be to dismiss him altogether, until he starts seeming otherwise.

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27. Comment #240720 by Chris Madden on September 1, 2008 at 12:57 am

I thought that the whole thing was a 'straight' pro-god presentation at first. Then I decided that the graphics were a satirical comment overlaid on a straight speech. Only at the very end was I actually totally sure that the whole thing was a set-up, although my suspicions had been rising as it continued. It was good because for a lot of the talk I felt uneasy that I couldn't decide whether it (the talk - not the graphics) was a spoof or not. The fact that a spoof like this can be made about religion without relying on any exaggeration is possibly the whole point of the piece.

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28. Comment #240763 by Eventhorizon on September 1, 2008 at 2:37 am

Who was it who once said that 'the invisable looks very much like the non-existant'

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29. Comment #240808 by bachfiend on September 1, 2008 at 4:45 am

He seems to agree with Douglas Adams, when he is describing the Babel fish in "the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You do exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic".
That is precisely the reason why God (blessed be His name, provided it isn't a She, or even worse Allah), refuses to prove His (or Her) existence.
Actually this scene was deleted from the recent film version (which was a disaster of monumental proportions, I much preferred the BBC series, though Douglas Adams apparently hated it) , probably because it would have irritated the Americans too much. I understand it's on the DVD as an extra.

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30. Comment #240816 by AfraidToDie on September 1, 2008 at 5:05 am

26. Comment #240638 by Shuggy: Why 3.14926... looks like a pretty irrational number to choose. (and 0.766... more than pi...?)

I give it a .666 out of 2/3! That was fantastic. It so illogically put together a logical case for atheist's obvious irrationality. Maybe as the theist sees this satire about how difficult it is to believe in something that makes no sense, they'll come away with an appreciation as to why atheists don't believe. And then, maybe a little light will come on in their poor little indoctrinated heads?

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31. Comment #240846 by Count von Count on September 1, 2008 at 7:03 am

Ex~

The psalm you mentioned reminded me of this short video, where the same quote is brilliantly turned on its head.

(By the way, of the link doesn't work, type 'atheist' into YouTube, and click on the video with a thumbnail of Carl Sagan.)

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32. Comment #240925 by Tzsak on September 1, 2008 at 9:56 am

Very funny video. All my Christian friends have the most stupid explanation that God would violate our freewill to choose whether to believe in him or not if he did anything to make the world a better place.

They are absolutely infuriating. So he's giving us the ability to make a guess with no evidence that could potentially lead to us being burned in hell forever!? I can demonstrate to them that it is my personality and way of thinking that was cultivated as a result of the way I was brought up which led to me being atheist, and not free will. I can point out that God 'violated the free will' and proved he existed to of pretty much everyone in the Bible, why are they allowed a free ticket to heaven and not me!?

So they won't think for a second about an unanswered prayer, yet when a single prayer happens to come true, in circumstances in which there is no evidence of divine intervention, they praise it as a miracle!

Christians are ridiculously stupid in their faith -_-'

[/rant]

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33. Comment #240970 by wiz220 on September 1, 2008 at 11:03 am

To the folks that didn't understand this as satire:

Are you kidding?!? If you didn't laugh (and understand that this was satire) at the text message and copyright at the end of the DNA sequence that's just sad.

From Grandma: "Heaven is teh shit"

Brilliant! LOL

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34. Comment #241005 by Lastandfirstmen on September 1, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Take a look at one of his other works.

The Atheist Delusion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhQLt1vbWU

'It's comedy Jim, but not as we know it'

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35. Comment #241094 by Alternative Carpark on September 1, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Wait a minute!

Sounds like I should have watched this video, instead of just listening to it. I surreptitiously view this site during work hours while I work, so most videos are just listened to in a minimised window.

Throughout this talk, I was convinced that this guy could not be for real; I guess that the visual presentation must have confirmed that. I shall watch it at lunchtime.

I guess it is a sad indictment of the times that even something as over the top as this can not instantly be recognised as satire, without visual aids, because of the abundance of even more ridiculous views, which are widely held and loudly promulgated these days.

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36. Comment #241122 by Alternative Carpark on September 1, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Ok, just watched it, and got it.

P.S.

Why do I have to log in, each and every time? More than a little annoying.

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37. Comment #241139 by Saerain on September 1, 2008 at 9:09 pm

This convinced me that I must schedule a mass e-mail to be sent in 2106 or so reading, 'heaven is teh shit...wish u were here...LOL.'

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38. Comment #241153 by Bob Vogel on September 1, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Edward Current is fabulous. He's getting better with every video he makes. Thanks for posting this.

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39. Comment #241330 by Sargeist on September 2, 2008 at 5:50 am

Comment #240488 by Peacebeuponme

Coulda done without seeing the harlequin baby pic though.

I agree. But given its horrific nature, it does back up the obvious answer to the problem of evil quite well.

Is it immoral of me to think that the best thing that could be done for that baby would have been a quick dose of morphine and a quick burial?

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40. Comment #241501 by retrospy on September 2, 2008 at 12:01 pm

Only in the light of religious lunacy, actually existing, can a video like this be mistaken for sincere. Yes people, this is the world in which we live. It's a shame that satire of this caliber took this long to emerge. Props to Ed Current.

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41. Comment #241601 by Border Collie on September 2, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Was this done by the same guy who did the 'Christianity is Pagan' videos? Anyone? I'd like to find that series all in one spot. It seems to be scattered all over Youtube and I don't know if I've seen all of them.

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42. Comment #241605 by truth/beauty on September 2, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Just to answer to my initial post and those who refered to it:

Yeah, I realize that I was "off base" now and yeah, I feel stupid about it, especially because I consider myself as one who picks-up on those finer points.

It was a frame of mind issue... I think I've been watching too many YouTube videos. At one point I was thinking, "Oh look how the fundies are using slang on a cell phone to try to relate to youth!"

May be a sign that I sould trade some of that YouTube time with a shot of academia.
:)

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43. Comment #244291 by species8472 on September 8, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Oh yeah good. Really really good...
Should've been a warning about the baby pictures though.

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44. Comment #246959 by SpeakerForTheDead on September 13, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Brilliant. Loved it.
But wait, there must be another reason for God's purposeful, make-beleive nonexistance ploy.
Being omniscient, He already knows who is faithful, and to what degree.

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45. Comment #248169 by junkanoo on September 15, 2008 at 7:50 pm

that Checkmate. is awesome

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