An atheist's argument for the existence of God, and why he doesn't believe in God. This episode is about the Big Bang, the first domino, and how God is not real, but a magical gadget that can make sense of the universe. Also, I don't think God is real. I think he's not real at all, but that's not the point of this episode, and that's why I'm not mad at God. I'm mad at you if you don't believe that God has a long white beard and is a skinny guy with a long, white beard, but then again, maybe he does have a long beard and he's like skinny Santa and we're just putting emojis on it because we don't know that God doesn't exist, but we do know that everything else does, so why not just believe in him? I mean, why not believe in Him? I don t know, but I do believe that he does exist, and I think that he's pretty cool, so that's cool, right? Let me know what you think of it! Tweet me and let me know if you agree or disagree with me! Timestamps: 0:00 - The Big Bang 4:30 - How God came into existence 8:20 - What does God have to do with the universe? 9:40 - What is God's existence? 11:15 - God's role in all of this? 13:00 16:30 17:00 Is God real or not? 18: Does God exist? 19: What are we supposed to believe in anything else? 21: Is God a bad guy? 22:15 23:00 Do you believe in something? 25:00 Does God have wings? 26:00 What are you going to do about it? 27:00 How can I know God? 29:00 Can I believe God exists? 30:00 Are you a bad person? 31:00 Why do I believe in it? 32:00 Who are you better than me? 35:00 God is a bad dude? 36:30 Is God better than you? 37:30 What do you have a big white beard? 39:30 Do you have wings like that? 40:30 Does God suck? 45:00 Should I believe that I'm a loser?
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00:00:00.000I can make an atheist argument for the existence of God.
00:00:06.000You know, my father's an atheist, and he's a dogmatic atheist.
00:00:10.000He's like a preacher, an evangelical preacher.
00:00:14.000Sorry, I'm putting on my shoes, so the audio's gonna go in and out.
00:00:17.000He's like an evangelical preacher, but in reverse.
00:00:20.000He goes, you send your, you take your children to church!
00:00:29.000I mean, before I went to church, I thought it was a place where they talk about how all gays are going to hell, and how dinosaurs don't exist.
00:00:38.000And then you go there, and it's all about valuable lessons.
00:00:45.000And then you say a prayer, you pray, you basically just give thanks, and then you turn to your neighbor and you say, peace be with you, shake her hand, and you kiss your family.
00:01:23.000Actually, with the old man, we sort of stopped arguing last time he was here, because I said, I think I've come to the crux of the problem.
00:03:11.000And I think the first living organism looked like Pac-Man, with tons of eyeballs and teeth.
00:03:18.000He was like a tiny, microscopic little sphere with just a mouth.
00:03:22.000That thing had in it deer, hammerhead sharks, us.
00:03:28.000And the explosion also created mountains and water and that sort of grey area of ephirma that is sort of a plant, sort of an animal, like a, like a gnats, as gnats buzz around you.
00:04:17.000So, I see not just the Big Bang, but that magical first domino, that microchip.
00:04:23.000In the movie Prometheus, it's an alien who comes down here and drinks some sort of poison that shatters his body and his molecules separate and he goes into the water supply.
00:04:42.000I'm saying that Prometheus, the beginning of that movie, is an interpretation of what I'm saying, and Catholicism, Hinduism, I think the Maoris in New Zealand worship a giant tree.
00:04:54.000All these other religions are man's futile, desperate way to put it into words.
00:05:03.000We don't really, literally believe that you grow wings when you die and you play a harp.
00:05:07.000We don't literally believe that God has a long white beard and he's like a skinny Santa.
00:05:12.000That's just, we're just putting emojis on it.
00:05:17.000So, to talk about Jesus, I understand, the miracles, that's a whole other conversation.
00:05:24.000There's some that say that it's just metaphorically, it wasn't literally magic.
00:05:28.000The Jews obviously say he doesn't exist, and they follow everything but that guy.
00:05:33.000And then many, you know, Catholics say, no, those are actual miracles.
00:05:38.000But I'm not going to get into Jesus in this.
00:05:44.000So I guess the argument I'm making isn't for Catholicism, it's for Deism.
00:05:48.000And once we can get you on Deism, then I don't care where you go.
00:05:52.000You know, Charles Murray talks about how I think he gave up atheism and came to God, and it was just sort of like a dart in a dartboard that he chose.
00:10:57.000You know, one of the McKinnis, our name, one of the clan's mottos is, I derive pleasure from hard work.
00:11:04.000It says that in Gaelic with a little B.
00:11:07.000And I honestly think that's why blacks on welfare are so miserable and seemingly prone to crime, and Indians are so prone to alcoholism and depression and suicide, because it's not human not to struggle.
00:11:50.000You see, in that little tiny organism, the Prometheus molecule, there's all these checks and balances.
00:11:56.000Like, if you don't work, uh, I'm gonna make you miserable.
00:12:01.000If you play God, which is what communism is, Stalin is saying, I'm God now, I'm gonna distribute the food, I'm gonna do all the checks and balances myself, I'm gonna take over for the microchip.
00:12:13.000Well, when you do that, hundreds of millions of people die.
00:15:24.000I was talking to a guy yesterday who had, he had a herniated disc.
00:15:29.000So the sort of padding on his disc was sticking into his nerves, crippling pain.
00:15:33.000Within an hour and a half of walking into his surgeon's office, slid his back, cut the thing, moved it away from the nerves, put the nerves back, stitched them up.
00:16:43.000So hell is not being part of this magic equation and heaven is recreating, going back into the soil.
00:16:50.000So you could say an atheist who doesn't believe in God has a heaven and a hell and has a creator, that weird force that started the whole thing.
00:17:03.000And when we go to church, it's a very kid-friendly church, my church, and there's kids playing music and singing, a whole little choir, and there's kid time when the kids leave us and they go to some other room and do a kid's thing with one of the nuns, then they come back.
00:17:20.000And you're sitting there in this church, it's like 150 years old, and you're thinking about, I feel connected to the people who built it, and they had their kids in here, and sang these same hymns.
00:19:26.000And now, here I am, with all these functioning limbs, and I'm making babies, and I'm articulating my thoughts, and I can jump on a trampoline, and I can draw a pretty good goat.
00:19:41.000And we keep improving, and some guy can fix my back in an hour and a half.
00:19:48.000I mean, life has only been awesome for, like, since World War II, really.
00:19:54.000As far as conveniences go, if I'm hungry for one second, I have a panic attack.
00:20:00.000Like, I'm never remotely inconvenienced.
00:20:02.000I'm an alcoholic, and when I walk around Manhattan, literally every 50 feet, there is bourbon saying, would you like one, sir?
00:20:11.000They're totally within your budget, and I have to go, no thank you, I'm overfed.
00:20:15.000My pants are undone right now, by the way, because since I had this suit made, I've become fatter by overindulging myself.
00:20:21.000Okay, Gavin, but you're talking about how awesome life is and everything, but, uh, you never really got into the kids with cancer, and what about the third world?
00:23:05.000Possibly heaven, but definitely what religion is all about.
00:23:08.000And don't you think it's weird that you have some crazy tribe in Papua New Guinea and they, from nothing, will have some straw head that looks like, you know, what's his name from Castaway?
00:27:18.000The whole point is that we all as a community of humans over billions, not billions, well yeah, billions if you go back to the first organism.
00:27:27.000Billions of years we're all in this together, making the perfect human.
00:27:31.000And then you just, you give some guy amnesty by giving him a knowing heart?
00:28:28.000Get some parts wrong, but it's all man scrambling
00:28:32.000to put words, to put a body, to put clothes, to put pant on this bizarre, overwhelming, beautiful, literally awesome phenomenon called life.
00:28:45.000And when you go to church, you don't sit there and go, you go, Oh,