Tate Speech - April 29, 2018


EP14 - Tate on How God is Not Real

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EP12 - Tate on Choosing a Partner EP15 - Tate on Twitter

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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

220.7

Word count

1,269

Sentence count

103


Transcript

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00:00:04.000 God isn't real.
00:00:05.000 There's no evidence for God.
00:00:06.000 There's no proof for God.
00:00:07.000 Every time I say this, someone comes at me with their proof and they need to read the dictionary and understand what the dictionary definition of proof is.
00:00:13.000 It's very difficult to prove something.
00:00:14.000 It's actually difficult to prove gravity, let alone God, which doesn't exist.
00:00:18.000 You can't prove something that isn't there.
00:00:19.000 God isn't there.
00:00:20.000 So you haven't got proof for God.
00:00:21.000 In fact, most of you don't even have evidence for God.
00:00:23.000 Your evidence for God is always, well, I was in a car crash and I was supposed to die and I didn't die.
00:00:29.000 It's coincidences.
00:00:30.000 It's feelings.
00:00:32.000 It's personal experiences.
00:00:33.000 None of those things are evidence.
00:00:35.000 So, what religious people do is when they try and get evidence for God is, they point at the lack of evidence for other things.
00:00:40.000 They say, well, how did the universe get created?
00:00:42.000 And I say, well, we don't know exactly.
00:00:44.000 You don't know.
00:00:45.000 So, how else could it have been but God?
00:00:47.000 And that's like me walking downstairs into my living room and there's a perfectly wrapped Christmas present.
00:00:51.000 And someone goes, well, how did that get there?
00:00:52.000 And I say, I don't know.
00:00:53.000 They say, well, it must have been Santa Claus.
00:00:55.000 So, well, how do you know it's Santa?
00:00:56.000 Well, you don't know who else did it.
00:00:57.000 So, it's Santa.
00:00:59.000 Lack of evidence or lack of proof in one direction does not instantly throw it in the direction you want it to go in.
00:01:05.000 The crazy thing about religion is this.
00:01:07.000 If everyone was forced to be atheist until the age of 30 and then was told the religious stories and had the choice then if they became religious or remained an atheist, nobody would be religious.
00:01:18.000 There's not a single person who at the age of 30 would sit there and go, okay, tell me how this works.
00:01:24.000 Okay, Virgin Mary, and then he died, he came back to life, and then Nazareth, and then God's in the sky.
00:01:30.000 It's garbage.
00:01:31.000 Every 30-year-old in their right mind would throw that garbage out.
00:01:34.000 The reason people continue to believe into the later ages is because they were indoctrinated and brainwashed as a child.
00:01:40.000 And they feel guilty giving it up.
00:01:42.000 I have some very, very smart people who are still like, oh, well, I don't know.
00:01:47.000 They're afraid to say God doesn't exist because as a child it was drummed into their brains that God is there.
00:01:51.000 God is not there.
00:01:53.000 I absolutely assure you God is not there.
00:01:56.000 When I say this, another thing people come to me with is, well, prove he's not there.
00:02:00.000 And this is the kicker.
00:02:01.000 It's not my job to prove God doesn't exist.
00:02:04.000 It's your job to prove he does exist.
00:02:07.000 You are the one who believes, so you have the burden of proof.
00:02:10.000 If I were to come up to you and say, I have a love letter from Angelina Jolie saying she's going to suck my dick, you'd say, show me the letter.
00:02:18.000 I cannot then reply to you, prove I don't have the letter.
00:02:22.000 And unless you can prove I don't have the letter, then the letter exists.
00:02:26.000 Because there's no way you can prove I don't have the letter.
00:02:28.000 You can call Angelina Jolie up on the phone and say, did you give Andrew a love letter saying you want to suck his dick?
00:02:33.000 And she could say no.
00:02:34.000 And then I could say she was lying.
00:02:36.000 You could search my entire house and I could say it's somewhere else.
00:02:38.000 I put it in my friend's house.
00:02:40.000 You cannot prove I don't have a letter from Angelina Jolie.
00:02:44.000 Begging to suck my cock.
00:02:45.000 You can't prove it.
00:02:46.000 The only thing I can do, if I'm going to make such an outrageous claim, is prove I do have the letter.
00:02:52.000 Therefore, the burden of proof is on me.
00:02:54.000 The burden of proof is not on the person who disputes the claim.
00:02:58.000 You cannot say to an atheist, prove there's no God.
00:03:01.000 That's ridiculous.
00:03:02.000 You believe in this.
00:03:03.000 You believe in the magic sky man, so show him to me.
00:03:06.000 But you can't.
00:03:07.000 Because if God's real, and this is a huge if, because once again I'll reiterate, God is not real.
00:03:12.000 If God's real, there's two things we need to look at here.
00:03:15.000 One, he's trying exceptionally hard to conceal himself.
00:03:19.000 I mean, this is God here.
00:03:20.000 He's God.
00:03:21.000 He can do anything.
00:03:22.000 He tries exceptionally hard to conceal himself.
00:03:24.000 And when I say this, religious people go, no, God's all around you.
00:03:27.000 Look at a Coke bottle and the way the can, look at the stars.
00:03:32.000 All garbage.
00:03:33.000 You're looking at things with a pre-conclusive idea that God exists.
00:03:37.000 You've already decided God exists.
00:03:39.000 That's why you're looking at things and seeing God.
00:03:41.000 Well, that's easy.
00:03:42.000 But if you actually don't believe God exists and you're looking for God, He isn't there.
00:03:46.000 And he isn't there because he doesn't exist.
00:03:48.000 So, one, he's trying very hard to conceal himself, and actually, the only evidence he's giving us, the only evidence he puts down to the planet, this is some moron on Twitter telling me God's real.
00:03:59.000 The only evidence he puts on planet, fossils, evolutionary evidence, etc., actually is completely contradictory to God's existence.
00:04:05.000 So the only evidence God's decided to create is evidence which completely fuels the atheist agenda.
00:04:11.000 So congratulations, God.
00:04:12.000 And two, the more important thing, and this is actually indisputable, if God is real, which he is not, he's a dickhead.
00:04:20.000 God is a dickhead because of the things that happen to people on this earth.
00:04:24.000 God is a dickhead because babies die.
00:04:27.000 God is a dickhead because people who have never done anything wrong to anybody.
00:04:30.000 Are fucking run over by cars, while drug dealers are live on man living mansions, fucking hookers and snorting cocaine.
00:04:38.000 Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people far too often for god to exist.
00:04:44.000 And when I say this, then the religious reply is, but god has a plan?
00:04:48.000 No, he doesn't.
00:04:48.000 And you know he doesn't.
00:04:49.000 Because if god has a plan, you would look, wouldn't look both ways.
00:04:52.000 Before you cross the road, you wouldn't put on your seatbelt, you wouldn't even pay your rent.
00:04:56.000 Why?
00:04:57.000 God has a plan.
00:04:58.000 God's worked it all out for you.
00:04:59.000 Why do you have to look both ways for cars?
00:05:01.000 God decides if he wants you alive or not.
00:05:03.000 Don't worry about it, just walk out into the middle of the freeway.
00:05:05.000 God has a plan.
00:05:06.000 God hasn't got a fucking plan.
00:05:07.000 And if he does have a plan, his plan is to let the most religious countries in the world, the countries where the most people are religious, the biggest shitholes on this planet, his plan is to let them pray all day for basic human rights and basic human necessities and make sure he provides none of them.
00:05:22.000 Let all the people who pray all day praying to God for food starve.
00:05:27.000 And let all the people in the Nordics and Sweden and Norway, where no one believes in God, literally nobody, let them all be some of the richest, most wealthy countries on the planet.
00:05:35.000 That's what God's decided to do.
00:05:37.000 God's obviously decided to take the people who believe in him and punish them and let the people who don't believe live good lives.
00:05:43.000 God is obviously a vindictive asshole.