Christian man says humanists are debauched. Andrew Copson explains what Humanism is really all about

tell us what you think about our last big question - should humanists have equal rights to religions if you'd like to be an audience at a future show you can email audience tbq at mentor TV we're going to be in Sulphur on the 24th of January Glasgow on the 1st of February and South Hampton on the 8th well just before Christmas the government quietly dropped the idea of allowing humanists to legally conduct weddings despite its review finding that a majority of people were in favor of the idea in Scotland since humanist weddings were made legal they've proved extremely popular now more people are choosing marriage over just living together great success while now the British Humanist Association is lobbying for humanism to be on the exam syllabus for GCSE AAS and a-levels in religious studies humanists have equal rights to religions well from discuss Jesus table yeah from whom we heard earlier on we were discussing this just before the program and talking about for example humanist weddings and you were saying you thought they were demonic I do yeah I think I do think they entirely demonic see my eel goes back to eel goes back to the origins of humanism humanism is the cancer or Thanksgiving it is the devil's PR it is a first-class ticket to the sea of wantonness and debauchery of every avoid reform the reason it no Waterson is a great thing about this program i've got because i hope people are appreciated we try and give a range of opinions you have there are plenty of people who agree with you other I'm sure I'm sure there are a number of face weight I like to I like to think that what people freedom of speech PMC the issue with humanism is that it tries to knock God off the front and it's and when we look at the Bible the Bible talks about Lucifer whose name is the devil and his attempt was to ascend to the Most High and sit under on both sides of the north and basically replace God this is and it's the same spirit the same cybers God right exactly it's Scotland it hasn't it has bolstered yeah the institution of modes you've hurt you you probably won't like this but they've been pagan weddings I know you of course you won't like it I mean it have been white tiger lodge whaling Zeus is a New Age philosophy there with spiritualist weddings people who talk to the other side and buy back so see I don't think this is good for society because God instituted marriage God based on the Word of God based on the Word of God he brought Adam and Eve together and so the very historical book which has stood the test of time isn't the very guideline we ought to follow and I think humanism is a first-class ticket to the very hyper sexualized culture that we're seeing right Andrew kotzen what is what is before we cast you out all your work what is I'm seriously but what is humanism umm well if you been to go to wantonness and deport respose you might as well travel first-class and i think i think that humanism is in a genuine sense more of a first-class worldview than has been depicted humanism is the normal aegis worldview that instead of looking to revelation or authority we look to reason evidence to understand the universe instead of looking to moral rules that come from outside human beings we look to other human beings to generate values in the here and now and also to generate meaning our life instead of looking externally for some meaning to give value and sanction to the existence that we're having a humanist view is that men and women in the course of our lives create and sustain meaning together by giving our lives per person a sense of fulfillment now I think that is a very satisfying worldview a worldview that has made a massive contribution to human progress and achievement it's a worldview that is held by a very large number of people in Britain over a third in opinion wealth by many people do you think a lot of those people would not call themselves feminists they don't know those right I think that's very interesting point of view I mean about 40% of people in Britain share those attitudes and beliefs and values but only about 5% of people call themselves humanists which is about the same number hold on I'm sorry I disagree I don't I don't disagree with a survey result of a survey so I gotta go just as you don't get to choose where that factor on that view which has made that powerful contribution to human wellbeing Christian motivates for example me to sit here politely listening to being called wanton and abortion rather than trying to interrupt on if I don't moment so I was really sure is you know the northern of Sunday morning is it is worthy of respect now when it comes to areas of our public common life like what we learn about in schools it is right that we should learn about religions and respect other people's points of view as I would always do and you would not but um if we're learning about that we should also be the only by humanist views that's my opinion and as you say in Scotland humanist weddings have been massively popular last year they were all Catholic Catholic now did you just say Pol Pot do you want to get to a list of Christians who've killed millions as well okay let's move I want a vote from the chemo rose to the reverend rose the Khmer Rouge part of the living room it's telling

Channel: Humanists UK

Views: 330,119

Rating: 4.8560286 out of 5

Keywords: BHA, Humanism, Secularism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Education, Talks, Lectures, BritishHumanistAssociation, Non-religious, Science, Philosophy, Andrew Copson (Person), Religion (TV Genre)

Id: 3j8jQkSydeo

Length: 5min 37sec (337 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 03 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/BlackdogLao]

Shit, i'm losing them to this suave talking humanist, he's swaying the crowd and i need to stop him before he leads them all away from Jesus, what i need to do is discredit him. Maybe i should bring up his obvious idolization for the most evil and well know of humanists, Hitler!

but no perhaps not, many of my colleagues have done that in the past and they were decried for something called Godwin's law, and they were accused of having an inherently weak argument that led them to mudslinging rather than countering with facts.

Quick i need to do something!

"POL POT"

oh yeah, disaster averted, discussion over.

[u/Ayn_Diarrhea_Rand]

"Did you just say Pol Pot? Blimey!"

[u/alleybetwixt]

Did I hear correctly? At the end he was saying that Pol Pot was the role model for humanists?

Wow.

I mean, we've all heard some outrageous things. But this one...

... Wow.

[u/Mysid]

I love when Copson is saying how 40% of the British population holds humanist values although only 5% call themselves humanists, and he's interrupted by the Christian panelist.

"Not true."

"That's according to survey results. You don't get to just pick and choose what's true."

Of course he wants to pick and chose. What are facts compared with his feelings and his sacred book of mythology.

[u/xeridium]

When in doubt, pol pot.

[u/atomicxblue]

"It is a first class ticket to the sea of wanton and debauchery."

Sounds like a fun cruise. Anyone wanna play shuffleboard with me on the Lido Deck?

[u/handsovereyes]

Would you not think to yourself: "Maybe there's a reason people are laughing at me?

[u/SubmarineAutopilot]

Wasn't it great to see so many people of different backgrounds and religions coming together in the joy of laughing at that person?

[u/[deleted]]

What does "the cancer of thanksgiving" even mean?