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Brad Pitt is a fool if he thinks he is “capable to handle any situation.” How would he fare if he were in Los Angeles when a number 10 earthquake raged through?
Is he denying THE ONE CREATOR who did not make man’s religions, but WHO is the Source of everything and everyone, everywhere? This is no surprise, as there are many humans who feel the way he does. Mr. Pitt just so happens to be comfortably sitting on millions of dollars a day, so as to be able to wax poetic to the world of something so foolish as the above statement.
I imagine he’d fare the same as anyone else. Thousands of people would be injured or killed in a big Los Angeles earthquake, without regard to their religion or lack thereof. What’s your point?
And how do you know there is one creator god?
Just some FACTS for you.. #1 The truth is a constant. It will never change and it will never bend to interpretation. #2 Religion has changed several times over the years and has bent to each faiths own views. #3 By reviewing the first 2 facts anyone with a working brain can conclude that religion IS NOT the truth but the thoughts of many men who thought the earth was flat and that the sun and stars revolved around the earth. Look how much of their truths we have found to be wrong. Just imagine how many more we will find to be wrong when we remove our heads from the sand and stop being so scared of the unknown.
Is there a reason you’re addressing Ursa as if he disagrees with any of what you just said? I’m puzzled.
I’m guessing comment nesting fail, but I haven’t entirely ruled out reading comprehension fail.
You do seem to be prone to people assuming you’re a fundie (though I have absolutely no idea why), so you’re probably wise to keep that on the table.
I can see it happening when I’m being sarcastic, but that clearly doesn’t apply in this case.
Must be some sort of internet pheromone that I give off.
I replied here as there was no reply nested further. “internet pheromone” now that’s funny. Do you give it off at other websites? Or just at UF?
How would you fare in the same situation? Even in disaster, what helps us survive are the actions of people – people who don’t sit back and wait on supernatural forces to help.
If you didn’t have any confidence in your problem solving abilities, you’d fare much worse. You’d be in a panic instead of coming up with a plan.
Did you really just call someone else a fool?
Irony. You haz it.
Hmmm… sounds like Mr. Pitt pushed a button or two for you.
Presumably you’d prefer that human beings not grow up and remain subservient for their entire lives to your fictional ‘one creator’. Some of us have moved beyond the need to be dominated by the angry father god of Abrahamic faiths. It is my hope that more and more can just us… only THEN will we be free of the need for irrationality.
Yes, we call that “delusional”. I’d prefer to call it shear stupidity though!
Do you even realize you are in a site crammed with people who deny your holy creator?
Most people here likely regard your god as a fairy tale not unlike the other thousands of religions that have been created along the centuries.
If you want to be regarded as anything more than a fool, you may want to provide some solid evidence to back your beliefs.
Hey – hey – hey !!!
Less than three (3) months to “ATHEIST’S DAY”!
04-01-2012
Fourth of January 2012 has already happened… catch up, the internet is international!
Don’t suppose there’s any chance you’re planning to back up those unfounded assertions, is there?
Incidentally: What would you do if you got caught in the big one? Drop everything and pray? Congrats, you’d be dead.
Because earthquakes and hurricanes and floods and fires ONLY happen to non-believers. If they hit a large geographic area, the believers are miraculously saved by the hand of god. Oh right, no, that totally doesn’t happen. And why can’t you just as easily say that he has those comfortable millions because he’s blessed by god? Logic of convenience, you have it in spades.
‘Ghosh’ has blessed him with Angelina….. I’d be a happy man too……!
Now, if he can just get her to get rid of her “woo” tattoos…
you are a complete dumb ass! go stick your head in the sand and stay out of people’s way who want to base their lives on reason and truth, and not lack of truth and lack of reason. (faith / belief)<–lack of truth.
Who knew. Someone can do “good works” without a god involved or fearing punishment or hoping for a reward in the afterlife.
One way of handling a situation is recognizing when you can’t change something. Like when you fall off a 100 story building – you can’t change gravity in ordered to not get creamed. You accept it – even if for a very short time. All praying would be useless. You hopefully find a moment’s calm.
-Like when you fall off a 100 story building –
If you have any experience skydiving you can try to aim for something.
My opinion of the man just went up several notches.
I must agree with that.
Do we have a source? I’d really like to know where this came from…an interview?
I found one place with some of it… but it’s not primary source.
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/05/17/brad-pitt-says-christian-upbringing-was-stifling/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29
This seems to be the primary source: http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_10-07-2007/Brad_Pitt … although not for the first para.
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My opinion of the man was pretty high to begin with…and now it’s even higher. All that and Angelina, too.
Hear, hear!
Mr. Pitt makes a clean argument, and yet this kind of things always reeks of Argument from Authority.
Shall we ask Jim Carrey or Tom Cruise what do they think on the subject?
If it’s going to be words next to pictures of hot guys, I am interested in continuing this series. Wonder what that Joseph Gordon-Levitt thinks? And Matt Damon? What’s he got to say?
I loves me some JGL. Having followed his work for a while now, it would not surprise me to discover he was an atheist.
All the best ones are.
Would this site interest anyone who is interested in knowing whether their favorite or surprising celebrities don’t believe in god, including some of the quotes they’ve mentioned at some time or another to confirm their addition to the list?
http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Main_Page
It’s not just Brad Pitt, thank guh!
@FO: I don’t think it’s so much an argument from authority as an effort to draw attention to a matter by making use of the fact that a lot of people know who he is and are more likely to be interested in something he says rather than something a random, unknown smart person says. Argument from authority says “this person is well known/well respected so they’re right!” I don’t see any indication that the post says Pitt is right because he’s Pitt.
Point.
And a good one, at that.
Brad Pitt is pretty. I agree with him on that basis alone.
I know I’m in a minority here, but I never liked his looks when he was younger, much too shiny and pretty. He’s getting better looking as he gets older.
He’s passable. I don’t think I’ll ever rate him higher than that, no matter how old he lives to be.
Finally someone that think the same thing as me! thank you ursa!
Heresy! You have gone too far, Ursa! THIS deserves a visit from The Inquisition!~ :)
This is a common sentiment among non-believers. We realize there are no supernatural forces or beings ready to break or bend the natural order of the universe. We are on our own. With that fact accepted, there really is no choice but to accept responsibility because to pass the buck to a non-existent entity would be sheer foolishness.
Maybe there are no supernatural forces, but super natural forces in the sense that they have immense power. Like tsunamis, earthquakes and the likes. :)
Looks, Angelina, talent, brains…See, genetics, not faith is what really matters. Mind you, environment may play a part.
I try so hard not to like him, then he goes and says something smart. Damn it.
I still don’t really like him at all that much.
I’m looking for the future evolutionary leap when mankind no longer needs religion. One in which kind men and women help eachother because they want to, not out of fear of judgement. Religion is a crazy show that I am sick of seeing play over and over. Move on humans, only then will we see peace and prosperity for all!
To the first comment by Elise Brion. “Denying THE ONE CREATOR”????
How can you assume such a thing? It’s true that science has not proved the start of the Universe, but to say it’s been created by some kind of immortal entity is the most RIDICULOUS conclusion anyone can jump to.
There is nothing wrong with believing you are capable of handling any situation. To have Faith is to believe in something without evidence. Seems the only ‘fool’ is you.
Or…for that matter, simply ACCEPTING that sometimes life, or things, cannot be “handled” or controlled”….and accepting that.
I just came from watching a few youtube videos by ThunderfOOt, a series called “Why do people laugh at creationists? (part XX),” he’s up to almost 40 parts, I think. It is truly scary listening to someone from the Discovery Institute telling an audience of kids saying believe god, but not science, or the scientists(yet he is talking through a microphone that is due to uh….science). Their “wedge agenda” is to remove science or materialism and go back to god, it says on some of their brochures. Consider if McCain/Palin had been elected in 2008, and 72 year old McCain died, Sarah(believes dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time, see Russia from her house,) Palin would be President of the USA. She is with the Discovery Institute on the issue of Creationism, or ID, as it is misnamed now. There was also a video critique of Ben Stein and his views on Creationism and a Creator, and when his movie Expelled came out, a movie that was confusing free speech with scientific credibility. You gotta see them to believe them. It is so wrong for these guys to put such Creationism nonsense out there and using words like science, logic, truth, valid, is so dumb, as if just the very usage of the words gives any soundness to their dumbass ridiculous arguments. Man, If the US goes the way of the Middle East as when a Muslim cleric, Hamud al-Ghazah said Math was of the devil, and as a result, a former region hot on scientific thought went backwards. From 800-1100, revelation replaced investigation in the Middle East, which allowed the West to go forward and eventually use science to come with all the great weapons that are decimating Mid East countries now….oh wait, I’m supposed to be FOR science. Maybe the cleric did us a favor, as when the Mid East was doing all the higher learning, Europe was in the Dark Ages as far as higher learning goes.
He killed Boagrius and Hector. He can handle any situation. Bravo for Brad Pitt.
It’s all about personal responsibility, folks. Whether you believe in a god or not, our communication and relationships are completely up to us. Because of that, we must claim those things we do and the position we find ourselves in. Even if there is an earthquake, why are YOU there when it hits? Because you chose to be there. There is strength in what is real. Everything else is an abstraction.
good for brad and his free thought.
I guess you, as a person of faith, could pray your way out of danger, instead of using intellect to solve a challenge.
people like Elise Brion would go a to a doctor and rely on science to help heal them.
Curious how your god hates all the same people you do.
and one more thing!
If the sincere Prayers of a Child To God, cannot stop Sexual Abuse At the hands of a “Man of God”,
What Does that say about God?
Oh lord lord lord i am honestly disappointed if dis is d best atheists have to offer.
You seem a little confused. We don’t “offer” anything at all. We merely point the flaws of your belief system. If you want “offers”, you might be interested in Islam: if you die a martyr, you get 72 virgin sex-slaves! Isn’t it awesome? Convert now and you’ll also get a copy of the koran signed by Muhammad.
That explains why my complimentary atheist coffee travel mug still hasn’t arrived in the mail.
Oh sure eva idyllic method:’to mock people 4 thier beliefs c’mon’ most of u pple r well narrow minded i dont wanna use d word stupid buh pple hu do have beliefs dont wait around 4 manna to fall 4rm heaven they do oda things with their lives and pray about d unexplainable or inevitable and yes bad pple are evrywhere church skool so singlin out religion and God to blame 4 those problems is questionable religion or not people decide who they wanna be.
In the name of all that’s holy, please write without that many faults ! If you want your message to be heard, make it understandable…
Sorry i was writing on impulse