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  • Rick

    Religion? Of the hundreds of religions on the planet, why target Christianity?
    Actually, it would be quite easy to mock the fact that George believes the cosmos came into existence out of nothing without a cause. Quite illogical.

  • Josh

    You know, I find it funny that Atheists attempt to dumb-down Christianity and assume that’s all there is to it. For instance, I could say, “evolution is the belief that a fish learned to breathe air, became a lizard, turned into a monkey, and then became an intelligent human being,” but you know that’s not true. There’s much more to it than that. There’s also much more to Christianity, but Atheists don’t care. They just want to piss us off and make us look like idiots. Well, just for now, I’ll point out a few flaws and be done with it.

    1. God is not a man. To me, God is an entirely different being.
    2. The sky? Come on, now. We know he isn’t in the sky. By saying that, you’re basically saying we could fly to God if we wanted to, and we all know that isn’t the case. If you asked me, I would say he resides in a different level of reality.
    3. The “list of ten things” actually helps you through life and avoid conflict if you obey it. If everyone obeyed those “ten things”, we would live in a utopia.
    4. According to the Bible, (with the exclusion of Jesus,) there will never be any person who doesn’t disobey at least one commandment. Is George Carlin saying God would send us all to hell if we make one mistake?
    5. I’m going to be realistic here. If I made you, gave you a world to live in, and provided you with all the pleasures of life, I would expect you to obey me. If you then decided to insult me, mock my followers and attempt to disprove my existence, I wouldn’t care if you suffered. But that’s just me. Maybe I’m just weird.

  • Mike

    George Carlin was funny…a long time ago. Look up “Hippy Dippy Weatherman” or “Seven Words…” then try to find some of his early shit, he was a comic genius. Once he got on the “Hate America”, “God is dead” track he lost me.

    He is now dead and I hope he has found his eternal reward which, evidently, is a small room full of his ilk who God fucks with.

  • Jeff

    ” 2. The sky? Come on, now. We know he isn’t in the sky. By saying that, you’re basically saying we could fly to God if we wanted to, and we all know that isn’t the case. If you asked me, I would say he resides in a different level of reality. ” <~ Quote:

    Because that sounds like something a completely rational human would say…Yeah.

    There are intricacies to both sides, granted- But the picture up there pretty much sums it up.

    Your god is an angry, wrathful god that Smites homosexuals and tells fathers to kill their children to prove the love they hold for said god. Your god sounds just like a cult leader to me.

    " They just want to piss us off and make us look like idiots. Well, just for now, I’ll point out a few flaws and be done with it. " <~ Quote:

    I am not going to argue religion or attack you, but I will say we, the Atheists are not the ones attempting to make you look retarded. Going door to door, essentially forcing your way into peoples homes and work places, constantly spouting religious drivel, Always saying how wonderful god is when the sun us shining and how he works in mysterious ways when your brother gets hit by a train is what makes you look retarded. We simply point out glaring shortfalls and the completely impossible things that you base your life on. You are angry at yourself for believing it, then being proven wrong, not at us for pointing the finger.

    All in all though, I do agree with the other guy. Carlin was a mastermind before he went all angry and brooding. The skit about what we could do with all the criminals was amazing. I say we use another square state for all the devout religious, where they can manufacturer their pamphlets in peace. I for one am tired of hearing stories oh how a group of young men doing "God's work" beat a homosexual into a coma.

  • Wow

    @Rick. A couple of good reasons that you seem to have missed. Christianity is the largest religion on the planet. Christianity is by a large margin the most popular religion were George Carlin lived. Christianity is the religion George was exposed to most. In fact there are so many reasons that it would have been highly foolish to target any other religions. Also, before you criticise the natralistic origin history, perhaps you should read into what it actually is? To put it simply, we have lots of evidence all up to one point, the big bang, and we can say, the big bang just happened and be done with it, because we have no evidence for anything else, or we can say the big band happened because an infinite inteligent being did it. Occam’s razor leads you to only one conclusion.

    @Josh. George Carlin was a comedian. Have you never heard of poetic licence? Point 3 is true to a degree, and the same would apply if everyone followed human laws (or ones that admit to it at least) and yet that wouldn’t make me ever thing eternal torture should be the punishment for stealing. As for point 4, you really should read your bible more, George isn’t saying it, the bible does that. Point 5 is fun in how foolish it is, in so many ways as well. You know exactly the same argument can be applyed to your perants. Yet I’ve got say I’m not ok with eternal torture as a punishment for a rebelion. That’s just child abuse. Also, if god is as more christians claim omnipotent why did he not create a world with no suffering. It can’t be for free will, as you can have that and no suffering if you are omnipotent fine. Another way at looking at it is your punishment for freedom of speech is eternal torment. I’ve got to say, I’d call that evil.

    @Mike. Wow. What is it with Christians and thinking eternal torture is a good punishment freedom of speech. I’ve got to say, you guys are pushing everyone over to the Dawkins end of the spectrum.

  • Gabriel

    I prefer the logic that if there is a God he would be pulling his hair out at the sight of such insignificant rantings and petty arguments. There is in my mind only one real reason that God would create a universe; to share what he has with us. What that is, we obviously have yet to find it. But it is more important to focus on what we do not know then argue about what we think we know; for what does the human really know anyway? What good is a label of Atheism or Christianity if we are constantly standing over a line throwing rocks? How asinine it seems to me that a group of intelligent beings can argue about what version of an inconceivable theory is correct when we can’t even travel from one ball of celestial gas to another. Here we sit, twiddling our thumbs and gnawing away at a theory that really cannot be proven or disproved. Who is better? The Atheist who mocks the man trying to ponder his existence or the Christian undeniably thwarting every word that may seem like it is contradictory to their beliefs? Neither. Both are counter productive. Here is a thought: before man existed, there were no names, no titles, no positions, no categories. It was only when man came into existence that we felt the need to label everything. Why? Now that is something to spend your energy arguing about.

  • Greg

    Lighten up folks – it is comedy.

  • Kevin

    Hahahahaha,

  • maniac mom

    Religion is and probably always will be a topic that brings out the best and the worst in everyone. When people didn’t have an answer for how or why something was…the unknown was explained with a spirit bigger than we are, a god wise and all knowing, a father figure knew. And, George Carlin always hit his target dead on. Religion vs. Darwin..the televangelists knocking on doors asking for money to support their faith and promising a heavenly afterlife but only if donations are received….and of course, the ones who can afford it the least are the ones making lots of those donations. Religion. I think George was pointing out the extreme conflict using his professional tools of the trade: humor, sarcasm. You want to believe the ‘big bang theory’ or you choose to believe a higher power made everything. Science can be proven. Dogma is unproven, unshakable belief. Yet, the 7 people who left comments before me are angered at someone expressing their own beliefs…and the one Atheist is the only one who saw the poetic license taken by a performer, a comic….the only one. Well, besides me.

  • Mark Bohan

    3. The “list of ten things” actually helps you through life and avoid conflict if you obey it. If everyone obeyed those “ten things”, we would live in a utopia.

    the original

    I. Thou shalt worship no other god.

    II. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

    III. The feast of unleavened bread thou shalt keep.

    IV. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest.

    V. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest,
    and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

    VI. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God.

    VII. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.

    VIII. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

    IX. The first of the first fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.

    X. Thou shalt not seethe a kid [ie, a young goat] in his mother’s milk.

    because cooking a goat in milk will lead to the destruction of the “utopia”

  • Mark Bohan

    “Actually, it would be quite easy to mock the fact that George believes the cosmos came into existence out of nothing without a cause. Quite illogical.”
    I have “faith” in it
    hah!

  • Kate A

    I think some of you might be taking this a little too seriously. I think he knew that Christian’s didn’t believe that there was literally a “man in the sky.”

  • Phil E. Drifter

    Religitards amuse me.

    There is no god. Get over it.

    “If triangles had a god, it’d have 3 sides.”

  • Phil E. Drifter

    @wow: “@Rick. A couple of good reasons that you seem to have missed. Christianity is the largest religion on the planet.”

    Wrong. Islam is.

  • Loves To Spooge

    Not weird Josh, just an idiot.

  • sigh

    George targets Christianity because he was brought up in a Christian school and household and it personally affected him.

    • Chris Burns

      “George targets Christianity because he was brought up in a Christian school and household and it personally affected him.” = best reply yet

  • Tesiabelle

    Obviously he has no idea what Christianity is really about. All of his theology is completely and utterly wrong. I guess he hasn’t moved past the understanding of God that he gained from a kindergarten Sunday School class.

  • Jeff Tate

    Science flies you to the moon.
    Religion flies you into sides of buildings.

    There is no God. Deal with it.

  • godapprox

    Christianity is a pox on humanity, your imaginary friend and the rediculous powers that you ascribe to it only serve to demonstrate your stupidity. It is funny, people taking offence only makes it more so.

  • Steve Wright

    If Christians were just stupid and that was it, I would end it at that. The problem though is not only are they stupid, but they’re dangerous. They’re zombies being led by people who have very different motives than what they’re being led to believe. It happens over and over and over and over again through history (Ever hear about the Spanish conquests, inquistions, or the salem witch trials?)- Sure – I hear you already…. “Oh yeah, but we’re not THAT kind of Christian… they don’t really know what a REAL Christian is!” right? Yeah… right. Yet people\sheep (ever wonder why they call a congregation a flock? Doesn’t it concern you?) still line up to this day to get redemption on Sunday for being a hypocritical asshole (oops I sinned! – Oh well – Jesus still loves me!!) the rest of the week. As long as you have in the closet drug addled homophobics, like Ted Haggard – remember him you evangelical idiots?? – telling you what to think, who to vote for and which TV station to watch – you’re a danger. A fucking THREAT to my freedom. As long as Christians from Westboro picket dead US Soldiers funerals and try to bring shame and embarrassment to the families who have given the ULTIMATE sacrifice to this country – I will hate you with every fiber of my being. Fuck you. And you’re stupid God. Keep trying to convince yourself that Noah built an ark and every animal on the planet was put on it and dinosaurs walked the planet with humans. Or whatever your friendly homophobic drug addled pedophile alcoholic preacher/priest/voodoo is pushing this week. Lap it up you fucking drone.

    OR…

    Start asking yourself the real questions… why would an all loving God allow all these really REALLY bad things from happening… like the holocaust, or wars, disease, famine… Grow up. Face facts. We’re alone, we need to get along, and we need to get the fuck off this planet before the human race (god help us) is wiped from the universe from some ‘christian’ group trying to put the smack down on some non-christian group. But no, we can’t do that, because we have to deal with ‘terrorist Muslims’. You ARE the problem.

    Peace!

  • Niels

    Carlin still gets a reaction after he’s dead!! Think about it???

  • http://http://groups.google.ca/group/think-big-believe-in-god Carol

    Once I asked God why he didn’t do anything about all the suffering in this world. His answer was very simple-”Why don’t YOU do anything?”. We all let it happen and Jesus says very clearly that we are to help each other but instead we only really help ourselves and ignore the pain and suffering around us.
    I’m sick of atheists and their ilk. They are nothing but gossip mongers, spreading lies and ignorance,somewhat like religion does. I know for certain that there is a God, in fact there is a Trinity. There is only one way to know this for sure and that is to ask The Big Guy Himself. It can and has been done. Think He won’t answer you?-think again.Read this and try it yourself:http://groups.google.ca/group/think-big-believe-in-god

  • james

    I want to say that you all have good points (out of the few i read) for either atheism or catholicism, that are completely useless because the argument is stupid and illogical. religion isn’t supposed to be about who or what God is or what is logical or illogical about it. religion is about belief. you either believe or don’t believe in a higher power that has formed us. by our religion we choose how to live from day to day, but most of us forget that that is what religion is, not a reason to kill, not a reason to convert, but it should be a reason to do good for the sake of doing good. it should be a reason to love and for those who don’t believe, we just have to hope that they can live their lives differntly, but in harmony with us. who knows maybe im an idiot but i’m only 14 and i think i figured some of this out better than you, who argue pointlessly, so just move on and respect opinions.

  • qaz

    Christianity is probably the most picked on because there’s so many versions of christianity. That list of 5 things ‘Josh’ wrote up there arn’t christian beliefs. They’re his beliefs. He’s interpreted the bible his own way and called himself a Christian. Somewhere out there, there’s another Christian willing to give him a good going over with his fists for blaspheming.

    Also, as a little peeve. No.5 is somewhat illogical. Hate to be the one to point it out but God seems to have placed a ban on a few of those so called ‘pleasures’. Why would god give us little mortals all these wonderful things and then say we can’t have them? I personally wouldn’t call an omnipotent sadist ‘god’ and bow down to worship him but that’s just me. Maybe i’m just weird.