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Cenk Uygur: Don't quit your day job (Original Post) Act_of_Reparation Oct 2014 OP
Reader's Digest version? pokerfan Oct 2014 #1
Seriously...n/t Scairp Oct 2014 #2
I haven't been able to finish the whole thing myself. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2014 #3
Once a liberal has decided that religiosity is a protected condition Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #4
I don't know if that's what Cenk has decided Act_of_Reparation Oct 2014 #5
Wait..... AlbertCat Oct 2014 #9
Cenk is a good guy on a lot of issues, but honestly, he's also a sexist pig. AtheistCrusader Oct 2014 #6
He's a jock Act_of_Reparation Oct 2014 #7
I don't like being put in the position of having to defend Sam Harris. AlbertCat Oct 2014 #8
wondered that myself Brainstormy Oct 2014 #10

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
3. I haven't been able to finish the whole thing myself.
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 06:05 PM
Oct 2014

At about thirty minutes in, it is clear to my Uygur is completely out of his league. The one instance that stood out the most is when he tries to take Harris to task for saying Mormonism is basically Christianity with more bad ideas. He argues that believing Missouri to be the predestined kingdom of the returned Christ isn't any more absurd than simply believing that Christ will return. Sam tries to explain the statistics of it, that localizing an improbable event to a specific place adds another layer of improbability to the question, but Cenk just doesn't get it. He keeps saying Harris is "wrong".

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
4. Once a liberal has decided that religiosity is a protected condition
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 06:38 PM
Oct 2014

they inevitably fall into indefensible positions.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
5. I don't know if that's what Cenk has decided
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 06:54 PM
Oct 2014

He seems to think they're all religions are equally bad, which is probably just as dumb.

Whatever his position may be, it is clear he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. He just tried to say killing Jews is codified in Christianity because of what's written in the Old Testament.

Um. The Old Testament is whose holy book again? I'm pretty sure you can't draw a direct line from what's written there to "kill teh Jews". Cenk might want to read the book before he talks about it next time. Just a thought.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
6. Cenk is a good guy on a lot of issues, but honestly, he's also a sexist pig.
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 01:46 AM
Oct 2014

There have been a few videos where he's covered some material, and then as if on cue... Fucking ruins it, so I can't share it with others/post it, etc.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
7. He's a jock
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 08:50 AM
Oct 2014

And has a jock's sense of humor, a jock's cocky disposition, and a jock's loose relationship with rationale. Sometimes he hits 'em out of the park, but sometimes he puts on his tough guy face and his obstinate tone of voice and promptly crashes the plane into the fucking mountains.

Brainstormy

(2,381 posts)
10. wondered that myself
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 11:14 AM
Oct 2014

Sam Harris is pretty defensible. Not that he needs defending. Maybe what the op meant?

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