Ricky Gervais And Stephen Go Head-To-Head On Religion

Ricky Gervais And Stephen Go Head-To-Head On Religion

Ricky Gervais proves a formidable opponent for Stephen in a spirited conversation about belief, religion and atheism.

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50 Comments

  1. nobody on July 27, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    2999 gods – allegories for stars , planets, seasons, weather, fertility, emotions, biochemical processes via transmutation and psychological states.

    The ‘ 1 other God’ –
    I AM pure consciousness, my name is I AM , my appearances in other world religions are codified and unified linearly and superimposed over human history in one book , I AM the only God and there is no other oh and by the way although I live as pure spirit in the quantum field beyond the veil of human understanding I manifest in human flesh via quantum entanglement and I live in your skull aka Golgotha, Calvary, the holy of holies , the temple mount , the upper room.

  2. Jason Wood on July 27, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    Brilliant

  3. paulygards on July 27, 2022 at 11:16 pm

    Go Ricky, good points you make, you can’t reason with these pinheads

  4. 1GodOnlyOne on July 27, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    God is the only standard by which we can objectively judge good from bad, and right from wrong,
    and without God, you would not even be able to produce a criticism or assess the truth value of this statement.
    Nobody is required to prove anything to you.
    You are not the judge; God is the judge:

  5. Peter Müller on July 27, 2022 at 11:25 pm

    How can anyone listen to gervais and still believe in god

  6. Dr Simon Bignell on July 27, 2022 at 11:26 pm

    How many times do people of reason and science have to explain this?

  7. Curtis Hill on July 27, 2022 at 11:26 pm

    One could eat a bullet and find out if GOD is real or not.. good luck

  8. Brady Simmons on July 27, 2022 at 11:28 pm

    Cant believe Im siding with Colbert. Ricky said science is constantly being proven right. Thats not true. Science is constantly being proven wrong, in fact. Science always changes when "new information" comes to light. That means previously, it was wrong. And science is ever changing…always evolving..meaning it’s always wrong and will always be wrong.

    Science believers by definition means that’s their dogma..or their belief system…or religion. They may not go to a building on a specific day of the week and "worship science", but that doesn’t mean its not their religion. Many people have a religious belief system and don’t go to "church", etc and they still can be of a religious faith. Most church systems are corrupt anyway, regardless of religion. Most people know this deep down even if they go every single week.

    Now, I will take this to the next step:
    Science, no matter the "genre", inherently says without openly saying it, that "God doesn’t exist" and therefore, Science flies in the face of Religion. It’s literally Science vs Religion. And to "believers" of religions around the world, one *must* take a long, hard look at *WHY* science is trying to say "God doesn’t exist" instead of saying "This is how God used sciences to ……" whatever…

    It might just be because maybe God’s enemy has a hand in Science, or the creation of it, propagation of it, pushing it, manipulating it, teaching it, and the overall brainwashing of people to "believe" in it?

    When you are able to see what "science" is indirectly saying, one has to wonder . Now go do some research on the "Father’s" of the various sciences and learn about them, and you will find that there is something nefarious afoot.

  9. Ihab Unnis on July 27, 2022 at 11:29 pm

    Everything around us proves that god is real and when we look in the mirror we can see that even more and this idiot says god does not exist wake up and stop waiting your life because heaven and hell are waiting and when you die you will blame your self for waisting your life debating if god exist or not.

  10. S Fender on July 27, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    Jesus Christ taught us to “forgive us our trespasses, (praying to God that we be forgiven) as we forgive those who trespass against us”.
    Forgiving others and not holding grudges is helpful to us; even though it is hard to do.

  11. Melvin on July 27, 2022 at 11:30 pm

    Both Satanists.

  12. Gones HotBoxedInstrumentals on July 27, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    Damn Ricky is a real one

  13. artawesome30 on July 27, 2022 at 11:34 pm

    Society should not be so complacent with existential delusions. I’ve noticed, across the board, that people who suffer from them are more antisocial, less productive, and highly insecure about who they are (over what they believe). Religion seems like an outdated power structure, which lingers like a disease. As a civilization, one of the most important steps we could take to unite individuals, would be to uphold (and CHERISH) the belief that this life is everything we get. There is absolutely nothing else, death is an eternal nothingness. It doesn’t matter what your "religion/spirituality/philosophy" is…if your delusions grant you comfort/false hope away from this sobering reality, it puts social distance between yourself and others. Which breeds harmful consequences.

    Whatever the belief is… God, guardian angels, an afterlife, past lives, ghosts, telepathy, reincarnation, psychic readings, mediums, and even something like panpsychism to an extent… it’s all to remedy the desire "not to die". But we will die, and this will never change. Ever. Until the end of time. There will never be anything extra. This life is the only comfort we need.

  14. Dan Lew on July 27, 2022 at 11:35 pm

    Love how Ricky turns up to tv shows looking homeless lol

  15. James C. on July 27, 2022 at 11:37 pm

    Actually the story of Jesus a man that sacrifices himself for others and provides a way to ascend is told over and over again in different religions through different characters. In essence we cannot ascend to the next level of consciousness without knowing and feeling self sacrifice.

  16. tom .f.m on July 27, 2022 at 11:37 pm

    They have always known there is no god. The facade is all for control of the minds of the lonely and desperate.

  17. Pete Kreamer on July 27, 2022 at 11:38 pm

    hawking used math and physics to reach his conclusions. he didn’t just ‘say it’…and Ricky blindly believes. grow up already…your parents lied to you and the whole damn thing is pure bullshit, folks

  18. Caleb Wilkerson on July 27, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    I pray he gets Saved before the End

  19. Mark1Mach2 on July 27, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    Ricky Gervais on the spot did such a great debate! Kudos to him!!!

  20. grant charonesuk on July 27, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    Science proved it time and time again

  21. Tangled Hangers on July 27, 2022 at 11:41 pm

    I wonder how dumb Stephen felt when he said "in three persons" lol, I could tell he felt silly saying that

  22. Arturas Arm on July 27, 2022 at 11:41 pm

    How does that Stephen Colbert even have a talk show? Who can watch that guy.. so annoying

  23. 1GodOnlyOne on July 27, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    God is the only standard by which we can objectively judge good from bad, and right from wrong,
    and without God, you would not even be able to produce a criticism or assess the truth value of this statement.
    Nobody is required to prove anything to you.
    You are not the judge; God is the judge:

  24. John Mcintyre on July 27, 2022 at 11:45 pm

    I’m not a believer in religion , especially when it’s a human construct .. written by man, changed by man, and fought over by man to prove each version of the story is the real version… I believe we cane from something and here for a reason BUT you never know until your body dies .. Being scarred of religion or the opposite is madness ..

  25. A.D. Marshall on July 27, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    God says atheists are fools.

  26. Jake Scott on July 27, 2022 at 11:47 pm

    Ricky has small hands.

  27. Vincent Mutaawe on July 27, 2022 at 11:48 pm

    Please believe in GOD, and youll have eternal life

  28. Christopher Cowan on July 27, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    That is actually a great question. If there is no God why would there be something? And, Atheism IS a belief system. Hey Ricky, God, does he exist? Only 3 choices- yes- theist, no- atheist, I don’t know- agnostic. In every case it is a belief. And, yes, you believe in one less God BUT you must look at the evidence for each. One last thing, you CANNOT have science without God. Why? Because science does not say anything, Scientists do. And they get their conclusions through their reasoning process which is immaterial. Where did this immaterial reasoning come from in an atheistic worldview?

  29. Alain Maitre on July 27, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    Youtube Jiddu Krishnamurti talks at the united nations new york 1985 . great speech

  30. artawesome30 on July 27, 2022 at 11:55 pm

    "Why is there something instead of nothing?"

    Well if there’s an existence, it would probably end up doing at least *something* with itself. For an idiot, the odds seem 50/50.

    "How is there something instead of nothing?"

    "Somethingness" and "nothingness" appear to always have intermingled with each other. You can’t have one, without the other!

    Having a "transcendental religious experience" is like receiving a mental email from your royal Nigerian cousin, promising fame and fortune. The prospect of God may excite you, but it is based on lies!

  31. G on July 27, 2022 at 11:56 pm

    Applause for an Atheist? Seems like a strange thing to suddenly applaud. Fiction huh.

  32. Max Mustermann on July 27, 2022 at 11:57 pm

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  33. Stand On Scripture on July 27, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Ricky’s best argument can be debunked by the fact that the belief in a God if you destroy all books that exist and all information that exists the belief in A CREATOR would stand here is why 1) Logically: something can not come from nothing, with time, space and matter having to come into being at the same exact time there has to be something that matter, space and time comes from, matter doesn’t just happen. Logically if you said this bit of grass comes from nothing when everything we observe has a begining point that shows belief in something from nothing is unobservable and illogical because it is contradictory to what we can actually observe within this space, time and matter. 2) Then why is Yehovah God not having someone before him, because God exists outside of time, space and matter, he created TIME, SPACE and MATTER at the same time instantly, God exists everywhere inside and outside of this universe he doesn’t there for have to associate to laws of time, space, matter, gravity or anything like that because all of that come from him, you could argue that all this is within him also so logically you would come to there is a creator because what we see can not have come from nothing it would have to come from something that does not need to abide by the laws of what IT/HE created logically whether it was a big bang super power (god), an unknown chemical that is eternal and all known or if it is the God of the Bible what ever it is, it prexists creation and it created all that is in this universe there for does not need to abide by the laws it created such as time beginning and end because it has no beginning or end because this concept didnt come into being until things are created.

  34. Mark Heinkel on July 28, 2022 at 12:00 am

    Ricky Gervais is a giant!!!!!

  35. no hassle on July 28, 2022 at 12:01 am

    Be funny if Ricky was chastised by God after he departs these earthly plains. lol, naughty.

  36. Max on July 28, 2022 at 12:02 am

    Since the holy Quran is memorized from beginning to end by millions of people if you destroy every copy of the Quran today it won’t go anywhere it will still be here and a thousand years from now. Just saying.

  37. Real Tech on July 28, 2022 at 12:03 am

    Stephen got literally destroyed there by Ricky. I just sigh at how much longer we s humans still need to have this debate about religion. It’s nonsense. If burning trees and snakes can’t talk, and donkeys can’t fly now, it sure as hell didn’t back then when all that fiction was written. End of story.

  38. Geir Holte on July 28, 2022 at 12:03 am

    oWNED.

  39. nyperi13 on July 28, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Much respect for Ricky Gervais!

  40. Patty Jones on July 28, 2022 at 12:07 am

    The CC on this is horrid……..but Ricky is spot on. Thumbs down on this vid.

  41. abdul moiz on July 28, 2022 at 12:10 am

    Ricky Gervais : presenting his arguments
    Stephen : Satan will beat the shit out of you

  42. Jack Steele on July 28, 2022 at 12:10 am

    Religion and religious people can’t and shouldn’t be taken seriously. I lose all respect for someone the second they tell me they believe in fairy tales

  43. Mr. P. on July 28, 2022 at 12:10 am

    Science is merely studying the reality created by God. We dont always get it right

  44. black adam on July 28, 2022 at 12:11 am

    What’s amazing is Ricky is in the right. He’s too smart to take his time to believe in something that hasn’t been proven. While science has been proven many times. Basically we’re all lucky to have been the egg that was chosen to been birth from your mom. It’s all luck.

  45. September2004 on July 28, 2022 at 12:11 am

    I always found a comedian who believes in god kinda funny. Like you can spend all day making fun of the absurdities on things but don’t see it in their own belief. The late Norm MacDonald was like this.

  46. Martha Worc on July 28, 2022 at 12:12 am

    Ricki is talking about the Big Bang *theory*.

  47. Eirini Eirinixatzaki on July 28, 2022 at 12:12 am

    The question is if there is a Creator or not, if all are well designed or become by chance.
    Some book even they wanted to destroy the couldn’t make it.
    People have the habit to follow people, that´s the reason for all reliigion, they created a god for every target group. But the question ii the one or another.

  48. Keith Smith on July 28, 2022 at 12:12 am

    What follows ( the comments)…. as they decay into desperate arguments….is a timeless example of the angst of the ape brain and the futility of the human experience……a nano second flash of light in the vastness of the universe.

  49. Jimmy J on July 28, 2022 at 12:13 am

    People talk about science but fact is there is a lot that science cannot prove. No facts on how the Big Bang started while everything was dark in the universe.

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