“Why is God evil?” – Andrew McCOY | Genetically Modified Skeptic ▶️

May 25, 2024 | When God hates humanity, things get brutal. This goes for sci-fi and theology. In Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem and the rest of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, the aliens called the San-Ti or Trisolarans are hostile to humanity. They pose as gods to subjugate humanity. This plot line has…

“Christianity’s most dangerous idea (and why it won’t die)” – Drew McCoy | Genetically Modified Skeptic ▶️

If Nietzsche, Proust, Baudelaire, or Rimbaud survive the fluctuations of fashions, they owe it to the disinterestedness of their cruelty, to their demonic surgery, to the generosity of their spleen. What makes a work last, what keeps it from dating, is its ferocity.A gratuitous assertion? Consider the prestige of the Gospels, that aggressive book, a…

“Ancient Christian beliefs about sex were wild” – Drew McCOY | Genetically Modified Skeptic ▶️

Was Adam androgynous? What did the apostle Paul say about sex? What does Christianity say about gender roles? Was sex allowed in early Christianity? Here I discuss all of these issues, citing the writings of Paul, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, Polemon the Stoic, Acts of Thecla, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5KcB-Q7niU Ancient Christians…

“Can you be religious and a skeptic?” – Justin Sledge | Esoterica | Genetically Modified Skeptic ▶️

Drew McCoy, aka the Genetically Modified Skeptic (YouTube), talks about the occult, skepticism, gnosticism, and more with Dr. Justin Sledge of Esoterica (YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZBnUkQ5Jc Andrew McCoy, better known online as Genetically Modified Skeptic, is an American atheist YouTuber who makes videos about atheism, responses to religious videos, and has also criticised alternative medicine. Esoterica is an…

“Why Satanism is making a comeback” – Alex O’CONNOR & DREW McCOY ▶️

The rise of Satanism in the USA as a countercultural backlash against reactionary white nationalist Christian politics. Why is God so dull, so feeble, so inadequately picturesque? Why does He lack interest, vigor, actuality and resemble us so little? Is there any image less anthropomorphic and more gratuitously remote? How could we have projected into…

God and atheism on YouTube | The Listening Post | Al Jazeera ▶️

If you’re curious to hear what people think, try YouTube. Millions watch content creators explain and promote their religions, but there’s also a sizeable community with a radically different mission: to explain why they don’t believe in God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypkIq5FjskM Atheists are a minority in every country but it’s a growing worldview. Being an atheist in…