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QUESTION George Carlin --- Religion is Bullshit

I know I've posted on here about what things helped me not be religious anymore. And I'm sure many of us have seen this video. I first watched it when I was still religious and had a good laugh but disagreed with him of course. Then I watched it again 1 or 2 years after originally seeing it when I was questioning God, and it was what he said in here (even though he's doing a comedic act) that really put the icing on the cake. I'm grateful for the media we have available today because without it I wouldn't have been able to pull myself out of religion.

LadyStardust96 5 Oct 30
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Love George Carlin

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That’s great. There’s definitely an attention seeking behavior to those always pushing the taboos, and it’s gotten pretty hardcore out there now … but when Carlin took on such an overripe target as religion - it was sweet 🙂

Varn Level 8 Jan 4, 2018
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Yep, love George Carlin.

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I have a link to Carlin on my Facebook page linking him talking about religion. So yes Bullshit!

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One of my favorites! Joe bless you for posting this. 🙂

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Part of what made him so wonderful, was his dead-on, tell it like it is approach. With that license to speak uncomfortable truths , that comedians have in the name of laughter - Carlin spoke volumes about religion and it's inherent BS. He made people squirm. He sometimes silenced them with his outrageous words. And yet, he saw things as they are - as they really are.

Hail, King George !

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That says it all! Watching a Carlin HBO special gave me the courage to publicly declare my Atheism. The indoctrination process that children are put through and the parental/peer pressure is very strong in upper middle class environments. You run the risk of complete alienation from everyone near and dear.

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George Carlin had religion figured out a long time ago and tried to warn the rest of us. He was always funny as hell.

SamL Level 7 Oct 31, 2017
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Carlin was the first stand up I was familiar with many years ago. Now it seems that I discover new ones all the time. Ricky Gervais, Eddie Izzard, Jim Jefferies, Seth MacFarlane, Bill Maher and Julia Sweeney have all been popular. I’ll always owe a debt to Carlin as he was the first to get right in my face with it, make me think and make me damn proud to be atheist.

gearl Level 8 Oct 31, 2017
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He was awesome.

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One of my favorite stand-up bits.

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