Conservative comedian and human Santa Claus, Tim Allen,
tried to prove that God exists with one incredibly absurd sentence.
Let's just take a look at this unreal, very short Tiktok clip.
>> Her daughter's atheist and I said, well, philosophically it's a weird,
it's an irony there too because atheists don't believe in God.
Well, there has to be a god for you not to believe in, my daughter.
>> You played santa claus, does he exist?
>> Yep, I think that point is about as well made as it could be,
but I'll expand on it just for good measure.
Tim Allen literally tried to say that his daughter not believing there is a god
proves there's a god because you need to have a god to not believe in it.
Literally, the same as saying if you don't believe bigfoot is real,
that proves bigfoot is real,
because there's a word called bigfoot about an imaginary thing somebody made up.
It's a level of insanity and it just speaks to the levels that
people are willing to go to delude themselves.
Of course you should believe whatever makes you
feel comforted in this very strange world.
You should have whatever religious belief makes you feel happy,
makes you feel warm and soothed all good.
But when you try to act as though it is fact based,
when you try to act as though even those who don't believe in it are completely
ridiculous because you believe in a thing that was written in a book once.
It is written that you don't have critical thinking skills and
that's just how I see it.
But Ana, what do you think?
>> I'm gonna generalize and say a lot of men, but
it's particularly pronounced among conservative men.
Is the unearned confidence when they're speaking and
especially when they're saying something stupid.
And you see that in the clip, you see like he's got his chin up a little bit and
he's like, I'm gonna make a super smart point, everyone's gonna love it.
It's so deep, it's so deep, so deep, it'll put your ass to sleep,
like it's terrible, terrible.
Anyway, the other thing I wanna say is when I have deeply held beliefs and
values, I'm confident in those beliefs and values.
To the point where others not believing what I believe doesn't make me
insecure about those beliefs and values.
And so if you get triggered by people disagreeing with you on things like faith,
religion, the existence of God, ask yourself why,
is it because you're questioning the existence of God?
Is that maybe what's going on here?
I don't know.
But either way, I'm gonna do me, right?
Like why?
>> [LAUGH] >> I don't understand people were so,
like frustrated with the nonbelievers.
It's okay, and by the way.
>> Yeah. >> There are plenty of people who don't
need religion to determine what is and is not moral.
There are plenty of wonderful people out there who do kind things to others for
others and they don't believe in any religion.
Because they don't need religious doctrine to determine what is right and
wrong, you know what I'm saying?
>> I do and I think you've just found your new Twitter bio,
do you Imma do me is probably the best phrase I've ever heard.
But it also speaks to the hypocrisy often of people that are very religious.
A lot of times they are very republican and
they claim that they're all about freedom.
They're all about about not ever regulating thought or
telling people how they can be an entity.
Same time, they only have one very specific,
very outdated way to see the world.
And, I joked a minute ago, but when people say things to prove the bible,
they always skip over the point of proof.
They'll say it is written, it is written just means somebody wrote it,
like my stand up act is written doesn't make it gospel.
It doesn't make any sense.
That's actually a joke from my special where I say that of course believe what
you wanna believe.
But people always cite as backup proof.
The only place that says Jesus is God for example or whatever your religion is,
they have bumper stickers in their car that says Jesus is God, read the bible.
That's exactly like saying animals can talk, watch Dr. Dolittle.
Yeah, in that story that's true, but where's the proof that it's a true story,
that's the part you're missing homie.
>> Yeah, totally.
>> By the way I saw a bumper sticker the other day that was like
a play off of the don't tread on me sign.
But it was like a like a poorly drawn snake and
it said, no step on snake and I wanted to steal it.
It was so funny.
I was like [INAUDIBLE] >> That's a slogan I could get,
I think I found my new Twitter bio right there.
No step on snake is pretty incredible but that at least is something objective.
It's good advice to not step on a snake, snakes are real.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day on someone's car that had an american
flag and on top of it said emblazoned on top, pray for
America and it was clearly a Trump supporters car.
Because there was truck nuts hanging under it and there was a lot of other clues,
context clues.
You could figure it out.
And they believe that because they have a sticker that says pray for
America, that they're better than us.
That they're better than people that don't believe in their own version.
What's so sad about it to me is that we all pray for
America in our own special way.
Just some of us don't think the prayers are magical.
Just some of us think prayers means we're putting it out there into the universe.
If there is a God wonderful, let's hope that he blesses this country, but
also in the pretty likely chance that there isn't one or if there is,
it's not the exact man in the sky that you've always been told it is.
We can also do things to help improve the lives of people with our own actions here
on earth and don't need to lie on a guy in the sky and be like, I'm praying for
you, thoughts and prayers yet again.
>> Yeah, the contradictions with religion also annoy me.
For instance, one of the only appealing things about religion and
I've heard Michele Bachmann talked about this and Jenk brings it up a lot too.
She talked about how once she realized everything was in God's hands.
Like it's such a relief, right?
It's such a relief to say like what, what am I gonna do about this?
I can't do anything, but it's in God's hands, right?
You just take a seat, take a load off God's got it, you know?
So there's that, but
then there's the big contradiction of God helps those who help themselves.
So it's like, which one is it?
Is it in God's hands?
And if it is in God's hands, can't I just take a load off?
No, it's I gotta help myself by the way,
isn't it selfish to only think about helping yourself.
Like it's just, it's not for me, but it's for other people and
I support that it's for other people.
>> Absolutely. >> It is it is a nice warm blanket.
Let me just say when my friend died, when Michael Brooks passed away.
That was the first time my Atheism was was tested.
Because I wanted so badly to believe that he wasn't gone,
that he existed in some way and that I don't know.
But again, I understand why people go toward religion and
I don't begrudge them for it.
Because there is something incredibly comforting to believe that we exist in
eternity in some fashion in some way and that your loved ones aren't really gone.
You you'll be reunited with them sometime in the future.
It's very comforting.
>> Absolutely [CROSSTALK] >> [LAUGH]
>> Yeah, it's very comforting.
And I don't begrudge anyone's comfort either.
It's just when they act as though it's the only true thing.
Another thing I say in my special making available on YouTube, is that religions
should teach whatever they want to teach, but just put an asterisk by it.
We think we're pretty sure we have it on good authority.
No one's really disproven us great.
That's fine.
Once the say definitively we are right and you are wrong.
That's what leads to wars and stonings and people being thrown off of rooftops and
people being discriminated against and left out of their communities.
And that's where it becomes very harmful.
And so that's why it's sometimes helpful to point out the contradictions and say,
sure, okay, you happen to believe Jesus is God's son and also God,
I'm confused by it.
But sure, but you also say that we're all God's children.
So we are all God's children that we're all a little mini Jesus is and
we're all as much Godlike as Jesus is.
It's just your I'm just quoting your own gospel back to you.
So, I think you phrased it perfectly.
Yeah, read the bible.
It's in there. We're all God's children, you're welcome.
I'm holding church service on Thursday.
Why has it gotta be Sundays?
So, it is a warm blanket absolutely.
And people should have whatever warm blanket they like.
But I know a lot of people that wear snuggies or weighted blankets, but
they don't pray to them.
So you can it's a choice, but to then tell everybody else,
how come you're all not praying to my warm blanket hat makes me feel good?
Because it doesn't happen to make me feel good.
Doesn't make me any less of a person.
Doesn't make me any less valid.
I just haven't experienced the blanket the way you have.
>> That's a great point.
You're so right about that.
Yeah, we don't see people running around trying to suffocate us with their
snuggies, like it's just not happening, right?
>> Having people have services where instead of tasting away for that
is the body of Christ, which is a little creepy to me, they just have you pet them.
It's made the furries coming back.
Maybe these, these high school kids identifies furries.
Their real point is that they're anointed and
they hope to one day be a heavy blanket and just lay on top of people and
bless them and heal them with their furry bodies.
My God, these lunatics are gonna take what you're saying literally and
they're already believing all sorts of crazy things.
So let's be careful here [LAUGH] >> Asterisk.