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Atheism -- you know is a -- to, to many respects a reasonable thing to -- to sort of posit from looking around at the world. i dont posit that or believe in that. it is reasonable for people to think that. it important to accompany them. not hit them over the head with something. really that does no good. thats not the way jesus acted. thats not the way a christian should act. it is invitation. the word i like better. >> the argument we came up with together backstage when we came out here. an a...

Would be considered. . >> do you think atheism is presented in an overly aggressive way, or a way that doesnt serve it? >> put anything in that sentence in place of atheism. you have it being right. >> yeah, yeah. >> of course. of course, it is presented badly. everybody has their own personality. their own way of doing things. way of talking. the most important thing, only thing. i think we can agree on this strongly. what i think is most important is that people actually talk about it. the qui...

People treat youd so badly when you want to atheism. i think one of the reasonize want to atheism, religious people treated me so well. my dad was a christian. we were very, very close. there is a feeling love and security that can make you very happy with the life we have here. and sometimes the gentleness and the love itself is what gives you the confidence to maybe, not be, not be reaching for things. this is what i encounter all the time. the number of people that are aggressive and unpleasa...

We were very, very close. there is a feeling love and security that can make you very happy with the life we have here. and sometimes the gentleness and the love itself is what gives you the confidence to maybe, not be, not be reaching for things. this is what i encounter all the time. the number of people that are aggressive and unpleasant in religion to me in my, life, is just about zero. maybe one or two. >> do you feel threatened by atheism? >> no. i cant stress this enough. a lot of my frie...

I think conversion as pope francis. >> lets does that here. >> pope francis himself called conversion pious nonsense, i think more of an invitation. jesus says, jesus doesnt say follow me or i will hit you over the head. jesus says come and see. >> this is what i encountered over and over. we did a show, penn and teller b.s. we would attack christianity. we would attack all sorts of religions. what we would get back, we expected hostility. what we got again and again. gentle sweetness. one of th...

Am doing. i dont have a t-shirt. >> i cant do magic. i cant do magic. >> well, under some definitions of magic, transsubstantiation would be kidded. . >> would be considered. >> do you think atheism is presented in an overly aggressive way, or a way that doesnt serve it? >> put anything in that sentence in place of atheism. you have it being right. >> yeah, yeah. >> of course. of course, it is presented badly. everybody has their own personality. their own way of doing things. way of talking. th...

Obviously there was an offhand captain and it was a discussion. one thing they pit atheism versus lack of faith. there are other options out there. there could be a god but he just moved on. >> or a different kind of god. >> what do you think? >> i guess you can be in awe of something even though she doesnt understand it. i guess if you believe that we came here because of some massive explosion out of nowhere and there is no god, which im assuming what shes saying, she can be in awe we exploded...

Obviously there was an offhand captain and it was a discussion. one thing they pit atheism versus lack of faith. there are other options out there. there could be a god but he just moved on. >> or a different kind of god. >> what do you think? >> i guess you can be in awe of something even though she doesnt understand it. i guess if you believe that we came here because of some massive explosion out of nowhere and there is no god, which im assuming what shes saying, she can be in awe we exploded...

Those electronic cigarettes. brian has one lit up right now. but one woman in minnesota says they had better watch out. she witnessed her husbands e cigarette explode into flames. >> it shot out like a missile from the computer. this is supposed to be safe and is not. it turned into a fireworks. >> surprised me big time. i mean, for that to happen. >> the problem is apparently the battery. the battery can get overheated and then can explode. by the way, there was a toddler in utah recently who s...

Searches for the lord and has goodwill, who am i to judge? on the subject of atheism, francis says nonbelievers should obey their conscious and that gods mercy has no limits. hes even suggesting that hes open to a debate on married priests. last week, i confessed i had a growing crush on the new pope, pope francis, who has been melting my lefty heart, and after that, people have been coming out of the woodwork on facebook and twitter, e-mailing me, basically saying, me too! so today when i got t...