Russel Peters Godly Joke- Explained (2020-12-02) ​

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0:00:13 assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi
0:00:20 yes there is something different yes
0:00:22 there is something unusual
0:00:24 yes there is something that might be a
0:00:26 little bit irritating but don't worry
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0:00:33 today guys what we're going to be doing
0:00:35 is we're going to be responding to some
0:00:37 of the comments made by
0:00:38 a comedian by the name of russell peters
0:00:41 so let's see some of his comments ali
0:00:43 and let's uh comment on those
0:00:45 okay let's do that inshallah yeah okay
0:00:48 so this video was sent to me by brother
0:00:49 and i thought
0:00:51 let's go for inshallah because he's
0:00:52 claimed to be an atheist
0:00:54 really well yeah because he was
0:00:55 essentially an atheist i am as well
0:00:57 yeah you ready yeah uh and he really
0:01:00 you know i remember this one routine
0:01:02 about the you know
0:01:04 whenever you go to a funeral at some
0:01:06 point someone's gonna say
0:01:08 i know he's up there looking down at us
0:01:09 and smiling yeah
0:01:11 you know i was like there is no up there
0:01:13 yeah he's he's probably down there
0:01:15 looking up at us religion has
0:01:19 convinced that there's an invisible man
0:01:21 and is living in the sky exactly
0:01:22 he's watching everything you do but he's
0:01:24 particularly keen on what you do with
0:01:25 your penis
0:01:26 okay let's take a step at a time yeah
0:01:29 yeah so
0:01:30 what i'm starting to realize is this
0:01:31 year so we know in the west for example
0:01:34 a lot of people have turned their back
0:01:36 to christianity yeah due to secularism
0:01:38 and
0:01:38 or the i think what they do a lot of
0:01:41 people do is like
0:01:42 they have a bad experience i think this
0:01:44 is human psychology they have a bad
0:01:45 experience with something
0:01:46 and then they paint everybody the same
0:01:48 so i think where he's coming from is
0:01:50 like it's the same thing because we hear
0:01:51 over and over again with atheists
0:01:52 oh yeah you guys believe in a man in the
0:01:54 sky well that's not really the case
0:01:56 as muslims do we believe in a man in the
0:01:58 sky or this
0:02:00 invisible being or etc because it's
0:02:02 something islamically
0:02:03 we actually laugh at you know we say
0:02:05 look this is actually nonsense
0:02:07 so what would you say to it let's let's
0:02:09 let's imagine russell peters is watching
0:02:11 this
0:02:11 right what would you say to him do you
0:02:13 as a muslim believe in a man in the sky
0:02:16 well if that's the god he doesn't
0:02:17 believe in then that's the god we all
0:02:19 don't believe in as muslims as well
0:02:20 yeah i mean right i mean
0:02:24 you know people don't realize that when
0:02:26 you come into islam you say two things
0:02:28 you say
0:02:32 and then obviously
0:02:35 so i testify that there's no god worthy
0:02:38 of worship
0:02:39 except for allah and that muhammad is
0:02:40 his messenger but the first part of that
0:02:42 is a negation
0:02:44 right so there is no god
0:02:47 worthy of worship except for allah right
0:02:51 so this negation actually cancels out
0:02:54 all anthropomorphic understandings of
0:02:57 god meaning so it's not right he can
0:02:58 come the same
0:02:59 or are you saying that you don't believe
0:03:01 in any other man gods
0:03:02 but the man good we don't believe in a
0:03:04 man god okay so we don't we don't
0:03:05 believe in any man god right because
0:03:07 you're special we don't believe in so no
0:03:09 man gods but our man god is different
0:03:12 no we don't believe in any man can be
0:03:14 god in fact
0:03:15 we don't think it's intelligible
0:03:16 conceivable or pardonable
0:03:19 that we can point at any man with a date
0:03:21 of birth and say that that
0:03:22 man is god okay i mean you're right
0:03:24 edward
0:03:25 so anyone with a date of birth that you
0:03:27 look at and you point to that person
0:03:29 yes we can't point to anybody like that
0:03:31 and say that that person is god because
0:03:33 god is by definition pre-eternal
0:03:36 and post-eternal god is the necessary
0:03:39 being
0:03:40 the sovereign
0:03:44 i made a joke it just went over there i
0:03:45 called edward i called you edward
0:03:48 because you used such a sophisticated
0:03:50 language and you sounded like an edward
0:03:51 i'm sorry
0:03:53 it was a joke that went bad why are you
0:03:54 saying that you know
0:03:56 us ethnics can't say clever
0:04:02 so um yeah it's not possible that so
0:04:05 we don't look at any human being and say
0:04:06 that's god in fact the quran is candid
0:04:08 about this
0:04:09 issue the quran is unequivocal about the
0:04:11 issue that there is no human being that
0:04:13 can be god
0:04:14 so we also reject that kind of god
0:04:17 with him we're on the same page on that
0:04:19 we'd reject a man god looking up and
0:04:21 pointing out
0:04:21 you know us from the sky whatever it may
0:04:23 be we do believe in a transcendental god
0:04:26 we do believe in a god that is all
0:04:27 powerful or wise or knowledgeable
0:04:30 because we look at the fact that the
0:04:32 universe
0:04:32 is in is finely tuned we look at the
0:04:35 fact that the universe
0:04:36 has laws and we attribute to that a law
0:04:39 maker
0:04:40 yeah that's as simple as that really we
0:04:41 attribute a lawmaker with intelligence
0:04:44 uh with power and it's not the case i'm
0:04:47 a new atheist and he's really kind of
0:04:48 regurgitating new atheist jargon here
0:04:50 they usually straw man religion before
0:04:53 they can
0:04:53 try and attack it these conceptions of
0:04:56 god is something we don't accept
0:04:57 exactly i might go to church and i'd be
0:04:59 like doesn't add up to me in here
0:05:01 just something seems off and
0:05:04 and i had questions and you weren't
0:05:06 allowed to ask questions
0:05:08 and i'm like well that seems a little
0:05:10 odd okay so
0:05:12 asking questions maybe he's talking
0:05:14 about
0:05:16 christianity um god knows
0:05:19 medieval times where you know they were
0:05:22 i found a mistake in
0:05:23 burning people who are involved in
0:05:24 science and all these kind of things
0:05:26 so is he coming from the angle where
0:05:28 he's saying well hold on a second i want
0:05:29 to ask questions you don't even allow me
0:05:30 to ask questions then you want me to
0:05:31 believe in that
0:05:32 to be fair even to christianity i don't
0:05:33 even think it's like i wouldn't even
0:05:35 characterize it like that you know
0:05:37 obviously people point out to galileo as
0:05:40 um but most historians of science they
0:05:42 don't see that as
0:05:43 because he said we spoke of the
0:05:45 heliocentric model there's a lot more
0:05:47 that came into it
0:05:48 i don't think any rational actor in the
0:05:50 world doesn't allow
0:05:52 or a community of rational people don't
0:05:54 allow questions to be asked
0:05:56 certain things would be even christians
0:05:57 and jews and muslims
0:05:59 religious people we have been asking
0:06:00 critical questions for
0:06:02 god god knows how long that is so i
0:06:05 don't even accept his anecdote as
0:06:07 generalizable right it's sometimes it
0:06:09 can be true that okay well maybe he's
0:06:11 asked some certain questions about the
0:06:12 trinity or certain question about the
0:06:14 man god
0:06:14 and he wasn't given a satisfactory
0:06:16 answer and we don't think christianity
0:06:18 has satisfactory answers for those
0:06:20 questions because remember they do
0:06:21 believe in a man god
0:06:22 but once again we shouldn't kind of
0:06:24 superimpose christian ideas on islam
0:06:27 and that's what i think he's done he
0:06:28 said religion is all one thing
0:06:30 um and basically it's all it's all one
0:06:33 kind of thing and
0:06:34 it's it's really not so he's not being
0:06:36 sophisticated in his response here
0:06:37 yeah exactly you know i think i think
0:06:39 sometimes i believe some certain
0:06:41 atheists they
0:06:42 they're looking for an excuse not to
0:06:44 believe and they
0:06:45 have one bad experience and they'll be
0:06:46 like okay i'll hold onto this for the
0:06:47 rest of my life if anybody asks me why
0:06:48 not
0:06:49 oh this is the reason why and sometimes
0:06:51 fooling yourself you know because then
0:06:52 they the signs of god around you let's
0:06:54 suppose christianity or whether they
0:06:55 didn't
0:06:56 tell you uh like for example you know
0:06:57 how many people we know that came to
0:06:58 islam yeah in the church they didn't let
0:06:59 me ask they didn't go and say okay i'm
0:07:00 to be an atheist they said no
0:07:02 there has to be a creator it's just this
0:07:03 doesn't make sense to me they're not
0:07:05 allowing me to ask questions okay i'll
0:07:06 go to another church and ask questions
0:07:07 it's not sufficient enough
0:07:08 you don't just hold that on and be like
0:07:10 okay i think it's like a card that you
0:07:12 use where
0:07:12 you make your nest feel better and be
0:07:14 like no no you know i seek the truth
0:07:16 they didn't give me so
0:07:17 i'm just going to live my life how i
0:07:18 want to see good point
0:07:21 because the the signs of allah you know
0:07:23 verses over versus what it talks about
0:07:25 even
0:07:25 in your own self you know if you're not
0:07:27 going to question that i don't know man
0:07:29 i feel you i'm an atheist myself yeah i
0:07:31 mean i was probably a jew at some point
0:07:32 i was raised jewish actually yeah i was
0:07:34 raised jewish but at one point i mean i
0:07:35 haven't gone to a synagogue and
0:07:37 he paused it just one thing i he says
0:07:39 you're probably a jew at one point so
0:07:41 i think there's an assumption here which
0:07:42 is that whenever he thinks that
0:07:45 socialization can only happen towards
0:07:47 religion and you can't be socialized
0:07:48 into atheism
0:07:50 you know to be honest one time i'll tell
0:07:51 you something interesting right um
0:07:54 i was doing something when i was working
0:07:55 as a teacher i was asking the kids in my
0:07:58 classroom
0:07:59 i was asking them if they knew what
0:08:00 atheism was and if they knew what
0:08:02 christianity was and
0:08:03 all those things because there were key
0:08:04 terms right and then i asked follow-up
0:08:06 questions who would identify as an
0:08:07 atheist who'd identifies
0:08:09 uh christian who and so on and i would
0:08:12 say the majority of kids in the
0:08:13 classroom put their hands up
0:08:15 in identifying as an atheist then i said
0:08:17 what is atheism and those same kids
0:08:19 that put their hands up when when i
0:08:21 asked them what is atheism
0:08:23 sorry what would you identify as they
0:08:26 didn't know what atheism
0:08:27 entailed in in even a basic way
0:08:30 so you can be socialized into atheism
0:08:32 just as you can be socialized into
0:08:33 christianity
0:08:34 it's it's this um this idea of
0:08:37 neutrality has to be argued for
0:08:39 if you want to say that well atheism is
0:08:41 a neutral
0:08:43 thing yeah but you have to argue that
0:08:44 that is the case are people born
0:08:46 believing in atheism because
0:08:48 actually there were studies was it was
0:08:50 oxford university yeah
0:08:51 2011 the anthropological society they
0:08:53 said that most people are born believing
0:08:55 in high power
0:08:56 so so we can say the neutral position is
0:08:57 you're all believers right but
0:08:59 as an intellectual position as an
0:09:00 intellectual position we both have to
0:09:02 make arguments
0:09:03 we have to show why that is the neutral
0:09:04 position but he hasn't done that he
0:09:06 assumes that to be the case
0:09:08 yeah but he hasn't shown any evidence
0:09:09 for it yeah exactly it's true very very
0:09:11 important
0:09:12 but my whole goal is just listen at the
0:09:14 end of the day
0:09:15 did i do good things and nice things for
0:09:17 people when i was here that's all i care
0:09:19 about yeah
0:09:20 and i think we can end on this point
0:09:21 here this what he just mentioned did i
0:09:23 do good things that's what i care about
0:09:27 we've discussed this before what's good
0:09:28 thing good who defines what goodness is
0:09:30 good who does who do you prioritize
0:09:32 being good too right and if we think
0:09:34 about in our
0:09:35 sense like we live here and on this
0:09:36 planet on this earth
0:09:38 being good i think what would you say
0:09:40 who should you be the most kind to
0:09:42 let's let's put it like who would you
0:09:43 say you should be the most kind to who
0:09:44 deserves your
0:09:45 most gratitude and kindness and for you
0:09:47 to obey like
0:09:48 let's not let's particularly got out the
0:09:50 picture for a second who would you say
0:09:51 like
0:09:52 me i was like my parents okay yeah and
0:09:54 then uh maybe after that
0:09:56 i don't know maybe my brother i don't
0:09:57 know maybe then my wife or my kids i
0:09:59 don't know yeah
0:10:00 there's hierarchy yeah because you know
0:10:01 okay well the thing is we believe in a
0:10:03 creator
0:10:04 then the definition a lot of people come
0:10:07 and ask this question okay you know
0:10:08 mother teresa where she going to go i'm
0:10:10 like look if you understand what shirk
0:10:11 is
0:10:12 and what the what shirk means if you are
0:10:15 good to everybody if ali dawa is good to
0:10:17 everyone charitable everybody loves
0:10:18 alidawah his child children he helps
0:10:20 everybody
0:10:21 when he goes home he insults his mom he
0:10:22 beats his mom up is ali dawa a good
0:10:24 person
0:10:25 everyone's going to say no hold on a
0:10:27 second i'm good to everybody then how do
0:10:29 you expect the treatment of entering
0:10:30 paradise in the hereafter when you're
0:10:31 going to go to god and say god i was
0:10:32 good to every
0:10:33 everyone i was good to but you
0:10:35 disobeying the commandments
0:10:37 of allah um and not acknowledging him
0:10:40 and not
0:10:41 maybe some some people who hate god then
0:10:43 how are you a good person i think we
0:10:45 need to understand the redefine what is
0:10:47 good
0:10:47 well it's a good point i mean at the end
0:10:49 of the day like you say um
0:10:51 goodness is a metaphysic it's not
0:10:52 something which is empirically uh
0:10:54 justified
0:10:54 you can't put goodness under a
0:10:56 microscope and so
0:10:58 yeah you can't put goodness under from
0:10:59 his point of view goodness doesn't exist
0:11:02 if you're a materialist naturalist
0:11:04 materialist okay
0:11:05 atheist you can't actually talk about
0:11:08 morality in any meaningful objectively
0:11:11 objectively meaningful way because you
0:11:13 can't put morality under a microscope
0:11:15 and so goodness is going to be totally
0:11:18 subjective
0:11:19 it's going to be something which is a
0:11:20 social construct or a cultural construct
0:11:22 of some sort
0:11:23 and therefore something which you
0:11:25 shouldn't be using as an argument
0:11:27 and so that on the flip side as well the
0:11:29 problem of evil becomes redundant for an
0:11:30 atheist because
0:11:31 evil is unprovable it's a metaphysically
0:11:34 unprovable thing
0:11:36 so once again when atheists like this
0:11:39 individual
0:11:40 says mentions goodness and you know
0:11:42 badness if you like you know
0:11:44 is he talking about something which
0:11:45 exists objectively in the real world
0:11:47 and if so how can you prove it you know
0:11:49 demonstrably
0:11:50 how can you show us you know because
0:11:52 it's not empirically uh justified just
0:11:54 in the same way as you would say
0:11:56 god is not something you can put under a
0:11:57 microscope therefore i don't believe him
0:11:59 so if you want to have your cake then
0:12:00 you can't have your cake and eat it both
0:12:02 if you if you want to reject
0:12:03 metaphysical um explanations for for
0:12:06 example why we're here
0:12:07 then also you have to uh reject
0:12:10 metaphysical morality matter
0:12:12 all kinds of metaphysics exactly yeah so
0:12:15 so to be honest instead of calling it
0:12:16 the economy come and call it the problem
0:12:17 of evil can we call it like
0:12:19 the problem of nothingness or the
0:12:20 problem of the atoms because you know if
0:12:22 you think about
0:12:22 you can't come and talk about evil and
0:12:24 good because you're an atheist
0:12:26 so you can't even come to me with the
0:12:27 problem of evil absolutely an atheist
0:12:28 for me
0:12:29 um cannot claim that or you know cannot
0:12:32 prove
0:12:33 that evil or goodness objectively exists
0:12:36 they can't prove that and therefore
0:12:38 using it as an argument against
0:12:40 religion or for atheism or for morality
0:12:43 irreligious morality
0:12:44 is really a redundant it's a moot point
0:12:47 and uh it doesn't get you far
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