This is a non-exhaustive list of my videos by topic.
Religion — LGBT issues — Ethics — Politics — Transhumanism — Mathematics — Personal growth — Comedy — Miscellaneous
Religion
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Atheism and nonbelief
- Ron Rosenbaum’s misconceptions about atheism
- The troubling implications of alleged miracles
- Why do atheists share their views?
- Are atheists angry at God?
- “Footprints”
- Are atheists arrogant?
- Should theology be taken seriously?
- Is atheism a religion?
- Death doesn’t become good just because there’s no afterlife
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Christianity
- The Bible
- Jesus
- God-centered morality
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Catholicism
- Let’s not pretend that communion wafers are God
- How to register your official defection from the Catholic church
- Washington, D.C. archdiocese threatens to end its social services if gay marriage is legal
- Catholic bishops think religion is an excuse for employment discrimination against gay people
- Catholic bishops seek to deny government housing to gay people
- Most lay Catholics support birth control coverage
- Mormonism
- Salvation Army
- Zinnia interviews the Westboro Baptist Church
- Christian conservatives blame liberal values for angering Islamic terrorists
- Why would gay people choose to be Christian?
- Hypocrisy can help keep people from acting on dangerous beliefs
- If you attend a megachurch, you don’t really “hate religion”
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Islam
- There is no reason not to draw Muhammad
- Criticism of Islam is not hate speech just because Islam may not like it
- Disobeying Islamic doctrine is not a good reason to kill someone
- Defacement of a Qur’an does not warrant violence
- The “ground zero mosque” is only as wrong as building any religious structure anywhere
- Eid al-Adha celebrates a disturbing legend
- “I bet you wouldn’t say that about Islam!” Or would I?
- Witchcraft
- Existence of gods
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Faith, evidence and epistemology
- Faith is not a sound justification for beliefs
- Faith can’t fill the gaps in your reasoning
- Atheism is not faith that there are no gods, just no faith that there are
- Alleged supernatural experiences are more likely to have organic causes
- Why is belief in God exempt from the usual standards of evidence?
- Can the absence of evidence be evidence of absence?
- Religion and law
- Christmas and the holidays
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Personal responses
- To bowhanded, on homosexuality, creation myths and death
- To Krazie316, on Old Testament morality
- To CriticalQuestion, on taking the claims of religion seriously
- To CriticalQuestion, on the real-world impact of religion
- To Stacy Trasancos, on people’s freedom not to follow your religion’s dictates
- To shockofgod
- To GodGunsGutsGlory
- What it really means if “everything happens for a reason”
- Being wrong for a really long time won’t make you right
- Religion and charity: What about all the good things religion does?
- Organized or not, religion itself is a problem
- Religious beliefs and activities shouldn’t be treated as special
LGBT issues
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Marriage
- The constant shifting and inconsistent application of anti-marriage arguments
- A response to Maine’s ban on gay marriage
- Tradition is a superfluous and circular argument
- Why aren’t civil unions good enough for straight couples?
- Insisting that the meaning of marriage can never change is unpersuasive
- Are the additional expenses of spousal benefits a legitimate objection to gay marriage?
- Protesting anti-marriage rallies is not “bullying”
- NOM partners with Minnesota group that accused gays of “ingesting urine and feces”
- Minnesota Family Council later deletes “ingesting urine and feces” claims from their site
- NOM invests millions to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks”
- NOM’s excuse: They were incapable of carrying out their racially divisive strategy
- A list of NOM’s major donors is leaked
- Proficiency at parenting should have no bearing on the right to marry
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Discrimination
- Unequal expectations imposed upon minority groups
- The use of “gay” as an insult
- On knowingly funding anti-gay groups because you can’t stop eating Chick-Fil-A
- Our rights are not any less important because of historical bigotry against other groups
- Anti-gay group hires airplane to fly a warning about gay people at Disney World
- The unique brand of misogynist disrespect toward lesbians
- Opposing gay marriage is already bigoted, and legalizing marriage isn’t what makes this bigoted
- Rick Santorum “doesn’t hate” the people he compares to rapists
- Will “Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays” support non-discrimination laws?
- Criminalization
- Pathologization
- Transgender
- Pride parades
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In media
- CBS blurs out Adam Lambert kissing a man, while airing graphic violence
- The BBC includes an “opposing viewpoint” on Elton John’s newborn son
- Fox reporter calls gay TV characters “product placement”
- Fox News tries to reify constructed gender norms
- “One Million” Moms seeks to remove all gay people from public visibility
- In schools
- Youth
- Out and proud: National Coming Out Day
- The role of choice in sexual orientation and its bearing on equal protection
- It doesn’t matter if being gay is a choice
- Homosexuality should not even be a moral issue
- Quit flaunting it, straight people!
- Cindy McCain says DADT is bad for gay youth, and she completely supports it
- Conservative Christians disregard the concept of consent at their own peril
- On atheists who hate gay people
- On gay people who hate gay people
- Yes, bisexual people do exist
- Similarities and differences between bisexuality and pansexuality
- Remembering Alan Turing
- There is nothing paradoxical about refusing to tolerate intolerance
- Does accepting homosexuality destroy civilizations? (Hint: No.)
- Accusing gay people of causing the Holocaust is a bad idea
Ethics
- Meta-ethics
- Which charities should we support, and why?
- Choosing to reproduce is not ethical by default
- Is-ought: Improper use of natural facts as moral imperatives
- Administrative overhead is a poor way to judge charities
- Eating dogs is no different from eating other livestock
Politics
- Bradley Manning
- On weakening the standards of evidence because you’ve already decided someone is guilty
- Massachusetts Rep. Ryan Fattman discourages undocumented immigrants from reporting crimes
- The importance of online anonymity
- The only thing strong about Rick Perry is his ignorance
- What’s the best legal approach to prostitution?
- The political process is being suffocated by meaningless trivialities
- Bristol Palin plays the victim
- Will we ever get an honest answer from Bristol Palin?
Transhumanism, immortality and the singularity
- Why I am a transhumanist
- Objections to transhumanism, and responses
- The pursuit of voluntary technological immortality
- Making death mandatory because of unresolved social issues is unacceptable
- Solving problems by developing self-improving AI
Mathematics
- Classical information theory
- Algorithmic information theory: Introduction to Kolmogorov complexity
- Graham’s number
- Memorizing pi to 314 places
Personal growth
- Coming out as gay
- Coming out as lesbian
- My deconversion from Christianity
- Lessons learned from one year on YouTube
- Overcoming my fear of air travel
- Becoming a parent
Comedy
- A guide to understanding Insane Clown Posse’s “Miracles”
- Insane Clown Posse responds to Zinnia
- The Mel Gibson tapes: a dramatic reenactment
- Basil Marceaux.com: a dramatic reenactment
- PSA: Don’t Grope People
- It got stuck?
- The best makeup tutorial ever!
- Totally Normal Activity