Jesse Ventura: ‘I’m An Atheist. And I’m Proud To Say It.’

Um… It was Richard Dawkins with the T-shirt, and it said something like “We’re all Africans.”  (And Dawkins really is African.  He was born in Kenya.)

Ventura is just full of crazy.  He’s a good example of how a person can get the God question right and almost everything else wrong.

I’d still like to see him run for President.  It would be great for him to give the State of the Union address and say “Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here!” referring to Congress.

But where’s the birth certificate!!??!!

Sorry, I have a tendency to blurt that out whenever anyone is said to have been born in Kenya. I’m easily led.

Somebody needs to post on this, BTW: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/21/12343407-activist-churches-bait-irs-but-agency-wont-bite-so-far?lite

Off-topic here, I know.  Sorry.

Atheist? Yes. Skeptic and rational thinker? No. Honest? Nope, lied about being a navy seal.

I’m glad to hear that anyone has cast off belief in God, but Ventura is certainly no one we want seen as a representative of atheism. He is, well all those things people before me have said, and while it may just be bad thinking, he may very well be seriously mentally ill and appropriate treatment might help him to stop believing in alien visitors and conspiracy theories.

He may be an atheist but he is definitely not a skeptic.

HGH gives affects your brow ridge? Fascinating, I did not know that. I would be stunned if there was anyone in professional wrestling (well, really just those with a muscular look, the ones carrying a lot of body fat could be exceptions) who is not using every available chemical that could boost their large, muscular appearance.

As a Minnesotan, I was totally embarrassed by Ventura. This helps about this >< much.

He can be a little embarising if he’s going down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole, but I have a soft spot in me heart for the man. I do like how open he is about his ideas. Most people are guarded and don’t end saying anything. (He’s not afraid to be wrong!)

And at least he’s right about the deity proposition.

Of course as a good skeptic I didn’t take you at your word and went out and googled this. In addition to HGH causing an enlarged brow ridge, anabolic steroids can cause hair loss (which I guess I already knew but wasn’t thinking about). So plenty of men go bald. And he could have a glandular disorder that causes his body to produce too much HGH on its own. But wow, there’s a good chance that he made himself look like that. Don’t use drugs kids. Well, at least don’t use hormones and chemicals that act like hormones to enhance your appearance or athletic performance. His testicles are probably shrunken too.

All I can think is it sounds like he took the book title from a Greydon Square song.

To all the skeptics out there who pick on him for his conspiracy views… keep in mind that many skeptics (my age) liked the show “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy…it wasn’t much different than anything Jesse comes up with, and it made great skeptics out of a lot of people…just like religion made great atheists out of a lot of people.

It would be better if he didn’t say he was a ‘follower’ of Carlin, or that he ‘worships’ the sun, or that he ‘believes’ in evolution…we know that literalist thinkers will take those kinds of statements and think that he must mean that he literally worships the sun or that evolution is a belief system that you need to have faith in.  He just hasn’t been around many atheists.  Atheists have also traditionally not wanted to tell people how to express their atheism and what to say or not to say…so someone might say “I’m an atheist, and I believe in a higher power’ and by higher power they are talking about the laws of nature.  It would be nice to find ways of defining our own terms instead of people using religious terms…it would clear up a lot of confusion.

So religion is a good thing because some minority of people exposed to it eventually become atheists?

+1 To those deeming him out as a madman (not saying he is or is not), seing as most people on this board has more exp. of gov. work and military ops. 

I love how so many people are calling him “crazy” and saying that he’s a poor skeptic because he questions things like the JFK assassination and 9/11.
Skepticism is all about questioning what is generally accepted by the majority.

You don’t have to agree with him, but you’ve no right to call him crazy.

 Are you really arguing that there’s no position so divorced from the facts that mocking those who hold it is reasonable? If Jesse denied the moon landing you’d probably think he was a nut. You’d almost certainly think he was foolish if he was a Young Earth Creationist. So what makes his particular set of crazy beliefs immune to criticism?

 Because no one knows who really wanted JFK killed or who was really behind the 9/11 attacks. Everyone just knows what the media tells us.

Jesse’s just ahead of his time.  Americans are christian sky-god worshiping zombies.  Dumb as a bag of rocks.

But he is an american with african ancestry so…

 I’m just googling, but I’m not finding anything but December 7th for Panama to declare against Japan, and Dec 8th-20th for everyone else, U.S. included.

@facebook-1540839497:disqus , please take into consideration that Ventura is American, being interviewed by an American interviewer for an American publication.  I’m guessing he wasn’t considering that his interview might play to an international audience.  It’s unlikely any insult was intended.

No, skepticism is questioning fact-less reasoning and the pursuit of logic. Not going against what is accepted by the majority; that’s called being a hipster.

You mean to say you agree with him that there is no god and don’t agree with him about anything else. I read the article, nothing said about him in it was crazy.  He praises the sun over an imaginary friend. This is the comment section for this specific article.  Go push your “Ventura is crazy” belief on a forum about crazy people.

 Do you think Japan made the same mistake?  Imagine how different the world would have been if Google translate had been around in the 40’s.

*It is OPEN TO CHANGE based on NEW FACTS and reasoning.

The term Conspiracy theory just has that connotation that comes with it. Using words with heavy connotations is an appeal to internet trolls everywhere. Believing that there were more motives behind killing JFK other than some man on a personnel mission is not a crazy assumption.  This also sounds more compelling than saying CONSPIRACY THEORY.

Where the hell do you get that the US declared war on Japan before Pearl Harbor??  Please provide some evidence before spouting crap like this..  FDR went to congress the day AFTER the Pearl Harbor attack where he requested a declaration of war against japan.  The house voted 388 to 1 and the senate 82 to 0.  Thanks for playing.

 Um…it’s called economic warfare. The US issued an oil embargo on Japan as punishment for their invasion of Indochina. With no US oil, Japan would have to withdraw from Indochina and roll back 8 years of territorial gains. The only alternative was the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies to the south but the only way to secure those deposits was to minimize the impact of a US naval response, thus Pearl Harbor. Tensions were high between both countries since the sanctions began, thus war was not entirely unforeseeable.

Never. Unless some outside Christian group is mad, that’s it. My bosses and the parents don’t criticize my beliefs at all.

 Yeah…  None of that is a declaration of war which was my original point.  The theme of the comments being Jesse Ventura’s skepticism and paranoia.  The post you are replying to was a light-hearted quip, and in no way insinuated any justification for mistreating anyone by race or any other reason.

Your article sir is the most stupid one I ever recall reading. Jesse Ventura is a fool and everyone knows it. He lied to become Governor by claiming to be a Navy SEAL. He was not. Then he bribed his way through the primary and bribed after he got caught. He’s the worst person and you feature him online. Sheesh what a jerk  you are.

Obviously, I’d rather not have any supernatural thinking.  But, we do.  I’d rather have a lot more liberal theists then fundamentalist ones.  But, I do notice that the people who join our group who had the quickest conversions were ones that were from the most literal fundamentalist forms of Christianity.  It all falls down like a house of cards.  Liberal Christians are much more soft and squishy, they can adjust to almost anything without losing their faith.

No such thing as fact from the bible. Lol thats the dumbest thing I have heard in a long time, how are they facts, they are ink in a damn book, some story’s may be true but in no way did they happen like the bible says. Your great flood wasn’t a flood. It’s called land displament. GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!!!!!!!! IF we do have a god, he or she or they are a higher form of life much like us but more advanced, Some can call the aliens, some call them ETs, they could have even lived here on earth before us, they may also be human. Not saying this is all true but if god is real this is how it is, nothing at all like the bible states. Open your eyes and pull your head out of your ass.

…and the pursuit of logic…and having nothing to do with whether it is a consensus or popular or not. Something a lot of ‘skeptics’ have a hard time with understanding. They’ll be great skeptics at a religion for example but terrible skeptics on other subjects.

 How is he 100% crazy? Compared to most politicians he’s the most sane of them all.

 not to mention a lot of intelligence gathered about the Japanese subs in the area before the attack and the admiral at pearl harbor kept out of the loop to do much about it. it was basically a let it happen on purpose so let’s get on with the war scenario since people weren’t interested at the time in getting involved with another major war so soon.

 yeah, most people relegate the term conspiracy theory to ONLY mean: impractical, pointless plot by the government known by all members of government and therefore impossible to contain and therefore never possible to happen whatsoever especially when taking note of the more loud and ridiculous claims, therefore applying those claims to be the case for any support of such theory.
Meanwhile in reality, we believe conspiracy theories all the time no matter how ‘skeptic’ we think we are. So long as a crime takes more than 1 person to plot and carry it out means it’s a conspiracy and whatever body of facts that link the explanation of it together is the theory. Big damn deal people. Choose another term instead of hijacking the langauge, dipshits.

I believe in God and the Begotten Son of God. Just look up and out into the open and look into the Universe all the stars and the sun the moon even our own planet and planets of a different kind just in our solar system and then there is Humanity in which has a history we think, we talk, compute and understand eachother and our ancesters understood and even talked to GOD that created it all but just take a long look out there and take a loong look back where you are and then you will realize how much of a small world we live in and how big and ever changing the Universal world is out there AND then Say There is no God. Impossible Because if there wasnt then what created us and what created the world as perfect as it is to supply us with what we need and who knew of what we needed and how did we have the knowladge of it? Ventura is a good guy but totally lost. next thing you know he will be telling the media that we are decendants from animals which concidered in science and has gone so far to teach it in schools. We have hair and a very small amount of it and if anyone wants to know what God looks like then look in a mirror because after all we (Humanity) where made in his image and it was reffered to as “our” image in which is the trenity the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit all in one which make God Complete in his own nature and his own nature is Supreme Being and the Son = Jesus Christ and dont ever forget it because his son alone was the Pure, Human encarnation of God In wich Moses Met well before he came to this world through the virgin marry who was made once again a virgin for joseph and Jesus had brothers there after. Jesus Christ alone was the Ultimate Blood Atonement in which he died so that we could be saved through him in place of our condemnation for the sins of not only the broken laws of Gods Commandments but the wickedness of our born sin we are intangled in so jesus willingly gave his life as God gave him unto use because he loved us so much he wanted to save us all but we the children of God would have to willingly choose him through The begotten son Jesus Christ for if we deny our own savior the begotten son of God Then we deny God the Father all together because then our hearts in faith are tested by him and we will be judged according to our ways and the things that we have done. For those who do not believe in the Son of God are condemned already but if you know you are a sinner and repeant of your sins no matter what sin you have done then he takes your sins and washes them away and in place gives you the Holy Spirit within your hear in which is a part of Him, a part of the Father in wich is a part Of God because we who are believers will see him again and that time is coming, even before Christ God promised he would come and he did like a theif in the night and he will do the same this time Saith the Lord Amen.