January 23rd Meetup

Hey everybody we had a great meeting tonight. We watched a variety of videos and had some good conversation. The first few videos we watched were from a series called Mr. Deity  They are short 5 minute skits with several characters. The main god character, Mr. Deity is married to Lucy (Lucifer) and have discussions with Jesus and other advisers  Each skit uses humor to point out contradictions, errors, and extreme rules of the bible and religion. Take the time to watch a few, the first one we watched was about stoning women who are not virgins when they marry.

We then watched an excerpt from The Invention of Lying where Ricky Gervais' character has to explain god to people. Watching as he had to come up with and explain the rules to people who had never heard of the man in the sky.

We then watched some stand-up by Eddie Izzard about Jesus explaining to god what he did while he was on Earth.

Then some Ricky Gervais as he jokes about the old testament god and dealing with his religious education teacher when he was young.

We also watched a music video by XTC, this is from their 1986 album when it was shown on MTV.

 We finished it up by watching some of Richard Dawkin's documentary, The Genius of Charles Darwin. Then we also watched some excerpts from Roger Nygard's, The Nature of Existence.
Overall we had a great time and I think we all either learned something or at least saw something that we haven't seen before. A big thanks to Andrea and Luke for hosting tonight. I look forward to seeing everyone at the next meeting, which will be scheduled soon and most likely be a game night at the library or possibly a trivia night.